Aww that's too bad. Loved him as Christopher Eccleston's dad in Our Friends in the North.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Yes, he'll always be Felix to me.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
he was married for a a while to BILLIE WHITELAW
and for a while they shared a house with his best friend Donald Pleasence!
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
rip grouty :(
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
People you thought were dead... RIP.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Well, what can I say but
2016.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
1994 heisman trophy winner rashaan salaam, age 42
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Listing to Radio 4 this afternoon, every newsreader managed to stumble over the name "Maester Aemon" in a different way
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
they were only supposed to say GROUTY, it was agreed the rest of his wel lloved 70 year career be forgotten
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
i first became aware of Vaughan in this
http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsV/17582-19636.gif
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Pakistani artist, musician, fashion designer and preacher Junaid Jamshed dies in PK-661 plane crash.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link
Greg Lake.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Fuck!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
Cancer. John Wetton who also has cancer is still hanging in there.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:48 (seven years ago) link
Feel sorry for Carl Palmer today :(
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
"The Christmas We Get We Deserve"
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
john glenn (1921-2016)
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
good astronaut, lousy senator
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
damn
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ballardian.com/images/ernst_memories.jpg
who's still with us? buzz, valentina tereshkova, not many
― mark s, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
he and Fidel bring my birth era to a close
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
Death had the chance to kill an entire classic rock band in one calendar year, and instead finished off the Mercury 7? What a fucking dick.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
maybe Death can finish off the Keating 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeager will outlive them all.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
which is crazy bc when i saw The Right Stuff as an eight yr old, Chuck Yeager's cameo role was pointed out to me and i remember thinking how crazy it was that Chuck Yeager was IRL an elderly man. in 1983!
― nomar, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
@TVSourceBREAKING: Soap Icon Joe Mascolo, known as the legendary Stefano DiMera on #Days of our Lives, has passed away at the age of 87
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 December 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
NO wow that guy was amazing. hadn't thought of him in years. 87 is plenty old but wow. A big part of my adolescence was the Stefano DiMera storyline.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 9 December 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
omg same, wow
― maura, Friday, 9 December 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
His parents were immigrants from Italy, Peter Mascolo (1901–2008) and Anna Mascolo (née DeTuccio) (1910–2010), who had their 80th wedding anniversary shortly before his father died.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
if hed killed her when he met her they would never have had a long and happy life together
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
A.A Gill
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
noooo 2016 this fucking year 2016 wtf 2016
― banfred bann (wins), Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
must've still been room in hell who knew?
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
no, turns out heaven needed a cunt
― banfred bann (wins), Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
His only redeeming feature was that he is mortal, so well done 2016 for redeeming him.
― calzino, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
"His wit was incomparable, his writing was dazzling and fearless, his intelligence was matched by compassion"
^^^his editor and friend -- even if true, which it isn't, this is bad writing
― mark s, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
"His mother played Mrs Peignoir in The Wedding Party episode of Fawlty Towers".
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
card carrying Labour voter and Corbyn fan probably won't get mentioned in most of his obits.
― calzino, Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
sort of hope the baboon he shot is waiting for him at the pearly gates, all ready to peel his face off like a vinyl roof at a 1970s safari park
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
xp raw beauty there
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/screen-shot-2016-12-08-at-4-53-26-pm.png?w=806
RIP Toblerone and Leicester City
― calzino, Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
this not how I expected to find out that Admiral Ackbar died :(
― Number None, Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
glad they went for a photo of Jo Cox rather than making her part of the band, her inclusion might have run the risk of tastelessness otherwise
― the electric catholic bible (soref), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
however i was v surprised to find out that Mick the Miller had lived this long
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
how did you expect to find that out
― banfred bann (wins), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
who is the dog between Muhammad Ali and Mrs Merton?
― the electric catholic bible (soref), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:35 (seven years ago) link
Lemmy died in 2015, but whatevs.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah, that's the worst thing about that picture
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
that's the detail that almost pushes into greatness
― banfred bann (wins), Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I can forgive Gill most things for the description he gave of the 2008 Democratic Party National Convention: "so cloyingly sentimental it would give cynicism diabetes."
― Freedom, Saturday, 10 December 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link