Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

http://www.ballardian.com/images/ernst_memories.jpg

who's still with us? buzz, valentina tereshkova, not many

he and Fidel bring my birth era to a close

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.

maybe Death can finish off the Keating 5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

Yeager will outlive them all.

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!

@TVSource
BREAKING: Soap Icon Joe Mascolo, known as the legendary Stefano DiMera on #Days of our Lives, has passed away at the age of 87

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.

omg same, wow

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.

damn

if hed killed her when he met her they would never have had a long and happy life together

A.A Gill

noooo 2016 this fucking year 2016 wtf 2016

must've still been room in hell who knew?

no, turns out heaven needed a cunt

His only redeeming feature was that he is mortal, so well done 2016 for redeeming him.

"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

"His mother played Mrs Peignoir in The Wedding Party episode of Fawlty Towers".

card carrying Labour voter and Corbyn fan probably won't get mentioned in most of his obits.

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

xp raw beauty there

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

this not how I expected to find out that Admiral Ackbar died :(

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

however i was v surprised to find out that Mick the Miller had lived this long

this not how I expected to find out that Admiral Ackbar died :(

how did you expect to find that out

who is the dog between Muhammad Ali and Mrs Merton?

Lemmy died in 2015, but whatevs.

yeah, that's the worst thing about that picture

that's the detail that almost pushes into greatness

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."

RIP Trent Reznor

is that the dog?

Long haired Blackadder dude right of centre

I spoke to AA Gill when I worked in a callcentre. Slightly disappointed to only be able to report that he was civil, patient and friendly, which not a lot of people were.

I spoke to AA Gill when I worked in a callcentre. Slightly disappointed to only be able to report that he was civil, patient and friendly, which not a lot of people were.

This is what Peter Hitchens was like when he happened to be in my place of work.

... whereas Lenny Henry was a complete cunt... so I've been told, I haven't had any dealings with him.

satisfying to see boulez carefully aiming before throwing a wad of paper at hilda ogden's head

lmao @ A.A Gill dying of cancer

As low as that bar is P Hitchens seems far more likeable than most of those dead-eyed fascist nihilists at the Mail. It is a shame his politics suck so much because he is an extraordinarily good polemicist/debater.

I find Hitchens' sour-faced miserabilism a lot more tolerable than smirky "contrarians" like Toby Young, James Delingpole, Rod Liddle etc

the worst thing about that picture is too many British-only celebs

Walnut the whippet

(That's the dog)

The dog was put down shortly after the walk. After disturbed election sleep for most of that week, and this dog being a solid reminder of Kenny the Noble Beast, the whole thing turned me into a bawling wreck that day.

I think half the country, dog owner or not, was in bits. I still can't read about him without welling up.

i foolhardily read it and wept.

I find Hitchens' sour-faced miserabilism having an anvil dropped on my dick every day for the rest of my life a lot more tolerable than smirky "contrarians" like Toby Young, James Delingpole, Rod Liddle etc

The absolutely legendary Esma Redžepova has died.

Ah man :( RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCOyB7WStI