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 Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 11 December 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
The absolutely legendary Esma Redžepova has died.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 December 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
Ah man :( RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XCOyB7WStI
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 11 December 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
Weatherman Ian McCaskill
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/12/ian-mccaskill-obituary
― Alba, Monday, 12 December 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Always found him intensely irritating tbh. RIP tho.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Jim Prior
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38292549
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
xp. found him a bit annoying but he was also one of the few people on tv with a west central scotland accent when i was a kid and i always had some affection for him due to that #parochial
that walnut the whippet story is not what i needed to read while hungover at work :'-( rip good boy
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
a a gill was a good writer on a range of unimportant topics and some of youse have let yerselves down itt
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
His obituary in the guardian damned him with faint praise:
To be fair, he did have some good lines.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
maybe.... yknow maybe yeah ill change my vote to that tbf
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Monday, 12 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Walter Swinburn (perennial pub quiz answer as the jockey who rode Shergar to victory in the Derby).
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/three-time-derby-winning-rider-walter-swinburn-dies/2210291/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews
― ailsa, Monday, 12 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
Alan Thicke
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
that's kinda crazy as this tweet was 4 hrs prior to yr post
Alan Thicke @Alan_ThickeSeason 2 Fuller House looking good. I even like the ones I’m not in! #fullerhouse @fullhouseguy @bobsaget @candacecbure #netflix
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
The trouble with scheduled tweets.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
enjoy your eternal napple, Dr. Thicke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRQJ4tLS7I
― del griffith, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
he wrote a ton of cheesy tv theme songs because he figured out where the money is
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/books/e-r-braithwaite-author-of-to-sir-with-love-dies-at-104.html
ER Braithwaite, author of To Sir With Love. He was 104.
― jane burkini (suzy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
man alan thicke
not a good year for canada
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
most of Thicke's career looked like hot garbage, but he was head writer on "Fernwood 2 Night", so RIP
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Pianist-composer Paul Bley.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, January 4, 2016 10:45 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:-(
― no lime tangier, Monday, January 4, 2016 10:59 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
his open, to love album is some of my favourite solo piano playing
― no lime tangier, Monday, January 4, 2016 11:01 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i missed this, RIP. i got this album on a whim recently and it's really intense and wonderful.
― goole, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
The majority of Thicke's career probably *was* hot garbage (the half-an-episode of Growing Pains I caught a few years back is proof that some things are best left back in childhood) but I had gotten to really enjoy him in recent years as an affable presence in his guest appearances on things like Bill Maher's TV show and Gilbert Gottfried's podcast.
Also, I loved his response to Kirk Cameron's homophobic ramblings: “I love Kirk but I may have to spank him…’tho not in a gay way!”
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
I remember seeing Thicke of the Night when it premiered. Hoo boy.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Right. Important.
Whoever it was has to do a Dead Pool next year. This year was the first time it got missed, and look what happened..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
i worked w/his brother for a few years and the unmistakable thicke voice runs in the family.
― nomar, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seriously. Altman's son made more money for co-writing 'Suicide Is Painless' than Altman himself ever did for M*A*S*H.
RIP Dr. Seaver
― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
Amongst the carnage of the 2016 rolling obituary thread, I think Muhammad Ali has been the only one of my regular dead pool picks to go.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
Jack Chick is the only one of my dead pool regulars to go.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Dr. Bombay!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernard-fox-dead-bewitched-actor-who-played-dr-bombay-was-89-956294
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 December 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
dear Canadians, do not play hockey w/ your son when yer pushing 70, see what happens?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
xpost
Didn't even realize he was still around. The last surviving of the key Bewitched players?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 15 December 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
I would think so. Such great supporting weirdos--Bombay, Uncle Arthur, Aunt Clara, the Kravitzes...
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 December 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
Serena...
― nickn, Thursday, 15 December 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
You do know who played Serena?
― jane burkini (suzy), Thursday, 15 December 2016 06:37 (seven years ago) link
I do.
― clemenza, Thursday, 15 December 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
One of the best things about looking back on Bewitched is realising Elizabeth Montgomery was really left-wing, had a lot of control over casting choices and her cast was full of blacklisted and/or queer actors.
― jane burkini (suzy), Thursday, 15 December 2016 06:55 (seven years ago) link
Valerie Gell of The Liverbirdshttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/14/valerie-gell-obituary
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 December 2016 09:34 (seven years ago) link
Craig Sager, the sideline reporter with the crazy suits
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
― jane burkini (suzy)
joeks.
― nickn, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
Though I'll add that I thought "Serena" was much sexier than "Samantha" because of the character, even though they didn't really try to make her look different, besides the clothes (maybe Serana had straighter hair?).
― nickn, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Black hair.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
OK, didn't remember that.
http://68.media.tumblr.com/695dfda4500afbff45f1fa2885fab1e2/tumblr_mj9yojxXX11qd9o48o1_1280.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Looking about 10 years ahead of her time there!
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Joan Jett's inspiration.
― nickn, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
aww dr bombay :( though I must admit I had no idea he hadnt died long ago.
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 15 December 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
aw man sages
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Friday, 16 December 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
Henry Heimlich, of Manoeuvre famehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38351903
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
I dont look forward to the false stories that he died choking.
― Cosmic Slop, Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
oh he's that guy wins used for a Haim pun once:p
― calzino, Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
― Mark G, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:55 PM (four days ago)
it got missed in 2015 as well. I'm not sure if this was a matter of ilx growing up and developing a social conscience or of the organizers being too lazy to start a new thread.
I have a strong apocalyptic feeling about 2017, so if there's a dead pool next year I'm gonna take a risk and fill my ballot with celebrity babies. sorry, Prince Alexander Duke of Södermanland, but if the world ends next year, you're going with it, and I may as well get some posthumous fake internet points out of the deal.
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Sunday, 18 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
haha good times
that was a real "rib-tickler"!!!!
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Sunday, 18 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link