Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Liam O'Flynn? He was my favorite piper :(

thats because he was the greatest

RIPed him on the Planxty thread, lads.

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

It would have been pretty o_O if he had mocked and chided unemployed contestants though.

couple of years later it would've been compulsory

also Sunday tea - crabstick sandwiches - Bullseye was my entire early teens

These days unemployed Bullseye contestants would be getting U/C sanctioned for not declaring the speedboat.

That picture - it's the life that Morrissey would have had!

Did Brian Cox say to John Humphries "No, if he even thought of getting out of that chair, he'd have been on a "Fit to work" cert and down to the sewing machine factory as soon as!"

Then his only chance would have been winning a speedboat on "Bullseye"

Where am i?

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

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i must admit i filched it from dorian, formerly of this parish

hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone who lived in the landlocked midlands a speedboat iirc

apparently contestants often took the cash equivalent instead of the speedboat

Charlie Quintana, drummer for just about everybody. He started out in the Plugz, who were secretly one of the best L.A. punk bands, then played with Bob Dylan, John Doe, Cracker, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Izzy Stradlin, and a million other bands.

Quintana stuck around w/ Zim after this, wish the other Plugz had too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ycpYslCn6c

Wow, Quintana. He looked like a guy that could and would kick an ass.

louise slaughter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-liberal-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html

bento the keyboard cat ;_;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies

(pvmic obv)

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kak-channthy-cambodian-space-project-frontwoman-killed-crash-38-updated

Hit by a car. AKA Srey Thy

don't understand how Deliveroo can exploit their employees so much and still be more expensive than getting a taxi to the takeaway and back

lol wrong thread soz

A proper candidate for the "people who you thought were dead but weren't" thread until now, where she belongs in this thread. RIP Katie Boyle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12525627

Weird, she was the answer to a picture question on a Bullseye repeat last week and we had no idea who she was. Who else will fall to the Bullseye curse?

Deficits are ok now

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/peter-g-peterson-dies-power-from-wall-st-to-washington.html

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

i miss shakey too and i appreciate the effort but it's just not the same when someone else does it ;_;

This is getting a bit spooky now. Katie Boyle was just mentioned in this One Foot In The Grave repeat we're watching now. I'd never heard of her until last week now she's everywhere.

Somewhat bizarrely, my dad used to fancy her, but she was like the daughter of an Italian count so she was a bit out of his league. He was very taken with Annie Lennox too.

Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.

I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.

She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)

Les Payne, pioneering journalist of Long Island (NY) Newsday

https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/newsday-les-payne-dies-1.17534552

aw man

If Ozymandias had lived: Toys "R" Us founder Charles Lazarus dies at 94

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/toys-r-us-founder-charles-lazarus-dies-at-94-as-toy-empire-liquidates.html

Oh he'll be back

another interesting fun fact I didn't know is that Frida from Abba was an OG Norwegian "Lebensborn-child" - Norwegian mother + Nazi officer father. I can't remember one that mentioned in the 1982 Look-In annual ABBA interview!

rong thread!

Oh he'll be back

a really cold part of me is dreading arnold schwarzenegger dying because every subeditor and ~twitterati~ on the planet will spew “he’ll be back” like it was their own special genius idea

Unless he's killed like Bennett in Commando, then they'll all be saying "let off some steam, Arnie"

Louise Latham

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/louise-latham-dead-tippi-hedrens-mother-hitchcocks-marnie-was-95-1096599?__twitter_impression=true

"unpredictable" Zell Miller, frequently a jerk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/zell-miller-georgia-governor-and-senator-with-unpredictable-streak-dies-at-86/2018/03/23/9bc8a858-2eaf-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

frequently a jerk

There were times when he wasn't, in your mind?

Never mind; I don't want to know. I'll just assume he said something shitty about Hillary.

wow, Zell Miller is a blast from the past

Bassist Buell Niedlinger has died. Played with Cecil Taylor, with Anthony Braxton, did sessions with Dolly Parton, the Eagles, the Village People. https://jazztimes.com/news/buell-neidlinger-dies-at-82/

Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective series dead from cancer

Oh man that's terrible

the Bernie Gunther detective series is great. The next and perhaps final one is out April 3 in the U.S.

Nice celebration of the books from last year:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/the-third-reichs-good-cop

And I gotta say, an anthology called The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds is right up my street.

French actress Stéphane Audran

;_;

also

Barbara Stone, producer, distributor and founder of London’s Gate Cinema

Andy Lewis, who, along with his brother Dave, wrote the screenplay for Alan J. Pakula’s Klute

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5502-the-daily-remembering-stephane-audran-barbara-stone-and-more