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Started by Josephus, December 26, 2022, 06:41:27 AM

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Josephus

Cindy Williams...those of a certain age, and geography, may remember her as Shirley in Laverne and Shirley
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Barrister

I saw that Bob Cole was trending on Twitter and thought "oh no!"

False alarm - he's still with us. Phew.

(former HNIC hockey announcer for non-Canucks)
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Darth Wagtaros

PDH!

Savonarola

RIP Barrett Strong, who sang Motown's first top 40 hit "Money" as well as wrote a number of Motown's later standards (with his partner Norman Whitfield) including "I heard it through the Grapevine," "Papa was a Rolling Stone" and "Just my Imagination."
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Larch

Burt Bacharach has passed away at 94.

Maybe one for the "Wait, he was still alive?" category.

Josephus

Quote from: The Larch on February 09, 2023, 12:04:59 PMBurt Bacharach has passed away at 94.

Maybe one for the "Wait, he was still alive?" category.

Yeah, if asked I would have said "dead"
Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

PDH

This one hits my younger self right in the gut.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

merithyn

Today, it was announced that Jimmy Carter is on hospice, and Bruce Willis has progressive fronttemporal dementia.

:(
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

mongers

Quote from: merithyn on February 18, 2023, 07:24:04 PMToday, it was announced that Jimmy Carter is on hospice, and Bruce Willis has progressive fronttemporal dementia.

:(

On BBC news I noticed this almost tolkienesque paragraph about their epic journey:

QuoteMr Carter celebrated his most recent birthday in October in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife were born between the First World War and the Great Depression, and where they returned when he left office.

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

PDH

#70
Carter always had something of the Hobbit to him.  Do what he felt was right (either in the military, as a governor, as President, then as Post-President) then return to his roots.  He is (sadly for now) too smart, intelligent, and grounded to actually be seen as a great man.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

-------
"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

mongers

Quote from: PDH on February 18, 2023, 07:45:59 PMCarter always had something of the Hobbit to him.  Do what he felt was right (either in the military, as a governor, as President, then as Post-President) then return to his roots.  He is (sadly for now) too smart, intelligent, and grounded to actually be seen as a great man.

Well I think 'history' will mark him higher in the years to come.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Barrister

Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2023, 07:52:50 PM
Quote from: PDH on February 18, 2023, 07:45:59 PMCarter always had something of the Hobbit to him.  Do what he felt was right (either in the military, as a governor, as President, then as Post-President) then return to his roots.  He is (sadly for now) too smart, intelligent, and grounded to actually be seen as a great man.

Well I think 'history' will mark him higher in the years to come.

I think history will mark him as a great human, and a mediocre President.

And I for one hope I'm remembered as being a better human than being better at my job.
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Admiral Yi

I hope history marks him as the president who best played a horrible hand.

viper37

#74
Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Captain Harlock (Albator) died of February 13th. :(

Albator, along with Goldorak (Goldrake) were the defining animes of my youth.  Even Captain Future (Capitaine Flam) couldn't compare to them. :)

 @Greyfox:  Don't even try to understand that X-Gen nostalgia :P
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