The RIP Thread...

[Steve Mack]

Great actor. I saw Thunderbolt and Lightfoot at the drive in when it came out, got lost in the fog after leaving. I was only thinking about that yesterday. Saw a big dead tree I recognized hanging over the road and realised I was way off course.

He played the ultimate bad guy/creep in that movie, and the reverse in the Naked Gun.


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[FireFighterZero]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nancy-reagan-dies-at-age-94/ar-BBqpkCB?ocid=ansmsnnews11

 

[Limbrat]

A great woman Jim and wife of the greatest president in my lifetime.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I sure hope I don't live that long!

 

[stig]

A complete bitch and the driving force behind ol' Ronald.

Her "Just say NO" campaign is the main reason America is the world leader in having the largest percentage of the population in prison.

If she had been run over by a truck when she was young, the world would have been a better place.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Well, just say no worked on me. Thats okay.

 

[Altissimus]

Agree w Stig on this one ... I heard she had sex w Julio Aglasias in the White House.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I heard she had sex w Julio Aglasias in the White House.

Sheet, he's not even an American. I hope it wasn't beneath a painting of George Washington.

That just say no thing seems like it could only have been said by someone surrounded by her well scrubbed grandchildren and herself very naively out of touch with reality. I can't remember was it just drugs or was she also talking about premarital sex.

 

[Steve Mack]

Another one gone. Jon English, Australian singer-songwriter, dies age 66. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-10/australian-singer-jon-english-dies-at-age-66/7235366

Saw him in Jesus Christ Superstar once and he did a lot of stuff, music and tv. good bloke.


Brian Johnson from AC/DC is going deaf, and Bill Wyman has prostate cancer.

Sure glad I wasn't a rock star.

 

[woodworkingboy]

A logger in my neck of the woods lost his life earlier this week. I didn't know him personally, but I know the organisation that he worked for, their place is right next door to the log auction yard, have had some conversation with crew members when they were getting back from working. Not sure of the details, but I heard that he was cutting when he was hit from behind by another tree. 24 years old. The previous fatality that I've heard about in this area, was three or four years ago.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Sad...

 

[Fiddler]

Keith Emerson

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...ke-and-palmer-keyboardist-dead-at-71-20160311

 

[BlackSmith]

fer christ sake stig...

 

[sotc]

fer christ sake stig...

No doubt, not cool but I guess he's entitled to his opinion however disrespectful.

 

[MasterBlaster]

My thoughts exactly.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Just Say No only cost us how much money, and how many people put into a cycle of incarceration?

Had the US decriminalized or legalized it back then, where would be be now?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Click, BOOM!

 

[Cobleskill]

The war on drugs sure has put a lot of money in pockets. Cops, prisons, lawyers, judges, rehab, asset confiscation. Trillions. Kind of an exercise in futility and keeps the crime syndicates rolling in dough also.

 

[MasterBlaster]

RIP, Junior!

 

[Raj]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...to-mayor-rob-ford-dies-at-46/article29327087/

Rob Ford died.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Friggin cancer!

 

[Raj]

GARRY SHANDLING - DEAD AT 66

 

[MasterBlaster]

Heart attack, outta the blue...

 

[Mick!]

Gary Shandling, RIP, one of the first US comics who really tuned me in to Yankee comedy.

 

[Altissimus]

He was very funny , damn