Buzzbomb Almighty
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Also Captain Sir Tom Moore of England, famous now for raising millions of pounds by doing laps of his garden with a walker, dead at 100. He'd recently tested positive for covid then when he contracted pneumonia he didn't last long. Survived the Burma Campaign with the Empire of Japan actively trying to kill him, then suddenly became famous and gained a knighthood for pushing a walker back and forth in his last year of life. Not many people realise just how hard it is to push a walker when you have balls the size of cars.
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Captain Sir Tom Moore dies at 100, after testing positive for COVID-19
Captain Sir Tom Moore, the British Second World War veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus, has died aged 100 after contracting COVID-19, his family said on Tuesday.
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Christopher Plummer Dies: Oscar Winner & ‘Sound Of Music,’ ‘All The Money In The World’ Star A True Hollywood Legend
Christopher Plummer, who starred in The Sound of Music, won an Oscar for Beginners and was nominated for All the Money in the World and The Last Station, died peacefully today at his home in Connecticut, his family confirmed. Elaine Taylor, his wife and true best friend for 53 years, was by his side. He was 91.
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Former Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100
George Shultz, who served as secretary of State in the Reagan administration and in a number of Cabinet-level posts under former President Nixon, died Saturday at the age of 100.
Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76
Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76.
Jerry Falwell Sr. is finally at peace
‘Hustler’ founder Larry Flynt dead at 78
Larry Flynt — the notorious porn peddler and free speech defender who built a smut empire out of “Hustler” magazine — reportedly died on Wednesday. He was 78.
Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies at 79
Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79.Corea died Tuesday of a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website. His death was confirmed by Corea’s web and marketing manager, Dan Muse.
Finally
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70
Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
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RIP Bunny Wailer, Co-Founder of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
He passed this morning....
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He passed this morning....
Reggae Great, Bunny Wailer, is Dead at 73 - Nationwide 90FM
Reggae Icon, Bunny Wailer, is dead. Wailer died this morning. His cause of death is not immediately clear. Bunny Wailer’s given name is Neville O’Riley Livingston. He was 73 years old. Wailer was the only surviving member of the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers group which also included...
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BestBuds
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I'm glad I've been able to see him a few times. Lots of legends lost recently.RIP Bunny Wailer, Co-Founder of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
He passed this morning....
Reggae Great, Bunny Wailer, is Dead at 73 - Nationwide 90FM
Reggae Icon, Bunny Wailer, is dead. Wailer died this morning. His cause of death is not immediately clear. Bunny Wailer’s given name is Neville O’Riley Livingston. He was 73 years old. Wailer was the only surviving member of the legendary Bob Marley and the Wailers group which also included...
CrazyDiamond
Crosseyed & Painless
RIP Walter Gretzky, the Great One's father, hockey's dad, October 8, 1938 – March 4, 2021.
Wayne gives his dad most of the credit for his success...Wayne said, "Some say I have a 'sixth sense' . . . Baloney, I've just learned to guess what's going to happen next. It's anticipation. It's not God-given, it's Wally-given. He used to stand on the blue line and say to me, 'Watch, this is how everybody else does it.' Then he'd shoot a puck along the boards and into the corner and then go chasing after it. Then he'd come back and say, 'Now, this is how the smart player does it.' He'd shoot it into the corner again, only this time he cut across to the other side and picked it up over there. Who says anticipation can't be taught?"
Walter was appointed as a Member of the Order of Ontario in 2002.
He was named a Member of the Order of Canada on December 28, 2007, "for his contributions to minor hockey in Canada and for his dedication to helping a myriad of local, provincial, and national charities."
On February 12, 2010, he carried the Olympic Torch during the Olympic Relay on the last day of the relay, hours before the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Wayne later lit the Olympic Flame.
Wayne gives his dad most of the credit for his success...Wayne said, "Some say I have a 'sixth sense' . . . Baloney, I've just learned to guess what's going to happen next. It's anticipation. It's not God-given, it's Wally-given. He used to stand on the blue line and say to me, 'Watch, this is how everybody else does it.' Then he'd shoot a puck along the boards and into the corner and then go chasing after it. Then he'd come back and say, 'Now, this is how the smart player does it.' He'd shoot it into the corner again, only this time he cut across to the other side and picked it up over there. Who says anticipation can't be taught?"
Walter was appointed as a Member of the Order of Ontario in 2002.
He was named a Member of the Order of Canada on December 28, 2007, "for his contributions to minor hockey in Canada and for his dedication to helping a myriad of local, provincial, and national charities."
On February 12, 2010, he carried the Olympic Torch during the Olympic Relay on the last day of the relay, hours before the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Wayne later lit the Olympic Flame.
Veteran CBS political correspondent Roger Mudd dies at 93
Veteran CBS News political correspondent Roger Mudd died on Tuesday from kidney failure at the age of 93.He covered Capitol Hill for nearly 20 years.
Lou Ottens Dies: Cassette Tape Inventor Who Later Helped Develop CDs Was 94
Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. He was 94. Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed the news but didn’t provide details.
He was Kananga in Live and Let Die (1973) and Alonzo Mosley in Midnight Run (1988), and could have been Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but Yaphet Kotto will be remembered here as Parker, the great chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo (Alien, 1979). RIP.
George Segal, ‘Goldbergs’ Star and Oscar Nominee, Dies at 87
George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert “Pops” Solomon on “The Goldbergs,” and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” died Tuesday. He was 87.
Jessica Walter, ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer’ Star, Dies at 80
Jessica Walter, an Emmy-winning actress known for her work as the stalker in Clint Eastwood’s “Play Misty for Me,” and for the TV series “Arrested Development” and “Archer,” died Wednesday in New York. She was 80.
Larry McMurtry, Novelist And Screenwriter Of The West, Has Died At Age 84
Larry McMurtry, a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died at age 84. He was beloved for riveting and yet unsentimental depictions of the American West in books like Lonesome Dove, as well as for tales of family drama including Terms of Endearment.
Duke of Edinburgh, Queen's husband for 73 years, dies aged 99
The news of Prince Philip’s death was announced by Buckingham Palace on Friday. It came after he was admitted to King Edward VII’s hospital in London on 16 February. He was moved to St Bartholomew’s hospital in the City of London where he underwent the heart procedure on 3 March and was discharged nearly two weeks later.=============================================================================================================
Isamu Akasaki, LED innovator who shared Nobel Prize in physics, dies at 92
Isamu Akasaki, a Japanese scientist who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, a long-lasting, energy-efficient technology that was hailed for its potential to improve the light by which hundreds of millions of people live, study and work, died April 1 at a hospital in Nagoya, Japan. He was 92.
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florduh
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RIP to a real one. He was a real philosopher. Here's one of my favorite gems: "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
His wife was the Queen Mum.
Tranquility
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If you look at some of the news on him, he dubbed such sayings as "Dontopedalogy" or the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it.
Upsetting the Chinese, Indians and men with goatee beards
The Duke of Edinburgh was well known for his unfiltered comments. Some offended people, but they also won Philip many fans and helped take the stuffy formality out of royal occasions.
(He was married to the Queen Mum too? Boy, once you get rid of the Catholic Church, you can do most anything when royalty.
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florduh
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(He was married to the Queen Mum too? Boy, once you get rid of the Catholic Church, you can do most anything when royalty.
My mistake, I can't keep these fucking people straight. He was married to Queen Elizabeth II. Which is weird because I can think of at least two other Queen Elizabeth's off the top of my head.
I also would like to see the Daily Mail's reaction if literally any other prominent person called the Queen a prostitute.
Tranquility
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"I don't think doing it [killing animals] for money makes it any more moral. I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
comparing participation in blood sports to selling slaughtered meat
speech in London, 6 December 1988
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Does that mean the grocer is participating in a blood sport?
But..."When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." certainly makes him a scholar for our times. My wife is astonished he forgot to drink the virgin's blood this week and died. She thinks that just shows he's been dead a long time and they've just been propping him up. So sayeth "Q".
DMX, gravel-voiced hip-hop star who topped charts in late ‘90s, dies at 50
DMX, the raspy, growling New York rapper who rose to fame with his 1998 blockbuster debut, “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot,” and became a chart and tabloid mainstay for years after, has died at age 50. He was hospitalized on April 2 after suffering a heart attack following a reported drug overdose, and had been in a vegetative state, according to his manager.
DMX, the raspy, growling New York rapper who rose to fame with his 1998 blockbuster debut, “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot,” and became a chart and tabloid mainstay for years after, has died at age 50. He was hospitalized on April 2 after suffering a heart attack following a reported drug overdose, and had been in a vegetative state, according to his manager.