barmar Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 About 150K people die every day, and practically all of them are worth being commemorated. But that's what obituary notices and newspaper articles are for, not this thread. This thread is for people who are well known, either in the world in general or the bridge community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 He knows that, he's just after attention. Someone once told me, stop feeding the trolls, perhaps it's time to revisit that policy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 Greg Lake Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 Greg Lake Rik great musician, one of the fathers of progressive rock, not only during his ELP time, but especially influencial on both first King Crimson albums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonottawa Posted December 8, 2016 Report Share Posted December 8, 2016 John Glenn http://a4.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTE4MDAzNDEwNTM3OTA3NzI2.jpg "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Jon, you've redeemed yourself. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted December 12, 2016 Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 "For Captain Tamara Long, USAFBorn: May 12, 1979Died: March 23, 2003, AfghanistanYou fly with the angels now." This has been the dedication to virtually every book John Ringo has written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who invented the Heimlich Maneuver. I choked up when I heard the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who invented the Heimlich Maneuver. I choked up when I heard the news. I quoted you to Becky. "These people are weird", she replied.She's not a bridge player. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden and other books, teacher,leader and a gentle and thoughtful man. Another one of the giants in the permaculture world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted December 22, 2016 Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 Kay Starr Nov 3.You might have to be of a certain age to recognize the name. At a holiday gathering my younger daughter mention a singing group I had never heard of that sang Wheel of Fortune. I said that Kay Starr had sung a song by that name in the early '50s. Same song, it turned out, sung by Starr in 1952. Becky, younger than I am, had never heard of it, so I brought it up on the computer. I grew up listening to popular music and she was one of my favorites. We did not then have the internet and only girls read the fan magazines, but I had heard that Ms. Starr was Native American (aka Indian in 1952). Apparently so. Here is a bit from https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/06/kay-starr-obituary Katherine Starks was born in the small town of Dougherty, Oklahoma, of Native American stock: her father, Harry, was an Iroquois and her mother, Annie, part Choctaw, Cherokee and Irish. The family moved to Dallas when Starr was three, where her father found work installing sprinklers in buildings while her mother raised chickens. An aunt noticed the nine-year-old’s pleasure in singing around the house and encouraged her to enter a talent contest at the local radio station. Starr won a prize for singing and operating a yo-yo simultaneously, and continued to win contests, so much so that the radio station WRR, Dallas, gave her a 15-minute programme of her own, paying her three dollars a show. She could belt out a tune. Here are a couple, for anyone interested in the pop music culture [bE, Before Elvis] of mid century USA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Rick Parfitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Rick Parfitt And sadly this one isn't a false ending Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eyedjack Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Blimey. George Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovera Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 Blimey. George Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 The Russian Red Army Choir. They can be seen here in a concert with Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys. To me this showed that the Cold War was definitely over. Rik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers I was just thinking that I needed to re-watch that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 I was just thinking that I needed to re-watch that... Indeed. I just re-watched Animal House for the 20th-odd time. One of my co-workers is the splitting image of Doug Kenney - 40 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 S. Newman Darby, Inventor of the Sailboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 Carrie Fisher aka Princess LeiaTo borrow from Obi-Wan, I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of fans suddenly cried out in sorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 29, 2016 Report Share Posted December 29, 2016 Debbie Reynolds Unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 2016. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 Prefer to remember her with a rocket launcher over her shoulder trying to drive-by John Belushi in the blues brothers And to quote Ms. Fisher, metaphors be with you. And with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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