General Good-byes And RIPs

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  • I missed the death earlier this week of new-wave actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, who made his cinematic breakthrough in one of France's great films À bout de souffle ("Breathless" in the English-speaking world).
  • I missed the death earlier this week of new-wave actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, who made his cinematic breakthrough in one of France's great films À bout de souffle ("Breathless" in the English-speaking world).

    I love the part where the young woman tries to sell him a magazine that's "for the youth", and he replies "I prefer the elderly".

    (In-joke: The magazine was Cahiers Du Cinema, Godard's old haunt.)
  • Sorry, just noticed this from a few weeks back...
    Huia wrote: »
    Stetson, sorry that poor excuse for a human being blighted part of Canada too. Here in NZ we are still suffering the after effects.

    Yes, there was an anti-austerity book published in Canada, called Shooting The Hippo. The title came from a reputed incident in NZ in which a zoo had to shoot its hippo, because they lacked sufficient funding to care for the animal.





  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    I'm seeing social media reports that JS Spong died at home this morning.
  • I'm seeing social media reports that JS Spong died at home this morning.

    His wikipedia page backs that up.
  • Yes, but I can’t find any details. As a parish priest, he baptized a number of my childhood friends.

  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Yes, but I can’t find any details. As a parish priest, he baptized a number of my childhood friends.

    The only mainstream media reports I could find were in the Washington Times, Moonie-owned and far-right, but probably not in the habit of running hoax obituaries.
  • Weird, you say?? That’s euphemistic.
  • Sojourner wrote: »
    Weird, you say?? That’s euphemistic.

    Well, over and above their moral depravity, yeah, Shining Path were weird. Outright bizarre, if you want stronger language. Expecting local peasants in Peru to get worked into a class-conscious frenzy from seeing dead dogs with Deng's name on them is simply wackadoodle.

    Mind you, anti-revisionists(the technical term for Maoists and their offshoots) do tend toward an obsession with the internal politics of faraway countries with little importance to the homelands of the respective parties. Search YouTube for "Oh, Albania, Red Flag that burns bright", a song by a Canadian party.
  • Stetson, I’m plenty old enough to remember all of that. Not much difference between one sort of sociopath and another.
  • Well, if "sociopath" is the word you prefer, I can certainly go along with that.
  • Very kind of you
  • Sojourner wrote: »
    Very kind of you

    Well, just to be clear, I'm not being condescending. I'm just saying I agree with you.
  • Thanks for the clarification
  • stetson wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Yes, but I can’t find any details. As a parish priest, he baptized a number of my childhood friends.

    The only mainstream media reports I could find were in the Washington Times, Moonie-owned and far-right, but probably not in the habit of running hoax obituaries.
    An article from the Religion News Service can now be found here.

  • The death has been announced of artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl, mother of our PM.
  • I've just learned that Tony Selby - Sabalom Glitz in Doctor Who and the Corporal in Get Some In (comedy about National Service) - has died. Also Alex Cord, who played Archangel in Airwolf.
  • Genius comedian Norm Macdonald has died at the age of 61, having been diagnosed with cancer nine years ago. He had the wonkiest deadpan that I'd ever seen.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited September 2021
    Fans of retro-computing and veterans of the 1980s 8-bit era will be sad to learn that Sir Clive Sinclair has left our mortal realms.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521
  • Eigon wrote: »
    I've just learned that Tony Selby - Sabalom Glitz in Doctor Who and the Corporal in Get Some In (comedy about National Service) - has died. Also Alex Cord, who played Archangel in Airwolf.

    We were watching the Glitz episodes on Britbox recently. Great character.
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    Fans of retro-computing and veterans of the 1980s 8-bit era will be sad to learn that Sir Clive Sinclair has left our mortal realms.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521

    I lived in Cambridge when his C5 electric vehicle came out, and remember seeing a few being driven around the streets. I suspect that many UK shipmates used a ZX Spectrum computer
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    edited September 2021
    KarlLB wrote: »
    Fans of retro-computing and veterans of the 1980s 8-bit era will be sad to learn that Sir Clive Sinclair has left our mortal realms.

    Funeral with coffin carried on a C5, I hope? Like @Darda, I've seen a handful of the things in the wild. I never understood the weird "steer under your arse" thing - I assume it was to save weight, but it doesn't seem very natural.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I have fond memories of listening to Radio 1* on Saturday mornings on a tiny little radio about the size of a matchbox called a Sinclair Micromatic.

    RIP Sir Clive.

    * yes - I am that old ... :blush:
  • BBC News - Jimmy Greaves: Ex-England & Tottenham striker dies aged 81
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613988
  • Darda wrote: »
    BBC News - Jimmy Greaves: Ex-England & Tottenham striker dies aged 81
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613988

    Without doubt, England's greatest ever striker.
  • John Challis is something of a local celebrity here in Herefordshire - including being a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    I remember being amused to hear of The Tiggywinkle Hospital for hedgehogs.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Anyone who's a patron of the Hedgehog Preservation Society has to be a good egg. 🐗
  • [ Freedom fighter / terrorist ] Saadi Yacef, who also played a thinly veiled insert of himself in The Battle of Algiers, has died.
  • Robert Fyfe - Howard in Last of the Summer Wine - dies aged 90
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58653653
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited September 2021
    Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch in Sex and the City and Mozzie in White Collar, has died from pancreatic cancer at age 57.

  • Melvin Van Peebles, the "Godfather of Black Film" died at 89.
  • Former Congressman Todd Akin has legitimately died. He's most famous for crashing his campaign for the U.S. Senate by claiming that an exception to proposed abortion prohibitions for pregnancies resulting from rape wasn't necessary because "if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down".
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Wow, @Crœsos. Aside from the gynaecological rubbish, what's a 'legitimate rape'?

  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Enoch wrote: »
    Wow, @Crœsos. Aside from the gynaecological rubbish, what's a 'legitimate rape'?

    One where the woman really didn't want it rather than playing hard to get, the little minx, or some crap.
  • Enoch wrote: »
    Wow, @Crœsos. Aside from the gynaecological rubbish, what's a 'legitimate rape'?

    Akin was apparently concerned that women frequently lie about being raped, especially in situations where an abortion restriction has a rape exception. An all around class act.

    Akin did apologize for the comments a year later, but a year after that apology he took it back and said he really meant what he'd originally said.
  • Alan Cresswell Alan Cresswell Admin, 8th Day Host
    This is not the legitimate place to be talking about rape. Just stop now.

    Alan
    locum All Saints Host
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    Rick Jones presenter of the 1972 UK children's TV programme Fingerbobs has died.
  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    Darda wrote: »
    Rick Jones presenter of the 1972 UK children's TV programme Fingerbobs has died.

    Ah, Yoffy... I was just about to post the same thing.

    The real Fingermouse, none of your "Music Man" nonsense.

    "Yoffy lifts a finger... And a mouse is there!
    Puts his hand together - and a seagull skims the air...
    Yoffy bends another - and a scampi runs about...
    Yoffy lify another - and a toroise head... peeeps out...

    These hands were made for making
    And making they must do!!!!!!"
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    British MP Sir David Amess stabbed to death.
    Discussed on this Hell thread: https://forums.shipoffools.com/discussion/3761/attack-on-democracy-sir-david-amess-mp
  • Just saw on the news that former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died of complications from Covid.

  • And then saw on the news that actress Betty Lynn, who played Barney Fife’s girlfriend Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show, died this past Saturday. She was 95, and lived in Mt. Airy, NC—Andy Griffith’s hometown that served as inspiration for Mayberry.

  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Just saw on the news that former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died of complications from Covid.

    News account. The fact that Powell died from COVID-related complications despite being fully vaccinated will probably become a talking point amongst America's already too active anti-vaccination faction.
  • Crœsos wrote: »
    The fact that Powell died from COVID-related complications despite being fully vaccinated will probably become a talking point amongst America's already too active anti-vaccination faction.

    Probably. Because they're all willfully brainless idiots who are completely unable to grasp the difference between a fairly successful vaccine and magic.
  • ...and the interfering effects of various age-related conditions.
  • ...and the interfering effects of various age-related conditions.

    I'm guessing that "various age-related conditions" refers to the multiple myeloma Powell was being treated for at the time of his death, something known to suppress the body's immune response.
  • Not specifically as I wasn't aware that he had multiple myeloma, but at 84 you are highly unlikely not to have more than one of a wide range of things that are going to impact your survival from anything (else) nasty.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    In my humble opinion, Colin Powell was a great American, and would have been a very good POTUS. No matter his party, I would have voted for him.

    A very sad loss.
  • Mo Drake has died - not someone most of us have heard of I suspect, but if you've ever passed them in a supermarket and thought "Beanz meanz Heinz" then he did his job.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mo-drake-obituary-thxj0tmzg
    (partial obit, rest behind paywall)
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