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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115536931/convicted-civic-creche-sex-abuser-peter-ellis-dies-while-appealing-convicted

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    @jegga Victim of a moral panic. We'll be seeing similar stories for years to come from #metoo/'Nazi's everywhere!!!' and transgender kids movements.

    People are generally far less rational than they realise.

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    About 30 years too late but still pleasing

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12265617

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    Jimmy Johnson of F.A.M.E and Muscle Shoals studios. Guitarist for the “Swampers”, played on hits for Aretha, Wilson Picket ....many others and engineer on Wild Horses and Brown Sugar for the Rolling Stones.
    Some of the best don’t get their names in lights but at least his contribution to modern music is well recognised.

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    @Crucial have you seen this ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Feet_from_Stardom

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    @jegga said in RIP 2019:

    About 30 years too late but still pleasing

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12265617

    Only the good die young.

    ...well maybe the good and stupid.

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    @jegga said in RIP 2019:

    @Crucial have you seen this ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Feet_from_Stardom

    No. I have tried hunting it out before without much luck. Must make a bigger effort.

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    @Crucial you can still see it on Air NZ flights or you could as recently as May

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    Abdul Qadir. 😞

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    Very sad news about Qadir. I think he was the first leg spinner I saw playing live, my memory is very hazy, but I remember a very ‘busy’ action.

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    Chester Williams, aged 49 of a suspected heart attack. The 4th Saffa from the 1995 RWC final to die.

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    @Donsteppa said in RIP 2019:

    Very sad news about Qadir. I think he was the first leg spinner I saw playing live, my memory is very hazy, but I remember a very ‘busy’ action.

    His wrong'un involved a degree of unwinding

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    @Donsteppa said in RIP 2019:

    Very sad news about Qadir. I think he was the first leg spinner I saw playing live, my memory is very hazy, but I remember a very ‘busy’ action.

    Busy indeed. He was the Steve Smith of spin bowling with his pre action antics and fidgeting. Class bowler though.

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    A good cricketing yarn about a 43 year old Qadir spending a season in Melbourne that's well worth sitting down with your favourite beverage for.

    Two parts that I loved...

    Eleven years on, Bakker's head is still shaking. "An hour - he was prepared to wait an hour. There was I falsely thinking I had broken him, when all that time he was working up a trap for me. I mean, my God, the mentality of the man, the mindset."

    And ...

    WHEN Jason Bakker remembers the day that he did not play a false stroke and was deceived by the most mysterious ball he ever faced, he thinks of the heat. At tea-time he galloped upstairs to the Kardinia Park dining room and began gulping down water. "I was tucking into rockmelon and watermelon and whatever else I could find." That's when he glanced out the window and saw that Qadir, who had bowled through the entire afternoon session without a rest, was still on the oval.

    Qadir was out there with Craig Whitehand, known to all at Geelong Cricket Club as "Douggie", the guy who fronted up every Saturday in his whites and his spikes to drag off the pitch covers and carry out drinks and take care of the equipment. As Qadir was walking off, Douggie had stopped him at the players' gate and asked, how do you bowl a wrong'un. Now the two of them were standing on the grass, metres apart. A couple of balls lay between them. Qadir would wave his arms and talk a bit. Then he'd bowl a few. Then Douggie would bowl a few. After a while Qadir would wander across and say something. Then Douggie would bowl a few more.

    Bakker went back to his watermelon and forgot what he'd seen. Twenty minutes went by before he thought about strapping the pads back on.I was coming down the stairs," Bakker recalls, "I looked out on the ground. And the two of them were still there. Abdul had given his whole break on a hot day to this guy from Geelong who he knew nothing about."

    At Geelong training the next week Douggie was gleefully flighting wrong'uns. A few short years later he was picked for Australia's team of intellectually disabled cricketers. He has since represented his country in South Africa and England, this stranger who had never bowled a wrong'un until the day he met Abdul Qadir and asked how it was done.

    Full story: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/447092.html

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    @Donsteppa I have several mates who played against Qadir during that season.

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    @ACT-Crusader said in RIP 2019:

    @Donsteppa I have several mates who played against Qadir during that season.

    Any stories on what he was like to play against? Sounds like Carl Hooper was their overseas pro the following year.

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    During the 90s Victorian club cricket had a healthy sprinkling of quality internationals.

    Qadir liked a chat on the field. Nothing untoward at least from what I’ve heard, but liked to rev himself and his team mates up.

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    RIP Daniel Johnston

    Underrated lyrical genius

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    @MiketheSnow said in RIP 2019:

    RIP Daniel Johnston

    Underrated lyrical genius

    Yup. It's almost a cliche to say that because of the attention he got from people like Bowie, Cobain etc etc
    It's justified though

    "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" was a decent documentary which covered his mental issues. I was aware of the hype around him but that doc actually got me to listen to him

    He had a knack for pop songs

    One of my favourites

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    Oh my god

    https://stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/115768467/former-all-black-bruce-deans-loved-farming-and-rugby

    Way too soon. In the shadow of his brother but he had an excellent provincial career and was an AB

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