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    @dogmeat aawww shit!

    Jock was our local hero and as a snot nosed kid i watched him heaps during that Hawke cup era.
    I saw the famous shot over the Trafalgar park grandstand, a lofted sweep on one knee - the story goes it landed in a passing truck and ended up in Blenheim 😉. I think it was in the middle of a double ton.

    Never heard any shit stories and a quiet wee barrel of a man as far as I could tell.

    Rest in peace Graeme, a name no one ever called him.

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    And some belated recognition for a former Olympic medallist - Eric Verdonk

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/120802949/rowing-olympic-medallist-eric-verdonk-dies-following-cancer-battle

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    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Statistician Tony Lewis, half of the team, who came up with the Duckworth-Lewis system.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/52134570

    IMG-20200409-WA0017.jpg

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    Oh, man. Mort Drucker. One of my heroes. R.I.P.

    Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91

    [...]

    Appearing on “The Tonight Show” in 1985, the actor Michael J. Fox told Johnny Carson that he knew he had made it in show business “when Mort Drucker drew my head.” The director Joe Dante wrote that “there are few thrills in life quite like seeing your own movie parodied in the pages of Mad.”

    But not everyone was so pleased. According to Mr. Hendrix, Mad’s 1981 parody of “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Empire Strikes Out,” prompted the Lucasfilm legal department to send a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the issue be recalled. “Mad replied by sending a copy of another letter they had received the previous month — from George Lucas, offering to buy the original artwork for the ‘Empire’ parody and comparing Mort Drucker to Leonardo da Vinci.”

    Mr. Lucas knew Mr. Drucker’s work well. He had commissioned one of Mr. Drucker’s classic multicharacter pileups as the poster for his first hit, “American Graffiti” — a nostalgic movie set in the same summer “The JFK Coloring Book” was a best seller. And, of course, Mr. Drucker had illustrated Mad’s sendup, “American Confetti.”

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    @MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Fred 'Curly' Neal 😞

    Mar 26, 2020  /  01:29

    Harlem Globetrotters legend 'Curly' Neal, 77, dies

    Harlem Globetrotters legend 'Curly' Neal, 77, dies

    Fred "Curly" Neal, who played 22 seasons for the Globetrotters and was just the fifth player of the organization to have his number retired, has died at the age of 77.

    I grew up with the tv cartoon series, used to b’cast it after school in NZ in the 1970s. Curly was the star of that cartoon. No ifs-and-buts. I suspect he was more recognizable in his day than Meadowlark Lemon and Wilt Chamberlain, which is kinda shocking, but that’s how global a superstar he was.

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    #178

    @raznomore I was talking to a musician-writer Gil Scott-Heron in the mid 1980s, and I told him I loved his song “Grandma’s Hands” which he’d released on an album prob. early 80s. He thanked me and said, “yeah, it’s a really beautiful song, thanks. But it’s not mine — it’s Bill Withers’. You have to get that record.” So I did. I’ve added several B.W. lps to my collection since, treasures all.

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    Sir Peter Viggers, the UK Member of Parliament who claimed £1,645 on expenses for a floating duck house, has passed away.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-52219896

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    Stirling Moss, couldn't outrun father time

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/52261216

    He had a damn good run for a guy in his line of work at that time

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    @canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Stirling Moss, couldn't outrun father time

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/52261216

    He had a damn good run for a guy in his line of work at that time

    Leg End

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    James Drury, The Virginian

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    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

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    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

    How confident are doctors / coroners distinguishing 'from' from 'with'

    Agent quoted as saying he died 'with'

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    @MiketheSnow The 10,000+ who have died in the UK are both from and with. Some have been very poorly for some time, although many others have been taken a long time before they and their families had expected. A minority have had no known underlying health concerns.

    Jack Dee's statement says TBT's death came as a shock as they thought he was recovering.

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    The Goodies was seminal show in my youth. RIP TBT. Anyone expelled from primary school at 5 1/2 was always destined to be a legend!

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    @pakman said in R.I.P. 2020:

    The Goodies was seminal show in my youth. RIP TBT. Anyone expelled from primary school at 5 1/2 was always destined to be a legend!

    Grew up with so many great British shows as a kid, The Goodies were at the very top. ( Sooty & Sweep were a close 2nd) such a quirky funny show.
    Does kinda feel selfish to morn 1 victim of covid just because he was famous when tens of thousands are dying all over the world, guess there’s just greater impact when it’s someone well known.

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    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

    Noooo

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    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

    Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP

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    Goodie goodie yum yum

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    @JC said in R.I.P. 2020:

    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

    Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP

    I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun

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    @canefan said in R.I.P. 2020:

    @JC said in R.I.P. 2020:

    @sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:

    Tim Brooke-Taylor, humourist and member of the Goodies, has died after contracting COVID-19.

    Oh Tim. Any child of the 60s will feel that one. The Goodies was essential for us. RIP

    I watched them on reruns as a kid of the early 70s. Brilliant fun

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