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With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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On 25/06/2024 at 19:11, Les Tonks Sidestep said:

Frank Duckworth, of Duckworth-Lewis fame, aged 84

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c999w55dd5xo

Or aged 88, because of the heavy rain earlier this year.

The DL(S) method seems to be pretty good. Certainly way better than the nonsense we had before it.

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Richard "Kinky" Friedman, aged 79. Musical provocateur, murder mystery novelist, animal lover and political agitator, he spent his life entertaining and enraging the right people in both cases. 

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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can we change this thread to - obituary thread - people that we have ever actually heard of? if futtocks digs out any more Hungarian composers and part time acrobats from the sunday times section I will scream- now give me a russ abbott ,neil diamond or lee majors

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see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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Should we narrow the scope of this thread to "people Johnny deems to be famous"?

I'm voting no. 

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Wondering if, on that day, a young Johnny complained about Catweazle being on later than usual.

 

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3 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

can we change this thread to - obituary thread - people that we have ever actually heard of? if futtocks digs out any more Hungarian composers and part time acrobats from the sunday times section I will scream- now give me a russ abbott ,neil diamond or lee majors

I loved Neil Dimond, I loved that song he sang that was the theme tune from Boon, though I did prefer him when he was in PhD.

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22 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

can we change this thread to - obituary thread - people that we have ever actually heard of? if futtocks digs out any more Hungarian composers and part time acrobats from the sunday times section I will scream- now give me a russ abbott ,neil diamond or lee majors

Where's the point in an obituary thread for people who aren't dead?

We've got a People who aren't dead thread already.

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20 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Should we narrow the scope of this thread to "people Johnny deems to be famous"?

I'm voting no. 

"Why is this thread so quiet? It's because no one has respect. Not like in my day (I'm 36 pretending to be 94)."

But with worse punctuation.

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On 27/06/2024 at 18:21, graveyard johnny said:

can we change this thread to - obituary thread - people that we have ever actually heard of? if futtocks digs out any more Hungarian composers and part time acrobats from the sunday times section I will scream- now give me a russ abbott ,neil diamond or lee majors

How do you see this working?

I guess we could send a private message each time someone dies to check if you have heard of them so we can post on the thread. 

Are you ok with that, it's quite a responsibility? What am I saying, I'm sure for the integrity of the conversation you will make it work.

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How do you see this working?

I guess we could send a private message each time someone dies to check if you have heard of them so we can post on the thread. 

Are you ok with that, it's quite a responsibility? What am I saying, I'm sure for the integrity of the conversation you will make it work.

crikey - I was joking that futtocks likes to dig up some obscurities and maybe we are running a bit thin on the household names - dont take me so serious

anyway - we are going off thread now

see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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Joss Naylor - a legend, a trailblazer, a lovely human, being a Cumbrian, I can't say more than that 

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Canterbury Bankstown and Halifax legend Geoff “Wildman” Robinson.

Will never be forgotten for his efforts in his one season at Thrum Hall in the championship winning side of 1986

Good on yer Robbo 

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Canterbury Bankstown and Halifax legend Geoff “Wildman” Robinson.

Will never be forgotten for his efforts in his one season at Thrum Hall in the championship winning side of 1986

Good on yer Robbo 

Rather nice tribute to Geoff:

https://7news.com.au/sport/rugby-league/former-canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs-rugby-league-cult-hero-geoff-wildman-robinson-dies-aged-66-c-15224309

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On 28/06/2024 at 18:20, Shadow said:

Where's the point in an obituary thread for people who aren't dead?

We've got a People who aren't dead thread already.

I understand that the Times has a library of obituaries ready to print at a moments notice (updated prior to going to press, of course).  Why doesn't someone steal - or in modern parlance leak - a few of those?

And what about those like John Stomehouse? Do they get two mentions,?

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10 hours ago, JohnM said:

I understand that the Times has a library of obituaries ready to print at a moments notice (updated prior to going to press, of course).  Why doesn't someone steal - or in modern parlance leak - a few of those?

And what about those like John Stomehouse? Do they get two mentions,?

Another site I use , we have a Stiff List for each year and there are more hopefull predictions of deaths than actual stiffs.

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11 hours ago, JohnM said:

I understand that the Times has a library of obituaries ready to print at a moments notice (updated prior to going to press, of course).  Why doesn't someone steal - or in modern parlance leak - a few of those?

And what about those like John Stomehouse? Do they get two mentions,?

All newspapers have a store of obituaries for notable people. Sometimes the subject of the obituary outlives the author. My mum is (very) occasionally called on by the Guardian to do an obit for someone from her area/generation of music, but they tend to be "as it happens", rather than pre-written.

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One of my friends works in the BBC archives department. There are many thousands of people for whom they have prepared clips for when they die.

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One of my friends works in the BBC archives department. There are many thousands of people for whom they have prepared clips for when they die.

This is true, I worked as a journalist in the late 90s and it was quite a big part of the preparation of newsroom activity to have material ready in the likely event of the passing of celebrities/dignatries considered newsworthy or relevant to the target audience.

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