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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Thu Jul 09, 2026 3:03 pm

I don't mind It's a Heartache and Lost in France.

Not the eighties stuff though, which exemplifies the worst excesses of the decade.

I can endure them though, unlike Whitney/Maria.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby GarlicJam » Thu Jul 09, 2026 11:38 pm

I kinda liked the corny drama of her Jim Steinman hit, Total Eclipse of the Heart.

There can't be too many people who lived through that song as a hit, and didn't sing along with it a few times.

I know they tried to replicate this song's success with another Steinman song, but that was officially crap.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:24 am

Holding Out for a Hero?!

Ridiculous, but then there's a place for that.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Durhamfootman » Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:09 am

Widdicombe, 78

she looked 78 for about 20 years, so I assumed she was a lot older than that
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:58 pm

Wow, police suspect murder!
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Durhamfootman » Fri Jul 10, 2026 6:14 pm

Blimey!
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jul 10, 2026 6:40 pm

And a man has been arrested.

I've got predictable views on Widdecombe as a politician, but any elderly person dying violently is particularly horrifying.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jul 10, 2026 6:51 pm

More incident than we usually get on the RIP thread.

I suppose there was Rob Reiner. And Gene Hackman.

Presume BBC and Sky will have a helicopter each hovering over the house.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Durhamfootman » Fri Jul 10, 2026 7:27 pm

Arthur Crabtree wrote:And a man has been arrested.

I've got predictable views on Widdecombe as a politician, but any elderly person dying violently is particularly horrifying.

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Re: RIP thread

Postby Durhamfootman » Sat Jul 11, 2026 12:42 pm

Dermot Murnaghan, 68, prostate cancer
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Mon Jul 13, 2026 8:26 am

Prolific NZ actor/vintner Sam Neill, 78. Presumably best known for Jurassic Park.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby sussexpob » Mon Jul 13, 2026 8:30 am

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Prolific NZ actor/vintner Sam Neill, 78. Presumably best known for Jurassic Park.


Always struck me as an actor who was very good in anything I seen him in, even if the films were not themselves good. More modern audiences will associate him with the first 2 series of Peaky Blinders.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Durhamfootman » Mon Jul 13, 2026 9:00 am

sudden and unexpected

he had cancer, I believe, but was declared cancer free earlier this year
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Re: RIP thread

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Jul 17, 2026 4:58 pm

Gary Sobers, all time great cricketer and WI legend, 89.
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Re: RIP thread

Postby mikesiva » Fri Jul 17, 2026 6:02 pm

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Gary Sobers, all time great cricketer and WI legend, 89.

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