The R.I.P. Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

Defenestrations were around before Putin. One started the Thirty Years War.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

No, just used cheap, sweatshop labour and poor materials on the bars.

I wasn’t being serious, it’s just a lot of people who “fall” from hotels are “aided” by Russians.

 

[Tony Towner]

I wasn’t being serious, it’s just a lot of people who “fall” from hotels are “aided” by Russians.

Neither was I

 

[leedswolf]

Robert Carradine, aged 71 years.

 

[Langers]

Rob Grant - co-creator of Red Dwarf - has passed away

Gutted

 

[prawnking]

Jesus, was only just reading an article about him yesterday

 

[AndyWolves]

I hope they do something similar to McIntyres funeral in series 1 for him. I don't know how they'd do it but it would be a fitting tribute

 

[Keef]

William Aldcroft 103.
Another Second World War veteran, joined up aged 18, transferred to the parachute regiment, shipped off to Tunisia in 1943, the ship he was on got torpedoed, they got rescued, and then while being transferred by train that got shelled and he was injured, after recovering he was in the fighting through Sicily and Italy.
He was in Arnhem to capture the bridges, got injured,evacuated and while in hospital the Germans captured it and he spent the rest of the war as a POW.

He was apparently the last surviving member of the parachute regiment that fought at Arnhem, and he said he only really found out about what his regiment was supposed to do there by reading books about it after the war

 

[Keef]

Neil Sedaka 86, singer songwriter.
Guess there’ll be flowers appearing at the base of the statue by the subway tomorrow

 

[Loki]

A very talented singer/songwriter.

 

[Loki]

Gary Leeds, ex Walker Brothers. 83.

 

[lemonjelly]

Country Joe, Of Country Joe and the Fish legend.

 

[lemonjelly]

Stephen Hibbert. Best known role was the gimp in pulp fiction.

 

[catfishwolf]

Stephen Hibbert. Best known role was the gimp in pulp fiction.

just found out he was in another of my favourite films - he’s the guy that gets fired right at the start of “The cat in the hat”.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Phil Campbell of Motorhead

Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64: “His legacy, music and the memories he created with so many will live on forever” | Louder https://share.google/10LB4DrfS8KdqrlJ6

 

[sycophantia]

Thats sad. Feels very young. Was hoping to get around to seeing the Bastard Sons with him, another one that got away

 

[Keef]

Died in intensive care after a complicated operation his Facebook page said

 

[Keef]

Len Deighton 97, author of many spy novels, and cookery books, gave us Harry palmer played by Michael Caine in the ipcress file, funeral in Berlin, billion dollar brain, and if you watch those films, any cooking in them was Deighton.

 

[leedswolf]

Len Deighton 97, author of many spy novels, and cookery books, gave us Harry palmer played by Michael Caine in the ipcress file, funeral in Berlin, billion dollar brain, and if you watch those films, any cooking in them was Deighton.

He retired to Guernsey IIRC. A keen illustrator, he was also responsible for more than 200 book covers.

 

[Tredman]

Len Deighton 97, author of many spy novels, and cookery books, gave us Harry palmer played by Michael Caine in the ipcress file, funeral in Berlin, billion dollar brain, and if you watch those films, any cooking in them was Deighton.

My Grandad loved him, lots of his books were very generic but they were decent reads.

Did a great alt-history book about the nazis winning the war too (SS-GB I think?)