Celebrity death that bummed you out the most...

[MalzB]

Anna Nicole Smith.

Ha.

Just kidding.


For real though, Heath Ledger. He was great.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Goodnight to Star Trek regular and muse, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi... Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

[classicman]

Maybe not the right place for this, but...

Mark Felt, Watergate's `Deep Throat,' dies at 95

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Goodnight to Star Trek regular and muse, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi... Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

Aww.

[Sundae]

Again, I'm late with the news. But to be honest the only person it might affect is Monster, given that the person in question was very English and his death was well noted here.

Oliver Postgate - the Telegraph obituary.

I loved his work. He had such a comforting and distinctive voice. It hid a remarkable intelligence and artistic drive of course, but as a child I didn't notice that. I just loved what he created and how it sounded. I can still quote the Bagpuss intro by heart.

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old fat furry cat-puss,
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring.
Wake up, be bright,
Be golden and light;
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.

I have it on video - I might ask my bro if there's a way to transfer it to DVD. Every episode is so simple, so complex and so very shining. Ask anyone of my generation what the Marvellous Magnificant Mouse Mill made and I'm pretty sure they'll be able to tell you it was chocolate biscuits. Out of breadcrumbs and butter beans no less.

He gave so much joy, I hope he went happily.

[Elspode]

Delaney Bramlett is done.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081228/...bit_bramlett_1

[monster]

Never really got into Bagpuss..... but thanks

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by classicman

Yeh - Sky, I grew up with him reporting and he was one of the best - no doubt. A real icon in that arena has been lost way too soon.

I keep waiting for a good replacement. No disrespect to the moderator now. I am sure it is out of respect they seem to be waiting to make an official pick. * shrug*


Bernie Mac. Heath Ledger ( someone mention him?)
Funny, young and or unexpected deaths really shake me up.

[classicman]

Here's a year in review. Not sure how comprehensive though.

Link

[classicman]

One of the four remaining British First World War veterans has died at the age of 108

Bill Stone, who joined the Royal Navy in Plymouth as a stoker at 18 before progressing to the battleship HMS Hood, died at a nursing home.

Dennis Goodwin, secretary of the World War One Veterans Association, said he had endured an ongoing battle with chest problems.

"He was always a battler," Mr Goodwin said.

Mr Stone took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 on the minesweeper HMS Salamander.

Mr Stone's daughter and son-in-law were with him at his residential home near Wokingham, Berkshire, when he died, Mr Goodwin said.

Mr Stone was born the 10th of 14 children in Kingsbridge, Devon, at the turn of the last century. Yet he was still rattling a tin for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal as recently as five years ago.

Speaking in recent years, Mr Stone said: "I've had a wonderful life. I've always worked hard, never stopped for a minute and it's kept me going all right."

Mr Stone travelled to Cape Town, Tasmania, Jakarta, Newfoundland, Buenos Aires and Malta during a career which saw him work as a barrow boy, steam engine driver, barber, tobacconist and farm hand.

"War is terrible," he once said. "I saw Plymouth flattened and at the end of the war I went to Germany and all their buildings were flattened too. We were guarding an island there but there was no trouble because the Germans were as glad, as we were, that it was all over. They didn't want war just as we didn't."

[Nirvana]

Ricardo Montalbon no shirt on an old old episode of Star Trek rowr ! He is now being welcomed to the final Fantasy Island!

[Wickedly_Tasteful]

mine would definetly have to be anna nicole smith and mr.rogers...i mean come on mr.rogers that just killed so many kiddy dreams of mine...*goes and hides in the corner to mourn him agian*

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Nirvana

Ricardo Montalbon no shirt on an old old episode of Star Trek rowr ! He is now being welcomed to the final Fantasy Island!

De pearly gates, boss, de pearly gates!

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Wickedly_Tasteful

mine would definetly have to be anna nicole smith and mr.rogers...i mean come on mr.rogers that just killed so many kiddy dreams of mine...

WTF? Translation plz?

[wolf]

Number 6: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number 2: We want information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling. We want information... information... information.
Number 6: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man.

R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan