The RIP thread...

I've been told many times that I look like a thinner version of John Candy.

I'm free for hugs to those that really miss the original.

John Candy

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Again? Or does it just take 18 years for news to filter down to you?

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John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994)
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His finest work was "Who's Harry Crumb?"

4th of March is my birthday... Every year I get this brutal reminder about the loss of JC

Paul Merton and Graham Norton.

Together? It can't be true can it?

Blues Brothers - We're In a Truck! - YouTube

Carrie Nations - Sweet Talking Candy Man

Cynthia Myers, bassist in the Carrie Nations, and Playboy Playmate.

4th of March is my birthday... Every year I get this brutal reminder about the loss of JC

2 days after mine, don't forget my card

Trains, Planes and Automobiles is an absolute classic. One of my all-time favourite comedies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA7A3Lq6xQ

Dobie Gray. Singer of possibly the Northern Soul track. Keep the Faith.

harry morgan

RIP lfgss tags :(

Hubert Sumlin RIP

I only heard this today, great guitarist, great loss. :(

and the "tags" can get to fnck!
massively abused into pointless wind-up / chicken sh!t

People of a certain age (middle age thread >>>>>>) and certain views will have fond memories of this woman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16119332

harry morgan

rip

Christopher Hitchens has stopped smoking.

May the Lord Jesus Christ and his plump frolicking cherubs watch over soul, and I hope there's a comfy cloud, a halo and a harp with his name on it.

RIP Christopher. You've proved that there are atheists in foxholes.
One of the greatest political writers of his time, who I was far from alone in admiring greatly.

A genuinely sad RIP from me.

Yes, he will be missed.
if there was a god he would be allowed into heaven for his honesty.
http://www.youtube.com/user/hitchenschannel?blend=1&ob=4

I was reading his interview the other day in New Statesmen. A very interesting piece, as you'd expect, but it was the photographs complimenting it that hit me - he looked like a different person.

An utterly miserable way to go. Yet he seemed, in his writing to take it on the chin and with great candour.

I didn't necessarily agree with everything he said - though, in my opinion, the greater chunk made a great deal of sense - but what appealed to me the most was his conviction. On the rare occasions he was proved wrong, he would humbly concede. Even support of intervention in Iraq, a contentious issue at the best of times and something his critics leaped upon, was backed up with a logic and understanding of the human rights issues in the country that you could get only by spending time there - something he had done on several extensive tours - both as guests of the rebels in the Ba'athist era and, later, following with a watchful eye the Wolfowitz' and Bremer's of the world. He conceded that ulterior motives no doubt had a part to play in Part II, and that frankly SH should have been ousted after Part I, not encouraged by the West - but that action and the inevitable dirty lucre was a necessary evil if the people in that country were to stand a chance at getting back to normal.

He was undeniably a brilliant speaker, ferociously well read and from what I've read, listened and watched of him over the years - I believe he was a man who resolutely fought totalitarianism in all forms, whatever the personal cost to his reputation.

I'm sad to think that I won't be able to read anything new from him.

(Though given how prolific the chap was, I think I'll be OK for a while yet.)

And on that note, time for one of his "breakfasts of champions" - there would seem no better moment to finish the dregs of the Johnnie Walker Black in my desk.

Good health.

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.
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^^Keeping whiskey in your desk drawer = hardcore win.

sips delicately from glass of Windolene

RIP Christopher Hitchens. One of my favourite authors

A text from my old man RE:Christopher Hitchens;
"He was a dangerously articulate man, so much so that he could smash anyone in a debate despite often being dead wrong. Now he's just dead. Shame that."

Nicely surmised