The RIP thread...

We'll have to get DJ to smoke one.

Slow-moving, delicious and comes with its own bowl - didn't make things easy for itself, natural selection-wise.

Fausto should be allowed to eat George - after 40 years of service, he deserves a treat.

was george really the last of his kind ?

Apparently so, there are now only 10 sub-species left ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies_of_Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise

John Entwistle - The Who - 27 June 2002

ten years ago!! unbelievable!

Tove Jansson 11 years ago. good night sweet moomin!

John Entwistle - The Who - 27 June 2002

ten years ago!! unbelievable!

I have some autographed artwork by him.

Might whack it on the 'bay.

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld

^ just read the OB, that man was a real life Baron Munchausen adventure.

Awesome story, thanks for that.

John Entwistle - The Who - 27 June 2002

ten years ago!! unbelievable!

Fuck, really? seems like yesterday.

Instead he faked an epileptic fit and, when the guard opened the door to his cell, hit him over the head with a table leg before breaking his neck. (“Thank Goodness for that pitilessly efficient training,” he noted). After putting on the German’s uniform, La Rochefoucauld walked into the guardroom and shot the two other German jailers. He then simply walked out of the fort, through the deserted town, and to the address of an underground contact.

Amazing.

Sounds like how I effectively negotiated my bonus.

^lol

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld

bloody hell!

Eric Sykes.

Possibly to be buried in a 12 foot long coffin, to be carried awkwardly in and out of the church.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo....

I'm trying to find that fantastic clip where he's being interviewed and he absent mindedly takes his glasses off to clean them very carefully. Then calmly pulls his handkerchief through the frames because they don't have lenses in them (he used them as a bone conduction hearing aid), which totally throws off the interviewer, mostly because he does it with a straight face.

God bless you Mr Sykes - amazing writing for the Goons and Tony Hancock

thanks for the many laughs you silly twisted boy

Rip, Mr Sykes. there goes a very, very funny man. won't see his like again.

goodnightsweetfool

Ah, what a great man, RIP Eric :(

Such a great..

very sad. RIP. thanks for the laughs

Rip, Mr Sykes. there goes a very, very funny man. won't see his like again.

Time for James Corden to step up to the plate

Got in the car this morning thought what shall I listen to. Ah I know how about the Goons, so I spent an hour listening to the great man before getting into the office and seeing the news.
Spooky

Time for Jimmy Carr to step up to the plate
he's funny but I dont think he has the bones.