The RIP thread...

He was 92. I was in the Pinarello shop in Treviso about ten years ago and had the pleasure of meeting him. He was a bit of a rogue, giving his (very charming) grand daughter the runaround.

Amazing how older Italian men remain lothario's whilst their english equivalent are just deemed pervs...

#teenslain

Joan Rivers, 81.

rip

it wasn't looking good for her eh? I liked her fast wit if not all her humour - RIP

I remember her on the old Bob Monkhouse show years ago when she broke in the UK, she was so outrageous and acerbic, there hadn't been anyone as ribald and gutsy as her.

Karma's a funny thing.

She was hilarious, but went a bit too far with her comments regarding Gaza.

Was thinking the same.

I'd be inclined to think that they could well have been the ramblings of a doddery old doxy, but apparently she still had all her marbles prior to that wonky bit of surgery.

i just told Mrs Hell... her reaction... "Yay!"

you think you know someone.

That's hilarious.

Reunited at last. RIP

Karma's a funny thing.

She was hilarious, but went a bit too far with her comments regarding Gaza.

ALL OF THIS. If anyone had given the same despicable comments that she did on the dead children and innocents, in reverse, you'd never get a casting in hollywood ever again.

I'm slightly ashamed to admit a slight henman-esque fist pump when I heard the news. That how acerbic I found her comments several weeks back

All in her delivery:

"My childhood? Horrible. All the time when I was a kid I had "Why can't you be like cousin Sheila, WHY CAN'T YOU BE LIKE COUSIN SHEILA? Cousin Sheila died at birth".

I never really warmed to her or her style of comedy, but I admired her gutsiness, quick wit, gift for dead-pan delivery and her usually on-the-money observations, and also how she lit up and led the way for the next generations of female comedians.

I'm sure, if she could, she would have summed up her own death with a brilliant one-liner.

RIP Mr Pinarello. I had one of your bikes. It was a very nice bike. Thanks.

I'm sure, if she could, she would have summed up her own death with a brilliant one-liner.

Maybe in a few years they'll dig up her coffin and re-shape it.

Joan Rivers. RIP.

RIP Giovanni Pinerello, I bought an ex-team Prince off you in 2001 you were charming and funny. Your maglia nero and maglia rosa were framed high on the wall. I still love the bike, rode it Sunday to Pocahontas' grave...

Echoing comments made by b&d, Mrs Greenhell and MG:

Joan Rivers wrote her own elegy brilliantly:

"You're dead, you deserve to be dead. Don’t you dare make me feel bad about that.”

Echoing comments made by b&d, Mrs Greenhell and MG.

Joan Rivers wrote her own elegy brilliantly:

"You're dead, you deserve to be dead. Don’t you dare make me feel bad about that.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME-c05yNOYY

Ha, Missed the whole page, was surprised it hadn't been mentioned. This video is great.

She was never afraid to laugh at herself

"I've had so much plastic surgery that when I die they will donate my body to Tuppaware"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-dead-quotes-quips_n_3403240.html

Her swearing on live tv - this is the only clip I could find but sure she'd done it more than once
http://youtu.be/eOpquHD4HJQ

Sadly any legacy she leaves will be tarnished by her "Palestinians deserved it" comments prior to her death.

I'm not nearly as sad about her death as I am about Robin Williams.

She's sharp as a tack, watching that again I'm pretty sure she modifies her act. I mean, I think she changes direction mid-way through when she realises it's a British audience and they rerspond well to knob and poo jokes, it's when she gets to the bit about having a coil fitted and every time she crosses her legs the garage door opens.