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Post by registerme on Jun 20, 2024 18:48:35 GMT
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Post by ethel on Jun 20, 2024 20:02:13 GMT
I've always liked Donald Sutherland, especially his earlier stuff. I remember he was in an episode of The Avengers, and he was also in Don't Look Now and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Klute, all great films. A great actor, and father of Kiefer. RIP.
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Post by registerme on Jun 20, 2024 20:17:21 GMT
And the Dirty Dozen, and Kelly's Heroes.
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Post by agent69 on Jun 25, 2024 16:33:35 GMT
Frank Duckworth, the man whose mathematical knowledge helped to revolutionise rain-affected cricket, has died aged 84.
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Post by keitha on Jun 25, 2024 22:07:49 GMT
Frank Duckworth, the man whose mathematical knowledge helped to revolutionise rain-affected cricket, has died aged 84.
by the DL method he was 102 and by DLS 105
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Post by mostlywrong on Jul 4, 2024 19:16:25 GMT
Vincent Duggleby.
Not only because he had a name that was instantly recognisable but also because he explained personal and business finance in a way that even I could understand.
One of the BBC's finest journalists, perhaps?
That was a good innings, Sir.
MW
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Post by captainconfident on Jul 14, 2024 18:02:22 GMT
Shannon Doherty, known only to me for being in two of the greatest ever movies of ever, Heathers and Mallrats. RIP
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Post by ethel on Jul 15, 2024 14:57:17 GMT
Jay Slater, poor lad. And all the other people who have had the misfortune to lose their lives in Europe's heatwave conditions and difficult terrain. At least half a dozen.
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Post by captainconfident on Jul 18, 2024 22:32:18 GMT
Bob Newhart, at a ripe old age. Genuinely funny, humour that is timeless. I could listen to any of those sketches from The Buttoned Down Mind and I'd still laugh out loud. He seemed genuinely nice. Id definitely invite him to my Afterlife Party, along with Mae West, also eternally funny.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 20, 2024 14:06:45 GMT
Ray Reardon, six times world snooker champion and first ever winner of pot black dies aged 91. A true gentleman of the game.
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ilmoro
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 20, 2024 14:57:44 GMT
Ray Reardon, six times world snooker champion and first ever winner of pot black dies aged 91. A true gentleman of the game.
Met him once, brother actually played against him ... lovely & funny guy RIP
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jul 20, 2024 17:11:44 GMT
Ray Reardon, six times world snooker champion and first ever winner of pot black dies aged 91. A true gentleman of the game.
was thinking funny isn't it anyone else apart from snooker players become world champions get lots of awards ( CBE MBE OBE etc ) he was world champion 6 times and gets nothing, not saying it was because of his humble background but he certainly deserved an award a lot more than some. Harry Kane who has won nowt gets an MBE
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Post by michaelc on Jul 20, 2024 17:20:11 GMT
Ray Reardon, six times world snooker champion and first ever winner of pot black dies aged 91. A true gentleman of the game.
was thinking funny isn't it anyone else apart from snooker players become world champions get lots of awards ( CBE MBE OBE etc ) he was world champion 6 times and gets nothing, not saying it was because of his humble background but he certainly deserved an award a lot more than some. Harry Kane who has won nowt gets an MBE Ray was an MBE.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jul 20, 2024 18:31:13 GMT
I didn't know that, but it still proves the point, 6 times world champion MBE, won nothing still gets an MBE
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Post by ethel on Jul 22, 2024 11:30:28 GMT
Ray Reardon, six times world snooker champion and first ever winner of pot black dies aged 91. A true gentleman of the game.
Originally from Wales, he left school at 14 and was a miner in Stoke-on-Trent, along with his dad, and then a policeman. He had a snooker club in Stoke-on-Trent for a while, called Reardon's, unsurprisingly. His nickname was Dracula, because of his widow's peak, which I always thought was brilliant and really funny. He was playing at a time when there were a lot of characters in snooker, back in the 70's. And everyone smoked! Farewell Ray, you were great and a good ambassador for the game.
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