RIP 2025
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Robert Redford: 20 Essential Movies
Robert Redford's best roles, from 'The Candidate' to 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'All the President's Men,' 'The Way We Were,' and more.
The Natural for me
Great book too
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@MiketheSnow Have you ordered your turquoise ski jacket yet? Hear very popular in Wales.
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Harold 'Dickie' Bird
Out for 92
Great innings -
@MiketheSnow Can't bring myself to be sad about this one. he had a great and long life and of course seemingly stayed happy throughout. As you say, a great innings.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2025:
@MiketheSnow Can't bring myself to be sad about this one. he had a great and long life and of course seemingly stayed happy throughout. As you say, a great innings.
The Nigel Owens of Cricket.
Remember him saying in his book the finest thing he got out of cricket were his lifelong friendships with players he umpired. Almost whole Test teams used to visit him in Yorkshire after he retired. That's some legacy right there.
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There was a story he told about Geoff Boycott too. Apparently at some game they were both at they got talking and Boycott invited him round for Sunday lunch. Dicky went round at the allotted hour and rang the bell at the gates and got no answer. He knew Boycott was at home so he climbed over the wall and then went and banged on the front door so loudly Boycott had to answer. When he said he had come for Sunday lunch as per the invite Boycott denied ever inviting him. Dicky insisted and Boycott denied him and they argued for some time before Boycott begrudgingly invited him in and gave him a cheese sandwich.
Apparently Dicky was more pleased with the outcome than Boycott on account of he at least "got a bloody lunch out of the tight git".
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Merv Hughes story:
I was giving some serious verbals to Graeme Hick when Dicky came up and said "Mervyn, Mervyn, there's no need to talk like that to that nice Mr Hick, Please stop it" - and I did"
I looked at him, hands on hips, and said, "Dicky, you're a bloody legend, mate"
and from his playing days...
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360840404/nigel-latta-dies-aged-58
I listened to him once. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy, funny, and not at all afraid to tell it like it is
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360840404/nigel-latta-dies-aged-58
I listened to him once. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy, funny, and not at all afraid to tell it like it is
58 is way too young as well
Stomach cancer must have been fucken horrible to go through as wellBeyond the Darklands was a great show with his views on some of NZ's most notorious crims.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360840404/nigel-latta-dies-aged-58
I listened to him once. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy, funny, and not at all afraid to tell it like it is
58 is way too young as well
Stomach cancer must have been fucken horrible to go through as wellBeyond the Darklands was a great show with his views on some of NZ's most notorious crims.
A good advertisement for routine bowel screening after age 50
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Jane Goodall, 91
Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall dies aged 91
The conservationist was renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy.
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Jane Goodall, 91
Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall dies aged 91
The conservationist was renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy.
What a collosus she was. Her, Attenborough, and Cousteau are the three biggest names from my childhood watching nature TV
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Jane Goodall, 91
Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall dies aged 91
The conservationist was renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy.
from being inspired by Dr Doolittle to being the first* to observe animals use tools in 1960...
*I find it hard to believe she was the first amongst non-Westerners but still impressive...
