RIP 2022
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@Machpants said in RIP 2022:
They make some epoic beer, I love their APA
Their double Milk Stout is the one I remember best from lockdown, what a delicious drop that is.
RIP.
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Former Otago prop dies suddenly in Japan
Tributes are flowing after the death of a Otago prop turned respected coach.
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Like it was yesterday, I remember the first ice hockey ever broadcast on NZ tv was a mid-70s Stanley Cup between Le Canadiens and the Bruins. This guy was the undisputed superstar, a flashy goal-scoring machine. His team won four straight Cups. I remember stories about Lafleur chain-smoking in the locker room between periods. No helmets either. Old school. R.I.P.
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Oh, man. Been a lousy year for superstar groupies. Last year we saw the passing of Sweet Sweet Connie. Now it’s Cynthia Plaster Caster. RIP girls, you lived the lifestyle.
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Fuck.
Teen fleeing police causes car wreck that kills rugby legend, cops say
Wannenburg, 41, was traveling through Houston with his wife, Evette, their ten-year-old daughter and son Francois, 8, on Friday at 6pm when they were hit by the other car.
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This is a bit sad, something always comforting about hearing him on ZB talking about “in my day”. I’ll miss him not being there on long drives.
RIP and thanks for some quite funny talkback over the years !
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@Kid-Chocolate said in RIP 2022:
Oh, man. Been a lousy year for superstar groupies. Last year we saw the passing of Sweet Sweet Connie. Now it’s Cynthia Plaster Caster. RIP girls, you lived the lifestyle.
"Behold the famous groupies, they are alike as two peas
And where the other goes, the other goes
But though the famous groupies are only paid in rupees
Nobody knows what the famous groupies know
And nobody goes where the famous groupies go"Paul McCartney
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@Kid-Chocolate said in RIP 2022:
Oh, man. Been a lousy year for superstar groupies. Last year we saw the passing of Sweet Sweet Connie. Now it’s Cynthia Plaster Caster. RIP girls, you lived the lifestyle.
Who ?
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She claimed Alex Van Halen was the best. David Lee Roth was the worst. And Eddie…? Somewhere in the middle.
‘Sweet Sweet Connie’ Hamzy, Immortalized in Grand Funk Railroad Song, Dead at 66
"I was determined to become a famous groupie." Connie Hamzy, immortalized in Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band," has died at 66.
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That Joan Rivers interview us really educational, too.
Connie says she would have sex with 24 guys a night, but was now down to 15.
15 guys in one night, asks Joan incredulously, why??!!
“Old habits die hard, I guess.”
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This is a bit sad, something always comforting about hearing him on ZB talking about “in my day”. I’ll miss him not being there on long drives.
RIP and thanks for some quite funny talkback over the years !
I often tune in to the weekend afternoon sports show on ZB. 9 times out of 10 thw segment would start with "It's 12 o'clock, I'm Bruce Russell..." reading the news.
Sad.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in RIP 2022:
Like it was yesterday, I remember the first ice hockey ever broadcast on NZ tv was a mid-70s Stanley Cup between Le Canadiens and the Bruins. This guy was the undisputed superstar, a flashy goal-scoring machine. His team won four straight Cups. I remember stories about Lafleur chain-smoking in the locker room between periods. No helmets either. Old school. R.I.P.
We arrived in Calgary in 1977 moving from Auckland with my whole family.
We immediately started watching the Ice Hockey and we were right in the middle of the Montreal Canadien's dynasty.He was something else to watch play, never seen another player since match his style of play.
Also worth noting, another hockey great, Mike Bossy, cornerstone of the NY Islanders dynasty from 1980-83, passed away recently, also of lung cancer as he was another chain smoker.
Islanders great, 4-time Cup champ Bossy dies
Mike Bossy, one of hockey's most prolific goal scorers and a star for the Islanders during their 1980s dynasty, has died at the age of 65.
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I worked on a project and got to meet him a couple times about 20 years ago. Legend! Changed comics. He’s got some interesting ideas (earth is hollow, possibly populated, etc.), but a super-nice guy. RIP.
Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Who Revitalized Batman and Fought for Creators’ Rights, Dies at 80
He influenced multiple generations with his style and co-created such characters as Ra's al Ghul, the Man-Bat and one of DC's first Black superheroes, Green Lantern John Stewart.
“During his Batman run, Adams and writer Dennis O’Neil brought a revolutionary change to the hero and the comics, delivering realism, kineticism and a sense of menace to their storytelling in the wake of the campy Adam West-starring ’60s ABC series and years of the hero being aimed at kiddie readers. …
“The Batman run also revived some villains who had grown stale, no more so than the Joker, who became less comical and more the homicidal maniac that modern readers and moviegoers know and love, truly taking his place as the Caped Crusader’s archnemesis.
““We took a harder edge. We decided that Joker was just a little crazy,” Adams told Abraham Reisman for a 2019 Vulture article that made the case that without that classic story, 1973’s “The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge” in Batman No. 251, comics such as The Killing Joke and portrayals by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix would not exist.
““It was no secret that we were doing Batman right,” Adams said during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010. “It was as if the memory of DC Comics went along with the statements that both Denny and I were making, that we want it to be more realistic, more gritty. And that’s how we remember — whether it was true or not — that Batman should be. And when we did it, everybody went, ‘Ah, that’s it. We don’t need comedy anymore.'”“
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Spinal Tap drummer Ric Parnell dies aged 70
Parnell, who played Mick Shrimpton in This Is Spinal Tap, also performed in bands including Horse, Atomic Rooster, Nova and Stars
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@Machpants Don’t tell me, bizarre gardening accident, yeah?
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@Machpants Don’t tell me, bizarre gardening accident, yeah?
That was their 3rd drummer wasn't it? Who was the one who spontaneously combusted?
