RIP 2023

[canefan]

@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/arts/television/bob-barker-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230826&instance_id=101246&nl=from-the-timesi_id=58678656&segment_id=142985&te=1&user_id=64e88309341bf9e2caae97d27de1dabb

Guy obviously had a sense of humour

[MN5]

A real fun bloke to have a yarn with in the nations capital. During my days of frequenting Courtney Place he always greeted me with a hearty smile and more than a few free drinks !

RIP.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/132823323/wellington-raconteur-socialite-and-everythingman-john-mcgrath-dies

[Bovidae]

Nice to see an acknowledgment on the official website.

https://www.allblacks.com/news/vale-dr-ron-palenski/

[nostrildamus]

@dogmeat said in RIP 2023:

Don't know diddly about her political career but she was a tour de force as an actor

I remember she played Roald Dahl's wife Patricia Neale and was good in that, so good I keep confusing her with Patricia Neale!

The Patricia Neal Story (TV Movie 1981) ⭐ 7.0 | Biography, Drama

1h 40m | Not Rated

[nostrildamus]

@Bones said in RIP 2023:

were there family ties?

[MiketheSnow]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/arts/jimmy-buffett-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230902&instance_id=101770&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=58678656&segment_id=143560&te=1&user_id=64e88309341bf9e2caae97d27de1dabb

[sparky]

Mohamed Fayed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66690623

[canefan]

@sparky said in RIP 2023:

Mohamed Fayed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66690623

Presided over a great era for Fulham FC. Don't know about the statue of Michael Jackson though, a bit random

[MiketheSnow]

Hilarious listening to his obituary on the BBC

Goes from humble lemonade salesman to owner of Harrod's quickly glossing over the fact that he married the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer

[canefan]

@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

Hilarious listening to his obituary on the BBC

Goes from humble lemonade salesman to owner of Harrod's quickly glossing over the fact that he married the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer

I didn't know that! Must have been bloody good lemonade....

[MiketheSnow]

@canefan said in RIP 2023:

@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

Hilarious listening to his obituary on the BBC

Goes from humble lemonade salesman to owner of Harrod's quickly glossing over the fact that he married the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer

I didn't know that! Must have been bloody good lemonade....

Sister sorry

"Mr Al Fayed rose from selling fizzy drinks on the streets of his native Alexandria in Egypt to become a big name in business with all the right contacts.

His break came after he met his first wife, Samira Khashoggi, the sister of Saudi millionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi - who employed him in his Saudi Arabian import business."

[booboo]

@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/arts/jimmy-buffett-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230902&instance_id=101770&nl=from-the-timesi_id=58678656&segment_id=143560&te=1&user_id=64e88309341bf9e2caae97d27de1dabb

Did he find his shaker of salt?

[Smudge]

@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/arts/jimmy-buffett-dead.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230902&instance_id=101770&nl=from-the-timesi_id=58678656&segment_id=143560&te=1&user_id=64e88309341bf9e2caae97d27de1dabb

Disturbingly, in 2014, when there were 7 Margaritaville restaurants, despite me being a Kiwi who had barely left NZ, somehow I'd been to 3 (Vegas, Waikiki, Niagara Falls) of the 7 Margaritaville restaurants at the time.

[Tim]

Never really cared for Jimmy Buffett, but A Pirate Looks at 40 is a rather good song.

[No Quarter]

Damn RIP

[Crazy Horse]

@No-Quarter said in RIP 2023:

Damn RIP

Is it real this time?

[NTA]

Looks to be. Only 49. Jeez.

[No Quarter]

Yeah advanced cancer, I wonder what happened with the incorrect rumour, I assume he was battling very sad.

[MN5]

Very good player, especially compared to some of his teammates. Definitely stood out.

RIP, thanks for playing the wonderful game so well.

[dogmeat]

@canefan

There's only one F in Fayed, One F in Fayed...."

Dodgy business dealings, Wacko statue and conspiracy theories aside Dodi's Dad is a nailed on Fulham legend.

Never accepted by the British establishment he lapped up the adulation of the Fulham fan's.

He had a genuine passion for the club plus you gotta love a Chairman that sent all the media who had written off Fulham as relegation certainties a courier package of gold Harrods cutlery in a box with their shredded newspaper articles together with an invitation to eat their words. Something he had said they would have to do back the previous August.