RIP 2018
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R.I.P. R. Lee Ermey.
Without a doubt one of the greatest character roles in the history of movies.
He came down to NZ to reprise it in PJ’s “Frighteners.”
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Ivan Mauger has ridden off into the sunset. RIP.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/103134576/new-zealand-speedway-ace-ivan-mauger-dies
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What a legend - in an absolutely mad sport. When I hitched around Scandinavia in the early 80's a mention of Mauger almost guaranteed a free feed.
We really were a force in Speedway in those days. Remember seeing him race at the Springs. Knew he'd been ill didn't realise how bad he was.
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
R.I.P. R. Lee Ermey.
I'd like to think that he was up in heaven, questioning god's sexuality.
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
R.I.P. R. Lee Ermey.
Without a doubt one of the greatest character roles in the history of movies.
He came down to NZ to reprise it in PJ’s “Frighteners.”
Pretty convincing as a drill sergeant, probably because that is what he was!
Also excellent in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre flicks. RIP indeed.
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Ivan Mauger - Six time World Solo Speedway Champion
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Harry Anderson of Night Court.
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@number-10 said in RIP 2018:
Harry Anderson of Night Court.
Wow. I can honestly say I haven't heard a peep from anyone in that show until now. Funny how some actors fade into complete obscurity.
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@number-10 said in RIP 2018:
Harry Anderson of Night Court.
Wow. I can honestly say I haven't heard a peep from anyone in that show until now. Funny how some actors fade into complete obscurity.
John Larroquette? The Practice, Boston Legal, West Wing John Larroquette?
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@number-10 said in RIP 2018:
Harry Anderson of Night Court.
Wow. I can honestly say I haven't heard a peep from anyone in that show until now. Funny how some actors fade into complete obscurity.
John Larroquette? The Practice, Boston Legal, West Wing John Larroquette?
Who?
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Avicii
Shit! only 28
No word on how.
Quite like some of his stuff.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12036915
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The NYT obit:
Bruno Sammartino, Durable Champ in WWE Hall of Fame, Dies at 82
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Unlike many heavies on the pro wrestling circuits, he was a soft-spoken, gentlemanly connoisseur of grand opera, especially Verdi. And for one who had bench-pressed 565 pounds as an amateur, he was relatively small: under 6 feet tall and a trim 260 or 270 pounds, with bulging pectorals and biceps and a big head. He looked tiny beside giant rivals like Haystacks Calhoun, who topped 600 pounds.
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In February 1961, Sammartino body-slammed Chick Garibaldi to the canvas at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens. Garibaldi did not get up. The referee stopped the match and determined that Garibaldi was dead. A medical examiner later said he had suffered a heart attack. Sammartino was stricken with remorse for months.
Sammartino himself almost died, of a broken neck, when Stan Hansen, in a match in New York in 1976, dropped him on his head. Sammartino spent weeks in a hospital.
Sammartino did not dispute that professional wrestling matches were fixed. But he bristled at suggestions that he had ever taken a fall and said his injuries were proofs of his honesty.
“I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing,” he told The Washington Post in 1980 as his career wound down. “You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question. I have broken more bones than any of the others — my neck, my collarbone, both arms, wrists, knuckles, all of my ribs, my back. A hairline fracture of the kneecap. My jaw has been wired and rewired. It’s incredible to think people would fake that.”
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@salacious-crumb said in RIP 2018:
The NYT obit:
Bruno Sammartino, Durable Champ in WWE Hall of Fame, Dies at 82
[...]
Unlike many heavies on the pro wrestling circuits, he was a soft-spoken, gentlemanly connoisseur of grand opera, especially Verdi. And for one who had bench-pressed 565 pounds as an amateur, he was relatively small: under 6 feet tall and a trim 260 or 270 pounds, with bulging pectorals and biceps and a big head. He looked tiny beside giant rivals like Haystacks Calhoun, who topped 600 pounds.
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In February 1961, Sammartino body-slammed Chick Garibaldi to the canvas at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens. Garibaldi did not get up. The referee stopped the match and determined that Garibaldi was dead. A medical examiner later said he had suffered a heart attack. Sammartino was stricken with remorse for months.
Sammartino himself almost died, of a broken neck, when Stan Hansen, in a match in New York in 1976, dropped him on his head. Sammartino spent weeks in a hospital.
Sammartino did not dispute that professional wrestling matches were fixed. But he bristled at suggestions that he had ever taken a fall and said his injuries were proofs of his honesty.
“I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing,” he told The Washington Post in 1980 as his career wound down. “You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question. I have broken more bones than any of the others — my neck, my collarbone, both arms, wrists, knuckles, all of my ribs, my back. A hairline fracture of the kneecap. My jaw has been wired and rewired. It’s incredible to think people would fake that.”
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82 is an incredible innings for a pro wrestler
