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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
For those who spent time in the UK, you probably owned a pair of ‘ron hills’ - Great trackie bottoms for camping etc.
Ron Hill obituary
British long distance runner who won gold medals and broke records in the marathon during the 1960s and 70s
You lost me at 'trackie bottoms'
trackpants
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@machpants .........and people voluntarily wear those things?
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@machpants .........and people voluntarily wear those things?
Surely nobody is actually going to force them to either. Just bloody cruel.
I don't like to dis the dead but as "fashion goes":
Hill combined his athletics career with a job as a textile scientist,
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A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Everyone knows the hungry caterpillar!
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@machpants said in RIP 2021:
A literary great,
Eric Carle obituary
Illustrator and author of classic children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Everyone knows the hungry caterpillar!
He lived @Mokey's dream - wrote 240 words and sold 50 million copies
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@bovidae I spent a good amount of time watching the love boat as a kid. Didn't realise he was still around. He was obviously in a lots of different things but I remember him Peter Sellers "the party". A horribly racist movie that's fantastically funny and still has the house I aspire to own one day.
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Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and many others, has died at 84. RIP
Legend
Larry McMurtry obituary
American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain
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Northern Soul legend Dean Parrish aged 78. Also known (real name) as Phil Anastasia.
A native New Yorker, he was apparently unaware of his cult status in the UK with songs like this
Also worked as a session muso with Hendrix, Santana and Bob Marley in the early 70s.
Was recording still right up to last year for Acid Jazz
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He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.
RIP
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He’ll be squealing like a pig in heaven.
RIP
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@jc sorry to reply to an older post but yes
I think it is also easy to forget how little comedy/political satire there was in those days..
RIP 2021
AK03:As good as the bloody original - NZ Herald