http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-says-it-will-stop-producing-its-betamax-tapes-in-march/
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 03:30 (ten years ago)
another nail in the coffin for The Daily Show
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 07:02 (ten years ago)
Aww, RIP Mark Bell :(
― albvivertine, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 07:21 (ten years ago)
Bill Withers. I also can't believe they didn't get him into the Hall Of Fame until this year.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 01:36 (ten years ago)
Henry Kissinger. I thought he had died years ago, until I read the news yesterday that he'd commented on the Paris terrorist attacks.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 November 2015 13:42 (ten years ago)
Marla Gibbs...saw a collage post on FB, and thought she'd died, but it's just a repost from her 84th birthday last June.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 January 2016 20:32 (ten years ago)
Olivia de Havilland. 100, come June 1st.
― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2016 11:16 (ten years ago)
Always had the edge on her sister (two Oscars to one; 99y* to 96y).
― Michael Jones, Friday, 29 January 2016 12:58 (ten years ago)
I could've swore Chuck Yeager had died.
― pplains, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:09 (ten years ago)
i thought whitey ford was felled by a barrage of pretzels 17 years ago but i guess not.
― nomar, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:12 (ten years ago)
Harry Belafonte
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:55 (ten years ago)
Yeah, saw his name crop up on Twitter several times today and quite surprised, was sure he'd died years ago.
Zsa Zsa Gabor's back in hospital, but seems to be immortal.
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:59 (ten years ago)
Nat Hentoff
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 12 February 2016 00:28 (ten years ago)
Jerry Lewis
― Ad h (onimo), Friday, 12 February 2016 01:52 (ten years ago)
^ 90 today!
― onimo, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 17:33 (ten years ago)
came here to post him after the namecheck in pres election thread. wow.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 19:31 (ten years ago)
Walking through Prague city centre yesterday, big ads for Charles Aznavoir in concert.
yep. He's doing a farewell tour, age 91. Will be 92 when its finished.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 April 2016 17:35 (ten years ago)
Saw something on FB yesterday about how Beverly Clearly is looking forward to her impending 100th birthday later this month.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2016 17:55 (ten years ago)
...and in checking out Ms. CLEARY's wiki, how did I not know that Sarah Polley played Ramona in the TV version I used to see as a kid?
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2016 18:08 (ten years ago)
Claus Von Bulow
― pplains, Thursday, 21 April 2016 03:57 (ten years ago)
Tom Lehrer.
Come to think of it, this phenomenon would make good subject matter for a Tom Lehrer song.
― a defense for Euro-Blackface (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 21 April 2016 09:28 (ten years ago)
Jimmy Cricket
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 April 2016 09:57 (ten years ago)
Robert Shapiro
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 21 April 2016 10:04 (ten years ago)
woah: Dershowitz's campaign to acquit Bülow was assisted by Jim Cramer and future New York Attorney General and Governor Eliot Spitzer who were then Harvard Law School students.[23]
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:33 (ten years ago)
Liz Windsor
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:35 (ten years ago)
Vera Lynn (just heard her being interviewed on the radio there).
― ailsa, Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:41 (ten years ago)
isn't there a robyn hitchcock song about vera lynn being dead that's from like twenty years ago
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:20 (ten years ago)
In 2013 Lynn joined a PETA campaign against pigeon racing, stating that the sport was "utterly cruel".
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:37 (ten years ago)
Hugh Hefner (b. 1926). I couldn't have told you *when* he might have died, as you'd expect it to have been a memorably big deal... but it just seemed reasonable that he would have.
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 May 2016 19:53 (ten years ago)
already been posted itt but Arthur Scargill
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:18 (ten years ago)
David Bellamy
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:30 (ten years ago)
^ good one.
Nancy Banks-Smith.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:35 (ten years ago)
Jules FEIFFER thanks to Scott's old jews thread
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:44 (ten years ago)
muhammad ali
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:53 (ten years ago)
bill clinton
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:56 (ten years ago)
george h.w. bush
― remove butt (abanana), Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:07 (ten years ago)
teddy sheringham
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 8 May 2016 22:17 (ten years ago)
bill bellamy
― dynamicinterface, Sunday, 8 May 2016 23:02 (ten years ago)
Heinz Wolff
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 9 May 2016 08:11 (ten years ago)
Pluto (Shervington)
― Mark G, Monday, 9 May 2016 09:39 (ten years ago)
John Gorman (the one who was in The Scaffold, not the footballer)
― soref, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:31 (ten years ago)
Maurice Williams (of 'and The Zodiacs' of "Stay" fame)
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:43 (ten years ago)
lester james peries, filmmaker from sri lanka
i'd assumed he'd died decades ago
he's alive, 97 y.o.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 13 May 2016 20:56 (ten years ago)
Alan Young, who died this week at age 96.
Only thing more surprising would be to have found out the horse was still alive too.
― pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:02 (ten years ago)
(Bamboo Harvester died in 1970, don't bother checking.)
― pplains, Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:03 (ten years ago)
Rose Marie
― Arthur, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:13 (ten years ago)
Harry Dean Stanton!
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 23 May 2016 04:05 (ten years ago)
Michael J. Pollard
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 23:50 (ten years ago)
Saw Terry Moore on a mid-50s What's My Line the other night on Buzzr, and not only is she still alive (at age 87), but according to imdb she's got three movies coming out this year!
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 May 2016 00:06 (ten years ago)
When I was in Lisbon, I saw some ad for a João Gilberto concert, which surprised me, because I though he had died years ago... But I guess I was thinking of Tom Jobim.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:24 (ten years ago)