Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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Raymond Smullyan, logician and puzzle creator

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 12 February 2017 19:21 (nine years ago)

Leslie's hobbies included being abusive to his family, expediting trips to heaven for the beloved family pets and fishing, which he was less skilled with than the previously mentioned.

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 01:09 (nine years ago)

Quality obit imo

― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 February 2017 01:30 (nine years ago)

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/harry-sievey-dies-frank-sidebottom-12599905

Harry Sievey, son of Chris/Frank Sidebottom.

― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 13 February 2017 22:54 (nine years ago)

jazz pianist/singer Barbara Carroll

http://www.playbill.com/article/barbara-carroll-jazz-pianist-is-dead-at-92

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 01:45 (nine years ago)

manga creator Jiro Taniguchi

I've only read The Walking Man, which is beautiful, but here's a nice obit from The Comics Journal: http://www.tcj.com/jiro-taniguchi-1947-2017/

― rob, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 15:56 (nine years ago)

junie morrison

― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:44 (nine years ago)

Oh no! RIP Junie ;_;

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:56 (nine years ago)

oh no

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 February 2017 21:00 (nine years ago)

Listening to "One Nation" now.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 February 2017 21:02 (nine years ago)

Dutch artist Dick Bruna.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61N5GHbVpIL.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 17 February 2017 13:42 (nine years ago)

Aw, a friend of mine is going to be totally gutted by that news.

― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Friday, 17 February 2017 13:44 (nine years ago)

Good job my son is too young to understand ;_;

― Madchen, Friday, 17 February 2017 13:45 (nine years ago)

@WWE
BREAKING: WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer George “The Animal” Steele has passed away at age of 79. wwe.me/MVu3KZ

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:00 (nine years ago)

also catholic conservative michael novak

― mookieproof, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:09 (nine years ago)

Singer-songwriter Peter Skellern. Had no idea he'd become a priest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-39006899

― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:04 (nine years ago)

Blimey.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:46 (nine years ago)

I associate Peter Skellern with Richard Stilgoe and that is not a good thing, in any way. However this was a good song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSYJ4tYpyQ8

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:57 (nine years ago)

(xps) RIP Dick Bruna

― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Friday, 17 February 2017 18:52 (nine years ago)

Nicole Bass, 52

― flappy bird, Friday, 17 February 2017 18:58 (nine years ago)

thanks for posting that song tom, surprised how good it is

― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Friday, 17 February 2017 19:14 (nine years ago)

It's the Lancashire Steely Dan.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 17 February 2017 19:29 (nine years ago)

kind of curious to know whether anyone has ever sampled that bass tbh

― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Friday, 17 February 2017 20:11 (nine years ago)

rip dick bruna ;_;

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2017 00:26 (nine years ago)

Bob Michel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/robert-michel-longest-serving-minority-leader-in-us-house-dies-at-93/2017/02/17/8c49b51c-f511-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 February 2017 02:42 (nine years ago)

Warren Frost, father of Mark, Donna's dad in twin peaks and Susan's in Seinfeld

― wins, Saturday, 18 February 2017 02:46 (nine years ago)

Never knew his name until now, but Frost had some brilliant deadpan moments on Seinfeld.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 February 2017 03:21 (nine years ago)

Otm - I always think of his reaction to George riffing on the pointlessness of laughter ("we open our mouth and go 'HA-HA ' - what is that?")

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 18 February 2017 15:11 (nine years ago)

I never cared for his jokes

― wins, Saturday, 18 February 2017 15:13 (nine years ago)

Frost was especially great on Seinfeld because of the way he was paired with Grace Zabriskie from Twin Peaks. His best moment for me was hissing contempt at her in the Cheever episode.

"He was the most wonderful person I've ever known. And I loved him deeply--in a way you could never understand."

― clemenza, Saturday, 18 February 2017 16:27 (nine years ago)

I love his throwaway "wear some more lipstick" as a retort to Zabriskie's passive-aggressive digs at him.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 February 2017 16:51 (nine years ago)

Clyde Stubblefield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ4AtsFWVM

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 18 February 2017 19:56 (nine years ago)

Man, him and Jaki in the same span ...

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:19 (nine years ago)

Damn, with him, Jaki, and Junie, Heaven just got alot funkier.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:27 (nine years ago)

Ugh so bummed about Clyde, such a genius SUCH A GENIUS

― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Saturday, 18 February 2017 21:11 (nine years ago)

I can't find it on youtube but the Cold Sweat on the Say It Live And Loud Dallas 1968 album is the best drumming I have ever heard.

― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Saturday, 18 February 2017 21:11 (nine years ago)

Norma McCorvey aka Jane Roe

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/18/515972447/norma-mccorvey-roe-of-landmark-roe-v-wade-ruling-on-abortion-dies-at-69

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2017 00:51 (nine years ago)

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to 1993 World Trade Center attack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/omar-abdel-rahman-blind-sheik-convicted-in-1993-world-trade-center-attack-dies-at-78/2017/02/18/807c4f2c-f603-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 February 2017 00:53 (nine years ago)

ivan 'the russian bear' koloff (born oreal perras in montréal)

http://people.com/sports/wrestler-ivan-koloff-russian-bear-dead

― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:52 (nine years ago)

A few days ago, but Bobby Freeman, of "Do You Want To Dance" fame, at 76. Didn't know Jerry Garcia played guitar on the 1958 hit.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bobby-freeman-20170215-story.html

― nickn, Sunday, 19 February 2017 07:43 (nine years ago)

Alan Aldridge - graphic illustrator and artist (including album covers for Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and A Quick One)

― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 19 February 2017 08:38 (nine years ago)

RIP.

(xp) That Jerry Garcia credit is disputed

― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:11 (nine years ago)

love Aldridge

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/56/06/eb/5606ebc2cee88058103f5d90c8cc8adf.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e8/d3/4a/e8d34a21fac41177b2c300ff0be30998.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/fc/3c/72/fc3c7201d45b669237a87daedd906c07.jpg http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/images/2620_ALFRED_BESTER_Tiger_Tiger_1967.jpg

― soref, Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:22 (nine years ago)

Wish I could say the same, but RIP nonetheless.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:26 (nine years ago)

Did he also do The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics? Hard for me to know, since the version I bought from the Scholastic Book Club long ago as a schoolboy actually had no illustrations.

― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:01 (nine years ago)

I guess it did have an image on the cover, over 100 photographs and an introduction by Richard Brautigan, along with the lyrics of course.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/MEDFORDBOOKS/md/md773933138.jpg

― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:06 (nine years ago)

We had a Beatles For Guitar book which had illustrations by Alan Aldridge. I don't know where it came from, no-one in my family liked the Beatles, I think my brother might have borrowed it from someone to learn some songs. Always hated the illustrations too.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:20 (nine years ago)

(xp) That cover looks more like John Byrne.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:21 (nine years ago)

... no, having seen a bigger version it's definitely Alan Aldridge!

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:22 (nine years ago)

Byrne was tapped up to do the cover for The Beatles, though wasn't used until it appeared on Beatles Ballads in 1980.

https://img.discogs.com/gYvCsrUU93QEvdIPbpMj5P2VbT0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2431327-1343218241-1881.jpeg.jpg

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 19 February 2017 15:30 (nine years ago)

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