Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder and engineer of Pong and Computer Spacehttps://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-26-atari-co-founder-ted-dabney-dies-aged-80
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:19 (eight years ago)
"Conrad, Gordon and BeanForgot their washing machineSo they scrubbed on their nose and they scrubbed on their toesAnd that's the end of Conrad, Gordon and Bean"
© Some schoolkids in Windsor, 1968 or thereabouts
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:30 (eight years ago)
Begs pardon, 1969.
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 20:32 (eight years ago)
Were you one those kids?
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 21:44 (eight years ago)
. Mmm hmmm
Line three was mine
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:16 (eight years ago)
And he's still writing songs to this day.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:20 (eight years ago)
Some things never change
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:22 (eight years ago)
You've never met Colonel Poo
Ouch.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 26 May 2018 22:51 (eight years ago)
Stewart Lupton of Jonathan Fire Eater? seeing some tweets but no news yet
― na (NA), Monday, 28 May 2018 23:45 (eight years ago)
https://www.stereogum.com/1998342/jonathan-fireeaters-stewart-lupton-dead-at-43/obit/
― na (NA), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:47 (eight years ago)
Ouch. Hard living.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 02:31 (eight years ago)
Read the bio and did not realize/retain the fact that the other three members started the Walkmen. Makes their story 3/4's less depressing.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 04:30 (eight years ago)
http://www.metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/anal-cnt-guitarist-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-an-escalator/amp
You fell off an escalator and diedYou were always a little clumsyOr maybe just drunkAnd now you're dead so it doesn't even matterPoseur idiot loserYou suckYou suckYou suckYou shop at the mallNot anymore
― kinder, gentler (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 06:35 (eight years ago)
Broadway-TV-film actress Allyn Ann McLerie, who I remember from a handful of Sydney Pollack films, All the President's Men and "The Tony Randall Show." She'd been around long enough to have played Ray Bolger's girlfriend in Charley's Aunt. Didn't know she'd been married to Adolph Green and George Gaynes.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allyn-ann-mclerie-dead-wheres-charley-they-shoot-horses-dont-they-actress-dies-at-91-1115247
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 June 2018 06:19 (eight years ago)
Doors Biographer Jerry Hopkins Dead at 82
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/doors-biographer-jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82-w521066
― nickn, Monday, 4 June 2018 22:50 (eight years ago)
kate spade :(
― 龜, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:16 (eight years ago)
i just heard that! :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:33 (eight years ago)
Apparent suicide says the beeb.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44374844
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:56 (eight years ago)
Metal guitarist Ralph Santolla (Death, Obituary, Deicide, Iced Earth, others) isn't dead yet, but he's been in a coma since last week and has been taken off life support.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:48 (eight years ago)
Haven't seen anyone else mention Glynn Edwards, British TV actor (although of course he was in Zulu and played a policeman in a couple of Confessions films).
(Sorry about the paywall, only online obit I can find.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/05/glynn-edwards-played-dave-barman-minder-obituary/
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:53 (eight years ago)
Frank Carlucci, NSA/CIA/DoD "operator" (asshole buddy of Cap Weinberger)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:23 (eight years ago)
Malcolm Morley, painter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44371397
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 07:59 (eight years ago)
Jerry Maren, last adult actor who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, 98.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:18 (eight years ago)
Misread that and wondered how many other Munchkins could've possibly detoured into adult films.
― Buttholt Brecht (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:46 (eight years ago)
Mary Wilson, wife of Harold of Milnsbridge - only 102. that's no age at all these days, fuck this year etc!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:30 (eight years ago)
peter stringfellol
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 06:53 (eight years ago)
about time!
― calzino, Thursday, 7 June 2018 07:12 (eight years ago)
RIP... Mary.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:10 (eight years ago)
rip big man, heaven needed a perma-speedoed mahogany creep
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:06 (eight years ago)
he might be out of luck if heaven has had a me-too moratorium on bloated Tory sex-offenders!
― calzino, Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:56 (eight years ago)
Dull story - One time (1990 or thereabouts) we had our works' Christmas do in Stringfellows (me neither), it was alright but at one point I decided to go up to the DJ box and request some Stone Roses (I know, I know), dude said "yeah, OK" and about 10-15 mins later he played "Fools Gold". It wasn't until I looked again I realised it was the man himself.
So, why would he be running the DJ decks during a fairly nondescript corporate booking, being fairly low-key himself? I guess he enjoyed the work.
There you go, finished now, wake up..
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:20 (eight years ago)
did you have to tuck a fiver into his speedo?
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:20 (eight years ago)
can only presume he was hoping to emulate savile
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:28 (eight years ago)
pretty sure it was rod hull that was into emulating
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:31 (eight years ago)
lol
also eurgh
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:36 (eight years ago)
Fool's Gold = Stringo's brand of fake tan
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:50 (eight years ago)
vg+
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:52 (eight years ago)
i am both glad that this thraed might be an introduction to the glamorous world of peter stringfellow for non-britisher ilxors but saddened that they will not get an opportunity to experience it while he still walked among us
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 11:04 (eight years ago)
peter wadsworth stringfellow
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:06 (eight years ago)
still reeling from the introduction to ken dodd tbh
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:07 (eight years ago)
oh no
you diddynt
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:08 (eight years ago)
He lives on, in the fact that being compared to Stringfellows is an obvious claim of misogyyny.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:57 (eight years ago)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
― StanM, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:35 (eight years ago)
:-(((((
― suzy, Friday, 8 June 2018 11:42 (eight years ago)
Fuck. There has been way too much suicide on this thread this year.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 June 2018 11:47 (eight years ago)
What the fuck, I'm completely shocked, horrible news
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 8 June 2018 12:38 (eight years ago)
danny kirwan, apparently
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 June 2018 04:31 (eight years ago)
Robert Mandan of "Soap"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-mandan-dead-actor-who-played-chester-tate-soap-was-86-1116697
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 June 2018 04:49 (eight years ago)
awwwwww :( he was such a great weasel on Soap
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:04 (eight years ago)
Yeah, Danny Kirwan
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 June 2018 11:14 (eight years ago)