Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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Quino, Argentine cartoonist, creator of Mafalda, 88. RIP.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:15 (five years ago)

CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, son of actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, dies aged 19 https://t.co/Es6wrUG2tJ
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) October 1, 2020

― groovypanda, Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:25 (five years ago)

Was just coming to see if Quino had been mentioned. Both my partner (who is Cuban Spanish) and my Spanish teacher are pretty sad about him dying - Mafalda was a big deal for them growing up as I understand it. I've tried to read it, but still struggle to really get the nuances.

― brain (krakow), Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:26 (five years ago)

Frank Windsor, 92, staple of British police dramas.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/02/frank-windsor-z-cars-softly-softly-dies

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 2 October 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

bit late to this but Quino and Mafalda were well loved in my household. We have a big doorstop book - Todo Mafalda - which has every strip. Definitely the only comic strip I've read in its entirety. definitely the pre-eminent and undisputed greatest Latin American comic strip and he stopped making it in 74 or something like that. RIP.

― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:19 (five years ago)

Mafalda was also a big deal in France (and Quebec, to some extent). Quino doesn't appear to have made much of a dent in English-speaking countries – a shame.

― pomenitul, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

big in Italy also I seem to remember

― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:29 (five years ago)

Makes sense.

― pomenitul, Friday, 2 October 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

legendary Dubstep artist Cookie Monsta

RIP

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 2 October 2020 19:44 (five years ago)

Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 October 2020 04:46 (five years ago)

dag

― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 October 2020 04:55 (five years ago)

Tony Baylis of The Wurzels

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tributes-paid-chart-topping-member-4571333.amp

― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 3 October 2020 09:39 (five years ago)

Rip big man, was listening to some wurzels just this past week ('drink up thy zider' got played on nts, adge and the lads are hipster music now)

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Saturday, 3 October 2020 11:15 (five years ago)

My wife loves Mafalda; might need to look for that book. Thanks for the tip!

― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 3 October 2020 13:03 (five years ago)

Claude Vigée, French poet, 99. RIP.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 October 2020 13:06 (five years ago)

We have a pdf of (I think) Toda Mafalda, but the picture quality is pretty terrible and lots of the strips are cut off, so I'm on the lookout for the actual book for my partner too.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 3 October 2020 13:37 (five years ago)

Baseball player Charlie Haeger Found Dead After Being Wanted On Suspicion Of Murder Charge In Ex-Girlfriend’s Death

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/03/charlie-haeger-dead-report/

― nickn, Sunday, 4 October 2020 05:26 (five years ago)

playwright and screenwriter Murray Schisgal (Luv, Tootsie

https://forward.com/culture/455757/remembering-murray-schisgal-the-consummate-jewish-playwright-with-the-eyes/

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 October 2020 14:58 (five years ago)

Thomas Jefferson Byrd

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spike-lee-pays-tribute-to-clockers-star-thomas-jefferson-byrd-says-actor-was-murdered

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 4 October 2020 23:32 (five years ago)

His line about keeping his teeth white in Bamboozled is SO fucking funny

― flappy bird, Monday, 5 October 2020 00:21 (five years ago)

nah that was Paul Mooney

― flappy bird, Monday, 5 October 2020 00:23 (five years ago)

peregrine worsthorne

― mark s, Monday, 5 October 2020 20:37 (five years ago)

Thought he'd died in about 1971

― your response will be deleted unread (Matt #2), Monday, 5 October 2020 20:44 (five years ago)

you would sting me with a wasp?

― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 October 2020 21:00 (five years ago)

Was you ever stung by a dead bee?

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 October 2020 21:04 (five years ago)

that was possibly one of the most underrated moments of brasseye

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 21:05 (five years ago)

"Kem to meh gehrden in sythe bex"

― comorbidities in the BK lounge (stevie), Monday, 5 October 2020 21:08 (five years ago)

From the first pages when Worsthorne describes resisting being given an enema by his mother to the later accounts of interviewing American presidents and other VIPs, the memoir is frank. The author casts an ironical eye on his own private life and on the lives and characters of friends and enemies.

"you'd sting me with an enema?!!"

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 21:14 (five years ago)

Was you ever ~~stung~~bit by a dead bee?

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 October 2020 21:18 (five years ago)

there are some nice classic old-tory details on his wiki. like how his parents divorced and his mother married the governor of the bank of England and he was brought up by his butler! And he claims he was seduced by George Melly who apparently always denied this tryst.

― calzino, Monday, 5 October 2020 21:33 (five years ago)

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/clark-middleton-dead-the-blacklist-twin-peaks-kill-bill-2-1234793399/

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:34 (five years ago)

He was one of the more perplexing parts of the 3rd season of Twin Peaks.

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:15 (five years ago)

Not being a Twin Peaks person, I knew him from the show The Path on Hulu, about life in a weirdo cult. He was really good in that, as the guy who takes you into a room and interrogates you if it seems like you might be having second thoughts about cult livin'.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:21 (five years ago)

Eddie Van Halen.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:35 (five years ago)

pic.twitter.com/kQqDV7pulR
— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 6, 2020

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:36 (five years ago)

Holy shit.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:37 (five years ago)

!!!!!

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:39 (five years ago)

Oh no! RIP

― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:39 (five years ago)

― mark s, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:41 (five years ago)

Damn. RIP.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:42 (five years ago)

Woah

― comorbidities in the BK lounge (stevie), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:48 (five years ago)

Too young

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:05 (five years ago)

Fuuuuck

― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:05 (five years ago)

shit

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:18 (five years ago)

'70s Pop-Reggae Man Johnny Nash

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:16 (five years ago)

He covered The Wailers' "Stir It Up" so well that Bob & The Wailers re-covered it back in Nash's style which then made Bob Marley an international star and is the version we all know. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3akafGyYMQ

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:26 (five years ago)

I had missed the post above this and was all "Van Halen did THAT?"

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:32 (five years ago)

You need to lay off the Cabo Wabo, Raggett.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:36 (five years ago)

Time to break out the LOL RIP/RIP LOL

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:54 (five years ago)

In addition to “Stir It Up,” don’t sleep on “Guava Jelly.”

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 23:56 (five years ago)

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