Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Oh damn that's awful

Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43403178

RIP Jim. that Bully had 20m viewers at it's peak is quiet staggering.

Imagine the conversation between him and Stephen Hawking.

Jim Bowen, who I would genuinely have sworn was dead for a decade or so.

Same here. RIP Jim tho.

jim bowen is he dead

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYPqrZhXkAAFnUD.jpg
huge amounts of predictably abelist crap about Hawking is popping up in multiple obits. Dr Francis Ryan has a huge dedicated thread of them.

Bullseye is a staple of the "Challenge" TV channel, on a nightly basis. They show three or four shows a night, then when they've played them all, they start over again!

I can remember a friend's dad back in the 80's whose Sunday afternoon routine was "a bit of Bully" then off to evening mass, like clockwork. Interrupt him at church if you like, but not when he was watching Bullseye!

Old episodes of Bullseye make for pretty compelling time-capsules

So, I'm still watching Bullseye from 1981. And everyone is unemployed. But when they tell Jim this, he doesn't mock them or chide them; he offers his support and asks how bad it is wherever they're from. Like it's a war. Which it was - and they're on the same side.

— David Hill (@davidWhill14) February 3, 2018

My grandparents were Bullseye obsessives.

it's completely righteous + bang on in a good way is that tweet.

tube celebs never heard of outside the UK crowding out ol' Hawking

hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone a speedboat iirc

i was just gonna post that tweet!

did hawking share the screen with a darts-playing anthropomorphic bull for an audience of tens of millions every weekend?

did he fuck

Jim Bowen one of those people who seems to have always looked old. If he was 80 now he'd've been in his 40s in those 80s Bullseye episodes, which seems impossible.

here's jim on his wedding day, aged er anywhere between 23 and 58?

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article770371.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Bullseye%20presenter%20and%20stroke%20victim%20Jim%20Bowen%20with%20his%20new%20wife%20Phyllis

liam o'flynn, planxty founder member

John Humphreys asking Brian Cox if Hawking was ever 'cut any slack' because of his disability...

— Chris Coombs (@ChrisCoombs88) March 14, 2018

this senile cunt needs putting out to pasture.

I really just heard some knobhead on BBC WS saying without flinching that "despite having his tremendous physical disabilities, Hawking always remained psychologically very normal"

Liam O'Flynn? He was my favorite piper :(

thats because he was the greatest

RIPed him on the Planxty thread, lads.

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

It would have been pretty o_O if he had mocked and chided unemployed contestants though.

couple of years later it would've been compulsory

also Sunday tea - crabstick sandwiches - Bullseye was my entire early teens

These days unemployed Bullseye contestants would be getting U/C sanctioned for not declaring the speedboat.

That picture - it's the life that Morrissey would have had!

Did Brian Cox say to John Humphries "No, if he even thought of getting out of that chair, he'd have been on a "Fit to work" cert and down to the sewing machine factory as soon as!"

Then his only chance would have been winning a speedboat on "Bullseye"

Where am i?

Thanks for that tweet, Stevie.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 3:18 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i must admit i filched it from dorian, formerly of this parish

hawking had an amazing career and all but he never gave anyone who lived in the landlocked midlands a speedboat iirc

apparently contestants often took the cash equivalent instead of the speedboat

Charlie Quintana, drummer for just about everybody. He started out in the Plugz, who were secretly one of the best L.A. punk bands, then played with Bob Dylan, John Doe, Cracker, Mike Ness and Social Distortion, Izzy Stradlin, and a million other bands.

Quintana stuck around w/ Zim after this, wish the other Plugz had too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ycpYslCn6c

Wow, Quintana. He looked like a guy that could and would kick an ass.

louise slaughter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rep-louise-slaughter-liberal-democrat-who-championed-womens-rights-dies-at-88/2018/03/16/7b7f7c3e-2865-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html

bento the keyboard cat ;_;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies

(pvmic obv)

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kak-channthy-cambodian-space-project-frontwoman-killed-crash-38-updated

Hit by a car. AKA Srey Thy

don't understand how Deliveroo can exploit their employees so much and still be more expensive than getting a taxi to the takeaway and back

lol wrong thread soz

A proper candidate for the "people who you thought were dead but weren't" thread until now, where she belongs in this thread. RIP Katie Boyle.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12525627

Weird, she was the answer to a picture question on a Bullseye repeat last week and we had no idea who she was. Who else will fall to the Bullseye curse?

Deficits are ok now

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/obituaries/peter-g-peterson-dies-power-from-wall-st-to-washington.html

pffft not even the original keyboard cat

i miss shakey too and i appreciate the effort but it's just not the same when someone else does it ;_;

This is getting a bit spooky now. Katie Boyle was just mentioned in this One Foot In The Grave repeat we're watching now. I'd never heard of her until last week now she's everywhere.

Somewhat bizarrely, my dad used to fancy her, but she was like the daughter of an Italian count so she was a bit out of his league. He was very taken with Annie Lennox too.

Benny Hill used to drag up to spoof K Boyle's ads in the '70s, I seem to recall. Clingfilm? Also flexed her linguistic skills presenting Eurovision.

I read her TV Times agony aunt column avidly as a boy. Scarcity of media and all that.

She used to win the TV Times awards' "Female Personality of the year" with an ubiquity like "Ant and Dec" had. It seemed very strange that the BBC news 'tribute' consisted of a couple of snips from Blankety Blank w/ Wogan, a few pics from Eurovision, and a matter of fact 'un yeah, she died OK?" (not an actual quote)