Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Wow, that’s huge - she was a huge benefactor for my alma mater and hers.

this is a bit late on Pele but there used to be this very rough as fuck pub down the road from me in the 90's called the Nelson. The landlord had a framed pic of himself tackling Pele from when he played in the US behind the bar. It's just come back to me who he was - it was Roy Ellam who is more famous for the big gym he now runs than he ever was as a football player, but tbf he did get into the Revie era dirty Leeds side.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, aged 95

one for the pope stats fans: first one to stand down while still alive in 6 centuries

"he was forced to join the Hitler Youth"

I've heard that one many times!

Well you would do in Huddersfield.

reading the wikipedia entry on papal renunciation and of the six historically reliable resignations, benedict 16's is literally the only "bored now" -- the other five were all political in some sense (deposed, stepped aside to solve a schism, stepped aside when realised way out of depth)

benedict 9 was like the covid-bolsonaro of popes and kept popping back for another go

because Francis, the selfish fucker, decided not to die before him. Now there is an unprecedented (?) situation where a current pope gets the funeral gig of a dead pope. Which is obviously a much worse thing than laundering nazi gold or covering up decades of child abuse !

or if Francis died before him would they have waited for him to die before ordaining a new pope to avoid this situation?

I don't know, these modern popes, what will they get up to next?

"Well you would do in Huddersfield."

Well done Tom D!

is it pick on Hudds day or something?

lol I took it as you meaning Hudds as a hotbed of neo-fascism

Benedict 9 is featured in The Bad Popes, well worth a reminder how awful they were, absolute wronguns to a man!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

2022 delivers! Maybe we can have an annual papal death from now on until the entirety of the Holy See is gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9PqpG1FFY

Reading about the pornocracy and Marozia will make for a delicious Wiki dive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeculum_obscurum

A surprising amount of Hitler Youth footage in the TV news packages about Benedict. All I'll say is, even if we take him at his word that he was forced to be a Nazi, nobody forced him to be a Catholic priest.

"Pope otm." is the single greatest sentence ever written on ILX.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Monday, February 11, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ema7lfEAMk

"All I wanted...in the WORLD...was to be a catlick priest.."

Now Ruth is the last surviving Pointer sister. R.I.P. Anita

Anita Pointer, Grammy-Winning Artist and Founding Member of R&B Group Pointer Sisters, Dies at 74 https://t.co/olqHAWTW9f

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 1, 2023

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

https://pitchfork.com/news/modest-mouse-drummer-jeremiah-green-dies-at-45/

It's a new year!

Rolling Obituary Thread 2023