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Author: skyjedi2005
Time: 1-Mar-2014 7:58 PM
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Aaron Allston Star Wars EU author has passed away.

Had the thankless task of following Mike Stackpole on the X-wing books and found to be not as good. Though those books were not terrible his fate of the jedi books though were garbage. I still am saddened by his death.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

Author: FanFiltration
Time: 4-Mar-2014 2:59 AM
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Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 81...

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

Author: Bingowings
Time: 4-Mar-2014 5:59 AM
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Look at that weave! All we got was Cilla Black.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 11-Mar-2014 8:59 AM
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Bob Crow 52

Less rail strikes maybe but a good day for fat cat Tories and UKIPers.

Author: TM2YC
Time: 14-Mar-2014 5:24 AM (Edited)
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Tony Benn MP 1925-2014

The last of a kind, a noble politician, a giant. I was lucky enough to have attended a lecture he gave 10 years ago at a local church arguing against the Iraq war. He had ideas, conviction and empathy, if only the rest of today's political class had all or any of these three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqOvBKnKdk

^ Rallying against 'Thatcherism'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pYlP3Yg0Q

^ The crowd say it best at the end of that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMYBDaOwyM

^ One of his last appearances, a christmas message.

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Author: Bingowings
Time: 14-Mar-2014 6:59 AM (Edited)
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Two left wing firebrands gone in a week and all we have to show for it is Millipede.

The only British Politician I know of to have been forced out of the Commons only to have a change in the law drafted so he could resign the Lords to return to the Commons.

The Benn Tapes are a fascinating social document.

Maybe they should rename the famous bell at Westminster after him by adding an extra N.

I'd sign that petition.

Author: oojason
Time: 14-Mar-2014 10:11 PM (Edited)
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The good guys have had a bad week.

RIP Bob Crow and Tony Benn.

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Author: Warbler
Time: 15-Mar-2014 12:19 AM
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I don't know these guys and would probably disagree with their politics sometimes, but you and their families have my sympathies, thoughts and prayers.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 15-Mar-2014 12:16 PM
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Here is an extract from this period of the year in Benn's diaries for 2002. Caroline, Tony's wife wasn't ghastly BTW but going by this hairstyle she may have been a martian in disguise.

Author: FanFiltration
Time: 16-Mar-2014 9:05 AM (Edited)
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David Brenner dies at 78

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Author: Bingowings
Time: 16-Mar-2014 1:25 PM
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It seems Fred Phelps is on the edge of death, so I was thinking... if we were all to jump in the air at the same time...

Author: Moth3r
Time: 16-Mar-2014 2:00 PM
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Bingowings said:

Two left wing firebrands gone in a week

Arthur Scargill must be shitting himself.

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Author: SilverWook
Time: 16-Mar-2014 6:53 PM
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FanFiltration said:

David Brenner dies at 78

I remember he guest hosted The Tonight Show a lot, a concept that doesn't really exist in talk shows anymore.

Where were you in '77?

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 16-Mar-2014 7:17 PM
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Did anyone happen to catch the Wayne Knight car crash hoax?

http://www.boston.com/news/source/2014/03/not_dead_actor_wayne_knight_lastest_victim_of_web_death_hoax.html

Author: SilverWook
Time: 16-Mar-2014 7:33 PM
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Maybe in a slow news week that would have made it on the air.

It's sad how fast that crap propagates without anyone casting doubts on it.

Where were you in '77?

Author: Bingowings
Time: 17-Mar-2014 9:08 AM
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Clarrissa Dixon Wright 66.

Author: Jetrell Fo
Time: 17-Mar-2014 9:55 AM
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Why do we only ever make celebrity death stand out? What about the average person? Why is it that they can't get a mention when they pass. They were important to someone weren't they?

Author: RicOlie_2
Time: 17-Mar-2014 11:22 AM
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Only people who were important to many, many people, or who are very well known, make the news. If the news reported on every single death, there wouldn't be room for anything else in the news. Additionally, people would stop reading the news because it would be largely irrelevant. With people dying every few seconds around the world, there are just too many deaths to be reported. You can mention people close to you who have died here, but it's meaningless to report every death you hear about. This thread would be hundreds of pages long if everyone did that.

Author: Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
Time: 17-Mar-2014 11:38 AM
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I would add that it IS worthwhile to mention the death of someone who wasn't well known, but perhaps should have been. Or someone who influenced a lot of people without becoming famous themselves.

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Author: Bingowings
Time: 17-Mar-2014 1:00 PM
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Many of the people I post a link to here are unknown to some people reading it.

Once in a while I read about someone I've never heard of either.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 17-Mar-2014 1:07 PM
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SilverWook said:

Maybe in a slow news week that would have made it on the air.

It's sad how fast that crap propagates without anyone casting doubts on it.

Cast you mind a few pages back and you find it's not just hoaxers who confuse thing.

Author: TM2YC
Time: 17-Mar-2014 3:49 PM
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Jetrell Fo said:

Why do we only ever make celebrity death stand out? What about the average person? Why is it that they can't get a mention when they pass. They were important to someone weren't they?

"One" being the operative word in your post.

Celebrities by their nature mean something to a vast proportion of people. Hopefully something meaningfull like creating a great work of art.

If George Lucas died I'd care... if his brother died, I wouldn't really give a toss (Harsh but the truth) because his life had no meaning for me or anyone else beyond his immediate family. Just as Lucas (Or his possibly imaginary brother) wouldn't give a toss if I died.

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Author: Jetrell Fo
Time: 17-Mar-2014 4:10 PM (Edited)
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I guess I was speaking more as a society, sorry to confuse. Fame, to me, isn't always about how many people who know you. My grandfather was my hero as a child. I was devastated. I did not know until later that he made an impact not just on me but my mother and my aunt & uncle (on my dads side). I know we'd have a list a hundred miles long .... it just bums me out. I guess I was venting more than anything.

Thanks for the responses on the matter.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 17-Mar-2014 5:01 PM
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L'wren Scott 49

Author: SilverWook
Time: 18-Mar-2014 3:27 PM
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Bingowings said:

SilverWook said:

Maybe in a slow news week that would have made it on the air.

It's sad how fast that crap propagates without anyone casting doubts on it.

Cast you mind a few pages back and you find it's not just hoaxers who confuse thing.

That was funny.

Always wondered how People magazine thought Abe Vigoda was dead in 1982. Still alive as of this posting of course.

Where were you in '77?