2016 deaths and climbing

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Bert Kwok!

[Wulf]

This is the most depressing thread I've read in a long time... 

[FierceKitty]

It gets worse. Trump and Putin are alive.

[Techno]

Bert Kwok!

That's a great shame ! 

Must admit, though, I thought he died some time ago.
Farewell Cato.

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

This is the most depressing thread I've read in a long time... 

Dance like no-one is watching
Sing like no-one is listening
Love like your heart has never been broken
Plan like you'll live forever
But live each day like it's your last ...
Because sooner than you'd like that will be true!

[Westmarcher]

Bert Kwok!

Peter Sellers will be nervous in cloud land tonight.

[Steve J]

Yep, another one gone and we are not even half-way through the year

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Impressed how long Dave Swarbrick survived... But another great gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/03/dave-swarbrick-dies-at-75-fiddler-fairport-convention

[Nirnman]

now Burt Kwok and Dave Swarbrick I can feel sad for as they re part of my youth memories from different fields of endeavour.

[Techno]

Great shame about Dave Swarbrick ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Subedai]

Carla Lane, the writer of Butterflies, Bread and Liver Birds fame went the other day. Eighty three she was. A good run. According to the news here she was a great animal activist.

MickS

[Techno]

And now 'The Greatest'. 
R.I.P Mohamed Ali.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A man who fought every step of the way.

[Steve J]

I loved Butterflies. Mohammed Ali had a good innings considering how long he had been suffering with his disease.

[FierceKitty]

One who'll be remembered.

[Nirnman]

very true

[Leman]

Butterflies - both Carla Lane and Mohammed Ali.

[paulr]

I was discussing Ali's visit to Upper Hutt in 1979 with the guys over last night's game.

Yes, the Greatest really did visit little Upper Hutt
He was invited by a local boxing coach who had taken an amateur team to the US to fight an amateur team supported by Ali.

They well remembered him talking to a local High School assembly. Two good questions with great answers...

Q. What was your toughest fight?
A. My first marriage

Q. What does it feel like to be hit really hard on the chin?
A. Come here and I'll show you

[FierceKitty]

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[Techno]

I liked the story his biographer told. (Which apparently was a favourite of the man himself.)

M.A. was on chartered plane, about to take off, when the stewardess said,

"Please would you fasten your seat belt Mr Ali ?"
"Superman don't need no seat belt."
"Superman doesn't need a plane, Mr Ali."

Cheers - Phil