2017 deaths and climbing

Started by Fenton, 12 January 2017, 01:56:08 PM

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Techno

Good research, Meirion !

Cheers - Phil


Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

Nirnman

John Surtees or has everyone forgotten him?

Techno

No.....That was a shame too ! :(

Cheers - Phil

Chad

Chuck Berry dies at 90 on the news. Loved his music.
Roll Over Beethoven and make room for Chuck. RIP

Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

d_Guy

Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Fenton

RIP Chuck

A true music great
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

Techno

Hear, hear !!  :(

Cheers - Phil

Leman

A real childhood memory from the fifties. Even had some of his stuff on 78rpm, when we also had a wind up gramophone.
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

d_Guy

I thought he was gone years ago but then I do not move in his circles.
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Leman

Martin McGuinness; despite his earlier stance he has to be recognised for accepting and taking a different path to make a more peaceful Northern Ireland possible.
The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Techno

Colin Dexter....Inspector Morse's creator.

Cheers - Phil

fsn

Another one of those "well I thought he'd been dead for years". Perhaps I'm confusing him with John Thaw?
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Subedai

Quote from: fsn on 21 March 2017, 06:10:43 PM
Another one of those "well I thought he'd been dead for years". Perhaps I'm confusing him with John Thaw?

I must be honest, I thought the same.

MickS
Blog is at
http://thewordsofsubedai.blogspot.co.uk/

2017 Paint-Off - Winner!

Malbork


Orcs

"And its goodnight from Him" !

Ronny Corbett has got to tell Shaggy Dog stories in the Sky

Goodbye to someone who made me laugh till it hurt.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Fenton

Didn't he pass away last year?
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!