and now Michael "Jim" Delligatti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38162497/inventor-of-the-big-mac-dies-aged-98

Whereas lots of those who took to his invention have been dead for years 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 November 2016, 06:09:47 PM
Gentlemen,
The Time post was a humorous attempt to show how hard 2016 has hit the world 'American Democracy' added to the list was a fine touch.
This thread is to remember those who have shuffled off this mortal coil in the last twelve months. I could have added my friend's sister, an aunt-in-law, and others.
Whether they are considered talented in your mind or not is irrelevant, they were all someone's son, some daughter, their dad, mum, aunt, friend. They have reached the pinicles of their particular field, whether or not this is to our individual tastes, they should be remembered as people who matter to someone and the world is a poor place without them.
Yes Lemmey was 2015, but his loss was, for me, huge.
Remember them.

Well said, Sir. Well said.

Just seen that Joe Dever of Lone Wolf fame has passed away aged 60

No! 

The Grim Reaper seems to be putting a spurt on at the end of 2016!

Now that IS a shock. 

He dedicated one of his Lone Wolf novels, to me and Mrs T.

Cheers - Phil

Just seen that one too! 
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14937849.Legendary_fantasy_author_Joe_Dever_dies/

Quote from: Techno on 30 November 2016, 08:10:47 PM
He dedicated one of his Lone Wolf novels, to me and Mrs T.

Hang on! There are more bombshells dropping on this Forum than there are 500lb bombs dropped on the US front line when the USAF went over.  

Which book? Why? When? How?

Yeah. What one? Highway Holocaust? The Fall of Blood Mountain? Eh? Eh?

I'll have to find it.....it was number 5 (or 6) I think. Pretty sure it's in the bookcase somewhere

Joe stayed with me and Mrs T for a couple of nights, when he was doing some book signings relatively locally, when we lived in Notts.
Good fun...He brought his shotgun(s) round and took me clay pigeon shooting at a place not too distant from Sherwood forest......

I was complete poop at it.....But it was just SO much fun.
I did end up with a very sore collar bone 'cos I wasn't holding the gun properly, and it kept recoiling and giving me a biff, each time I fired it.

I knew Joe from the days he wrote the forerunner of 'Eavy Metal in White Dwarf. (Tabletop Heroes ?).....and he used quite a lot of the photo's I sent in.

Cheers - Phil

When clay pigeons become extinct, you'll be sorry.

Hah.....They were pretty safe from my efforts. 

And shooting at the clays they class as 'rabbits', (which they just run across the turf on their edges.....)
All I was doing, was blowing great lumps of soil out of the ground.

I think I had six shots at those.....and missed every one.....from only about 10 ? feet away.

Cheers - Phil

So he slept on your sofa, ate at your table, went pee-pee in your wee-wee house?

Slightly bigger story!

I bet you've got dozens of these little anecdotes stashed away in that musty attic you call a brain. Like the time you showed this bloke some of your figure and he said "Hmmm ... that could be a fun game" ... and HG Wells scribbled off a little book? 

Quote from: fsn on 01 December 2016, 08:49:01 AM
I bet you've got dozens of these little anecdotes stashed away in that musty attic you call a brain. Like the time you showed this bloke some of your figure and he said "Hmmm ... that could be a fun game" ... and HG Wells scribbled off a little book?  

Quote from: Westmarcher on 30 November 2016, 08:25:47 PM
Yeah. What one? Highway Holocaust? The Fall of Blood Mountain? Eh? Eh?

I found it....."The claws of Helgedad". (I'll send you a pic of the page.....Just to prove it, Westie.  )

Anecdotes, Nobby ?......I've got dozens of them.
My favourite being the one of Tony Ackland break-dancing, in our garden in Notts, because he'd put his jacket on.......with a live, young, gray squirrel wrapped in said jacket.
The squirrel objected slightly to this affront to its dignity.

I was only grateful Tony started twitching in the garden......and not while I was driving him home, that afternoon.

Cheers - Phil.