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Collette
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Oct 31, 2020 10:32AM
True. When I go hopefully it'll be with a bottle of wine in one hand and a kebab (minus the sauce) in the other, ha ha.
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That's the two best bond actors gone.....i never liked the newer ones portrayal of the infamous spy, not that Sean would've cared..he hated playing Bond!My all time favourite movies of his: A Bridge Too Far, The Name Of The Rose & The Untouchables.
I read that he once turned down the role of Gandalf, on the basis that he didn't understand the script (who does?!), but had he accepted, he would've earned a cool £30 mill plus 15% of the box office sales......which would've netted him a stonking £450 million in the bank! But hey...what would've the retired actor done with all that money eh? He already had his nice home in the Bahamas! :)
RIP Big Tam.
Collette wrote: "True. When I go hopefully it'll be with a bottle of wine in one hand and a kebab (minus the sauce) in the other, ha ha."No harm in shuffling off with some warm meat in your hand, C.
never awfully bothered by james bond movies (my tuppenceworth says roger moore's eyebrows were the main event), but my favourite connery is the mental 'zardoz'.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/
Serial wrote: "Collette wrote: "True. When I go hopefully it'll be with a bottle of wine in one hand and a kebab (minus the sauce) in the other, ha ha."No harm in shuffling off with some warm meat in your hand, C."
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Collette wrote: "True. When I go hopefully it'll be with a bottle of wine in one hand and a kebab (minus the sauce) in the other, ha ha."Sounds good.
For me it would be nice collapsing in sun lit forest when grabbing nice big cep (also called penny bun), surrounded by thirty something my gran gran children...
Serial wrote: "Collette wrote: "True. When I go hopefully it'll be with a bottle of wine in one hand and a kebab (minus the sauce) in the other, ha ha."No harm in shuffling off with some warm meat in your hand, C."
... and a splash on the tongue?
Oh no... James Broad, founder and one man behind 90's power pop band Silver Sun, had been under going chemotherapy for terminal cancer.https://www.nme.com/news/music/james-...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/202...
Lava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMel...
Golden Skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzLm...
Oh no! The Battler of Largs, the wonderful actor John Sessions, has died of a heart attack at only 67.
largs? there's another cowp!anyhoo, john sessions was/is to mrs tech as joe pasquale is to me, ie 'gerrit turned ower!' and said programme will never be watched again having been once stained by mr sessions/mr pasquale's presence. when she gets in from work, and i tell her of this, she'll say 'good!', she really really didnae like him!
.........i didnae mind him, but really haven't got much to go on!
Good job Mrs Tech was nowhere near me during Whose Line is it Anyway?'s heyday. I adored it, and Mr Sessions. WLIIA? and A Bit of Fry & Laurie were staples of the VHS tapes my mum used to send me while I was in Germany through most of the nineties.The former Mrs D used to live in Largs. In fact, one of her novels is set in a town based on Largs. I thought it sounded quite nice. Never been there myself, though.
Ken Hensley, keyboard player with Uriah Heep from the band's forming until 1980, has died aged 75https://www.theguardian.com/music/202...
Geoffrey Palmer of The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin, Butterflies, As Time Goes By, etc., has died at the age of 93.
Dear old Geoffrey. Can't remember him putting in a duff performance. RIP
One that slipped through the net is the death from cancer of Gordon Haskell, aged 75 on October 15th, who had a long and storied career dating back to the mid-60s when he was in the psychedelic band The Fleurs De Lys. In 2001 Gordon had a surprise Christmas hit with his song 'How Wonderful You Are', which has since become the most requested record on Radio 2, apparently. The record reached no. 2 in the chart; denied a TOTP performance due to behind the scenes pressure from Robbie Williams management (Williams being at no. 1), EMI records and City of London Bank, who were arranging a £42 million deal with the Blobster, it's suggested he would have knocked Williams from the top slot if he'd got the TV appearance. 14 months later, the clip was finally aired. No apology was ever received from the BBC for this disgraceful episode.Previous to that, Gordon's perhaps most notable period was when he was briefly a member of King Crimson, singing 'Cadence And Cascade' on the band's album 'In The Wake Of Poseidon' and throughout the follow-up album 'Lizard' (both 1970). Musical differences with Fripp led to Gordon abruptly departing when the band was due to begin rehearsals for a planned tour. Being more a lover of Nat King Cole and Ray Charles meant Gordon was never fully comfortable with Crimson's music. He and Fripp had been old school mates, which was brought them together.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainm...
Other than Adrian Belew and current singer Jakko Jakszyk, all of the previous Crimson singers have now passed (Greg Lake, Gordon Haskell, Boz Burrell and John Wetton). Watch out, guys!
It was not unnoticed in these quarters, Tim
Does Jon Anderson count as a King Crimson singer?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHIap...
I'm sure Tech would weep bitterly...
Gordon wrote: "Does Jon Anderson count as a King Crimson singer?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHIap...
I'm sure Tech would weep bitterly..."
😉😎 a guest, perhaps. I haven't mentioned all the backing singers in the band either.
"I'm sure Tech would weep bitterly"must we fling this filth at our pop kids?
The remarkable and inspirational Dancer, Actor, and Disability Rights Advocate who performed an incredible Aerial Routine whilst suspended high above the Olympic Stadium in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics Games in London, died on the 16th of October at the age of 56. R.I.P. Dave Toole, OBE ... x
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them"
yikes! if it hadn't been for those........em...........urr...........eh.......ah.........er.......emmm................yes, yes,.......it's fish for dinner!
RIP Bones Hillman, bassist with Midnight Oil, 62.
Tech XXIII wrote: "good!bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54874713
hope he was in ****ing agony!"
The ripper murders were a seriously scary time for us so we're particularly glad to see the end of him.
We were in the process of moving from Chapel Allerton in Leeds down to Bath when all this was going on, and most of the murders were committed quite close to us, the nearest about half a mile away.
I'd already started work down in Bath, so Su was alone in Leeds during the week and it was a seriously worrying time for both of us. Su never went out without one or both of the dogs we had at the time, never very far from home and never anywhere out in the open and well lit.
The Alsatian/Labrador cross (Dill) we had at the time was a good guard, the Doberman (Parsley, our first) wasn't but served to distract attention while Dill got stuck in if necessary.
It was a heck of a relief when Sutcliffe was finally caught.
Derek wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "good!bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54874713
hope he was in ****ing agony!"
The ripper murders were a seriously scary time for us so we're particularly glad to see the end of him...."
Parsley?! For a guard dog?!
theDuke wrote: "Derek wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "good!bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54874713
hope he was in ****ing agony!"
The ripper murders were a seriously scary time for us so we're particularly glad to see t..."
At the time Su was a big fan of The Herb Garden.
Ray Clemence, former Liverpool, Tottenham and England goalkeeper, aged 72. :-(
Gordon wrote: "Des O'Connor at the age of 88."Ohhh, how terribly sad. He always came across as such a genuinely kind and gentle man. I particularly loved all of his hilariously funny appearances on the Morecambe & Wise TV Shows.
R.I.P. Des ... x
I met Des O' Connor once. I was changing seats backstage at the famed Buddy Holly concert in Liverpool Phil. and he asked could he help me.
SussexWelsh wrote: "Ray Clemence, former Liverpool, Tottenham and England goalkeeper, aged 72. :-("SussexWelsh wrote: "Ray Clemence, former Liverpool, Tottenham and England goalkeeper, aged 72. :-("
First keeper I can remember, along with Peter Shilton. They were always competing to see who would be Englands #1. Sad news.
...and we used to make jokes about Scottish goalkeepers.
I'm surprised you remember that incident Tech ;-)
yeah, but my great great grandfather chiselled the scene onto slate for posterity.
R.I.P Diego Maradonna, he may have been lots of things but he was also one of the best footballers ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvRA...
parp!wasn't fit to lick the soil from the soles of pele's boots (or try to snort it)!
i still (and won't be put off) think that the second goal in the 'hand of god' (i'll give him that, it was so funny) game is an own goal by stuart pearce.
Tech XXIII wrote: "parp!wasn't fit to lick the soil from the soles of pele's boots (or try to snort it)!
i still (and won't be put off) think that the second goal in the 'hand of god' (i'll give him that, it was s..."
It's lauded as one of the best goals of all time, but it was more like some of the worst defending of all time. It's good but nowhere near great.
A hundred miles behind Johan Cruyff in the line-up of greatest footballers of all time.
Tech XXIII wrote: "parp!wasn't fit to lick the soil from the soles of pele's boots (or try to snort it)!
i still (and won't be put off) think that the second goal in the 'hand of god' (i'll give him that, it was s..."
I always think the same, except it was Terry Butcher - don’t think Pearce had played for England in 1986.
i stand corrected. of course, butcher, being consumed with shame, immediately moved to rangers, where shame is a big part of things!
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