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Former DL hit Bob Hope died this day in 2003, aged 100.

 

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Two years today since Phil Drabble died. How's that tractor eating going DDT?

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Tractor eating?

I thought he was busy building an Armageddon shelter...........

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Timothy Claypole became a real ghost 22 years ago today

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Timothy Claypole became a real ghost 22 years ago today

 

When he died, did he Popov?

 

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Timothy Claypole became a real ghost 22 years ago today

 

You know, I didn't know until years later that he had died. Wasn't Rentaghost still going on at that time?

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Timothy Claypole became a real ghost 22 years ago today

 

You know, I didn't know until years later that he had died. Wasn't Rentaghost still going on at that time?

 

 

Same here. I'm pretty sure it was still be shown in repeats around the time he died.

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Timothy Claypole became a real ghost 22 years ago today

 

You know, I didn't know until years later that he had died. Wasn't Rentaghost still going on at that time?

 

 

Same here. I'm pretty sure it was still be shown in repeats around the time he died.

 

Apparently it originally finished in 1984! I thought the series carried at least until the late eighties, but it seems they were repeats...

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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, died today in 1922...

 

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Alexander Solzhenitsen, 3 August 2008

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Jeanne Calment, the oldest-living recorded person in history, died today in 1997 aged 122...

 

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Must be something in the stars on 9th August

 

Forty years ago Charles Manson's groupies went on their killing spree, two years before that Kenneth Halliwell murdered Joe Orton before killing himself.

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Must be something in the stars on 9th August

 

Forty years ago Charles Manson's groupies went on their killing spree, two years before that Kenneth Halliwell murdered Joe Orton before killing himself.

 

So are you saying that there is the possibility that some celebrity, somewhere, is going to cop it quite brutally today?

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Anthony Wilson, co-founder of Factory Records, died 2 years ago today...

 

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Iconoclastic playwright Bertold Brecht died today in 1956...

 

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Today in 1977...

 

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16 August 2003:

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16 August 2003:

 

I know its Idi Amin, but any chance of naming these people for the benefit of others that don't know?

 

I normally do (if I post anyone). Its just that TMIB didn't identify his post....

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16 August 2003:

 

I know its Idi Amin, but any chance of naming these people for the benefit of others that don't know?

 

I normally do (if I post anyone). Its just that TMIB didn't identify his post....

 

Elvis needed no introduction...

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16 August 2003:

 

I know its Idi Amin, but any chance of naming these people for the benefit of others that don't know?

 

I normally do (if I post anyone). Its just that TMIB didn't identify his post....

 

Elvis needed no introduction...

 

Elvis who?

 

 

(j/k)

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16 August 2003:

 

I know its Idi Amin, but any chance of naming these people for the benefit of others that don't know?

 

I normally do (if I post anyone). Its just that TMIB didn't identify his post....

 

Elvis needed no introduction...

 

Elvis who?

 

 

(j/k)

Elvis Costelo?

 

 

(j/k)

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Time's winged chariot caught up with the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell today in 1678...

 

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