BeretBleu 138 Posted March 4, 2018 Davide Astori, Fiorentina and Squaddra player, is dead. https://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/football/italie/football-davide-astori-capitaine-de-la-fiorentina-et-international-italien-est-decede-5602760 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted March 4, 2018 You people are fast.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,102 Posted March 4, 2018 Just now, gcreptile said: You people are fast.... YW a bit faster than me today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted March 4, 2018 did anyone post the death of Sir Roger Bannister in under 4 minutes though ? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted March 4, 2018 44 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: BBC announce Roger Bannister's death. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43273249 2nd hit for me.More to come. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,059 Posted March 4, 2018 38 minutes ago, Paul Bearer said: YW a bit faster than me today. You are my Chris Chataway, PB. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted March 4, 2018 Mickey Foote, soundman and producer of The Clash's first album. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Leon Brittan 294 Posted March 5, 2018 David Ogden Stiers the American actor famous for playing British characters has died at the age of 75. Most famous for M*A*S*H and for his voice acting work in Beauty and the Beast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted March 5, 2018 On 04/03/2018 at 11:33, gcreptile said: You people are fast.... Leon Brittan is faster. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cerberus 302 Posted March 5, 2018 The death of inventor Trevor Baylis has just been announced on the news ... unless it's a wind-up. 4 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted March 5, 2018 49 minutes ago, Cerberus said: The death of inventor Trevor Baylis has just been announced on the news ... unless it's a wind-up. I expect numerous reports will be posted like clockwork. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cerberus 302 Posted March 5, 2018 One more letter and the England cricket team would have unexpectedly found themselves short of a coach. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted March 6, 2018 Alan Gershwin, who is supposedly the lost son of George Gershwin, is dead at 91. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted March 7, 2018 4 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Alan Gershwin, who is supposedly the lost son of George Gershwin, is dead at 91. As for Alan’s claim, ‘it ain’t necessarily so’. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted March 7, 2018 One of Hawaii's biggest surfing legends, George Downing, died early Monday morning at his home in East Oahu. He was 87. Downing quickly became known for immersing himself in all facets of surfing including studying swell formation, building boards, coaching other surfers and competing himself. He won the Makaha International surfing competition in 1954, 1961 and 1965, and coached the Hawaiian team in its 1968 World Surfing Championship victory. In 1951, Downing became known for changing the game when he created the world's first surfboard with a removable fin. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted March 7, 2018 Had no idea where to put this but... RIP to the NME (at least its print edition). Final issue out on Friday... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted March 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, themaninblack said: Had no idea where to put this but... RIP to the NME (at least its print edition). Final issue out on Friday... Was in The Thread Formerly Known as Crashing Companies, now better known as The Unofficial All Things Deathray Thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted March 7, 2018 Yeah I was looking for a mention but all I could see was posts about Deathray going bananas or something. I'm always one step behind MPFC/Spade when it comes to the hipstery stuff anyway! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted March 7, 2018 1 minute ago, themaninblack said: Yeah I was looking for a mention but all I could see was posts about Deathray going bananas or something. I'm always one step behind MPFC when it comes to the hipster stuff anyway! It was actually Spade who posted that, but I understand why you confused him with Maryport. For some reason, the site has it when you link a post from elsewhere, you have a big photo of the creator of the thread whereas the person who wrote the post is just small at the very top part. I have no idea why it’s structured like that... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted March 7, 2018 Just now, Joey Russ said: It was actually Spade who posted that, but I understand why you confused him with Maryport. For some reason, the site has it when you link a post from elsewhere, you have a big photo of the creator of the thread whereas the person who wrote the post is just small at the very top part. I have no idea why it’s structured like that... Yeah hence the editing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,654 Posted March 7, 2018 24 minutes ago, Joey Russ said: It was actually Spade who posted that, but I understand why you confused him with Maryport. For some reason, the site has it when you link a post from elsewhere, you have a big photo of the creator of the thread whereas the person who wrote the post is just small at the very top part. I have no idea why it’s structured like that... Aye, indeed - I'd distance myself from any claim the NME was perpetual shit because for a great deal of time it wasn't. And - whilst we're on that tack - everyone forgets Sounds which was superb at its best and had a tendency to stay realistic when the others got pretentious and starting citing long dead German philosophers as role models. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted March 7, 2018 43 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: Aye, indeed - I'd distance myself from any claim the NME was perpetual shit because for a great deal of time it wasn't. And - whilst we're on that tack - everyone forgets Sounds which was superb at its best and had a tendency to stay realistic when the others got pretentious and starting citing long dead German philosophers as role models. Not everyone! 8 hours ago, time said: I was never a NME reader, Sounds was the music paper of choice during my youth. Folded in 1991 (no pun intended). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted March 8, 2018 Poker pro and Backgammon champion Magriel dead at 71: https://calvinayre.com/2018/03/08/poker/poker-backgammon-pro-paul-magriel-passes-away-71/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Magriel He also wrote the backgammon "bible" "Backgammon" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted March 11, 2018 How is it we don’t have an Asians thread? Tang Hsiang-chien, one of Hong Kong’s pre-eminent industrialists and father to former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen, died on Saturday morning. He was 95. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,102 Posted March 11, 2018 7 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: How is it we don’t have an Asians thread? Cos there are billions of them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites