Yep, right after he got back from Tahiti, a magical place, before he regained his weight.

Aw shit, man. Pat Rogers died, of natural causes. He was a giant in the firearms training community. He was Rangemaster at the legendary Gunsite Training Academy for 12 years.

Here is a vid I posted here on Teh Cellah a year or so ago. Here's another.

A very entertaining guy.

He was a retired Marine, retired NYPD, and ran his own firearms training company, E.A.G. Tactical, for 27 years.

He trained countless soldiers, cops, and regular guys in the ways of the gun.

He leaves a giant, gaping hole in the military/law enforcement/shooting sports world.

RIP Pat Rogers.:blackr:

Walked in from cutting cleaning up a cut pine tree in my backyard to learn that Morley Safer had died.

Shit.

bummer - I grew up watching him. I liked him.

Mr. Ed's sidekick... he made it to 96.

Highly skilled.

Former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza collapsed on stage and died. He was 51.

So, it wasn't the amps that killed him but the ohms...

progressive jazz is bad mkay?

:drummer:

Ohms, ohms on the stage.
Where the frets and vocal cords play.
Seldom is heard a discouraging rage.
And the sky is bright light bulbs each day.

Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest, died on 20 April 2016. He was so famous that he should have been on Nixon's enemy's list for accurately defining a fiasco called Nam. Even I could not get on that list. But then I was not trying to save the world.

:lol:

Funny tw is funny!

Mohammed Ali

I am the greatest

Imma let elspode finish

Well, shit.

I had a lot of respect for that man. For a long time. Class act all the way.

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So long Champ, we hardly knew ye.

:blackr:

A lot of folks are sad about his passing. Count me as one. Good night Cassius, you fought the good fight.

How do you know he's tough if nobody can hit him? :haha:

Nobody, but no-body, slipped punches like The Greatest.

He was a top notch entertainer.

Yes he was, he worked at it. When he fought Joe Frazier he proved he could take it.

Kimbo Slice (real name Kevin Ferguson), dead at 42. No cause of death yet.

:eek:

Gordie Howe, at 88

Howe played from 1946 to 1980. Gretzky played from 1979 to 1999.

Guitarist Henry McCullough, 72.

Who?

OK, here's his most remembered solo. And Macca reminds us today that he made it up on the spot, in front of a live orchestra. Sometimes simple is best.

I read about his passing. I even went to listen to the guitar work on that song.

I'd forgotten that song ever existed. Pretty good old tune.

I should be so lucky.

It turns out that McCullough was also the guy who said,

"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time"

...on Dark Side of the Moon.

That right there is some excellent trivia.

Fuckin' A.

Good find UT.

Speaking of being really drunk, there is an intro to a song (I thought it was the pixies doing Manta Ray, but it might be unrelated since I heard it on a mix tape -- get the hell off my lawn!) where a woman is talking about how she was at a party or something and she went swimming in the ocean at night and felt all one with the universe and could hear the music in the distance and she thought she was this luminous being when she suddenly realized that she wasn't one with the universe, she was just really drunk and about to drown so she got the fuck out.

My details are sketchy but that was the general idea of her spiel. I sort of remember the name Annie Anxiety but didn't turn up anything.

Ron Lester, 'Billy Bob' in "Varsity Blues", died June 17 of liver and kidney failure after asking to be taken off of life support.

He'd had gastric bypass surgery in 2001, lost 348 lbs, and had 18 plastic surgeries to remove excess skin.

Ron Lester was 45 years old.

So, no help with the song then?

not having any luck putting it together, is it maybe a movie clip?

Whut'sthatnow? I assume it has something to do with the movie, but, I haven't seen it.:o

The new Chekov, Anton Yelkin just died in a car crash.

Just read that, and came here to post it. The article I read said he got out of his car to check his mailbox, left the car in neutral. The car then rolled down his driveway, pinning him between a brick mailbox pillar and the car.

27 is no age to die.

Up a few posts

Ah.

Thx.

Bad day for coaches

Pat Summitt, " a pioneer of women's college basketball who guided the Tennessee Volunteers to eight national titles in her 38 seasons at the university, died Tuesday morning. She was 64."

Buddy Ryan, "has died at the age of 82, his agent James Solano confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Over his 35 seasons of coaching in the NFL, Ryan spent time on the defensive staff for the New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Houston Oilers, and later worked as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. "

Ryan built that awesome Bears defense that stomped everybody in 1985.

Helluva coach.

He also produced a pretty good coach in his son, Rex.

So was Summit, by all accounts.

Alvin Toffler author of Future Shock, and The Third Wave among other books.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...k-dies-aged-87

Aw. My father will be sad to hear this. I was indoctrinated from a young age on the importance of two books (still never read either): Future Shock, and Man Adapting.

Apparently, Mr. New Chekov was unaware that there was a recall out on his Jeep for faulty transmission. He should have been safe. Yes, his parents are suing.

it might be unrelated since I heard it on a mix tape -- get the hell off my lawn!

footfootfoot, that is awesomeness right there :D. I still have mix tapes people gave me when I was in high school back in the bright and psychotic era called the 80s...

Gravdigr, the FIRST thing I thought when I saw the pic of William Schallert was 'if his face was wider, he'd look so much like "His first name is Agent" Coulson...didn't know the actor's name.

Great minds think alike...and so do ours (what's left)... ;)

Is it horrible that the first thing to cross my mind every time a celebrity under the age of 75 (and a few over) has died since last Christmas-ish is "people who should still be alive instead of William Shatner"?

File Mr. Ebeling under how the hell did I miss this one???

I'm sure many of the American members are, like me, able to remember not just HEARING about the Challenger explosion.

I lived in a small Oregon coast town, and even we got live-feed access on enough TVs for 3 or 4 classrooms to gather up in front of each one. I remember the teachers' silent tears, and the kids suddenly so quiet that their silence became heavy and frightened. Grades 4, 5 and 6, 60-70 kids per monitor, and that total, shocked silence.

For comparison, the very first major news story I actually remember watching on TV at home was the fall of Skylab in 1979.

I remember parts of the 80s. Vaguely.

:lol2:

Holy Shit! Caroline Aherne

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36694598

fucking cancer

Ah man. 52 years old.

She was awesome.

Elie Wiesel died July 2, 2016. He was 87.

How did we I miss this?

The 80s music and movies were truly bizarre. Way too much coke green lighted a lot of stuff that never would have made it off the cocktail napkin today.

EYE cancer? Why the fuck do we even have that? It's not like there aren't enough kinds of cancer already.

Retinoblastoma I think it's called. She was born with it.

One of the admin team at university had a little girl who was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 6 months old. The treatment was successful, but they were warned that children who've had that are highly likely to suffer other kinds of cancer during their lives. Sounds like that's what happened with Aherne.

Director, screenwriter, producer Michael Cimino died July 2.

He co-wrote scripts for Magnum Force and Silent Running. Wrote the script for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. He directed, produced and co-wrote the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter.

He also made one of the worst films of all time, Heaven's Gate.