RIP, famous person

[xoxoxoBruce]

If it only came with instructions that helped.

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Motorsports artist Sam Bass died Feb 16. He was 57.

You may have seen his work at some point; he had pretty distinct style.

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Also, Dick Churchill, the last survivor of the actual Great Escape, not the movie, the actual escape from Stalag Luft III.

He was 99.

Dick Churchill was the last surviving of the 76 escapees before his death on 15 February 2019; then an RAF Squadron Leader, he was among the 23 not executed by the Nazis. Churchill, a Handley Page Hampden bomber pilot, was discovered after the escape hiding in a hay loft. In a 2014 interview at the age of 94, he said he was fairly certain that he had been spared execution because his captors thought he might be related to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Also, Dick Churchill, the last survivor of the actual Great Escape, not the movie, the actual escape from Stalag Luft III.

He was 99.

A few years ago there was a Ch 4 documentary about an excavation of the Stalag Luft III site.
I recall that the archaeologists found a number of the powdered milk tins that were used to dig the tunnels in the Great Escape.
I'm not a fan of dramatised documentaries but, as a whole, it's worth watching.

[Diaphone Jim]

Ken Nordine died Saturday at 98.
I guess I thought he died years ago.
Someone stole my two albums of his "Word Jazz" and "Son of Word jazz," so they hadn't popped up in going through my LP shelves over the years and stayed gone against hope this morning.
He has a shitload of videos on YouTube, however, and I am going through some great old memories as I type.
Flibberty Jib, Hunger is From. Looks like its going to Rain!!!!

[Diaphone Jim]

OK, that is officially weird. It must be that Ken Nordine didn't affect anyone here but me.
What he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88msPKWkKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qdLuwCib0

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim

OK, that is officially weird. It must be that Ken Nordine didn't affect anyone here but me.
What he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k88msPKWkKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qdLuwCib0

That is some weird, lame shit. People actually spent money on this guy's albums? Did they come with a tab of acid tucked inside?

The telling of a "story," with obnoxious human/mouth noises and overproduced sounds in the background, sort of reminds me of this (made better with commentary by Mark and Brian):

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Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, died Feb 19. He was 85.

No fish as of yet.

Lagerfeld owned a red point Birman cat named Choupette, which, in June 2013, he indicated he would marry, if it were legal.

~Wiki

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Also, there was a classical scholar from New Zealand, that died on Feb 18, whose name was George Cawkwell.

If his name wasn't pronounced 'Cockwell', it should have been.
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The guy who coined the term 'global warming', helping start the biggest, longest argument in the history of mankind, died the 18th as well.

Wallace Smith Broecker

[Diaphone Jim]

Glinda posted: "That is some weird, lame shit. People actually spent money on this guy's albums?"

Gee, I wish you had been around to save me in 1959 when I bought those disgusting albums.
I guess it was just lucky that someone else stole them from me 20 or 30 years later to prevent me from listening again.

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Monkee Peter Tork died today, at the age of 77. His fish was Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, which he battled ten yrs ago.

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Douglas the Parrot has died.

Douglas (ca. 1967 – 23 February 2019) is the male scarlet macaw that played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 Pippi Longstocking movie Pippi in the South Seas.

Douglas was imported from Brazil to Sweden in 1967. Three years later he starred as the female parrot Rosalinda in the popular movie Pippi in the South Seas. Douglas is capable of singing and of speaking a few dozen words. In 2002, 32 years after the movie, Douglas garnered a lot of attention in the Swedish press, when the authorities were considering to put him to death due to its owner at the time not having the proper paperwork. A petition pleading for Douglas' life comprised over 50,000 signatures including one by the actress Inger Nilsson, who played Pippi in the 1970 movie. Ultimately Douglas was spared after its first owner in Sweden produced the proper paper work, showing that he was legally imported from Brazil in 1967.

In 2005 Douglas moved to a small zoo in Malmö, where he lived together with a female blue-and-yellow macaw called Gojan until 2016. Early in 2016 Douglas once more attracted the attention of the Swedish media and later of the German one as well. Swedish authorities had again plans to put Douglas to death due to its cage of 3 m2 being too small and not allowing him to fly. The authorities requested an aviary of at least 30 m2, which the zoo couldn't provide. The zoo's director Frank Madsen tried to get an exception arguing that due to its very old age Douglas was incapable of flying anyhow and that it made no sense to cut short his remaining final years. As the authorities were unwilling to grant an exception, Madsen turned to the press and received soon over 100 offers for a new home for Douglas and Gojan. Ultimately the Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany was selected and in April Madsen himself delivered Douglas and Gojan to Karlsruhe, where they were greeted with a public welcome party.

Five months later in September 2016 Gojan died at an age of 45 and the zoo was planning to pair Douglas with another macaw. The new partner became Rubin, a 22 year old scarlet macaw, that arrived in October of the same year.

Douglas died at the Karlsruhe Zoo on February 23rd, 2019 being 51 years old, an extraordinary old age for macaws.

He's not pining for the fjords.

'E's nowt sleeping.

This birb is no more.

Beautiful plumage.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Douglas (ca. 1967 – 23 February 2019) is the male scarlet macaw that played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 Pippi Longstocking movie Pippi in the South Seas.

Douglas was imported from Brazil to Sweden in 1967. Three years later he starred as the female parrot Rosalinda in the popular movie Pippi in the South Seas. Douglas is capable of singing and of speaking a few dozen words. In 2002, 32 years after the movie, Douglas garnered a lot of attention in the Swedish press, when the authorities were considering to put him to death due to its owner at the time not having the proper paperwork. A petition pleading for Douglas' life comprised over 50,000 signatures including one by the actress Inger Nilsson, who played Pippi in the 1970 movie. Ultimately Douglas was spared after its first owner in Sweden produced the proper paper work, showing that he was legally imported from Brazil in 1967.

In 2005 Douglas moved to a small zoo in Malmö, where he lived together with a female blue-and-yellow macaw called Gojan until 2016. Early in 2016 Douglas once more attracted the attention of the Swedish media and later of the German one as well. Swedish authorities had again plans to put Douglas to death due to its cage of 3 m2 being too small and not allowing him to fly. The authorities requested an aviary of at least 30 m2, which the zoo couldn't provide. The zoo's director Frank Madsen tried to get an exception arguing that due to its very old age Douglas was incapable of flying anyhow and that it made no sense to cut short his remaining final years. As the authorities were unwilling to grant an exception, Madsen turned to the press and received soon over 100 offers for a new home for Douglas and Gojan. Ultimately the Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany was selected and in April Madsen himself delivered Douglas and Gojan to Karlsruhe, where they were greeted with a public welcome party.

Five months later in September 2016 Gojan died at an age of 45 and the zoo was planning to pair Douglas with another macaw. The new partner became Rubin, a 22 year old scarlet macaw, that arrived in October of the same year.

Douglas died at the Karlsruhe Zoo on February 23rd, 2019 being 51 years old, an extraordinary old age for macaws.

What the fuck is wrong with those "authorities", don't they think at all, are they never reasonable? Is an exemption that much paperwork?

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Pfft, that's the Parrot Police for ya...

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Pianist and composer Andre Previn died today. He was 89.

He and Mia Farrow are the adoptive parents of Soon-Yi Previn (Woody Allen's wife).