Celebrity Death List MMXII / The Death Thread 2012 (II)

[Allan D]

Perhaps we should add a special animal category to next year's contest especially in view of the deaths listed above as well as Synchronised, winner of this year's Cheltenham Gold Cup, who died in the Grand National with a compulsory Under-5yo nomination.

[horace]

I have more fondness for the late nags than most of the turkeys nominated in the inglorious history of these threads....










I deny that Caligula was a distant cousin

[Allan D]

You've probably placed more money on them, Horrie.

[horace]

sage...I do remember having collects on both Vo Rogue and Northerley..

...just realised that that in backing VoR I have backed Zimmy...what an error of judgement

[JGK]

Carroll Shelby goes to the big workshop in the sky.

[WideWally]

RIP Donald "Duck" Dunn

[skully]

Wally, where ya been, ol' son?

[JGK]

Not a celebrity as such but a passing worth noting...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/death-of-the-angel-of-the-gap-the-man-who-saved-the-suicidal-from-themselves-20120514-1ymle.html

[lardbucket]

Vale Donald 'Duck' Dunn, famous bass player for Booker T and the MGs, and session player on countless hits:

WIKI link

[Allan D]

Vale, Frank Parr, Lancashire 2nd XI 'keeper (with 49 games for 1st team between 1951-54 + 1 game for MCC in 1953) and trombonist with George Melly Band:

Frank Parr

[LeFromage]

John Connor has gone missing. Austrian-sounding man in sunglasses sought by police for questioning.

Nick Stahl, JC in Terminator 3, hasn't been seen in over a week. Wife has filed a missing persons report. Drugs linked.

This one might turn out bad....

[Zat]

They won't find him. At least not until 2025, when he'll turn up, mysteriously not looking a day older than today...

[WideWally]

Donna Summer dead from lung cancer. Some sources say she believed she contracted it by
inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.

[Allan D]

Donna Summer dead from lung cancer. Some sources say she believed she contracted it by
inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.

Most of the population of Lower Manhattan should be turning their toes up any time soon then but sad to see the First Lady of Disco depart. Will no longer be able to feel love.

[Zat]

So no endless Summer then?


Coat? Yep...

[LeFromage]

Gonna Summer, more like.

Room in that coat for two, Zat?

[skully]

RIP Ms Summer. One of the Chief's fave artists. As a teenager of the late 70s, her music was pretty big in my social life at the time. Many great memories are stirred when a Donna Summer song pops up on the wireless.

[lardbucket]

I suppose all that disco shit was a necessary evil, and she wasn't the worst.

Anyway, sad days for Donna and her family.

Has there been a spike in the incidence of lung cancer in Manhattanites since 9/11? Detectable already at 10 years post-exposure?

[skully]

She had a great voice and was an attractive woman. Saw a pic of her three girls. They have inherited their Mum's good looks.

And yes lardy, while you were strumming, musing and toking, I was picking daisies and pointing at the mirror ball to the strains of Donna Summer's Hot Stuff.

[JGK]

I still giggle every time I think of the the scene in the Full Monty where they are dancing to "Hot Stuff" while in the dole queue.

[skully]

Spanish verion but the queue scene is faithful.

[horace]

Les Bamblett fine AFL footballer has passed into the Dreamtime

ironically the AFL has the Dreamtime Round this weekend (for non Oz folk, the AFL every year has a round of football that celebrates the contribution of Indigenous Australians to our unique code of football)

[Fred Nerk]

"Les Bamblett fine AFL footballer has passed into the Dreamtime"

Not according to Google, the AFL, the Age, the ABC or Weakipedophilia he aint. Where's your information from?

[bodyline]

"Les Bamblett fine AFL footballer has passed into the Dreamtime"

Not according to Google, the AFL, the Age, the ABC or Weakipedophilia he aint. Where's your information from?

Wikileaks.

[bodyline]

Surely Matthew Newton will soon make this list.

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