Re: Celebrity Death List MMXVII/The Death Thread 2017

[lardbucket]

David Cassidy is gone.

I didn't like his music but was very pleased to have a couple of young ladies think (over 40 years ago now, in 1976) that I looked somewhat similar. I'm still not sure how they ever saw that, but yes I was happy with their perceptions and especially their responses, so there is a happy memory or two related to him in there somewhere.

[skully]

RIP. I grew up with the Partridge Family.

[skully]

Lots of Davids but no Cassidy.

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Kerry O'Keeffe
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Lindsay Lohan
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Slash
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Hillary Clinton
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Mary-Kate Olsen
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Pope Benedict XVI
Ronnie Biggs DEADED
Yitzhak Shamir DEADED

[JGK]

David Cassidy is gone.

I didn't like his music but was very pleased to have a couple of young ladies think (over 40 years ago now, in 1976) that I looked somewhat similar. I'm still not sure how they ever saw that, but yes I was happy with their perceptions and especially their responses, so there is a happy memory or two related to him in there somewhere.

Your happy memory or theirs?

[lardbucket]

Mine. I'm glad they were visually impaired and star-struck.

[taipan]

Didn't it irritate the guide dogs?

[Big Dog]

Didn't it irritate the guide dogs?

Nasty   Never underestimate the power of beer goggles.

[horace]

My sister will be in mourning.

[taipan]

My sister will be in mourning.

I almost read that as moulting

[Red]

Cassidy was so hot in his heyday.

[taipan]

Cassidy was so hot in his heyday.

I didn't think so

[Big Dog]

RIP Jim Nabors

[horace]

That's a bad "surprise, surprise, surprise"

[skully]

Go-o-o-o-o-lly Sarg. RIP to another character from my formative years.

[taipan]

Christine Keeler. R.I.P.

[horace]

Wow. That makes me feel a bit sad. What a wonderful story. Always admired her poise and humour when she was widely reviled throughout Pomgolia at the height of the Profumo affair.

[skully]

RIP to a famous tart.

[Fred Nerk]

RIP Rosemary Margan

Also RIP Johnny Halliday, French Elvis and trailblazer for the legendary Plastic Bertrand

[tricycle]

Tommy Horton

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/news/newsid=338910.html

[WideWally]

Max Clifford

[skully]

Good riddance

[Fred Nerk]

Good riddance

Speaking of which, in the year in which we have already lost sport media icons Lou Richards, Les Murray and Drew Morphett, I found out today while looking for something else that about three weeks ago the slightly less legendary Rob Astbury also filed his last, er, deadline. Like another monumentally mediocre 80s talking head (or, in this case 'heads'), Neville Oliver, Rob the Ass became a real estate spruiker after his 'journalism' 'career' ended.

[Growler]

Cheggers (LINKY)

Having suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for several months.

He was only 60. Even though I saw him on telly so many Saturday mornings in my teens, I never realised he was so close to me in age.

[WideWally]

Hayden Haitana - the horse trainer involved in the infamous Fine Cotton ring-in scandal.

[lardbucket]

That's a blast from the past.

I remember the other horse involved - Bold Personality.

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