Re: Celebrity Death List MMXVI / The Death Thread 2016

[taipan]

I have the 68-69 ABCCB, edited by Al, in my greasy mitt as we speak....no mention of guest commentators.

I recall the first day of the Windies tour in Perth. Hall and Griffith had WA 7 for sod all before lunch until Jock Irvine, supported by bowlers Lock and Mayne, pushed the total close to 200. On the second day Sobers scored a classic ton, then a kid called Rodney Marsh in his first game for WA, playing as a specialist bat going in at no 4, followed up a first-innings globe with a century, which briefly threatened to leave the Windies a real 4th innings target.

Lock the chucker?

[horace]

Yep. The chucker and suspected fiddler with the bent bow!

[lardbucket]

I have the 68-69 ABCCB, edited by Al, in my greasy mitt as we speak....no mention of guest commentators.

I recall the first day of the Windies tour in Perth. Hall and Griffith had WA 7 for sod all before lunch until Jock Irvine, supported by bowlers Lock and Mayne, pushed the total close to 200. On the second day Sobers scored a classic ton, then a kid called Rodney Marsh in his first game for WA, playing as a specialist bat going in at no 4, followed up a first-innings globe with a century, which briefly threatened to leave the Windies a real 4th innings target.

Lock the chucker?

ARTICLE

(this article reminds readers that it was Laurie Mayne who helped Lillee sort out his run-up, and that Lillee subsequently passed these lessons on - albeit with less success - to Brett Lee)

[JGK]

I see that the world's oldest person died yesterday: http://www.smh.com.au/world/worlds-oldest-person-dies-in-new-york-20160513-gouqdq.html

That leaves only person left alive born in the 1800s (although 3 still left born in the 19th century):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people

[taipan]

I see that the world's oldest person died yesterday: http://www.smh.com.au/world/worlds-oldest-person-dies-in-new-york-20160513-gouqdq.html

That leaves only person left alive born in the 1800s (although 3 still left born in the 19th century):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_people

Horrie?

[Ethics? The Gall!]

just backtracking a bit
according to the ever reliable source of wikipedia coziers first commentary job was v aus in 1965

yeah i know youve already moved on but what the ******. i was bored

[lardbucket]

That was in the Windies, though. When did he first come here ... WSC as contended by Warwick Hadfield, or earlier, as we all seem to 'remember'?

[Bradman]

Oi qmy, it's nearly June. How about a replacement for Billy God-botherer?

The King of Thailand.

[skully]

Oi qmy, it's nearly June. How about a replacement for Billy God-botherer?

The King of Thailand.

Er, no good. BA has him as well as Billy Graham. Try again.

Current standings...

Ri Yong-mu (politics)
Věra Čáslavská (sport)
Louis Tomlinson (under 30)
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt
Buzz Aldrin
Oliver North

Roger Daltry
Jimmy Carter - politician
Valerie Harper
Joey Bada$$ - u30
Tommy Chong
Graham 'Polly' Farmer - sport

Bob Dole (Politics)
Henry Kissinger
Martin Crowe (Sports) DEADED
Cory Gunz (U30 rapper)
Clive James
Olivia De Havilland

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Neale Daniher
Harry from 1D
Ted Egan
Bronwyn Bishop
Andy Ganteaume DEADED

Kirk Douglas
Lee Iacocca
Sir Everton Weekes - sport
George HW Bush politics
Jake LaMotta
Johnny Manziell - u30

Justin Bieber
Bob Simpson (sport)
Doug Anthony (politics)
Malcolm Young
Fr Gerald Ridsdale
Sally Anne Howes

Rhianna (u/30's)
John McEnroe (sports)
Bhumibol Adulyadej (King of Thailand)
Billy Graham
Mary Tyler Moore
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (politics) DEADED

Margaret Court
Daniel Ricciardo under 30
Wally Edwards
Andrew Forrest
Gina Reinhardt
Wilson Tuckey

David Attenborough
ex-Pope Benedict
Miley Cyrus (under 30)
Doris Day
Prince Phillip (politics)
Oscar Pistorius (sport)

Charles Gilmour - (U30) - activist and professional dickhead
Joost van der Westhuizen - (sportsman)
Robert Mugabe - (politics) - all-round monster
Charlie Sheen - oxygen thief
Keith Richard - the walking dead
Rolf Harris - pervert

Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Billy Graham PLEASE REPLACE
Maradona
Julian Blanc
Nancy Reagan DEADED
Bruce Forsyth

Sepp Blatter - sport
Jacques Chirac - politics
Chris Brown - U30
Maggie Smith
John Motson
Bill Cosby

[lardbucket]

Braddles - neither Donald Trump nor Hillary have been 'taken'. Both must be in with a good 'shot' in NRA-land.

[Bradman]

I've actually come up with a few in my sleep only to find them dead the next day. The old rockers seem to have arrested their "dropping like flies" status.

Unfortch I think most nutter assassins prefer their victims to be actually in the job. Better cache amongst the nutter crowd.

[lardbucket]

THESE people are still fair game

[horace]

Rolf Harris made that list!!!

[lardbucket]

aye, and Doris Day, and Dame Vera was hardly a rock star

[taipan]

aye, and Doris Day, and Dame Vera was hardly a rock star

I would say that most of them only have a passing connection with rock.

[Ethics? The Gall!]

That was in the Windies, though. When did he first come here ... WSC as contended by Warwick Hadfield, or earlier, as we all seem to 'remember'?

if he was commentating in '65 it doesnt seem likely it would have taken him 10 years to get to aus

[lardbucket]

The next two WI tours of Australia after 1965 were those of 1968-9 and 1975-6. As per my earlier posts, I have no clear recollection of the 1968-9 commentary, but I do believe (perhaps wrongly) that I can remember Cozier being here in 1975-6, despite the assertions of Warwick Hadfield, the ABC/RN expert who stated that Cozier did not start commentary in Australia until the Packer years; a statement that prompted my initial query on this thread.

[Fred Nerk]

Tony Cozier was definitely a known name in Australia in 1971, when my Form 3 classmate's next door neighbour Gary Cosier played his first couple of games for Victoria and we all tried to suck the class Elmer Fudd into believing Tony was Gary's uncle.

[lardbucket]

Nice one. Must have been here 1968-9 then.

[WideWally]

RIP Christy O'Connor, snr

An outstanding golfer.

It has been a bad year for the Christy O'Connors of this world. His nephew (also a very fine golfer) died in January.

[Bradman]

I can remember Cosier being interviewed on BBC TV in the early seventies, probably in connection with a Windies tour.

Why is my text a different size and where have my text options gone?

[PeterCS]

Nice one. Must have been here 1968-9 then.

Seems likely. His first (commentary) series was Oz in West Indies 1965.

[Bradman]

Tony Cozier was definitely a known name in Australia in 1971, when my Form 3 classmate's next door neighbour Gary Cosier played his first couple of games for Victoria and we all tried to suck the class Elmer Fudd into believing Tony was Gary's uncle.

Where did Gary go wrong?

[lardbucket]

Gary was a cross-the-line slogger ... and he was an early part of the recurring vice-captaincy curse of the late 1970's.

Gary was also tried and failed at 3 states; he may even have been the first to play for 3 states. Subsequently he has been joined on a 'distinguished' list by Graeme and Shane Watson, Trevor Chappell, Michael Bevan, Colin Miller, Dirk Wellham, Rod McCurdy, Michael Klinger, and maybe even Shane Jurgensen and Aiden Blizzard, if memory serves. There may even have been a couple others who flew under my radar. Not a triumvirate, but there's almost a full eleven of twice-discarded 'gash', to borrow a lovely term.

[embee]

Bevo and Funky only make the list because of the cricket academy

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