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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ Tim "Avicii" Bergling, dead by suicide at 28.
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ged1928
Title: A new hope
Joined: Apr 24 2008
Location: Portsmouth, NH
Posts: 292
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Verne Troyer, dead by his own hand at 49.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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Wrestling Territory Star: ‘No. 1’ Paul Jones, Dead at Age 75.
Most people probably won't know who he is. He was a prominent manager in the Jim Crockett owned NWA Mid-Atlantic territory. (Which was later purchased by Ted Turner and became WCW.) And, before that, he was a hell of a worker. He wrestled in many territories including PNW (Oregon), WCCW (Texas), UWF (Australia), and FCW (Florida).
Jones also went to Georgia, working as the territory’s top heel. And then finally, he returned to Jim Crockett Promotions, where he would hold championships 23 different times in the promotion, including a slew of tag titles with diverse partners like Royal, Wahoo McDaniel, Blackjack Mulligan, and even Ricky Steamboat. He held the Mid-Atlantic championship, as well as the U.S. title. The only title that eluded him was the world championship.
Jones was versatile. He could be a lovable babyface. But he could also be the evil heel who would do anything to get his way, as he portrayed when he paid Manny Fernandez $25,000 in cash to turn on Jimmy Valiant.
A favorite Paul Jones story: As the leader of “Paul Jones’ Army,†he began to dress in a khaki uniform and high polished boots. He also wore a mustache. Before TV each week, Jones began to trim his mustache a little narrower. And then a little narrower still. When the booker realized that Jones was using his dark, side-parted hair and narrow mustache to affect a look similar to Adolf Hitler, he made Jones stop.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Jazz musician Bob Dorough, best known for his contributions to Schoolhouse Rock, dead at 94.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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British filmmaking legend Michael Anderson, whose works include The Dam Busters, Around The World In 80 Days (1956) and Logan's Run, dead Wednesday at 98.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey, dead at 70.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Prolific TV and movie producer Paul Winger Witt, whose credits include The Golden Girls and Dead Poets Society, dead Friday of cancer at 77.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Actress Pamela Gidley, best known for her role as Teresa Banks in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, dead two weeks ago at 52.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Ontario Conservative MP Gord Brown, dead from a heart attack at 57.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Australian actress Catherine Godbold, best known for her roles on The Saddle Club and Home And Away, dead after an 11-year battle with brain cancer at 43.
Award-winning South African filmmaker Carlos Carvalho, dead from massive head injuries resulting from being headbutted by a giraffe at 47.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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What circumstances precipitated being headbutt by a giraffe?
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A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Trying to get a close-up shot.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 4975
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Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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That's what lenses are for.
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Klimbatize wrote: |
A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Retired Australian botanist and ecologist David Goodall, dead by medically-assisted suicide at 104 whilst listening to Beethoven's Ninth.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Montreal film producer Kevin Tierney, who funded such movies as Bon Cop, Bad Cop and his son Jacob's The Trotsky, dead at 67.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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DJ Mark Vanderpump, brother of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump, dead of a drug overdose at 59.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Canadian-born actress Margot Kidder, best known for her role as Lois Lane in the 1978-87 Superman movies, dead by suicide at 69.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Reporter-turned-author Tom Wolfe, known as the New Journalist and for such works as The Right Stuff and The Bonfire Of The Vanities, dead at 87.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Veteran character actor Joseph Campanella, dead Wednesday at 93.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Playboy centerfold Stephanie Adams, dead at 46 from murder-suicide by jumping from a twenty-fifth-story hotel window after pushing her seven-year-old son, Vincent.
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
Location: Accounting Dept.
Posts: 1686
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That is fucking bone-chilling.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo, dead from a brain disease at 73 after a year-long battle.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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LSU football legend and Heisman trophy winner Billy Cannon, dead at 80.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5882
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Prolific novelist Philip Roth, dead at 85.
TV legend Clint Walker, best known for playing the titular role on Cheyenne, dead at 90.
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