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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Pioneering commercial airline pilot Emily Howell Warner, the first female to hold that position, dead on the 3rd of complications from a fall and Alzheimer's disease at 80 a little under four months shy of her birthday.
Three-time All-Star Toronto Maple Leafs legend Eddie "The Entertainer" Shack, dead at 83.
Legendary Oscar-winning actress Olivia De Havilland, best known for her role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With The Wind, hitherto the last surviving remnant of Hollywood's Golden Age, dead at 104.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Veteran actor John Saxon, born Carmine Orrico, best known for his role as Roper in Enter The Dragon, dead of complications, due to pneumonia, at 83 eleven days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Actress Royana Black Hubbell, best known for playing the titular role in the short-lived 1988 CBS sitcom, Raising Miranda, dead suddenly on the 14th of acute myeloid leukemia at 47 (birth date unknown).
MTV's True Life breakout star Charlie Balducci, whose 2002 wedding was documented on the show, dead suddenly Saturday of causes yet unknown at 44 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Canadian actor and convicted sex offender Robert "Rob" Smith, best known for his role as the obnoxious patron-berating Scotsman in Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale commercials, not to be confused with the eponymous Cure frontman, dead in the last week or so of undisclosed causes at 54 or 55.
Note: He was also the voice of Teisel Bonne in the Mega Man Legends games, and I'm embarrassed I never made the connection.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Former New Zealand rugby union player and All Black captain Andy Haden, whose 1978 feigned fall earned his team a game-winning penalty against Wales and himself notoriety, dead of chronic lymphocytic leukemia at 69 two months shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Former Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels manager John McNamamra, who coached the former to within a game of the 1986 World Series title, dead at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Greater Victoria Flower Count founder Norma Fitzsimmons, dead at 97 three days to a month shy of her birthday (exact birth date unknown).
Rapper and The Roots founding member Malik Abdul Basit, better known as Malik B., dead of undisclosed causes at 47 three and a half months shy of his birthday.
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Grampa Fuddy
Title: Silly Hats Only
Joined: Jul 17 2019
Location: Westmont, IL
Posts: 34
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Herman Cain, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful and former Godfather's Pizza CEO dead at 74 from coronavirus. For once, I beat jprime with news of a death.
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"I don't like zoos. Awful." --Christopher Walken |
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Grampa Fuddy wrote: |
Herman Cain, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful and former Godfather's Pizza CEO dead at 74 from coronavirus. For once, I beat jprime with news of a death. |
He was four and a third months shy of his birthday.
First democratically-elected Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui, dead of multiple organ failure and septic shock at 97.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Grampa Fuddy wrote: |
Herman Cain, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful and former Godfather's Pizza CEO dead at 74 from coronavirus. For once, I beat jprime with news of a death. |
And there's strong evidence he contracted it while attending the Tulsa campaign rally that health officials urged against holding. Totally worth it!
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
Location: Accounting Dept.
Posts: 1687
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With all due respect and dignity here, I like to think Herman would've laughed.
(I certainly did)
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sir Alan Parker, dead after a long illness at 76.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Preng wrote: |
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With all due respect and dignity here, I like to think Herman would've laughed.
(I certainly did) |
LOL, holy shit.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Old Havana renewal overseer and de facto mayor Eusebio Leal Spengler, dead of cancer at 77 one and a third months shy of his birthday (again, September 11).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Country music singer, songwriter and radio host Bill Mack, whose work on Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show got him into the Country Music DJ Hall Of Fame, not to be confused with the eponymous sculptor, dead of COVID-19 at 88.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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First American face transplant recipient Connie Culp, dead of an as-yet-unspecified infection at 57.
Alaskan 30th district representative Gary Knopp, killed along with six others (an eighth died en route to the hospital) in a midair collision at 63.
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Grampa Fuddy
Title: Silly Hats Only
Joined: Jul 17 2019
Location: Westmont, IL
Posts: 34
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Wilford Brimley, age 85. Actor was best known for his roles in The Thing, The Natural and Cocoon. He was also the spokesman for Quaker Oats in the 90's. No word yet on the cause of death or if it was "diabeetus" related.
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"I don't like zoos. Awful." --Christopher Walken |
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Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 4459
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I feel like if it wasn't diabeetus, that would be a let down. :/
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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: 5938
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He was a little under two months shy of his birthday.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 1479
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Wilford Brimley in Cocoon wrote: |
You'll never get old, and you'll never die. |
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Deadliest Catch deckhand Mahlon Reyes, dead Monday of causes yet unknown at 38 (birth date unknown).
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
Posts: 3280
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Grampa Fuddy wrote: |
Wilford Brimley, age 85. Actor was best known for his roles in The Thing, The Natural and Cocoon. He was also the spokesman for Quaker Oats in the 90's. No word yet on the cause of death or if it was "diabeetus" related. |
I had no idea he was famous previously. I thought he was just a random person who got famous from the diabetes commercials.
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i'll_bite_your_ear wrote: |
DarknessDeku is already assimilated by the bots.
He knows your algorithm. |
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Ryan Breaux, brother of singer-songwriter Frank Ocean, killed in a car crash along with a classmate at 18.
Nobel Peace Prize-winning politician John Hume, who fashioned the agreement that ended the violence in his native Northern Ireland, dead at 83.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Chicago rapper FBG Duck, born Carlton D. Weekly, known for his breakout single, "Slide", killed in a targeted shooting at 26 four months shy of his birthday.
Legendary New York newspaper columnist and novelist Pete Hamill, dead of heart and kidney failure at 85.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5938
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Actor Reni Santoni, best known for his role as Poppie on Seinfeld, dead Saturday after a long illness at 82.
Veteran Canadian Press broadcast journalist Peter Rakobowchuk, better known by his radio moniker of Peter Ray, dead of liver cancer at 71 (birth date unknown).
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