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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Actor Kenneth Jones, best known for his role as Caretaker in Phantasm, dead of undisclosed causes at an undisclosed age.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Comedy legend Norm Crosby, dead of heart failure at 93.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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This Canadian game show icon passed away this week at the age of 80.
Who is Alex Trebek?
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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
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It was of pancreatic cancer and he went by his shortened middle name.
On a personal note, now I'll never get to hear him say this clue:
"This 1990 NES title was originally going to be based on 'The Terminator' before the developer, Sunsoft, lost the license"
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
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Valdronius wrote: |
This Canadian game show icon passed away this week at the age of 80.
Who is Alex Trebek? |
This fucking killed me. RIP Alex Trebek.
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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: 5865
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Four-time Stanley Cup-winning NHL icon-turned-now-former Hockey Night In Canada announcer Howie Meeker, dead at 97.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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DarknessDeku wrote: |
Valdronius wrote: |
This Canadian game show icon passed away this week at the age of 80.
Who is Alex Trebek? |
This fucking killed me. RIP Alex Trebek. |
I knew it was going to hit me hard, but this fucking really hit me hard.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Former West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Neely, who once referred to himself as America's laziest and dumbest judge, dead of liver cancer at 79.
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
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Location: The Forest
Posts: 3280
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Ruby-Spears Productions co-founder and Scooby-Doo co-creator Ken Spears, dead Friday of complications from Lewy body dementia at 82.
Longtime co-Emmy-winning CBS News journalist Gordon Joseloff, dead after a three-year battle with myelofibrosis at 75.
Actor Bert Belasco, best known for his roles on Pitch and Let's Stay Together, dead of causes yet unknown at 38 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Third Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, who won acclaim for pursuing democratic reforms for being ousted in a 2012 military coup, dead of undisclosed causes at 72.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, dead of coronavirus-induced massive organ failure at 65.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Legendary Boston Celtics player-turned-coach-turned-broadcaster Tommy Heinsohn, dead at 86.
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
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jprime wrote: |
Legendary Boston Celtics player-turned-coach-turned-broadcaster Tommy Heinsohn, dead at 86. |
This hit me harder than Trebek. Wow. What a fucking week.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Prolific white supremacist Tom Metzger, dead a week ago of undisclosed causes at 82.
Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, hitherto Bahrain's long-serving prime minister, dead at 84 thirteen days shy of his birthday.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Veteran New York producer DJ Spinbad, born Chris Sullivan, dead of causes yet unknown at 46.
Rapper Mo3, born Melvin Noble, best known for last year's "Errybody (Remix)" with Boosie Badazz, shot dead at 27 or 28 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Broadway actor and singer Lawrence Clayton, dead after a two-year battle with glioblastoma at 64.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Playwright, screenwriter, director and accused sex offender Israel Horovitz, dead Monday of cancer at 81.
La Mosca bassist Adrian Cionca, dead of heart failure at 48 (birth date unknown).
Former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings, who staged two coups and later led the country's transition to a stable democracy, dead after a short illness at 73.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, alias Coonan, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper when he murdered 13 women between 1975 and 1980, dead of COVID-19 at 74.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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'90s country star Doug Supernaw, dead of lung and bladder cancer at 60.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Entertainment scion, cabaret owner and West End fixture Basil Pantages, dead Tuesday of a stroke at 87 (birth date unknown).
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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Former Huron-Wendat First Nation Chief Magella "Max" Gros-Louis, who championed indigenous rights for more than 30 years, dead at 89.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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Actress and singer Lynn Kellogg, who originated the role of Sheila in the first 1968 production of Hair, dead Thursday of COVID-19 at 77.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Multiple Emmy-winning producer and director Walter C. Miller, dead Friday at 94.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 5865
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Indian acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee/Chattopadhyay, protege to Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, dead of health complications related to COVID-19 at 85.
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