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Last edited by Uncle Sparky; September 4, 2013, 01:54.There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer. -
During the down-time, we managed to lose Seamus Heaney and David Frost.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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I'm unfamiliar with Seamus Heaney and a quick Google shows what I already assumed, it was my loss in being unfamiliar. Frost was cool.
RIPLife is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Dammit. I'm putting 'poly on my list next year. How long does it have to be down for it to be considered dead?Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
'92 & '96 Perot, '00 & '04 Bush, '08 & '12 Obama, '16 Clinton, '20 Biden, '24 HarrisComment
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It's been dead for years Don.
Ineligible.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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Frederik Pohl RIP!
A GREAT writer and an excellent person!Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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edit: wrong threadComment
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RIP to Ray Dolby, engineer and inventor. Arguably among the top few true innovators in the world of pro audio (and video) over the past half-century or so.
Interviewed him for an article once; really nice guy with a big, throbbing brain.Last edited by -Jrabbit; September 13, 2013, 13:03.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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Ken Norton has died. It looks like Ali might just outlive all the other 60s and 70s heavyweight greats.
The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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From all I ever read a truly nice guy. R.I.P.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
'92 & '96 Perot, '00 & '04 Bush, '08 & '12 Obama, '16 Clinton, '20 Biden, '24 HarrisComment
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Yeah, we have a thread. I think he was a smoker.Comment
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Carolyn Cassady is on the road -
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/...-F-4854835.phpThe Beat Generation got its start in San Francisco because one person landed here, and it wasn't Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady or Allen Ginsberg.
Carolyn Robinson, a high-born Bennington girl with Southern charms, arrived in 1947 and Cassady tracked her down shortly thereafter to resume a romance that had begun in Denver. She got pregnant, the drifter Cassady felt compelled to marry her and try to settle down, and it was ever thus.
"Had it not been for Carolyn Cassady the Beat Generation would have never come to San Francisco," says Jerry Cimino, founder and director of the Beat Museum on Broadway. "She was the first one. Neal followed her and then Kerouac and Ginsberg followed Neal."
Carolyn, portrayed as Camille, wife of protagonist Dean Moriarty (Cassady) in Kerouac's novel "On the Road," and widely considered the muse of the Beats, died in England on Sept. 20 at age 90. She had lived there for 30 years. But for 35 years before that she lived variously in the Richmond, the Mission and Russian Hill before moving to San Jose and then to the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where she raised three children she had with Cassady.
Carolyn wrote a memoir, "Off the Road," and is credited with snapping what might be the most famous photograph of the Beat Generation - the picture of her husband in a work shirt and his mate Kerouac in a sweatshirt, their faces seductively shadowed, and looking like they are ready to jump into a car and go, man, go...There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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-Jr finally hits on Giap.
Vo Nguyen Giap, the relentless and charismatic North Vietnamese general whose battlefield victory at Dien Bien Phu drove France out of Vietnam and whose tenacious resistance to the United States in a long and costly war there eventually sapped America’s political will to fight, died on Friday in Hanoi. He was believed to be 102.
The death was reported by several Vietnamese news organizations, including the respected Tuoi Tre Online, which said he died in an army hospital.
General Giap was among the last survivors of a generation of Communist revolutionaries who in the postwar decades freed Vietnam of colonial rule and fought a superpower to a stalemate. In his later years, he was a living reminder of a war that was mostly old history to the Vietnamese, many of whom were born after it had ended.
But he had not faded away. He was regarded as an elder statesman in a unified Vietnam whose hard-line views had softened with the cessation of war. He supported economic overhaul and closer relations with the United States while publicly warning of the spread of Chinese influence and the environmental costs of industrialization.
A teacher and journalist with no formal military training, Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced vo nwin ZHAP) joined a ragtag Communist insurgency in the 1940s and built it into a highly disciplined force that through 30 years of revolution and civil war ended an empire and united a nation.
He was charming and volatile, an erudite military historian and an intense nationalist who used his personal magnetism to motivate his troops and fire their devotion to their country. His admirers put him in the company of MacArthur, Rommel and other great military leaders of the 20th century.Comment
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