The weeping thread

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:55 pm

Oh noes, Boycie from Only Fools And Horses (John Challis).

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:31 pm

Clive Anderson was unavailable for comment.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:49 pm

Sweet Sweetback's Saadasssss Song

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:43 pm

Oh noes!

Post by **dng** » Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:53 am

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:13 am

Rick 'Fingerbobs' Jones is no more.

Post by **dng** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:12 pm

I only really remember fingermouse

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Oct 09, 2021 9:19 pm

Finger mouse
Finger mouuuuse

Finger mooooooooooooooouuuuse

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:31 am

dng wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:12 pm I only really remember fingermouse

I think 'Bobs and 'Mouse are merged in my consciousness.

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sun Oct 10, 2021 12:34 pm

I always thought of that man as an American Roger Delgado. Except it turns out he was Canadian. And I was surprised to see that Simon Price of Melody Maker was friends with him! It makes sense in a weird way, but it's still unexpected

Also by the time I was a child I think they'd stopped repeating Fingerbobs for some reason and were making Fingermouse instead. Fingermouse (the show) was not as good because despite the presence of Fingermouse (the puppet), there was just some bloke with curly hair presenting it instead, who was a bit like a proto-Mr Tickle. Or at least that's how I recall that guy being like.

Post by **Pual** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:14 am

Oh no, Dead Stockwell.

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:12 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:24 pm

I was shocked that he was 85, for some reason.

Post by **dng** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:51 pm

He was really 107

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:15 pm

he started off as a child actor and appeared with Frank Sinatra.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:15 pm

that's pretty amazing, when you think about it.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Nov 10, 2021 2:15 am

Ha! Nice!

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:44 am

If/when the Queen passes, will the Govt shut down the Internet so that all her subjects will be forced to mourn via BBC/ITV/etc? It wouldn't surprise me.

I wish her no ill will, though.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 1:30 pm

Sir Antony Sher! I never knew this bellboy was him

https://youtu.be/nCAo4ve_bhM?t=12

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 8:15 pm

Chris Achilleos, the artist who enlivened so many Doctro Oho novelisation covers in the 70s & 80s and, of course, drew this masterpiece

Post by **dng** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:07 pm

Post by **dng** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:09 pm

He also did some of the fighting fantasy covers, including best bestiary ever out of the pit (and some of the full colour pages in out of the pit as well)

Post by **vom** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:20 pm

full colour pages!? I have never seen this

Post by **dng** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:35 pm

Really? The two copies of this I've ever had (a4 size, roughly, with a red cover) both had 8 full colour pictures in the middle. I just assumed it was standard.

Post by **dng** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:35 pm

i will scan them in tomorrow

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:51 am

Presumably that Pertwee in the KKLAK! picture is from episode 1 of Invasion of the Dinosaurs

(terrible Dr Oho colourisation joke)

Post by **vom** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:40 am

dng wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:35 pm Really? The two copies of this I've ever had (a4 size, roughly, with a red cover) both had 8 full colour pictures in the middle. I just assumed it was standard.

It looks like this is the first edition, I have only ever seen the second edition which is black and white and A5 size, and I never even knew I was missing out!

Post by **dng** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:32 pm

i feel kind of privileged now. i could have sent you my second copy but i gave it to my nephews at some point

Post by **dng** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 12:32 pm

never to be seen again

Post by **endar** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:36 pm

shout-out to Masayuki Uemura

Post by **vom** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:19 am

Meat Loaf, dead.

My first ever gig in 1994!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:58 am

It's all your fault

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:34 pm

Revenge really is best served cold, huh?

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:47 pm

But meatloaf isn't

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jan 22, 2022 1:31 am

Unvaccinated and Covid did for him. What a stupid and unnecessary death.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:57 am

Fucking hell is it really that fucking difficult to get three shots?

You were a rockstar in the '70s, I'm pretty sure you injected worse things for breakfast and snorted them for lunch.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:25 pm

AAAAAAUGH!

Post by **vom** » Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:34 pm

bad grief!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:45 pm

Jeez, suicide. :'( RIP

Post by **dng** » Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:32 pm

weeep

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/f ... ey-dies-79

Post by **vom** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:18 pm

Mark Lanegan?

Oh man. Weep

Post by **dng** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:25 pm

Well that's awful. Weeep

Post by **dng** » Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:05 pm

Gary Brooker from procul harum died the other day. He used to live on the same street as my dad, apparently, when my dad was like eight or something

Post by **dng** » Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:05 pm

That's all I know about procul harum

Post by **dng** » Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:06 pm

That and the bit where the young priest plays a whiter shade of pale on the church organ in the commitments

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:49 pm

Shane Warne departs for the cricket pavilion in the sky.

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:59 pm

poor shane warne

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 12:28 am

A berk, but an extremely talented berk.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:36 pm

When an old cricketer leaves the pitch

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:07 pm

Oh no balor is dead

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... dies-at-85