The weeping thread

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:37 pm

Norton Juster has died. He was a million years old (91), but I am sad all the same. The Phantom Tollbooth is a great, great book.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:38 pm

Oh no!

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:51 pm

I had no idea he was still alive. so now i'm sad too

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:32 pm

i have never heard of him or his book, until i saw adrian edmonson's tweet about them

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:34 pm

It's a really lovely book. I had no idea he was still alive either.

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:15 pm

The guy who invented cassettes has also died

Unless it was the same guy

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:53 pm

surely cassettes weren't invented but found

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:09 am

Meanwhile: Ozzy Osbourne, still alive?!‽

Post by **vom** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:10 am

I don't know, should one of us pop around and check?

Post by **endar** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:12 am

omg keith richards etc

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:47 pm

oh no murray walker is dead

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:47 pm

weeeep

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:43 pm

Indeed. RIP.

He didn't do bad, though, did he? 97 years old, not bad at all. And we will always carry his Murrayisms with us.

Post by **vom** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:36 am

Yaphet Kotto, RIP.

He met an alien and a James Bond and today we mourn his passing.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:08 am

Now no one is Alonzo Moseley

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:53 am

oh no. he was the best and i loved him in everything, especially homicide life on the streets, and everything else, ever.

swizpig · Post by **swizpig** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:29 pm

Oh no

Post by **endar** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:25 pm

oh no i love Yaphet Kotto

Post by **endar** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:05 pm

Imagine if he was Picard

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:14 pm

yes. in return patrick stewart would have had to have been in the running man

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:30 pm

oh no

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2021/03/ ... dies_at_80

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:39 am

Indeed, oh no.

She was the best thing in both Arrested Development and Archer.

RIP.

Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:29 am

Prince Philip is dead so expect to hear all about that for the next 2,000 years

Post by **Pual** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:39 am

All n3ta posts must be at half mast

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:37 pm

The Robotic Anomaly wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:29 am Prince Philip is dead so expect to hear all about that for the next 2,000 years

On the bright side, Have I Got News for You is cancelled tonight

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:00 pm

I await accusations that the shame of Meghan and Oprah killed him to death

Post by **endar** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:17 pm

one less paedo to worry about anyway

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:27 pm

Shouty rapper man DMX also dead sadly

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:31 pm

An Unicorn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:00 pm I await accusations that the shame of Meghan and Oprah killed him to death

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:14 am

The Beeb have flicked their telly channels back into summat approaching regular broadcasting pretty darn quick, haven't they? It would appear that they speedily discovered that it's not 1997 any more, and they can no longer pretty much control how and what viewers watch. The dicks.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:51 pm

Whut will you be doing to-morrow?

Watching 'the event', or learning to beatbox?

Post by **vom** » Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:45 pm

I'm going to the pub

Post by **endar** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 2:19 am

sleeping

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:15 pm

I ended up talking to me brother about fridge freezers (they've just had a new one).

Post by **vom** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:06 pm

I didn't go to the pub. I had mixed up my weekends.

Post by **Chortle Hound** » Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:22 pm

I ordered a flat white coffee at the same time the minute silence was supposed to happen for poor dead racist prince Philip.

Flat white.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:55 pm

On the front cover of The Sunday Times:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzP0nxgVUAc ... me=900x900

I rather enjoy being racist on the sly... Fucking hell!

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:45 pm

They weren't "gaffes", he was being a cunt.

I wonder what he would have done if someone replied by asking him for a kebab.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:29 pm

Ha, I'm sure he would've taken it well!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:08 pm

damn it

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-0 ... tuary.html

Post by **dng** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:16 pm

Yes. Weep

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:33 pm

Agreed. That only leaves Buzz Aldrin, now.

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:04 pm

Someone my dad knew at work was actual friends with Buzz Aldrin, which is amazing.

Post by **dng** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:05 pm

It is. But also a little bit frightening

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:22 pm

If I were Buzz Aldrin's friend, I get him to punch more of those 'The Moon landings were fake!' people. Aldrin looked well handy the last time he did it.

Post by **dng** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:46 pm

That was 19 years ago now

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:07 am

Was it that long ago?!? Oh God...

Post by **dng** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 2:52 am

Everything was that long ago now

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:59 pm

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Post by **dng** » Thu May 27, 2021 12:26 pm

Oh no Eric Carle who wrote the very hungry caterpillar, etc, has died