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Wow. He’s been a backdrop in my life for a long time. Not sure I even knew his name. Seemed like a good guy.
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That’s brilliant
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Larry Storch of F Troop and numerous oldies dead at 99. 99! Good on you, Larry. RIP.
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Long life...still its too short. RIP
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Manny Charlton, guitarist for Nazareth.

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I dont know Manny but that was a nice video. RIP to him. I love certain Naz songs like Hair of the Dog and Dream On. Time is a bitch man.
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Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos), dead at 79.
Sirico, a Brooklyn native, began his acting career in the mid 1970s and has portrayed gangsters in numerous roles over the years, including “Goodfellas,” “Mob Queen” and “Mighty Aphrodite.”

He originally auditioned for “The Sopranos” for the role of Uncle Junior, which was ultimately given to Dominic Chianese. Creator David Chase later offered him the role of Paulie Walnuts, one of Tony Soprano’s right-hand men. He appeared in 74 episodes of the Emmy-winning HBO show.
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He was so damn good I was convinced for the longest time he actually HAD been a mob guy.
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And Larry Storch dies at 99. He did a ton of TV and movies back in the 60s. I'll always remember him in F Troop.
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dbt1949 wrote: Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:04 pm And Larry Storch dies at 99.
Again?!?!
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He was multi talented.
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hepcat wrote: Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:38 pm Larry Storch of F Troop and numerous oldies dead at 99. 99! Good on you, Larry. RIP.
I saw this right after the McAfee post and read it as the F Prot guy.
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Why does he hate Prot so much? :?
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If you knew Prot...
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From K-pax? He was played by Kevin Spacey, so F that guy.

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full circle

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Hyena wrote:I know not everyone will care about this as it's the Dallas Cowboys, but Marion "The Barbarian" Barber died yesterday. Wellness check on his apartment because someone complained about a water leak. He was only 38. Friggin' tragic. Would not surprise me to be CTE-related, as that dude ran with reckless abandon. I've never seen anyone SEEK OUT punishment like he did. He initiated contact like the opponent stole their girlfriend.
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Barber, 38, was found dead in a Dallas apartment on June 1 with a bathtub faucet running, the unit's thermostat set to 91 degrees and the heat turned on. Officials also found exercise equipment in the apartment. According to a coroner's report, Barber "was known to exercise in sauna-like conditions."
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Ivana Trump (Donald Trump's 1st wife) has died at 73, reportedly from cardiac arrest.

She was the mother of Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric Trump.
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Why couldn't it have been...oh nm..Im not going to be that person. I believe in karma.
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A trophy wife that managed to stick it to the man.
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dbt1949 wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:46 pm A trophy wife that managed to stick it to the man.
Snopes asks, Did trump email fundraise in announcement of Ivana's death?
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If you're a Canadian of a certain age, you'll remember Pat John from The Beachcombers. The rest of you have almost certainly never heard of him.

Pat John, actor who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, is dead at 69
Pat John, best known for playing the quiet, dependable Jesse Jim on long-running CBC drama The Beachcombers, has died at age 69.

John's friend and former co-star, Jackson Davies, confirmed his death to CBC News on Thursday.

The actor died at noon on Wednesday "looking more peaceful than he has in a long time," Davies wrote in a Facebook post announcing John's death. There was no immediate word on the cause of his death.

"He was funny, kind, and although he didn't get the credit he should have, he was also a very good actor. He had the greatest laugh ever, and it was my goal in life to get him to laugh, just to hear it."]Pat John, actor who played Jesse on The Beachcombers, is dead at 69
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Hard to believe he was 69, or even that the Beachcombers were that long ago. Heck, it is the longest running Canadian TV drama. But you look at him in some of the early episodes and he looks so young.
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Marius Lewandowski, who created my all time favorite album cover (Bell Witch’s “Mirror Reaper”, shown below) passed this morning. His artwork was absolutely incredible.

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Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, died earlier this month at age 60.

https://kotaku.com/yu-gi-oh-creator-kaz ... 1849151231
Alongside the manga (which has now sold tens of millions of copies) and card game (which has sold tens of billions of cards), Yu-Gi-Oh has also inspired a range of other media appearances, like several long-running anime series, a number of motion pictures, book releases and, of course, video game adaptations.

Takahashi had still been active in the comics scene; he was still involved in broader creative decisions on Yu-Gi-Oh, and it was only two weeks ago that a Marvel collaboration he had worked on, involving Iron Man and Spider-Man, was published.
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James Lovelock has died. If you never studied the Gaia hypothesis, you may not recognize his name.

Basically, the earth is a single large organism and everything is interconnected. Which, really, is true. look at what is happening when we get rid of keystone species.

103 is a good run! R.I.P.
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Oh wow. I didn't think he was still alive; haven't thought about him in years. 103 is indeed a good run. RIP.
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I learned about him (and his hypothesis) back in 1990 from Sim Earth.

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SimEarth is a life simulation video game, the second designed by Will Wright, in which the player controls the development of a planet. English scientist James Lovelock served as an advisor and his Gaia hypothesis of planet evolution was incorporated into the game...

The game models the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock (who assisted with the design and wrote an introduction to the manual), and one of the options available to the player is the simplified "Daisyworld" model.
The Daisyworld model was cool. Your planet had both black and white daisy populations (and only those two things) that both agreed to a preferred climate, but their population density had a direct impact on the albedo of the Earth and so directly impacted the environment. They had to live in balance, in order to thrive - but needed to maintain the balance to avoid doom. Too many white daisies and too much light was reflected away, and too many black daisies and too much light was absorbed.
Lovelock stated in regards to the Gaia model that "Attempts to model the Earth through simple sciences such as biology or biochemistry fail because the models are oversensitive to initial conditions and prone to chaotic disturbance." Gaia models link biology and geology however, which Lovelock claimed are "for some reason stable and able to resist perturbations."[6] Lovelock expressed that SimEarth's simulation has 'a degree of realism' despite it being "little more than a game", and he expressed that he hadn't seen or been involved in any computer simulations of nature on the scale of SimEarth at the time, noting that many professional climate models at the time didn't take clouds, the ocean, or biology into account.

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I have believed in the GAIA theory for decades. Never knew it was him who brought it forward. RIP
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RIP Bill Russell, truly one of the greats to have ever played the game. Passes at 88. :(
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Skinypupy wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:31 pm RIP Bill Russell, truly one of the greats to have ever played the game. Passes at 88. :(
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I was a Lakers fan but I still liked the guy and thought he was one of the greatest at the time.
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The great I loved to hate. At first because he always thwarted Wilt Chamberlain and later as a Lakers fan. I doubt if his 11 championship rings will ever be matched.
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Nichelle Nichols is being reported today

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RIP

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Ah damn, not Uhura. :(
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She was quite a sex symbol during her day. RIP
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WYBaugh wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:16 pm Nichelle Nichols is being reported today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... trek-dead/
Oh damn this has hurt me deep. Oh man. What a woman. So much I could say about her..all good. Bless her. I was worried for her years ago after her stroke/s. Another of my loves gone Ill miss knowing she was on this Earth with me somewhere. Sad :( :( Hailing frequencies open hon.

Im actually crying and I didn't even know her. She reminded me of my mom later in life.
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