Everybody in the USA. When I heard about the terrible terrorist cigarette attack on the news.
― StanM, Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)
Roger EbertFidel CastroBilly CorganJustin Bieber
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:47 (fifteen years ago)
I always read that Roger Ebert thread as saying "now a RIP thread"
Also, I've found it's very easy to forget that Jean-Luc Godard is still alive, even in spite of his activity in the 00's.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)
Happy birthday Ennio Morricone! 82 years of being surprisingly still alive! http://dreamchimney.com/oftheday/otd_images/20101110120926_auto.jpg
― Dan I., Thursday, 11 November 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago)
Charles Manson's still alive!?! (77 years old, just got his 12th parole denial)
― EDB, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:49 (thirteen years ago)
Alby Mangels!
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Monday, 16 April 2012 01:28 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah Manson's next parole isnt for 15 years, so he definitely gonna die in prison.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Monday, 16 April 2012 03:07 (thirteen years ago)
While watching something on telly the other day, I googled to see when it was that Stanley Baxter died. Turns out he didn't.
― ailsa, Monday, 16 April 2012 09:48 (thirteen years ago)
gene wilder
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:56 (twelve years ago)
Tom Hatten
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)
Richard Attenborough
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:50 (eleven years ago)
Murray Walker
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago)
Helmut Schmidt
In similar vein, Henry Kissinger
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago)
Peregrine Worsthorne
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago)
^ no way!
Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago)
Is Peregrine still being published anywhere on a regular basis?
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago)
Or wait, was the 'no way' for Kissinger?
For Peregrine
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago)
Jimmy Young
Did you mean you were surprised he's still alive? I thought at first you were expressing incredulity that anyone could think he'd died. (sorry for being so slow)
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago)
The former.
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago)
No idea Kissinger was alive.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago)
With Schmidt and Worsthorne the situation is more it occasionally being brought to my attention that they're still going, and being vaguely surprised to be reminded of this, whereas with Murray Walker I was sure I remembered reading his obituary, but then I saw him on TV talking about his 90th birthday.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago)
many years ago, I was convinced that Russell Crowe had died during the filming of Gladiator. Turned out it was Oliver Reed.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago)
Now I'm trying to work out who it was that that died I was confusing with Murray Walker.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago)
Gene Wilder.
These days it's common for Hollywood actors to star in movies well into their 70s and 80s, so I kinda assumed the reason the reason Wilder hasn't appeared in movies for 20+ years is because he's dead... But it turns out he simply retired at the age normal people do.
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago)
Always feel slightly disorientated when I remember that Jeremy Thorpe is still with us
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/images/candidates/b46/FullC46223D2000-01-01.jpg
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago)
xxxpost James Hunt?
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago)
Mikhail Kalashnikov (was in an alive-or-dead round in a pub quiz recently). He turned 94 yesterday.
I also have to periodically check whether Ariel Sharon is still hanging in there (he is).
xxposts, re Murray Walker confusion, maybe Harry Carpenter?
― ailsa, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago)
Hugh Downs is alive at 92. He published his autobiography 53 years ago.
― jmm, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago)
Jeremy Thorpe seconded
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago)
I had the 'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' the other day when John Cole died.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago)
'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' reaction
I think that's what I meant to say
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago)
Bloody Hell, Sandy Gall is still alive and published a book last year.
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago)
yeah Thorpe is a great call
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago)
... and Sandy Gall
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago)
Tommy Docherty
I'm often mildly surprised that Muhammad Ali is alive. I guess when someone so mythical leaves the public eye one assumes they died a tragic early death.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago)
Chuck Berry
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago)
Al from Happy Days
― zanana rebozo (abanana), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago)
... well, he is now, Colin Wilson
― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 12:57 (eleven years ago)
Swear I was going to post this before I saw abanana's last post.
Marion Ross is still alive. Didn't know that she was just a year younger than Tom Bosley.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago)
Fats Domino
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago)
whoa.
I can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are still hanging in there.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago)
had a discussion in the pub last week cos me and a friend thought James Taylor died in the last couple of years and another friend insisted he's playing over here next year
― last updated 10 years ago by (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago)
James Taylor's big thing now is he releases a Christmas album every year, which makes sense since by 1971 he was Perry Como + heroin.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/james-tree.jpg
yoo-hoo, not dead over here!
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago)
Sometime in the past few years I seem to have acquired a false memory of Jonas Mekas dying. Then about a year ago I was pleasantly surprised to see he was about to celebrate his 90th.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago)
I see him puttering around Anthology Film Archives now and then, even doing an intro to a screening (and he still makes films).
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago)