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Paladin 
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 Posted: 02:43PM Jul 6, 2009 |
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death to flies everywhere!
"The greatest cause of unhappiness in the world today is trading what we want most for what we want now." |
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iforgotbraingle
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Posted: 02:57PM Jul 6, 2009 |
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It's now the 6th day of this months and year yet the condition known as "death" is yet to be cured!
Well then. |
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idiot_original
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Posted: 02:16AM Jul 7, 2009 |
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dswilborn wrote: Mollie Sugden died on July 1st - Mrs. Slocumbe from "Are You Being Served?" - classic British comedy. 
She was a wonderful actress. The british humor in these comedies is often dry, and slightly obscure, yet she would bring the line home and punch out the zinger with such a poise and personality, it was hard at times not seeing Mrs. Slocumbe as a real person. i didn't see much of other things Mollie Sugden has done, though i saw enough to appreciate her range of acting. the british comedies have been such a mainstay of weekly events on the pbs channels.
Thank you, dswilborn, for bringing this to our attention!
She lives on, in her character, and the pbs folks are honoring her, i noticed, in their way.
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idiot_original
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Posted: 02:43AM Jul 7, 2009 |
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Robert McNamara dies at age 93
Talk about a mover and shaker...
(looking for my old Emerson, Lake and Palmer albums)
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idiot_original
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Posted: 05:43AM Jul 9, 2009 |
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The real date was 4 May, 1970
Crosby Stills Nash and Young sang Ohio:
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
and now, back to your regularly scheduled obituaries...
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idiot_original
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Posted: 11:29PM Jul 12, 2009 |
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According to the latest from Saturday Night Live, Spain's former President Francisco Franco is STILL dead.
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snappytom
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Posted: 12:57AM Jul 13, 2009 |
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150 000 people die a day in the world???
Nah...gotta be more...
so how many are born???
Snappy Snappy Snap..Snap Snap Snap Snap! |
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Steve1973
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Posted: 01:25AM Jul 13, 2009 |
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snappytom wrote: 150 000 people die a day in the world???
Nah...gotta be more...
so how many are born???
350,000 people are born each day. 150,000 die each day. Whch means the worlds population is growing by 200,000 people a day! (Link here for reference.)
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snappytom
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Posted: 08:03AM Jul 13, 2009 |
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WoW!
That just doesn't seem enough....
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idiot_original
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Posted: 10:29AM Jul 13, 2009 |
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for more dying, i'm not for that
for more being born, i'm not for that either
how about less of each... that i like. just a personal opinion.
Millions of jokes die, every day.
Only thousands are born
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idiot_original
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Posted: 11:57PM Jul 14, 2009 |
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Here, we can move the gauntlet up a notch.
here is a website that lists people who are LIKELY to die in 2009
The DeathList 2009 lists, among others, Ravi Shankar, sitar guru.
RIP (whenever that time comes)
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PineappleMama
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Posted: 07:34PM Jul 17, 2009 |
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Walter Cronkite, age 92, died today... breaking news actually.
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snowmonster
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Posted: 11:00PM Jul 21, 2009 |
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I always liked him. Very professional.
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ICUB42
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Posted: 11:15PM Jul 21, 2009 |
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Walter Cronkite? That's too bad. But, I thought he died years ago. I don't know why I thought that. Boy, do I feel stupid! 
Don't go and think too long about it...*whispers*...just do it!! |
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King_of_Smart
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Posted: 10:12AM Jul 22, 2009 |
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It is unfortunate, but people die everyday. When you hear on the news someone died, do you cry your eyes out because you weren't there that moment, or do you sigh and say what a shame. We cannot stop every death on earth. Nor can we get worried about it because it happens all the time.
So, yeah, people die everyday, but we cannot let it ruin our life because of it.
~KOS~
P.S. IFB, this topic is pretty messed up, and not much to talk about, because it is a known fact to everyone.
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PineappleMama
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Posted: 06:05PM Jul 22, 2009 |
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OY, how depressing is this
Old numbers... latest was 2007 but still...
16,929 were murdered in that one year...
It's gone down considerably from the high in 91 of 24,700... true enough...
but it's still a sickeningly high number of lives lost... *sigh*
Even in Texas, where we enforce the death penalty the numbers aren't pretty...
but quite a bit better than our nation's capital...
The place where our nation is judged by the world had, in 2007, a murder rate of 1 in 3250 people...
Texas for the same period was 1 in 16834.
Just sad.
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jaycr
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Posted: 07:28PM Jul 22, 2009 |
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Maybe this shouldn't be in "People" Died Today but what the heck . . .
Gidget, the famed Chihuahua who appeared in Taco Bell ads, died Tuesday 7/21/09 at the age of 15.
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PineappleMama
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Posted: 09:13PM Jul 22, 2009 |
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Or 105 in doggie years... pup had a good long life...
One a lot better than the thousands and thousands of animals in shelters...
Wasn't that just the subtlest nudge to adopt you ever read?
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idiot_original
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Posted: 10:19PM Jul 22, 2009 |
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I loved the way they taught her to actually speak. that MADE the commercials..
there were multiple Lassies, maybe we need to scrounge the shelters for a Gidget II.
By the way, i for one, thought it was a FINE addition to this topic.
thanks!
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