Today's Interesting Obituary

[threebikesmcginty]

Country music leg-end Lynn Anderson has died, here's Mozza covering Rose Garden.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lynn-anderson-dead-dies-20150731

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Maybe not so well known outside churchy circles but a very impressive lady who I lived next door to for 7 years until her death in 2003. We crossed swords once or twice and it was always a pleasure

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/15/guardianobituaries.religion

 

[nickyboy]

There is an option to make the Eastbourne Herald your home page. I'm tempted

 

[Dayvo]

At least nobody's read mine yet!

Read this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-And-The-Penguin-Panther/dp/1860469450

The main character (after the penguin) makes a living about writing obituaries before the person has died.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There is an option to make the Eastbourne Herald your home page. I'm tempted

If you do, Tim Berners-Lee will come round to your house and punch you in the face for wasting internets.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Billy Sherrill, country music producer. Produced George Jones stuff for about 30 years. Tons of others too including the excellent Charlie Rich.

http://countrymusichalloffame.org/Inductees/InducteeDetail/billy-sherrill

Here's a couple of blasts of his work.

I know this song from childhood as my dad loved it!!

Same Ole Me from the last record BS produced for the Possum.

 

[rich p]

[QUOTE 3868836, member: 259"]Exit Batgirl - Yvonne Craig, who was the original Batgirl in the sixties TV series with Adam West, has died.

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[Bobby Mhor]

I keep expecting Spike Milligan and his Scout Troop gang to appear with their bells...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yogi Berra has died aged 90. He was a very successful professional baseball player (rounders). He had a cartoon named after him, was married for 65 years and he came out with some great quotes, 'Yogiisms'.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

No one ever goes to that restaurant anymore, it's too crowded.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Cut that pizza into four slices I'm not not hungry enough for six.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half physical.

It ain't over till it's over...

http://nypost.com/2015/09/23/yankees-legend-yogi-berra-dead-at-90/

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A face that only a mudder could love.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

How about this guy who died yesterday in Canada - inventor of both the fold-up table tennis table and the automatic bagel-maker...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-revolutionized-bagel-making/article26485748/

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Michael C Gross has died. He was a graphic artist who most famously designed the Ghostbusters instantly recognisable logo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/a...ed-the-ghostbusters-logo-dies-at-70.html?_r=0

 

[Tin Pot]

Michael C Gross has died. He was a graphic artist who most famously designed the Ghostbusters instantly recognisable logo.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/a...ed-the-ghostbusters-logo-dies-at-70.html?_r=0

That would be an interesting headstone

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Vlasta Dalibor, one half of Pinky and Perky creators has died. Ok it's only a couple of irritating squeaky voiced porcine puppets but an interesting life for the creators none the less.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12174970/Vlasta-Dalibor-puppeteer-obituary.html

 

[rich p]

Vlasta Dalibor, one half of Pinky and Perky creators has died. Ok it's only a couple of irritating squeaky voiced porcine puppets but an interesting life for the creators none the less.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12174970/Vlasta-Dalibor-puppeteer-obituary.html

The thought of the normal version gives me the shudders so an 'adult' version... Eek!
Interesting lives, though, as you say