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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #600 on: September 26, 2016, 12:21:06 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on September 26, 2016, 11:41:41 am
And where would we be without Obama's pronouncement on Arnold's passing.  **nononono*

His Universal Eminence of Holiness and Grace has spoken. Only now can Arnold be properly laid to rest.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #601 on: September 26, 2016, 12:26:35 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on September 26, 2016, 12:21:06 pm
His Universal Eminence of Holiness and Grace has spoken. Only now can Arnold be properly laid to rest.

I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title).  Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him.  I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #602 on: September 26, 2016, 01:13:32 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on September 26, 2016, 12:26:35 pm
I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title).  Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him.  I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.

Of course he does!  Palmer was king of 0bama's avocation - golfing!
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #603 on: September 26, 2016, 04:30:18 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on September 26, 2016, 12:26:35 pm
I'm sure it pained O to have to honor some white guy, particularly when he had to call him King (King is supposed to be Obama's title).  Thank goodness O had someone to prepare remarks for him.  I'll bet Obama has no idea who Mr. Palmer was.
Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"

Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."

Obama: "Good enough."
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #604 on: September 26, 2016, 05:27:15 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on September 26, 2016, 04:30:18 pm
Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"

Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."

Obama: "Good enough."

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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #605 on: September 26, 2016, 06:06:28 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on September 26, 2016, 04:30:18 pm
Obama: "Who's Arnold Palmer?"

Speechwriter: "Just imagine if Tiger Woods died. Then come up with your thoughts, and we'll scratch Woods's name out and replace it with Palmer's."

Obama: "Good enough."

I don't know if I should laugh or cry at that one.    :)
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #606 on: September 27, 2016, 10:11:29 pm »
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #607 on: September 27, 2016, 10:13:14 pm »
Just breaking-
Former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres died at age 93 following a stroke two weeks ago. ( BBC- breaking)
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #608 on: September 27, 2016, 10:15:28 pm »
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Just breaking-
Former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres died at age 93 following a stroke two weeks ago. ( BBC- breaking)

I had no idea he was still alive!
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #609 on: September 27, 2016, 10:16:14 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on September 27, 2016, 10:15:28 pm
I had no idea he was still alive!

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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #610 on: September 27, 2016, 10:20:09 pm »
I'm getting news alert beeps on my iPhone .....from several news sources.

Here's Wikipedia. Keep in mind it's tomorrow in Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon_Peres&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #611 on: September 27, 2016, 10:21:41 pm »
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #612 on: September 27, 2016, 10:22:51 pm »
I think he was a first cousin to Lauren Bacall, if my memory is correct.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #613 on: September 28, 2016, 09:03:56 am »
Quote from: Freya on September 27, 2016, 10:22:51 pm
I think he was a first cousin to Lauren Bacall, if my memory is correct.

According to Wikipedia, Bacall was related to Peres on her father's side.  Doesn't say how close of a relative.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #614 on: September 28, 2016, 08:57:07 pm »
Agnes Nixon, "queen of the modern soap opera," dies at 93



Nixon, born in Chicago and raised in Nashville, was one of two prominent proteges to study under the tutelage of Irna Phillips, the recognized creator of the soap opera format. (The other was Philip Bell, who went on to create The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.) She wrote for a number of Phillips's soap operas during the 1950s and 1960s before ABC offered her the chance to create her own series. She created One Life to Live in 1968, then followed it in 1970 with the show she always considered her personal favorite: All My Children, which used characters based on her own personal life. Although she sold both shows to ABC in the 1980s (never being comfortable with the business side of television), she continued to write for both until they were canceled in 2011.

Nixon died of undisclosed natural causes in a senior living facility in Pennsylvania.

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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #615 on: September 29, 2016, 08:46:30 am »
As if Obama's phony statement on Arnold Palmer's passing wasn't annoying enough, there's the death of Shimon Peres. Keith Koffler observes that B. Hussein referred to Peres multiple times as his friend.
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... Like, what kind of friends? As in, Hey Shimon, I’m calling because you’ll never guess what happened to me today!”

They weren’t friends. I doubt if Peres, whose personality was seared in the struggle for the birth and preservation of Israel, had much respect for this man who rose to power through charm and little else. A man who offered up a moral equivalence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, pressuring the Jews into concessions and treating with disrespect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he personally disliked him.

That is, he didn’t consider Netanyahu a “friend.”

Obama will go down in history as the man who may have sealed the destruction of Israel by allowing Iran to gain nuclear weapons and, most likely, setting off a nuclear arms race among Arab states in the Middle East. ...
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #616 on: September 30, 2016, 02:45:08 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on September 28, 2016, 08:57:07 pm
Agnes Nixon, "queen of the modern dope opera," dies at 93

Fixed! ;)

RIP Ms. Nixon.

(Her mentor Irna Phillips created the first known soap opera, Chicago radio's Painted Dreams, in 1930 . . . )
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #617 on: October 02, 2016, 05:53:00 pm »
Leading British conductor Sir Neville Marriner dies at 92

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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #618 on: October 05, 2016, 05:13:53 pm »
Rod Temperton, member of Heatwave and songwriter for Michael Jackson, dies at 66



Temperton began his career as the keyboardist for Heatwave, a funk band that had several hits in the disco era including "Boogie Nights," "The Groove Line" and the ballad "Always and Forever." After his departure, Temperton shifted his efforts to songwriting, with his most successful collaboration being with Michael Jackson. Jackson recorded eight of Temperton's songs during his career, three of which became major hits: "Off the Wall," "Rock with You" and "Thriller."

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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #619 on: October 06, 2016, 12:31:50 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on October 05, 2016, 05:13:53 pm
Rod Temperton, member of Heatwave and songwriter for Michael Jackson, dies at 66



Temperton began his career as the keyboardist for Heatwave, a funk band that had several hits in the disco era including "Boogie Nights," "The Groove Line" and the ballad "Always and Forever." After his departure, Temperton shifted his efforts to songwriting, with his most successful collaboration being with Michael Jackson. Jackson recorded eight of Temperton's songs during his career, three of which became major hits: "Off the Wall," "Rock with You" and "Thriller."

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"The Groove Line"

Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #620 on: October 06, 2016, 12:40:25 am »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 06, 2016, 12:31:50 am
Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.

Come on. Groove Line and Off The Wall were great songs. They had a good beat and you could dance to them.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MFbhwfEXU
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #621 on: October 06, 2016, 01:51:15 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 06, 2016, 12:31:50 am
Sounds like the guy should be vilified for doing some major cultural appropriation.

Makes you wonder what'll become of the reputation of Lieber & Stoller, two nice Jewish boys
writing all those rhythm and blues hits for all those great black R&B people.
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #622 on: October 06, 2016, 02:01:04 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 06, 2016, 12:40:25 am
Come on. Groove Line and Off The Wall were great songs. They had a good beat and you could dance to them.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MFbhwfEXU

Yeah but a white boy layin' down a groove for Michael Jackson - that calls for a BLM cultural appropriation riot protest. Especially because that's when Jackson was actually black.  :smokin:
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #623 on: October 06, 2016, 02:03:12 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on October 06, 2016, 01:51:15 pm
Makes you wonder what'll become of the reputation of Lieber & Stoller, two nice Jewish boys
writing all those rhythm and blues hits for all those great black R&B people.

Or the Muscle Shoals Swampers rhythm section...
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Re: Obituaries for 2016
« Reply #624 on: October 06, 2016, 02:11:26 pm »
Brock Yates 1933–2016 (Car and Driver, Cannonball Run)

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Brock Yates, Car and Driver’s Assassin, lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s on October 5, 2016. We take solace in the words he crafted for this publication, his screenplays, and his books, a legacy that long ago became permanent and prominent chapters of the American legend...

Yates joined Car and Driver in 1964, as managing editor—although he claimed no experience in either managing or editing...

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