RIP (Read 467376 times)

tim palmer · April 10, 2015, 10:48:50 am

"Captaincy Is 90% Luck And 10% Skill. But Don’t Try It Without That 10%" – Benaud

GraemeA · April 10, 2015, 10:57:15 am

Real shame.

GraemeA · April 10, 2015, 12:46:15 pm

From t'other channel -

I like this quote from the BBC news item:

"And Glenn McGrath dismissed for two, just ninety-eight runs short of his century"

DAVETHOMAS90 · April 10, 2015, 01:30:55 pm

Quote from: GraemeA on April 10, 2015, 12:46:15 pm

From t'other channel -

I like this quote from the BBC news item:

"And Glenn McGrath dismissed for two, just ninety-eight runs short of his century"

Typical of his wit, and beautifully insightful irony.

Jaspersharpe · April 10, 2015, 11:38:21 pm

“Gatting has absolutely no idea what has happened to it ... he still doesn’t know!”

Goodnight everyone.

RIP Richie.

Zods Beard · April 11, 2015, 12:03:39 am

Absolute legend.

Its was fitting that the last Ashes he commented on over here in 05 were such an epic series. I've never really enjoyed televised cricket as much since he left, the Test Match Special boys are the only ones doing the business for me.

And what tends to get forgotten because he was such a brilliant commentator was just how good a cricketer he was too.

Wad of the highest order.

fried · April 13, 2015, 07:32:09 pm

Gunter Grass.

I read the Tin Drum a long while ago, in Robinvale in South Australia, during my spell as an illegal immigrant fruit picker, by candlelight while trying (half successfully) to woo an Austalian girl (who's book it was).

Cheers for giving me that.

Mike Tyson · April 28, 2015, 12:40:56 pm

Keith Harris

SA Chris · April 29, 2015, 10:55:57 am

Orville must be devistated. They were inseperable.

willackers · April 29, 2015, 10:58:33 am

They asked Orvil for a statement but he was speechless.....

rich d · April 30, 2015, 09:02:03 am

When I saw Keith Harris' picture on the BBC news website my first thought was that it was another one for operation yew tree. Glad it wasn't.

slackline · April 30, 2015, 09:12:06 am

Quote from: rich d on April 30, 2015, 09:02:03 am

When I saw Keith Harris' picture on the BBC news website my first thought was that it was another one for operation yew tree. Glad it wasn't.

Give it time, I'm sure someone will come forward.

willackers · April 30, 2015, 09:18:36 am

He's definitely a contender.

rodma · April 30, 2015, 12:49:59 pm

Quote from: slackline on April 30, 2015, 09:12:06 am

Quote from: rich d on April 30, 2015, 09:02:03 am
When I saw Keith Harris' picture on the BBC news website my first thought was that it was another one for operation yew tree. Glad it wasn't.

Give it time, I'm sure someone will come forward.

someone with green feathers probably, once he gets over the stockholm syndrome

SA Chris · May 06, 2015, 06:14:00 pm

Ben E King, Percy Sledge and Errol Brown all within a month. Marvin Gaye must be shitting it.

Muenchener · May 15, 2015, 08:18:32 am

BB King

tomtom · May 15, 2015, 08:56:58 am

Sad news.

I saw BB king 29 years ago when I was 16 with a bunch of mates. It was at the Hammersmith Odeon - and at that time he was 60 (which seemed remarkable to a 16 year old). He came on stage and played with no break for 2 1/2 hours.. amazing.... Not someone I thought I'd ever go and see at 16, but one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

SA Chris · May 15, 2015, 09:00:14 am

I saw him "supporting" U2 on the love comes to town tour. They were a bit of anticlimax.

GraemeA · May 17, 2015, 10:29:37 pm

Looks like Dean Potter has succumbed to the BASE jumper's curse

fatneck · May 18, 2015, 06:21:39 am

Sad times... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32776686

ghisino · May 19, 2015, 01:46:23 pm

Albert Precht https://www.thebmc.co.uk/albert-precht-19472015

for those who haven't climbed in Wadi Rum:

Precht's routes in wadi rum are somehow in their own league.

While 90% of the routes from other pioneering teams focus on obvious and relatively predictable crack/corner/chimney systems, he was pretty much the only one chasing almost systematically open walls and question marks...
Given the very complex and unpredictable nature of these sections (often very featured, but steep, chossy and with sparse and poor protection opportunities), just by looking from the ground it is obvious that the Precht routes require big balls and a highly developed sense for itinerary, protection, and rock quality.

the obvious sandbagging of his topos complete the legend: suggested grades, and especially climbing and descending times, raise suspicion...

on a short and relaxed trip with my half, i didn't attempt any of these routes, having an obvious feeling that with few exceptions they are best left for the good days of a highly proficient team...

SA Chris · May 19, 2015, 02:15:40 pm

Quote from: fatneck on May 18, 2015, 06:21:39 am

Sad times... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32776686

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US daredevil Dean Potter

Such a 70s term. I can only associate the word with Evel Kinevel (now there's someone who beat the odds!)

jwi · May 24, 2015, 03:26:17 pm

US mathematician, Abel prize winner and economist John Forbes Nash, and his wife Alicia both died last night in a traffic accident.

Falling Down · May 24, 2015, 04:24:06 pm

How sad. They re-married in 2001 after being separated for many years. Wear your seatbelts in taxis folks.

DaveC · June 05, 2015, 03:59:50 pm

Jerry Collins, former All-Black loose forward and Barnstaple #8 (look it up) . killed in a car accident in France along with his wife leaving their three month old daughter in a critical condition. Sad day in the rugby world.