[andy_e]

I heard he could lap West Side Story, and when he fell off, it was time to call the lime.

[SA Chris]

Tom Sims, snowboarding pioneer.

Thanks for making it all happen.



RIP the original ripper.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Sad indeed. Legend.

[SA Chris]

Andy Williams. Gone to the great lounge in the sky.

[rginns]

Eric Hobsbawn, RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324

[andy popp]

Eric Hobsbawn, RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324

Though perhaps seeming slightly obscure this is actually a significant loss.

[Muenchener]

Eric Hobsbawn, RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324

Though perhaps seeming slightly obscure this is actually a significant loss.

Hmm. I lamented the passing of Edward Thompson and Christopher Hill, but my ability to find a soft spot for unrepentant old soviet apologists seems to have diminished.

(Otoh I was never that familiar with Hobsbawm’s work, whereas in my youth I must have read pretty much everything Thompson & Hill ever wrote)

[andy popp]

Eric Hobsbawn, RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324

Though perhaps seeming slightly obscure this is actually a significant loss.

Hmm. I lamented the passing of Edward Thompson and Christopher Hill, but my ability to find a soft spot for unrepentant old soviet apologists seems to have diminished.

(Otoh I was never that familiar with Hobsbawm’s work, whereas in my youth I must have read pretty much everything Thompson & Hill ever wrote)

I was careful to say significant rather than right or wrong. To my mind Thompson, Hill and Hobsbawm were/are the most important of all British historians in the post-war period - arguably the greatest generation of historians this country has produced? Hence the significance of the passing of Hobsbawm, the last of them.

Who stands out now? Probably Keith Thomas.

[mrjonathanr]

Sir Keith Religion-and-the-Decline-of-Magic Thomas?

[andy popp]

Indeed, his latest The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England is very good.

[mrjonathanr]

He's an historiographer isn't he? I haven't read his books (or much other history having dropped the subject aged 13) but recall him strolling around the quad exhorting us to work hard.  Obviously a talented man - he got his knighthood while I was at his college. Maybe I should pick up a tome... Congratulations on your seating arrangements btw.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Sylvia Kristel.

[fried]

She was a glassy lady.

[SA Chris]

Donald Takayama

http://www.legendarysurfers.com/2010/08/donald-takayama.html

Should probably be in the OFTS thread, but an interesting guy. And I would love to own one of his boards.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Ceefax: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20032882

[lagerstarfish]

Tom Sims, snowboarding pioneer.

Thanks for making it all happen.

RIP the original ripper.

I missed this

my first board was an ex-hire Sims Blade 1710 with almost no side-cut, pointy nose, square tail and bindings about 6 inches rear of centre. Fine in powder. Scary on ice. A good training experience.

Thanks Tom

[SA Chris]

my first board was an ex-hire Sims Blade 1710 with almost no side-cut, pointy nose, square tail and bindings about 6 inches rear of centre. Fine in powder. Scary on ice. A good training experience.

Mine was a Burton Craig Kelly Air of a similar vintage and shape. It's still in the back of my Aunt and Uncle's place in France with a trashed edge thanks to a rock. Be nice to restore it to rideable condition.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Television "anchor" Mike Morris.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Clive Dunn [92]

[andy_e]

Too much panicking obviously.

[dave]

Hard to believe Clive Dunn was only in his 50s when they filmed Dad's Army, and in fact was one of the youngest members of the cast. A true ledge.

[andy popp]

Arthur Lowe had it in his contract that he wasn't to be made to appear without his trousers! Great bit of bizarreness.

[tomtom]

Arthur Lowe had it in his contract that he wasn't to be made to appear without his trousers! Great bit of bizarreness.

I heard that as well - though was it at the request of the BBC or from Arthur!

[andy popp]

Definitely Arthur. There's a great book about the series by someone Graham McCann, well worth a read. My dad is a deadringer for Arthur Lowe, which has always pleased me enormously.

[SA Chris]

92 is a good innings mind.