Not Exactly Famous...

[Tempus Fugit 212]

"Miss Deaf Texas" killed by a train, she didn't hear its horn.

 

A tragic tale, but it made me laugh, I'm such a bad person.

[Phantom 2,480]

"Miss Deaf Texas" killed by a train, she didn't hear its horn.

 

A tragic tale, but it made me laugh, I'm such a bad person.

 

I need to clean my pc monitor, I just spat coffee all over the screen

[Tempus Fugit 212]

Robert Baker, creator of chicken nuggets and turkey ham.

 

Has died aged 84.

 

For culinary crimes he should be turned into Soylent Green.

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George Rallis, former Greek Prime Minister, has died aged 88.

[Canadian Paul 93]

Robert Baker, creator of chicken nuggets and turkey ham.

 

Has died aged 84.

 

For culinary crimes he should be turned into Soylent Green.

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George Rallis, former Greek Prime Minister, has died aged 88.

 

I would argue that a former Greek Prime Minister would be considered famous enough. Got something against Greeks TF?

[VSBfromH 74]

Robert Baker, creator of chicken nuggets and turkey ham.

 

Has died aged 84.

 

For culinary crimes he should be turned into Soylent Green.

 

First the Tortilla Chip lady and now this guy. Could there be a theme emerging here?

[Octopus of Odstock 1,876]

Another more personal one than anything:

 

Vicente Perez Devesa, Mayor of Benidorm

 

I lived in Benidorm for 3 years until quite recently. Whilst I didn't know Senor Devesa personally, I often read about him in the local press. He helped do a lot for the resort & made it a much better place to live, as opposed to being just simply a tourist resort & nothing else.

 

[Lady Die 63]

"Miss Deaf Texas" killed by a train, she didn't hear its horn.

 

A tragic tale, but it made me laugh, I'm such a bad person.

I must be a bad person too

[TLC 9]

Particularly for all you Scots out there, click here for news on the recent(ish) death of Alan Fitzpayne. 'What, the Alan Fitzpayne?' I hear you ask collectively.

 

Yes, the very same.

 

Surely few people will deny the man's greatness after reading this very moving piece.

 

Of course I've not checked it on Wikipedia so I can't be 100% sure of the accuracy of this piece.

[Guest iain]

just found an interesting death...the General Hospital actor Craig Heubing has died at 77.Yoiu must remember him surely?

 

[Moved from near misses for 2006 thread - ff]

[Tempus Fugit 212]

just found an interesting death...the General Hospital actor Craig Heubing has died at 77.Yoiu must remember him surely?

 

 

That link of yours goes nowhere iain

 

A proper link

 

This should have been posted in the "Not exactly famous" thread, as his death has only produced 3 obits.

[Octopus of Odstock 1,876]

just found an interesting death...the General Hospital actor Craig Heubing has died at 77.You must remember him surely?

 

I told you, stop calling me Surely! Lame but oh so good from Leslie Nielsen.

 

 

I think whether you've ever heard of him depends entirely on age & region. General Hospital isn't shown much here, never has been, if at all?

From his IMDB entry, GH would be the only way anyone would remember him. I, for one, never have.

[Octopus of Odstock 1,876]

Wikipedia is reporting Muhammad Ali's death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly, for those who picked him in any death pool & for the Death List, it is a different Muhammad Ali.

 

 

sorry to raise anybody's hopes

[Canadian Paul 93]

Wikipedia is reporting Muhammad Ali's death.

 

Sadly, for those who picked him in any death pool & for the Death List, it is a different Muhammad Ali.

 

sorry to raise anybody's hopes

 

I saw that as well on Wikipedia and had a momentary jumpstart until I realized that the ages didn't match up.

 

Although really, I'm surprised he's actually dead, I thought perhaps TF was at it again...

[Tempus Fugit 212]

Wikipedia is reporting Muhammad Ali's death.

 

Sadly, for those who picked him in any death pool & for the Death List, it is a different Muhammad Ali.

 

sorry to raise anybody's hopes

 

I saw that as well on Wikipedia and had a momentary jumpstart until I realized that the ages didn't match up.

 

Although really, I'm surprised he's actually dead, I thought perhaps TF was at it again...

 

Whoever wrote that obit, needs to improve their English'

 

"He stepped in the film industry in the year 1962" sounds messy.

 

 

You list one winemaker as dead and suddenly you've got a reputation.

[BrunoBrimley 83]

Mohammed Ali has died

Perhaps you can take that as your cue and follow............. (hey I have a dozen bouquets of glorious floral arrangements I'd hate to see them go to waste.)

[M Busby Airlines 7]

Another more personal one than anything:

 

Vicente Perez Devesa, Mayor of Benidorm

 

I lived in Benidorm for 3 years until quite recently. Whilst I didn't know Senor Devesa personally, I often read about him in the local press. He helped do a lot for the resort & made it a much better place to live, as opposed to being just simply a tourist resort & nothing else.

 

 

OoO,I admire your tenacity,(3 years)I currently live near Gandia,everytime family/friends appear its,LETS GO TO BENIDORM!!.Hate the place,rather sit in the car for seven hours twiddling with the radio than venture into the old town.Have driven people to Terra Mittica,gone home & returned for them rather than stay,But everyone to their own..

[Octopus of Odstock 1,876]

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OoO,I admire your tenacity,(3 years) I currently live near Gandia,everytime family/friends appear its,LETS GO TO BENIDORM!!.Hate the place, but everyone to their own..

 

I'll admit at the start, I couldn't stand the place. I was living near, but not in, the Finestrat end. Then I moved into the centre, and found a little community within a community, as many do when you actually live there, as opposed to visiting there.

That had a lot to do with it, but the reason I mention Senor Devesa is because he was either directly or indirectly responsible for all the improvements in the town for the inhabitants, like cheap, clean, reliable public transport, two excellent hospitals, increasing of proper, quality shops & shopping malls, better conservation projects & links etc., and balanced the tourism industry within that, so it sometimes would make no detriment to people's lives if they lived in one particular area.

(and of course if you had enough, jump onto the N332 & get away to somewhere else!)

 

 

Gandia is a nice area to live in - how long have you been living around there?

[M Busby Airlines 7]

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OoO,I admire your tenacity,(3 years) I currently live near Gandia,everytime family/friends appear its,LETS GO TO BENIDORM!!.Hate the place, but everyone to their own..

 

I'll admit at the start, I couldn't stand the place. I was living near, but not in, the Finestrat end. Then I moved into the centre, and found a little community within a community, as many do when you actually live there, as opposed to visiting there.

That had a lot to do with it, but the reason I mention Senor Devesa is because he was either directly or indirectly responsible for all the improvements in the town for the inhabitants, like cheap, clean, reliable public transport, two excellent hospitals, increasing of proper, quality shops & shopping malls, better conservation projects & links etc., and balanced the tourism industry within that, so it sometimes would make no detriment to people's lives if they lived in one particular area.

(and of course if you had enough, jump onto the N332 & get away to somewhere else!)

 

 

Gandia is a nice area to live in - how long have you been living around there?

 

Couple of years now,my Valenciano is still poor,but my teenage daughter speaks it fluently.After your last post I did a little research & indeed Snr Devesa was responsible for vast improvements in the towns infrastructure.I still reckon its the only place in Spain where you can live,work & socialise without a palabra of Spanish.On my not so frequent visits to the village bars Im regaled with why I should speak more Valenciano & not Castellano,(the idioma of Franco)as it was once described to me.My sister wants to retire to Benidorm,so as a stepping stone into Spanish culture I suppose it is a good choice.

[Octopus of Odstock 1,876]

Couple of years now,my Valenciano is still poor,but my teenage daughter speaks it fluently.I still reckon its the only place in Spain where you can live,work & socialise without a palabra of Spanish.On my not so frequent visits to the village bars Im regaled with why I should speak more Valenciano & not Castellano,(the idioma of Franco)as it was once described to me.

 

I wouldn't retire to there, but I'd happily live in Albir or Altea nearby, pop on the bus for next to nothing & get my bits & pieces & see my friends there. But this is a good while off yet....

 

I gave up after a while & learnt Castellan Spanish. As I had to work with one chap from Betis, one lady from Valencia & another chap from near Barcelona, it was easier.

 

I also used to work in both Catalonia & Mallorca, which meant, in theory, I should've learnt three different regional dialects etc. But the locals are sometimes so surprised & so appreciative that an extranjero should speak Spanish in the first place, that they don't worry too much.

[VSBfromH 74]

Americam welterweight boxer Kevin Payne dies after winning fight.

[Canadian Paul 93]

Epidemiologist Richard K. Root munched by a crocodile.

 

Can't say I've ever heard of him, but I'd say he maxes out on style points for that one.

[Lady Die 63]

Epidemiologist Richard K. Root munched by a crocodile.

 

Can't say I've ever heard of him, but I'd say he maxes out on style points for that one.

According to this ...

 

"Root was in the lead dugout with the tour guide when a crocodile leaped out of the river, grabbed the UW physician and disappeared back under the water. Root was not seen again."

[Rotten Ali 599]

SNP veteran Margaret Ewing dies

 

Margaret Ewing served Moray for almost 20 years

Nationalist MSP Margaret Ewing has died at the age of 60 after a long battle with breast cancer.

Mrs Ewing had represented the Moray area at Westminster and Holyrood for almost 20 years, but announced last year that she would stand down in 2007.

 

She was married to Fergus Ewing, the MSP for Inverness East and son of Nationalist stalwart Winnie.

 

In 2002, Mrs Ewing underwent treatment for breast cancer but returned to Holyrood later that year.

 

Mrs Ewing was born in rural Lanarkshire and trained for the teaching profession at Jordanhill College.

 

Party leadership

 

She joined the SNP in 1966 and entered parliament as MP for East Dunbartonshire, winning with a majority of just 22 in 1974.

 

She lost the seat five years later and, after failing to get into parliament in 1983 in Strathkelvin and Bearsden, she won the Moray seat from the Tories in 1987.

 

Mrs Ewing became the SNP's parliamentary leader at Westminster and ran for party leadership three years later but was defeated by Alex Salmond.

 

In 1999 she became MSP for Moray and stood down from her Westminster seat in 2001 to concentrate on Holyrood.

[Cowboy Ronnie 77]

Epidemiologist Richard K. Root munched by a crocodile.

 

Can't say I've ever heard of him, but I'd say he maxes out on style points for that one.

According to this ...

 

"Root was in the lead dugout with the tour guide when a crocodile leaped out of the river, grabbed the UW physician and disappeared back under the water. Root was not seen again."

 

Hmmm, sounds dubious. Since when do crocodiles leap, and there was no evidence of any clothing or equipment being recovered? If I were the Limpopo River DA I'd be having words with "new" wife Rita O'Boyle. I reckon she stabbed him, had the guides bury the corpse, and paid them off. Saw something just like it on an episode of Poirot.

[Phantom 2,480]

Epidemiologist Richard K. Root munched by a crocodile.

 

Can't say I've ever heard of him, but I'd say he maxes out on style points for that one.

According to this ...

 

"Root was in the lead dugout with the tour guide when a crocodile leaped out of the river, grabbed the UW physician and disappeared back under the water. Root was not seen again."

 

Hmmm, sounds dubious. Since when do crocodiles leap, and there was no evidence of any clothing or equipment being recovered? If I were the Limpopo River DA I'd be having words with "new" wife Rita O'Boyle. I reckon she stabbed him, had the guides bury the corpse, and paid them off. Saw something just like it on an episode of Poirot.

 

This news article has details about a croc leaping to attack someone