Amentep Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 James "The Amazing" Randi 2 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Azdeus Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 ****, I will miss him. Loved hearing from him when he popped on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and his talks were amazing. 2 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 Sean Connery https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/sean-connery-dies 5 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Keyrock Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 R.I.P. Zed 4 4 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Malcador Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 He was the best Russian on film Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Guard Dog Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 (edited) Goodbye Mr. Bond. Daniel Craig was good. But nobody was better than you! Edited October 31, 2020 by Guard Dog 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Darkpriest Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 Bond series dies and so does the person, who gave life to the character on the big screen. 2020 F U.
Gorth Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 12 hours ago, Keyrock said: R.I.P. Zed I think I'll dust off my Zardoz dvd and watch it again 4 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
LadyCrimson Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 omg, just the other day we were talking about movies and his name came up. I said something like "he's still alive." NooOOooooOooooo.... Thanks for all the wonderful characters. RIP 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
ComradeYellow Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 Glad to see I'm not the only cult fan of Zardoz. R.I.P. bro.
Azdeus Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 Seriously. **** 2020. He will be missed. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Agiel Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Malcador said: He was the best Russian on film Lithuanian, you mean. 1 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Gromnir Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Agiel said: Lithuanian, you mean. at the end o' the movie, captain ramius reminisces that there is a river near vilnius which is much like the one where the red october is being hidden... taught to fish by his grandfather on that river. movie ruined. is no river anywhere near vilnius which could accommodate an alpha class sub much less an oversized typhoon. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Guard Dog Posted November 8, 2020 Posted November 8, 2020 Alex Trebek passes away at age 80 6 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
ShadySands Posted November 8, 2020 Posted November 8, 2020 Norm Crosby My grandpa was a big fan 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Keyrock Posted November 8, 2020 Posted November 8, 2020 56 minutes ago, Guard Dog said: Alex Trebek passes away at age 80 45 minutes ago, ShadySands said: Norm Crosby My grandpa was a big fan Not the Daily Double I was hoping for. 2 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
LadyCrimson Posted November 8, 2020 Posted November 8, 2020 I know someone who said a couple of his friends recently qualified to be on Jeopardy ... but now, if they get called to be on the show, there will be no Trebek... Such a TV/gameshow icon .... you will be missed. RIP. 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
algroth Posted November 25, 2020 Posted November 25, 2020 Maradona just died. RIP to an absolute legend. 1 My Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/alephg Currently playing: Roadwarden
Gorth Posted November 26, 2020 Posted November 26, 2020 8 hours ago, algroth said: Maradona just died. RIP to an absolute legend. Best handball player ever! Just kidding, it was impossible to not gawk at the screen when watching him play. So completely in a class of his own. Napoli never got close to winning Serie A again I think. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Raithe Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) BBC - David Prowse, Aged 85 Edited November 29, 2020 by Raithe 4 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
LadyCrimson Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 11 hours ago, Raithe said: BBC - David Prowse, Aged 85 On another forum, a thread went "Darth Vader passes away!" or something like that, and half the reactions were "I thought you meant James Earl Jones!" Anyway ... RIP to the man behind the mask. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Raithe Posted November 29, 2020 Posted November 29, 2020 Tell me about it. UK Twitter was trending Michael Cain. Only when I checked did I find it was because of the Muppet Christmas Carol, and not because he had died. 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Gorth Posted November 30, 2020 Posted November 30, 2020 It always felt a bit a odd that he would cast Christian Hayden as Anakin. Compared to David Prowse, he's a little "twerp" with his only 183cm. Prowse was tall (198cm) and was cast for that very reason as Darth Vader. Roughly 6ft vs 6ft6 Hayden would stare at Prowse's chest if they were put next to each other. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
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