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[gianmarco]

22 year old latin singer Delarosa shot in ambush

 

[Ron Swanson]

Ska pioneer Jimmy Cliff, 81

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Burt Meyer, inventor of some of our iconic toys, dead @ 99

https://parade.com/news/lite-brite-mouse-trap-toy-inventor-dies-99

I'll never forget "You knocked my block off!!!"

Trivia: the red boxer was originally named "The Red Rocker". I guess Sammy Hager was a fan of the game.

 

[Sand]

Rodney Rogers, Wake Forest hoops stud, age 54.

9 points in 9 seconds.

Watched him play a good bit in college - always seemed to be the happiest guy on the court.

 

[zamboni]

Burt Meyer, inventor of some of our iconic toys, dead @ 99

https://parade.com/news/lite-brite-mouse-trap-toy-inventor-dies-99

I'll never forget "You knocked my block off!!!"

Trivia: the red boxer was originally named "The Red Rocker". I guess Sammy Hager was a fan of the game.

Some memorable classic commercials beyond the toys themselves:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

youtu.be

 

[James Bond]

Fuzzy, Zoeller, two time major golf champion, dies at 74. He won the 1979 Masters and the 1984 U.S Open.

 

[El Floppo]

Robert AM Stern, traditionalist architect international superstar.

US architect Robert AM Stern dies aged 86

US architect Robert AM Stern, who was the long-time dean of Yale university, has passed away aged 86.

www.dezeen.com

NYC legend, former professor of mine as well as father to my college and post college friend Nick. RIP to a legend.

 

[HellToupee]

NYC legend, former professor of mine

I first read this as Professor of Mime.

Condolences

 

[Hoh]

Fuzzy, Zoeller, two time major golf champion, dies at 74. He won the 1979 Masters and the 1984 U.S Open.

eh, good riddance

It'll be interesting to see how long of a ban you get for this. I got my one and only enforced vacation posting the same comment on another individual a while back.

so we should mourn a person that said extremely racist comments? The friday chicken and I guess collard greens or whatever they eat comment was full BS.

Yes it was. And he paid for it. He apologized for it. Tiger forgave him, why won’t you? I hope you won’t be remembered for your worst mistake.

 

[FBG Moderator]

eh, good riddance

Be a lot more cool than this if you come back. We've asked repeatedly for people not to do this.

 

[fatness]

Tarlochen Thapar
Owner of the Quick Stop where he allowed Kevin Smith to film Clerks.

Tarlochen Thapar, the owner of @quickstopgroceries, has passed away. Thapar came to America from India in the 60’s/70’s, working tirelessly until he could afford a small business in Leonardo, NJ: a video shop beside a Cumberland Farms. When the Cumberland closed in the early 90’s, his little video biz lost its anchor - so Mister Thapar convinced Cumberland Farms to let him take the store over instead, renaming it @quickstopgroceries. Mister Thapar hired me in 1989, both of us sitting on tiny step stools behind the counter of RST Video. Working at a video store was my dream job, but it came with a cost: I had to also work at the convenience store next door, which also belonged to the Thapars. Thank God for that caveat, because it changed my life. In 1993, Thapar let me shoot my first film in #QuickStop at night when it was closed. So without Mister Thapar, there’d be no Clerks

 

[kupcho1]

Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88

King Charles III and Queen Camilla pay tribute to Sir Tom, describing him as a "dear friend who wore his genius lightly".

www.bbc.com

 

[Don Quixote]

I missed this one from earlier this month: Brazilian musician Lô Borges.

The Clube da Esquina album with Milton Nascimento was one of my gateways to Brazilian music.

Real name Salomão Borges Filho, the musician was born in 1952, in Belo Horizonte. Making music with friends, the ad hoc group of youngsters would gather in their neighbourhood – their “corner club,” as it came to be known, blended MPB (música popular brasileira) with emerging sounds of jazz, pop, rock, and Beatles-esque baroque flourishes.

Released in 1972, ‘Clube da Esquina’ became one of the cornerstone’s of modern Brazilian music; it’s inherent freedom acting in opposition to the ruling junta, speaking eloquently to the country’s disaffected youth while retaining a beautiful musical lexicon.

Lô Borges then released a string of solo records, achieving international recognition in the process. Working prolifically, his star dimmed in the late 90s, before finding a late-career hit in 2003 with ‘Dois Rios‘, a song co-written alongside the Brazilian ska-punk band Skank

Brazilian Composer Lô Borges Has Died | News | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Brazilian musician and composer Lô Borges has died. The news was confirmed through a statement from his family, posted to Lô Borge's official social media

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