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I shall kneel in tribute.

I was thinking the same thing, but you beat me to it.

So you posted kneel…before

Zod!

My wife told me about Terence Stamp. I replied that it’s time for god to kneel before Zod.

No, he didn’t die from being set on fire. Singed his mustache though. Dead at 88.
Stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr., the man on fire in a Pink Floyd album, has died. He was 88 years old.
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/man-set-on-fire-for-apink-floyd-album-dies-in-missouri/

Moose through the windshield - not on my bingo card.

It was on mine. That is a going concern in northern Maine where I grew up. You hit a deer you might get some venison out of it. You hit a moose, say good night.

But the møøse are so majestic!

at least the møøse refrained from biting her

The Fark headline for that story was great.

“During his long career, Ronnie Rondell, Jr. broke ribs, arms, wrists and vertebrae, detached his triceps, suffered concussions, had his hips replaced and his spine fused. Oh, and Pink Floyd set his mustache on fire. Now he’s dead. Life well lived.”

That obit leaves out two key points of the Matrix Reloaded job.

  1. He came out of retirement to do it.

  2. The stunt director for the movie was his own son. (Both his sons followed in their father’s footsteps. His other son died at 22 doing a stunt for Jan Michael Vincent for the TV show Airwolf. And that death was from fire.)

Here’s a more in-depth look at his life: https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/ronnie-rondell/

Also on the death front:

Later reports have the Miss Universe contestant encountering an Elk through the windshield rather than a Moose. Perhaps later revisions will have an Odd Fellow as the impactor. :zany_face:

I bet it was a Freemason, not an Elk.

I read or heard somewhere that he said the Pink Floyd album cover was more dangerous than a typical man-on-fire stunt because he was just standing there for several seconds. Usually he was moving or rolling or something.

And now I remember where… I think it was in the documentary “Squaring The Circle” about Hipgnosis, the folks who did the album cover.

From my above link:

It took 15 tries and the final try ended up singeing an eyebrow and his moustache.

Michael Antunes played sax for John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band and also played in the fictional Eddie and the Cruisers band on screen.

I would like to express my feelings about Dobson’s life and achievements but I fear the necessary language required to do so would not be allowed in this forum.

I will just say that I am not saddened to hear of his passing.

I am saddened that we didn’t hear of it sooner…like in 1981.