This is the first year I’ve gone without points.
I could roll the whole damn list over to next year, but I’m trying to improve on it.
Don’t lose hope. I once won the Final Hours award, and those points were the only ones I got all year. Benazir Bhutto got assasinated on 12/27.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! :smack: I inadvertently totally set that up and you intentionally completely knocked it down; well done! ![]()
Junior Johnson has gone to the big NASCAR track in the sky.
Sorry to see Junior Johnson go, but that will get me 12 points on my Themed list
I’m glad his death wasn’t pointless.
If I were still living in Las Vegas, I’d buy you a beer to make up for it. If you get to Atlanta, let me know.
Joseph Segel, founder of QVC, has died at 88.
I hope during his funeral they put him on a slowly rotating plinth.
Ram Dass has found peace at age 88.
Chuck Peddle, who, after Motorola decided that a low-cost processor wouldn’t be lucrative enough, left them with some of his team for MOS technologies and the team created the 6502 processor, which would usher in the home PC and console revolution, dead at 82(ish).
Randy Suess, inventor of the BBS, dead at 74.
Domino, Claudine Auger, has fallen at 78.
ESPN reporter Edward Aschoff has died on his 34th birthday after a long battle with pneumonia.
Cracked.com: Where Aren’t They Now? 25 Overlooked Deaths Of 2019 (Pt. 1)
Did we get all these noted?
“Mean” Jean Overland (76) - Pro Wrestling Announcer/Interviewer
Bob Einstein (76) - Actor and comedian
Bernice Sandler (90) - womens’ rights advocate
Julius Campbell (65) - high school football star (Titans), animal control officer and educator
Betty Ballantine (99) - publisher
King Kong Bundy (61) - professional wrestler
Rafi Eitan (92) - Mossad agent
Lorraine Warren (92) - paranormal investigator
Rachel Held Evans (37) - writer on religion and faith
I.M. Pei (102) - architect
Bill Buckner (69) - 1980s Boston Red Sox baseball player
Frank Lucas (88) - drug kingpin
Baker, Please post a list with all participants - even if they scored no points. I need a participation trophy…
“Mean” Gene Okerlund
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there!
The “Overland” must have been a DYAC! moment because all I did was copy/paste from the Cracked.com article. The “Jean” is entirely their error. ![]()
You keep saying that, for no apparent reason.
You’ve kept saying that for years and years and years.
Tossing it into threads where it doesn’t make the remotest sense, or have the remotest connection.
Like this one.
We get the idea: you have a long-standing infatuation with this phrase.
Can’t speak for everyone, but I sure don’t. Quite the opposite, really.
Just sayin’.
I believe Bo has set up his autocorrect such that whenever he types “lol” it automatically converts to this phrase (which I understand in turn originates from the US version of The Office). There was a whole thread about it years ago when it started, I can’t be bothered to search for it. Ever since it started I’ve just automatically corrected it back in my mind. It see it as an affectation on a par with “Regards, Shodan”.
At least “Regards, Shodan” makes the sense that any letter-style signoff makes. That can’t be said for many of Bo’s uses of the ‘quarry’ phrase. It’s just a non sequitur, and at this point a very tired one indeed.
Ocelots eat applesauce,
RTFirefly
Sleepy Labeef dead at 84.