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It should have been the other way around.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:26 pm Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till before he was lynched, dies at age 88

What an awful legacy. One might charitably say that she was the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement...although if it hadn't been her, someone else would've; the time was just ripe. Still, "I don't think she had a pleasant or happy life." One hopes.

"I am More Than A Wolf Whistle" will be the next Diary of Anne Frank.

sad news.

Gordon Lightfoot. dead at 84




Two songs that will just never get old for me, especially the latter.

Yeh, those two songs do it for me too. RIP

Oh man this one hurts. Gordon Lightfoot is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters. I have most of his albums on vinyl.

I never saw him in concert; the one time I planned to go was during a business trip to Boston, but the trip wound up being canceled so I never got to a show.

I highly recommend the documentary Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind on Amazon Prime. He was an amazing talent and his music has brought me comfort on many a crummy day.

Actually didn't know he was still alive. RIP. Only thing I can say is my sister gave me a cassette of one of his albums...or Dan Folgelberg....and I didn't care for it being a teen into hard rock and metal. Looking back I blame it on youth as I grew to like that style music as well as almost all the rest I hated back then. I still cant remember who's album ir was. Thats my story.

Yeah, sad news He was actually still fairly active performing until health issues in early April that forced him to cancel his shows. But he's had a number of health scares over the years. We now have 3 Canadian Gord Legends up in Heaven; Downie, Lightfoot, and Pinsent.

The last time I saw a video of Gordon he was very gaunt and didn't look good. Still sad to hear.


I love "If You Could Read My Mind."

Why won't Taptalk let me edit my posts? Now it's always going to look like I don't know how to spell "hear."

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"The legend lives on" RIP

Just got word my cousin passed this morning. Not entirely unexpected, as she's been battling cancer on and off for nearly 10 years now. Still, she was younger than me (44) and leaves behind three kids in high school.

That makes 9 immediate family members (mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins) that have passed in the last two years. I'm so very, very tired of funerals.

Oof. That really sucks. Sorry.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Tasteless joke warning:

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:24 am That makes 9 immediate family members (mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins) that have passed in the last two years. I'm so very, very tired of funerals.

That's brutal. I hope you have many years to come free of further grief... You seem to have more-than paid your dues. Damn.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:33 am Tasteless joke warning:

Spoiler:

What happens when you fill the punch card?

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:33 am I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Tasteless joke warning:

Spoiler:

What happens when you fill the punch card?

OK, I lol'd.

Seriously though...fuck cancer. So damn sick and tired of dealing with it.

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:43 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:24 am That makes 9 immediate family members (mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins) that have passed in the last two years. I'm so very, very tired of funerals.

That's brutal. I hope you have many years to come free of further grief... You seem to have more-than paid your dues. Damn.

Are these all nearby relatives? Could it be an environmental thing?

Jeff V wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 11:58 pm

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:43 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:24 am That makes 9 immediate family members (mom, aunts, uncles, and cousins) that have passed in the last two years. I'm so very, very tired of funerals.

That's brutal. I hope you have many years to come free of further grief... You seem to have more-than paid your dues. Damn.

Are these all nearby relatives? Could it be an environmental thing?

Doubt it. Four were simply old age. Two were cancer. Two were COVID. One was diabetes complications.

Mom and cousin were the only ones here locally that passed from cancer. Mom’s was quick and unexpected, but cousin had been fighting it for 12 years.

Lost my cousin I grew up next door with who was just 2 years younger than me a few years ago at 44 to breast cancer. They were told she had beat it but it returned and killed her young. Left her two kids behind. One was still in high school. Fuck cancer.

They were dropping like flies last night.
Cindy Williams
Barbara Walters
Kristie Alley
All of whom I thought were dead.
RIP ladies!

Not sure what you were looking at. Barbara and Kristie died in December....

Edit: And Cindy was in January.

I saw three separate articles on Yahoo news. I just read the headlines. That'll teach me.

I thought maybe you'd borrowed Daehawk's time machine.

Yahoo's been known to recirculate old news. But it's appalling when it's a death.

I saw that too on MSN. That website is crap. They had a headline that Barbara Walters has died and the article is talking about her funeral service.

MSN and Yahoo are trash and should never be visited. I'm done with them.

RIP Clark Gable

RIP Clarabell the Clown, All three of them.

Andy Rourke of the Smiths has died of pancreatic cancer.

I never cared for Morrissey, but the band were unique.

R.I.P

R.I.P. Jim Brown.

I never got to see him play, but I did get to see him burn a bunch of Nazis and their dates alive.

I liked him in Mars Attacks.

AWS260 wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 3:58 pm R.I.P. Jim Brown.

I actually rooted for the Browns when he played, but it seemed they could never win the big one except once. He was a giant among men.

I too, was a big fan of his. RIP

Same here, and for a former NFL player, that's a pretty good run.

A nonny mouse wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 5:49 am Andy Rourke of the Smiths has died of pancreatic cancer.

For years I've been holding out hope of one last "cash in before we retire" Smiths reunion tour.

Sad to hear he's passed and that he spent years battling health issues.

Brian Shul has passed