Re: Obituaries

[papasmurf]

Naturalist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died at the age of 86

For some strange reason I had an email about that, hours before the media announced it. (The email was from the Yew Tree Preservation Society or something like that.)

[Churchill]

Naturalist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died at the age of 86

[patman post]

I'll miss Clive James. He's been an intelligent background humorist to my life since forever. The first Australian to show me that humour could win arguments and set trends. Along with Barry Humphries, he gave Australia the right to claim humour can be clever and intelligent.

Then along came Rodney Rude...

[Churchill]

I found him very amusing , the death of another celebrity has been announced today Gary Rhodes the Chef died suddenly at the age of 59

[Barry]

R.I.P. Clive James, here's a poem he wrote.



Imminent Catastrophe

 

The imminent catastrophe goes on

Not showing many signs of happening.

The ice at the North Pole that should be gone

By now, is awkwardly still lingering,

And though sometimes the weather is extreme

It seems no more so than when we were young

Who soon will hear no more of this grim theme

Reiterated in the special tongue

Of manufactured fright. Sea Level Rise

Will be here soon and could do such-and-such,

Say tenured pundits with unblinking eyes.

Continuing to not go up by much,

The sea supports the sceptics, but they, too,

Lapse into oratory when they predict

The sure collapse of the alarmist view

Like a house of cards, for they could not have picked

A metaphor less suited to their wish.

A house of cards subsides with just a sigh

And all the cards are still there.

Feverish Talk of apocalypse might, by and by,

Die down, but the deep anguish will persist.

His death, and not the Earth's, is the true fear

That motivates the doomsday fantasist:

There can be no world if he is not here.

 -- Clive James, The Times, 17 March 2016

[Ciaphas]

I noticed that Brian Mawhinney died on Saturday 9th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mawhinney">//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mawhinney

He suggested that because he held Christian conservative ideas about gay marriage that he had somehow become a "swivel eyed loon" and said he would like to "raise a flag for swivel eyed loons"!

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cracking+the+whip.-a0333133993">//https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cracking+the+whip.-a0333133993

Good for him. R.I.P.  :hattip

I believe the technical term is 'homophobe'.

[Churchill]

Although I did not share his political views he came across as a nice down to earth no delusions of grandeur  jovial man, not nasty as unfortunately many poloticians are today 79 is young may he R.I.P

[Major Sinic]

Former health secretary Frank Dobson has died.

Yes and he was a half-decent cove for a Labour MP! Only 79 years old. Mind you I can remember when 79 was a good age to reach!