forever.

I don't know what this is all about. Just make sure to keep this thread under control BC.

If this is about Forever, I think it died a long time ago.

OT kind of. Is that Appeal to Disney thing on MonkeyPeaches dead? There's over 8000 signatures there and there isn't any news about it. Maybe they should give it a RIP too.

I think the appeals website is still on. No new news yet, but I remember that for some time it was discussed (as recent as June?) in the Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB forums. I can't remember if it was in the TRH board or Hero board.

If Disney makes a business decision w/regard to any film...don’t you think they do it with the idea that they will make money?

If they don’t feel they can make money...they won’t do the deal.

Some of these projects won’t get exposure at all if a distributor won’t pick them up. I think if a producer/director can’t let go of some control...they shouldn’t fish it out there.

Last time I saw RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, JC’s voice was over-dubbed by JC in his broken english. That was hilarious. God only knows how well they did the rest of it.

CTHD will be shown on FOX in it’s dubbed version. Although it was carefully done...some say the best job ever...I don’t want to watch it that way...and with SUV, and submarine sandwich ads shoe-horned into every 10 minutes of it. It’s still gonna be on...at least 4 times that way.

RIP to the appeal.

i don't care much about the "general discussion" board on forever anymore. but the cthd section there is surely of redeeming value. i think it's one of the best, if not the best, cthd discussion boards that can be found on the internet. should the pub44 forums on ezboard be eventually gone, i hope at least the cthd board could have shelter somewhere. it'd always serve the purpose of intriguing and bringing insight to new generations of viewers.

That discussion may turn out to be the most unique discussion on the net ever. Who knows what iterations of the CRANE IRON story will make it to screen...probably none with the impact of CTHD. It may be the Citizen Kane of it’s genre.

The film won’t change much...future viewers will profit by our discussions and perhaps be able to add to them.

They should be saved.

We’ll miss you babe.

I hope you’re kicking ass in Hollywood hell right now.

:laugh:

oh, copying a forum with all the threads is easy. with a small tool like teleport pro, all you need to do is click a few clicks and then wait for the whole thing to come down to your local machine, with all the pics and links intact. in fact, you can make an exact mirror site on your computer if you want to. all it takes is time and disk space. but there's no need to do it within the foreseeable future, is there?

Nahw, with ezboard, as long as at least one post is made on the board every 6 or 12 months (?), the board will not be deleted. So the archives are safe. :cool:

The career of James A. Traficant Jr. Also to his hair...or who’s hair it is.

Another great location for CTHD discussions and info is IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/oldboards/wwwthreads.pl?action=list&Board=b0190332). Unfortunately, they just archived it, so the traffic will slow down significantly since the board is now harder to find. :crying:

off topic:
In a nutshell, Traficant (picture (http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/pictures/OH17.gif) with hairpiece) is the former Congressman from Ohio who was indicted and recently sentenced to prison for wrong-doing. A couple of weeks ago, he was kicked out of Congress by his fellow congressmen -- only the sixth person in history to be given the boot. He plans to run again for Congress from prison. :ohman:

I was looking on the IMDb boards and noticed that they revamped it (I think). They added an Asian Film talk there too. It might be a good chance to recruit new members to Films:D

I haven't spent much time there lately but I've noticed that a lot of their movie forums have been archived -- even the active ones. Can't figure out why... http://csc.zhangziyi.info/smilies/confused.gif

Maybe IMDB are only concerned with forums that are discussing current, popular or maybe year old films, but that's only a guess , I hope i'm wrong http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif.

Anyway, Shadow, I wish you good luck in your search for new Zhangster recruits :D.

Z does all the recruiting. I think it will move at her pace. Ok with me. I’d like to see more Asia Asians on this site.

Maybe they don’t care about us here in the U.S. Haha. Maybe it’s hard to understand us. Maybe they don’t think we’re fun.

I’d like to see more Asia Asians on this site... Maybe its hard to understand us. Maybe they don't think we're fun.

You maybe right, BC. But i'm sure that they will come around sometime and appreciate our sense of fun :D.

Well, i mean, we have plenty of cultures within the ZFilms community and as soon as they feel ready (and depending on their grasp of the English language :grin:) more Asia Asians may, hopefully, join us here at ZFilms :bow:.

Well, let's wait til Hero comes out!

I'd like GreenDestinySword to join this forum. I miss that guy..! :(

Maybe he came unZ’d?

Is that why you posted that here??? Hahaha???? Sorry.

GDS isn't me, but I think he's still around. http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif

Enjoy your vacation.

It won’t be the same when you get back.

you shouldn’t a, hadn’t a, oughtn a, shoved so hard. You pushed it over and got banned.

They didn’t really know ya anymore...did they ol son?

Sometimes you just gotta eat some.

Miranda Gaddis. Ashley Pond. Found.

Lost with all hands.

Space exploration is damned dangerous business.

Originally posted by Brainchild
Lost with all hands.

Space exploration is damned dangerous business.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2716369.stm

theres three guys still in the space station.

is there another workable space shuttle?

I think.

I think it’s a 10 billion dollar rocket. The Columbia was the oldest of the fleet.

Originally posted by Brainchild
The Columbia was the oldest of the fleet.

i am always amazed at how thier under belly is a whole set of reflective tiles that are stuck on with super glue.

Its such dangerous business, a brave person and attitude is needed for such venture's. i salute them.

Presently, it seems with space travel, we are vulnerable, as we would have been in the old days of sailing ships. Where setting sail for a promised land, was such a mortal risk, and mostly from nature itself.

With every disaster there is education, lets hope the nasa guys learn what happened quickly, so that it will make future flights safer.

Gaz, according to a CNN report, the Russian Soyuz rocket is still (hopefully) well and it can fetch the three astronauts on the ISS. And the three astronauts are well-stocked; their stock of food will last until after June.

Originally posted by ziyimaniac
the three astronauts are well-stocked; their stock of food will last until after June.

i wonder if they internet access?

and if they get to see Ziyi movies ?

I think their current mission ends in March.

The Russian program isn’t on hold...and they have keys to the lab. I wonder if the Chinese will get a set of keys? I bet they get some keys...especially if they bring the food.

Last time this happened...the shuttles didn’t fly for two years.

I really hope that the chinese space program will be successfull..

after all, how can a future colony in space survive if they can't have chinese food delivery..:bigwink:

From my view, the US Space Program is broken. We contract out everything now to thousands of contractors. Maintaining quality control in such an environment is impossible. Remember, Uncle Sam lives in a "low bid" world now. Everything, including flight safety, is subject to no frills.

When plastic parts are falling off of our rockets and damaging critical flight surfaces, when there is no contingency planning and when the astronauts can't even fix their ship in space, you're looking at a Space Program run by accountants, and not engineers.

I bet they didn't even bring duct tape. Too expensive.....

Baulz, or stonez, or kohones (with the golden arms) appears to be in charge now. Better start smimmin’, boy, your a’slip-sliding into the deep dark place.

It ends with a whimper. Only Z herself can prop them up.

You can’t do that with a car...even if he deserved it.

You are the weakest link...goodby.

What? The Weakest Link lady died? I'm confused... a he or she? It also sounds like some car stunt...:confused:

No, Clara Harris is the lady found guilty of running down her husband with the family car after she found him with the mistress.

oh ok... I saw some of that on the news this morning, but I didn't pay attention.

Well at least the Weakest Link lady is still here to grace us with her kind soul.

needed a trial. I wonder if she lost her driver’s license?

Goodby Mr. Rogers. Goodbye.

His sweater is hanging in the Smithsonian.

Goodbye Mr. Rogers. R.I.P.

He's been doing Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for at least 25 years. I've been watching him since I was younger. He taught the children on educational television very well.

:laugh:

I guess he liked to look young too :laugh:
And...a SPEEDO! I'll remember that too.

I’m sure your mothers loved you.

You can’t kill your family. You just can’t.

favorite FBI agent.

Goodbye Mr. Ness.

I just heard about Gregory Peck's death. He was in one of my favorites- Roman Holiday.

To Kill a Mockingbird.. is one of my favorite movie ..

He will be miss..

too.

The good may die young, some hang around for ever. Brinkley was a good man. He had an enormous impact on the last century.

Like Z, Peck was never better than when he played a bad guy. He was a wicked nazi.

Wasn’t Peck in a film where he played ping pong with Chairman Mao? There was this implanted spy thing in his ear that could be exploded. I think I remember a discussion about taking Chairman Mao out.

Was that real or one of my hallucinations?

I loved that book To Kill A Mockingbird, taught me a lot of stuff, I just don't remember a lot of it. Gregory Peck was a good actor in the movie though, I loved the movie too.

Originally posted by Brainchild
Wasn’t Peck in a film where he played ping pong with Chairman Mao? There was this implanted spy thing in his ear that could be exploded. I think I remember a discussion about taking Chairman Mao out.
Was that real or one of my hallucinations?
THE CHAIRMAN
(THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE WORLD)
USA. 1969.

Director - J. Lee Thompson, Screenplay - Ben Maddow, Based on the Novel by Jay Richard Kennedy, Producer - Mort Abrahams, Photography - John Wilcox, Music - Jerry Goldsmith, Makeup - Trevor Crole Rees, Art Direction - Peter Mullins. Production Company - 20th Century Fox.

Cast:
Gregory Peck (Dr John Hathaway), Arthur Hill (Lieutenant-General Shelby), Francisca Tu (Soong Chu), Keye Luke (Professor Soong Li), Alan Dobie (Air Commander Benson), Eric Young (Yin), Conrad Yama (Chairman Mao), Anne Heywood (Professor Kay Hanna), Zienia Merton (Ting Ling), Ori Levy (Alexander Shertov)
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Plot: The US military show Nobel-prize winning biophysicist Dr John Hathaway evidence that the Chinese have perfected an enzyme that allows wheat to be grown in adverse extremes. They want Hathaway to go into China posing as a defector and obtain the formula. After he agrees, a radio transceiver is planted in his head to relay information - but unknown to him it is also a miniature bomb. But once inside China the plans start to go wrong and Hathaway soon finds himself on the run from the Chinese.

Born together, they lived together as one.

They died giving birth to each other. Individuals.

They were brave and they just wanted to live.

Katherine Hepburn... R.I.P the woman I admire to most as a one strong woman...

he was smooth...real smooth.

Born to a loving mother, they brutalized their way to a early death in a hail of bullits and blood. They earned their place in hell’s hereafter.

Boys, I hardly knew ya, but I didn’t like ya, either. God speed.

Idi Amin Dada.

Dead at last. Probably in hell by now.

My wish for your hell...is an eternity of other damned souls flogging your soul with car axles.

Died of pneumonia. About 27 years. He was an old whale.

Willy is free at last, God almighty, he’s free at last.

I wonder if those Icelanders will eat him?

Willy will get a state funeral. His gigantic carcass will ly in state in the capitol building.... right next to the soy sauce and the wasabi...... :laugh:

Sir William Pickering died in his california home today, aged 93.
an original "rocket man".

a great example of a man who achieved his ( impossible???? ) dreams, and there-on, helped mankind achieve thiers
lived to a ripe ole age

born wellington, nz 1910.

the Royal Airforce pigeon that delived the first nmews of allied success at Normandy beaches on d-day -june 6 1944 - will be recognised as the greatest pigeon to have served its country.

Gustav, a grizzle cosk pigeon, will be honoured in a london exhibition at the imperial war museums 60th anniversart show.

he will get the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of britains highest military honour.

He died when his breeder stepped on him.
R.I.P

Pigeons can live 60+ years? I thought only parrots (?) could live that long.

Gustav did die in peace time, but not long after the war - while is pen was being de-mucked.

our native pigeons can live to ten years,
imperial war museams last alot longer ( can be 60 years or more evidently ):laugh:

Guinness Book of Records founder Norris McWhirter
has died after a suffering a heart attack.He was 78.
He appeared regularly on the classic BBC Children's Show,
Record Breakers.
Apart from his family, he valued the freedom of the individual
and the sovereignty of the Unites Kingdom.
His identical twin brother, Ross also enjoyed the same career
as Mr McWhirter in athletics prior to entering jounalism and
joining BBC as sports commentators.
Ross was assassinated by IRA in 1975.
Mr McWhirter is survived by his wife Tessa,daughter Jane
nad son Alasdair.

R.I.P. Former President Ronald Reagan :( He died of Alzheimer's disease, which he's been coping with for 10 years.

I just found out when I got home from Chinatown. I just freaked out. I think he was the best President of the U.S. that I can remember. Great father, great actor too.

Originally posted by BootlegZiyi
R.I.P. Former President Ronald Reagan :( He died of Alzheimer's disease, which he's been coping with for 10 years.

I just found out when I got home from Chinatown. I just freaked out. I think he was the best President of the U.S. that I can remember. Great father, great actor too.

Ditto. He single handedly ended the cold war.

Ray Charles.

Say it ain’t so!

Originally posted by Brainchild
Ray Charles.

Say it ain’t so!

I'm really said for him... :(

Originally posted by echoz
I'm really sad for him... :(

me too, i have the vinyl out.:cool:
i'll do tomorrows concert with Ray Charles,
in mind
in heart.......:crying:

I wonder if some corpses are deader than others.

Crossing the Bar

by Alfred Tennyson

Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have cross'd the bar.


Ronald Reagan
1911-2004

Marlon Brando, age 80.

Originally posted by Bituin
Marlon Brando, age 80.

I coulda been a contenda!!!!!!

"...I coulda been somebody!"

Well, he was.

I think Brando's most noted and well remembered movies included The Godfather. Hands down. One of my first films I saw with Brando was "A Streetcar Named Desire".

"Stella!!!"

A real wild one, he was.

I guess the Lord made him an offer he couldn't refuse. (Pardon the blasphemy, heh.)

Oh no, Jerry Goldsmith... Too much a loss.

The oldest panda raised in captivity has died in a zoo in eastern China at the age of 33, according to China's official Xinhua news agency.
Peipei died on 13 August when her "organs simply failed", Xinhua reported. She was said to be the equivalent of 100 in human years.

The news came as China announced it was building a giant panda protection zone in the south-west of the country.

It is hoped the new reserve will encourage the animals to breed.


Pandas rarely breed in captivity and are endangered in the wild.

The average span of the Giant Panda is 25-30 years.

An official at a nature reserve in Baoxing country, in Sichuan province, said the new zone would have an area of 1,200 sq km and would cost 180m yuan (about $21.8m).

"Expansion of protection zones will play a vital role in avoiding inbreeding and helping increase the number of the rare creatures," he was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

In June, China announced the results of the first comprehensive survey of its wild panda population.

This showed there were an estimated 1,600 of the creatures left in the wild, 40% more than previous figures suggested.

Correspondents warned that the numbers might reflect the fact that the survey was so thorough, rather than a genuine recovery.

A further 161 pandas were reported to be living in captivity.


thank you BBC, due credit noted

That's too bad... :(

I just came across the news that she died.

She was one of my favorite female singers back when I was a teen. Most of her songs that I ever listened to were from the album Self Control. Several became my favorites since. The Lucky One, Self Control, Ti Amo, With Every Beat of My Heart ... are part of the young, restless and often impetuous days of the 80's.

Don't know why, but of all the singers that I like, she felt close. At lease for the moment.

I often get nostalgic for singers now taking that big dirt nap. She had a voice like velvet - Karen Carpenter - RIP.

http://atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu/quest/images/Karen5.jpg

What happened to Laura? I remember her.

They have been retired.

With Bill in recovery, we don’t have to worry about him making a move on Z whilst she’s here in the States.

Watching the World Music Awards...

I can see where these guys have been inbreeding so long...their DNA has straightened out. They all look alike, talk alike, and I can’t smell them...but I bet they smell the same.

Avril...you SUCK!!!

Ah well said BC. I don't really like the modern rock and roll stuff they put on the radio, especially pop music. Not everyone likes pop music, like for instance Avril Lavigne. I don't like her music, I don't even think she's rock at all. Sometimes I wonder what happened to the REAL rock n' roll.

One word "Jet". They are the best new REAL rock band out right now. Some others are Women: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sahara Hot Nights, and The Donnas.

Robreed3...

You should listen to Hang On the Box :D

God, Avril's annoying. *strangles*

I saw her in concert and she was TERRIBLE. Her jokes are so lame.

but I think she’d bite my hand...give me skater-rabies.

That was her first time in a dress. She looked like an blond Wednesday Adams. Thursday Adams.

NO, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don’t sell me something I can get for free!!!

My biggest pet peeve in music right now is so-called "Punk" music. I hate that crap. Green Day are okay, but they are not, and I repeat are not Punk. The Clash, Sex Pistols, and Ramones are Punk.

That Ramone guy died yesterday. Prostate cancer...not drugs. RIP.

He was true.

Which one Tommy or Jonny?:sigh:

Jonny. The boss.

If he owes you money...I think he was cremated today.

Originally posted by Brainchild
Jonny. The boss.


king of the threee chord guitar riff...................

interesting thing, That Tommy is the only living member..........
this is at complete odds with the template for rock-dom survival as preseneted by spinal tap. Duefully so, often the drummer is in the fitest and maybe the healthiest person in the band.

I love the Ramones. There's only one band member left.
Speaking of punk, Good Charlotte is NOT punk. I don't classify a lot of modern rock bands as punk if they have fast beats.

I would have said R.I.P. to Country music, but a few people are trying to resussitate it back to life: Grechen Willson, Big and Rich, and Blake Shelton to name a few.
BTW I agree with BootlegZiyi, Good Charlet are definatly not punk.

if this is late correct me.. Okey!

I just read that Laura Branigan is passed away too.. *Rest In peace*.. she is a singer on the 80's..

Ray Traylor a.k.a. Big Boss Man.
Being a pro wrestling fan for years, I am a little saddened to hear that he died.:sigh:

He never did get any respect, but he was a very funny man.

Yeah, he was pretty good, both in standup and in the movies.
Although a lot of his material was PG-13 or R rated.

I especially liked the movie back in the 80s, Back To School.

Jay Leno just showed a montage of some of his stuff on Tonight Show over the years.

"My wife even talks to me sometimes during sex. Matter of fact, she called me from a motel room just last night."

I'm on a new diet now. The Viagra and Prune Juice Diet. I tell ya, most of the time I don't know if I'm coming or going'! "

it's really sad that Christopher Reeve passed away.. He is my favorites and had crush on him when I was in second year high school..


* Rest in Peace.. Superman *.. :(

Is that true? He was such an inspiration to lots of people.:bow:

I feel sad for Dana and the rest of the family, but not for him. He is now free from his paralyzed body and can do things he could never do in his mortal body. I suspect CR is happier than ever now.

By Jim Leckrone due credt noted, thanks reuters

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at a crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday.

Among the dead was "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, guitarist for the band Damageplan, who witnesses said appeared to have been singled out by the gunman and shot several times at close range.

Some witnesses told police the 25-year-old gunman, Nathan Gale of nearby Marysville, Ohio, shouted, "You broke up Pantera" before gunning down Abbott and firing at other band members and the crowd in the Wednesday night shooting.

Pantera was a hot Grammy-nominated 'thrash' metal band in the mid-1990s that Abbott, 38, and his brother, drummer Vinnie (Paul) Abbott, formed in the 1980s. The group, from Texas, had a bitter breakup after their last album in 2000, and the Abbotts formed Damageplan, which was on tour when the shooting happened.

"There was no connection between (Gale) and the band, at least formally. We do not know the motive and maybe never will. He is dead," Columbus Police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mall told reporters outside the club, the Alrosa Villa.

Gale fired more than a dozen shots both at the band and the crowd of roughly 200 patrons, at one point stopping to reload his handgun with an ammunition clip, police said.

A police officer confronted Gale as he held a hostage in a headlock and was apparently attempting to flee, Mall said. The officer, James Niggemeyer, killed Gale as the hostage, who was not harmed, struggled to get out of the way.

Yeah, that's all over the news today. Man, all I can say is - that's some Tough Crowd.

Reminds me of that tune - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player.

knock’n on heaven’s door. Knock, knock, knock’n on heaven’s door.

So it goes in America. We’re fully loaded over here and even have at least one extra clip.

The gunman may get a grammy for his efforts.

I can't believe it's that easy to get on stage and murder someone in the states.

Having met Darrell on two seperate occasions I'm disgusted that he was terminated so easily.

Go the NRA!! I guess they still think that it's the musicians that cause the deaths with evocative lyrics and not the fact that anyone and everyone owns a gun...

There are 250 million handguns in the U.S. that we know about. Who knows how many more.

Just try to get them away. We murdered the prince of rock & roll over here. You think one lousy head-banger is going to move anyone to tears? We are a nation of natural born killers.

Stop whining and start pack’n.

Originally posted by Brainchild
Stop whining and start pack’n.

its sad stuff, but i hope it doesn't mean that there could be security packing guns at concerts. ( snipers etc )
theres lots of bands/concerts and this doesn't seem to be a regular occurance
I remain hopeful that it is an isolated incident of insanity
and not a sign or start to devolve the enjoyment or relaxation of concert going.

I only met him once, nice dude, definately one of the most energetic people i'd met/seen on stage............definately the loudest :clap:

metal detectors and other security screening. God knows why they wouldn’t have that sort of security at a rock concert. But they didn’t.

Maybe there wasn’t a large enough crowd. Anyhow...there probably will be metal detectors from now on. That kind of security costs more.

We just don’t see an occasional shoot ’em up as that big a problem. There’s a lot of blather about tightening up this and restricting that...but when it gets to the amendments...forget it. NRA is among the most powerful lobby’s working.

If everyone at that concert had a handgun...probably nobody would have got shot....or everybody.

This could never happen in Virginia, unless the shooter intended to commit suicide by acute lead poisoning in a blaze of glory. He would find his crime answered almost immediately, in spades.

A lot of people pack heat around here, including me, 'cause open carry is legal, and CCWs are very common. Better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it.

Apparently the gun man was angry at Darrell because the gun man thought that it was Darrell's fault that Pantera broke up.

... how stupid :shake:

Originally posted by Virgule
A lot of people pack heat around here, including me, 'cause open carry is legal, and CCWs are very common. Better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it. What kind of gun does Mrs. Virg carry?

Originally posted by GROVER
What kind of gun does Mrs. Virg carry?

She has two. Her normal piece is a Rossi 877 stainless 6 shot snub-nose. Her carry weapon is a Walthers.

I try to avoid her during PMS days. :D LOL

Something like this would be extremely unlikely to happen in Holland. Because we actually do have gun laws, we don't have no fucking NRA and thank God we never had a sick psycho like John Ashcroft in our government.

If I know somebody has one...I avoid them reflexively. I glide through crowds a quietly as possible cuz I know some of those folks have guns.

I don’t want any of that kind of trouble and I advertise that fact.

Also, really a lot of drug people have them. Meth addticts are crazy. My only defense is to run like hell and hope they can’t shoot straight, or hide behind fat people or women and children.

At midnight on New Years Eve...people come out of their houses and shoot into the air like Arabs. Lots of them.

Originally posted by Poisonthewell
... Because we actually do have gun laws, we don't have no fucking NRA and thank God we never had a sick psycho like John Ashcroft in our government.
You can walk into any Walmart and you can pick up a rifle along with your new Bible. ..

Since the republicans are so good in translating the Bible (according to their own needs) .. and amending constitutions ..
I think they should amend the bible.. at least the 10 commandments, add just one more..
"Thou Shall not shoot they neighbor, nor they neighbors wife, kids or dogs"..

Originally posted by GROVER
You can walk into any Walmart and you can pick up a rifle along with your new Bible. ..

Since the republicans are so good in translating the Bible (according to their own needs) .. and amending constitutions ..
I think they should amend the bible.. at least the 10 commandments, add just one more..
"Thou Shall not shoot they neighbor, nor they neighbors wife, kids or dogs"..

Yes, as a Republican, I've amended the Bible at least three times and the Constitution twice. :grin:

Originally posted by Poisonthewell
Something like this would be extremely unlikely to happen in Holland. Because we actually do have gun laws, we don't have no fucking NRA and thank God we never had a sick psycho like John Ashcroft in our government.

Yo, chill out dude! :cool: We have all kinds of members here, and believe it or not, they all don't think like you. Let us not provocate discord amongst the citizenry of the Republic of Ziyi. You've made your point, we know where you're at, please drop it.

Originally posted by Virgule
Yo, chill out dude! :cool: We have all kinds of members here, and believe it or not, they all don't think like you. Let us not provocate discord amongst the citizenry of the Republic of Ziyi. You've made your point, we know where you're at, please drop it.

Yeah alright sorry lol. I just tend to get political a lot. And when I get political, I always get pissed off. But sure, I'll just 'fan my flames of discontent' someplace else :grin: . Z is above politics lol

Wow. Do I have an appreciation for the power of water now!!!

The Indonesian earthquake was so terrific, it moved the entire island of Indonesia 18 ft. south of its original position.

44,000 dead and counting from the resulting tidal waves. After everything that’s happened this year, the most memorable images from this year...will be from this week. Row and rows and rows of the drowned dead. And vistas of devastated wreckage. What a catastrophe.

I feel bad to those survived but are all homeless now :sigh:

It's kinda freaky how it happened exactly one year to the day after the Bam earthquake.

Also freaky is how a man from my town (a 2,500 population Dutch 'countryside' town that is) was actually there deepsea diving off the coast of Thailand when it happened. The waves just went right over his head. He survived, so that's good. It's extremely tragical of course that 44, 000 did not.

Apparently Jet Li was on site:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=762&e=4&u=/ap/20041228/ap_en_mo/li_quake_injury

that’s the first documented case of kung fu actually being prooved useful. In real life, he kicked his way out of a tidal wave, saving him and his daughter.

Reads better than most Hong Kong chop-socky sagas.

Good work, Jetster. I heard you were a goner. Nice to hear you’re alive and kick’n.

Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning, I was up watching television. What was I watching? A Discovery Channel Special on "The End Of The World". In it, they discussed Tsunamis.

WEIRD.

Jackie Chan has given $64,000 and Chow Yun Fat $25,000 for the tsunami relief efforts in Asia.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/009200412291616.htm

He will be missed. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&e=2&u=/ap/obit_jerry_orbach

R.I.P. Artie Shaw

Zhao Ziyang died on monday. He was the leader of the Communist party from 1987 til 1989, when he tried to give the Chinese people more democratic breathing room and to diminish the influence of the party on people's lives. He was found 'too capitalist' by his own party, and was dismissed on the brink of the student demonstrations/massacre. RIP

He’s still dead, but I hope he’s doing well.

I watched a program about Elvis last night on PBS, and it got me thinking. I hope he didn’t go to hell, and I hope he’s enjoying his here-after.

Elvis didn't go to hell. Elvis is God :grin:

Elvis did a lot of Gospel music before, and during, his mainstream years. The Man Upstairs would be pleased.

Johnny Carson 1925-2005

Ya think an angel at the pearly gates Sunday yelled out "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!!!" ?

Hunter S. Thompson, aka the Great Gonzo

is gone..........took his own life.......

gone.......yeah....don't know why

suicide is painless



"Hunter S. Thompson found dead

LOS ANGELES: Hunter S. Thompson, a renegade journalist whose "gonzo" style threw out any pretence at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, has fatally shot himself at his Colorado home. He was 67. "

he missed what he was shooting at, and hit himself a mortal blow.

No need of a body-bag and bury him standing up.

I swear this is the only forum I frequent that has a running obituary thread. :cool:

I've nothing to contribute right now, fortunately.

Going. Going. Going....

(BC twiddling his thumbs....waiting. Watching. Anticipating.)

hay BC, have you ever worked as an undertaker?

I wouldn’t get that job. Wouldn’t want it either.

Like an old tire, he’s losing his traction fast.

Undertaker. HA.

Dead end job.

One thing though, job security is unmatched.

CG

Heaven won’t take him, and hell doesn’t want him.

He’s stuck in the middle...

this day 15th march 44BC

Julius Ceaser was murdered by a rebellious Group led By His old mate, Brutus.

Karma is a funny thing................

When Brutus and co-conspirator Cassius were cornered at Phillipi, by Marc Anthony's forces. Cassius committed suicide, reportedly with the same dagger that he used on Caesar.

Brutus also killed himself with his own sword.

Originally posted by Gaz
this day 15th march 44BC

Julius Ceaser was murdered by a rebellious Group led By His old mate, Brutus.

Karma is a funny thing................

When Brutus and co-conspirator Cassius were cornered at Phillipi, by Marc Anthony's forces. Cassius committed suicide, reportedly with the same dagger that he used on Caesar.

Brutus also killed himself with his own sword.


I thought Brutus met his end at the hands of Popeye? :grin: E Brutus, Eat Spinach.

Originally posted by Virgule
Spinach.

Spinach + Sword = Green destiny:D

Li Mu Bi.

John DeLorean, has died at the age of 80 , after suffering a stroke.

One of the must do's in life.................own a Delorean DMC-12.
gullwinged doors, 2.8litre flat 6, stainless steel body..........
was kinda perfect for The Back to the future Trilogy.
through that..............his name is immortal.

I think John will be buried in his, so that’s one less.

One of the most creative auto manufacturing financiers ever.

theres a nice one for sale here. It would be kinda cool to see the cuteone zooming around in one of those things.

delorean dated 22mar05 (http://www.dupontregistry.com/search/srDetails.asp?itemid=195489&sessionkey={F33C09E4-705F-464A-8A04-CC6D928B611C})

I drove one about 10 years ago, a bit small, not very fast, but a kinda nostalgic..........even then. felt like a fiat x19 but with a hard top and mercedes doors...........looking at it made me thing of buck rodgers=starfighter thingy's ...........almost expected that little robot 'biddly biddly" to apear.

The coffin fits and he’s in it.

RIP.

If the coffin fits, you must convict. I wonder how far OJ got finding the "real" killers.

:hmmm: i wonder what will happen to his
Rolls-Royce with the plate "JC JR" .

ironic if it ends up in the same collection as the white ferrari 328

Originally posted by Virgule
If the coffin fits, you must convict. I wonder how far OJ got finding the "real" killers.

According to political comedian Mark Russell, O.J. has been searching far and wide the last ten years for the "Real killer" at golf courses all across the country.

I'd say he finds the "Real killer" every time he looks in the mirror.

With all the scumbags Cochran helped put back on the streets again and again over the years, why do I get the feeling he didn't make it to the pearly gates?

Pope John Paul II may be on this list tomorrow.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050331/wl_afp/popehealthcondition_050331220312

Pope John Paul II finally died this morning.

Pope John Paul II has suffered enough physically and emotionally. Now he may rest for eternity.

May his legacy lives on. He is a remarkable man. Hope the next Pope would continue having the same influential to the globe as Pope John Paul II was.

Good bye, Pope John Paul... :crying:

Originally posted by tinababy
Good bye, Pope John Paul... :crying:

aka Juan Pablo in the Hispanic world.

Perhaps the passing of this esteemed man of God will make people give more thought to their own lives and their place in eternity. We take so much for granted everyday assuming life will go on as it always has for us, and then we come down with Parkinson's Disease or lung cancer as Peter Jennings was recently diagnosed with.

I lost my dad to lung cancer going on 7 years ago. Like Jennings, he hadn't smoked in over 20 years either, although, like Jennings, he may well have gotten it from what's called Second Hand smoke, that is breathing in the smoke of everyone else at his favorite diner he and friends visited every morning for coffee. In a lot of "greasy spoon" type diners and most bars, there are no "Smoking or Non-Smoking" areas. Just the thick clouds of nicotene and many other carcinogens from the smoke-filled rooms.

At any rate, when we hear of disease, war, and tsunamis, we're forced to consider our own mortality instead of being in denial mode. Hopefully those times will be spent wisely with an eye on what awaits beyond our existence in this realm. And what choices we must make.

Monaco's Prince Rainier III, Europe's longest reigning monarch, has died at the age of 81 after a battle with lung, heart and kidney problems, his palace says.

Albert has taken over his fathers royal duties

heres Albert sitting next to the cuteone at the last-most Rose Ball.

http://www.ziyifilms.com/zpost/data/513/305roseball-Phil_Ziyi.jpg

He most have been a tough old bird if it took all of that and he STILL lived to be 81.

"Greeeen Acres is the place to be. Faaaaaarm living is the life for me..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_albert

I had no idea he was 99. I knew he was getting up there, but not that old.

Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, dies .He was 82.

he was quite an inventior too

"He was more or less a self-taught renaissance man," he said

Elvis Presley's Death on 16 August 1977 - annniversay...........

Robert Moog died y/day at 71.

he invented the loveable versatile light and compact synthesiser.

dead at 78.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050823/ap_en_mo/obit_brock_peters

West Nile Fever will be running the city in a week. What’s left of it.

Not one mention of Baghdad or Iraq on the NBC news tonight. We got to have our priorities.

I visited New Orleans twice recently. What a place. Not like America proper at all. More like old-time America...or a place in the Bahamas. New Orleans is underwater tonight and probably for the rest of the week. Even the voodoo won’t keep the mosquitos away. Probably the dead will rise and float away.

If they rebuild it...I hope they rebuild it on higher ground.

What am I talking about? They’ll rebuild. In the same damn place probably.

Nawlins, the Big Breasy.

Don Adams...........Agent (86 ) Maxwell Smart....."sorry about that chief" "would you beleave....." aged 82.......RIP


i loved that program when i was Kid

A minute of silence in the Cone Of Silence........

Originally posted by Virgule
A minute of silence in the Cone Of Silence........

and turn off our shoes:D

Ronnie Barker dies at 76

October 05, 2005
LONDON: British comedian Ronnie Barker has died at his home after a long illness.

The TV legend, who, with the diminutive Ronnie Corbett, starred in the TV hit The Two Ronnies, was 76.

His agent, Rosalind Chatto, said Barker died on Monday afternoon after a long period of heart trouble. His wife, Joy Tubb, was with him.

Barker was one of the most versatile and successful comic actors of his generation. His more memorable lines included:

* The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He will now be known as the Lord of the Flies.

* The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

* In a packed program tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

And his most famous sign off line...

"And it's goodnight from him. Goodnight!"

Great innings, and we're missing his jocularity already :(

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/06/python.jpg

A four-metre python exploded when it tried to swallow a two-metre alligator whole in Florida.
Scientists stumbled upon the gory remains in the Everglades last week.
Scientists have documented four encounters between the giant snakes and alligators in the last three years. The encroachment of Burmese pythons into the Everglades could threaten an $8 billion restoration project and endanger smaller species, said Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor.
The Asian python population has swelled over the past 20 years after owners dumped pet snakes they no longer wanted in the Everglades.
"Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild. And here it's happened for the fourth time," Professor Mazzotti said. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.
"They were probably evenly matched in size," Professor Mazzotti said of the latest battle. "If the python got a good grip on the alligator before the alligator got a good grip on him, he could win."
While the gator may have been injured before the battle began, wounds were found on it that apparently were not caused by python bites.
Pofessor Mazzotti believes it was alive when the battle began. And it may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it, leading to the blow-up.
The python was found with the gator's hindquarters protruding from its midsection. Its stomach still surrounded the alligator's head, shoulders, and forelimbs. The remains were discovered and photographed by helicopter pilot and wildlife researcher Michael Barron.
The incident has alerted biologists to new potential dangers from Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Not only can the python kill other reptiles, the snakes will also eat otters, squirrels, endangered woodstorks and sparrows.
While there are thousands of alligators in the Everglades, Joe Wasilewski, a wildlife biologist and crocodile tracker, said it was unknown how many pythons there were.
"We need to set traps and do a proper survey of the snakes," he said. At least 150 have been captured in the last two years.
The problem arises when people buy pets they are not prepared to care for - and a reproducing snake can have as many as 100 hatchlings.
AP

This is not anything an Extra Strength Tums couldn't fix. :grin: Remember, this is what happens when you don't chew your food properly. Jeesh, talk about getting ripped a new one.......

eeeeewwwww .... grossss :thud:

all we need now is some okra,http://soeweb.syr.edu/Faculty/Spector/personal/okra.jpg leftovers, ........we have ourselves a Gumbo.:D

lets not forget the Southern comfort........for inspiration


http://www.beerliquors.com/images/graphic/spiritSouthernComfort.jpg

Originally posted by Gaz
all we need now is some okra,http://soeweb.syr.edu/Faculty/Spector/personal/okra.jpg leftovers, ........we have ourselves a Gumbo.:D

lets not forget the Southern comfort........for inspiration


http://www.beerliquors.com/images/graphic/spiritSouthernComfort.jpg

I've driven through the Everglades many times. They don't call it Alligator Alley for nothing. There are lots of places where you can pick up an Alligator Burger as a local delicacy. Tastes like chicken. I think I'll pass the next time I'm down there. :grin:

Guess they'll have a new item on the menu -> python dogs ;)

Python could be cooked and sold commercially
it would be best cooked in the earth.
heated up rocks buried in the earth.
as aboriginals ( bush tucka ) or Moari's ( hangi ) cook.

the idea is to make a halo out of the snake. keeping the creature essentually intact but if you so wish you can flip off the head and disembowel it. (this can be used as bait for catching more snakes )
wrap it together with natural stuff or string.
this way the the meat remains moiste and full of nutrition.
the skin peals away easy and the meat falls away form the bone.

if you were real slick.............
you could de-bone it
and serve it in a giant bagel

I wonder what Python meat is like? Is it like bottom round, turtle meat, squid, or gaskets from a plumbing project? Seems like it could be really tough.

I would cut it into 9” pieces.

Definitely, I’d skin it and gut it. I’d put one roast into a crock pot or Dutch oven and tightly wrap and freeze the other 30 pieces.

I guess I’d pot-roast that 9” section for about 12 hours in a broth of white wine, diced tomato, garlic, onion, celery root, and oregano. I might add some habenero pepper to that, but just a little.

Serve it with cold microbrew beer, sourdough bread, and spinach salad. I serve pickled daikon on the side.

Just an experiment. Python could go really wrong, I think.

An autopsy was done on the Alligator that proved it had eaten at least 200 pounds of Mexican Refried Beans prior to being devoured by the Python.

Well, you know the rest........

The Python´s last thoughts before she eats the Alligator:" Size doesn´t matter." :grin:

http://www.accessmontgomery.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051025/NEWS/510250335/1001

92 years old...........

the ripple effect........one simple act as sitting down on a bus
changed the world.

Originally posted by Gaz
92 years old...........

the ripple effect........one simple act as sitting down on a bus
changed the world.

So true. History is often made when two or more people interact. Ya gotta wonder what happened to the guy that told her to get out of that seat and move to the back of the bus. In the tourmobile of history, that guy was the one ending up in the back of the bus. Waaaaaaay, way back. LOL.

John lennnon...........this day (8th dec ) 1988.

Richard Pryer died today.

He went through a lot, but I didn’t think he was as funny as his white brother Gene Wilder.

So long, bro. Lotta comics cashing in lately.

"You know, I've noticed something. If you are on fire, people will get out of your way."

Richard Pryor:
1940-2005.

Originally posted by MarkR
Richard Pryor:
1940-2005.

My favourite.....

"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Originally posted by Gaz
My favourite.....

"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Good one! I like that one too. :D

Good point.

Eugene (Gene) McCarthy. He was 89.

He ran and ran and ran, but never became President. He had Parkinson’s.

End of the road, Stan.

I believe he fixed what was broke. It’s what he did while he was broke that got him where he is today. It’s by turning and turning we come round right.

Paid in full.

Bon chancé, and goodnight.

Re: Tookie Williams.

I won't be getting all weepy over this, that's for #### sure!

Williams brutally murdered a man and never fully admitted guilt or showed any real remorse. While he became the most popular and recent cause celebre "dahhhhhliiiiing" and protesting the execution was the hip or trendy thing to do, those same supporters were conveniently overlooking the fact that Williams had frequently started fights with other inmates and with the guards while at San Quentin. The Nobel organization which is often as politically motivated as any other in the world, chose to make him a rallying point in their opposition against the death penalty by giving him a prize for writing books against gang violence.

And that appears to be the only good thing Williams ever did. But that doesn't take anything away from his guilt. Everyone has to take responsibilities in life for their actions. He had to pay the price. That's justice.

This dispecable person shouldn't even be mentioned here:hmmm:

There's no resting where he will be going...that Noble Peace prize is a joke if he was considered :shake:

We should be remembering the victims and their familes:

RIP to the victims:



Yen-Yi Yang 76
Tsai-Shai Yang 63
Yee-Chen Lin 43
Albert Lewis Owens 62

Justice was served today after 26 years to long....

Couldn't have said it better Jin! Well put.

And yes, A BIG Rest In Peace to the REAL victims!

comes around.

Ya, he hot his. We all get ours.

There are things in life more frightening than death. Trust me on this.

Death it self isn't frightening, its what comes after death that terrifies people.

The execution was only beginning of his suffering...

People just don't think that they "get whats coming to them" or "will all get it eventually".

The last original member of the famous Carter singing family:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060123/ap_en_mu/obit_carter

June Carter Cash and Deanna Carter are their living descendants. Their dad walked the line.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/coretta_scott_king

Originally posted by MarkR
RIP Coretta Scott King
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/coretta_scott_king

if there is equality among the dead? Maybe it don’t matter, but if it does...who’s ever in charge of the dead has now got his hands full.

Morgan. She was a sweet little buff & white dog and it’s amazing how she become attached. She was 12 years-old and died of a ruptured gall-bladder.

Originally posted by Brainchild
Morgan. She was a sweet little buff & white dog and it’s amazing how she become attached. She was 12 years-old and died of a ruptured gall-bladder.

What did I tell you about uttering Ziyi's name correctly.......

Sorry for your lost Jar jar .. :hug:

Originally posted by joy
Sorry for your lost Jar jar .. :hug:

obits thread with Coretta King.

Originally posted by Virgule
What did I tell you about uttering Ziyi's name correctly.......

Uhhh, you mean "incorrectly" don't you?

At any rate, were you trying to make a joke out of that, when Brainchild's beloved pet has died? Trying to figure out what you meant by that Virgule.
:confused: :hmmm:

My dog is getting pretty old too (like 10-12 years old).
Sorry to hear about her.

This thread was intended as a catch-all for passings of note. That was one of mine. I was just trying to give Morgan some class.

There’s always room in here.

Am sad to hear about your loss BC.:crying:
Will you be looking to replace Morgan?

Maybe. For me, it seems like a huge responsibility. Morgan had a better life than most of the people in the world. I didn’t know how important she was till she was gone. It was like a door slamming.

Maybe I should be more responsible and adopt a human?

Originally posted by Brainchild
Maybe. For me, it seems like a huge responsibility. Morgan had a better life than most of the people in the world.

My jarjar what is you remember most of Morgan?
why was named Morgan?

maybe you could adopts Z?

Sorry for your loss, BC
I know , what it means, when your pet dies. I had a little kitten, a long time before when I was younger. :crying:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2337202

Say it isn’t so.

John Madden is next. Choked on a turken leg, next year on NBC.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060225/114091812000.html

Typed while whistling the Andy Griffith Show theme song.

Originally posted by MarkR
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060225/114091812000.html

Mayberry will never recover......

Barney is in the planning stage. Be interesting to see if it can be erected.

The old NIGHT STALKER.

No mo Kolchak.:(

Originally posted by MarkR
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060225/114091812000.html

Typed while whistling the Andy Griffith Show theme song.



"I can't sing. It makes me sad that I can't sing or dance well enough to be in a musical, but I'm just not talented in that way," he lamented. "It's one of my weaknesses."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187035,00.html

Gordon Parks.

Also the first major black film director.

Get down, Shaft!!

Originally posted by Brainchild
Gordon Parks.

Also the first major black film director.

Get down, Shaft!!

And Time/Life magazine photographer. A photojournalist and fashion photographer. Plus a poet and author.

Can ya dig it?

Medal of Honor recipient:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/ap_on_re_us/obit_bleak

thats was interesting about the criteria to become a field medic.

criteria "tall and strong"

Gene Pitney dies on tour (thanks reuters, due credit noted )
06 April 2006



LONDON: American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, has died while on tour in Cardiff, his agent said.
Jene Levy said Pitney, 65, was found dead on Wednesday morning in the Welsh capital, where he had given a concert the previous night that won him a standing ovation.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
South Wales police said they had been called to a hotel on Wednesday morning and that the death was not being treated as suspicious.
Pitney, who had a string of hit records as well as writing songs recorded by other stars, toured regularly throughout his long career and was in the middle of a 23-show tour of Britain.
Pitney's agent said his wife Lynne had been told of his death. Pitney is also survived by three sons: David, Todd and Chris.
Tour manager James Kelly was with Pitney on Tuesday night and said he was stunned by the singer's death.
"I've never seen him so well," he said. "He was absolutely buzzing and full of life."
He said Pitney had been found fully clothed on his hotel bed as if he had just lain down for a rest after the show.
Born on February 17, 1941 in Hartford, Connecticut, Pitney initially had no real ambition to be a singer. According to his official Web site, as a boy he was more at home collecting stamps and coins, trapping mink and muskrat and experimenting with electronics.
But music gradually began to take over his life and he formed a band while a student at Rockville High School.
After high school, Pitney teamed up with singer Ginny Arnell and recorded for Decca as Jamie & June.
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His initial successes came when other musicians recorded his songs and he concentrated on writing rather than performing.
Roy Orbison released Today's Teardrops as the B-side of his hit single Blue Angel in 1960, while Rubber Ball became a million-seller hit for American artist Bobby Vee and Britain's Marty Wilde.
Pitney then began to record his own songs, working with producer Phil Spector and scoring his first American top 20 hit with the title song from the movie Town Without Pity.
Another movie theme, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance gave him another hit but it was the 1963 release of 24 Hours from Tulsa that brought him worldwide fame.
Pitney became friendly with the Rolling Stones and his endorsement of the British rock group in the United States is credited with helping them break through there.
Stones' stars Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote That Girl Belongs to Yesterday, which was a hit for Pitney on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pitney had 16 top 40 songs in the United States from 1961 to 1968, and 40 hit songs in Britain up to 1974.
He enjoyed a revival in Britain in 1990 when his duet with Marc Almond Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart reached number one.

Many believed Harriet was over 176 years old. One of the oldest of all the living creatures. Not any more. Harriet actually knew and was a pet of the late Charles Darwin. Yes, THE Charles Darwin. She was just a little turtle back then.

Recently, Harriet was living at Steve The Crocodile Hunter’s reserve in Australia. One has to wonder if why she died. Seems like if a turtle can live to be 176, then it shouldn’t be outrageous to think with some care she could have made it to 200, or even more. I wonder if Steve was rough-housing with her and cracked her shell or something. I don’t necessarily trust that guy.

Originally posted by Brainchild
. She was just a little turtle back then.

.

and did you know..............

For over a century, Harriet was actually mistaken as a male,( a bloke - not a sheela)
hence was originally named Harry.

Crikey!!

Syd Barrett, the troubled founding member of Pink Floyd, has died aged 60, after living the life of a recluse for the last 30 years.

he kick started what was to become a phenominia.........

they reckon......wish you were here was writtenm for/about him

" And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"

Maybe he's gone up to that great gig in the sky.

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be afraid of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."

Dead at 83.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060718/ap_en_ot/obit_spillane_25

For some reason when I heard this, I thought they were talking about MC Hammer. I guess I got him mixed up with Mike Hammer.

Can’t touch that.

PA: QUITO: The world's oldest person, a 116-year-old Ecuadorean woman who drank donkey milk for health, died on Sunday less than a month before her birthday, her relatives told local newspapers.


Maria Esther de Capovilla was declared the world's oldest person in December by Guinness World Records, taking the title from a US woman.

Capovilla was born in Guayaquil in western Ecuador on September 14, 1889, the same year that Adolf Hitler was born and the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated, and lived in a ritzy neighbourhood with her daughter-in-law and son.

Relatives attributed her astonishingly long life to regular doses of donkey's or goat's milk, glasses of wine and a quiet life dedicated to her family.

Her eyesight was good up to the end and she never needed glasses, they said.

As a girl at the turn of the century, Capovilla liked to go to parties but never drank alcohol. At the time it was the custom for women to touch the rim of the glass with their lips without drinking, as a sign of accepting hospitality, her family said.

Capovilla died of complications from pneumonia at a local hospital, relatives said.

She had five children, 11 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren, according to local media.

Elizabeth Bolden, from Memphis, Tennessee, born August 15, 1890, had previously been regarded as the oldest living person.

"She's probably the oldest person alive right now, but that's up to Guinness to announce," said Stanley Primmer, the head of Supercentenarian Research Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies longevity in Pittsburgh.

A Guinness spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

In May, friends and relatives of a woman in San Augustin, El Salvador, gathered to celebrate what national records indicated was her 128th birthday. Cruz Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, according to the records.

AdvertisementAdvertisementNational birth registry officials sent Hernandez's documents to Guinness last year but have yet to hear from the organisation.

Guinness says the oldest "fully authenticated" age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years and 164 days. Jeanne Louise Calment was born in France on February 21, 1875, and died on August 4, 1997.

Joan Rivers. I don’t know how much long she’s gonna last.

One has to wonder if there will be a whole bunch of women who live into their 120’s. What with improved health care and the natural toughness of the female specie. I don’t see men matching that. We’re just too rambunctious to last. That will mean, young men will be in big demand for these older women. Men to help them spend their retirements funds, and share their hearts.

Go get ‘em guys.

No more Croc hunter...I'm gonna Miss Steve.... definately a colourful individual that really was as crazy and animated in real life as he was on the telly


PA

Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died in a marine accident in north Queensland, state government sources say.

It is understood Irwin was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest while swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas where he was filming an underwater documentary.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a fatality.

Irwin was known for his Animal Planet series The Crocodile Hunter, and is the director of the Australia Zoo in Queensland.

Irwin is survived by his wife Terri, daughter Bindi, and son Bob.

So Unbelievable and so young. I guess the only consolation is that he was doing something that he really loved and believed in.

May Steve cross the Rainbow Bridge and be happily united with all the animals and creatures that he loved so very much.

And special prayers to his wife and kids.

Just heard about this on the news...:(
You would have thought it would be a croc to do it.

RIP Steve Irwin

Crikey, I'd hate to be the one telling his wife though

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html

:(

I can’t imagine anything worse than being eaten alive by a sinister salt-water crocodile, but getting his heart pierced by the 8-inch venomous barb of a sting ray has got to be a close second.

An almost mythic death.

As already stated, “CRIKEY!!!�

I wonder if little Bob is out in the Irwin back-yard playing with deadly scorpions, or baby alligators right now. They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The thing with animals experts is that they all forget one crucial thing.

The beasts they hunt are themselves, man experts. :bow:

He was always teasing those deadly animals. I bet he was teasing it and it stung him.

Like that Grizzly-man guy. Everything was fine till one of his friendly bears got hungry and ate him and his girlfriend. Seems GRIZZLY MAN was a frustrated showman, too. Irwin married a nice girl from upriver from here. She had an animal orphanage down in Eugene, Oregon. She was madly in love with him. (Probably his accent.) I can still see him teasing those deadly dinosaur crocks with a chicken.

Man, this is tragic. This is one celebrity death that I truly feel sad about.

RIP Steve Irwin.

Lest We Forget....

On this day I thought it appropriate to take a moment to remember all who perished on this day five years ago.

As well as all those who selflessly walked into the inferno and abyss to try to save them.

To take a moment of silence and reflection in your own personal day would be greatly felt by all who must survive with the emptiness for their lost loved ones.

WE SHALL NOT FORGET, FOR UNITED WE SHALL ALWAYS STAND...

Farewell, crocodile hunter and let us remember all who have died five years ago and to those brave soldiers who are dying still now in Iraq.

James Kim and his family was on vacation driving from Roseberg, Oregon to Gold Beach on the Oregon coast when they took a wrong turn at night and got lost in a remote section of the Oregon coastal mountains. Their situation became dire when a winter snowstorm socked them in. After nine days hole up in their car with no food and out of gas, Kim decided their only hope was for him to attempt to hike out for help. Just after he left the family was found and rescued. A desperate search went looking for him. Day and night they searched. Today his body was found eight miles from the car face down near the Rogue River. The Terrain was almost impassable. They had to lower searchers in by helicopter. He was attempting to follow the Rogue River out of the wilderness.

They had cell-phones, but they were out of a service area. They had sophisticated navigation in their car but out of date or incomplete maps. They still got caught by the bad weather. Searchers new they were out there, but couldn’t get in to look till the snow stopped.

That missing family was too small, and the world was so big last week. Who would have believed it would be so difficult to find a whole family? We were really pulling for them. I think that guy was really brave and must have been desperate.:(

Today James Brown is in hell. No doubt, rocking the joint.

Jim. Are you feeling good?:bow:

RIP

"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. "

"They had a chance to see me look good and perform and be so neat again. A lot of young people felt shaken, 'cause there I was, 70 years old, looking half as young as they did! "
Quote: James Brown R.I.P

You know they never would say, but you have to wonder if he revved the sex machine one too many times.

I do.