RIP Thread

[F-ZeroOne]

Marcia Lucas, the reason Luke never got to pick up those power convertors:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzy64j9l1o

[F-ZeroOne]

Anthony Head, probably best known as "Giles" in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", as well as for selling a lot of coffee:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p0rz4n0mo

[PFVA]

Alan Greenspan, economist who served as Fed chair under 4 presidents, dies at 100
Greenspan reshaped the U.S. economy during his five terms as Federal Reserve chairman.

[Mat]

Only learned today, but Bobby Prince, the composer of Doom's music, died on the 16th, cancer.
He was 81.

[tufty]

Penelope Keith. Bah.

[PFVA]

Bonnie Tyler, the welsh singer died tonight.
She was 75 and was hospitalised for the past few weeks.
She was living in Algarve.

[Mat]

Sam Neill at 78, cancer again



And of course, it's all over the news: Ann Widdecombe was murdered at the weekend, again at 78.
I won't miss her anywhere near as much as Mr. Neill, but it's still horrible.

I just hope it doesn't end up getting too politicised.

[tufty]

I just hope it doesn't end up getting too politicised.

Fat chance of that.

[KlaxonCow]

I just hope it doesn't end up getting too politicised.

Fat chance of that.

It does also depend on whether it was or wasn't a politically-based / terrorist murder.

Then you can't avoid it being politicised, if it was carried out for political purpose.

Although, that said, if it is political then you claim it. This is probably why the police have been reticent to consider it political thus far, because if you're trying to make a political point, then you have to claim it, or people never know if it was for politics or was just an unintentional murder - for example, a house robbery that went horribly wrong, when Anne picked up a fire poker and was not going to let them get away with it, that it escalated quickly into something it wasn't originally intended to be.

The IRA always phoned to say that they planted the bombs, because if you don't know who did it and what political point they were trying to make, then it could be anyone for any reason and no political point is actually made.

So either not political or whoever did it is inept and doesn't realise that you've at least got to graffiti some political message on the wall or something, or no-one has a clue what political motivations were behind it, if there were any political motivations at all.

[Mat]

Jennifer Finch, L7 bassist, 59, and again, cancer

[F-ZeroOne]

Tim Curry:

[RiK]

[F-ZeroOne]

Peter Cullen, aka Optimus Prime. "One shall fall... "

[F-ZeroOne]

Walter Koenig, no need to state what TV work he was most famous for, but that wasn't the only SF series he was involved in...

[Misfit]

Make it NO!

RIP Sir Patrick

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq23dve8dgv9t