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Jon Schmid
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Apparently the news is not bogus...  |
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Comic Michael Lehrer. ALS really sucks, I've known a few people who had it. |
Yeah, horrible.  We lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. Seeing them go downhill was horrible. |
Good friend of mine has been dealing with it for 10 years now. Can't move, talk or breathe on his own. Really sucks |
ALS took my uncle's life a few years ago. I can't possibly hate anyone on this planet enough to wish this disease on them... |
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Fish
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Jon Schmid wrote: |
| I hope the news is bogus but David Crosby is gone at 81? |
Bummer. His talent will be sorely missed. Mrs. Fish and I have seen him with the boys (CSN) many many times and once by himself.
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KTPhil 
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obus
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Carl Hahn Dies at 96; Made the VW Beetle Ubiquitous
As president of Volkswagen of America, he pushed the “Think Small” ad campaign that helped create a counterculture icon.
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Carl H. Hahn, a German automobile executive who helped transform the humble Volkswagen Beetle into an American pop culture icon and one of the most widely produced cars in the world, died on Jan. 14 at his home in Wolfsburg, Germany. He was 96.
His death was confirmed by his son Christopher Hahn.
During Mr. Hahn’s chairmanship of Volkswagen A.G. from 1982 to 1993, the company graduated into a global brand and Europe’s leading automobile manufacturer.
He was still in his 20s in 1954 when he wrote an unsolicited letter to Heinrich Nordhoff, the German engineer who had rejuvenated Volkswagen after World War II, persuading him to hire Mr. Hahn. He became Mr. Nordhoff’s assistant and was quickly promoted to chief of export promotion.
Mr. Hahn served as president of New York-headquartered Volkswagen of America from 1959 to 1964, and upon arriving in the United States he toured the country in a VW minibus.
“I learned, apparently very fast, to get to know and understand America,” he would later say. “And I loved it.”
Volkswagen avoided the fins and other frills with which U.S. manufacturers larded their vehicles. Instead, the company and its advertising agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach, promoted “our philosophy of a car that doesn’t change for the reason of change, only for the benefit of the consumer,” Mr. Hahn said at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011.
The ads persuaded buyers to “Think Small,” embrace their cars’ distinctive rounded back and bug-eye headlights and to prioritize efficiency and quality control.
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RHD Notch
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Location: Joshua Tree, CA
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Apparently the news is not bogus... |
To quote Variety magazine:
"The death came as surprise to those who followed his very active Twitter account, which he’d kept tweeting on as recently as Wednesday. One of Crosby’s final tweets the day before he died was to make a typically jocular comment about heaven: “I heard the place is overrated… cloudy.” 😳
And down came a bolt of lightning.⚡️
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:53 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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In June of 2020, my colleague and I put together an evening of camp songs on video conference for the very sad senior class being they missed prom, senior camp out and graduation. One of my favorite songs caught the kids by surprise and started a generation of followers from that night. Not to mention how significant the lyrics were to describe our love for them. Thank you David. 
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Letterman7
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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The Geator with the heater, the boss with the hot sauce!
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obus
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obus
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HMVWNAB
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:49 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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From Jan 3rd:
Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old.
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Long-roofs
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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From Jan 3rd:
Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. He was 90 years old. |
The flight with two Walters. Sadly, I think we will be losing the rest of Apollo crews in the coming years. What a time and achievement.
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Fish
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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The eagle has landed in the sea of tranquility.
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obus
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Bonesberg55
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| Bando was a key ingredient of those great Oakland Athletics teams of the early 70s. |
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doug bugg
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Yoshio Yoda Dies: ‘McHale’s Navy’ Actor Was 88
Great show.
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| yoda has died so sad. |
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