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Offline Just One More

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Another friend passes away
« on: March 19, 2008, 05:26:09 AM »
It's getting a bit expensive with all these collections

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2008, 05:34:28 AM »
Oh, and closer to me, so did Anthony Minghella

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7302841.stm


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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2008, 06:32:18 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on March 19, 2008, 05:26:09 AM
It's getting a bit expensive with all these collections

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm
You put in to the collection tin do you?  whistle:

Clever bloke but I never could like the man for some reason. Had a good innings tho and spent a big chunk of his life abroad… Mustn’t grumble eh?  noooo:
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2008, 06:33:41 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on March 19, 2008, 05:34:28 AM
Oh, and closer to me, so did Anthony Minghella

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7302841.stm



I’d never heard of him ‘til he died TBH although I’d seen the English Patient… Meeja is making a big thing of him tho…  noooo:
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2008, 07:03:59 AM »
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2008, 08:41:47 AM »
Isle of Wight wasn't it?
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2008, 09:28:44 AM »
IOW, another of gods waiting rooms. All the shop windows are bi-focal
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2008, 09:41:43 AM »
We lived there once (long and very boring story) but I have to say I love the place.
We used to call it "Paradise"  redface:
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2008, 10:08:39 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 09:41:43 AM
We lived there once (long and very boring story) but I have to say I love the place.
We used to call it "Paradise"  redface:
We used to go to Freshwater Bay for our holidays!  cloud9:
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2008, 10:10:46 AM »
Sad to see Arthur pop his clogs. Great scientist and thinker but not such a good Science Fiction writer. Great ideas but his story telling and characterisation was very poor. The only book of his I liked was "Childhood's End" It starts with giant alien spaceships appearing over Earth's major cities (Now who stole that idea  rubschin:)

No matter, his screenplay for 2001 forgives all.

 
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2008, 10:19:02 AM »
Quote from: Barman on March 19, 2008, 10:08:39 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 09:41:43 AM
We lived there once (long and very boring story) but I have to say I love the place.
We used to call it "Paradise"  redface:
We used to go to Freshwater Bay for our holidays!  cloud9:

Our house was in Freshwater ~ got caught by negative equity plus another  major family problem and had to sell at a loss and return to the mainland to recoup losses and start again.
Have often thought about going back but the cost of that tiny strip of water was a factor that made us chose North Wales. Cost of living and laid back (loads of old hippies "doing their own thing" both there and here) attitude makes the two places very similar in many respects.
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2008, 10:20:55 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 10:19:02 AM
Quote from: Barman on March 19, 2008, 10:08:39 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 09:41:43 AM
We lived there once (long and very boring story) but I have to say I love the place.
We used to call it "Paradise"  redface:
We used to go to Freshwater Bay for our holidays!  cloud9:

Our house was in Freshwater.
Really? Where abouts... and when?
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Offline Uncle Mort

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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2008, 10:25:13 AM »
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"Sir Arthur has left written instructions that his funeral be strictly secular," his secretary, Nalaka Gunawardene, was quoted as saying by news agency AFP.

"Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral," she added.


Good man  happy088

Which reminds me of his saying, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I don't think he ever lived on the Isle of Wight though.    ::)


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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2008, 10:32:10 AM »
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"Sir Arthur has left written instructions that his funeral be strictly secular," his secretary, Nalaka Gunawardene, was quoted as saying by news agency AFP.

"Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral," she added.


Good man  happy088

Which reminds me of his saying, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I don't think he ever lived on the Isle of Wight though.    ::)



Excellent - he's gone up in my estimations... or at least he would have had he not been somewhat dead...  noooo:
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Re: Another friend passes away
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2008, 10:33:51 AM »
Quote from: Barman on March 19, 2008, 10:20:55 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 10:19:02 AM
Quote from: Barman on March 19, 2008, 10:08:39 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on March 19, 2008, 09:41:43 AM
We lived there once (long and very boring story) but I have to say I love the place.
We used to call it "Paradise"  redface:
We used to go to Freshwater Bay for our holidays!  cloud9:

Our house was in Freshwater.
Really? Where abouts... and when?

On The Avenue ... one of the terraced cottages in 1989/90. I had a lease on a lock up pub and Mrs S had a craft shop where she sold her own paintings and did glass engraving to impress the tourists. Unfortunately I had another pub on the mainland (The IoW one was seasonal) so I spent a lot of time driving, sailing, back and forth. Further details of that business venture will only be divulged via PM.
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