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Offline Snoopy

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #120 on: June 03, 2008, 10:16:43 AM »
To some of us there was more to Bo Diddley than that.
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #121 on: June 03, 2008, 10:17:20 AM »
He made DIY guitars (without cutting himself)?
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #122 on: June 03, 2008, 10:45:34 AM »
He was probably most famous for his Gretsch.



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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #123 on: June 03, 2008, 10:46:24 AM »
Sounds like a fungal infection!
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #124 on: June 03, 2008, 10:49:28 AM »
Quote from: Nick on June 03, 2008, 10:46:24 AM
Sounds like a fungal infection!

Wasn't it a kids film with that irritating Carrey chap?
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #125 on: June 03, 2008, 10:51:09 AM »
 shrugs:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #126 on: June 04, 2008, 07:25:11 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7434792.stm

Mel Ferrer. Aged 90. Married to Audrey hepburn for a bit.  cloud9:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #127 on: June 04, 2008, 08:08:54 AM »
For a bit of what?

 Audrey Hepburn  cloud9:


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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #128 on: June 04, 2008, 08:34:08 AM »
Audrey Hepburn  cloud9: cloud9:

See also: Jean Simmons  cloud9:

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #129 on: June 04, 2008, 08:49:26 AM »
Jean Simmons cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #130 on: June 04, 2008, 09:00:35 AM »
 eyes: eyes: eyes: eyes:

I hear she was a bit of a goer! eyes:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #131 on: June 04, 2008, 09:02:41 AM »
I can see I'm going to need a bucket of cold water for you lot!  noooo:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #132 on: June 04, 2008, 09:05:34 AM »



 eyes: eyes: eyes:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #133 on: June 05, 2008, 02:43:12 PM »
I meant to put this in a couple of days ago, but he's dead anyway so what does it matter?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2050512/JR-Simplot.html

JR Simplot. The only man to make a million selling chips, and then, you wouldn't believe it, to make another  milliion selling... yes, chips!  eeek:

Fascinating obit. and an amazing start in life, being kicked out on his @rse!
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #134 on: June 05, 2008, 03:13:35 PM »
Now that is the sort of man one just has to admire.
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