2023 Obituary

[Tim Sielbeck]

https://www.military.com/off-duty/music/2023/03/03/celebrated-pearl-harbor-survivor-jack-holder-lived-large-those-who-didnt-make-it.html#:~:text=Jack Holder%2C who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and later became a decorated World War II flyer who flew more than 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters%2C died at age 101 in Arizona on Feb. 24%2C 2023.

Edited March 6, 2023 by Tim Sielbeck

[17thfabn]

17 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

https://www.military.com/off-duty/music/2023/03/03/celebrated-pearl-harbor-survivor-jack-holder-lived-large-those-who-didnt-make-it.html#:~:text=Jack Holder%2C who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and later became a decorated World War II flyer who flew more than 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters%2C died at age 101 in Arizona on Feb. 24%2C 2023.

Wow, such an incredible life!

[Stargrunt6]

On 3/4/2023 at 10:28 AM, Stuart Galbraith said:

Damn good actor though, particularly in Heat and Blackhawk Down.

And SPR.

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

Gary Robert Rossington (December 4, 1951 – March 5, 2023) was an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, in which he played lead and rhythm guitar.

[DKTanker]

1 hour ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

Gary Robert Rossington (December 4, 1951 – March 5, 2023) was an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, in which he played lead and rhythm guitar.

The last of the original lineup, the oak tree finally got the best of him.  I'll have to put Freebird on a loop just so I can enjoy his slide guitar.

Edited March 7, 2023 by DKTanker

[Rick]

One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the Rolling Stones are still alive.

[R011]

21 minutes ago, Rick said:

One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the Rolling Stones are still alive.

Three of them aren't.  Ian Stewart, Brian Jones, and Charlie Watts.

There are still two Beatles left as well as two of the classic Who line up.

[Sardaukar]

7 minutes ago, R011 said:

Three of them aren't.  Ian Stewart, Brian Jones, and Charlie Watts.

There are still two Beatles left as well as two of the classic Who line up.

Another mystery is...why should they be...

[R011]

2 hours ago, Sardaukar said:

Another mystery is...why should they be...

They're in their late seventies/early eighties, hardly remarkable, and either quit serious substance abuse decades ago or never started.

Though Richards famously does look like he should have died last century or the one before.

[bd1]

Richards has said several times that his secret is that he used only the purest, absolute top quality stuff. 

come to think of it, once when i did my obligatory workplace-health checkup, the doctor asked about smoking and marked that the worst part of smoking is not the nicotine, but the pesticides-chemicals that are used packaging and flavoring, the smell of which can be felt when you lit your first cigarette of the day. 

[Ssnake]

Credit Suisse, 1856-2023, died unexpectedly from a temporary, minor liquidity squeeze with oblivious management soundly asleep at the wheel. It was considered as one of the 30 most dangerous banks of the global financial markets. After its acquisition by reluctant UBS, the resulting bank is now bigger and more dangerous to the stability of the global banking sector than ever, and now, indeed, too big to be bailed out by the Swiss state with a volume thrice that of Switzerland's entire GDP.

[RETAC21]

1 hour ago, Ssnake said:

Credit Suisse, 1856-2023, died unexpectedly from a temporary, minor liquidity squeeze with oblivious management soundly asleep at the wheel. It was considered as one of the 30 most dangerous banks of the global financial markets. After its acquisition by reluctant UBS, the resulting bank is now bigger and more dangerous to the stability of the global banking sector than ever, and now, indeed, too big to be bailed out by the Swiss state with a volume thrice that of Switzerland's entire GDP.

Didn't know we did suicides here... CS is to bank what this is to aviation:

On another note, Lance Reddick (60) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Reddick

[Stargrunt6]

Lance Reddick was tops in The Wire.

[Ivanhoe]

Also in Bosch.

 

[Ssnake]

A fine actor, with quite a memorable face indeed.

[Stargrunt6]

And can be pretty damn funny:
 

 

[sunday]

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, and formulator of Moore's Law. I think his influence on modern world is akin to George Stephenson's.

[BansheeOne]

Harry Belafonte finally got his bananas tallied at 96.

 

[BansheeOne]

And tonight on Jerry Springer: "She was no virgin" - watch St. Joseph give God the fig! Twice!

[Allan W]

RIP Gordon Lightfoot

[R011]

On 4/27/2023 at 1:07 PM, BansheeOne said:

And tonight on Jerry Springer: "She was no virgin" - watch St. Joseph give God the fig! Twice!

[R011]

50 minutes ago, Allan W said:

RIP Gordon Lightfoot

A great loss.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

[Ivanhoe]

Tim Bachman of Bachman–Turner Overdrive, 71.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cia_v4vxfE

 

[NickM]

8 hours ago, R011 said:

A great loss.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

Oh no! Damn, Dave! Gordo's passing is actually upsetting.

[DKTanker]

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The Church bell should toll 30 times, an additional time for Gordon Lightfoot.