h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I think Zsa Zsa was on my list last year, but not this year. Oh well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tpw79

A link to one of his thoughts for the day.

PP.

I think that Zsa Zsa has been on mine too but I think I began to believe that she was immortal.

PP.

Piers Sellers, English Astronaut on the Space Shuttle three times, dies of Cancer, aged 69.

A true Man?



MMF



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38424071

Piers was only a month older than me, which makes him 61

Rick Parfitt it has been a bad year for musical greats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38427459

GB

Way, way better than the 3 legendary chords. And genuinely the soundtrack of my teens.

Tomorrow, I shall be wearing denim.

PP.

I like that: a denim Rick Parfitt day.

Such a sad loss, but then we nearly lost him a few years ago after that quad bypass

Wham! Another one bites the dust.

George Michael. 53.

Not a good year for the celebs!


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38432862?client=safari

MMF

George Michael now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862

PP.

He had critics, but I think he had a very good selection of songs and presented them with great feeling. I mean, things like "Careless Whispers", not "Last Christmas", of course.

And anyway - 53 is no age to go about dying on us like that.

RIP George.

And another goes to walk the celestial Walk of Fame.

Liz Smith, aka Betty Gleadle, known by many recently as her portrayal as 'Nana' in the Royle Family, but had many roles across the genre.

She will be missed, but will be in good company.

Betty,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38440648

She really has this time (I believe we have announced her death here before).

PP

And now we lose another Adams author.

Richard Adams, 96, author of the famous Watership Down, and the lesser known Plague Dogs and Shardik.

I first read Watership Down when it first came out and enjoyed it but thought the film twee. Shardik was much deeper, and Plague Dogs quite disturbing.

No doubt WD the movie will be on

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38446309?client=safari



MMF

Carrie Fisher Princess Leia gone for a trip around the galaxy. See you around the Milky Way, your Highness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38446753

GB

For fans of UK politics, we missed a couple of Thatcher's cabinet ministers who died in recent weeks:


Jim Prior (described by Thatcher as "wet":

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/12/lord-prior-obituary


Patrick Jenkin:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/21/former-tory-minister-lord-patrick-jenkin-dies-aged-90

Debbie Reynolds - 84 - of a stroke

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/debbie-reynolds-dead-dies-carrie-fisher-mother-1201949432/

My heart goes out to the family - so sad ....

It's the worst curse of the gods to outlive your children - Chinese proverb.

I can't imagine the pain of losing any of mine, so my sadness is for the family, Debbie is at rest now RIP