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

I've just heard John Peel died suddenly while on holiday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm

A national treasure, you will be missed.

Its very sad, someone who genuinely tried to find the talent that was out there. A great loss.

Researcher PSG

I never realised he was as old as that, he always seems to be so young and vibrant on the radio, a sad loss indeed

Bugger
BCNU - Crescent

Very sad news, he will be missed...

Nooooooooo! Not Peely!!!!

Oh dear God, another one gone far far too soon.

The whole music world - and indeed the whole world - was a much brighter place with him in it.

Caper Plip

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Great man, will be sorely missed.

I feel like my whole generation is dying




God Bless Peely, we'll miss you

please tell me what that means?

Sic transit gloria mundi



and erm


ceveat emtor

caveat means a warning is emptor to enter so would caveat emptor mean

a warning to all who enter here?


any way where are my manners

i did never listen to peel but if he had that much resepect for music and bands he deserves mine. RIP

What what means? RIP? Sic transit? Why he'll be missed? Whole generation?

OK simulpost there

"sic transit..." basically means this is the way everything goes.

caveat emptor is Buyer beware! (root of the word "emporium" for shop)

Honestly can't imagine a radio 1 without the strangeness that was the John Peel Show on every weekday. He was truly unique and had a very, very broad taste in music.

thanks star

Very sad news - truly an outstanding man. Terrible that he should be taken from his family so suddenly and at such a comparatively young age.

It's such a loss. So sad. It's going to be dull without his show. He's been one of the big influences on me. I feel for his family, they must be devastated.