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Xanatic Posted Dec 9, 2008
The science fiction icon Ray Harryhausen has passed away.
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Alfster Posted Dec 10, 2008
There are few people who seemingly unknowingly touched many people of many generations. They weren't the best paid of 'celebs' in fact not celebs at all...they actually had talent.
The sort of people that had friends texting each other the recent ones that just knocked me and many others for 6 were:
John Peel, Linda Smith and now, Oliver Postgate. When I think of them I always fill up.
Probably the wonderful innocent honesty and integrity of what they did and what they stood for.
It's just a shame the media and TV laud the brainless, loud idiots who just stand for being famous or fames sake and taking the money and running to be forgotten a few years down the line with no legacy and ne'er a tear for them.
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Orcus Posted Dec 10, 2008
Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog.
That *was* my childhood. 
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toybox Posted Dec 10, 2008
Oops, forgot the link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7763437.stm
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Dec 10, 2008
Sunny von Bulow (at last) 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/sleeping-beauty-never-woke-up/2008/12/09/1228584835607.html
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Dec 10, 2008
Kerryn McCann (winner of the Commonwealth Games women's marathon 2002 and 2006)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/modest-mum-with-a-ferocious-will-to-win/2008/12/08/1228584738771.html
Breast cancer - she was only 41 
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Dec 10, 2008
Not a good day ....
Writer and poet Dorothy Porter - age 54 - breast cancer again
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/dorothy-porter-dies/2008/12/10/1228584914257.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Dec 10, 2008
and a few days ago ...
Odetta
http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/folk-singer-who-inspired-the-greats-and-brought-hope-to-civilrights-movement/2008/12/04/1228257223619.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Three strong women - such a loss
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Icy North Posted Dec 10, 2008
Re post 141 (Ray Harryhausen)
I can't find anything saying he's died - do you have a link?
His friend Forrest J Ackerman died last week. Now, he was a Sci-Fi movie legend - he's even credited with being the first to abbreviate Science Fiction into Sci-Fi.
Biog here: http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0009969/bio
Icy
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RadoxTheGreen - Retired Posted Dec 11, 2008
Ray Harryhausen looks to be very much alive:
http://www.rayharryhausen.com/
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 14, 2008
"Nora Batty" actress Kathy Staff has died, waiting for the link...
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Bright Blue Shorts Posted Dec 14, 2008
Sad because she's part of our TV heritage. Beyond LoTSW let's not forget that she was in Crossroads too ...
(I'm glad you put the comma in the correct place) 
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 14, 2008
I'm a sub-ed
There *is* a link at BBC News, but you click it and it says "error, not found, perhaps you typed the address incorrectly..."
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Dec 14, 2008
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Xanatic Posted Dec 14, 2008
Okay I´m rather embarassed now. I did of course mean Ackermann had died, not Harryhausen.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 14, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7778963.stm Bettie Page, now then, don't go clicking on that "In pictures" link, don't want any hootooer heart attacks 
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 14, 2008
The link for Kathy Staff is working now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7782250.stm
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Orcus Posted Dec 15, 2008
That's a pretty strange tribute to Kathy Staff from Peter Sallis in that link.
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Deathlist 2008 - for those not on the list
- 141: Xanatic (Dec 9, 2008)
- 142: Alfster (Dec 10, 2008)
- 143: Orcus (Dec 10, 2008)
- 144: toybox (Dec 10, 2008)
- 145: toybox (Dec 10, 2008)
- 146: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Dec 10, 2008)
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- 148: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Dec 10, 2008)
- 149: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Dec 10, 2008)
- 150: Icy North (Dec 10, 2008)
- 151: RadoxTheGreen - Retired (Dec 11, 2008)
- 152: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Dec 14, 2008)
- 153: Bright Blue Shorts (Dec 14, 2008)
- 154: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Dec 14, 2008)
- 155: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Dec 14, 2008)
- 156: Xanatic (Dec 14, 2008)
- 157: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Dec 14, 2008)
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- 159: toybox (Dec 15, 2008)
- 160: Orcus (Dec 15, 2008)
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