Croaking it 2024

[cobra_gordo]

Bob Newhart aged 94. Brilliant comedic actor and the only good thing about The Big Bang Theory.

[johnnyboy]

11 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said:

Bob Newhart aged 94. Brilliant comedic actor and the only good thing about The Big Bang Theory.

RIP Papa Elf.

[Just Some Guy]

I got The Best of Bob Newhart on CD for Christmas when I was about 14.

Must have played The Driving Instructor about 100 times.

Such great pacing and timing.

Proper legend!

[Jazzy G]

94 is a heck of an innings. 

[Thunderplex]

Absolute comedy genius.  Been a fan since I hired a load of comedy records from the Library in 1984 and wore the tape I made of his one out.  Papa Elf will always be important to us, but the funniest scene I saw him in was as the ghost of  Professor Proton in The Big Bang Theory where he tried to impale himself on a lightsaber to avoid Sheldon’s ranting.  Very sad news.

[Just Some Guy]

Ray Reardon the 6 times snooker champion of the WORLD!!!!!

91 is a decent break.

[King Coconut]

21 minutes ago, Just Some Guy said:

91 is a decent break

He'll be gutted he didn't make the century.

[Gus Mears]

Great knock for a Welsh snooker player of his age.

Still gutted though. Always had a soft spot for Reardon as a lot of my family are from near Tredegar (and that's where the story ends, none of these fuckers watch snooker or know who he was).  His influence in the golden years of snooker was tremendous. Such a perfect foil to Higgins from appearance through to style of play. 

Was still knocking in century breaks down the club even a couple of years ago. A life well lived.

1 hour ago, King Coconut said:

He'll be gutted he didn't make the century.

Waiting for Terry Griffith's to go now just to use, 'that's more than he ever managed on the table.'

Edited July 20, 2024 by Gus Mears

[Just Some Guy]

10 minutes ago, Gus Mears said:

 

Was still knocking in century breaks down the club even a couple of years ago.

Made one in the last 12 months.

Incredible really.

[Jazzy G]

Dracula himself. Was a great player. 91 is, as said previously, a cracking break. 

[Bus Surfer]

My Dad was a very decent Snooker player in his pomp and claimed throughout all my years on this planet that he beat Ray Reardon In a game when he was 14/15 and Ray was around 24/25. It was even mentioned in his Eulogy a few months back when he was buried.

I bought him Ray's autobiography a few years ago and was a little gutted there wasn't a paragraph in there dedicated to a plucky young upstart who rumbled Ray in the South Wales Valleys back in the late 50's.

Mind you, this is the same bloke who insisted to me he saw Hulk Hogan wrestle in Cwm Workman's club in the early 70's. 

I'm still undecided. 

 

 

Edited July 22, 2024 by Bus Surfer
It's only a game so...

[TheBurningRed]

Old bloke down the labour club my dad used to drink in claimed he beat Ray Readon at a Butlins comp. Just before he won his first world championship. And this bloke wasn’t even a good snooker player. Guess old Ray wasn’t all that. 

[Statto]

Abdul "Duke" Fakir, last of the original Four Tops, aged 88.

I was brought up on the Temps & the Tops so this is a sad one. 

 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eastenders-bill-actress-roberta-taylor-205915987.html

 

Familiar to many I'm sure. Roberta Taylor from out of TV soaps.

[Frankie Crisp]

John Mayall, aged 90. He’ll be eulogised in plenty of music outlets in the coming days and rightly so. Massively important to the British Blues scene.