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  • patbpatb
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    The actor Derek Fowlds, best known for starring in Yes Minister, has died at the age of 82.

    He played the private secretary Bernard Woolley in the sitcom and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, and later played Oscar Blaketon in the long-running police drama Heartbeat.

    Before that he found fame with children as Mr Derek on the Basil Brush Show from 1969 to 1973, replacing Rodney Bewes as the presenter.


    The best punchline ever?

  • GerardGerard
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    A classic ! :D :D :D
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    patb wrote: »
    The actor Derek Fowlds, best known for starring in Yes Minister, has died at the age of 82.

    He played the private secretary Bernard Woolley in the sitcom and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, and later played Oscar Blaketon in the long-running police drama Heartbeat.

    Before that he found fame with children as Mr Derek on the Basil Brush Show from 1969 to 1973, replacing Rodney Bewes as the presenter.


    The best punchline ever?


    Brilliant! RIP Derek Fowlds.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    RIP Derek Fowlds. Some might say Yes Minister/Yes Prime-minister wasn't
    a comedy but a Documentary.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    RIP Derek Fowlds

    I hope Bernard wasn't sent to the DVLA.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Damn, I am totally heartbroken over this. Legendary drummer for the band Rush, Neil Peart, has passed away from brain cancer:

    https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-neil-peart-drummer-for-rush-1840934739
    I only yesterday learned of this. I don´t know at all what to say. Just a few weeks ago I saw him as a guest in a tv show, and he was the nicest guy on the planet, up for every joke that came along. Not to mention that band he participated in. Rush will always be one the most original and yet listenable bands in the whole world. This world truly lost a really prescious one.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    My grandma passed away this morning. I suppose technically she'd be my step grandmother as my grandfather had re-married. Still she was family and we'll miss her.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    My grandma passed away this morning. I suppose technically she'd be my step grandmother as my grandfather had re-married. Still she was family and we'll miss her.

    Thoughts and prayers for you and your family at this time.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Sorry to you and your family for your loss @ToTheRight
    My thoughts are with you.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Thanks, @MaxCasino, @Benny.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Sorry to hear about your loss @ToTheRight thoughts with you and your family.
  • GerardGerard
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    Sorry for your loss, @ToTheRight.

    Folk singer Favid Olney has died while performing on stage, aged 71.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/arts/music/david-olney-dead.html

    At least, he died doing something he loved.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @ToTheRight , my best wishes for you and your family. Is your Grandfather still alive?
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    @ToTheRight , my best wishes for you and your family. Is your Grandfather still alive?

    He's still with us. In his late 80's now.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @ToTheRight
    You are in my thoughts, friend. Losing a grandparent is never easy. I wish you all the strength you need right now.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,162
    Thanks @DarthDimi .
  • vzokvzok
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    Terry Jones of Monty Python has died. I know he’d been very unwell for some time. Will be missed.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited January 2020 Posts: 25,097
    vzok wrote: »
    Terry Jones of Monty Python has died. I know he’d been very unwell for some time. Will be missed.

    Oh dear I am a life long fan of Monty Python, one of Terry's films Personal Services was on last week on the Talking Pictures channel. I am on leave on Friday I will binge watch the Monty Python Movie Boxset in respect, great movies. Terry was a funny man and a great director.

    R. I. P.

    Very Bondian... That last part brilliant.
  • GerardGerard
    edited January 2020 Posts: 5,993
    He was also an excellent historian. I loved watching his documentaries about antiquity and the middle ages. He will be terribly missed.
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    Terry and his Python colleagues would happily announce 'Two down, Four to go'.

    He may have come down the Python pecking order as a natural performer, but he was so innovative. His visions for Python literally shaped the show.

    This announcement was coming, but still hard to take nonetheless.
    Sad day.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,028
    "And thanks a lot for the gold and frankincense, er, but don't worry too much about the myrrh next time."
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,135
    RIP Terry Jones. What a huge talent we have lost.
    Thanks for the many laughs.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
    Posts: 1,261
    He was a comical genius and contributed a lot to the legend that is Monty Python. RIP Terry Jones.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    RIP Terry Jones.
    May you get as hearty a eulogy as Graham Chapman did.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I loved Monty Python as a kid. Some of it is still great.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Rob Rensenbrink, one of the greatest football players to have ever graced the purple outfit of my beloved Anderlecht, winning two Europacup II's during his period in Brussels.
    Famous also for hitting the post in the dying seconds of the 1978 World Cup final for The Netherlands, missing out on what would have been their first World Cup title. They have been waiting ever since.
    A graceful and stylish attacker, an icon of the golden years of RSC Anderlecht when the Belgians were one of the best club teams in the world, passed away yesterday far too young after an illness at age 72.
    Rust in vrede, Robbie.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,716
    Kobe Bryant has passed away in a helicopter crash. Horrible. :-(

    https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/kobe-bryant-dead-helicopter-crash-lakers-1203480844/
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,466
    DaltonCraig007 wrote: »
    Kobe Bryant has passed away in a helicopter crash. Horrible. :-(

    https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/kobe-bryant-dead-helicopter-crash-lakers-1203480844/

    That is so horrible and unexpected. RIP.
  • GatecrasherGatecrasher Classified
    Posts: 265
    Had to come here and pay respects to the legend Kobe Bryant. I’m in absolute shock at the moment.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    I am hoping the new report that his daughters were NOT with him are correct.
    This is such very heavy, terribly sad news.
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