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Ad astra: another passing.
#401 08/07/09 02:08 AM
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John Hughes, definitive 80s Brat Pack director


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donikatz #423 08/07/09 04:50 AM
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One of the sad thoughts that occurred to me when we made the journey to Oregon was that someone famous would be the first to be noted in this forum. It is ironic that he was the director of some memorable comedies.


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MicroMatTech3 #475 08/07/09 02:25 PM
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Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller is still one of my all-time favorite movie heroes.


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donikatz #1071 08/13/09 05:36 PM
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Les Paul, inventor of the electric guitar and great musician. Caught one of his weekly Iridium shows a few years ago.


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donikatz #1080 08/13/09 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted By: donikatz
Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller is still one of my all-time favorite movie heroes.


Next time you watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off, give it a spin with the Fight Club theory in mind.

According to the Fight Club theory, Ferris Bueller doesn't actually exist; he's Cameron's Tyler Durden, a figment of Cameron's imagination through which Cameron acts out and does all the things he'd secretly like to do, including stealing his father's car.


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tacit #1086 08/13/09 11:34 PM
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Whoah... Hey, that totally makes sense. I'll never see Ferris the same way again. Which is probably a good thing, because he was kinda a douche... wink


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donikatz #1100 08/14/09 06:35 AM
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Les Paul, inventor of the electric guitar and great musician.


And still playing into his 90s, right up until he took sick.


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ryck #1259 08/17/09 01:43 PM
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Rashied Ali, free-jazz Coltrane drummer.


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donikatz #1394 08/18/09 05:28 PM
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Bob Novak, conservative blowhard... err... pundit. Wish I could say I'll miss him...


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donikatz #1400 08/18/09 06:39 PM
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I won't miss him either but he was a fellow human being so I salute his passing. Ultimately, all of us live and die in vain.


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jchuzi #1433 08/19/09 01:08 AM
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Nobel Prize winner Kim Dae Jung

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donikatz #1452 08/19/09 09:22 AM
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Jack McGeorge, former Marine, weapons inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, former chairman of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, BDSM educator and activist, chemical warfare ordnance disposal expert and consultant for the Army Special Forces, and counterterrorism expert for the US Customs Service.


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tacit #2075 08/26/09 05:34 AM
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vntgntks #2077 08/26/09 06:01 AM
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Wow, you beat me to it. I sure hope you're in a diff time zone and not here @ 2am like I am...


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donikatz #2079 08/26/09 10:28 AM
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jchuzi #3375 09/09/09 11:25 AM
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Bob Spinrad, computing pioneer


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donikatz #3499 09/11/09 12:42 AM
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James Krenov, 1920-2009, cabinetmaker, author, and teacher


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MicroMatTech3 #3550 09/12/09 04:35 AM
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Larry Gelbart, scriptwriter for M*A*S*H and other Hollywood, TV, and Broadway comedies.


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donikatz #3579 09/13/09 01:20 AM
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I am in California.
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Norman Borlaug, arguably the greatest human being who has ever lived. By the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, he was credited with personally and directly saving the lives of over one billion people, or nearly one-fifth of the world's population.


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tacit #3644 09/13/09 10:22 PM
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Here is the obituary in the New York Times:

Norman Borlaug, 95, Dies; Led Green Revolution


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Last edited by alternaut; 09/15/09 01:28 PM. Reason: This post and its replies were merged from a duplicate thread

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MicroMatTech3 #3731 09/15/09 12:38 AM
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Last edited by roger; 09/15/09 12:51 AM. Reason: thanks, Jon!!

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roger #3734 09/15/09 12:47 AM
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Your link takes me to the Reply page to MMT3's post. I think that you pasted the wrong URL so you might want to fix it.


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roger #3736 09/15/09 02:21 AM
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Weird coincidence, I just finished watching season one (and only, I guess) of Swayze's The Beast last night...


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