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Title: Down Shep .....
Post by: Andy B on 29 May 2017, 10:53:25
I know he'd been ill for a while  .....  :'( :'(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40083025
Title: Re: Down Shep .....
Post by: Lincs Robert on 29 May 2017, 11:11:59
 :'(
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Post by: STEMO on 29 May 2017, 11:23:16
Oh, for gods sake. Shall we hold a vigil?
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Post by: Andy B on 29 May 2017, 11:24:28
Oh, for gods sake. Shall we hold a vigil?
If you like  :-\.... maybe at the top of Nelson's Column  ::)
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Post by: STEMO on 29 May 2017, 11:26:20
We should start a new thread for dead people to save starting new ones all the time.
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Post by: Viral_Jim on 29 May 2017, 11:30:11
"Sticky for deadies" should do the trick.
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Post by: redelitev6 on 29 May 2017, 13:41:31
Oh, for gods sake. Shall we hold a vigil?
If you like  :-\.... maybe at the top of Nelson's Column  ::)
The guy had some big kahuna's to do that climb ,"health and safety" really didn't come into it , another part of my childhood gone  :'(  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YFCJETmwI can you imagine that being done by todays presenters?
Title: Re: Down Shep .....
Post by: Andy B on 29 May 2017, 13:50:14
Oh, for gods sake. Shall we hold a vigil?
If you like  :-\.... maybe at the top of Nelson's Column  ::)
The guy had some big kahuna's to do that climb ,"health and safety" really didn't come into it , another part of my childhood gone  :'(  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YFCJETmwI can you imagine that being done by todays presenters?

and one for the late Vamps  :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSuZXlUxwbk#t=30.412397
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Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 29 May 2017, 15:59:30
Oh, for gods sake. Shall we hold a vigil?
If you like  :-\.... maybe at the top of Nelson's Column  ::)
The guy had some big kahuna's to do that climb ,"health and safety" really didn't come into it , another part of my childhood gone  :'(  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YFCJETmwI can you imagine that being done by todays presenters?



Nope......Today you need a hard hat and a high-viz jacket just to look up at Nelson on his perch.  :(
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Post by: plym ian on 29 May 2017, 18:42:10
He was ine of them people i thought had died years ago tbh
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Post by: Varche on 29 May 2017, 18:57:44
Quite depressing all these names dying. My dad is going to fewer and fewer funerals now he is 90.
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Post by: STEMO on 29 May 2017, 19:01:05
Quite depressing all these names dying. My dad is going to fewer and fewer funerals now he is 90.
A 'name' will die every week, Varche, there are fickin thousands of them from the superstar actor down to the fella from the oxo advert.
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Post by: BazaJT on 29 May 2017, 19:37:27
Last time I saw Blue Peter John Noakes was still a presenter on it!! I'm one of those who thought he popped off years ago,83 not too shabby an innings though.
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Post by: Mister Rog on 29 May 2017, 22:18:26
Quite depressing all these names dying. My dad is going to fewer and fewer funerals now he is 90.
A 'name' will die every week, Varche, there are fickin thousands of them from the superstar actor down to the fella from the oxo advert.

Oh NO ! Not the guy from the OXO advert. Very sad R.I.P. He was such a lovely human being.

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Post by: Mister Rog on 29 May 2017, 22:30:33
We should start a new thread for dead people to save starting new ones all the time.

Yep. Good idea. Watch for "Dead Person" thread, oh ok maybe that's a bit harsh. I need to think

How about "Another R.I P that nobody has heard of"

No ? ok. Maybe "Kicked the Bucket" ?

Hmmmmm " Recently Passed away"

No, I'm heading back to "Dead Person", certainly not ambiguous . . . . .




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Post by: henryd on 30 May 2017, 13:25:22
Quite depressing all these names dying. My dad is going to fewer and fewer funerals now he is 90.

Sadly,my dad has recently been to his own,just made 90 :'(
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 30 May 2017, 14:17:40
A good innings by any measure ;)
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Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 30 May 2017, 16:57:36
'Noaksey' wasn't the only intrepid Blue Peter presenter to climb Nelson's Column, Konnie Huq did it about 30 years later when Health & Safety had taken the adventure and risk out of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVg15Gqhzp0&t=10s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVg15Gqhzp0&t=10s)
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Post by: aaronjb on 31 May 2017, 07:28:13
Konnie Huq

Ooh.. I would have, back in her Blue Peter days.