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01-25-2017 , 03:46 PM

#1326

biggerboat

you're gonna need one

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Nooooo

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01-25-2017 , 03:49 PM

#1327

microbet

Solar Powered

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Definitely feel a little sad about that one.

RIP

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01-25-2017 , 03:50 PM

#1328

wil318466

banned

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Originally Posted by mrbaseball

RIP Mary Tyler Moore

A true icon of American television.

Wow you guys are fast. After I read that I hear my phone buzz and I thought it was probably breaking news about her dying. It was.

You work for TMZ or something? Jesus.

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01-25-2017 , 04:00 PM

#1329

TimTimSalabim

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I'm old enough to remember gathering around the TV set to watch the MTM show. It revolutionized the genre. RIP.

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01-25-2017 , 04:04 PM

#1330

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

I loved Mary Tyler Moore! Great show too. And she killed on Dick Van Dyke too. She was the best.

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01-25-2017 , 04:07 PM

#1331

kioshk

Nixonian

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01-25-2017 , 04:08 PM

#1332

NhlNut

KANGZ

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 18,190

RIP Butch Trucks, one of the 2 original drummers of the Allman Brothers Band.

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Alongside drummer and percussionist Jai "Jaimoe" Johnny Johanson, Trucks helped lay the swinging foundation for southern-rock drumming. Jamoe once asked Duane Allman why he wanted two drummers in the group, according to the Allman Brothers biography One Way Out, and the guitarist referenced Otis Redding and James Brown's dual-drummer bands.

"Jaimoe was a real good drummer, but more of a pocket guy … he wasn't really able to handle the power," Allman Brothers guitarist Dicky Betts said in the book. "We needed Butch, who had that drive and strength, freight train, meat-and-potatoes thing. It set Jaimoe up perfectly." Although Jaimoe left and returned to the group in the Eighties, Trucks provided a constant beat throughout the band's lifespan.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-69-w462870

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01-25-2017 , 04:11 PM

#1333

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,372

MTM was great. Really oldsters like me also remember her from the Dick van Dyke Show, as Laura his wife.

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01-25-2017 , 04:26 PM

#1334

microbet

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I'm not old enough to have watched those shows as they originally aired, but in the early days of cable I watched both those shows on, as I recall, WGN. Dick van Dyke, MTM and Bob Newhart.

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01-25-2017 , 04:30 PM

#1335

kioshk

Nixonian

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The Bob Newhart Show is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, and I'm telling you right now, Bob Newhart better not die. Not on my watch.

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01-25-2017 , 04:36 PM

#1336

TimTimSalabim

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Kind of weird (at least to me) that MTM was 80 and Ed Asner (who's still alive) is 87. I always assumed they were much farther apart in age.

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01-25-2017 , 04:39 PM

#1337

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Originally Posted by TimTimSalabim

Kind of weird (at least to me) that MTM was 80 and Ed Asner (who's still alive) is 87. I always assumed they were much farther apart in age.

Overweight bald guy looked a lot older than beautiful woman. (plus there was makeup)

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01-25-2017 , 05:14 PM

#1338

TimTimSalabim

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Originally Posted by microbet

Overweight bald guy looked a lot older than beautiful woman. (plus there was makeup)

I'm sure that contributed to it, in addition to him acting like the cranky old boss.

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01-25-2017 , 05:57 PM

#1339

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,372

Dick Van Dyke is 91.

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01-25-2017 , 06:04 PM

#1340

Gioco

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,410

Betty White at 95 may outlive them all.

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01-25-2017 , 06:08 PM

#1341

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 92,839

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Originally Posted by Gioco

Betty White at 95 may outlive them all.

Sue Ann Nivens! She's a national treasure.

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01-25-2017 , 08:38 PM

#1342

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

Such an amazing, talented, and funny woman. Bye Mary. Very sad.

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01-25-2017 , 08:43 PM

#1343

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

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Originally Posted by Gioco

Betty White at 95 may outlive them all.

Maybe. But she would have to outlive Gavin MacLeod, Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman,
and Georgia Engel is only 68. All were in 38 episodes or more.

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01-25-2017 , 09:20 PM

#1344

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 22,789

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Originally Posted by NhlNut

RIP Butch Trucks, one of the 2 original drummers of the Allman Brothers Band.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-69-w462870

i just can't let this post slip by among the MTM grief. Butch and Jaimoe might just be the best drumming duo every assembled.

he even teaches you how to play Whipping Post

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01-26-2017 , 01:35 AM

#1345

Dominic

Tripod

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MTM laughing at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown may be the funniest sitcom moment ever. She was spectacular.

And Laura Petrie probably gave me my first boner. Man was she pretty. And she was just as funny as Dick van Dyke.

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01-27-2017 , 04:14 AM

#1346

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

Mike Connors best known for Mannix gone at 91. Mannix being one of the classic detective series from the late 60's to early 70's. A cool guy.

Married to the same wife, who is still alive, for 68 years. Wow.

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01-27-2017 , 04:26 AM

#1347

kioshk

Nixonian

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I liked Mannix, that's too bad. He had a great actor face, Mike Connors.

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01-27-2017 , 05:19 PM

#1348

Stinky Stu

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,201

MTM was so hot, especially back in the "Dick Van Dyke Show" days.

Watched "Mannix" every week, too, when I was a kid.

They're dropping like flies.

RIP, guys, and thanks for the memories.

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01-27-2017 , 10:00 PM

#1349

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,753

The incomparable Sir John Hurt dead at 77. We've lost another great one. RIP.

Recently George Orwell's 1984 is making a come back due to the current political climate and John Hurt played the Winston Smith character in the movie.