[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/]Investors Business Daily "Shocked" When Informed that Stephen Hawking is British and not Dead[/url]

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090813/ap_en_mo/us_obit_quade_3"]Character actor John Quade dies at 71[/URL]

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Taggart"]second-oldest man in the United Kingdom and the oldest man in Scotland dies[/URL]

[quote=Uncwilly;185361][URL="http://new.music.yahoo.com/les-paul/news/guitar-legend-inventor-les-paul-dies-at-age-94--61992735"]Guitar legend-inventor Les Paul dies at age 94[/URL][/quote]

RIP
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrHVwJKrJM&feature=channel[/URL]

etc
More to come in the Music thread

David

[quote=ewmayer;185380][URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/hawking_british_and_alive/"]Investors Business Daily "Shocked" When Informed that Stephen Hawking is British and not Dead[/URL][/quote]

USA slagginig off the NHS (and lamenting the compassionate
release of the supposed Lockerbie bomber) is top news here ATM.
(Les Paul gets attention too),

I guess that medal Obama gave Stephen Hawking the other day,
and his voice made him seem more American than he is:smile:

[QUOTE=davieddy;185527]USA slagginig off the NHS[/QUOTE]Please stay on topic. Death during this summer.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;185540]Please stay on topic. Death during this summer.[/QUOTE]

I accept the blame for this one ... after all I posted a story which was merely about "false rumors of hypothetical demise". I actually intended to post the "E's not dead yet ... 'e might recover..." Hawking link in the "news which make you go 'wtf'?" thread, but once I realized my mistake, I left it here because it seemed oddly appropriate.

I apologize unreservedly for any distress I may have caused the thread regulars.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;185552]I accept the blame for this one ...
I left it here because it seemed oddly appropriate.[/QUOTE]
That one is ok.

The link to u-toob was quite iffy, though.

BTW, I am generally avoiding war deaths and those of terrorism and non-first world tranport accidents.

[quote=Uncwilly;185540]Please stay on topic. Death during this summer.[/quote]
Is it possible to remove your head from your anus without fatal surgery?

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy_(ice_hockey)"]Ted Kennedy dead at 83[/URL]
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]the ice hockey player[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[URL="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Aerosmith_cancel_remaining_tour_dates_after_on_stage_accident"]Aerosmith cancel remaining tour dates after on stage accident[/URL]Close, oh so close, but no cigar. What is it this year with stages and injuries and death?

It's just a stage the're going through.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_R._Bridges]Campbell Bridges, discoverer of tsavorite, is stabbed and dies[/url]