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Back in 3rd grade, I had to write a poem for homework.. and I hated homework so I forgot about it till it was almost time for bed. I didn't feel like coming up with stuff that rhymed, so I grabbed my sister's Prince album and copied down the lyrics to Little Red Corvette. I remember getting a B. Thanks Prince!
Thats my only Prince story. Not nearly as good as Dave Chappelle's ...
Was also an under-rated guitarist... that dude could shred.
Underrated? I think it's pretty well known that Prince was a very talented multi-instrumentalist plus he was a pop mega star in the 80's and well respected by critics and general audiences alike. That being said this particular celebrity death (usually I don't care that much unless it's someone
important to me) is rough for me (almost on the same level as David Bowie) as I'm a Prince fan, Dirty, Mind Sing O Times, Purple Rain, 1999 all incredible albums.
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Necros wrote: Back in 3rd grade, I had to write a poem for homework.. and I hated homework so I forgot about it till it was almost time for bed. I didn't feel like coming up with stuff that rhymed, so I grabbed my sister's Prince album and copied down the lyrics to Little Red Corvette. I remember getting a B. Thanks Prince!
Thats my only Prince story. Not nearly as good as Dave Chappelle's ...
I think that was Charlie Murphy's story (Eddie Murphy's brother) but it was told through the Chappelle Show so I could see how one would think that.
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Jehan-reznor wrote: Damn purple rain was one of my favorite movies when i was younger, and Chyna? WTF! i am sure WWE will come out with a "tribute" DVD/Bluray now.
Would be nice, but I doubt they'll do it. Chyna is something of a "non-entity" in the WWE. Her parting from the company was less than smooth.
Jehan-reznor wrote: Damn purple rain was one of my favorite movies when i was younger, and Chyna? WTF! i am sure WWE will come out with a "tribute" DVD/Bluray now.
Would be nice, but I doubt they'll do it. Chyna is something of a "non-entity" in the WWE. Her parting from the company was less than smooth.
Like Bret Hart and The ultimate warrior, when money can be made they turn around, even Bishops worked at WWE!
I saw him countless times,including a tiny club with Mavis Staples, where he mainly played guitar - it was much like it would have been seeing Hendrix at the Marquee.
He was maybe the best act I ever saw in the 80s, better than Bowie, certainly better than the Stones, and he worked harder than James Brown (who, to be fair, was getting on). Sheila E, double bass drum kit, stupendous solo in the middle of a sign o the times song, and at the end he declaims: "not a bad drummer... for a girl!"
Frank Ocean was namechecking When You Were Mine, so I played it last night. An absolutely perfect pop song.
And feth Don't bypass the language filter like this please. reds8n 20161!
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Why so many celebrities have died in 2016
By Roland Hughes and Laura Gray
BBC News
7 hours ago
From the section Entertainment & Arts
Prince performs at the Apollo Theater in New York. Photo: October 2010Image copyrightReuters
Image caption
Prince died on 21 April at the age of 57
We are only four months in, but it's already been a dark, dark 2016.
It now seems rare for a week to pass without a significant celebrity death being reported - from David Bowie in the second week of January, to actor Alan Rickman a week later, to comedian Victoria Wood and Prince this week.
"Enough, 2016" and a more vulgar alternative are phrases people are uttering more and more regularly. So is this wave of celebrity deaths the new normal?
The answer is yes, according to the BBC's obituary editor Nick Serpell, who ought to know about such things.
He said that the number of significant deaths this year has been "phenomenal".
Looking at the basic statistics, there's a very clear upward trend. Nick prepares obituaries for BBC television, radio and online, that run once a notable person's death is confirmed.
The number of his obituaries used across BBC outlets in recent years has leaped considerably.
It's a jump from only five between January and late March 2012 to a staggering 24 in the same period this year - an almost five-fold increase, according to research by the BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme.
And that's before counting some of the notable deaths in April, including American singer Merle Haggard, the former drug smuggler Howard Marks and this week's two notable departures.
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But might it just be that the BBC has increased its store of obituaries to such an extent it means plenty more are being used?
There are indeed more obituaries in the BBC's files - some 1,500 in total - than when Nick started 10 years ago, he says. He adds a few more every week.
But look elsewhere and the picture bears out.
Media captionVictoria Wood inspired a new generation of female comics in a hugely successful career on television and on stage.
Here in the UK, the Daily Telegraph maintains a gallery of famous people who have died, and updates it throughout the year. Up to this time in 2014, the number of those in the gallery was 38. By this time last year, the number of people in the gallery was 30. This year, the number is already 75.
At the beginning of every year, the (rather morbid) website deathlist.net lists 50 celebrities it believes may pass away that year. In six of the last 10 years, two or fewer of its predictions had come true by this time - this year, five names have died so far.
This all invites the question: why?
There are a few reasons, Nick Serpell says.
"People who started becoming famous in the 1960s are now entering their 70s and are starting to die," he says.
"There are also more famous people than there used to be," he says. "In my father or grandfather's generation, the only famous people really were from cinema - there was no television.
"Then, if anybody wasn't on TV, they weren't famous."
The baby-boom factor
Media captionThe many faces of David Bowie
Many of those now dying belonged to the so-called baby-boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964, that saw a huge growth in population. In the US for example, the census bureau said that 76m people in 2014 belonged to the baby boomer generation - some 23% of the population.
Here in the UK, people aged 65 or older make up almost 18% of the population - a 47% increase on forty years ago.
With more babies born into the baby-boom generation, it meant more went on to eventually become famous.
Now, those famous former babies, aged between 70 and 52, are dying.
The age-bracket 65 to 69 is the one, in England and Wales for example, where death rates really start to increase - some 14.2 per 1,000 men in that age bracket died in 2014, compared with 9.4 per 1,000 in the 60 to 64 age bracket.
Among the major deaths this year, many - including Prince (57), Alan Rickman (69), David Bowie (69) and Victoria Wood (62) - were baby-boomers.
Obituary: David Bowie
What makes a celebrity?
Another factor that may play into the impression that more celebrities are dying is that we have heard of more celebrities than before.
"Over the past 10 years, social media has played a big part," Nick Serpell says.
Hours before Prince's death was announced, tributes were paid to the American former wrestler and porn star Chyna, who died aged 45.
But the news of her death was not confined to the US - close to 400,000 tweets using the word Chyna were sent worldwide on Thursday, and interest peaked in cities such as Lagos in Nigeria and Lima in Peru.
These days, it is far easier to hear news of whether anyone has died than at any time in the past.
Media captionA look back at some of Alan Rickman's most memorable roles
Will this carry on?
The bad news? Yes, probably. "Over the next 10 years, these people will get into their 80s and it is going to continue at this level," Nick Serpell says.
"And that doesn't count the surprise deaths, when people die that shouldn't."
For the time being, the normally half-hour compilation of obituaries Nick produces for BBC News at the end of every year will be extended: this year, he says he has already been given permission to make it an hour long.
Hivefleet Oblivion wrote: I saw him countless times,including a tiny club with Mavis Staples, where he mainly played guitar - it was much like it would have been seeing Hendrix at the Marquee.
He was maybe the best act I ever saw in the 80s, better than Bowie, certainly better than the Stones, and he worked harder than James Brown (who, to be fair, was getting on). Sheila E, double bass drum kit, stupendous solo in the middle of a sign o the times song, and at the end he declaims: "not a bad drummer... for a girl!"
Frank Ocean was namechecking When You Were Mine, so I played it last night. An absolutely perfect pop song.
His talent level was just unreal. Amazing performer, *terrific* guitar player, and oh yeah, one of the most prolific songwriters ever.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Back in 3rd grade, I had to write a poem for homework.. and I hated homework so I forgot about it till it was almost time for bed. I didn't feel like coming up with stuff that rhymed, so I grabbed my sister's Prince album and copied down the lyrics to Little Red Corvette. I remember getting a B. Thanks Prince!
Terrific The first two verses are so well written.
RIP Prince, some truly timeless tracks he had. Very talented.
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By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
As a Minnesotan I have spent the last day in mourning. This sucks, Prince was a national treasure. This is one of the few celebrity deaths that actually made me sit up and notice.
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For those interested this Thursday AMC and Carmike are showing Purple Rain in the theaters. I'll be going as I like seeing older films in theaters but my wife was a fan and saw Prince in concert a few times so that is why she wants to go.
They also did it last Saturday but that time is gone like Roy Batty releasing a dove that may or may not be crying.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Alan Young — who answered to the name “Willburrrrrrrrrrrrr” on Mister Ed, the wacky 1960s sitcom that revolved around a talking horse — has died. He was 96.
Young — who for six seasons played straight man to a golden palomino, a gelding who was named Bamboo Harvester — died Thursday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Home in Woodland Hills. He was there for more than four years.
Young himself was the voice of a talking bird, playing Scottish miser Scrooge McDuck (the uncle of Donald Duck and great uncle of Huey, Dewey and Louie) on the 1987-1990 syndicated series DuckTales.
And a decade before Mister Ed, the good-natured actor hosted CBS’ The Alan Young Show, which won an Emmy Award for best variety show and earned Young a trophy for best actor as well.
On the big screen, Young played David Filby (and his son James) in MGM’s sci-fi classic The Time Machine (1960), starring Rod Taylor.
In his most famous role, Young portrayed Wilbur Post, an unassuming, accident-prone architect who is married to Carol (Connie Hines). They live in a nice home in the San Fernando Valley with a barn, where the chatty Mister Ed resides — but only Wilbur can hear him speak.
In a 1990 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Young said Wilbur was “naive and bumbling,” while “Ed was a wily one. I think it’s the same chemistry that made Laurel and Hardy and Jackie Gleason and Art Carney: It’s the one guy making a fool of the other guy.”
And a decade before Mister Ed, the good-natured actor hosted CBS’ The Alan Young Show, which won an Emmy Award for best variety show and earned Young a trophy for best actor as well.
On the big screen, Young played David Filby (and his son James) in MGM’s sci-fi classic The Time Machine (1960), starring Rod Taylor.
In his most famous role, Young portrayed Wilbur Post, an unassuming, accident-prone architect who is married to Carol (Connie Hines). They live in a nice home in the San Fernando Valley with a barn, where the chatty Mister Ed resides — but only Wilbur can hear him speak.
In a 1990 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Young said Wilbur was “naive and bumbling,” while “Ed was a wily one. I think it’s the same chemistry that made Laurel and Hardy and Jackie Gleason and Art Carney: It’s the one guy making a fool of the other guy.”
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Burt Kwouk, who was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato in the Pink Panther films, has died aged 85.
He appeared in seven Pink Panther films opposite Peter Sellers as Clouseau's servant who regularly attacked his employer to keep him alert.
He also starred in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 2002 to 2010.
Born in Manchester but raised in Shanghai, the actor was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honour List.
A statement issued by his agent said: "Beloved actor Burt Kwouk has sadly passed peacefully away.
"The family will be having a private funeral but there will be a memorial at a later date."
On the big screen Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond films including Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice.
He also played Major Yamauchi in the 1980s wartime television drama Tenko.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Sgt. Vanden - OOC Hey, that was your doing. I didn't choose to fly in the "Dongerprise'.
"May the odds be ever in your favour"
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I have no clue how Dakka's moderation work. I expect it involves throwing a lot of d100 and looking at many random tables.
FudgeDumper - It could be that you are just so uncomfortable with the idea of your chapters primarch having his way with a docile tyranid spore cyst, that you must deny they have any feelings at all.
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