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O/T RIP Sir Patrick Moore

Discussion in 'Norwich City' started by canary-dave, Dec 9, 2012.

  1. canary-dave

    canary-dave Well-Known Member

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    Passed away 1225 this afternoon! What an entertaining speaker he has been over many, many years!

    Read it HERE

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  2. yarco canary

    yarco canary Well-Known Member

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    A real character.

    Met the guy once,a genuine excentric.

    A new star in the sky tonight
     
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    GozoCanary Well-Known Member

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    Yes, he was eccentric, to the point where he openly flirted with the British National Party and supported the views of Enoch Powell. He was against the Race Relations Act, he believed women's place was in the home, and he was homophobic.
     
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    Cruyff's Turn Well-Known Member

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    Well,nobody is perfect.I always predicted that he would eventually drown in the waistband of his inexorably rising trousers.
     
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  5. GozoCanary

    GozoCanary Well-Known Member

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    :biggrin: Yes, I think scientifically he believed in the concept of the expanding universe.
     
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    zogean_king Well-Known Member

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    Well the sky at night got me into astronomy and from that got me a trip to south africa for £300 to see the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere and teach in the townships of capetown so very grateful to the man.... however sometimes he was hard to understand
     
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  7. redruthyella

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    I don't know how many eccentrics there are left but he must be the close to the last. Anyone who plays the xylophone when there are all those other wonderful instruments to play has to be eccentric.
    I wasn't a fan of his politics but they way things are at the moment some of the things he said years ago which didn't make sense then, make sense now. I guess he was harmless and its certainly the end of an era.
     
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