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The RIP Thread

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by durbar2003, Feb 3, 2016.

  1. jeffranger

    jeffranger Well-Known Member

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    Sad news & great player for England & Yorkshire, RIP Ray
     
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  2. Hammersmith reborn

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    Yep a true giant of English cricket and hard as nails. RIP Ray
     
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  3. Didley Squat

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    Rest In Peace Ray Illingworth.
    A very worthy captain.
     
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  4. Star of David Bardsley

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    Desmond gone.

    Forever remembered with every 2-2 draw.
     
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  5. Turkish" Premier" Hoops

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    R.I.P.
    ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU aged 90.
    Anti Aparteid campaigner and confidant of Nelson Mandela
     
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  6. Uber_Hoop

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    A very great man and eloquent speaker.

    “Faith without works is dead”.

    Only the second holy man to be named after an item of female clothing; the first, of course, being the Archbishop of Cantilever.
     
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  7. IwasanotherwatfordR

    IwasanotherwatfordR Well-Known Member

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    And the first to always be referred to as a poor result at university.
     
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    Radio presenter Janice Long 66 RIP
     
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  9. IwasanotherwatfordR

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    Wasn’t she Keith Chegwins sister?
     
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  10. Goldhawk-Road

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    Chegger's older sister
     
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  11. QPR999

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    That's sad. RIP Janice
     
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    RIP Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss, 97. She took fashion and celebrity photos, but many more capturing street life all over the place, Portugal, New York and especially Paris in the 50s. Incredibly evocative.
    B00C35EF-A51B-4268-A275-D40931EF4476.jpeg
     
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  13. Uber_Hoop

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    I see Betty White just missed out on her century.
     
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    By 17 days.

    I never particularly liked the characters she played but she had a showbiz career that lasted over 80 years and not a lot of her peers can say that. I heard that it put her in Guinness so i reckon none of her peers can say that

    RIP Betty White
     
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  15. Uber_Hoop

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    She was so famous Stateside that even Joe Biden still remembers who she was, which is good going for a man who struggles to remember who he is.
     
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    Sleepy Joe thinks Barry White has died and is going round singing, My First, My Last, My Everything :emoticon-0159-music
     
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    Such a shame she didn't make the 100, I was reading about her the day before she passed away, People magazine already issued 'Betty at 100'...

     
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  20. IwasanotherwatfordR

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    No criminal charges were brought against the construction company involved which apparently failed to disclose previous failings to local authorities. Pity the American Courts didn’t have the same zeal to pursue a (an American) company for killing half a dozen people as they seem to have in pursuing Maxwell and Randy Andy for what surely must be lesser crimes/allegations.
     
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