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ThreeBears
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Kofi Annan on any lists?
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Tlazolteotl
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Paul
Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship
Across Five Continents (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998), pp. 278-9.
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was a story I never asked Vidia to verify -- didn't dare ask, because I wanted
it to be true. If it was not true, it ought to have been.
Ved
Mehta is a distinguished Indian writer. [...] Ved Mehta is also famously blind.
A certain New Yorker doubted his blindness. Seeing Mehta at a New York party, speaking to a group of
attentive people, holding court, the man decided to test it. He had always been
skeptical that Mehta was totally blind, since in his writing he minutely
described people's faces and wrote about the nuances of color and texture with
elaborate subtlety, making precise distinctions.
The
man crept over to where Mehta was sitting, and as the writer continued to
speak, the doubting man began making faces at him. He leaned over and waved his
hands at Ved Mehta's eyes. He thumbed his nose at Ved Mehta. He wagged his
fingers in Ved Mehta's face.
Still,
Mehta went on speaking, calmly and in perfectly enunciated sentences, never
faltering in his expansive monologue.
The
man made a last attempt: he put his own face a foot away and stuck his tongue
out. But Mehta spoke without a pause, as if the man did not exist.
Realizing
how wrong he had been, the man felt uncomfortable and wanted to go home.
Leaving the party, he said to the hostess, "I had always thought Ved Mehta
was faking his blindness, or at least exaggerating. I am now convinced that Ved
Mehta is blind."
"That's
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Tlazolteotl
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Lance Thompson? Anyone got Lance Thompson? I didn't think so.
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Passing Through
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He was a Type 1 diabetic. Maybe connected.
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djebel
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RIP in Lance, very very sad, way too young. Terrible.
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reductio ad absurdum
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djebel
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John McCain has lost his battle.
He was 81, He is survived by not only his children but his Mother as well. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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acacia alba
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Is that the American pollie, who was a POW in Vietnam ?
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animals before people.
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djebel
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Correctamundo.
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reductio ad absurdum
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Passing Through
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American playwright Neil Simon 91
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ThreeBears
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Many will recall Robin Leach too, the host from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, who died last Friday.
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ThreeBears
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Charlotte Rae another well known face to many from Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life died a few weeks ago.
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ThreeBears
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R.I.P Mirka Mora
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Passing Through
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Burt Reynolds 82 from a heart attack at home RIP
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marble
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RIP Burt - i was a big fan of the Smoky and the bandit movies when i was a youngster
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Dr E
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Didn't catch Deliverance?
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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VOYAGER
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When you were a youngster.... My fav movie. You know you have made a good comedy, when you watch it 100 times and it still makes you laugh. Cannonball Run was a crack up as well. Glad he had some success later in life, and I would also like to add my condolences! |
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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acacia alba
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R I P you good ole boy.
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animals before people.
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djebel
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Did anybody have a MacDonald Miller ?
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reductio ad absurdum
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ThreeBears
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R.I.P Burt. To paraphrase a line from one of your later films - You were a big, big STAR.
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Tlazolteotl
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No points for over 80 year old picks.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron |
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Shawy38
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Enjoyed watching Smokey 1 and 2 last night.
Rip Burt |
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VOYAGER
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Just saw Bill Daily, Major Healy from I Dream Of Jeannie, has passed on.
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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Passing Through
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91 years old A good innings, and a happy life according to his son..
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VOYAGER
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I know we have a lot of Days Of Our Lives fans on here so just want to post Frank Parker, who played the patriarch Shawn Brady has passed at 79.
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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Shawy38
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Bob Jane dead at 88
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VOYAGER
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Marty Balin, frontman for 60's band Jefferson Airplane has passed, aged 76.
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Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise
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Second Chance
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Cavanaugh in palliative care, but expected to recover with Republican Life Support.
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Dr E
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*Kavanaugh
... any reports of Eddie necking himself yet?
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Passing Through
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Charles Aznavour dead at 94.
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Also Ron (WON) Casey at 89
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