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Frood

Blahhhhhh...

Anonymous

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Cigarette smokers. Duh

DKG

Gary Rossington, the last original member of legendary rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died.



The guitarist, behind such memorable songs as "Freebird" and "Sweet Home Alabama," passed away Sunday, according to a statement released by the band.



Although his cause of death was not disclosed, Rossington suffered from a series of heart-related issues over the years, including a heart attack in 2015. He also received an emergency heart procedure in 2019.



Rossington was aboard a plane that crashed after it ran out of fuel over Mississippi in October 1977, killing three of his bandmates: lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines.



Gary Rossington was seventy one.

Herman

Actor Robert Blake died at age eighty nine.

Oliver Clotheshoffe

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Jerry Samuels, who under the name Napoleon XIV recorded one of the 1960s' strangest and most successful novelty songs, "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!," died on March 10 in Phoenixville, Pa. He was 84.



His son Jason said the cause was complications of dementia and Parkinson's disease.



Mr. Samuels had had modest success as a songwriter and was working as an engineer at Associated Recording Studios in New York when, in 1966, he and a fellow engineer, Nat Schnapf, set a bit of doggerel that Mr. Samuels had written to — well, "music" may not be quite the right word, since the song consists of Mr. Samuels rhythmically talking over a backing of tambourine, snare and bass drums, and clapping.



"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" was, by any measure, one of the most bizarre records to come out in any year. It took off like, well, like crazy, reaching #3 in the U.S. and #4 in the U.K.



The single's B-side was "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er'yehT," the same recording played backwards.



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Herman

Quote from: "Oliver Clotheshoffe" post_id=496057 time=1679345134 user_id=3349

I aint that song before. If you consider that a song.

Anonymous

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The B side is reported to have cleared out a 1950s styled cafe in 40 seconds flat. And this was in the days before we knew Satan was recording backwards messages into popular music. :laugh3:

Oliver Clotheshoffe

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Al Jaffee, a cartoonist who folded in when the trend in magazine publishing was to fold out, thereby creating one of Mad magazine's most recognizable and enduring features, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 102.



His death, at a hospital, was caused by multi-system organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson said.



It was in 1964 that Mr. Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In, an illustration-with-text feature on the inside of the magazine's back cover that seemed at first glance to deliver a straightforward message. When the page was folded in thirds, however, both illustration and text were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal-leaning or authority-defying message.



"It was supposed to be really a one-shot," he said in a 1993 interview with The Kansas City Star. "But because of the overwhelming demand of three or four of my relatives, it went on to a second time, and on and on."



That "on and on" turned into a career that included other memorable contributions to Mad, like a "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" feature, and that in 2007 won him cartooning's top honor, the Reuben Award, putting him in the company of Charles M. Schulz, Mort Walker, Gary Larson, Matt Groening and other luminaries of the trade.



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DKG

Harry Belafonte, legendary entertainer and civil rights activist, died in his Manhattan home Tuesday at age 96.

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Harry Belafonte, legendary entertainer and civil rights activist, died in his Manhattan home Tuesday at age 96.


Fuck that piece of shit commie in  HELL!

kiebers

RIP Jerry Springer. We all know what he was famous for.
I've learned that if someone asks you a really stupid question and you reply by telling them what time it is, they'll leave you alone

Shen Li

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RIP Jerry Springer. We all know what he was famous for.

His show was bubblegum for the mind. But, his family will miss him.

Oliver Clotheshoffe

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 The White woman who accused Black teen Emmett Till of making sexual advances toward her before he was brutally beaten and lynched by her then-husband has died, multiple outlets report.



According to The New York Times, the Associated Press and Mississippi Today, citing the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office, Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday while in hospice care in Westlake, La. She was 88.



Mississippi Today reports Donham had cancer at the time of her death.



Donham, who was a 21-year-old shopkeeper in Money, Miss., at the time of Till's killing, accused the teen of propositioning her and lewdly grabbing her at her family's grocery store on Aug. 24, 1955.



Several days after the accusations, the teen was kidnapped from a relative's home in the middle of the night, beaten and lynched.



Photographs of Till's mutilated body taken at his funeral in Chicago were printed in the media and caused outrage around the country and overseas. His lynching, and the subsequent acquittal of his killers, became a catalyst of the national civil rights movement.



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