OBITUARIES

[Wendyf]

RIP Meat Loaf
https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/21/meat-loa ... -15957970/

That's sad. He never looked too healthy! I remember watching him for the first time performing Paradise by the Dashboard Light on the Old Grey Whistle Test, it was quite an experience!

[Big Kev]

RIP Meat Loaf
https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/21/meat-loa ... -15957970/

That's sad. He never looked too healthy! I remember watching him for the first time performing Paradise by the Dashboard Light on the Old Grey Whistle Test, it was quite an experience!

I saw that too, a great performance. Recently he hadn't been too well at all, seen using a stick and a wheelchair to get around. Also unconfirmed stories of a stroke.

[Stanley]

I always liked his performances and particularly the collaboration with Jim Steinman. I love his lyrics.....

[Cathy]

Marilyn is going into decline over the death of Meatloaf - Michael Lee Adam.

If I remember correctly, Meatloaf was a trained opera singer.

[Stanley]

Barry Cryer is dead. He wrote for some of the funniest comedians.... He will be missed.

[Tizer]

RIP Barry. This is one of his first jokes told on-stage...
A man driving down a country lane runs over a cockerel.
He goes to the farmhouse and knocks on the door.
A woman opens it and he says: "I appear to have killed your cockerel. I'd like to replace him.'
She replies: "Please yourself, the hens are round the back."'

[Stanley]

[Big Kev]

Bamber Gascoigne: Original University Challenge presenter dies at 87
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60301687
Here's your starter for ten.

[Tizer]

Snap! I was writing this as you posted Kev. University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne has died aged 87. BBC He's also known for his HistoryWorld online encyclopaedia. It also has a quiz. History World

[Tripps]

Not quite in the Jimmy Carr category of tasteless jokes, but here goes . . . .



Your starter for ten

Which famous quiz master died today?

No conferring!

[Tripps]

No reaction - you've got better taste than me.

I heard on the radio that he seems to have been universally liked, and ran the programme for twenty five years. At it's peak, it had an audience of 12 million viewers. It was also said that he had a ritual of eating an Eccles cake before the start of each show.

I like that.

[Stanley]

Where would he get Eccles Cakes in London?

[Tripps]

Where would he get Eccles Cakes in London?

At the corner shop of course.

[Stanley]

Silly me..... Of course! (I note they are still using Palm oil.... )
Later after shopping. I saw Lancashire Eccles Cakes and bought them because you had put them in mind. (Even though they were £2.20.)

[Tripps]

Portillo visited the factory on one of his railway journeys. I think it was actually in Eccles. I remember being amazed at how many layers were in the pastry. Seems they now come from Hyde Road, Ardwick in Manchester. That rings a bell - I've walked into town a few times late at night, from the bus garage there.

PS Who meeds a memory when you've got Google - Not actually Eccles - Ardwick.

Eccles cakes

[Big Kev]

Later after shopping. I saw Lancashire Eccles Cakes and bought them because you had put them in mind. (Even though they were £2.20.)

£2.20 each?

[Stanley]

No Kev, £2.20 for 4 and in David's Sainsbury promotion they were £2.
David, Hyde Road for me = Belle Vue.....

[Cathy]

I wonder where Kev is off too ?

[Tripps]

Hyde Road for me = Belle Vue.....

Me too - that was where I was getting home from.

This is fun - but perhaps we should be geting back to the more serious thread topic, with apologies for off piste.

[Stanley]

Off piste is the best bit of the site. Far more interesting than death!

[Cathy]

Rod Marsh MBE Age 74
Australian Cricket Icon RIP

Shane Warne Age 52
Australian Cricket Icon RIP

[Stanley]

He and Shane Warne took a lot of wickets..... And later I realised that he had died as well from a heart attack at the age of 52. (LINK)

[Tripps]

De mortuis nil nisi bonum - as they say.

I think I'll stick with Bobby Charlton as my hero.

[Stanley]

I had to look it up.... clever clogs!

[Tripps]

The actor Peter Bowles has died.

I think I'd describe him as a 'performer' rather than an 'actor'.

For me, he was Peter Bowles in all he did. I see no mention in the tributes of what I think was his best performance, as Major Yeates in The 'Irish RM' which would be my top ten TV programmes of all time.