Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:42 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:06 pm Michael Collins...You orbit earth and moon you get a post.
You get the Air & Space Museum built..you get praise from wlu_lax6

https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo- ... Insider%29

And inspire a Jethro Tull song!

Blew my mind when I read about Michael Collins in college and made the connection to the song, then really listened to the lyrics in the refrain:

I'm with you L.E.M [Lunar Excursion Module]
Though it's a shame that it had to be you
The mother ship
Is just a blip from your trip made for two
I'm with you boys
So please employ just a little extra care
It's on my mind
I'm left behind when I should have been there
Walking with you

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:02 pm

Al Schmitt, 23-time Grammy winner

Over Schmitt’s impressive career, he won Grammy Awards for engineering on 10 occasions. The first was for 1962’s Hatari! by Henry Mancini, and he landed more with George Benson, Toto, Steely Dan, Ray Charles and Quincy Jones.

At 19, in his first job as an apprentice at Apex Recording Studios, Schmitt unexpectedly had to record Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.

He relocated to Los Angeles in the late 50s, and had his next run of success as the staff engineer at RCA in Hollywood, engineering records for Sam Cooke, and even for Elvis Presley.

After RCA, Schmitt’s career as a freelance producer exploded, producing records for Jackson Browne, Neil Young and engineering the likes of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Madonna and Michael Jackson.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:22 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:06 pm Michael Collins...You orbit earth and moon you get a post.
You get the Air & Space Museum built..you get praise from wlu_lax6

https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo- ... Insider%29

Damn.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat May 01, 2021 4:49 pm

Olympia Dukakis

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Sat May 01, 2021 5:21 pm

Moonstruck is a fantastic movie. And Steel Magnolias is a decent enough “take one for the team” movie.

ETA: I’m selling it short. Steel Magnolias is a great movie too.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sat May 01, 2021 7:28 pm

Tony Markellis, 68.

Fuuuuck.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sat May 01, 2021 8:21 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 5:21 pm Moonstruck is a fantastic movie. And Steel Magnolias is a decent enough “take one for the team” movie.

ETA: I’m selling it short. Steel Magnolias is a great movie too.

Sally Field should have won an oscar for that movie. And she wasn't even nominated.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KILL JULIA ROBERTS?!?!?!?

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat May 01, 2021 8:23 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 8:21 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 5:21 pm Moonstruck is a fantastic movie. And Steel Magnolias is a decent enough “take one for the team” movie.

ETA: I’m selling it short. Steel Magnolias is a great movie too.
Sally Field should have won an oscar for that movie. And she wasn't even nominated.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KILL JULIA ROBERTS?!?!?!?

She should have drank the juice.

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Mon May 03, 2021 12:37 pm

Three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser, 87.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Wed May 05, 2021 2:50 pm

Former manager of the O’s and Twins, Ray Miller. https://www.mlb.com/news/ray-miller-ori ... dies-at-76

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 05, 2021 2:58 pm

How can he have just died at 76 when he was 76 in the 1980s?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat May 08, 2021 11:17 am

Tawny Kitaen

Chuck Finley no longer has to live in fear.

Obligatory:

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Sat May 08, 2021 5:16 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:17 am
Chuck Finley no longer has to live in fear.

Exact text I sent to someone earlier today.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sat May 08, 2021 5:57 pm

Reaper wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 5:16 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 11:17 am
Chuck Finley no longer has to live in fear.

Exact text I sent to someone earlier today.

It for totally different reasons.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat May 08, 2021 10:21 pm

I also responded with “she beat up Chuck Finley right?”.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat May 08, 2021 11:51 pm

Lloyd Price

Had hits w Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Peraonality and Stagger Lee.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun May 09, 2021 1:37 am

Stagger Lee is a great song.

ETA:

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon May 10, 2021 7:11 am

Pete du Pont, former governor of Delaware, who I think also scared the shit out of young rass one year when he attended an open haunted house at the governor's mansion.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon May 10, 2021 8:05 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 1:37 am Stagger Lee is a great song.

ETA:

Agreed. My father in law used to love that song.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue May 11, 2021 12:14 pm

Former Hawaii standout QB Colt Brennan. 37

Square Rob · Post by **Square Rob** » Tue May 11, 2021 12:27 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 12:14 pm Former Hawaii standout QB Colt Brennan. 37

Yikes. That’s young. He was a hell of a player to watch at Hawaii.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue May 11, 2021 2:24 pm

Apparently he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a car crash back in 2010. He spent the rest of his life struggling with substance abuse, in and out of legal troubles, etc. Tragic.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue May 11, 2021 4:20 pm

AJC twitter account having a totally normal one...

Post by **brian** » Tue May 11, 2021 4:48 pm

Norman Lloyd. Acted in St. Elsewhere and was the last surviving member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater. Lived to the ripe old age of 106.

Post by **brian** » Tue May 11, 2021 4:50 pm

And for posterity since they deleted the original tweet, here's what TB was referring to.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue May 11, 2021 5:05 pm

Thanks. Yes, that.

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Wed May 12, 2021 9:22 pm

Former Vikings head coach Jerry Burns, 94. The article linked has an all-time great postgame press conference from 1989.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed May 12, 2021 10:12 pm

Reaper wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 9:22 pm Former Vikings head coach Jerry Burns, 94. The article linked has an all-time great postgame press conference from 1989.

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing this.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu May 13, 2021 6:36 am

Reaper wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 9:22 pm Former Vikings head coach Jerry Burns, 94. The article linked has an all-time great postgame press conference from 1989.

He looked almost 90 when he was coaching.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu May 13, 2021 8:27 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 2:24 pm Apparently he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a car crash back in 2010. He spent the rest of his life struggling with substance abuse, in and out of legal troubles, etc. Tragic.

Fentanyl.

If you want your blood pressure jacked up, watch the HBO doc on the Stacklers. I knew 80 percent of it, and it still got me mad enough to punch the wall.

Post by **brian** » Thu May 13, 2021 2:36 pm

Saint Louis basketball assistant dies at age 29 of something that mysteriously sounds like COVID, but the school and various media reports refuse to identify it as COVID.

Bronto says it was a stomach infection.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Tue May 18, 2021 7:25 pm

Charles Grodin

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue May 18, 2021 7:30 pm

Not remotely obscure. 1 Swampbuck.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue May 18, 2021 8:29 pm

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 7:30 pm Not remotely obscure. 1 Swampbuck.

Minus one at least.

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue May 18, 2021 9:55 pm

Pittsburgh Pirate Rennie Stennett, age 72. Only player to go 7 for 7 in a game.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Wed May 19, 2021 5:50 am

Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 7:30 pm Not remotely obscure. 1 Swampbuck.

Not nearly relevant enough to create an entire thread about though. I’ll pay, we are a society with rules.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed May 19, 2021 5:52 am

bfj wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 5:50 am
Jerloma wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 7:30 pm Not remotely obscure. 1 Swampbuck.
Not nearly relevant enough to create an entire thread about though. I’ll pay, we are a society with rules.

I'm on bfj's side here.

First Jessica Walter, now Charles Grodin... we seem to be developing a real fetish for character actors here.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu May 20, 2021 5:37 am

Paul Mooney

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon May 24, 2021 9:44 am

Max Mosley, Former FIA President

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Mon May 24, 2021 10:34 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 9:44 am Max Mosley, Former FIA President

Son of Oswald, fascist leader in the 1930's