Boo Radley

Apparently she experienced serious complications and stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal cords at a clinic in Yorkville. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and was put into a medically induced coma after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest. Wonder what the procedure was? Was it really necessary? I always try to stay out of the hands of doctors and hospitals. Dangerous places...

Comedian Joan Rivers dies aged 81 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29072417

http://youtu.be/X5lwbVBzjPA At 2am on 31/08/14 police were called to the scene of a car crash. A Toyota Altis had crashed into the concrete support column for an overpass in Pataya's Sukhumwit Rd. The driver turned out to be a 25 year old Thai woman dressed in just a bra and a skimpy pair of knickers. When she saw the police she ran off but they caught up with her in a petrol station where the drunk girl proceeded to kick out and swear at the assembled police and reporters before she was handcuffed and driven away in a Baht Bus. Wonder who she was? Maybe returning home from work in a go go bar... http://www.dailynews...บตร.-ด่านัà¸à¸‚่าว

Last surviving Hiroshima bomb crew member dies The last surviving member of the US air crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia aged 93. Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch", was 24 when he became the navigator of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb. The attack killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Van Kirk said he had "no regrets" about the mission and defended its morality, saying it helped to end the Second World War. His son, Tom Van Kirk, paid tribute to his father, who he said remained active until the end of his life. "I know he was recognized as a war hero, but we just knew him as a great father", he told AP. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28548475 29/07/14

I remember him most from the Rockford Files in the 1970s. Brings back memories watching him with my Dad. As I recall, the starting theme always began with a phonecall, a different one each episode, which was intercepted via his answerphone as he was out. His recorded message told the caller to leave their name and number and he'd get back to them. Wonder if he ever got robbed after advertising the fact he was not at home to strangers like that all the time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

http://youtu.be/moJAnu50wTQ

Didn't know he was still alive. He was great in the old Spaghetti Westerns.

Naughty Nigel (Born? - Died 2014) From Stickman 22/06/14: "...Starting the news section of the column with the death of a porn star is a first and is perhaps an indicator of just how well-known this farang porn star was in the region. Naughty Nigel, or Notorious Nigel as he preferred to be called, passed away on Monday this past week in Bangkok. Nigel featured in sex clips - not full blown movies - and had unprotected sex with hundreds of girls and many transsexuals too. Needless to say, many rumours circulated about the medical condition Nigel was afflicted with, but it was malignant melanoma, or in layman's terms, skin cancer which gave him a red card. Nigel had sought alternative treatment but it was unsuccessful and he finally checked out this past Monday. The infamous Englishman has been in and out of Bangkok since the '90s and became one of the most recognisable farangs in South-East Asia as the farang porn star who featured in hundreds of clips with working girls from across South-East Asia. There was a time when Nigel was all over the Internet and he was frequently seen around Bangkok's bar areas. He moved around the region, making porn movies in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and quite possibly elsewhere. On the forums of the day posters would often comment on the girls he did the dirty with, some getting some warped pleasure from saying that they had shared some of the girls Nigel had bedded. As he became better known, Nigel would find himself unwelcome in many Nana Plaza bars. Managers put the word out to door security to keep him out while mamasans were instructed to tell the girls to steer clear of him. I hadn't spotted him around the traps for several years, but occasionally I would hear reports that he was seen here or there. For some time he was said to live in Soi Sribumphen where he was often seen, a neighbourhood known for cheap accommodation, junkies and street walkers. Nigel lived on the fringes of society, was a drug dealer for a period and at one time was involved in transnational credit card fraud. Several years ago he was stabbed in the slums of Klong Toey, a huge scar later visible on his stomach. He had a business card that simply read: Notorious Nigel, listed his phone number and a last line that read: Fuck Off Man U..." http://www.stickmanb...Bar-Bangkok.htm

Apparently he could have suffered a cardiac arrest after a run. Makes you wonder about exercising too strenuously after age 50. http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-27815348

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-ZTTyKe3M

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Romantic Weekend A husband and wife go on a romantic weekend to a hotel. Their double room reservation has been messed up and instead they are given an attic room with two single beds which has a raised beam on the floor between the beds which they have to step over to avoid stubbing their toes. When they go to bed the husband switches the light off and after a short silence amorously murmurs to his wife: “How about a bit of nookie then, sweetie?†She agrees and makes her way across the room in the dark but unfortunately stubs her toe on the raised beam. Her husband hears her cry out in pain and promptly comforts her by sweetly cooing: “Oh diddums, did you stub your little tootsie-wootsie? Come and lie in my bed and let me rub it better for you honeykinsâ€. She gets into bed with him and they spend the next hour having wonderful sex. The wife then gets out of bed and starts to cross the room to return to her bed but accidently stubs her toe on the raised beam again. On hearing her cry out in pain once more her husband snaps back at her: “Jesus! Can’t you watch where you're bloody going woman!"!!!

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Tony Benn 3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqOvBKnKdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Khj7ZHMSo http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26573929