We watched "A Christmas Carol" last night. The George C. Scott version, which is my favorite version. It sticks close to the book and cuts very little.

But I started looking up the various actors on imdb while I was watching. I was saddened to see how many of the actors have passed. Which is an emotional blip rather than logical. That version came out in 1984 — almost 40 years ago.

So RIP all those actors who help make my Christmas Christmassy every year.

When I look back on earlier events in my life, "Well that was only... Shit that was decades ago."

Damn. He's just a kid.

David Soul, aka 'Hutch' from Starsky & Hutch, he was eighty.

Soul was a three-pack-a-day cigarette smoker for fifty years. Although he had stopped smoking ten years prior to his death, he was seriously affected by COPD and had also had a lung removed due to cancer. Soul died in a London hospital, surrounded by his family, on January 4, 2024, at the age of 80..

Melanie was 76.
 

I couldn't recognize that word in the citation.
Anon was Sexobon?
IIRC, I was more than incensed at some of the latter's posts. Not so these days.

Ignore it, Jim, I deleted/banned the user after multiple posts of the same YouTube link.

I thought it was Very Hungry Caterpillar?

RIP OJ

At least the real killer is finally not out there any more

Dickey Betts, of Allman Bros fame, was 80. His fish was The Big C, and COPD.

People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts pickin' on that red guitar

~Charlie Daniels
 

TheNeverWas wrote:

Dickey Betts, of Allman Bros fame, was 80. His fish was The Big C, and COPD.

People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts pickin' on that red guitar

~Charlie Daniels
 

Dickey showed up unannounced at a dive bar in Scranton my friends and I were hanging out at. He played a set with the band. Peace.
 

Keryx and I are sad.