Celebrity Deaths 2009 Edition

[Gavin]

^But she was the best one in it! Ummmm, not that I'd know, obviously. I wouldn't watch crap like that. Just heard about it....

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player

 

[nealbie]

Gregory Viscusi, 24, French tennis player

I think you'll find the dead tennis player is called Mathieu Montcourt. There was a report done by a Mr Gregory Viscusi on his death. Perhaps a new level of fail for Taylor?

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

^ Oops. Perhaps so .

Whatevs, I just saw it on Sympatico and that's the first name I saw, haha.

 

[nealbie]

The question now becomes, who gets the point? :lol:

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

ME! I announced it, just got the name messed up

 

[nealbie]

But the person you "announced" isn't dead :wink:

 

[Ollie]

Neal gets the point as he was the first person to report the person that was dead. Taylor said the wrong person (who is still alive) so doesn't get the point.

And even more so for trying to edit your post to make it look like you didn't.

 

[marc]

Did anyone catch this GLORIOUS unintended comment during the memorial for Jackson btw?

"He was driven by constantly trying to top himself" :'D

Yes and I thought the same as you lol

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

And even more so for trying to edit your post to make it look like you didn't.

Well obviously I was gonna fix it, I wasn't just gonna leave it and look like an even bigger idiot.

 

[ECG]

This might not mean much to you Brits, but to us Yanks this is no bologna (pun intended :wink: ).
Oscar G. Mayer, the retired chairman of the meat processing company that bears his name, died of old age (95) Monday at Hospice Care in Fitchburg, WI. He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods. His grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955 and his father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965. Additionally there are no more Oscars in the family & the company was sold to Kraft Foods.

All you Yanks sing along: "...Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A..."

 

[Mushroom]

British conductor Downes dies, 85

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 149166.stm


Geraint Owen, died suddenly Saturday, 43 (Was a potential 007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8147651.stm

 

[Ollie]

^'Possible 007' oh c'mon.
You might be able to get away with the conductor guy one though.
Edit: Just read the story about the actor. He may of been on TV in Wales but does that make him famous?

 

[Emmett]

I don't know but anyone who has appeared in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm deserves celebrity status. He's probably a bit of a celebrity in Wales though. His bother is well known and I recognise him from some BBC shows.

 

[mrclam]

Famed CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite - dubbed the most trusted man in America - dies aged 92.

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

^ Aw, he's a peach.

 

[Rush]

Not exactly a celebrity, but the world's oldest man and World War I veteran died earlier aged 113 and 42 days. Only had a month of the title, not that anyone would particularly want it though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm

 

[Ollie]

The son of former Formula One world champion John Surtees has been killed in a freak motor racing accident at Brands Hatch.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090720/tuk ... dbed5.html

 

[nealbie]

Speaking of racing incidents, rally driver Flavio Guglielmini died during a stage in Bulgaria yesterday.

And Columbia's first F1 driver, Ricardo Londono was shot on Saturday! Not a good weekend for motor racing to be fair.

 

[mrclam]

^ Aw, he's a peach.

"WAS a peach" - past tense.

And that was the day that was