RIP Jimmy Piersall
quote:Originally posted by haggis:
RIP Jimmy Piersall
For some reason I thought he had died years ago.
I recall the movie about him when I was a boy.
Jimmy Piersall:
He was a strange guy, with manic-depressive illness. When he hit his 100th career home run, he ran the bases in the correct order, but ran backwards.
Stole over 100 bases in his career.
He was a strange guy, with manic-depressive illness. When he hit his 100th career home run, he ran the bases in the correct order, but ran backwards.
Stole over 100 bases in his career.
Adnan Khashoggi
I still remember as a little kid being in awe of his yacht berthed in Puerto Banús when I was there with my parents. Guards walking around with uzis in their hands.
Obviously I was so smitten with the uzis and the yacht (I was eight...) I was allowed on to get a tour with my mom while my dad had to stay on the dock with two armed guards.
He might have sold a lot of guns that killed a lot of people but he had a nice boat and let an eight year old walk around with an (unloaded) uzi while getting a tour... Good times...
I still remember as a little kid being in awe of his yacht berthed in Puerto Banús when I was there with my parents. Guards walking around with uzis in their hands.
Obviously I was so smitten with the uzis and the yacht (I was eight...) I was allowed on to get a tour with my mom while my dad had to stay on the dock with two armed guards.
He might have sold a lot of guns that killed a lot of people but he had a nice boat and let an eight year old walk around with an (unloaded) uzi while getting a tour... Good times...
Rob,
Was this the yacht?
His yacht, the Nabila, named for his only daughter, was a floating pleasure palace and was used in the 1983 James Bond film “Never Say Never Again” starring Sean Connery – an occasional guest at Khashoggi’s soirees.
IW
Was this the yacht?
His yacht, the Nabila, named for his only daughter, was a floating pleasure palace and was used in the 1983 James Bond film “Never Say Never Again” starring Sean Connery – an occasional guest at Khashoggi’s soirees.
IW
I'm pretty sure it was. That yacht eventually made it's way to Trump and is now owned by Saudi prince who runs Kingdom Holdings.
quote:Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
Adnan Khashoggi
I still remember as a little kid being in awe of his yacht berthed in Puerto Banús when I was there with my parents. Guards walking around with uzis in their hands.
Obviously I was so smitten with the uzis and the yacht (I was eight...) I was allowed on to get a tour with my mom while my dad had to stay on the dock with two armed guards.
He might have sold a lot of guns that killed a lot of people but he had a nice boat and let an eight year old walk around with an (unloaded) uzi while getting a tour... Good times...
Among his many other ventures, Adnan Khashoggi was a stock market manipulator and swindler.
Glenne Headly. Made everything I saw her in better. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is in my top 15 comedies of all time.
quote:Originally posted by winetarelli:
Glenne Headly. Made everything I saw her in better. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is in my top 15 comedies of all time.
I would love to know your "top 10."
Adam West--Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...Batman.
quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:
Adam West--Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...Batman.
+1
KaPOW ...WHAM....BAM!...'Quick, to the Batmobile Robin..'
Stephen Furst, "Flounder" Dorfman from Animal House, age 62. Complications from diabetes.
Dorfman
Dorfman
quote:Originally posted by mneeley490:
Stephen Furst, "Flounder" Dorfman from Animal House, age 62. Complications from diabetes.
Dorfman
bummer, loved Animal House
Sorry to hear it. He was great as Flounder.
quote:Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Carrie Fisher.
Tough year...
PH
Her autopsy reveals she had cocaine, opiates, ecstasy , alcohol and exposure to heroin in her system and the cause of death is listed as sleep apnea with other factors.
Umm, yes there were other factors.
Ecstasy often has heroin and amphetamines mixed into the blend (it's surprisingly difficult to get pure MDNA) so it could easily have been a pill of E and a line of coke (in other words the makings of a great Thursday night).
It also goes to show you how difficult it is to ever truly shake addiction.
It also goes to show you how difficult it is to ever truly shake addiction.
Note to self: Schedule next offline with Rob for a Thursday night. 
quote:Originally posted by ThistlinTom:quote:Originally posted by mneeley490:
Stephen Furst, "Flounder" Dorfman from Animal House, age 62. Complications from diabetes.
Dorfman
bummer, loved Animal House
Terrific as Elliot Axelrod in St. Elsewhere
quote:Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
Ecstasy often has heroin and amphetamines mixed into the blend (it's surprisingly difficult to get pure MDNA) so it could easily have been a pill of E and a line of coke (in other words the makings of a great Thursday night).
It also goes to show you how difficult it is to ever truly shake addiction.
you continue to amaze me
quote:Originally posted by mangiare:quote:Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
Ecstasy often has heroin and amphetamines mixed into the blend (it's surprisingly difficult to get pure MDNA) so it could easily have been a pill of E and a line of coke (in other words the makings of a great Thursday night).
It also goes to show you how difficult it is to ever truly shake addiction.
you continue to amaze me
+1. I sometimes wonder if Rob's wife knows how much he knows.