The official dead celebrity thread

[yaburu]

Is it morbid that I'm hoping a celeb will die soon so this thread can get on topic for the first time since....I think since I made it?

[Monster Master]

So I heard the hot chick in Yaburu's avatar died 2 hours ago.
Anybody know where the body is?

[Spirit Ghidorah 2010]

So I heard the hot chick in Yaburu's avatar died 2 hours ago.
Anybody know where the body is?

Ew.

[Hellspawn28]

Arbok is really Chuck Norris outside the Internet. That's why he can never die.

[yaburu]

So I heard the hot chick in Yaburu's avatar died 2 hours ago.
Anybody know where the body is?

Ew.

Oh knock it off, he doesn't want to skreeonk it.

If we've learned anything from SG's fic, he wants to eat it!

[Hedorah]

You people are all dumb.

Yeah you guys are so dumb, you are really really really really really SO DUMB......FO' REAL!

[Monster Master]

So I heard the hot chick in Yaburu's avatar died 2 hours ago.
Anybody know where the body is?

Ew.

Oh knock it off, he doesn't want to skreeonk it.

If we've learned anything from SG's fic, he wants to eat it!

In more ways than one, Yabs.
Yummy Yummy Yummy.

[wataru]

You skreeonk killed Jack LaLanne. 96 years old.

[Dynomy84]

You people are all dumb.

Yeah you guys are so dumb, you are really really really really really SO DUMB......FO' REAL!

Yeah! and the guys are still gonna climb your windows snatchin yo people up, so hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo wife, HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE!!

[Monster Master]

You people are all dumb.

Yeah you guys are so dumb, you are really really really really really SO DUMB......FO' REAL!

Yeah! and the guys are still gonna climb your windows snatchin yo people up, so hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo wife, HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE!!

LOL

[Tyler]

Yo friends 'n family gonna get loved tenderly.

[Drewzilla]

According to BBC News, renowned rock guitarist Gary Moore has died in a hotel room in Spain. He was 58 years old.

Adam Parsons, who manages THIN LIZZY, told the BBC that Moore had died in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Moore was reportedly found dead in his luxury hotel room in the Costa del Sol. He was said to be on holiday at the time of his death.

A postmortem is due to be carried out later in nearby Malaga.

In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey as early as his secondary school days, leading him to a membership twice with the Irish rock band THIN LIZZY.

Moore was brought into THIN LIZZY by Lynott to replace the departing Eric Bell, another guitarist from Northern Ireland.

Bell told the BBC on Sunday he was still "in shock" at Moore's death.

"I still can't believe it," he said. "He was so robust, he wasn't a rock casualty, he was a healthy guy. He was a superb player and a dedicated musician."

Moore has shared the stage with such blues and rock luminaries as B.B. King, Albert King, COLOSSEUM II, Greg Lake and SKID ROW (not to be confused with the glam metal band of the same name), and has had a successful solo career.

Moore had a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including "Parisienne Walkways" in 1979 and "Out In The Fields" in 1985.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbe ... mID=153454

[Drewzilla]

British author Brian Jacques, who wrote the "Redwall" (Penguin) adventure series, died of a sudden heart attack on February 5 in Liverpool, England. He was 71.

Set in mythical Mossflower woods, Jacques's 21-book fantasy series takes place throughout different periods in the history of the world of Redwall and has sold over 20 million copies in more than 20 countries.

With its anthropomorphic animals—such as the mouse featured in Mattimeo (1989), the squirrel in Triss (2002), and the sub-species fox in Marlfox (1999)—Jacques's books are considered frontrunners to some of the most popular contemporary fantasy series.

"Although today 300-page fantasies seem normal, when Jacques first introduced the 'Redwall' books, these talking animal sagas were unique," says children's literature scholar Anita Silvey. "Even the most reluctant readers found themselves drawn in, devouring volume after volume."

Jacques's books are filled with riddles, battles, quests, and descriptions of lavish feasts, which he said was inspired by his childhood. "Growing up during World War II, food was rationed," he told School Library Journal in an interview. "I remember that my aunt had this Victorian cookbook with fabulous illustrations. I used to read it and fantasize about the dishes. Feasts have become just as important parts of my books."

Roque Crew (Penguin, 2011), the 22nd book in the series, is scheduled for release on May 3. This final book is about the murderous and evil Razzid Wearat (vermin pirate) and his crew of vermin, who are on a mission to seize Redwall Abbey.

Michael Green, president and publisher at Philomel, a Penguin imprint, says Jacques initially wrote Redwall to entertain the children at Liverpool's Royal Wavertree School for the Blind, where he would read aloud, "giving voice to the many accents, giving aroma and flavor to the famous Redwall Abbey feasts, and giving life to a world in which mice and hares were heroes to the end."

Jacques was born in Liverpool on June 15, 1939. He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. Along with 40 percent of the population there, his ancestral roots were in Ireland, County Cork. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age when he read the works of Daniel Defoe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of his favorite books was Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.

At the age of 10, Jacques suffered a beating with a cane from teacher who accused him of plagiarizing a short story about a bird who cleaned a crocodile's teeth.

Jacques's English teacher, Alan Durband, who also taught the Beatles' Paul McCartney and George Harrison, read the manuscript for Redwall before Jacques showed it the original publisher who turned it into a five-book contract.

Jacques held a series of jobs, including merchant seaman, railroad worker, and truck driver. In the 1960s, he was a member of a folk group, The Liverpool Fishermen, and for 20 years, until 2006, he hosted a radio program called "Jakestown." In 2008, he was the keynote speaker for New York Public Library's Book Fest, which was jointly sponsored with School Library Journal. During the course of his career, Jacques wrote plays, poetry, and short stories.

When asked about his legacy, he said he hoped his books would live on. "When my grandchildren are as old as I am, [I hope] that people will still find my books in bookstores and libraries. I couldn't ask for more than that. Good children's literature is the most enduring of popular literature. I hope my work will endure."

He is survived by his wife Maureen and their two grown sons, David and Marc.

"The world has lost not only a talented author, but a truly gifted entertainer and champion of children," says Philomel's Green. "For almost 25 years, Brian Jacques lived up to the label of 'master storyteller.' His Redwall novels have touched multi-generations within families and given them something to share, a legacy at which one can only marvel and smile."

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj ... s.html.csp

While I havn't read his books (although now I'm going to be taking a strong interest), I volunteer at the local library and you can find his books everywhere.

[HayesAJones]

Aw... I really enjoyed his Redwall novels. He will be missed.

[Bret]

I've never even heard of this dood.

[Malchik]

I've never even heard of this dood.

That's surprising. He had a very popular series of books and they made two popular cartoons from them.

[Chris55]

I've never even heard of this dood.

He'd say the same thing about you!

[Bret]

I've never even heard of this dood.

He'd say the same thing about you!

Good Good, my plan is coming along perfectly

[hammysammy59]

Man I loooooooooooooooooved these books back in middle school... I certainly don't still read them or anything. COUGH

Seriously though, I'm probably going to plow through Mossflower again. Sad to see this dude go, but there's about 20 more of his books I've never even touched yet. <3 Redwall.

[Fairy Mothra]

my first reaction: NOOOO!

my second reaction: well at least now we can shift the shelves at work without worrying about whether or not we need to save space for any new books he might put out...

what? I work in a library and god damn that guy wrote a lot of books that take up all my shelf space :c