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[Playbahnosh]

the last two lines were not meant for you personally. It was a "if the cap fits..." thing.

[Fruit Pie Jones]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sebatianos @ Sep 18 2007, 03:53 AM) [snapback]311543[/snapback]</div>

But when Osvaldo Cavandoli died most people didn't even notice (or knew who he was), but those who did silently payed thei respect and went on their way (with mases being ignorant about it).[/b]

I'll admit to being one of those who didn't recognize that name when I read it, but now that I've looked him up, I'm a bit sad that he has died. I saw some episodes of La Linea when I was a kid as part of a show called The Great Space Coaster, and I loved it. I even drew some very similar cartoons of my own, plagiarism being the most sincere form of flattery. So even though I didn't know Mr. Cavandoli's name until now, I don't think expressing a little sadness at his passing makes me a hypocrite or a poseur. It does show that I'm nostalgic for my childhood, and I certainly won't deny that here.

[rlbell]

Sometimes, the death of a well known individual depresses me, but only in accord with their affect on me. I had come close to memorising the scripts of eps. 3-12 of the HGTTG radio series, so I was quite distraught to learn that Douglas Adams passed away at the relatively young age of 49.

As I watched Sesame Street way back when the episode numbers were only in the triple digits, I nearly ditched my highschool classes to see the episode where it was admitted to the viewers that Mr. Hooper the shopkeeper (really, the actor that played him) had died.

I was saddened by the passing of Jim Henson.

The voice that I most wanted to hear, as I grew up, belonged to Mel Blanc.

I lived in perpetual dread of meeting Bob Homme (The Friendly Giant), and discovering that he was only 5'4" [I have no idea how tall he really was]. Ernie Coombs, a puppeteer for Mr. Rogers, before becoming Mr. Dressup helped fill my childhood with delight. Fred Rogers was not someone I watched alot, but all three of these gentlemen, now deceased, presented the image of someone who would take delight in listening to a child and did not assume we only had a thirty second attention span.

I miss Graham Chapman, as he held a fascinating question and answer session that I managed to get a ticket for, and I saw facets that do not come through from the sketch comedy of Monty Python.

Sadly, most celebrities have not had anywhere near the effect on me as these people, so I don't miss them. I miss James Doohan, only because he could have had quite the career as a voice actor (he voiced all of the aliens in the brief Star Trek animated series [The Stasis Box is the best example of his abilities, from that series]).

The other thing I remember from the days after Princess Diana's death was a distraught cashier at a convenience store who was upset that coverage of her death prevented Mother Theresa's death from getting more than a passing mention, in the news.

Having lost the ability to hear nuances in music (without actually being tone deaf), I can enjoy listening to any tenor that can keep time with the music and move the pitch of his voice up or down as the song requires. I can tell that Pavarotti could sing, but I have to take other peoples word on it that he can sing well.

[Sebatianos]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rlbell @ Sep 22 2007, 06:43 AM) [snapback]312393[/snapback]</div>

The other thing I remember from the days after Princess Diana's death was a distraught cashier at a convenience store who was upset that coverage of her death prevented Mother Theresa's death from getting more than a passing mention, in the news.
[/b]

Luckily over here they did have a sense of what is and what isn't importaint. At the time of the death of mother Teresa all the mediastopped covering Princes Di's death (they picked up on it after about a week again though) and really gave elaborate stories on the life and work of mother Teresa. It was impresive what she achieved in her life.

[Nick]

I think, that your safety in car is your own thing. So it's your right to buckle on or not. In our country just recent came into force a law, which obliges you to always buckle on in your car or pay the fine. I agree, that people sometimes don't understand what is good and what is bad, but this is not that case.

[Sebatianos]

I remember when I was still a little boy, there wasn't uch a law in Slovenia, but for over 20 years now there is such a law here.

OK, buckling up isn't really a problem (it's no bother to acctually do it), but it didn't help any yet. The mortality rates on Slovenian roads are really scary. You have better chances to survive as a tourist in Iraq for a year, then as a driver on Slovene roads (purely statistically). So the law didn't help any and people have been buckling up for over 20 years now.

[chumloofah]

Luckily over here they did have a sense of what is and what isn't importaint. At the time of the death of mother Teresa all the mediastopped covering Princes Di's death (they picked up on it after about a week again though) and really gave elaborate stories on the life and work of mother Teresa. It was impresive what she achieved in her life.[/b]

You know, they're still putting muck on the tv about saint diana?
If I wasn't particularly impressed by her death at the time, I've actually become angry at the chumps that still care (I've graciously exempted friends and family from this list).

[rlbell]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chumloofah @ Sep 22 2007, 12:51 PM) [snapback]312469[/snapback]</div>

You know, they're still putting muck on the tv about saint diana?
If I wasn't particularly impressed by her death at the time, I've actually become angry at the chumps that still care (I've graciously exempted friends and family from this list).
[/b]

Saint Diana?

[callous pedant mode-- on]

Divorced fornicators are usually disqualified from beatification.

[callous pedant mode-- off]

Saints are supposed to have led exemplary lives, or at least since their conversion (Saint Olga of Pscov was a Lady Stalin, before becoming christian). While Diana may have had a last second conversion and that act of perfect contrition could have propelled her into Heaven, we would never know. Who are you going to pray to when you really need a miracle? Someone who lived similarily to Saint Francis of Assisi (Mother Theresa), or Princess Di? Me, I would rather pray to St. Genghis the belatedly apologetic than to a scandalous woman who is probably still caught up in Purgatory (we will not know the fate of anyone not proven to be a saint, before the final judgement, so I will hold out the hope that Diana will eventually make it into Heaven[If only because it makes it more likely that I will get there, too]).

[Sebatianos]

I think that "saint" wasn't ment to be taken literaly. I guess it was used only because the comparison with mother Teresa (who was recomended to become a saint - didn't follow up on it if she did or did not been given the title).