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Are any of your heroes still alive?

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  • #62
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I ain't saying this year is kicking everyone's ass so far.


  • #63
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    diomed wrote: »
    He's only 5' 6".

    He will always be a giant to me:)


  • #64
    Aineoil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    2016 has taken some of my heroes sadly.

    David Bowie.......just a legend, creative with an amazing talent for music and reinventing himself.

    Andrew Sachs.......in today's pc world his portrayal of Manuel would probably be offensive, but his character always made me laugh.

    Mohammed Ali............reminds me of my childhood and I like his mantra...float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.

    Leonard Cohen........sad songs with the most poetic lyrics that chill you to the bone.

    Terry Wogan......hated Blankety Blank, but I think Terry did too, I just admired his dry wit as only a Limerick man can deliver with a straight face.

    George Michael.............danced my first dance with my now husband to "Last Christmas" many moons ago.

    Carrie Fisher.............I'll never be able to watch Star Wars again without sadness.

    Zsa Zsa Gabor.......makes Kim Kardashian look like a complete amateur

    Alan Rickman...........watched the "Harry Potter" movie over Christmas, it took me a few seconds to register he was no longer with us.


  • #65
    Brinimartini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Brinimartini


    James Taylor still going strong


  • #66
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    David Attenborough is still alive and kicking at 90......getting slightly concerned for him now though.


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  • #67
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Skommando wrote: »
    My hero's are the voluntary home carers that give up their own lives to care for those in their family unable to look after themselves, and the disabled people that struggle 24/7/365 for their entire life to live as best they can despite their disability. These people are the real hero's of this world.

    You're correct....it's a shame you felt the need to be so snotty about it.


  • #68
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky.....


  • #69
    faceman
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    bodice ripper wrote: »
    Goddamn it, we still have Carrie Fisher.

    :(


  • #70
    faceman
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    HS3 wrote: »
    Anyhooo. ...Dirk Benedict still alive and kicking. Thank feck!

    And I post on boards too!


  • #71
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    faceman wrote: »
    And I post on boards too!

    If I could make sweet love to just one Boards avatar, it would be yours.


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  • #72
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    Yes. The three remaining members of Queen are still going strong (a bit of a wobble with Brian May falling ill, but that seems well under control). Likewise, for the remainder of Led Zeppelin. I am still reeling from Bowie, though. :(

    Richard Dawkins is still hanging on in there and he must be kicking his eighties by now. Stephen Hawking the same (despite all odds for many years now).


  • #73
    thee glitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    Kevin Foley - pretty sure he's still going.


  • #74
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Maudlin auld pish.


  • #75
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky.....

    Murdered in Mexico many moon ago.

    There was a life lesson learned. Never trust anyone carrying an ice axe in Mexico.


  • #76
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    Murdered in Mexico many moon ago.

    There was a life lesson learned. Never trust anyone carrying an ice axe in Mexico.

    Whoosh.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #77
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    From the world of popular music, Bowie,Rick Wright Eric Clapton is still going, as is Peter Gabriel, George Harrison, John Lennon, Brian Eno, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, so I'm glad about that, Mc Cartney too ... and from the sporting world; Ali, Kenny Norton, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis, Marvin Hagler, Mark Spitz, Daley Thompson, Coghlan, Coe & Ovette . . . . . . .

    Loads still alive, and sadly, sooooo many now dead too.


  • #78
    cajonlardo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cajonlardo


    Esel wrote: »
    Whoosh.

    That made his ears burn


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