Archive for February 3rd, 2016

Obit watch: February 3, 2016.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray fame. NYT. A/V Club.

Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network.

And now I really want the DVDs of Get A Life, a show I personally have fond memories of.

TMQ Watch: February 2, 2016.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

How did TMQ spend the most boring week in sports? Let’s find out. This week’s TMQ, after the jump…

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Obit watch: special all UKOGBNI edition.

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

Gordon Goody, one of the Great Train Robbers.

While Mr. Goody was always considered one of the masterminds of the plot, he resented the fact that Mr. Reynolds was most often identified as the gang’s chief architect. (Mr. Reynolds died in 2013.)
“I do take exception to being referred to, as I have been from time to time, as Bruce’s number two,” Mr. Goody wrote. “I wasn’t number two to anybody.”

Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, also known as Lord Lucan.

Okay, so, technically, he’s been dead since 1999, but this time he’s really most sincerely dead.