Dead Celebs - 2005

[Truth Seeker]

Soul Asylum co-founder Mueller dies

Karl Mueller, bassist and founding member of the Minneapolis-based rock act Soul Asylum, died Friday at his home, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. He was 41.

In Passing.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Father of integrated circuit dies

Four decades after inventing the integrated circuit - the basis of every electronic device today - Jack Kilby believed that the invention found him as much as the other way around.

"Humankind eventually would have solved the matter," he wrote upon accepting the Nobel Prize in 2000. "But I had the fortunate experience of being the first person with the right idea and the right resources at the right time in history."


Kilby, who died Monday at 81 after a brief battle with cancer, gave birth to one of the most dynamic industries in history. His integrated circuit, first demonstrated on Sept. 12, 1958, made possible computers, the space program, the Internet and such everyday items as digital watches and Furbys.

In Passing.

Without his keen mind and ideals on the electronic medium...many of us would have never met. God Bless.

 

[Truth Seeker]

'Godfather of beach volleyball' dead at 69

Charlie Saikley, the "godfather of beach volleyball" who popularized the sport by launching its leading tournament, the Manhattan Beach Open, has died at age 69 of cancer, friends said on Thursday.

In Passing.

 

[Truth Seeker]

'60 Minutes' commentator Alexander dies

Trailblazing journalist Shana Alexander, whose verbal skirmishes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS' "60 Minutes" were spoofed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit, has died of cancer. She was 79.

In Passing.

 

[kingpaul]

Paul Winchell, Voice of Tigger, Dies at 82

http://kevxml2a.verizon.net/_1_VNOT...AVA1TO0&qcat=entertain&passqi=&top=1&ran=1315

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

The most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one!
OH, I'M THE ONLY ONE! He he he!

Rest in peace, Paul/Tigger

 

[Fast Learner]

For me he's the hand and voice of Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead, which I remember very fondly from my childhood. Loved his voice.

 

[Particle_Man]

Wow. He was also Gargamel, from the Smurfs!

 

[DaveStebbins]

The most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one!
OH, I'M THE ONLY ONE! He he he!

Rest in peace, Paul/Tigger

OK, just because I am so obsessive that they added ANALyst to my job title...

The fifth line should read:
They're bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, jouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun fun!

It could be that pouncy and flouncy are switched in my recollection, but my daughter used to watch Winnie the Pooh videos all the time when she was a toddler. My ex was something of a TV hater, so she was very strict on what could be watched, which resulted in us watching the same stuff many, many times.

As for Paul Winchell, I agree with the others that his voice talents and ventriloquism were practically iconic, and his passing saddens me greatly. Little by little, much of his work is being forgotten because it was not loud and filled with explosions of sound and color, as so many things are today. It was simple and inciteful and wry, which seems to get lost in the short attention span of children's media today.

-Dave

 

[kingpaul]

Chet Helms, Music Promoter Who Launched Joplin Dies

http://kevxml2a.verizon.net/_1_2LVC...VK6200&qcat=entertain&passqi=&top=1&ran=17396