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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 10, 2010 11:03:54 GMT -5
Captain Phill Harris, of the Cornelia Marie as featured on Discovery's "Deadliest Catch" - died yesterday at 53. He had suffered from a stroke after offloading a couple of weeks ago, and was put into an induced coma. After coming out, and even telling the Docs, "dont fuck up" he regressed again, and died.
Didnt like him at first, but he became possibly my favorite Captain on the show, as other ones annoyed me greatly. Guy had his health issues, but was a crusty old salt to the end. May he rest easy!
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Post by thecaptain15 on Feb 10, 2010 12:32:44 GMT -5
This is sad news for me as well. Big fan of the show!! Funny thing Tom I shared the same sentiment. At first I did not like him at all and I grew to like him as it went on. He was my second favorite captain as I am partial and a mark for the Northwestern and Captain Sig...
RIP Captain Harris!
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 10, 2010 12:36:21 GMT -5
The circumstances behind his death sound very fishy.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 10, 2010 20:16:04 GMT -5
Corny.
More on Phil Harris...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
The reality show, which has filmed five seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel's most popular and depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.
"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end," sons Josh and Jake Harris said in a statement released by the network. "For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down."
In a statement, Discovery Channel senior vice president Elizabeth Hillman says, "Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him."
"We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart," she said.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, she said no additional information was immediately available Tuesday night.
Harris had seemed to be improving, and in a posting last Saturday on the ship's Web site, he was described as "talking to friends and family today; showing his greatest progress" since the stroke.
His sons wrote in a Feb. 3 posting that "No one ever said Captain Phil Harris wasn't tough. Today, dad showed some good signs of improvement, squeezing our hands and even summoning his trademark Captain's bluntness ... We are encouraged but still very cautious."
According to the ship's Web site, Harris started working on fishing boats at age 7 and started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When Harris turned 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea.
When Harris suffered the stroke, the family said a friend, Derek Ray, had flown to St. Paul to take over the role of relief skipper for the rest of the opilio crab season.
Harris' fishing vessel was based in Seattle
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 11, 2010 7:04:23 GMT -5
Sounds like a stroke of bad luck.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 11, 2010 13:27:26 GMT -5
Balls, you know, Im a little pissed. Your stupid jokes are par for the course, but can you give it a rest when someone that people on here actually like dies? Its only one out of every 20 deaths. You READ my Facebooks, you know I liked this guy and his story a lot. Can you give it a rest sometime?
When William Shatner died, Im sure it was not in the cards for everyone to come joke about it, but its going to end up happening. In the rare instances people on here actually care about a death, and its a sad one, let it go!
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 11, 2010 14:42:47 GMT -5
William Shatner isn't going to die. He is more than human. There may be fake reports about it some day, but don't believe them.
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Post by Chris on Feb 11, 2010 17:02:38 GMT -5
Hopefully none of you bitter right-wingers had the great William Jefferson Clinton in your death pool.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 11, 2010 23:06:41 GMT -5
Good thing he doesn't have to deal with Obamacare, or he'd be on the way out.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 12, 2010 10:00:41 GMT -5
The guy who invented the frisbee died at 90. Thats all I have for now.
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Post by IronHorse4 on Feb 12, 2010 11:18:01 GMT -5
Well, toss him out of next year's death pool.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 12, 2010 15:17:12 GMT -5
Some luge guy from Georgia - the country, folks - dead in a luge accident. Training, at the Olympics, the same day as the Opening Ceremonies. Sucks, huh.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 12, 2010 15:19:40 GMT -5
How was his time?
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Post by 4dogg on Feb 12, 2010 19:03:28 GMT -5
i guess it WAS his time......a shame he wound up sled,uh,i mean dead.....a luge,er huge loss for his sport
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 12, 2010 19:08:36 GMT -5
Too bad. Sounds like his olympic dream came to a crashing halt.
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Post by 9 on Feb 12, 2010 20:37:59 GMT -5
Groan.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 15, 2010 14:44:43 GMT -5
Former lead singer of The Knack died on Valentines Day, he was in his 50s. Cancer got him. This band is best known, of course, for My Sharona.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 15, 2010 15:00:36 GMT -5
I guess he has a knack for dying.
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Post by King98er on Feb 18, 2010 15:23:47 GMT -5
RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Dead or not dead. Conflicting reports coming out.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 18, 2010 23:59:36 GMT -5
Yes, not dead. This one complete internet hoax. We are starting to see a lot more of these. People are just grabbing random names now. Lightfoot? The drummer from Danzig? Ill tell you this, when Gordon Lightfoot dies, this guy right here will be very sad.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 19, 2010 6:56:52 GMT -5
Interesting that the name is familiar, but I don't know a thing he's done. He could be one of those guys you know of without really knowing.
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Post by 9 on Feb 19, 2010 12:06:35 GMT -5
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 19, 2010 14:03:27 GMT -5
Im stunned at the lack of general knowledge of Mr "Carefree Highway" - Gordon Lightfoot.
Its a case of you would know the songs if you heard him, and you would certainly recall Mr Lightfoot by his melancholy timbre.
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Post by 4dogg on Feb 19, 2010 17:54:11 GMT -5
i like "sundown"
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Post by Jason Giambi on Feb 19, 2010 18:36:09 GMT -5
I love the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I may have to download some of his stuff to my ipod.
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Post by IronHorse4 on Feb 19, 2010 19:09:10 GMT -5
It was a Toronto station that initially reported his death, I believe. Lightfoot heard about it, and felt it was necessary to stress that the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. So he called into the station and came on the air to tell them.
Great way to get guests, if you ask me.
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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 19, 2010 20:04:08 GMT -5
He is originally from somewhere near Toronto. I believe that his best know song might be "If You Could Read My Mind," covered by a slew of people, most recently as a dancy-dance version by Jocelyn Enriquez for the Studio 54 movie.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 20, 2010 0:22:51 GMT -5
I picked up a double-discer of his early folk work. I believe it covers his first couple of albums. A nice easy listen. But his more well known stuff, including Edmund, If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway...fantastic stuff.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 20, 2010 9:47:03 GMT -5
Former Presidential Adviser Haig DiesFOXNews.com Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who served Republican presidents and ran for the office himself, has died.Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who served Republican presidents and ran for the office himself, has died.
The Haig family says he died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications associated with an infection. He was 85.
The four-star general served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. President Richard Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff in 1973. In that role, Haig helped the president prepare his impeachment defense and handled many of the day-to-day decisions normally made by the chief executive.
Haig later served as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan.
In the chaotic hours following the attempted assassination of Reagan in March 1981, Haig uttered what became his most famous statement.
"As of now, I am in control here, in the White House," Haig said.
The remark misrepresented the line of presidential succession and it made it easier for critics to portray Haig as a usurper of power.
In 2001, Haig defended his remark.
"Everybody in that room was very familiar with the fact that this was not a discussion about transition, but rather authority within the executive branch," he said.
Haig quit the Reagan Cabinet after a year-and-a-half -- disgusted, he said, with bureaucratic infighting.
"You can't have the State Department putting out one line and the Defense Department another line and the White House yet another line," he told Fox News in 2002.
In 1988, Haig campaigned for the GOP presidential nomination but was forced to drop out before the end of February.
He published two memoirs, profited in the private sector, and spent much of his later years fiercely defending his unique, storied, and intensely controversial role across four decades of public service.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 24, 2010 23:06:47 GMT -5
This may sail over a few heads, but porn legend Jamie Gillis died at 66 this past Friday of cancer. One of those 'guys in the movies' that was remembered from my burgeoning 1980s porn-watch career. Read in a bio that he was classicly trained, and did a lot of off-Broadway before his porn career launched in the 70s, playing Shakespearian characters often.
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