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Forum games 🎲 2025 Celebrity death watch

Prunella Scales, Sybil on Fawlty towers, dies at 93:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/...e_code=1.xE8.QbPm.pMyX5ura96FD&smid=url-share

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mendelman said:
I like that show because it's mercifully short run and the sitcom tropes are not overbearing because of the cast.

RIP [really old person who died expectedly].
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I always felt it was (mostly due to Cleese's energy) juuuust unhinged enough without being completely wacky.

We have a good friend who grew up near Torquay where this was set- and worked in a seaside tearoom for bit in the 1980's. The depictions of the tourists in the show, she says, are spot-on.
 
In light of Former Vice President Cheney’s death:

The custom is to close Federal offices for the day and fly flags at half-mast for a period of time.

Considering Federal offices have been closed for weeks, I don’t anticipate that happening. As for the flags at half-mast, I drove by the post office* this morning and the flags were all the way up.

By the way, if the Feds close, our City Hall
closes too.

* I know not a Federal agency, but they follow Federal guidelines
 
Given the open hostility between Trump and the Cheneys, it will be interesting to see if flags are ordered to be lowered to half staff.

IMO, it would be chicken-shit not to order it, but Trump does fit that particular bill ...
 
Gedunker said:
Given the open hostility between Trump and the Cheneys, it will be interesting to see if flags are ordered to be lowered to half staff.

IMO, it would be chicken-shit not to order it, but Trump does fit that particular bill ...
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Some things transcend politics though, and this is one.
 
Gedunker said:
Given the open hostility between Trump and the Cheneys, it will be interesting to see if flags are ordered to be lowered to half staff.

IMO, it would be chicken-shit not to order it, but Trump does fit that particular bill ...
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jumbach said:
Some things transcend politics though, and this is one.
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Should be recognized for his service not his politics
Congressman
Secretary of Defense
Vice President
 
jumbach said:
Some things transcend politics though, and this is one.
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Agreed. However, Trump does whatever the f*ck he wants and he hates the Cheneys - Liz in particular, and old line conservatives in general - so we'll see.
 
Cheney is the one that backed Hillary into a closet and told her Saddam had a suitcase nuke, they knew it, and she could not tell anyone she and they knew it. It is the reason she supported that invasion.
 
jumbach said:
The custom is to close Federal offices for the day and fly flags at half-mast for a period of time.
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I was not aware of this. I certainly remember other POTUS and VEEP deaths before and a day of mourning being declared but I never realized federal offices were closed.
 
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