RIP someone or another

[swt61]

Not Less Nessman. Say it isn't so!

R.I.P. Howard.

[Voltron]

It ain't so! Howard Hesseman played Dr, Johnny Fever while Richard Sanders played Less, and he is alive and well. 

That said, RIP Dr. Fever. 

[swt61]

Oh damn, that's right. My senility is starting already.

[blessingx]

1 hour ago, swt61 said:

Oh damn, that's right. My senility is starting already.

Don't feel bad. They originally each auditioned for the others role. 

I keed. Thankfully someone just uploaded the drunk reflex test. For those younger members this is how television used to look like. 

 

[HemiSam]

^quality programming...major flashback!

Godspeed, Howard...  Thank you for all the laughs.

HS

[wink]

[blessingx]

RIP Monica Vitti, “Queen of Italian Cinema”

https://theweek.com/news/1009681/italian-film-star-monica-vitti-dies-at-90 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/movies/monica-vitti-dead.html 

 

[MexicanDragon]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/john-koss-dead.html
 

RIP John Koss, the guy who got me into this with some Porta Pros back in the 90s. What a legend.

[blessingx]

"So they rigged up cardboard cups that contained three-inch speakers and chamois pads from a flight helmet, and they attached them to a headband made of a bent clothes hanger covered with a rubber shower hose."

[mikeymad]

My very first set of cans were Koss. Granted they were branded as Realistic (i.e. Radio Shack), but they didn't even cover up the Koss logo.

RIP Mr. Koss.

a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool)

[Grahame]

10 minutes ago, mikeymad said:

a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool)

And a book about PASCAL on the bookshelf, so cool nerd?

Edited February 3, 2022 by Grahame

[blessingx]

53 minutes ago, mikeymad said:

My very first set of cans were Koss. Granted they were branded as Realistic (i.e. Radio Shack), but they didn't even cover up the Koss logo.

RIP Mr. Koss.

a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool)

So that’s where Galifianakis got the Between Two Ferns idea 

[mikeymad]

I am an influencer

[Grahame]

38 minutes ago, mikeymad said:

I am an influencer

That post is worth at least 3.5 "exposure"'s.

[Craig Sawyers]

I had no idea that Koss was still alive, but RIP John Koss.

My first pair of headphones were a new pair of PRO4AA that I bought new in 1974. Long gone.

To remind myself what an uncomfortable thing they were I bought a pair maybe three years ago. Removed the tar like decomposed foam in the cups and replaced it. Took off the rock hard and empty fluid cups, and replaced them. Still bloody uncomfortable! Like a head clamp. And oddly, not that good in terms of sound quality in hindsight.

Second headphones I bought were not very old second hand ESP6's. And that got me into electrostatic phones. Amazing things as compared with anything I'd heard before. Long gone. But I (again recently) bought a pair of ESP9 - again a bit of nostalgia. Needed the fluid seals replacing. Again sounds superb. The energizer is a horror story though - a spaghetti of wiring and completely unserviceable.

And those electrostatic phones were what ultimately got me into Stax.

So again, RIP. What a company he founded!

[HiWire]

My first pair of Koss headphones were probably their least expensive earbuds, to replace my broken Panasonic cassette walkman's stock pair (which were decent). A succession of similar Koss headphones followed. My last pair (still working fine!) is the Koss SportaPro, purchased in the early 2000s.

Great headphones, great company (I think they had some kind of internal scandal some years ago).

RIP, John Koss.

[dsavitsk]

Dobie Gillis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/obituaries/dwayne-hickman-dead.html

[dsavitsk]

RIP Richard Lee-Sung.  https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-richard-lee-sung-a-m-a-s-h-actor-who-actually-served-in-the-korean-war

[Voltron]

It's a little nuts that Maynard G. Krebs is more engrained in my brain than Dobie himself, but I never really watched that show and I watched Gilligan's Island a lot.

RIP Dobie. RIP RL-S.

[Knuckledragger]

RIP Douglas Trumbull.  

 

[MexicanDragon]

On 2/6/2022 at 12:42 AM, dsavitsk said:

Dobie Gillis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/obituaries/dwayne-hickman-dead.html

Hadn't thought about him in a while, but Dobie Gillis did pop into my head in the past year or two. Didn't expect he was still around, but rermember watching that on Nick-At-Nite for a long time in my youth. RIP.

[skullguise]

RIP to a random person: Krysten Gentile.

Krysten died a few days ago, at age 40, of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.  She worked at the same company as my wife Karen; I was able to meet her once when she and Karen had a Zoom call with each other.  I poked in and had a brief but very pleasant chat; Krysten's persona - so bright and beautiful - shown through even in that brief moment.

A truly beautiful and amazing woman, she fought hard, and was public in her fight and in positive thinking to help others.  She created a web site & podcasts with another Philadelphia-area woman with stage 4, "Making The Breast Of It."  She touched Karen's life, and even a tiny bit of mine.

Obituary: Krysten M. Gentile (nolanfidale.com)

And....FUCK cancer!

Edited February 11, 2022 by skullguise

[dsavitsk]

Ivan Reitman, Director of Ghostbusters and Stripes: https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/ivan-reitman-director-of-ghostbusters-and-stripes-has-died.html

[mikeymad]

There is a lot more movies that he directed that I really liked and watch to this day. RIP Ivan.

[dsavitsk]

@mikeymad https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/14/ivan-reitman-hollywood-hero-ghostbusters-director-hadley-freeman