JustOneCornetto Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80 RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_the_subbies_on Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 1 hour ago, JustOneCornetto said: Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80 RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/ Thoughts and prayers with Miss Diane at this sad time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 4 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said: Benny Rooney, former Celtic and St Johnstone player who went on to manage Morton in the days of Andy Ritchie, Neil Orr etc has died aged 80 RIP Benny - https://www.gmfc.net/benny-rooney-1943-2023/ Waned Rooney. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Benny Dooney...into the hole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, jimbaxters said: Benny Dooney...into the hole. Not to be confused with Phillup MacCavity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Just wondering, if something like this genius (https://news.sky.com/story/amp/remi-lucidi-french-daredevil-falls-to-his-death-off-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-12931049) happens say Dec 30th of some year, does Miguel hold off on awarding the winner until they’ve had a chance to use DNA to confirm the laddie splatted himself? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 43 minutes ago, TxRover said: Just wondering, if something like this genius (https://news.sky.com/story/amp/remi-lucidi-french-daredevil-falls-to-his-death-off-skyscraper-in-hong-kong-12931049) happens say Dec 30th of some year, does Miguel hold off on awarding the winner until they’ve had a chance to use DNA to confirm the laddie splatted himself? images (2).mp4 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.V.T. Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) R I Pee Wee to Paul Reubens at 70. Edited July 31, 2023 by D.V.T. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Pee Wee Deadman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Have never seen any of those films, just assumed they'd be shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oystercatcher Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Off to the porn cinema in the sky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Another pervert bites the dust 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 He also played the Penguin's dad in the best Batman film 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 RIP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 What a pisser. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Adrian Street pinned at 82 He was dubbed "the sadist in sequins" and "the man fans love to hate". Welsh wrestling icon Adrian Street died on 24 July at Cwmbran's Grange University Hospital, aged 82, his family have confirmed. He had recently undergone brain surgery. Born in Blaenau Gwent, Street became an infamous sporting figure during the '70s and '80s for his outrageous appearance and no-holds-barred fighting style. On Sunday night, his wife Linda described the real person behind that ring-side persona as "the kindest, most loving man you could ever meet." Having grown up in Brynmawr in the 1940s, Street refused to follow his pit-worker father down the mines. "Too dark down there, I was born for the spotlight," he confessed in an interview. Still in his mid-teens, he instead ran away to London and eventually signed up with a wrestling promoter, who christened him Kid Tarzan Jonathan. Later reverting back to using his own name, Street's flamboyant choice of costume - feather boa, dayglo face paint and peroxide pigtails - soon captured the attention of the audience. But being met with cat-calls and jeers only resulted in him becoming even more over the top, skipping around the ring and planting lip-stick kisses on his opponents' foreheads before pummelling them into the canvas. In 1971 he even beat Jimmy Savile black and blue, the now reviled paedophile DJ and TV presenter having been touted as something of a tough guy during a spell on the wrestling circuit. "Back in those days the promoters were trying to get proper wrestlers to throw their matches with him - it was all part of some big stupid gimmick," said Street in 2013. Having none of it, the Welshman ended up dropping Savile on his head and tearing out a large chunk of his hair. Moving to Canada and the US in the '80s Street made an even bigger name for himself, playing up to the cameras and winning one championship belt after another. Settling down in Florida, he and his wife and manager Linda (herself a former wrestler who Street first met in 1969) also started up a successful costume-making business, The Bizarre Bazaar, along with a nearby wrestling school called Skull Krushers Academy. However, in recent years Street moved back to Wales - shortly after which a film was made of his life. Entitled You May Be Pretty, But Am Beautiful, got a cinema premiere in his home town of Brynmawr in 2019. The biopic examined how Street had transcended the mere "man in tights" image to become a cultural icon, his garish outfits arguably even facilitating the arrival of glam rock in the UK. He also recorded an album of songs with titles such as Sweet Transvestite With A Broken Nose, as well as penning numerous autobiographies such as The Merchant of Menace. Meanwhile, a photo by Dennis Hutchinson taken of Street alongside his father in 1973 was called by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller the "most important post-war picture ever taken." It showed Street dressed in full wrestling garb standing defiantly next to his father and the other miners at Blaenau Gwent colliery. Many argued the image represented the beginning of the UK's shift from heavy industry into the entertainment age. Street survived cancer in 2001, having been initially told by his doctor to prepare for the worst. Nevertheless, his wife Linda, 77, explained that this latest battle would ultimately prove too much for him. "He'd had a heart problem a while ago which was resolved," she said. "But then he had a stroke earlier this month which resulted in a bleed on the brain. "He was recovering from that at home when he developed colitis - a chronic inflammatory bowel disease - which later turned into sepsis. That's what killed him. "It all came about so quick. I've still not come to terms with it yet." She paid tribute to the grandfather-of-five, calling him, "the kindest, most lovely and loving man I've ever known. The total opposite to how he behaved on stage." Linda added that she planned to have Street cremated and his ashes scattered on the mountains near their home in Cwmbran. "He loved the outdoors and we'd go on long walks in the countryside all the time. He'd really be at peace up there," she said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: RIP. RIP-wee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Angus Cloud, "Euphoria" actor, but not the one I've heard of. Well, before about one minute ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 9 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Angus Cloud, "Euphoria" actor, but not the one I've heard of. Well, before about one minute ago. Now sitting on one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 11 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Angus Cloud, "Euphoria" actor, but not the one I've heard of. Well, before about one minute ago. Did he have a cumulus of symptoms? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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