ALL THINGS: We Hardly Knew Ye?

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Terry Pratchett?s death announced in Discworld-esque tweet

http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/12/terry...100572/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

RIP :(

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
 
Yoshihiro Tatsumi Passes Away, Aged 79

Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the ‘sensei’ or grand master of ‘gekiga’, a term he coined for the darker, more dramatic form of manga in Japan. His innovations were vitally important for Japanese comics and his lifetime’s work stands as some of the most psychologically powerful and humane narratives, not only in manga but in global comics culture.
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Have not read any of his stuff yet, but have always wanted to.
 
Damn. Big Joe McDonnell and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, R.I.P. So entertained by both of these men, and very shocked to hear about Big Joe.
 
Former Laker Jack Haley at 51.

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Not cool. I took a picture with him in the Forum parking lot after a game, and it's been in a collage frame in my room for what, 23 years? GD this is horrible.
 
ANDY FRASER: JULY 3, 1952 – MARCH 16, 2015
http://classicrock.teamrock.com/features/2015-03-18/andy-fraser-july-3-1952-march-16-2015

Andy Fraser, the former bass player of Free and co-writer of iconic rock songs All Right Now, Fire And Water, Mr Big, The Stealer, Be My Friend and My Brother Jake, passed away on Monday.
The tragic news was released yesterday by his Californian-based management. Cause of death has yet to be confirmed, but Fraser had been dealing with AIDS and cancer in recent years.
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