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Nearly Sane

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Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« on: April 12, 2020, 01:17:45 PM »
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2020, 03:13:08 PM »
I sold Tim Brooke Taylor his tickets when he visited the stately home I was working at. Loved the Goodies, Loved I'm sorry i'll read that again.
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2020, 03:25:20 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2020, 01:17:45 PM
This makes me quite sad.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52262490
Oh yes, me too. What a terrible way to go after a lifetime of bringing fun and laughter to so many. I heard it on the news midday, but I'll look at the link too now.
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2020, 03:28:07 PM »
Ecky thump...nooooo!
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2020, 03:40:21 PM »
In case anyone doesn't know about the ISIHAC archive


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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2020, 05:48:28 PM »
Very sad news, poor soul. I remember 'The Goodies' &'The Funky Gibbon' when I was at school.
Pesky virus. :(
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2020, 09:52:33 PM »
Oh shit! And it was Graeme Garden's health that had been the subject of speculation recently.
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2020, 09:58:19 PM »
The 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Appreciation Society' Facebook group, keeping the tone suitably non-solemn, as TBT would surely have wanted:
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[Post by the admin] Given the current situation Tim’s funeral will be immediate family only. However there will surely be a memorial service at some time in the future. Surely it has to feature one hymn to the tune of another.

[Member comment] Or the organist stops mid verse for a game of Pick-up hymn.....
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2020, 09:23:50 AM »
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2020, 11:00:09 AM »
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Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after suffering from Covid-19
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