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@very-rusty saidOh my soul.ðĪŠ
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/-starsky-and-hutch-actor-david-soul-dead-at-80-years-old-201451589630
Link should take you to a Video clip. I don't seem get sound on it. It just needed turning on in the Video itself. DUH ME!!!
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@ponderable saidFranz Beckenbauer,
Mario Zagallo,
Brazillian football player and coach world champion 1958, 1962 and 1970.
German footballer and coach world champion 1974 and 1990.
Like Zagallo he became world champion as player and as coach.
The last one living is Didier Deschamps.
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@ponderable saidBrilliant player and manager.
Franz Beckenbauer,
German footballer and coach world champion 1974 and 1990.
Like Zagallo he became world champion as player and as coach.
The last one living is Didier Deschamps.
My uncle, Brendan McMorrow, passed away yesterday at the grand old age of 85. He was a kindly soul, the owner of a tractor [which he used for freelance work], and one of County Leitrim's foremost poachers.
In the 1970's he would take me to the River Bonet to go fly fishing and sometimes to catch fish illegally with a tennis net stretched across the river at a narrow point. I saw him catch enormous salmon this way and was there, in the kitchen of a grand hotel on a headland in Bundoran (County Donegal), as he sold one of them for a princely sum, in cash, to the chef.
Uncle Brendan was mortified one day when he arrived at my grandmother's house in Dromahair only to find my sister and me using the net to play tennis on her lawn. It was the only time I ever saw him irate.
He was a lugubrious man of few words ~ mostly ‘ah now!’ ~ accompanied by a sage shake of the head. But I know, as an unmarried, childless man, he took great delight in his nephews and nieces turning up from Over The Water in the Summers.
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@fmf saidSorry for your loss. He was a mischievous fellow and they are most often, the best kind. May he continue in that bent wherever he may now reside.ð
My uncle, Brendan McMorrow, passed away yesterday at the grand old age of 85. He was a kindly soul, the owner of a tractor [which he used for freelance work], and one of County Leitrim's foremost poachers.
In the 1970's he would take me to the River Bonet to go fly fishing and sometimes to catch fish illegally with a tennis net stretched across the river at a narrow point. I ...[text shortened]... man, he took great delight in his nephews and nieces turning up from Over The Water in the Summers.
@fmf saidSounds like he had a good life.
My uncle, Brendan McMorrow, passed away yesterday at the grand old age of 85. He was a kindly soul, the owner of a tractor [which he used for freelance work], and one of County Leitrim's foremost poachers.
In the 1970's he would take me to the River Bonet to go fly fishing and sometimes to catch fish illegally with a tennis net stretched across the river at a narrow point. I ...[text shortened]... man, he took great delight in his nephews and nieces turning up from Over The Water in the Summers.
I hope you don't get asked to produce his death certificate.
I believe that the only afterlife that each of has consists of a kind of anthology of all the things that the people who survive us remember.
In this way, my uncle's afterlife will be much more detailed and coherent back in Ireland, but the relatively small but precious bit of his afterlife that I own is part of who I am and will continue to be ~ at least until the day that my own afterlife begins.
@the-gravedigger saidI'll do whatever it takes to inherit his tractor.
Sounds like he had a good life.
I hope you don't get asked to produce his death certificate.