sne Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 Was also a guy named Bengt Åkerblom in Sweden who died from it during an exhibition game in the 90's. That's when neck guards became mandatory in Swedish ice hockey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 9 hours ago, Zatman said: Matthew Perry drowned at 54 Someone made a full episode about Chandler dying years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 29, 2023 Author Share Posted October 29, 2023 Sad new about Perry. Well known he had some demons. I kind of went off him a bit after his quote about Keanu Reeves in his book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, Xela said: Sad new about Perry. Well known he had some demons. I kind of went off him a bit after his quote about Keanu Reeves in his book. Didn’t he later apologise about that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Villadevon Posted October 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2023 Charlie Aitken 81 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Villadevon said: Charlie Aitken 81 Awwww, no... One of my all time Villa heroes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted October 29, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 29, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Zatman said: Didnt it happen to a keeper in the NHL in the 90s but he just about survived pretty sure it's happened a few times...still very uncommon but those skates are super sharp edit: and of course the incident has been shared on twitter a gazillion times...wonder what action will be taken on the player that did it? looked very deliberate to me. horrible way to go Edited October 29, 2023 by tomav84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 5 hours ago, tomav84 said: pretty sure it's happened a few times...still very uncommon but those skates are super sharp edit: and of course the incident has been shared on twitter a gazillion times...wonder what action will be taken on the player that did it? looked very deliberate to me. horrible way to go Just seen it, awful. I assumed when it said freak accident and people were talking about a neck it would be a broken neck. The raised foot of the opponent looked very bad, it’s hard to see why it’s up so high but I don’t follow the sport. A horrific way to go as I imagine he had a minute or 2 to realise he was in major trouble before blacking out and dying from blood loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Magician David Berglas has died. Not a name known to younger readers I suspect but in the 70s although not as famous as Paul Daniels, was certainly well known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2023 23 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Magician David Berglas has died. Not a name known to younger readers I suspect but in the 70s although not as famous as Paul Daniels, was certainly well known. Rings no bells. Googling 'famous magicians' gives a long list of names, and he's not on it. The main one I remember before Daniels was David Nixon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Wikipedia describes him as a 'mentalist' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2023 Berglas is best known for the card trick 'any card at any number' which got dubbed the Berglas effect and is considered the holy grail of card tricks. Most of his career he was basically doing the stuff Derren Brown was doing early on, mentalism, but he was the first guy to do it at the advent of TV, and he was bloody good at it. He would do things like getting 2 nurses on stage to monitor his pulse at each wrist and mime the beat to the audience, and then start to manipulate his pulse so one arm would be beating fast and the other not beat at all, with the nurses looking very confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2023 8 minutes ago, Jon said: Wikipedia describes him as a 'mentalist' Yes, it's a type of magic, mostly focused on seemingly supernatural abilities like telekinesis, mind reading and hypnosis, and tends to lean towards presenting the trick as something more than a magic trick. The morally poor ones used to portray it as being true super powers or their actually being psychic, more recently performers have pushed towards them being very skilled psychological manipulators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2023 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: Rings no bells. Googling 'famous magicians' gives a long list of names, and he's not on it. The main one I remember before Daniels was David Nixon. First magician to have his own show on British TV apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Jon said: Wikipedia describes him as a 'mentalist' So not only a magician but could also drink in Town wearing a Villa top. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zhan_Zhuang Posted November 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2023 Pat Johnson has died, many of you will know him as the referee in the Karate Kid film...he also arranged all of the fight choreography for the film and taught all the actors. However he was a very influential U.S. Martial Artist and Captain of the Chuck Norris Tang Soo Doo team where he fought approximately 200 fights and losing only one. I always remember him fondly for a very small role in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon where he tries to extort money from Roper's character and he famously says: "It's the dough Roper! Or we've gotta break something". 50 years in the martial arts, much respect. R.I.P. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted November 16, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2023 Missed one last week. Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8 and thus part of the first crew to orbit around the Moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 16, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2023 20 minutes ago, Tegis said: Missed one last week. Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8 and thus part of the first crew to orbit around the Moon. Borman, Lovell and Anders. Still an automatic word association for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 A couple that have died recently. The actress and theatre founder, Anna Scher and also Ronnie Corbett's wife and actress Anne Hart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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