Celebrity Deaths 2013

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Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying–
He had always taken funerals in his stride–
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were “sorry for my trouble,”
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o’clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year

RIP

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[quote=“maroonandwhite, post: 823972, member: 1406”]Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o’clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying–
He had always taken funerals in his stride–
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were “sorry for my trouble,”
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o’clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year

RIP[/quote]
You got there before me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YgzE60gMW4

603

A great man. RIP.

604

Ah no? This is shite news :frowning:

Doubt there’s a kid of our generation who didnt have the line ‘a 4 foot box, a foot for every year’ embedded in his memory, a line that never left you.

RIP.

605

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d30rpdvtiA

606

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqv4BEcUvs

607

A sad day for Irish literature indeed with Seamus Heaney and Maidhc Dainin O’Se passing on.

608

Sad news. RIP.

As already said that line “a four foot box, a foot for every year” is something that people of a certain generation will always remember from school days.

609

Sir David Frost

Breakfast with Frost this morning will be your choice of brown bread or toast.

610

Tommy “The Duke” Morrison former heavyweight champion and star of Rocky V

611

Ariel Castro, the lad who held the 3 birds captive in his house in America for 10 years or so was found hanged in his cell overnight

612

Most definitely not a celebrity. Cunt.

Definitely a celebrity :clap:

613

Shit news. Bed of heaven to him. RIP.

614

Another tragic victim of suicide. Ariel was exactly the type of person who that Dublin GAA jersey campaign earlier this summer was aimed at and news of another futile death takes some of the gloss off Sunday’s win.

615

I’m all for risqué humour as much as the next man but I don’t find that in the slightest bit funny.

616

Inventor and philanthropist, Ray Dolby, has died, surrounded by his loved ones by the sounds of it.

617

Michael Noonan

618

:eek:

619

Ken Norton

620

That’s sad to hear so soon after Joe Fazier’s passing. Norton was one serious puncher.