swt61 Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 Not Less Nessman. Say it isn't so! R.I.P. Howard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 It ain't so! Howard Hesseman played Dr, Johnny Fever while Richard Sanders played Less, and he is alive and well. That said, RIP Dr. Fever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swt61 Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 Oh damn, that's right. My senility is starting already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, swt61 said: Oh damn, that's right. My senility is starting already. Don't feel bad. They originally each auditioned for the others role. I keed. Thankfully someone just uploaded the drunk reflex test. For those younger members this is how television used to look like. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiSam Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 ^quality programming...major flashback! Godspeed, Howard... Thank you for all the laughs. HS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wink Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 RIP Monica Vitti, “Queen of Italian Cinema” https://theweek.com/news/1009681/italian-film-star-monica-vitti-dies-at-90 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/movies/monica-vitti-dead.html 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexicanDragon Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/john-koss-dead.html RIP John Koss, the guy who got me into this with some Porta Pros back in the 90s. What a legend. 1 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 "So they rigged up cardboard cups that contained three-inch speakers and chamois pads from a flight helmet, and they attached them to a headband made of a bent clothes hanger covered with a rubber shower hose." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 My very first set of cans were Koss. Granted they were branded as Realistic (i.e. Radio Shack), but they didn't even cover up the Koss logo. RIP Mr. Koss. a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool) 14 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, mikeymad said: a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool) And a book about PASCAL on the bookshelf, so cool nerd? Edited February 3, 2022 by Grahame 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 53 minutes ago, mikeymad said: My very first set of cans were Koss. Granted they were branded as Realistic (i.e. Radio Shack), but they didn't even cover up the Koss logo. RIP Mr. Koss. a younger me (self portrait) with my Koss headphones over my left shoulder on a foam wig head (yeah I was cool) So that’s where Galifianakis got the Between Two Ferns idea 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I am an influencer 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 38 minutes ago, mikeymad said: I am an influencer That post is worth at least 3.5 "exposure"'s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Sawyers Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 I had no idea that Koss was still alive, but RIP John Koss. My first pair of headphones were a new pair of PRO4AA that I bought new in 1974. Long gone. To remind myself what an uncomfortable thing they were I bought a pair maybe three years ago. Removed the tar like decomposed foam in the cups and replaced it. Took off the rock hard and empty fluid cups, and replaced them. Still bloody uncomfortable! Like a head clamp. And oddly, not that good in terms of sound quality in hindsight. Second headphones I bought were not very old second hand ESP6's. And that got me into electrostatic phones. Amazing things as compared with anything I'd heard before. Long gone. But I (again recently) bought a pair of ESP9 - again a bit of nostalgia. Needed the fluid seals replacing. Again sounds superb. The energizer is a horror story though - a spaghetti of wiring and completely unserviceable. And those electrostatic phones were what ultimately got me into Stax. So again, RIP. What a company he founded! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiWire Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 My first pair of Koss headphones were probably their least expensive earbuds, to replace my broken Panasonic cassette walkman's stock pair (which were decent). A succession of similar Koss headphones followed. My last pair (still working fine!) is the Koss SportaPro, purchased in the early 2000s. Great headphones, great company (I think they had some kind of internal scandal some years ago). RIP, John Koss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted February 6, 2022 Report Share Posted February 6, 2022 Dobie Gillis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/obituaries/dwayne-hickman-dead.html 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted February 6, 2022 Report Share Posted February 6, 2022 RIP Richard Lee-Sung. https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-richard-lee-sung-a-m-a-s-h-actor-who-actually-served-in-the-korean-war 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted February 6, 2022 Report Share Posted February 6, 2022 It's a little nuts that Maynard G. Krebs is more engrained in my brain than Dobie himself, but I never really watched that show and I watched Gilligan's Island a lot. RIP Dobie. RIP RL-S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckledragger Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 RIP Douglas Trumbull. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexicanDragon Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 On 2/6/2022 at 12:42 AM, dsavitsk said: Dobie Gillis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/obituaries/dwayne-hickman-dead.html Hadn't thought about him in a while, but Dobie Gillis did pop into my head in the past year or two. Didn't expect he was still around, but rermember watching that on Nick-At-Nite for a long time in my youth. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullguise Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) RIP to a random person: Krysten Gentile. Krysten died a few days ago, at age 40, of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She worked at the same company as my wife Karen; I was able to meet her once when she and Karen had a Zoom call with each other. I poked in and had a brief but very pleasant chat; Krysten's persona - so bright and beautiful - shown through even in that brief moment. A truly beautiful and amazing woman, she fought hard, and was public in her fight and in positive thinking to help others. She created a web site & podcasts with another Philadelphia-area woman with stage 4, "Making The Breast Of It." She touched Karen's life, and even a tiny bit of mine. Obituary: Krysten M. Gentile (nolanfidale.com) And....FUCK cancer! Edited February 11, 2022 by skullguise 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 Ivan Reitman, Director of Ghostbusters and Stripes: https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/ivan-reitman-director-of-ghostbusters-and-stripes-has-died.html 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 There is a lot more movies that he directed that I really liked and watch to this day. RIP Ivan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavitsk Posted February 14, 2022 Report Share Posted February 14, 2022 @mikeymad https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/14/ivan-reitman-hollywood-hero-ghostbusters-director-hadley-freeman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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