Farewell - saying goodbye to the famous folks we lost in 2008

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Jarod said:
Thats what I hear. I guess it is starting to get a bit easier, though the holidays are kinda hard.
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Holidays will be hard longer.

When my family got together this year I still felt the presence of both of my parents. I have my father's sense of humor (and some of his mannerisms), and I see the same in my sons. Mom died in 1997, and christmas is when I miss her the most. I still see decorations or wrapping paper and think "Mom would love that". Only afterwards do I realize I didn't think in past tense.
 
uscitizen said:
My father was not the coolest, or maybe he was and I was too young and stupid to realize it when he died. However about 50 years later I still wish I could sit down and talk with him one more time.
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Now that is young to lose your Dad.

I too wish I could talk to either one of my Dads.
 
I still speak to Dad sometimes, he does not answer as directly as he used to.
 
Solitary said:
I know Carlin. He may not have known me, but I felt like he was an old friend.

I had his albums (large vinyl disk played on something called a turntable - for you youngsters). I remember we had to wait till Mom was not in the house to play them.

Occupation Foole
FM & AM
Class Clown
Toledo Windowbox
An Evening with Wally Lando


I can still do the entire "Hal Sleet your hippy-dippy weatherman" routine from memory.
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The WINO radio station routine is still one of my favorites and I THINK I can still do it from heart. I had that on 8 Track.
 
Solitary said:
Holidays will be hard longer.

When my family got together this year I still felt the presence of both of my parents. I have my father's sense of humor (and some of his mannerisms), and I see the same in my sons. Mom died in 1997, and christmas is when I miss her the most. I still see decorations or wrapping paper and think "Mom would love that". Only afterwards do I realize I didn't think in past tense.
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It's true. This was our second Christmas without my dad and fifth without my mom. We toasted both at Thanksgiving and Christmas and you're so right about thinking of the things they would have loved.

I have found it easier to cope with, knowing some of the things they did miss, that would have been so hard for them. Their grandson being so sick, they would have freaked over the economy, things like that. I kind of figure they were lucky not to have to go through these things.
 
Jarod said:
I still speak to Dad sometimes, he does not answer as directly as he used to.
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I know what you mean, I ask them something and the first thought that comes to mind I tell myself its them. I dont really believe its them but its their teachings coming through you. Its a reasuring exersize.
 
Desh said:
Now that is young to lose your Dad.

I too wish I could talk to either one of my Dads.
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Yeah I was a few days from 16. Came in from school one day and he had died. Massive heart attack. If today he would have lived a lot longer with the stints and bypasses, etc.
Never even got to say bye.
 
uscitizen said:
Yeah I was a few days from 16. Came in from school one day and he had died. Massive heart attack. If today he would have lived a lot longer with the stints and bypasses, etc.
Never even got to say bye.
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I was lucky, I had 10 months to say goodbye, and he was a great father.
 
uscitizen said:
Yeah I was a few days from 16. Came in from school one day and he had died. Massive heart attack. If today he would have lived a lot longer with the stints and bypasses, etc.
Never even got to say bye.
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Man losing your Dad at 16 is a crusher. He would be proud of how you handled it. If my Dad had died when I was 16 I would have for the rest of my life thought he was a monster. With age I was able to go back home and see him a little differently. He wasnt a bad guy, he was just not a very capable father.
 
Socrtease said:
The WINO radio station routine is still one of my favorites and I THINK I can still do it from heart. I had that on 8 Track.
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LMAO... you just confused all the youngins on here. They probably have never seen an 8 track. Hell, they would probably be lucky to even know what one is.
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO... you just confused all the youngins on here. They probably have never seen an 8 track. Hell, they would probably be lucky to even know what one is.
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8 tracks were the best! It was the first portable music I had.

If the young ones were confused about 8 tracks, imagine the bewilderment if they could see the old audiophiles cleaning each album before playing it?
 
Desh said:
Man losing your Dad at 16 is a crusher. He would be proud of how you handled it. If my Dad had died when I was 16 I would have for the rest of my life thought he was a monster. With age I was able to go back home and see him a little differently. He wasnt a bad guy, he was just not a very capable father.
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I did ok, worked part time to help out, finished HS. Went to nam, tech school and worked hard all my life. till now.

I have never drawn one days unemployment.
I did get SS benefits from Dads contributions until I was 18.

SS made it possible for me and my siblings to finish HS.
Not comfortable, but possible.
 
Solitary said:
8 tracks were the best! It was the first portable music I had.

If the young ones were confused about 8 tracks, imagine the bewilderment if they could see the old audiophiles cleaning each album before playing it?
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LMAO... yeah, it was the first portable music I had as well.

Good point on the audiophiles. The first computer program I wrote was in 1983. It saved onto a cassette tape. About 100 lines of code took about 45 minutes to record. Anyone else use a PET computer from Commodore? :)
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO... yeah, it was the first portable music I had as well.

Good point on the audiophiles. The first computer program I wrote was in 1983. It saved onto a cassette tape. About 100 lines of code took about 45 minutes to record. Anyone else use a PET computer from Commodore? :)
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VIC-20, C-64. C-128 with CPM...
Apple IIe and numerous IBM clones.


but first I had rocks and charcoal.
 
My mother still has a sterio system that is ancient. The thing is the size of a SMART car, but wider. It has a record player and sterio radio. It works well. we still play records on it at Christmas time.
 
uscitizen said:
I did ok, worked part time to help out, finished HS. Went to nam, tech school and worked hard all my life. till now.

I have never drawn one days unemployment.
I did get SS benefits from Dads contributions until I was 18.

SS made it possible for me and my siblings to finish HS.
Not comfortable, but possible.
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Lots of people forget for SS does for the families left behind.

He would be very proud of his boy.
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO... yeah, it was the first portable music I had as well.

Good point on the audiophiles. The first computer program I wrote was in 1983. It saved onto a cassette tape. About 100 lines of code took about 45 minutes to record. Anyone else use a PET computer from Commodore? :)
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I had a radioshack computer! I had to buy a separate cassette tape recorder to plug into it, or lose everything every time I turned it off.

But at the time it was the coolest thing we had ever seen. Then I graduated to an Apple IIC clone. That gave me 256k of blazing memory and a 5.5" floppy disk drive.
 
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