Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies

Did anybody have him?

The List is on Page 6... klydon got his second kill and takes the lead

BINGO!

48 to go.

The article about his death says he was thought to be 91. I actually thought he was about 98. This guy hit his peak in the mid-7os. I remember him on the Merv Griffin Show, sitting on the chair barefoot with his legs folded.

I just heard about Barry Morse. Gee, I'll remember him most as Girard, the guy after Richard Kimble. He made me so mad. Too bad.

I didn't hear about the Mahrishi. I didn't have him on my list, but I have Ravi Shankar, for whatever good that does me.

TIS

How'd I ever get suckered into playing against a lawyer. TWO lawyers, no less. (They have some sort of deal with the devil).

Well, as the REAL Yogi once said, "It ain't over 'til its over".

I posted this on January 10. I was off by 3 days. Let's see how close I am with Ariel Sharon.

I'll stick with my pick for Ariel Sharon by the Ides. And, Earl Butz, don't laugh...I predict that the Easter Bunny won't be coming to you this year.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't do this to me. SC already let it slip that Santa Clause was dead.

How can you not laugh at that name?

(trying to decode that)

If the Yogi sees his shadow there's six more weeks of coma??

Actually, if Yogi sees his shadow, he will have six more weeks of stealing picnic baskets with Boo Boo at Jellystone Park.

Geoff picking the oldies has paid off.

TAMPA, Fla. - Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.

Landis, who lived at a Sun City Center nursing home, died Monday, according to Donna Riley, his caregiver for the past five years. He had recently been in the hospital with a fever and low blood pressure, she said.

"He only took vitamins and eye drops, no other medication," Riley said Wednesday. "He was 108 and a healthy man. That's why all of this was sudden and unexpected. He was so full of life."

The remaining U.S. veteran is Frank Buckles, 107, of Charles Town, W.Va., according the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition, John Babcock of Spokane, Wash., 107, served in the Canadian army and is the last known Canadian veteran of the war.

Another World War I vet, Ohioan J. Russell Coffey, died in December at 109. The last known German World War I veteran, Erich Kaestner, died New Year's Day at 107.

Landis trained as a U.S. Army recruit for 60 days at the end of the war and never went overseas. But the VA counts him among the 4.7 million men and woman who served during the Great War.

The last time all known U.S. veterans of a war died was Sept. 10, 1992, when Spanish-American War veteran Nathan E. Cook passed away at age 106.

In an interview with The Associated Press in April in his Sun City Center apartment, Landis recalled that his time in the Student Army Training Corps involved a lot of marching. VA records show his entry date into the service was Oct. 14, 1918.

"I don't remember too much about it," said Landis, who enlisted while in college in Fayette, Mo., at age 18. "We went to school in the afternoon and drilled in the morning."

They often drilled in their street clothes.

"We got our uniforms a bit at a time. Got the whole uniform just before the war ended," Landis said. "Fortunately, we got our great coats first. It was very cold out there.

He told reporters in earlier interviews that he spent a lot of time cleaning up a makeshift sick ward and caring for recruits sickened by an influenza pandemic.

When asked whether he had wanted to get into the fight, Landis said, "No."

When the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918, Landis recalled a final march with his unit.

"We went down through the girls college, marching down the street. We got down to the courthouse square and there was a wall around this courthouse. We got to the wall and (the drill instructor) didn't know what to do and we were hup, two, three, four, hup, two, three, four," Landis said, laughing at the memory. "Finally, we jumped up on the wall and kept going until we got to the courthouse — hup, two, three, four — and he said dismissed."

He said he and some fellow recruits piled into a car to go to the next town.

"What we did there, why we were there, I couldn't tell you," Landis said.

He signed up to fight the Germans again in 1941, but at age 42 was rejected as too old.

"I registered, but that's all there was to it," Landis said.

"I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mr. Landis," said LeRoy Collins Jr., executive director of the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs. "He was the last World War I-era veteran in Florida, and with his passing we say goodbye to a generation."

Landis was born in 1899 in Marion County, Mo.

After the war, he was a manager at S.S. Kresge Co., which later became Kmart, in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Dayton, Ohio. His fondest memory was taking golf vacations with three friends and their families, a tradition that ended more than five decades ago with the death of his best friend.

"We really looked forward to getting our old foursome together and going somewhere for a couple of weeks," Landis said. "Sadly, my favorite best friend lived until he was only 60 years old. We were like brothers. We could talk about business, serious things and we could act like a couple of kids."

Landis retired to Florida's warmer climate in 1988 and lived in an assisted living center with his wife of 30 years, Eleanor.

His first wife, Eunice, died after 46 years of marriage. Landis had no children. He said he enjoyed a good game of golf until his health kept him off the course.

Landis laughed when asked the secret to his longevity.

"Just keep swinging," he said.

Sonuvabitch couldn't last out the year??

Thanx for the heads-up, Beth.

Geoff is now tied with klydon (with two kills).

Of all the news journalists I have on my list John McWethy isn't one of them.

Former ABC Reporter John McWethy dies in skiing accident.

John Fleetwood McWethy (1947 - February 6, 2008), was a former American print and television journalist, best known as a correspondent for ABC News.

McWethy attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969. In 1970, he graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

McWethy began his career as a print journalist. He wrote for U.S. News & World Report for seven years, starting as a science editor in 1972, before becoming the magazine's White House correspondent in 1977.

McWethy joined ABC News in 1979. He served as the network's National Security Correspondent from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, covering the military, terrorism, diplomacy, and intelligence. He was in the Pentagon when it was struck by a hijacked passenger plane, American Airlines Flight 77, during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

For his work with ABC News, McWethy received several awards, including five Emmy awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and an Overseas Press Club award in 1987. [1] He was granted an honorary doctorate degree from DePauw in 2003.

Though he retired in 2003, McWethy continued to serve as a Special Correspondent for ABC News until 2006. Starting in 2005, he served as a Senior Advisor to the United States Army Command and General Staff College. On August 11, 2004, he moderated the first of several "News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis" workshops, a joint program presented by the National Academies of Engineering, the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

McWethy died on February 6, 2008 at Keystone Resort in Colorado in a skiing accident. Witnesses reported he was skiing fast, missed a turn, and struck a tree, suffering blunt force trauma to his chest. He is survived by a wife and two adult children.

I feel guilty now

You should. That guy was huffing and puffing along at 108, until you put the hex on him. He probably could have lived to be 111.

I thought my list would be safe... y'know, the whole Anti-Jinx™ thing. I guess it was an Anti-Anti-Jinx™

Don't worry about it Geoffy.

Just entered this thread for the first time since it began. What do you guys have against poor Kirk Douglas?

I love him, but he's 156 years old.

But with him on Geoff's list he won't live to be 157.

Kirk Douglas does not live to see the new year.

Kirk Douglas is so old that the hole in his chin has wrinkles.

And dust comes out.

Roy Sheider was unexpected to everyone...

I thought for sure someone had him. That's bad news for him...and even worse news for us.....

David Groh dies

The only show I remember him on was Rhoda. RIP

For some reason I remember his name well. I only really knew Dvid Groh from Rhoda, although I've seen him on Law & Order more recently. Too bad. I hadn't seen him for a while and didn't know he was ill. Too bad.


TIS

RIP, but he could not save Rhoda....an awful show imho

Yea, Rhoda was just perfect as the sidekick. I loved her off the wall comments. One of my favorites was when she was putting a piece of chocolate in her mouth. She says, "I don't know why I am putting this in my mouth. I should just apply it directly to my hips."

As far as Groh goes, I think the writers thought it was a good idea for Rhoda to marry (and get a show), but you're right, he didn't do anything for Rhoda unfortunately.

TIS