Sometimes I want to put up an obit just because the writer clearly had fun writing it.<\/p>\n
In Canada, it’s possible to find a man lounging on a chesterfield in his rented bachelor wearing only his gotchies while fortifying his Molson muscle with a jambuster washed down with slugs from a stubby.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s the lead from the obit for Katherine Barber, founding editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. She was 61.<\/p>\n
Chuck Hicks<\/a>. He has 197 credits in IMDB as an actor…and 110 as a stunt person<\/a>. He worked a lot with Clint Eastwood, was in “Cool Hand Luke”, “Dick Tracy”, and played the robot boxer in the “Steel” episode of “The Twilight Zone”…<\/p>\n
…and among all of his other movie and TV credits, he appeared seven times on “Mannix”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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