Radio Paradise

I loved his searingly aggressive stance on religion.....although on Iraq I thing he was just plain wrong.
Whatever else, he was supremely intelligent & combative polemicist.

Oh yes & some of his quotes were pretty cool:

"The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

"(George W Bush) is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things."

"Prince Charles, subjected to a regime of fierce paternal harangues and penitential cold-shower boarding schools, withdrew into himself, was eventually talked into a calamitous marriage with someone he didn't love or respect, and is now the morose, balding, New Age crank and licensed busybody that we flinch from today."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

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DaveInSaoMiguel

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Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA
Gender: Male

Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 5:58pm
If he guessed wrong he is in a very warm place by now....

hobiejoe

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Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 5:55pm

Manbird

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Location: La Villa Toscana
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 5:26pm
God rest your soul, Mr. Hitchens.

Umberdog

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Location: In my body.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 2:24pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: Stoopid iPad, can't see the pic. Try this... http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTkwNjYwNDE5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNzg0MDQ2._V1._SY314_CR17,0,214,314_.jpg

Lazy8

Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 2:15pm
Manbird wrote: ... with clown pants and a rainbow wig. Very strange. Especially since it's in black & white. As is befitting a man of his stature.

sirdroseph

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 1:46pm
Manbird wrote: ... with clown pants and a rainbow wig. Very strange. And even stranger, you can see someone talking on what appears to be a cell phone in the background.

Manbird

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Location: La Villa Toscana
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 1:41pm
sirdroseph wrote: It is an early pic of Sir Laurence Olivier. ... with clown pants and a rainbow wig. Very strange.

sirdroseph

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 1:30pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: Stoopid iPad, can't see the pic. It is an early pic of Sir Laurence Olivier.

Lazy8

Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana
Gender: Male

Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 1:19pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: He really overplayed it, why do you think we sent over to you! He actually sounded nothing like most modern English men, but like some sort of anachronistic throw back. If it's any consolation he brought the American estimation of old-school British intellectuals up a couple of notches.

MrsHobieJoe

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Location: somewhere in Europe
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 12:33pm
sirdroseph wrote: Stoopid iPad, can't see the pic.

sirdroseph

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Location: Not here, I tell you wat
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 12:13pm
MrsHobieJoe wrote: He really overplayed it, why do you think we sent over to you! He actually sounded nothing like most modern English men, but like some sort of anachronistic throw back.

MrsHobieJoe

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Location: somewhere in Europe
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 12:09pm
oldslabsides wrote: He was English, what's your point? He really overplayed it, why do you think we sent over to you! He actually sounded nothing like most modern English men, but like some sort of anachronistic throw back.

NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:45am
oldslabsides wrote: He was English, what's your point? but to be fair, it's only a .. oh good grief... can of worms .. return to sender.

highwindows

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Location: see above....
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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:44am

"The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

"Prince Charles, subjected to a regime of fierce paternal harangues and penitential cold-shower boarding schools, withdrew into himself, was eventually talked into a calamitous marriage with someone he didn't love or respect, and is now the morose, balding, New Age crank and licensed busybody that we flinch from today."

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:43am
MrsHobieJoe wrote: Couldngt stand him myself, always came across as arrogant, patronising and affected. However, my deep condolences to his family as my dislike of his public persona doesn't make his death any less tragic for those Around him. He was English, what's your point?

NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:39am

Lazy8 wrote:

NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

I can understand that. He was trying to bridge his own dissonance, identifying with the working class but actually at home somewhere else entirely.. I guess that made him look false. Maybe in a way he was.

Eh. He had the arrogance of the very, very talented. He had one of the quickest wits I've ever seen and a very sharp mind. He was well-read, well-traveled, and he seemed to remember all of it even when completely besotted, which was pretty often. He was a rare beast nowadays: an honest intellectual.

He was willing to tangle with anybody, and damn the consequences. He was even willing to face the scariest thing there is for someone in his position: he was willing to change his mind.

9 reasons to love the guy.

NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:38am
sirdroseph wrote: It's a race! Let's see who gets there first! Get off my lawn!!! A lawn? that's a bit prissy isn't it? You should turn it into a paddock.

Lazy8

Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana
Gender: Male

Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:32am

NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Eh. He had the arrogance of the very, very talented. He had one of the quickest wits I've ever seen and a very sharp mind. He was well-read, well-traveled, and he seemed to remember all of it even when completely besotted, which was pretty often. He was a rare beast nowadays: an honest intellectual.

He was willing to tangle with anybody, and damn the consequences. He was even willing to face the scariest thing there is for someone in his position: he was willing to change his mind.

NoEnzLefttoSplit

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Posted: Dec 16, 2011 - 11:15am

MrsHobieJoe wrote:

Couldngt stand him myself, always came across as arrogant, patronising and affected. However, my deep condolences to his family as my dislike of his public persona doesn't make his death any less tragic for those Around him.

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