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Title: R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy
Post by: redskull on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:23:26: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html

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Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:24:44: :'(
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Post by: katushkin on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:25:04: ****.
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Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:25:41: :-\
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Post by: Flyersfan1 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:26:00: :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
RIP
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Post by: Michael on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:30:26: Very sad :(
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Post by: MOZ on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:30:48: Literally just logged in to share this.

He lived long and prospered.

R.I.P
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Post by: user 18 on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:32:03: RIP

:(
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Post by: osi on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:38:34: I need to re-watch the star wars series.

RIP
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Post by: Findecanor on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:46:30: Edit your post, osi! ;)

He certainly did the most interesting character in Star Trek. I also enjoyed him in Mission:Impossible (the original TV-series from the '60s, not the Tom Cruise crap) and in the 1978 film The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

There was also this infamous song The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU) (youtube).
I think that the song would fit right in the Middle Earth world - as Tolkien made it. There is a whole lot of song in the books, and a lot of humour in those songs.
The video is not a "music video" but from a performance in a TV show which the dancers belong to, so he can't really be blamed for the campy dance...
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Post by: drewba on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:48:07: Quote from: MOZ on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:30:48
He lived long and prospered.
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Post by: E TwentyNine on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:52:55: :(
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Post by: MOZ on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:58:15: He was excellent in Fringe as well.
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Post by: cmadrid on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:07:49: The FCC killed Spock :'(
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Post by: E TwentyNine on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:23:57: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIt0DYKssI#t=226s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIt0DYKssI#t=226s)

(How *do* you make embedded youtube links work anyway?)
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Post by: nubbinator on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:28:09: Quote from: E TwentyNine on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:23:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIt0DYKssI#t=226s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIt0DYKssI#t=226s)

(How *do* you make embedded youtube links work anyway?)
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Post by: cmadrid on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:33:15: (http://disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/MrSpock.jpg)
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Post by: cmadrid on Fri, 27 February 2015, 12:35:00: (http://www.allmystery.de/i/tdba88f_hes-dead-jim.jpg)
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Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:15:45: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:24:44
:'(

:'(
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Post by: Joey Quinn on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:20:22: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:24:44
:'(

:(
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Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:22:38
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Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:38:38
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Post by: noisyturtle on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:42:35: This emotion is highly illogical. :'(
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Post by: demik on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:45:13: That sucks
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Post by: paicrai on Fri, 27 February 2015, 13:49:23
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Post by: Novus on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:27:47: [attachimg=1]
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Post by: Wildcard on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:29:12: Farewell on your final journey across the stars. LLAP
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Post by: Novus on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:32:37: [attach=1]
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:33:09: Quote
We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.
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Post by: cmadrid on Fri, 27 February 2015, 15:41:56: His final tweet.
@TheRealNimoy
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

:'(
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Post by: Findecanor on Fri, 27 February 2015, 16:35:18
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Post by: derezzed on Sat, 28 February 2015, 00:01:11: Quote from: Findecanor on Fri, 27 February 2015, 11:46:30
Edit your post, osi! ;)

He certainly did the most interesting character in Star Trek. I also enjoyed him in Mission:Impossible (the original TV-series from the '60s, not the Tom Cruise crap) and in the 1978 film The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

There was also this infamous song The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU) (youtube).
I think that the song would fit right in the Middle Earth world - as Tolkien made it. There is a whole lot of song in the books, and a lot of humour in those songs.
The video is not a "music video" but from a performance in a TV show which the dancers belong to, so he can't really be blamed for the campy dance...

I also remember him as the narrator for the TV series In Search Of. And as himself in Futurama. He died at the age of 83 but I'm still shocked and having difficulty processing it. I grew up watching the original Star Trek but I was never inspired by Roddenberry's grand vision of the future and I don't consider myself a Trekkie. But Leonard Nimoy has been deeply ingrained in my culture my entire life and I find it difficult to accept that he's dead. He was supposed to live forever.
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Post by: ideus on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:13:41: "Mr. Nimoy was born in Boston to Russian Jews; he speaks and reads Yiddish. He began acting at 8, but his big break came at 17, when he was cast as Ralphie in a Boston production of Clifford Odets’s “Awake and Sing.” In 1966, he landed a gig on a little television show called “Star Trek,” which ran for only three seasons but would resonate for decades. He spent two seasons on “Mission Impossible” and in 1971 went to U.C.L.A. to study photography. He didn’t graduate, but he has a master’s in education and an honorary doctorate from Antioch College. He hasn’t acted since 1990, choosing to devote himself to art collecting, voiceover work and various philanthropic endeavors, including an artists’ foundation he and his wife run."

By ABBY ELLIN
Published: May 13, 2007

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/fashion/13nimoy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Post by: cmadrid on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:25:08: http://www.inquisitr.com/1881975/westboro-baptist-church-announces-intent-to-picket-leonard-nimoys-funeral/

Westboro Baptist Church is about to make the dream of every Klingon come true IRL

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Post by: rowdy on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:37:40: :(

RIP

LLAP
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Post by: E TwentyNine on Sun, 01 March 2015, 08:16:28: (http://i.imgur.com/vijq2m6.jpg)
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Post by: paicrai on Sun, 01 March 2015, 08:38:43: Quote from: cmadrid on Sat, 28 February 2015, 18:25:08
http://www.inquisitr.com/1881975/westboro-baptist-church-announces-intent-to-picket-leonard-nimoys-funeral/
ew gross