RIP: Leslie Nielsen, the narrator in BoC's track Dandelion

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RIP: Leslie Nielsen, the narrator in BoC's track Dandelion

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He passed away in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida hospital for pneumonia surrounded by his family and friends today around 5:30pm.
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This is very sad to hear, he will most definitely be missed.
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Uncle Sleazy and now Nielsen, such great people are dropping like flys these days :(
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RIP..I shall miss that guy
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He was hilarious. This really does suck. RIP.
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Surely you can't be serious?


I am serious, and please stop calling me Shirley...

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Was very sad to hear this earlier. Loved his movies, and a very interesting fellow all around.
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The preparation for a dive is always a tense time... rip.
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Brilliantly funny guy, and not to sound ignorant but i had no idea about this Boc connection until now. He will be missed.
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He was a great guy..
I loved all of his movies.
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I loved Police Squad and the first Airplane! movie was a classic.

The first time I heard his dulcet tones on Dandelion was a welcome surprise too.

At least we still have those, and other movies etc to remind us how great he was.

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Whoa, didn't see this coming.


I didn't even know that he is the voice in Dandelion!
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Nice beaver...
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*pours a bit of earl grey on the carpet for Leslie, homey style.

gutted when I heard this morning.
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he was so damn funny and was quite possibly the coolest senior citizen to have lived
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I just might watch Creepshow in his honour :roll:
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I remember watching Police Squad on TV back when I was a young kid. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. When it was canceled after only a few episodes, I was floored--how could something so wonderful NOT succeed? And thus my initiation into the banality of popular culture had begun.

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you've got to be joking..
who next? :(

do relatively obscure music-related people always die in threes?
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Digged out one of his films yesterday and again had some good laughs.

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Re: Police Squad

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mheumann wrote:I remember watching Police Squad on TV back when I was a young kid. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. When it was canceled after only a few episodes, I was floored--how could something so wonderful NOT succeed? And thus my initiation into the banality of popular culture had begun.

Keep running into those trash cans, Leslie!
They released the episodes on DVD a few years back I believe, been meaning to check it out ever since..
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