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vonbontee said

mja6758 said

Yay! I’m back to only having one Egroeg Evoli currently online! Five would be too hard to handle!

They’re all imposters! Look at the spelling of the name:

Strange. According to the Currently Online bit at the bottom of the page, it seems members currently online are:
Evoli, Egroege Evoli, Egroege Evoli, Egroege Evoli, Egroege Evoli, mja6758, LongHairedLady!

Oops! Seems I goofed with my spelling there. I always have to think hard with Egroeg’s name.

Highly respected British jazz musician Kenny Ball has passed away at the age of 82. Though his main success was in the UK, where he charted 14 Top 50 hits (the most by any jazz artist), he was a highly regarded Dixieland trumpeter the world over. He and his Jazzmen were also one of the few British acts to enjoy American chart success pre-Beatles, reaching No. 2 in the Billboard chart in March 1962 with Midnight in Moscow. The following year he became the first British jazz musician to be made an honorary citizen of New Orleans. He worked until the end, his last performance being in Manchester just fifteen days ago, fittingly with two of the other giants of British jazz, Acker Bilk and Chris Barber. He will be sadly missed.

unknown said
That’s was. I think we do have a croakers thread, but this is no time to be sad. Cheer up, mja! Death is the greatest part of one’livers, and 82 is.A nice age. 

I really don’t know what to say to this. “That’s was.” What does that mean? Nowhere in my post do I say “is”. “I think we do have a croakers thread,” yes, and I think if you look back through this thread, disrespectful as I think your “croakers” is, this is the “croakers” thread. Occasionally someone will get their own thread, but here is where deaths are generally mentioned. To feel sorrow at someone’s death, and to commemorate it, is no bad thing. What gives you the idea I need to “cheer up”? Was there anything in my marking the death of an important musician that hinted I was feeling over-emotional about it? I noted his passing, commented on his achievements, and said he would be missed, that’s all. Whatever your beliefs, it is good to mark the transition from one phase to another, and there is nothing wrong in expressing a measure of sadness at that.

Ben Ramon said

 

Was this outburst really necessary? It’s pretty obvious he was just trying to be nice.

 

I wanted to point out that this was the thread where deaths are mentioned, and that I found the term “croakers” a disrespectful way to refer to those who have died. Perhaps I should have kept my response less detailed and not gone into why I posted my comments on the passing of Kenny Ball, and my thoughts on commemorating death, but I didn’t really see it as an “outburst”, just a response. I apologise if it reads as an “outburst”.

Thanks for your response, and for not taking offense at my comments (at least yours doesn’t read as if you did, and I apologise if you did). Damn spellchecker! Croak isn’t really offensive, but it’s slang that I personally find disrespectful. As to the thread you mention for announcing deaths, are you referring to Rest in Peace? The intention of that thread seems to be to mark the passing of those (person or pet) who you are close to, and want to express your feelings about. The last time I looked at it, it had only been used by Joe to talk about the death of a friend of his, and those commiserating with Joe over his loss. The marking of deaths that occur in this thread tend more to be those of celebrities. Thanks for the spirit of your thoughts.