RIP Dan O'Bannon

Blair Leatherwood

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Dec 21, 2009, 12:45:00 AM12/21/09

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Caught this just by luck (aka bbc.co.uk, but this is from the LA Times).

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-obannon19-2009dec19,0,4358785.story

I love Alien, but I'm very fond of Dark Star...

Patty Winter

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Dec 21, 2009, 3:32:46 PM12/21/09

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In article <hgn20s$pfe$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,

Oh, foo. :-(

I've never seen "Alien," but I, too, am very fond of "Dark Star."
(Ah, the good ol' days when the aliens on your spaceship were
merely amusing. :-))

Time to sing a round of "Benson, Arizona"...

Patty

Duggy

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Dec 22, 2009, 8:58:37 PM12/22/09

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On Dec 21, 5:45 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Caught this just by luck (aka bbc.co.uk, but this is from the LA Times).

I'm not sure luck is the word.

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Blair Leatherwood

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Dec 23, 2009, 12:07:31 AM12/23/09

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In the sense that the news might not have been received except by
fortune (note that there's no indication of good or bad given), it was luck.

Dan B.

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Dec 23, 2009, 1:35:19 PM12/23/09

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Perhaps "by chance" would have the right connotative meaning.

Dan

Duggy

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Dec 23, 2009, 8:23:27 PM12/23/09

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On Dec 23, 5:07 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>

wrote:
> Duggy wrote:
> > On Dec 21, 5:45 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> Caught this just by luck (aka bbc.co.uk, but this is from the LA Times).
> > I'm not sure luck is the word.

> In the sense that the news might not have been received except by
> fortune (note that there's no indication of good or bad given), it was luck.

Luck and fortune are bad words to use.

Because you only found the news by good luck/fortune but the death is
bad luck/fortune.

Better to use "by chance", "randomly" or less loaded word.

Technically you can argue your point, but popular usage and general
audience perception trump technical accuracy every time.

I'm also still not sold on the "fortune" (good or bad) of finding it.
If this story existed momentarily and you caught it before it was
deleted, sure. If you found it through some "pick random news story"
thing, maybe. If you found while specifically looking up Dan's name
and stumbled across the breaking news, I can see that.

But if it was found in a general trawl through news sites then it
isn't so much "luck" or "fortune" but rather is what happens when you
do that.

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dershem

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Dec 30, 2009, 9:44:06 PM12/30/09

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Duggy <p.allan...@gmail.com> wrote in news:6058adb2-f87f-4ec0-b8a5-
6c7d79...@v7g2000pro.googlegroups.com:

Not all luck is good luck.

cd

Duggy

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Dec 30, 2009, 11:13:23 PM12/30/09

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On Dec 31, 2:44 am, dershem <ders...@cox.net> wrote:
> Duggy <p.allan.dug...@gmail.com> wrote in news:6058adb2-f87f-4ec0-b8a5-
> 6c7d79b0f...@v7g2000pro.googlegroups.com:

>
> > On Dec 21, 5:45 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> Caught this just by luck (aka bbc.co.uk, but this is from the LA Times).
>
> > I'm not sure luck is the word.
> Not all luck is good luck.

Yes, and that was covered in another post.

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wrrlykam

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Jan 3, 2010, 12:40:14 PM1/3/10

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On Dec 21 2009, 5:45 am, Blair Leatherwood <bleatherw...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Caught this just by luck (aka bbc.co.uk, but this is from the LA Times).
>

> http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-obannon19-2009dec19,...

>
> I love Alien, but I'm very fond of Dark Star...

Missed it totally.

Goodbye and goodnight Sgt. Pinback.