Awesome.

The Telegraph has the worlds best obituaries.

"You're a Yank," said a British voice.

"Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee."

LOL. That gentleman truly grabbed ahold of this world and got everything he could out of life. Well done, sir.

Now THAT is a life. We should all be so lucky... and brave.

That's Hedley!

Boredom was never an option.

Damn. A life well lived.

Nabb1: "You're a Yank," said a British voice.

"Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee."

LOL. That gentleman truly grabbed ahold of this world and got everything he could out of life. Well done, sir.

I grabbed that classic nugget too. If only more people had his audacity.

TFA does not mention that the surviving daughter is Farah Fawcett.

Captain Jack Harkness???


/DNRTFA

Sounds like he packed more life into any random year than most people do in a lifetime.

Well done sir. RIP, you've earned it.

when he was 15 Fawcett had started an affair with his best friend's mother. "If that's child molestation," he declared, "I would wish this curse on every young boy."

HA!

I was going to quote that Yankee line but it was taken. This guy was AWESOME.

In three months at the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women who had been trapped in concentration camps, a procedure that entitled them to leave France with an automatic American visa.

Ohhhh ok

radioman_: TFA does not mention that the surviving daughter is Farah Fawcett.

With good reason (new window).

A tip of a fine glass of whiskey to the memory of true hero.

Awesome.

But did he father Anna Nicole's baby?

"Last December 13th, there appeared in the newspapers the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read. It was that of a lady named Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, who had, in her lifetime, managed to acquire as lovers practically all of the top creative men in central Europe. And, among these lovers, who were listed in the obituary, by the way, which is what made it so interesting, there were three whom she went so far as to marry: One of the leading composers of the day, Gustav Mahler, composer of Das Lied von der Erde and other light classics; one of the leading architects, Walter Gropius, of the Bauhaus school of design; and one of the leading writers, Franz Werfel, author of the Song of Bernadette and other masterpieces.

It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years!

It seemed to me, on reading this obituary, that the story of Alma was the stuff of which ballads should be made, so here is one:"

-- Tom Lehrer's introduction to his song, "Alma"

He escaped it: A life wasted.

/R.I.P, You man among men.

Aww crap I was just reading about him in "Charlie Wilsons war".

sounded like an extraordinary guy.

All of a sudden, I think I've totally wasted most of my life.

Nabb1: "You're a Yank," said a British voice.

"Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee."

Let me raise you one.

when he was 15 Fawcett had started an affair with his best friend's mother. "If that's child molestation," he declared, "I would wish this curse on every young boy."

wow

truly, a great man.

.

Quite the multi-Fawcetted character.

Wow - amazing life!

Awesome. He would have been a hell of a guy to have a beer--or eight-- with.

kronicfeld: That's Hedley!

What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue *her*.

The don't make 'em like they used to....

His picture will be gracing teacher-student sex threads on Fark for years to come.

Did his blood smell like cologne?

Yeah right.

Now that's a real man.

subby: nailing Hedy Lamarr later on

awesome, back when women were real.

i got distracted by the 300C wagon....they have them there?

Seriously, what a great life. Granted the man was lucky as hell but still, he lived and lived well.

Makes it even sadder to watch people who's lives are working and sit ting on their couches in front of the TV and for decades. Life is short, go live it.

/As a fellow Virginian, I love that line
//seriously would have loved that curse as a 16yo, hmmm MILF
/// RIP you well lived bastard

Best use of the tag in a long time.

John Fitzgerald Page died?

Hollywood Cole: Best use of the tag in a long time.

Agreed!

*humbled*

GaryPDX: I grabbed that classic nugget too. If only more people had his audacity.

I don't know if this is apocryphal or not, but a friend told me a story of a NY lawyer who was pulled over for speeding in Georgia.

When the trooper told them: "Sir, no one moves that fast through my county." the lawyer replied: "Sherman did."

They spent the night in the local jail.

The angels are going to have to update their wardrobe, they don't make togas or robes big enough to cover those balls.

This guy was a movie unto him self, a real life Indiana Jones-type.

Someone needs to make the wiki for this man..he is well deserving of it

Sounds like a modern day Jack Shaftoe.

/Not even close to obscure for Fark.

bighairyguy: John Fitzgerald Page died?

golf clap

Telegraph obits really are the best.
Here's a great one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml

"Badass" doesn't even begin to describe the awesomeness of this man.

By his own account, when he was 15 Fawcett had started an affair with his best friend's mother. "If that's child molestation," he declared, "I would wish this curse on every young boy."

Best...quote....evvvar

He won the Cold War, not Ronald Reagan who in fact was almost completely unaware of what this guy started