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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Ozzie Osborne has died Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:22:16 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <105po1o$6sma$1@dont-email.me> References: <105pglv$mnl8$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cd2813a43c23e4606ced520884e9739a"; logging-data="225994"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19XWTIQjhL0bax3GPSFg/itFKvXMGviPg8=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rjaXeTuIMh/v+tlIE0Mj3LAmnMs= On 2025-07-23 02:16:30 +0000, Ian J. Ball said: > On 7/22/25 1:19 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> Rhino wrote: >>> >>> I don't actually have a link to a newspaper article yet. I just stumbled >>> on a live stream about his death but it's ending so maybe wait a few >>> minutes and they'll hopefully leave it so that it can be replayed.... >> >> https://apnews.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-dies-adff88b55f1d3b0bace5705d58d3cdde >> >>> On a personal note, I definitely appreciated Black Sabbath back in the >>> day. I've got the first four albums and still listen to them on occasion >>> (via YouTube) and appreciate them. >> >>> I've never pretended to understand Ozzy as a person or what drove him. >>> His slurred speech always made him seem massively impaired every time I >>> saw an interview with him - or a clip from his reality show - but he >>> couldn't have lived this long if he was *that* drunk/stoned could he so >>> maybe he wasn't actually as wasted as he seemed. But you can't deny that >>> he made a memorable front man, both of Black Sabbath and of his solo band. >> >>> R.I.P. Ozzy! > > If Ozzy Osborne can make it to 76, then I think anyone can!! Except he was pickled from the inside by all that booze in his twenties .... and thirties, and fourties, and fifties, and sixties, and seventies. ;-)