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Vaclav Havel dies.

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Many a great man died last week.

Havel was a hero who stood up to Communism and its depraved, filthy little ideology. He kicked ass.

The former chain smoker died at his country home in Hradecek, north of Prague, of a long respiratory illness after surviving operations for lung cancer and a burst intestine in the late 1990s that left him frail for more than a decade.

The diminutive playwright, who invited the Rolling Stones to medieval Prague castle, took Bill Clinton to a smoky Prague jazz club to play saxophone and was a friend of the Dalai Lama, rose to fame after facing down Prague's Communist rulers.

"His peaceful resistance shook the fo
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/18/us-czech-havel-idUSTRE7BH08W20111218

As the late Christopher Hitchens said; "Try and lay off of the booze and fags."
 
As much as I still think your jones for Communism is kind of creepy, I'm with you on this one. Havel was a decent and good man, a great European, and above all evidence that not everyone left of centre is a Communist.
 
So close to the death of Kim the Korean, this makes me think of the urRu and Skeksis from the Dark Crystal.
 
Madalch said:
So close to the death of Kim the Korean, this makes me think of the urRu and Skeksis from the Dark Crystal.
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For the longest time this was a meme in my group of friends. It was fun.
 
IDB87 said:
For the longest time this was a meme in my group of friends. It was fun.
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I spent a summer in Norway once. Half the people I spoke to did this whenever there was a pause in the conversation.
 
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