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Kool & the Gang Co-Founder Dennis Thomas Dead at 70
UPI ^ | AUG. 7, 2021 | Karen Butler

Posted on 08/07/2021 6:57:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 08/07/2021 6:57:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Let me guess, Covid.


2 posted on 08/07/2021 7:01:06 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Wait 6 months and it will be truth.)
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To: nickcarraway

Their best tune as I remember: Too Hot. A cool, sultry tune with meaning.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=kool+and+the+gang+too+hot&view=detail&mid=0A92B56B9374181877170A92B56B937418187717&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dkool%2band%2bthe%2bgang%2btoo%2bhot%26form%3dQBLH%26sp%3d-1%26pq%3d%26sc%3d0-0%26qs%3dn%26sk%3d%26cvid%3d47FAC0BDBC734B4A894C10844A16AC63


3 posted on 08/07/2021 7:10:03 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

Rumor was they were a mafia band. Financed by the mob and had to stay together forever.


4 posted on 08/07/2021 7:13:30 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: nickcarraway

When someone “passes away peacefully in their sleep,” my mom says, “God loved him.”


5 posted on 08/07/2021 7:23:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: Fungi

Too Hot was one of my favs along with Summer Madness- long version of course.


6 posted on 08/07/2021 7:35:17 PM PDT by Baldwin
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Summer Madness is an incredible tube.


7 posted on 08/07/2021 7:36:58 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: nickcarraway

RIP.


8 posted on 08/07/2021 7:38:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Baldwin

I was not aware of that tune. Just listened to it for the first time. Great tune! Thank you.


9 posted on 08/07/2021 7:51:31 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Tax-chick

She was right.


10 posted on 08/07/2021 7:57:14 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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They are clearly having a great time performing "Celebration." It's hard to NOT like that song.
11 posted on 08/07/2021 8:03:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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I guess so. But it’s always scared me. I alway thought one would want a final thought or word before they shuffled off this mortal coil. The idea of going without knowing it is... scary?


12 posted on 08/07/2021 8:10:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Menehune56

My mother and her friends are all good church-going people. They don’t care if they die, but they don’t want to linger, suffering.

One of my mom’s friends, Ted, in his 90s, took a fall while he was on a highway cleanup project with his church men’s group. They called 911, paramedics said he was okay. He went back to the apartment he shared with his sister, lay down for a nap, and didn’t wake up.

My mother emailed me, “God loved Ted.”


13 posted on 08/07/2021 8:12:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: nickcarraway

Did he take the vaccine?


14 posted on 08/07/2021 8:12:20 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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If you don’t think you’re squared away with the Lord by the time you’re 70, 80, 90, you probably won’t ever feel like you can trust His mercy. That’s not about God, but about you and your experiences.


15 posted on 08/07/2021 8:14:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, simplicity, peace.)
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To: nickcarraway

Saw them in concert about a month ago.


16 posted on 08/07/2021 8:18:56 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: nickcarraway

RIP. Hope it’s just right where you are. Kool and not Too Hot.


17 posted on 08/07/2021 8:28:04 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Fungi

That’s a great song with such thoughtful lyrics I’d never thought about before.


18 posted on 08/07/2021 8:43:38 PM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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#11 Only 226,233,981 views....
People like this song the world over.


19 posted on 08/07/2021 9:26:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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I liked Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging.


20 posted on 08/07/2021 9:43:35 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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