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He's going deeper underground.

I'm ok, long standing issue so had to get it checked out. Shouldn't be fatal if I have the op or not. I'll be on a waiting list, so WWIII might get me first.

I think Ive found a car big enough...

Dr. Mark Wainberg, a Montreal-based trailblazer in HIV/AIDS research and an internationally renowned scientist, died Tuesday after swimming in rough water in Bal Harbour, Fla. He was 71. Bal Harbour police confirmed Wainberg's death this afternoon. Acting police chief Miguel De La Rosa said authorities had posted a warning on the beach Tuesday about high surf and high current conditions. De La Rosa said Wainberg's family was with him and his son had tried to rescue him. You can lead a scientist to water, but you can't make him read the posted warnings. SC

I am sticking with Jane until that 1935 date is confirmed from another source or I get the point. Nothing on BBC yet.

Mai, a three-legged tiger at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday. The 20-year-old female Malayan tiger had been under veterinary care for renal disease over the last year. She was humanely euthanized Wednesday morning. Dr. Julie Napier, the zoo’s senior veterinarian, said in the news release, "Mai was leaps and bounds better than the other tigers." SC

Aye, good luck keeping that ticker, er, ticking!

Hope you feel better man.

Does that warrent an outing for the Stevie Wonder/Chaka Khan joke?

So just the anti death penalty campaigners clutching at straws then?

This would be a brilliant question on pointless.

Yes I may continue with it next year, we'll see if I have some success this year - maybe the lead singer of the Goombay Dance Band? 1982 will always be my favourite - I remember sitting in front of top of the tops writing down the top 20 every week in a big notebook, I still remember following the painful progress of Dead Ringer for Love into the top 10, I thought it would never make it. By 1984 I had gone off to boarding school and lost touch a bit with the charts due to playing too much soggy biscuit. Nena - 99 red balloons has to be my favourite from that year though. Anyway if we're going head to head on 1982 next year, I'm glad Geils is out of the way.

Nae worries.

bloody hell! this is moving too fast!

That makes annoying sense actually with hindsight (Sir Creep calls certs slam dunks as in "you can't miss them"*), but so it goes! *Although my very brief PE class career of playing the game suggests you really can miss them, quite easily.

Don't worry, if you hadn't, people might have been forced to discuss Eric Clapton. So, bullet dodged there.

So it's you!!!!!! Are you doing the same next year, because we would be going head to head? Have to say I'd have picked him purely because it would have been my only chance to catch a member of that band. Bad luck on your miss btw. And quite clearly if I may disagree, I personally think out of the 1980s, no year tops 1984. But that's just personal for me.

Vonnegut had a wonderfully mean-spirited FOX obituary: This pissed off a lot of folk I know at the time, but hey, when I saw it, I thought: man, they really hate this guy. I need to read his stuff NOW! And, it's great. So it goes! Slaughterhouse Five is the standout, but Timequake, Man without a Country, etc, all recommended.

So what? He is famous enough for his own thread.

So start one. You dont have to be a veteran of the forum to start a thread. It keeps the forum alive too.

You guys should really think about Little Richard for next year (if he survives this year) He's one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, and all news about his current state of health inevitably point to his looming demise. I'm honestly surprised that he doesn't have his own thread yet.

Bee Gees are, of course, down to one member.

#11: The National Aquarium says its oldest Atlantic bottlenose dolphin has died. The aquarium said in a statement Tuesday that 44-year-old Nani exhibited unusual behavior on Monday and died that evening despite emergency care from the animal care team. The aquarium says veterinarians are trying to determine the cause of death. SC

Riding them is overpriced and frequently unpleasant?