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I'd listen. But it depends what and whom you discuss. In other words, if you do obituaries for community college deans from Oklahoma, as well as local folk painters from Vermont, no thanks. But if you do updates on, you know, relevant people such as Tony Booth or George Bush, and talk about the DDP, then sure.

Was on holiday with family when I saw Kurt Cobain death news being reported. "Who was Kurt Cobain?" I said. "An arsehole" said Dad. True story.

Now have images of Sir Creep interviewing Forum members but due to the anonymity:

Fourteenth Leaderboard 2017: (*=Joker) 1st: JoeyRuss - 1298 Points [11/25] (Snuka; *Wetton; Westhuizen; Langhorne; Morano; Pirsig; Bayldon; Allman; Sallis; Campbell; Kristal) 2nd: Sir Creep - 987 Points [10/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey; Christie; Van-Zandvliet; Campbell) =3rd: JiroemonKimura - 924 Points [8/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern; Christie; Hofer; Del Rio; Campbell) =3rd: The Dead Cow - 924 Points [8/25] (Sarstedt; D. Carrington; Westhuizen; Skellern; Morano; Sallis; *Van-Zandvliet; Campbell) 5th: msc - 826 Points [11/25] (Snuka; B. Simpson; McGill; Wetton; Coward; Skellern; Hewlett; Lakovic; Sallis; Christie; Van-Zandvliet) 6th: Grim Up North - 800 Points [8/25] (Wetton; Westhuizen; Coward; Skellern; Morano; Christie; Fawkes; Campbell) 7th: drol - 757 Points [7/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James; Sallis; Hart; Campbell) 8th: The Unknown Man - 723 Points [5/25] (Wetton; Noakes; Christie; Kohl; Campbell) 9th: RadGuy/Phantom Of The Midway - 713 Points [7/25] (Snuka; Tyler-Moore; Westhuizen; Morano; Sallis; Christie; Kristal) 10th: Book - 621 Points [5/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore; Kohl; Bergmann; Campbell) 11th: gcreptile - 600 Points [8/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano; Kaiser; Kristal) 12th: Death Impends - 585 Points [9/25] (Youguang; Nakamura; Hale; D. Carrington; Corey; Skellern; Rockefeller; Sallis; Hart) 13th: Toast - 584 Points [7/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness; Sallis; Campbell) 14th: Rotten Ali - 573 Points [5/25] (Hurt; Wetton; Christie; Kohl; Blazer) 15th: Shaun Of The Dead - 572 Points [6/25] (Hollingworth; Skellern; Kaufman; Noakes; Sallis; Christie) 16th: Deathers - 491 Points [5/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano; Campbell) 17th: YoungWillz - 376 Points [3/25] (*Snuka; Bayldon; Campbell) 18th: Bibliogryphon - 375 Points [4/25] (Dalyell; McCowen; *Freeman; Norman) 19th: ImNotHades - 307 Points [2/25] (Fresco; Sarosy) 20th: Pedro67 - 274 Points [3/25] (Skellern; Walcott; Sallis) 21st: Rockhopper penguin - 223 Points [3/25] (Westhuizen; Berry; Dreyfus) 22nd: Whoaml - 222 Points [5/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller) 23rd: Captain Chorizo - 156 Points [3/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano) 24th: Widows Peak - 0 Points [0/25]

Merv Griffin would not be right back after this message 10 years ago, aged 82.

Be sure to watch After Hours. Such a film student film, but still a legit 9/10 regardless.

This could have been a reasonably good conversational thread, and I apologize to Cowboy Ronnie on behalf of nearly every response after the O.P. for being truly ignorant and not responding to the topic posed. You couldn't have found anything shocking or important in any way IF YOU WEREN'T FUCKING ALIVE. He CLEARLY asked for input as to what YOU found shocking or 'great' (I interpret that as impacting my life important, but feel free to interpret however you like, other than BEFORE YOU WERE FUCKING BORN). So giving this barely any more thought than as I type it, here's a short list (meaning a few will be missed, but I allow myself edit): Roberto Clemente - my favorite baseball player when I was 8, and my first experience with here today gone tomorrow. John Lennon, I guess. Actually I remember EXACTLY where I was when I heard Andy Warhol died, but not so much Lennon. Guess you have your important people, I have mine. Stevie Ray Vaughn - gut wrenching. The (Munich) Olympic village attack on the Isreali team. Rev Jimmy Jones / Guyana massacre. Macabre de jour Space Shuttle Challenger. I worked with nothing but adult males between 18-30 years old and we all went home at lunchtime aghast and sullen. It was that shocking. Lady Di for sure, sat up all night staring at TV and news crawler on bottom of screen waiting for non-existent info explaining wtf happened 9/11 - World Trade Center, obviously. Robin Williams, though I do not want to list all suicides. His was momentous, as was Michael Hutchence's I suppose, but who gives a rat's arse about Hutchence really. I''ll give this some more thought and edit as necessary, but if I can't think of it right now it probably wasn't impactful to me. That said, I do seem to have time line gaps and there should be at least one for every 5 years I would think. Sir C.

Think it an Amazon Original thing, but I stole it via showbox. All 6 episodes were dumped in a oner a week or so back. Very very watchable.

Hah, clawing and clinging on. My joker's still living, but likely to live into 2018... though if he did do a Ray Price on us all, that'd be interesting. Anyhow, I'm just happy to be taking part.

Before we were married my wife used to work in a small village pharmacy. She had a lot of elderly couples as customers and as a general rule she said if the wife went first the husband would follow pretty soon but not always the other way round.

Allcard now has proper obits in both Telegraph and Times, for the record. Took about a week after the death notice.

No, can't think.

I'm up for it - unless I'm still scything after Trump & J(wr)ong Un's efforts.....

The phrase "Let's send her some prayers" implies that she is currently battling cancer. Why send prayers to somebody about their cancer when they've already beaten it? As ObakeFilter showed, the picture looks recent. And I believe she was still obese back in 2010-2011. She may have lost the weight 1-2 years after her supposed battle with pancreatic cancer.

I'm in depending on when, but I haven't got much planned next year because I'm a fat loser with no friends.

Bibliogryphon joins the game with Kristal's death. DI had Kristal as a sub and drew the Queen of Diamonds, giving an additional 12 points. Still waiting for Shaun of the Dead to throw down a card.

Ive just started to watch a doco ( via Sky arts ) about Laurel and Hardy. Ive watched about 30 mins of it, I will watch the rest later. They are the greatest of the greatest and I still laugh as much when I watch them as I did as a kid. Chaplin was shite tho.

No it doesn't sound good. Godspeed, Mr. Overton. SC

I thought it meant "Too many freds".

Honestly, I wondered whether they installed air conditioning and whether it would kill him. Doesn't sound good with pneunomia in both lungs.

I voted for the Reverend because it's ABOUT DAMN TIME!

Joe Metheny, US serial killer and cannibal, has died behind bars aged 62.

Why Asian and Africa politician never die? That's a bit unfair!

No parole for The Adventures of Stevie B.

Angus Sinclair "skeletal" and "on his deathbed", according to the Daily Mail.