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I definitely was too cautious placing Ted Dabney dead last - though fair play to msc for putting him in pole position - as he's gotten a Sun obit.

The Grim Reaper caught the midnight rider (Gregg Allman) one year ago aged 69.

Is there an echo in here?

Damn right I do!!

Any other old farts remember this one?

Of course, you're listening to a 3hr 15min German piece called 'The Woman Without A Shadow'. Naturally. Everyone is. Can we stick to less obvious things in future please?

I was so convinced of his obit he'd have been on my 2019 DDP team if he'd made it (and indeed, my 2018 team if I'd found out 3 weeks earlier!). Only reason he wound up here is because I'd heard down the pipeline he didn't have long left. I had help. Did I give a "colleague said bit of work was delayed due to someone's health" hint a month or two ago? iirc I did, anyhow, it was Dabney. Ah here we go! And the answer to my conundrum was "Sir Creep"! Although technically me and DI went public on the Windy pool at roughly the same time. (Also, I had a list of 3 people I thought would know about it and go for it, in late January - ignore date misdirection - Sir Creep, Gcreptile and Death Impends! 2 out of 3 ain't bad.)

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Well, that article was made yesterday but the GoFundMe was started last year.

Hit for me, Toast and Fujimorey in the Scavenger Hunt Pool.

Chelsea Manning has had a twitter meltdown and threatened to kill herself by jumping out a window.One to watch.

Lennon/Robinson/CokedUpChav was sent down for contempt of court, while serving a suspended sentence for contempt of court. He's not a hero, he's not a journalist and he's not a martyr. He's a bigot and an idiot. If his actions had caused a mistrial, then it is likely that vulnerable female victims of sexual abuse would not have received justice. A point seemingly lost on the man himself, who is too busy trying to promote his own warped populist agenda to take anyone else's needs into consideration.

It is a frightening precedent.Justice should be transparent not shrouded in such mystery.

This really has to be the shittest thread in a very long time.

He reminds me of long dead Jeremy Bentham, who gets dragged out of his cabinet for special occasions, the expression and tanned skin looks very similar!

I know he’s famous in New Zealand, but I feel like it’s very much appropriate to put Dick Quax death here.

FFS. Thanks so much for that delightful mental image...

It's not all non-European websites that are blocked; they have a choice. The local newspaper in Omaha have basically said "if you have the option to turn off our ability to harvest your personal data to sell to advertisers then you can't use our website." This is the only one of the many sites that I have visited to do this. Read all about it here. You'll need some very strong coffee and a couple of matchsticks.

Henry Adams became history on this day 100 years ago, aged 80.

I was about 10 ft away from Ronnie at one point on Friday night, and while he looks as cadaverous as ever he was running around like a spring lamb. Some excellent photos of him and the other wrinklies on this page, scroll down past the reviews.

Bellemare dead: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2018/05/27/97001-20180527FILWWW00014-le-journaliste-pierre-bellemare-est-mort.php&prev=search

Sydney Pollack had his eyes wide shut on this day 10 years ago, aged 73.

The competition is SO close this year. I lost two places today, in spite of my hit with Dean Francis, because Garn had both Bain and Francis (the only one? Edit: no, GUN, too)) and MPFC had Dean Francis as joker. But if Matt Capottelli were to die tomorrow (and honestly, why not..), I would gain 8 places again - into the top 10. I think it's possible that the eventual winner is going to have 17 hits (tied for the record). My scoreboard would have a new leader right now - Deadsox, because I considered John Bain's death less likely than Dean Francis' death.

Eddie Marsan’s mum