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^^^^^^ there's no cure for stupid ^^^^^^^

Have a QO sweeter than wine for Jimmie Rodgers.

machotrouts thought that the perpetually ancient Larry King, who already had heart issues, lung cancer, and a stroke in his medical history, could pull through covid. He was wrong. Now it's his turn to cry cry cryyyyy, now that Larry said goodbye to us... =1. An Fear Beag 0 =1. Annami 0 =1. BabyBlue 0 =1. Banana 0 =1. Bibliogryphon 0 =1. Book 0 =1. BuffaloPhil 0 =1. CaptainChorizo 0 =1. Charles De Gaulle 0 =1. chilean way 0 =1. deadsox 0 =1. Death Impends 0 =1. drol 0 =1. En Passant 0 =1. Funeralopolis 0 =1. gcreptile 0 =1. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 =1. Grim Up North 0 =1. GuyFromFuture 0 =1. JoeMoneypenny 0 =1. Joey Russ 0 =1. LizLemon 0 =1. machotrouts' mum 0 =1. maryportfuncity 0 =1. msc 0 =1. Newjack 0 =1. Pedro67 0 =1. Perhaps 0 =1. Salmon Mousse 0 =1. Sideik 0 =1. Sir Creep 0 =1. Spade_Cooley 0 =1. The Old Crem 0 =1. The Quim Reaper 0 =1. The Unknown Man 0 =1. theoldlady 0 =1. ThereWillBeDeaths7 0 =1. Toast 0 =1. YorkshireBanker 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 41. machotrouts 2

Ron Samford, who played a combined 158 games with the New York Giants, Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators between 1954 and 1959, died January 14th. He was 90. https://obits.dallasnews.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-edward-samford&pid=197570497&fhid=17330

Had a look earlier. Couldn’t find a cause of death. Likely TMZ will do some digging then leak details later.

Updating for two solo hits: Home run king Henry 'Hank' Aaron for Sir Creep, and radio broadcast king so good they named him King (Larry), a hit for The Old Lady. Scoreboard #8 - 23 Jan 2021 gcreptile (34) Banana (33) HDS (32) Joey Russ (27) Sir Creep (27) Toast (24) WEP (23) CaptainChorizo (20) Death Impends (20) Etushispushingupdaisies (19) markb4 (16) Book (15) The Old Lady (14) Yvonne (13) DeathByArsenic (12) Bibliogryphon (12) The Old Crem (12) Wormfarmer (11) msc (11) Great Uncle Bulgaria (10) GuyFromFuture (3) Yorkshire Banker (2) Joe Moneypenny

Don Rickles, Regis Philbin, and now Larry King have all gone. Three good friends until the end.

Is the shadow list an actual deadpool competition and if so...what qualifies someone as being famous.

Larry King tended to ask easy questions in his numerous interviews, and four teams here answered his "Would I, a frail old guy who also appeared on Hollywood Squares, be a good HPDP pick?" query with a resounding yes. Larry King Now scores for them. Charles De Gaulle gets 45 base points + 27 bonus = 72, Perhaps 30 + 18 = 48, The Daredevil 15 + 9 = 24, and Funeralopolis 25 sub points. Those who had him on their main team will likely get an extra .19 covid points, but I will wait until we get confirmation of his cause of death just to be sure. We have the first scoreboard of the year with Perhaps emerging as the current King with three hits... 1. Perhaps 104 2. Charles De Gaulle 72 =3. CaptainChorizo 50.32 =3. gcreptile 50.32 5. An Fear Beag 50 6. drol 47 =7. Book 45 =7. Eesti 45 9. msc 25.32 10. Funeralopolis 25 11. The Daredevil 24 12. Sean 16 =13. Everyone else 0

And we're off.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Prince Philip, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (3/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, Ed Asner (5/50)  2015: Prince Philip, Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (5/50)  2016: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (13/50)  2017: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Ian St. John, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (12/50)  2018: Prince Philip, Betty White, Linda Nolan, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ian St. John, Jimmy Greaves, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (21/50)  2019: Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Murray Walker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Ed Asner, Vanessa Redgrave, Jimmy Greaves, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (24/50) 2020: Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Dole, Murray Walker, Leon Spinks, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Desmond Tutu, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (30/50) Updated for Larry King.

Daisy Loongkoonan died off the radar in 2018, @Bibliogryphon and @WEP need change for a sub.

Good one, that's been bothering me for a few months.

Guardian obit for Cornwell.

Maybe the inauguration just needed to get some better musical talent. He seems pretty happy at Aretha's funeral in late 2018

Executed on 16 January. The fifth and last on Trump's list. Dustin Higgs: Final execution of Trump presidency is carried out - BBC News

8 in 20 years is definitely a record. The US was a bit of a basket case for this period, due to the prevalence of the slavery debate as new states were added. Lots of debates and deals made and lots of party turmoil between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. Harrison famously died 31 days into his presidency having caught a chill during a 2-hour inauguration address on a cold, wet day with no coat trying to prove he wasn't frail (that went well). Tyler was an accidental president (in the sense, no one had really considered a VP actually taking over before) and although he initially ran in 1844, he dropped out. Polk served one term, achieved everything he set out to achieve and declined to seek a second term (he died less than 6 months later from cholera). Taylor was a soldier with no strong political affiliation, he died in office barely a year in having fallen ill with a still-unknown definitive illness (there are some who believe he was poisoned but this has never been proved). Fillmore succeeded as VP but lost the nomination fight (but ran again in later years). Pierce was a feckless President whose party turned against him and he wasn't re-nominated for a second term (he was also a raging alcoholic). Buchanan said he'd only serve one term and failed to deal with the growing divide between the North and the South so did just that and you know what happened with Lincoln. The ruling party changed frequently too: 1840 - Whig, 1844 - Democrat, 1848 - Whig, 1852, 1856 - Democrat (two different men though), 1860 - Republican (successor to the Whigs in many ways). It carried on too: between 1837 and 1913, only 1 president (Ulysses S. Grant) served two consecutive full terms (Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and Teddy Roosevelt took over after McKinley was shot 6 months into his second term). Only two managed it before FDR took over in 1933! (Woodrow Wilson the other). History lesson over. Another note, that has been mentioned in these ere parts before: John Tyler, 10th President of the United States between 1841 and 1845 and who died in 1862 still has a living grandson in 2021, 92-year-old Harrison Ruffin Tyler.

Ottawa serial killer Camille Cleroux, who was serving a life sentence for the killing of three women, has died in prison. He was 67. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-serial-killer-camille-cleroux-dead-in-prison

Feeling let down by Trump's farewells? Disappointed Marine One didn't smack into the Washington Monument? Well, say good bye to Deej in a better way.

Latest interview with Conan O'Brien yesterday:

Best President since Lincoln...who was so popular he got shot in the head.

I wonder how the vaccine reacted with the daily injections of virgins blood that he gets.

Four down now.

Baby killer Andrew Lloyd is a goner https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13278136/monster-tortured-murdered-girlfriends-son-dead-prison-cell/