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Well, I do think that he is a "spent" person, there's no substance left for him to get it together. And a further decline of his life after his professional career is inevitable, like Boris Becker here in Germany, or Björn Borg, or Matti Nykänen. The open question to me is whether he is going to appear on Reality TV within the next 10 years.

He’s had the eye thing for a while. Unilateral ptosis is very common in the old.

May have posted this before in some thread, don't care, there's room for a little more levity in 20 pages of conjecture.

So Cauchetier, Ferlinghetti and Bonnet all died on the 22th : a bad Day for 101 yo artistic male figures...

Pop in the sub. (UPDATE: Done.)

F is for Ferlinghetti

For some reason, his life trajectory reminds me a bit of George Michael. Success at a cost of psychological problems not faced up to earlier, leading to erratic and risky behaviours in 40s. Who'd be a rich, talented superstar, eh? Can we come up with a better, and likely more accurate, subtitle than 'golfer' please? All kinds of puns available for this particular pussy hound.

Wednesday: 414 - Constantius III wants some and gives it to the Visigoths in Gaul.

Raymond Cauchetier, french photographer dead at 101 according this https://www.raymond-cauchetier.com/ (in french) Edit: Le Figaro Obit

Depardieu charged with rape & sexual assault

There's discussion on the first page related to exactly this (Banshees vs DDT). Plus ça change & all that...

Peter Harris, the first director of Tiswas and creator of some of the more anarchic aspects, has died.  He also brought us The Muppet Show & Bullseye

One more strike and he can have his own thread, or bunk up with that reformed character John Daly. edit: be careful what you pretend you wish for.

Re the debate above - the title of Nonce of Edinburgh is currently vacant since the death of former Bay City Rollers manager Tam Paton, just sayin'

Florence Ballard stopped being supreme on this day 45 years ago, aged 32.

Welp, there goes me being the only team who submitted a team thus far and thus being the winner by default. RIP For everyone else, you still have about a week to submit a team in, so please prepare to send something in.

I read somewhere that Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) has been unwell

Jocelyn (Joe) Hardy, who played 63 games in the NHL, combined totals with the Oakland Seals & California Golden Seals, along with 210 WHA games, has died. He was 75. https://www.lenouvelliste.ca/sports/deces-de-lancien-joueur-de-hockey-joe-hardy-ba873c3ce9ea32bbc9794ec07432ea70 (French obituary)

C-3po is 75 today (OK, its Anthony Daniels who's 75).

Tom Smothers is 84, famous for (among other things) being in bed with John Lennon in 1969, he also played on and got a mention in the lyrics of Give Peace A Chance.

I’m not dead. I’ve just been busy with other stuff.

"To make it official, Deathray/Miracle Aligner and any other alt accounts (potential future alts included) are permanently banned from DeathList via an unanimous staff decision made before the creation of his latest alt. We all had hoped this would not be the end result, given Deathray is more than capable of making quality posts, but his track record of porn spamming outbursts proves disruptively cumbersome and the staff has granted him an unprecedented amount of leniency that failed to dissuade him from continuing these outbursts. It is unfortunate that it has to come to a permaban, but he was given numerous chances to cease the aforementioned outbursts and ultimately only has himself to blame." Tin hat on, awaiting flack.

My Heritage is one of those family history sites where people post their family trees, usually full of mistakes. Like Ancestry's family tree section. I would not consider it a reliable source.