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1st January cos I’m an optimist and my upcoming DDP team needs all the fucking help it can get

Please move the sweepstake crap to the sweepstake thread. I'm clicking on Pele's thread thinking he's died every minute.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-sandi-toksvig-hospital-pneumonia-28644428 Sandi Toksvig has bronchal pneumonia, and also looks a bit like the guy in the post directly above.

Scatman John died on this day 23 years ago, aged 57. Scatman John's real name was John Larkin, and he suffered a sever stutter from the time he was able to talk. Larkin learned about scat singing by listening to music by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Larkin's musical career began in 1981, and he eventually moved to Berlin in 1990, where he soon took on the "Scatman" moniker. In 1994, Scatman John released the song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)", where he directly sang about his stutter. After being re-released on his album Scatman's World the following year, the song launched Scatman John into stardom, and topped the charts in countries such as France, Spain, and Ireland. Scatman John saw continued success with "Scatman's World" (the album's title song). In 1998, Scatman John was diagnosed with lung cancer, and died after a year-long battle. Posthumously, Scatman John has continued to be proven popular, ranging from his music being used in many early YouTube Poops (circa 2006-2009), to Lou Bega sampling him in 2019.

Moved this Discussion from Pelé's thread to the sweepstakes one. I think 5th December. Full list of entries: Lafaucheuse: 6th December Theoldlady: 25th December TQR: 1st January Arghton: 4th December Summer in Transylvania: 5th December Grimgrass: 10th December Clorox Bleachman: 3rd December Sean: 7th December Clarence: 8th December Ladyfiona: 14th December Chel: 15th December Wannamaker: 9th December Redrumours: 11th December Hell: 12th December Grim Up North: 10th January Bibliogryphon: 13th December DeathByArsenic: 24th December Youth in Asia: 19th January Thadee: 5th October Sly Ronnie: 31st December Diego: 17th December SirC: 4th January

I concur. Oh shit.

Article on all the still living and now very old veterans, a nice compilation of those names: https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/09/23/the-greatest-generation-of-the-second-world-war-is-now-fading-away/

No, he’d just be dying at a time where something apt to him was going on. A memorable way of him departing would be while playing centre-forward against South Korea on Monday having abandoned his hospital deathbed.

Receiving ‘end of life’ care. Quoted from this Brazilian outlet here.

This sounds so stupid, but being a stutterer myself, I always admired Scatman John and I really love his music. I've always wished that he got more time to make more songs.

Btw, I don’t think it’s ever been confirmed before, but we now know his cancer metastasized in his liver and lungs:

Today.

The first Kazakh Olympic champion died. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, the 1972 USSR Olympic basketball champion, has died at age 78. https://tengrinews.kz/news/umer-pervyiy-olimpiyskiy-chempion-kazahskogo-proishojdeniya-485032/

Yes, people need to take into account its one man's work in addition to everything else he does, so shouldn't be surprised by the odd omission (its not intended as a personal slight).

Oh don't worry, if I find out someone like Gordon Faith died you'll all hear about it.

Robert Guédiguian, the critically acclaimed and committed French film director, producer and screenwriter of Armenian and German origins, one of the most sensitive European filmmakers of his generation, who is married to Ariane Ascaride, who also stars in many of his films, is 69 today. In 1997, Guédiguian was awarded the Louis-Delluc Prize for his stupendous film "Marius and Jeannette", selected at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard. Daryl Hannah, the attractive American actress who is widely known for her work in films, such as "Blade Runner", "Summer Lovers", "Splash", "Legal Eagles", "Roxanne", "Wall Street", "Steel Magnolias", "Grumpy Old Men", "Two Much" and "The Real Blonde", is 62 today.

Mamie King-Chalmers, who was one of three Black people forced to brace themselves against a building while being blasted with water from a firehose in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, has died. She was 81. A photo of the scene was snapped by Charles Moore and appeared in Life magazine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mamie-king-chalmers-woman-in-civil-rights-photo-dies-at-81/2022/12/02/551516dc-729b-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html

James "Jimmy" Ning, the actor who played Duane Chow in Breaking Bad, dead. I'm surprised nobody is talking about this, considering the popularity of the show.

Shame it wasn't out of a window. I heard that happens very often in Russia.

Should we start a sweepstake ? december 6th

Ozzy Osbourne, last survivor of the inaugural 1987 list, is 74.

You clearly don't know the meaning of the word incel.

would have been a deserving demise for him : dead at the bottom of his stairs, surrounded by shit.

Ercole Baldini no longer breathes, he was Olympic champion in 1956 in road cycling, the Italian died at the age of 89, there is no champion alive before 1958 of the modality (now the champion for the longest time is his compatriot Mário Zanin, champion in 1964, he is 82 years old) and the first of 5 Italians to be champion in that event, (the last was Paolo Bettini in 2004), also champion of the Giro d´Itália in 1958, in which he was also the winner who won the title the longest, a position now occupied by also Italian Franco Balmamion, 82 years old, champion in 62 and 63 In 1958 he was world champion in road racing too, and he was the longest-lived, although in 1959 André Darrigade of France was champion and was still alive at 93 years, but in terms of being champion for the longest time it was the Italian https://www.terra.com.br/esportes/lenda-do-ciclismo-italiano-ercole-baldini-morre-aos-89-anos,970c86c09d69b2e9e9a86512089feb473rr44nw6.html

Austrian A-list actress Christiane Hörbiger has died at age 84. Her acting career in theatre, film and television began in 1955 and has spanned over 130 film and television productions. This is a big one in the German speaking countries! https://kurier.at/kultur/schauspielerin-christiane-hoerbiger-ist-tot/402243030