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Reportedly dead: https://abc7.com/bob-barker-obituary-price-is-right-game-show-host/13704249/

Let Me Ashes Go Loose, Lou 'The Dreaming' didgeridooist Rolf Harris has wobbled off this mortal coil at the age of 93 – or, as Kate Bush might put it, BANG goes another cancer on the lymph node of the man. He was known as a musician, whose hit 'Stairway to Heaven' was covered by Led Zeppelin, and a TV star, as seen on Rolf's Carking Club, Animal Hospice, and the educational video/cruel taunt 'Kids Can Say No!'. He also famously painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, making him the only hit on 2023's Inverse Dead Pool who was officially commissioned to paint one of the hits on 2022's Inverse Dead Pool. (Ted Kaczynski's prison paintings of Dot Cotton were for his own personal use, and not official commissions.) In his spare time, he posted on the Deathlist forum under the username 'machotrouts', leaving the Inverse Dead Pool without a host upon his death; fortunately, the account has since been taken over by his Alzheimer's-addled wife. Just as my husband Rolf's popularity deteriorated with the public, as he became known for being the only old man ever to have groped teenagers in the 1970s, his popularity in this pool also declined, with last year's news of him being on his deathbed with neck cancer taking him down from #14 in the 2022 points tally to #43 this year. Three players apparently missed that news: @msc, @Wormfarmer, and @BabyBlue. Of course, if you're playing in Australian, you're actually going the right way up the leaderboard, and are doing very well in the Inverse Inverse Dead Pool. GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. CaptainChorizo 0 = 1. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 = 9. Spade_Cooley 1 = 10. diego 2 = 10. Sean 2 = 12. gcreptile 3 = 13. Grimgrass 4 = 13. Nick 4 = 13. machotrouts 4 ▲ 16. Captain Hemlock 7 ▲ 16. ThereWillBeDeaths7 7 ▲ 18. Summer in Transylvania 9 ▲ 18. BuffaloPhil 9 ▲ 18. Joey Russ 9 ▲ 21. Perhaps 10 ▲ 21. marinade 10 ▲ 23. Newjack 11 ▲ 23. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 23. chilean way 11 ▲ 23. The Old Crem 11 ▲ 23. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 28. Bibliogryphon 12 ▲ 29. deadsox 13 ▲ 29. Grim Up North 13 ▲ 31. Funeralopolis 14 ▲ 31. Toast 14 ▼ 33. BabyBlue +9 15 ▲ 33. MortalCaso 15 = 35. Hell 16 = 35. wannamaker 16 = 37. Pedro67 17 ▲ 38. Torva Messor 21 ▲ 38. MariNisia 21 ▲ 40. En Passant 22 ▲ 41. nantonian2013 23 ▲ 41. TQR 23 ▲ 43. CalebH 25 ▲ 43. TheSpinosaurus 25 ▲ 45. YoungWillz 26 ▲ 46. theoldlady 27 ▼ 47. msc +22 40 ▼ 47. Wormfarmer +15 40 ▲ 47. Sir Creep 40 = 50. machotrouts' mum 42

Dead Carked-It-Ski Mathematician Ted Kaczynski has died by suicide at the age of 81. Another sobering indictment of the male mental health epidemic. Please, men, talk about your feelings. Reach out to someone, by any means you can. Write a letter and mail it if you have to. You might think the most famous Una is Stubbs or From The Saturdays, but in America, it was a Mr Bomber. A professor in the 1960s, he left academia to become a forest-dwelling survivalist recluse – probably pays about as well as teaching – and when this lifestyle became unviable, pivoted to fighting modernity by blowing people up. Okay, boomer! His illustrious career in anarcho-primitivist terrorism peaked with the Washington Post's publication of his 35,000-word manifesto against industrialisation and leftism, the most words spent denouncing the left in a Washington Post issue before Bernie Sanders ran for president. Given Kaczynski's opposition to technology and community, this internet forum must be testament to everything he despised – though, to be fair, most of the people mentioned on here probably feel the same way. 16 of you bet on Teddy – poetically, that's one for every bomb he mailed. His latest victims include @Toast, @chilean way, and @The Old Crem, who all receive 13 points in the post, the latter two falling together to joint 38th. 11 points blasts @Captain Hemlock out of the top 20 and 30; 10 points doubles @marinade's total; and a respective 8 and 7 points put @En Passant and @TheSpinosaurus in the bottom 6. Escaping with minor burns and shrapnel wounds is @machotrouts with 2 points – he's never around these days, so I don't suppose he'll notice – and while @Sir Creep only gets 5 points, it's enough to slide him back under my mother. But it's a Ted Katastrophi for @CaptainChorizo and @Great Uncle Bulgaria – they both leave the Zero Club with 10 and 19 points, respectively. Try not to be radicalised by this. GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 ▲ 7. Spade_Cooley 1 ▲ 8. diego 2 ▲ 9. gcreptile 3 ▲ 10. Grimgrass 4 ▲ 10. Nick 4 ▼ 12. Sean +4 6 ▼ 12. machotrouts +2 6 ▲ 14. Summer in Transylvania 9 ▲ 14. BuffaloPhil 9 ▼ 16. CaptainChorizo +10 10 ▲ 16. Joey Russ +1 10 ▲ 16. Perhaps 10 ▼ 19. ThereWillBeDeaths7 +4 11 ▲ 19. Newjack 11 ▲ 19. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 19. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 23. deadsox 13 ▲ 23. Grim Up North 13 ▲ 25. Funeralopolis 14 ▲ 26. Bibliogryphon +3 15 ▲ 26. MortalCaso 15 ▲ 28. Hell 16 ▲ 28. wannamaker 16 ▲ 30. Pedro67 17 ▼ 31. Captain Hemlock +11 18 ▼ 32. Great Uncle Bulgaria +19 19 ▼ 33. marinade +10 20 ▲ 34. Torva Messor 21 ▲ 34. MariNisia 21 ▲ 36. nantonian2013 23 ▲ 36. TQR 23 ▼ 38. chilean way +13 24 ▼ 38. The Old Crem +13 24 ▲ 40. CalebH 25 ▼ 41. BabyBlue +11 26 ▲ 41. YoungWillz 26 ▼ 43. Toast +13 27 ▲ 43. theoldlady 27 ▼ 45. En Passant +8 30 ▼ 46. TheSpinosaurus +7 32 = 47. msc 40 = 47. Wormfarmer 40 ▲ 49. machotrouts' mum 42 ▼ 50. Sir Creep +5 45

Cross-posting Bob Feldman's death report here. Couldn't let the following titbits pass. Corey Feldman's dad. Co-wrote Sorrow, a hit for The Merseys and covered by David Bowie, as well as I Want Candy which eventually became a UK hit for Bow Wow Wow.

august 26th at 1148am 89 Gorillaz - Dare +4 81 Britney Spears - Toxic 67 Stereophonics - Dakota 56 Sugababes - Push the Button 54 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 23 Natasha Bedingfield - These Words 0 James Blunt - You’re Beautiful -6

Less than 4 months shy of 100. RIP.

Geraldo Majella Agnelo dead at 89.

Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it Rogue

Tonight will be a typical Saturday night in all the downtown areas in Norway that have college students. They’re back!

@Bibliogryphon @Gooseberry Crumble old chaps, you know what I'm going to say yet again. As usual. Never 11 hits without the 12th.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid021q3RX4Lrx4o42v4xe31rQRBoyvr6LLd14rvS9gYAQppteoL2Jgck2CvxocffoCQul&id=100063213759989 John Tinniswood pictured yesterday on the eve of his 111th Birthday looks thinner and slightly frailer but still looks very well for 111.

Macaulay Culkin is 43.

Theakston's Old Peculier. Hic!

Bob Barker come on up

Bob Barker a hit for MariNisia. Congratulations! 1923: Henry Kissinger / Glynis Johns 1924: Jimmy Carter / Priscilla Pointer 1925: Giorgio Napolitano / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: William Perry / Rosalynn Carter 1928: Mangosuthu Buthelezi / Hazel Ascot 1929: Mohamed Al-Fayed / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Peter Procter / Gladys West 1931: James Earl Jones / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Louise Weinberg

Mad Nads Nadine Dorries formally resigns. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448557/Nadine-Dorries-quits-Commons-seat-resignation-letter-full.html

Bob Barker is hit number 6.

TMZ now reporting that he died. https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/26/bob-barker-dead-dies-99-price-is-right-game-show-host/

Willie Coyle, possibly "Scotland's finest Bridge player", dead at 85: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/08/26/willie-coyle-greatest-scots-bridge-player-died-obituary/

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek died on this day 300 years ago, aged 90. - Van Leeuwenhoek was the owner of a cloth shop, and wanted to see the quality of the threads he was using better, so he took up lenscrafting as a skill. He would end up producing some of the earliest microscopes, which looked like this: - Van Leeuwenhoek would soon discover microscopic organisms, which he called "animalcules". Among his discoveries included protozoans in 1674, sperm cells in 1677 (don't ask how he obtained it), and bacteria in 1682. - Besides animal organisms, Van Leeuwenhoek also used his microscope to study plants, such as ash trees and coffee beans. - Van Leeuwenhoek had a rare disease that affected the movement of his abdomen; about 50 people have been known to have had "Van Leeuwenhoek's disease".

Tim Burton is 65 today.

Ron Paul some days ago on his 88th. Looks a bit frail to me.

And Crescencia Garcia is dead. Surprisingly zero mentions in the news considering past coverage, not even a brief note.

Or was it Berenstein and we're living in a parallel universe?