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Says the person that's only been a member for 4 days. Hmmmmmmmm. Bye then.

Mary Cook of Gogglebox has died aged 92. Obituaries: BBC, Daily Express, The Sun, Metro, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Mirror, Independent

Nick Davatzes, founder of the Hitler History channel, and the A&E channel, dead at 79: https://www.c21media.net/news/ae-networks-co-founder-and-cable-tv-icon-nick-davatzes-dies-aged-79/

Here we go. We are just approaching the interesting time of the year where the points start getting big and so the deaths start to get more interesting. Drol has added a couple of hits to stretch out the lead at the top of the leaderboard. It looks like a decent lead for now, but as we all know, it is still very early in the year for this game. Just behind, En Passant and Wormfarmer have moved into the podium positions, and within striking distance of the lead, with Eesti and Etush also making significant moves in the right direction. At the other end Ebless has finally racked up a first hit of the year, leaving only Yorkshire Banker yet to trouble the scorers. Drol (1286 points) 10 hits [Dilip Kumar*, Dovid Soloveitchic, Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, Ernie Moss, Frank Worthington, Gerd Muller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Norman Lloyd, Toko Shinodam, Vittore Bochetta ] En Passant (1029 points) 10 hits [Beverly Cleary, Carlos Menem, Dai Davies*, Dilip Kumar, Gerd Muller, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Orlando Drummond, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh] Wormfarmer (996 points) 7 hits [Alcee Hastings, Bill Freehan, Dilip Kumar, Norman Lloyd, Renee Simonot, Tommy Lasorda, Yoo Sang Chul] ZZZ (975 points) 9 hits [Beverly Cleary, Dilip Kumar, Gerd Muller, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang-Chul] Eesti (897 points) 9 hits [Bill Freehan, Dai Davies, Floyd Little, Gerd Muller, Leon Spinks, Noel Conway, Paul Westphal, Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang Chul] GcReptile (892 points) 10 hits [Alcee Hastings, Anne Buydens, Donna Britt, Jory Post, Josh Evans, Gerd Muller, Mike Miller, Rodion Rosca, Sarena Li, Yoo Sang-Chul] The Quim Reaper (783 points) 10 hits [Anne Buydens, Carlos Menem, Dai Davies, Dilip Kumar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leon Spinks, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Moore] Etushispushingupdaisies (769 points) 6 hits [Bill Freehan, Dai Davies, Lars Goran Petrov, Michael Cullen Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang Chul] Captain Chorizo (751 points) 6 hits [Anne Buydens*, Dominic DeNucci, Jeanne Bot, Leon Spinks, Paul Westphal, Vassos Lyssarides] Death Impends (740 points) 9 hits [Beverly Cleary, Carl J. Shapiro, Ian St. John, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Norman Lloyd, Raymond Cauchetier, Renee Simonot, S.Prestley Blake, Tom Moore*] Grim Up North (723 points) 9 hits [Dai Davies, Lee Noble, Leon Spinks , Michael Cullen, Paul Westphal, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh, Susan Bayh, Yoo Sang-Chul] Markb4 (667 points) 6 hits [Anne Buydens, Beverly Cleary, Norman Lloyd, Renee Simonot, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh] CalebH (665 points) 5 hits [Andre Maranne, Gerd Muller, Gloria Henry, Johnny Ventura, Rodion Rosca] Chilean Way (661 points) 7 hits [Carlos Menem, Dilip Kumar, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip*, Rush Limbaugh] Guyfromfuture (642 points) 3 hits [Biz Markie, Johnny Pierson, Kay Hawtrey] An Fear Beag (604 points) 6 hits [Dilip Kumar, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Lilian Priest, Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang Chul] Exu (536 points) 6 hits [Alan Burgess, Ernie Moss, Gerd Muller, Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Tom Moore] Msc (524 points) 5 hits [Beverly Cleary*, Hal Holbrook, Kenneth Kaunda, Murray Walker, Prince Philip] Deadsox (518 points) 7 hits [Dai Davies, Floyd Little*, Paul Westphal, Prince Philip, Renee Simonot, Robert Marchand, Rush Limbaugh] Kenny (514 points) 7 hits [Dai Davies, Gerd Muller, Kathy Shaidle, Leon Spinks, Paul Westphal, Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang-Chul] The Old Crem (512 points) 8 hits [Carlos Menem, Dai Davies, Floyd Little, Gerd Muller, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh ] Torva Messor (500 points) 7 hits [Andre Maranne, Brian Urquart, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Renee Simonot, Walter Bernstein] Etib8 (454 points) 3 hits [Gerd Muller, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip] Whoaml (451 points) 5 hits [Larry King, Lester L Wolff, Murray Walker, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip] Joey Russ (446 points) 6 hits [Bob Fass, Larry King, Leon Spinks*, Norman Lloyd, Paul Westphal, Prince Philip, Sylvain Sylvain] The Unknown Man (422 points) 6 hits [Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leon Spinks, Norman Lloyd, Paul Westphal, Rush Limbaugh, Yoo Sang-Chul] Liz (420 points) 6 hits [Beverly Cleary, Cloris Leachman, Lester L Wolff, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh, Susan Bayh] Charles De Gaulle (408 points) 6 hits [Carlos Menem, Dilip Kumar, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Walter Bernstein] The Old Lady (392 points) 6 hits [Beverly Cleary, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Michael McKevitt, Rush Limbaugh*, Yoo Sang-Chul] Buffalo Phil (386 points) 6 hits [Beverly Cleary, Carlos Menem, Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Rush Limbaugh*, Tom Moore] Lynchian (360 points) 4 hits [Gerd Muller, Leon Spinks, Paul Westphal, Prince Philip] Nantonian (323 points) 5 hits [Dilip Kumar, Larry King, Leon Spinks, Rush Limbaugh. Tom Moore] Pedro (315 points) 4 hits [Christopher Plummer, Kenneth Kaunda, Phil Spector, Prince Philip] Deathray (286 points) 3 hits [Johnny Briggs, Norman Lloyd, Prince Philip] Great Uncle Bulgaria (265 points) 3 hits [Anne Buydens, Beverly Cleary, Tom Moore*] Death by Arsenic (251 points) 3 hits [Andre Maranne, Leon Spinks, Vassos Lyssarides] Book (243 points) 3 hits [Alfred Biolek, Cicely Tyson, Peter Mark Richman] Toast (199 point) 3 hits [Leon Spinks, Prince Philip, Trevor Peacock] Ebless(191 points) 1 hit [Ernie Moss] Predictor(134 points) 1 hit [Mike Carter] ImNotHades (117 points) 1 hit [Michael Collins] Bibliogryphon (71 points) 2 hits [Mark Eden, Murray Walker] Yorkshire Banker (0 points) 0 hit

Poet and social activist Jack Hirschman, who was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, died at 87 years: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxist-poet-and-North-Beach-16404434.php His numerous poetry collections include Lyripol, A Correspondence of Americans, and The Bottom Line. While on the faculty of the University of California-Los Angeles, Hirschman taught Doors frontman Jim Morrison and when he was nineteen years old, he sent a story to Ernest Hemngway, who responded with positive feedback.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9916613/17-dead-40-missing-twin-toddlers-bodies-aftermath-Tennessee-flood.html Loretta Lynn heartbroken after her ranch Foreman dies in the Tennessee floods. Loretta herself is currently reported to be safe during the floods.

I have finally recovered sufficiently from the shock of Dilip Kumar actually dying to get around to checking who else has carked it. These are the scorers since the last update. Feel free to point out if I have missed anyone. Although why the fuck you haven't done so before now I will never know! May 11: Lester L Wolff May 22: Robert Marchand June 6: Lilian Priest June 11: Kay Hawtrey June 17: Kenneth Kaunda July 11: Ernie Moss July 11: Renee Simonot July 16: Biz Markie July 23: Alfred Biolek July 27: Orlando Drummond July 28: Johnny Ventura August 12: Dominic DeNucci August 15: Gerd Muller August 19 Bill Freehan' August 19: Michael Cullen Scoreboard to follow.

Wasn't he one of the Thompson Twins too?

I see what you are doing there - just casually dropping in the names, in the hope it will spare you the abuse for pointing out the obvious . You are not fooling anyone, you know! Don't worry - the names are sufficiently off-mainstream to escape a rant. Although someone highlighting the passing of Alfred Biolek or Orlando Drummond would have been a bit more useful Update coming very soon.

Rod Gilbert, a Hockey Hall of Famer and the New York Rangers all-time leader in points, has died. He was 80. Gilbert played 1,065 games, all with the Rangers. He retired with 1021 points. https://www.si.com/hockey/news/rangers-legend-rod-gilbert-passes-away-at-80 (Guess it was a near simultaneous posting)

Jarvis Astaire, who had probably been Michael Parkinson's oldest living interviewee being reported dead: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039939/

Ummm that was the Righteous Brothers.

James Flanigan, journalist, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other publications, editor and storyteller, dies after a brief illness. He was 85. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/james-flanigan-longtime-times-business-columnist-dies-at-85/ar-AANBnix?ocid=Peregrine& During 18 years with Forbes Magazine, he served as bureau chief in Washington, Los Angeles, London and Houston and later in New York as assistant managing editor.

Going by his post in the Dead Pop Stars thread, SC might be confusing the Everly Brothers with the Righteous Brothers?

That "Keith" seems a bit incongruous.

William "Bill" Recktenwald, a "truly legendary reporter", according to his friend and former colleague, SIUC journalism professor Bill Freivogel, dies at the Linda White Hospice House in Evansville, Indiana. He was 79. https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210821/renowned-chicago-investigative-reporter-bill-recktenwald-dies-at-79 Recktenwald came to the School of Journalism in 1998 after 20 years of working at the Chicago Tribune. He was inducted to the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2008.

@Wormfarmer... Kalyan Singh is a solo hit for me: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/politics/kalyan-singh-former-up-cm-and-veteran-bjp-leader-dies-of-multi-organ-failure/ar-AANzTnh?ocid=XMMO And... Phil Valentine is a solo hit for @gcreptile too: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/21/tennessee-radio-host-phil-valentine-vaccine-vaccination-dies-covid-19 Congratulations... @gcreptile

Doesn't explicitly mention Clarke by name but assumed to be him given the mention of an 105-year-old prisoner dying.

Once he had the lung cancer, there was no Labour Saving Sir Michael Cullen, a giant of New Zealand politics (they say, I have no idea, possibly the John Prescott or Denis Healey of that country?). Hits for theoldlady, Sean, Death Impends, Grim Up North, An Fear Beag and Captain Chorizo. Perhaps' tenuous reign at the top ends as the Captain Chorizo shoves his way to a familiar place in the lead. No bonuses. Cullen was also a sub for Joey Russ who draws 2 Diamonds for 2 points added. Despite this paltry points award, Joey moves up a spot. Leaderboard updated.

Dead So Far: Anne Stallybrass - 3 July - Obit Rick Laird - 4 July - Obit Stan Swamy - 5 July - Obit Gillian Sheen Donaldson - 5 July - Obit Axel Kahn - 6 July Dilip Kumar - 7 July - Obit Carlos Reutemann - 7 July - Obit Jehan Sadat - 9 July - Obit Ernie Moss - 11 July - Obit Renee Simonot - 11 July - Obit Mick Bates - 12 July - Obit Edwin Edwards - 12 July - Obit Paul Orndorff - 12 July - Obit Gary Corbett - 14 July - Obit Mary Ward - 19 July - Obit Brian Henderson - 5 August - Obit Gertrude Annie Kingston - ? August 2021 Jaan Kaplinski - 8 August Patricia Hitchcock - 9 August - Obit Gerd Muller - 15 August - Obit Paul Mitchell III - 15 August - Obit Sir Michael Cullen - 19 August - Obit Sandra Richardson - 25 August - Obit Michael Constantine - 31 August - Obit Mikis Theodorakis - 2 September - Obit Sarah Harding - 5 September - Obit Carl Bean - 7 September - Obit Amy Winifred Hawkins - 8 September - Obit Terry Lubbock - 15 September - Obit Jane Powell - 16 September - Obit Abdelaziz Bouteflika - 17 September - Obit Jimmy Greaves - 19 September - Obit Captain Chorizo: 731 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Laird; Orndorff; Cullen; Harding; Lubbock) (Sub: Henderson [3 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [7]; Aug [J]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 706 Points (Swamy, Laird; Bates; Richardson; Bean; Lubbock) (Sub: Kumar [5 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [7]; Aug [4]) Cards Played: Perhaps: 675 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Sadat; Orndorff; Harding; Lubbock) (Sub: Swamy [4 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [4]; Aug [2]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 570 Points (Kumar; Muller; Cullen; Harding; Greaves) (Sub: P. Mitchell [6 Spades]) (MD: Jul [2]; Aug [Q]) Cards Played: Banana: 540 Points (Kumar: Laird; Corbett; Harding; Lubbock) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [A]) Cards Played: msc: 533 Points (Laird; Bates; Theodorakis; Harding; Lubbock) (Sub: Orndorff [10 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [Q]) Cards Played: Baby Blue: 530 Points (Reutemann; Edwards; Corbett; Harding; Constantine) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [J]) Cards Played: Salmon Mousse: 516 Points (Reutemann; Orndorff; Henderson; Muller; Harding) (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [4]) Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 463 Points (Sheen; Reutemann; Muller; Bouteflika) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [3]) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 417 Points (Laird; Harding; Bean; Lubbock) (Sub: Cullen [2 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [2]; Aug [8]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 412 Points (Muller; Cullen; Harding; Bouteflika) (MD: Jul [3]; Aug [9]) Cards Played: Caleb H: 353 Points (Simonot; Ward; Harding) (Sub: Hitchcock [K Clubs]) (MD: Jul [6]; Aug [A]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 324 Points (Kumar; Cullen; Harding) (MD: Jul [A]; Aug [5]) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 319 Points (Cullen; Harding; Lubbock) (Sub: Moss [4 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [6]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 224 Points (Ward; Harding) (MD: Jul [A]; Aug [10]) Cards Played: DeathByArsenic: 221 Points (Harding; Bouteflika) (MD: Jul [9]; Aug [Q]) Cards Played: Great Uncle Bulgaria: 218 Points (Hawkins; Greaves) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [K]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 127 Points (Greaves) (Sub: Stallybrass [3 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [J]; Aug [K]) Cards Played: GuyFromFuture: 125 Points (Powell) (MD: Jul [K]; Aug [Q]) Cards Played: Toast: 123 Points (Lubbock) (Sub: Greaves [3 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [K]; Aug [7]) Cards Played: Sean: 115 Points (Cullen) (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [3]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 115 Points (Greaves) (MD: Jul [5]; Aug [10]) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 111 Points (Simonot) (MD: Jul [3]; Aug [8]) Cards Played: Gooseberry Crumble: 21 Points (MD: Jul [Q]; Aug [9])

Man, Covid-19 came really close. So... a very close family member of mine fell ill on saturday and was picked up by ambulance on sunday morning. Tested positive for Covid-19 later that day, even though the person and their SO + most of our family is vaccinated. Them being vaccinated with Pfizer, while I got the Moderna-one. A few short hours after the family member tested positve, they went into ICU. Been some horrible days since more members tested positive. Me and my girlfriend are testing regulary, since we have been in contact, but so far, negative. Covid-19 is no joke.

I hope it hasn't been posted before.... didn't find anything... it seems that DDP pick and centenarian Swedish actress Sylva Akesson died in May at 104, but you have to dig deep for a source. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0959796/

Internet detectives have discovered that Jeff Stacy, who was the mark in one of the most famous To Catch A Predator stings, died in February this year from a drug overdose aged 41.

Interesting longevity in (some) of the First Ladies of Costa Rica: Yvonne Claus Spoelders (1906-1994), First Lady 1940-1944 lived to 87. Henrietta Boggs (1918-2020), First Lady 1948-1949 lived to 102. Karen Olsen Beck (1933-), First Lady 1953-1958 and 1970-1974 is alive and 88. Marita Quiros (1911-), First Lady 1962-1966 is alive and 110. Marjorie Elliot Sypher (1925-2015), First Lady 1974-1978 lived to 90. Estrella Zeledon Lizano (1929-2019), First Lady 1978-1982 lived to 89. Other living 70+ Costa Rica first ladies are Leila Stahl (1942-) First Lady 2002-2006, Lorena Clare Facio (1943-) First Lady 1998-2002 and Margarita Congora (1948-) First Lady 1986-1990. We'll see if any of them reach 90+ or 100+.

American Author and physicist Gordon van Wylen lost his foght with Covid at 100 years: https://hope.edu/news/2020/campus-life/former-hope-college-president-gordon-van-wylen-dies.html