Sir Creep

Sir Francis Drake - 420 years John James Audubon (ornithologist & painter) - 165 years

Better from what he's not even sick.

Self-taught painter and sculptor Thornton Dial has died at his home in Alabama. He was 88. His works ar in the MOMA and Smithsonian etc SC http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/national/obituaries/story/2016/jan/26/self-taught-painter-sculptor-thorntdial-dies/346620/

The South African athletics community was left reeling on Monday after 26-year-old distance runner Thitshaamba Ravhandalala passed away following a long battle with illness. SC http://allathletics.co.za/2016/01/ravhandalala-dies-at-26/

This will be one of my favorite obits all year! Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House that was widely considered to be the longest-running (30 YEARS) act of political protest in U.S. history, has died. RIP ma'am!! SC https://woub.org/2016/01/26/longtime-street-protestor-dies/

I don't like any of the names at all. But I choose Joey Feek, who should be next. But she's not an option. But her initials (JF) I used to see who was the closest to choosing her. Therefore, Jimmy Greaves. (JG) SC

Message for Switch from Sir Creep:

RIP he will actually be missed. SC

TotalBiscuit quits all social media but says he still expects another "two-to-three years minimum" on this planet. Pardon me for thinking he'd like to chat it up if't were the case. ​I always admire the over-positive cancer patients. Gone by July. Already lost a Jimmy Bain (http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2389&p=250772) so the Reaper going for the Bain double! SC

I'm trying to chase new info down on Mark Farren and can't find squat (not even these promising photos you speak of) ​I'm still interested in the cacophony of a GoFundMe that on May 1 2015 is supposed to send him to GERMANY for unique cancer treatment, and by May 14 that is switched to MEXICO (nothing like Mexican health care I say... a-hem) ​So what gives? Anyway it's pretty quiet for 8 months now seeing as he was fully funded to get treatment (i.e. remove a grade 4 tumour?). I'd like him to perish, not that I'm ROOTING for it or anything ​SC

She best not be holding out till FEBRUARY 13! I survived one 13th already in DDP, not sure my nerves can take another with all you drooling Jokers, you. SC

Seems with the other bonuses flying around that '2 hits in one day' bonus would have been a natural. ​Alas I'll have to dream my dreamy little dreams about what could have been (Jan 6, Hassan Asif, Pat Harrington Jr) SC

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88. Surprisingly no DDP action. SC

Nickolaus Otto, inventor of the internal combustion engine - 125 years ​Al McGuire, college basketball coach and analyst - 15 years

Waymond Cecil "Sonny" Huggins of LaFayette, Ga. passed away Friday, January 22, 2016. He was 88. In 1983, Sonny was elected and served in the State Senate as a Senator from District 53; he served in that capacity for eight terms and represented Walker, Chattooga, and Dade Counties and a portion of Whitfield County. SC http://m.northwestgeorgianews.com/catwalkchatt/news/funeral-for-former-state-senator-sonny-huggins-is-tuesday-jan/article_a1dc6f06-c2ad-11e5-8424-13f0c1122c90.html?mode=jqm

BOISE - Dr. John Keiser, the man widely credited for bringing Boise State University into the modern era, has passed away. He became Boise State's president in 1978 and for the next 13 years, under his watch, the Broncos won a national football championship, BSU built what is now Taco Bell Arena, the Morrison Center, the Student Union Building, and the Technology Center. He was 79. SC http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2016/01/21/former-boise-state-president-dr-john-keiser-dies/79150590/

True. But you wouldn't call Amundsen/Scott/Shackleton mountaineers would you? I wouldn't have considered Mountaineers but the Daredevil thread I mAy have. Prolly best where it's at. SC

Who is IMGONESOLONG? They owe me a hug. Bah! SC

Gunmen have fatally shot Honduras' former youth minister Marco Julio Trochez. A communique from Honduras' police department says the attackers escaped. The statement said that Trochez was shot by three gunmen on Sunday as he drove up to his apartment building in La Ceiba about 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tegucigalpa on the Atlantic coast. He was hit by at least seven bullets. SC

How come no one informed me about this guy? SC Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison term for corruption and human rights violations, has been hospitalized, officials said Monday, the latest in a string of health crises. Fujimori, 77, was transferred under heavy guard Sunday to a clinic in the capital Lima for a gastric problem and bleeding on his tongue, where he has had a recurring cancerous lesion.

Former major-league outfielder Clyde Mashore, father of Texas Rangers assistant hitting coach Justin Mashore, died on Sunday at his home in Brentwood, Ca. He was 70. Clyde Mashore appeared in 241 major-league games during five seasons with Cincinnati and Montreal. His accomplishments included hitting a homer that carried out of Montreal's Parc Jarry in 1972. I grew up in Detroit and love my Tigers but also LOVED the Expos. The franchise doesn't exist and it always sucks to lose one. Even ones I don't know about. ​SC

South Indian actress Kalpana Ranjani, known as Kalpana passed away earlier today on January 25, 2016 at a hotel in Hyderabad due to cardiac arrest. The Malyalam actress has been one of the pioneer women in comic roles. SC

Would THIS count? ​look at the last photo.... "On Tuesday, a woman in the Moroccan coastal city of Safi places flowers on the door of the house where popular French actor and comedian Michel Galabru was born on 27 October 1922. He died the previous day in Paris." ​(why I'm helping others I don't know ..... lol it's all in good fun. I'd want help for me too so it's karma) SC

What the hell is the theme? (oh I could look it up....)

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