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Oops. Not embarrassing at all. Could've sworn Dorothy Gish was the latest post when I looked?

Deleted Clive fucking Dunnery.

Maybe not a total cert to reach 100 ?

He was born on a summer's day 1951, and died not quite 60 years later; Andrew Gold slipped away 7 years ago today.

Or inspiration.

Hello and welcome! How honoured we are to be graced with the presence of the 7th in the legendary ThereWillBeDeaths lineage.

Legendary though it may be, it was a nice change to listen to a White Stripes track that isn't Seven Nation Army.

Not strictly a holiday, but I'll be flying with a couple of colleagues to Israel for a couple of days in just over a week. (I don't know the flight number or anything but it's going from LHR to TLV on the afternoon of Monday 11th, I think with BA). New country to tick off the list at least!

Bruce McLaren had a McClang in his car and died at Goodwood aged 32, 48 year ago today.

Hang on a second...

The wife and I had a terrible blazing row the other night. She was slapping me, shouting at me, throwing things at me. She screamed “How could you?! How could you fuck my sister?!” I defended, “Look, it was on a plate! She was there, at my work, sprawled out, bollock naked, what was I meant to do?!” She bawled back, “The fucking autopsy, you sick cunt!”

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Well, that's her epitaph sorted.

She should raise funds by selling her anthology in hardback and ebook forms. Smoky Tipi Sessions - by Leah Bracknell. 10/10 would buy.

@Lafaucheuse, that's really terrible to hear. It's hard to know what to say to one in a naff situation like this, I find, except to try and gee one up. So chin up, fight it, go and kick cancer's arse, and get better soon! All the best to you, mon ami, and take care of yourself.

Paula Hitler, off of having a dickhead brother, starb an diesem tag, vor achtundfünfzig jähren, mit vierundsechzig jahre alt.

Shit on it, I’m going for it. Quim’s Five Picks For June That Are All Now Pretty Much Guaranteed To Fucking Live: 1) Leah Bracknell 2) Le Duc Anh 3) Clive James 4) Nobby Stiles 5) Herman Wouk

That’s right, yeah. And if you do hang on to your list, it’s double points if you get a hit on the last day of the month.

May hang on another couple of days for the hospitalised hard-partier GHWB, but by and large it seems to be another pile of shit for me

Been watching the Channel 4 sitcom, Friday Night Dinner. I love it! Fresh-feeling, realistic elements, not stressful in a way that some sitcoms can be, and Tom Rosenthal and Simon Bird are a class act. Caught it a week or so ago on telly (it's on Series 5) and I've binged it when I've had the chance since. This and Damned are the only sitcoms of the last few years to make me properly laugh out loud, I'd say since The Thick Of It.

Already been spotted, Quim, fuck sake. SHAPE UP.

Of course, you're listening to a 3hr 15min German piece called 'The Woman Without A Shadow'. Naturally. Everyone is. Can we stick to less obvious things in future please?

Is that your final answer?

King Edward VIII, off of constitutional crises, abdicated from the throne of life on this day 46 years ago, aged 77.