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In the meantime, another pic:

It msiohght be evebn saddert if I knwe who they ware, an d what about a linkg for proofging it Ian.? andf then looking laterr earliuer post I see a oicture of this Culter man and he looks similar to that Picaaso fellow who croaked a few yearts back byt hte name of Pablo Picwasso. He dod some nicfwe aret work too. Bruno, I will endeavour to find you some of Ivor Cutler's poetry. It'll knock you sober! hic!

Strange! 2 guys who had cameo roles in Beatles films: Ivor Cutler in "Magical Mystery Tour" and John Junkin in "A Hard Day's Night". Maybe Sir Paul could take a hint...

That reminds me... Q. What do the letters "DNA" stand for? A. National Dyslexia Association Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who lies awake at night wondering whether there is a dog? Roses are red Violets are blue I'm dyslexic Dna os ear uyo Roses are red Violets are blue I'm schizophrenic And so am I

a true one-off!

Not very observant? The RAC route planner calculates the distance between Edinburgh and Berwick as 57 miles. No self-respecting taxi driver (especially a Scot!) is going to refuse that fare! I'm sure he will have charged for empty the return journey too!

... No pie for Jeremy. Norman will do him some eggs.

Cyril Smith (his recent fall is noted elsewhere on the site). Now 77 years old, which is pretty good going for a man of his size!

Billy Cowsill Dead at 58. Following on from the death of his brother Barry, who was Katrinad in September.

Russian composer Andrei Petrov Ken Fletcher Aussie tennis star of the 60s, won major doubles titles with Margaret Court and John Newcombe

Ibolya Csak Hungarian high jumper who won Olympic gold in 1936, and European gold 2 years later. Originally given silver in the latter, but it emerged that the original recipient of the gold was a man!

God, OOO, you must be important for Reuters to be wiring you!

Rebecca Carranza, "inventor of the tortilla chip" (supposedly) has died aged 98 Again, maybe should be on the "not exactly famous" thread, though as a lover of tortilla chips, I believe she deserves to be more famous!!!

Roy Alon "The World's greatest stunt man" Stunt ace Roy is dead (from Daily Mirror) Aged 63, had a heart attack apparently. Probably not how he would have liked to have gone! Sorry if this has already been reported, couldn't find any previous entry.

Hmm, thought it was him! He was featured on a programme shown last year, where he an a younger guy were vying for the "Britain's fattest man" title? I seemed to recall that the conclusion was that the younger guy weighed more than him, and he was really pissed off by this and refused to accept it. Have I got this wrong? Has the younger guy died or gone on a diet? We need to be told!!! Are "fattest" and "heaviest" the same thing - the latter would appear to be more definitive - discuss. Hopefully someone can enlighten me by the time I get back from the chippy with my jumbo fish and chips!

Of a heart attack! Who would have predicted that?! The Daily Record's take on the story is here

Jazz drummer Sherman Ferguson dead at 61 "played on more than 80 albums with Dizzy Gillespie and George Shearing among others"

Peter Ladefoged ... OK, he's pretty obscure, but I did have to study his books at Uni. As the article states, he also had a part to play in the success of "My Fair Lady", so something of a claim to fame there.

Johannes Rau Former German president

It's just an urban myth, of course, but: Catherine the Great A quote from the article (take care not to piss yourselves laughing, folks!): "Not being a native speaker of Russian, Catherine once mistook the word ещё (/yeshchyo/ - more), consisting of 3 letters, as истчо (/istcho/), consisting of 5 letters. That gave rise to a popular Russian joke: how can 5 mistakes occure in ещё? " Damn, if that is an example of Russian humour, I would've topped meself!

Death by shrimp

Alan Sytner Founder of the original "Cavern Club" in Liverpool

Famous enough for me (see here)! Here's a link: Birgit Nilsson obit Good ol' (?) Wikipedia is reporting that she died on New Year's day and the funeral was today - seems the news took a while to get out. (P.S. Congratulations on the early spot, CrapBastard - this was the only link I could find when I first looked following your post, now they are multiplying like crazy as the news gets around!)

Just checking

Already reported here