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Some authors seem to go on for ages and they don't appear on boards like this because they often stay out of the public eye. Many people simply assume they're dead. However the following are unlikely to be setting sprint world records or clocking up high sales figures for pin up calenders these days. J.D 'Catcher in the Rye' Salinger, 1919 - Harper 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Lee, 1926 - Robert M 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence' Pirsig, 1928 -

Emergency abdominal surgery for Robin Gibb. Anyone know more than his site is saying?

Big money will be on a draw in that one!

The movie version of The Salt Path is finally booking, which will throw the current state of health of the terminally ill Moth Wynn into the public domain. No reports of his death, though it's his missus who writes the books and made them wealthy again after they went bankrupt. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play them on screen

I'm guessing the DDP and HPDP will throw up loads of candidates fit for a paragraph and unfit for a busy thread or proper obit. Mebbe a good idea to collect such creatures on one thread so's those of us with an - ahem - sporting interest can keep tabs on 'em. I'll cop for having such an interest in Rachil Jonze, who might just be this year's Ms Groves. Similarly Ian McNicol may afford us that combination of brief media coverage and ongoing ranter fire we've come to know and love over the years. and Dawn Hughes' illness was the subject of television coverage as part of Channel 4's 'Mummy Diaries.' She's also made appearances on BBC television and the BBC web site, her husband works for the Beeb. Then there's everyone's favourite pin up: Winnie Langley. I took a long-shot punt on her for the DDP mainly because I thought if she went the various papers who'd covered her 100th birthday wouldn't be able to resist running that great picture again. Anyone else gonna cop for long shot picks before OoO and NAP do their duty and reveal all?

If WW3 kicks off we might need a dead pool in which you nominate countries - as a rule when they cease to exist the obit chances are strong

My bad, just posted this in deaths of 2024 because I didn't think to look here. More a presenter than journalist, though he'd found a recent niche in paranormal content where the dividing line between journalism and entertainment is non-existent.

Howard Hughes, velvet voiced broadcaster well known to those following paranormal content died a couple of days back

Indeed, very hard to call - but, Tyson's noticably heading towards that mid-paced monotone semi-mumble Ali had in his final fighting days. And, we're dead poolers hereabouts. If he wins, what chance there's a rematch with more than $15 million on offer for 59-year-old Tyson?

I'll leave it to the crew in charge to decide if we should subsume the Nobel laureate thread into this but I was struggling to see where else to post the fact that I've just read a remarkably chipper interview with Carl Djerassi 87 years old yesterday. The length and quality of his remarkable life doubtlessy improved by his involvement in the development of the birth control pill. He'd probably have been competing more strongly for resources, a seat on the bus, space in a supermarket aisle etc if every one-night stand in the last fifty years had resulted in a sprog, or summat. There are probably many other obit-worthy 'Tomorrow's World' types we should be listing here, before we list them in search of points.

From Honez recent post on the deaths of 2008 thread......I take the point that thread is for people. But global markets are feeling the jitters and the odd airline, corporate giant or bank is always rumoured to be failing. So - since we speculate on the amount of useful life life wherever we find it - I reckon our recession watchers could use this here thread.

Aye well, the pre-match furore includes some predictable stuff about Tyson being vulnerable. Exhibition or not, we're dead poolers and a fighter way older than most and already - possibly - showing signs of speech and cognitive impairment will get in the ring at which point two guys who think they have something to prove will each try and inflict such damage on the other that his ability to perform basic motor functions is compromised to the point the referee deems him unfit to continue. Y'know, boxing!

4 foot 11 ins, so most of her opponents took a swing and totally missed when she ducked, then

58-year-old Mike Tyson's diction isn't what it was. He's due to get punched hard in the head again tomorrow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/videos/cn0dk7pq45wo

Manson was a metaphorical prick tease on such stuff as are many nut job murderers once they're banged up, it's about the only thing they can do that gives them any sense of having power once they've had it all taken away. See also Levi Belfield on/off confessions to killing Lynn and Megan Russell

Manson admitted to more killings whilst in jail: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20ng49373ro

He'd have been 100 early in the New Year, even people with a job that keeps them fit can't catch Jimmy Carter!

So, promo image for the new Van Zandt (as in surviving siblings of Skynyrd singer) single. Song is from an album's worth of tunes about God. For all the religious overtones I don't think I'm alone is perceiving an intimate glimpse of female anatomy with an unfeasibly large centre of pleasure, and thinking the message here to be one linking Christian faith and orgasm. Song's not half bad in a very old school stylee

West played comedy really well in this series, many of the jokes revolving around northern stereotypes (poverty, dourness, hard work for its own sake) - She's had more men than you've had hot dinners - That's not that many, then etc.etc.

There's a load of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, but may be worth a punt and points if selected on a deadpool. A few obvious - Lucan, Bin Laden etc - get mentioned. But if we pool our collective brains we might hit on a few more. Like Bambi Woods age, whereabouts, real name uncertain. I'd say alive and willing the world to leave her alone, but you never know. C'mon guys, who else is missing in action?

There's a whole generation of folk singers out there straddling the mid sixties to seventies in age. Whilst not seriously old a lot of this crowd have played night after night in smoky venues, drunk heavily throughout their careers and been obliged to drive long distances in search of a few quid because many of them never really made it. One or two - like Gordon Lightfoot - did do well. Others, like Tom Paxton and many of the British crowd - Wizz Jones, Harvey Andrews etc - never made it out of the folk clubs and have no massive 'hits' covered by other artists to keep them in cash, obliging them to keep covering road miles and turning up in front of a few dozen people. It can't be doing them any good. I know Gordon Lightfoot was lucky to survive suffering an abdominal haemorrage on stage in 2002 and miraculously recovered to play Live8. There must be a few others in this category fixin' to strum their last. Anyone know more than me and want to share it?

There are those in public life willing to take a stand against terrorism and the sociopathic headcases who volunteer to carry out the worst acts thereof. It struck me listening to Judge Leonie Brinkema's remarks as she told the only person convincted of involvement in 9/11 that he would 'Die with a whimper' that some of these people may be signing their own death warrants. Her words might play well in middle America but I'll bet somewhere in darkest Afghanistan there's a bloke logged on to the only computer in the street, typing in her name and asking the big question: 'Where does that bitch live?' I think we need a thread that can bob up and down identifying these semi-suicidal outspoken types when their mouths put their entire well-being in danger.