themaninblack

Deaths in the news...

Decidedly "biased" article there...

Car smash, eh? I bet he resembled one of his paintings after that...

That will be a unique hit for DDP theme team 20 Crooners Croakin' when the UK obit comes. Edit: Here it is. A fashionable pick a few years ago, so kudos to the team that stuck with her...

I'm a Guinness man myself... The irony I find with deadpooling is that in a strange way, we're respecting the dead by taking notice of them. I've written 400+ obits mostly on people I've never heard of, yet they get their place in the sun, as of course they do in the papers but that's as much a "business" (not in the pure capitalist sense of course) as ours... I once won a pitcher of lager for correctly predicting the number of episodes of The Goon Show don't you know! 1999 that was...

Phill Nixon, BDO World Championship finalist in 2007, has died aged just 57...

Didn't even last the end of the fucking week!

Dustin Hoffman "successfully treated" for cancer.

I didn't realise I was up in 3rd place! Mind you, I have no chance of winning it, Star Dust (presumably the same as our Star Dust) is pissing it...

Khan was Ricardo Montalban, you pillock!

"Two thirds majority" win for Mugabe, apparently. He is so fucking bent it's unreal...

I wonder if there are a few earlier deaths on Wikipedia that DDP Towers have failed to spot? Probably...

I was going to suggest googling dead pool and see what's popular, but all I seem to get is some comic strip character...

Did Gene Wilder make a guest appearance by any chance?

Sorted.

Well let's put it this way. Byrd and Brennan should get their obits pretty soon and should another couple shuffle off before Thursday, we would have had almost as many deaths so far, as we did in the whole of 2008 & 2009 (145 & 146). And there's still 5 months left...

Certainly would have put a new spin on Brown Windsor, wouldn't it?

Is that Lou Reed there looking happy?

Nile Rodgers gets the all clear...

Yes, he moves up to 7th...

I reckon she didn't want to admit it but probably had to because it would come out sooner or later. You know what rival politicians are like...

It's in the stars that Mozzer will end up a half-forgotten recluse, festering in the Hollywood hills, the Norma Desmond of Wythenshawe...

I made up the Winston thing. You have the making of a fine journalist...

Hang on, there's speculation that the name maybe Winston and now Spencer. Why not add Churchill and have done with it? I mean, I know newborn babies look like Churchill but c'mon...

Hey boys and girls, that arrogant old sourpuss is back. Still bitter at the last but one management of DDP?