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Enjoyable read on the history of performers dying on stage. Never knew Kenneth Horne's death was down to him ditching all his medicine on the advice of a faith healer.

There's a local magazine for the Victoria area of Australia published April 23, 2017 that has a feature on a 105-year-old woman called Thelma McKenzie... is it her and the ESPN site has the wrong DOB?

I'm sure I'll struggle to get back into the full swing of things this time out, I'll be happy with a top 10 slot. 2021 is the Drive for Five. Not much in the way of Cast Iron Solid QOs out there, but a lot of people in the hinterland of "well... they could get an obit I suppose".

Which, inevitably, leads to a listmania of the guys introduced in that scene: Anthony Stabile - Played by Frank Adonis (died 2018) Frankie Carbone - Frank Sivero (hasn't acted since 2008, failed to sue The Simpsons for basing one of their mob characters on his likeness in 2015) Fat Andy - See above Frankie the Wop - Tony Lip (died 2013) Freddie No-Nose - Mikey Black (never appeared in another film, internet has no info on him) Pete the Killer - Peter Cicale (another legitimate affiliate of the Lucchese crime family, google suggests he is still alive and living in New York) Nickey Eyes - John Manca (alive, currently posting QAnon conspiracy theories to Twitter) Jimmy Two-Times - Tony Powers (alive. Also wrote the theme to the Banana Splits) Mikey Franzese - Joseph Bono (alive I think, a close friend of Martin Scorsese who was also in Raging Bull)

Louis Eppolito, a former NYPD detective who also worked as a hitman for the Lucchese crime family, killing at least eight people, dead at 71. He was part of the "introduction" scene in Goodfellas as Mo Black's brother, Fat Andy.

Think I've found my first guaranteed unique guaranteed QO 80% guaranteed carker for 2020...

Ah, but November 4 1995 was one of the few days in history with four legit "DeathListy" names dying: 1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1925) 1995 – Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927) 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1922) 1995 – Morrie Schwartz, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1916)

Tom Watson's an obvious one, but from the other end of the Labour party my money's on Corbynite darling Laura Pidcock. Had a majority of 8,792 in 2017, but North West Durham was 55.5% leave at the Brexit referendum. There was also a 3% swing from LAB to CON at the last election, and she's not exactly the person to stop centrists from switching Labour to Lib Dem...

He was only in one episode iirc? He's the guy who gets killed by Bobby Sr just before he crashes his car during an asthma attack. He was the MC of the comedy club in The Marvellous Ms Maisel more recently.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/775038966/isis-confirms-baghdadis-death-and-names-his-successor?t=1572606337238 Yep, that seems pretty categoric. Kudos Maryport

This story explains the propaganda value of Baghadadi's death to ISIS, suggesting that they will announce his death when they need to galvanise fanatacism among members. So if they fancy someone running down a Christmas market in a semi, they'll make a statement soon.

Happy 59th birthday Diego!

Sent me on a jag trying to work out if there's a single team affiliated to the English footballing pyramid that plays inside the actual City of London. And as far as I can tell, no there isn't.

The original Doctor Dre (as opposed to the earphone-flogging associate of DL favourite MC Ren) has lost a toe and has failing eyesight as a result of type 2 diabetes.

A couple of years after she appeared on deadpool radars, Kay Hagan is dead at 66.

Amid rumours of his ill health, he's eating more porridge to prepare for the rigours of an election campaign. Proper socialist porridge or hippy new-wave overnight oats?

It's officially out of my hands/hair when that clock strikes midnight on December 31st, but fwiw... I wouldn't begrudge any change to the rules.... I think what it comes down to is what people are annoyed at with picks, which can obviously change from person to person. For instance, say we just had a blanket acceptance of anyone who could be classified as a "celebrity" a la the alt.obits pool. And lets take as a random example from Wikipedia's recent deaths list, the guy who hosted Latvia's verison of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. Now that counts as a "celebrity" by any definition of the term. He's also someone who clearly wouldn't get a QO from any English-language media source no matter how wide you opened up the requirements. Would you rather have points scored on him, or on Tyler Trent? Or Lauren Hill? I mean, to me, Lauren Hill became "famous" in her final months just due to the amount of press coverage. Would we have said Terry Fox wasn't famous if this was the 1981 DDP? What about people who are married to celebrities but weren't really famous themselves? Why does being Pat Boone's wife make you more worthy of points than being on an episode of First Dates? It's a fucking minefield nightmare, and I don't envy anyone who has to make a final decision on it.

Carkers Convention would go into second place if this Baghdadi news gets confirmed by both sides.... what a Cinderella run.

Boardgame designer Francis Tresham dead at 83. Don't know much about tabletop games myself, but I do know he created the first "technology tree" - which has since gone on to be used in pretty much every strategy computer game of the past 30 years. Here's one from Civ 2, a game he had a lot of inspiration on.

Not a chef per se, but still cooking TV: Deb Duchon, the "nutritional anthropologist" who appeared in numerous episodes of Good Eats, has died aged 70.

Randy Couture has had a heart attack, some places reporting that he was well enough to walk himself to the hospital, others making it sound like he's five minutes away from death.

The "cross out" doesn't mean "dead", it means "received a QO".

Talk about a retro way to die.... New Mexico woman playing Pokémon Go shot dead after witnessing robbery, police say

Franky Gee, better known as mid-90s Eurodance star Captain Jack, was discharged today in 2005 aged 43.