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gcreptile's scouting trip to AC Lesbian Academics In Their 70s has paid off in bounds, with their captaincy hit now being followed by the death of Cheri Pies. Pies was clinical professor emerita at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, wrote the groundbreaking same-sex surrogacy text Considering Parenthood: A Workbook for Lesbians, and inspired a Warrant song. gcr then scored directly from kick-off thanks to Dr Ahmad Ibrahim, aka Mat London, a Malaysian film director who was serving as president of the Film Directors' Association of Malaysia when he breathed his last. gcreptile took him to the mat and as a result now has a 24-point lead. It's anyone's game. gcreptile 24 vs alt obits guy 0

Unironically looking a lot like my nan when she was in the care home.

Long-time Northants scorer Tony Kingston has died aged 83. Another longlist for 2024 falls.

I'm stunned he failed in his task to treat the entirety of the African continent as a jungle gym for him to get some anecdotes for an "inspirational public speaker" career. At least he hasn't left Angola in a bodybag, as I'd previously assumed/hoped.

So with the deaths of Tank and Droz/Puke, can we get a trifecta of four-lettered WWF wrestlers who made their gimmick debut during the peak Monday Night Wars? Mosh? Sabu? Nova (Mascarita Sagrada, not Simon Dean)? Babu? Kane? Edge?

Don Bluth is too young (85), has no obvious health issues and is probably not active enough to merit his own thread right now, but goddamn I've been tempted.

Luis Antonio Tagle at 5/1 still seems the value bet to me.

Hungerford massacre. Which, ironically, takes gcreptile's score up to 16. gcreptile 16 vs alt obits guy 0

Looks like I'll get to use the pun "Hungerford massacre" very soon...

Was the guy who suggested to United that they sign this 18-year-old guy called "Haaland" for under 10 million six years ago, before being ignored.

Best (only) known to me for this incongruous moment that was briefly viral in the very early days of YouTube:

The dumb prick went and got robbed at gunpoint in Angola.

The Sun story says the presenter in question was "off the air last night". There were very few TV shows on BBC last night because of the tennis, but one that was... Gardeners' World wasn't hosted by Monty Don.

Launching his own podcast, seems the perfect opportunity for form-spotting.

QAnon fringe cult leader Michael Protzman, who believed that JFK Jr faked his own death and promised that the man would make an appearance at a 2021 Trump rally, has died in a dirt bike accident. However, one of his followers in the quoted story says that it was the "evil" version of Michael Protzman who died, and his good version is still alive.

Great idea, let's all write letters to the major newspapers demanding a real obit for Mark Stokes. For the good of the DDP.

Is this inspired by Football Tic Tac Toe? Remember, if you're stuck the answer is usually Alvaro Morata.

Quebecoise journalist Denise Bombardier, 82.

Yep, that'll do. Minnie Bruce Pratt was a poet and activist, part of the wave of educators in the 1970s who made intersectionality a key component of LGBTQ studies. She was also the widow of the perhaps more famous Leslie Feinberg. gcreptile gets to she/them points grow to a lead of 12. gcreptile 12 vs alt obits guy 0

That might get weird.

Also, he appears to have been banned from Wikipedia for using sockpuppets to edit his own page.

It was Terry Funk's birthday over the weekend and so we got a very rare new photo of the great man:

The byline on that story is a nice easter egg for media watchers.

While going through my backlog of longlist research material, I note that "pool industry legend" Jayne Orth has retired due to ill health. The copy also refers to her as a "spa chemistry expert", so a QO should be pretty much a lock.