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Thomas Cook is saved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EX--vdxh4 Time for some chicken.

Taken from Popbitch:

The body of Salvatore "The Iron Worker" Montagna, acting capo of the Bonnano Crime Family, sleeps with the fishes.

Always on the look out for the least famous person possible to pick for your dead pool side, the "best friend" of The Only Way Is Essex "stars" Sam and Billie, Jerri Turko, is battling cancer of the lymph nodes. The Daily Star, with typical restraint, opts for "TOWIE GAVE ME CANCER" as a headline.

Out of intense boredom ("between work" periods of one's life are never the most action-packed times), I watched the 2009 documentary Facing Ali the other night. Fascinating film, and of some interest to deadpoolers being as of the ten figures interviewed about their fight with Cassius Clay, two have since carked it (Frazier and Cooper) and pretty much five of the other eight sound like they're going to drop dead at any moment. Great film for boxing fans and it doesn't shirk away from the fact that Ali was a fucking dickhead throughout a lot of the 60s and he got more than his fair share of questionable decisions.

He did have a slight worry at one point during the chemotherapy process when he discovered that one of the surgeon's name was "Dr. Abdallah." "I said to his physician assistant, I said, 'That sounds foreign--not that I had anything against foreign doctors--but it sounded too foreign," Cain tells the audience. "She said, 'He's from Lebanon.' Oh, Lebanon! My mind immediately started thinking, wait a minute, maybe his religious persuasion is different than mine! She could see the look on my face and she said, 'Don't worry, Mr. Cain, he's a Christian from Lebanon.'" "Hallelujah!" Cain says. "Thank God!" The crowd laughs uneasily.

No need to worry about his obit potential now: dead of brain cancer at 71.

Civil partnership between Dunn and Ronnie Biggs.

Today's Koln vs Mainz match in the Bundesliga has been postponed after the referee tried to kill himself.

The investigation into the death of Natalie Wood has been reopened after 30 years. Don't be surprised if this means that either Robert Wagner or Christopher Walken has a sudden, mysterious heart attack after stopping taking their medicine any time soon.

You called that right. Jackie Leven dies aged 61.

Is this Malawian "humour"?

Get those R Whites puns ready.

The man who was going to bring Facebook down last year, Diaspora founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy, has killed himself.

Waddell's back on Twitter for those of you who want a real time update on his progress. Treatment is going "well", he feels "surprisingly good", presumably he's back at home if he's having to travel for blood tests, and he says he hopes to be back in the seat for the World Championships.

Evelyn Lauder, the American socialite who both founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the pink ribbon of breast cancer awareness, has died at 75. I'm going to need an irony expert to tell me if her dying of ovarian cancer is, in fact, ironic or not.

Lookin' good!

"hep cat" - very good.

Idle Wikipedia clicking brought me to the page of Edith Eyde, founder of the world's first lesbian magazine (no, not that kind) Vice Versa in 1947. She's still alive and turns 92 next year. No health information but she's definitely the kind of person who'd get their carking typed up in The Guardian.

So, yeah, I'm trying to use up the holiday days I have left this year so I don't end up a) losing them or finishing for Christmas too early and meaning that I can't run up a bar bill on the company's expense at the Christmas party. So I've been spending the past couple of days waking up late and playing Football Manager all-day long. Anyway, I thought I'd do some basic preliminary research for next year's DDP while I had the time, and set about typing in some of the guys who missed my team this year into Google. Geoffrey Hughes, Mike Soper... and then I came to Jim Perrin. There is a blog, to be located here , written by the sisters of Perrin's late wife. In among the claims they make are that he's a drunk driver, he never truly cared for his late wife and, more importantly to us, that he made up his terminal cancer in an effort to sell books. Now, while low-key travel book writers aren't exactly big business, I would welcome both Jim Perrin himself and the "jacssisters" turning up into this thread to argue whether or not he's dying at great length. Preferably with medical documents to back this up.

Mark "Henry Godwinn" Canterbury has driven his car off a cliff in what some dirt sheeters are saying was a suicide attempt. He is currently in critical condition.

Family Circus creator Bill Keane at 89.

Well, there's your trinity with Andy Rooney and Joe Frazier: Heavy D has just died.