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Dana Dawson, best/only known for her mid-90s R&B crossover hit "Three Is Family", dead from colon cancer at 36.

Illiterate American Idol big girl and briefly successful mid-00s recording artiste Fantasia Barrino in "attempted suicide".

Hey, remember that American political dude who was all like "the internet is a series of tubes" a few years back and everyone laughed at him? Well, he's "feared dead" in a plane crash.

So where's the DL fantasy football league then? I'm one of those shit new posters so I'm not setting it up.

If you wanna keep that avatar then I'll just photoshop a spunking cock into mine near his mouth? Should be different enough.

Do we get to choose which MIDI starts playing automatically when the site loads or do will you be selecting that yourself?

Q-Tip's obituary in the round-up DDP emails would presumably be "Breathe... and stop". Low-end irony of all this is that I had a lengthy email correspondence with Swells in late 08/early 09. I think he respected my hustle.

Looks like Geraldine O'Neill might be back on the radar, huh?

Feeling the cut of Ali's gib on this one, but if you wanna put the wankhat on (and, really, what are message boards other than places to don the wankhat?), when an "educated" person first gets introduced to deadpooling, they do tend to name a team that combines the notable elderly and "ill in the news" with a mixture of "random celebrity names". So they'll have put together this year, say, a MacCorkindale and a Robert Mark with, idk, Brent Spiner and Trevor Sinclair.

2009 had Jacko, 2010 has Gilly. I'd say the level of fame is still the same.

Looks like our man has now settled on the "THIS IS WRONG BECAUSE THEY DON'T USE THEIR REAL NAMES" line of argument, ignoring basic conventions of the internet since 1993. Still, if he's so angry about people writing things about celebrities under fake names, he must have been fucking fume at David Stubbs for all that Mr Agreeable stuff, huh?

Queue Shakespear's Sister on the stereo, because he's history.

You're never going to get much in the way of Paraguayan traffic on this site with an attitude like that. Think forward, reach for the stars (think there's stars on the Paraguayan flag, could be a pun).

Dear Quantick Soul Orchestra, Thanks for dropping by. You have effectively failed to answer a single query put to you over the course of these threads/dialogues, preferring instead to stick with the Melanie Phillip's/Helen Lovejo'y "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???" routine. However, maybe you answer them when placed to you directly in order or, instead, you could round up your Twitter troops to harass "non-celebrities" instead. 1) Do you understand what deadpooling is? 2) Did Steven Wells die last year? If so, why is it wrong to point out that he died on a website? 3) Do you think that The Guardian should take down the obit pieces they published for him last year? If not, why not? 4) Steven spent most of his writing career wishing death on Morrissey/Belle & Sebastian/et al. Was this inappropriate? If Stuart Murdoch's mother had emailed the NME in 1999 and said "this has upset me, I am a real person, Stuart has family and friends", should Wells have been fired for his indiscretions? 5) You said that the Brass Eye skit about Peter Sutcliffe was "making a point". What point was that? Musicals make profit off of murdered prostitutes? 6) You are, as stated, friends with the maintainer of findadeath.com. Other than the fact that you don't know anyone featured on that site personally, what are the differences between it and DDP? 7) Does humour have any taste boundaries? Previously, you've said no, but you are now saying that it does have boundaries: if it offends David Quantick personally, it shouldn't exist. 8) Can you see why any impartial observer to this finds you guilty of the worst kind of hypocrisy? David, you've fell victim to Linehan syndrome: the majority of your day-to-day interactions with people are now on a Twitter feed of people who Want To Impress You To Get A Job, and you now believe that the entire world is set up for you. It isn't.

Spade, is this the same David Quantick who is facebook with Scott Michaels who runs the findadeath website? A website far more obsessed with celebrity deaths than DDP an DL are put together. If so then that's further proof of his hypocritical nature. Ooooh, good work. Being as the Findadeath Scott Michaels is the former boyfriend of Graham Norton, and that Quantick was a writer for So Graham Norton.... I think you're right.

My guess is what happened here.... D-Quan was bored one night, maybe a couple of cans of Red Stripe to the good, decided to self-Google. Finds his own name on the DDP, also finds the link in his profile to his old mucker Swell's, and thinks that this is some website where one specific guy has celebrated the death of his old friend and now wants he himself to go down. Sends off an indignant email, thinks no more of it. Then this... not exactly blows up on twitter, but at least has a small coterie of, what, 400/500 people being suddenly aware of what it is. Quantick probably then remembers the Clint Eastwood movie or reading about deadpools elsewhere, but also knows that there's a bunch of people staring at him waiting for his response, he can't back down and go "whoops, my bad", so he takes the stubbornly defensive moralistic standpoint. It's idiotic, it's unworkable and he knows this, but there's really not much else he can do: bro's a Media Figure, we're "some guys on the internet", he can't really do the job for us. Incidentally, while all this is going on, someone sent me a link to the Facebook page for Quantick's (considerably younger) missus. If I had that waiting for me at home, I wouldn't be getting so radge on Twitter to mark my days.

I think, at worst, we get a snipey comment in the next episode of The Now Show. Or, even more devastatingly, a snipey SONG in the next episode of The Now Show.

Paraguay President Fernando Lugo diagnosed with cancer

Oh God now I've got lengthy private messages from Quantick and he's harassing me over Facebook as well. It's too early in the fucken morning for this.

Yes, this is the first red ink, underlined, "definite" for 2011 imho.

Eight-minute long video interview with Anderson Cooper. Apparently revivalist groups have designated September 20 this year as "International Pray for Christopher Hitchens Day", so mark it in your calendar. Hitch looks ill already, the chemo has given him the haircut of your perpetually unemployed, slightly retarded 55-year-old second cousin.

I don't think we'll get ranters, they're all preferring to stay in their cubbyholes and moan there. Case in point: http://twitter.com/hand_of_Ike @sharongooner I'm literally speechless after having a look at that, I live in quite a fluffy world - these people scare me 5 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to sharongooner @quantick is that their hobby, waiting for celebs to die? Actually I'm speechless.... 6 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone in reply to quantick

Well that's my 15 minutes of internet fame then Real people are subjects of deadpools. When they're my friends it's unfunny. Perhaps students could shoot themselves instead. The end. 5 minutes ago via web @Andy_Dutton quite. 7 minutes ago via web in reply to Andy_Dutton @AlexanderVelky and now to block you, you arsehole. 7 minutes ago via web in reply to AlexanderVelky @ichlugebullets Let me explain. My dead friend's name is being used to entertain scum. I hope it doesn't happen to your or your loved ones. 8 minutes ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets @ichlugebullets I think there was a point to that. Also we weren't mocking the victims. You really are a dick. 11 minutes ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets @ichlugebullets "hassle". Yeah, I bet Steven's family and friends fucking weep for the harrassment of internet dicks. 12 minutes ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets w***er of the day. RT @ichlugebullets Can @quantick confirm that he's a humourless prick who hassles deadpool runners? http://bit.ly/bFld9o 15 minutes ago via web @ichlugebullets You could go fuck yourself unless you can explain how my friend's death is full of "humour." 16 minutes ago via web in reply to ichlugebullets

Well, here goes Twitter: http://twitter.com/ichlugebullets/status/20458184230