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I think the correct response to this is something along the lines of "Blimey, the old gaffer only used to give us half an orange".

Former "world's fattest man" Paul Mason in hospital after heart attack, doctors refusing to comment on his condition.

Italian coffee billionaire Emilio Lavazza has gone off the boil aged 78.

Toronto-based news producer saying it's a hoax on Twitter, but apparently the original source for the story was a direct quote from Ronnie Hawkins, so idk. Maybe they got confused with Hakimullah Mehsud.

Eleanor Louise "Ellie" Greenwich (October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009) News travels slow.

Eventually everyone has to die, son.

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, one of the last three surviving members of Uruguay's 1950 World Cup winning team, is out of here aged 85. The two remaining ones now are Alcides Ghiggia and Anibal Paz.

http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310 For anyone considering the yays or nays of fielding him in any upcoming pools.

Is it time for a thread of Dicks (insert your own punchline here), after the rapturous reception the Jean/Jane one got? Strongly considered Dick Bruna for this year, and Dick Clark is rumoured to not have long left to go.

Former Real Madrid gaffer Luis Molowny will be meeting up with Puskas a little earlier than expected, having carked it age 84.

Kids these days have their snuff videos served up for them on a plate, none of the research work we had to do as kids.

Win some, luge some.

Charlie Wilson (the Tom Hanks-portrayed congressman as opposed to the guy from The Gap Band) has lost his war aged 76.

Lil Wayne has a chipped tooth

The man behind such cracking reads as "Jesse Jackson and the Jews", "The Holocaust Explained", "Jewish TV: Sick Sick Sick" and "Boycott the Jewish Weapon", Eustace Mullins, is presumably spending the afterlife being sodomised with menorahs after dying aged 82.

Less, more, less.

There really can be no journalistic trend worse than padding out the obits of civillians with quotes taken from their Facebook wall.

One half of the Brisco Brothers, and the (one of the many) man who (claimed to have) discovered Hulk Hogan, Jack Brisco is dead at 68.

He's clearly forgotten he said that already

Brother speaks righteous, sister says "funky".

If Sara Payne is well enough to give statements to the press about anything other than her immediate death, it's probably fair to say that anyone who picked her for 2010 has a busted flush.

Totally stoked for the movie version of Catched In The Rye directed by Diablo Cody and starring Michael Cera as Holden.

Kiln In The Name Of

Howard Zinn is history aged 87.

Lord Raglan, direct-line descendant of the man responsible for the Charge of the Light Brigade, extinguished aged 82.