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When restaurants write "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" or "CONGRATULATIONS" in chocolate sauce next to the dessert.

I do feel that Glynis Johns is in the IM Pei camp of "if they've not put them on the list now they're never getting on it". Bizarre but not my place to criticise. The "no Tom Parker" thing did make me ponder about the generation gap for DL picks in future... will nobody who got famous after 200x get a DL call-up, regardless of their fame level?

Of the three teams tied for third, I think Sound of the Underground has the best chance if that's my lot for 2022: it's feasible that Bobby Caldwell, Alan Melinek and Tammy Slaton could all die, and that'd put them top by dint of having more hits than me. However, they don't have Don West, and I've got other coverage in the likes of Pele, Bill Steel and Julie Reichert...

Tom Weiskopf causes a) a bit of a bottleneck for 2nd and b) me to go 27 points clear.

Twitter reporting the death of Oliver Frey, instantly recognisable to a generation of C64/Spectrum gamers as the cover art guy for Zzap and Crash magazines. Unsurprisingly, when you look at his work, also had a second career as a kind of British Tom of Finland-type illustrator.

Apparently the apartment he died in was a rental located a short distance away from the Mayo Clinic, suggesting some underlying health issue?

Didn't realise how old Derek Martin, aka Charlie Slater, actually was. Turns 90 next year, hasn't done any acting since a brief return to Albert Square in 2016. Definitely feels like a guy who would be on the DL around #42.

Daily Mail seemingly keeping a pap on her 24/7 now. Slowly beginning to suspect her "health problems" are all from Colombia and 15% ground aspirin.

This archive of South Asian history in Canada contains a photo of Singh noting he was a cousin of a guy called Mayo Singh, a mill owner. Mayo's profile on the same website notes a) he was from near the town of Paldi in India and b) his full name was Mayo Singh Manhas. There's a Nanjo Singh Manhas who was born in Paldi and died in Las Vegas on Ancestry.com, year-of-birth 1914. Presumably this is our guy, but still no date of death.

Another wrestling figure to ponder. Nanjo Singh was a big "foreign heel" menace who mainly worked in Canada, particularly noted for his feud with Whipper Watson. Was allegedly the guy who invented the entrance ramp (so heels could get out of the ring safer when attracting too much heat) and was also, against Watson, involved in the first recorded steel cage match. He also, in 1958, beat his wife Betty to death. There's rumours promoters bribed law enforcement into giving him a more lenient sentence (he only served, depending on sources, 6 to 8 years for first-degree murder) as crowds in Maple Leaf Wrestling were dying out without him. That's by the by. A lot of places online have a death date for him of 2006. However, they seem to be basing this on this obituary of a man in Calgary called Nanjo Singh who was also a wrestler.... except this guy had a 50-year marriage at the time of his death, and was also born in 1930. Singh's in-ring debut was in 1932, so they're clearly different people. I've seen dates of birth for our Singh given anywhere between 1913 and 1920. Surely there has to be something definitive out there for him? EDIT: Here's a Facebook post confirming that people have been confusing the two Nanjo Singhs for nearly 70 years. Further muddying the waters, lots of places online have attributed Stu Hart's comments about the younger Singh to the murderer Singh.

Yet another follower of the "2 or 5" rule for ALS.

Could have sworn he was a DDP pick for that team that usually has a bunch of aging Israeli celebrities in its roster a few years back, but apparently not.

For my generation she'll always be the vice principal from "we don't have any episodes of Saved by the Bell, will this do?" filler show California Dreams

A harsh but fair review of that season of Curb.

I feel like I want to debunk the Ramsey myth.... let us go through all 69 matches Aaron Ramsey has ever scored in, and see if there was a Big Celebrity Death (ymmv) either that day or the following one. Also, if anyone can suggest another footballer who has an equivalent career (12 to 14 seasons, between 65 and 75 matches scored in) as a control, that'd be appreciated. (EDIT: I'm going to use Miralem Pjanic as a control. Debuted the same season, scored in 70 different matches) Aaron Ramsey Game: Chasetown 1 - Cardiff City 3 (5/1/08) Biggest celebrity death: Suspected serial killer Ronald Lee Moore. Big death?: No. Game: Burnley 3 - Cardiff City 3 (26/4/08) Biggest celebrity death: Composer Henry Brant Big death: No. Game: Fenerbahce 2 - Arsenal 5 (21/10/08) Biggest celebrity death: Former Tory MP and Luton Town chairman David Evans Big death: Eh.... no not really. Game: Arsenal 4 - Portsmouth 1 (22/8/09) Biggest celebrity death: Forgotten TV magician David Avadon Big death: No Game: Arsenal 2 - Stoke City 0 (5/12/09) Biggest celebrity death: Garfield Morgan from The Sweeney Big death: Biggest so far but "News at 10" level? Maybe... Miralem Pjanic Game: Metz 1 - Sochaux 2 (15/12/07) Biggest celebrity death: Dan Fogelberg Big death: I'd say so, although perhaps more in the US than UK. Game: Strasbourg 0 - Metz 3 (1/2/08) Biggest celebrity death: Barry Morse (off The Fugitive and Space 1999) Big death: ish Game: Metz 1 - Nice 2 (15/3/08) Biggest celebrity death: Some good other shots here (Gary Hart, Mikey Dread) but it has to be Captain Birdseye himself, John Hewer Big death: The first one on either list I am certain made it to News at 10/first three pages of the newspaper. Game: Lens 1 - Metz 1 (5/4/08) Biggest celebrity death: Charlton Heston Big death: Massive, an actual A-lister at last. Game: Metz 4 - Le Mans 3 (17/5/08) Biggest celebrity death: Joseph Pevney, directed the most episodes of the original Star Trek season Big death: No.

Here's an MTV playlist guide proving that Prince, Culture Club and The Beat were played on MTV at least six months before "Billie Jean". Were all of Haysi Fantayzee white?

Jackson is the commonly cited name, but that's almost certainly wrong. He may have been the first black solo artist in heavy rotation on MTV, which was a big thing after Rick James (iirc?) threatened to sue the channel for not playing "Superfreak". The Specials were played on MTV's opening night, Eddy Grant was definitely in early rotation, Jimi Hendrix was played on the retro shows, Fab Five Freddy would have been on a lot thanks to Blondie's "Rapture", then there were mixed-race bands like Big Country and Culture Club... which isn't to say that MTV didn't have a race issue, but Jackson was definitely not the guy who broke it. Also he was a nonce.

The number of bands/musicians that claim to be the first black act on MTV has to rival the number of musicians who claim to have been booked to fly on Buddy Holly's plane that night.

Kiril Dojčinovski, part of Yugoslavia's 1974 squad (but didn't make the field in any games), dead at 78. Is perhaps unsurprisingly the only person listed in this Wikipedia category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Macedonian_expatriate_sportspeople_in_El_Salvador

I've said before (maybe only in my mind, but the thought was there), I am happy to go through the bios on the site one day for a subbing check, any typos or stuff that's now out of date. Maybe someone else could offer for DOBs?

Alberto Orzan, Fiorentina captain of the 1950s, dead at 91. Wikipedia says he was the last living player from the second European Cup final, and I don't have the time or energy to doubt that.

Twitter rumours that Lamont Dozier has bit it:

RIP

She's got a lot of form if you google her real name, Lisa Pittaway.