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5 by Valentines Day, 2 since, here.

Sounds morbid. Just kidding.

Rather apt I had to turn the page as it were to double check who you were talking about.

Take care, LB. Funerals are never much fun. Everyone reacts different to the finality of it but there's nothing wrong with emotional reactions. Not at all. I was fairly crisis-level composed when my grandad (my great hero) died many years ago, looking after his kids and my gran and mum and making sure everyone had copious amounts of tea at hand. Then at the bloody funeral it just sort of hits you. That's life. Doesn't take away or negate all the fun, or funny times.

Probably before Joey's time: in 2002, CNN (?) accidentally put up their Reagan and Pope obits, only they were all based on the Queen Mum's obit, so refered to Pope John Paul II as being "the nation's favourite grandmother" and "fond of her whisky".

We'll know for sure if there are some suspicious obits. "Tom Petty, who has died aged 66, was best known for the 1981 Hull promotion push..."

According to Jerry Lawler (who was one of his closest friends), Lance Russell has died. RIP.

Another chance for the DDT unique DDP hit streak to continue.

Robert Yates, who I am told was a relatively huge name in NASCAR as a team owner and engine builder, has died aged 74 after a long battle with liver cancer. Another I knew about but shied away from, due to previous NASCAR types not getting the obit. So... expect the Mail obit within hours.

Dead dead this time, according to his management to the LA Times. RIP.

He's not dead? Can't find it online, and he's obviously in a bad way, but it cant help but remind me of this bit in the Simpsons: At three p.m. Friday, local autocrat C. Montgomery Burns was shot following a tense confrontation at town hall. Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to "alive".

Just mentioned that exact scene to the wife about 5 mins ago.

If he's not dead, someone better tell Bob Dylan - he's already given a tribute to Rolling Stone about his pal...

I mean, LOL after Madrid's fuckwittery over the Scotland indy vote.

So Lennon's shrink, now a bandmate of Harrison. That's a bizarrely specific (yet fluid) rule of 3 on the make..

It's 2-2 in terms of the 1966 World Cup final and the Reaper, right? Bobby Moore put England 1-0 up in 1993, then Emmerich equalised in 2003 before Alan Ball put England back in front, via a heart attack and garden fire. Then in 2011, Haller (who actually scored in the final) died. Now it seems a whole bunch of them are teetering on the brink.

Was out of the room but the wife says life supports off already. Likely dead imminently then. There's a tap in pun here, I'll leave it to anyone who listened to his actual music...

Gall is a recurring drinker, yes, but Bosanquet was frequently overwrought...as a newt.

That'd annoy someone on here. I forget who.

It's that time of the year, and we can add Michael Rosbash, Michael W Young and Jeffrey C Hall to the list of folk guaranteed an obit in nearly every country in the world, after winning the Medicine Nobel Prize for mapping out the body clock. None of them look like troubling the Reaper for a fair while, being aged 67-72 and not being rock stars or thespians, but into the pantheon they go. Of course, I'm always most interested in the Lit Prize, which can't possibly go to someone worse than fucking Dylan. Alongside perennial favourites Murakami (he's alright, I guess) and Margaret Atwood (important and influential, but rather dry prose), the bookies favourite this year appears to be Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, whom I have never heard of, but as a Nigerian author and playwright apparently massively influential and read in his homeland, he is clearly a far better choice than Bob fucking Dylan. Oh, and the Peace Prize is always good for top quality LOLs...

BBC said it was a 64 year old local called Stephen Paddock. Also, they're looking for his companion, who I suspect might already be dead somewhere...

High floor overlooking a huge crowd, automatic gun appears to equal a grimly effective massacre tool, alas.

Something up with Eboue, apparently?

Guy on the left looks like he's about to keel over, mind!

At least Plymouth aren't without a win in 8 league games...