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I've never been a big fan of cats. (Domestic ones that is, tigers and that are cool.) However, when one of our friends had a cat, I tended to find the cat would come into the room, and everyone else would be "here, kitty". There I'd be not paying it much attention, when suddenly it would ignore all the other people in the room and come over to try and get my attention. Cats, so I'm told, seem to prefer antisocial people to adorers, which would explain why the things always make a beeline for me! Pet's are cool, though. I used to own a giant terrapin, long dead now of course, a rescue pet which wasn't meant to live "much longer" and wound up with us for thirteen years. It was antisocial, bullied other pets, bit everyone, would go on elongated huffs with everyone, and would chase people away when it got out on the floor for a bit. It was awesome.

Hey, I am a slightly younger Dad, and I'd love socks. Socks have this mysterious habit of just disappearing without trace. No matter how many pairs I seem to buy, I can never find any. My Dad's very much a "don't bother about presents" type, so we get him a 6 pack of Guinness, which usually does the trick.

Scottish physicist David Thouless wins the Nobel Prize for Physics alongside fellow Scot John Kosterlitz and Englishman Duncan Haldane for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter." I studied History, so I haven't a clue what that means, but it sounds impressive, and the 82 year old Thouless is now guaranteed an obit on his dying day, whenever that will be, for the rest of eternity.

Oh, the points change is official! "At present, there is unlikely to be any other changes." *Swiftly rips up shortlist category entitled "In case of TMIB reintroducing Daily Record obits..."*

If he drinks, booze. If he doesn't drink, something else he likes.

Another profile of her cancer battle. Key info not mentioned before is that her cancer is now stage four, with tumors present in her lungs, liver, and lymph nodes... I think she's too fit to die any time soon, but she may well die around Christmas to become this year's Sadhana Shivdasani. Cancelling more gigs, this time due to pneumonia. At the risk of making one of the bigger understatements in Deathlist forum history, metastatic pancreatic cancer and pneumonia don't really mix that well...

I saw a few days ago that Ernie Sigley (apparently he's a TV presenter and huge in Australia) was "seriously ill". Well, now it's come out he's got Alzheimer's, and the Daily Mail are covering it for future reference.

Cult legend, hair fashion icon, and sometimes international footballer Rigobert Song in critical condition after massive stroke.

Now that I've worked out how to do it, I've edited my list on Page 3 with dead people now in red text like a Vincent Price movie. 12/50 is no bad, but I'll certainly put more thought into this deadpool if it runs again in 2017.

Ah, I've just stumbled across this. Yes, that is a potentially odd case. I mention dearly departed Rowena, who wont be appearing on anyone's 2017 lists now.

Must admit I'm now curious as to what the Hofmann tribute was. I've mentioned it before, but this. First seen in 2008, laughed myself hoarse, showed it to my wife, and then, next day, I woke up to find she'd printed off a copy of the original post and sellotaped it to the fridge door.

Maybe it's meant to be ironic Deliberate understatement for comedic effect is a long standing British tradition.

I know the attention has been on Magere lately, but its come to my attention that Windsor hasn't been around in 3 months. He doesn't post as often nowadays, but that still feels unusual.

I wouldn't worry. There was 2 hits in the first five months I spent lurking on the website (to the point I didn't realise for several weeks that the second guy had been a hit!) but this was swiftly followed by 3 hits in a month. Then another dry patch was ended with 7 hits in 80 days. There's no science to it, but the list does tend to reach 10-14 by Hogmanay, by hook or crook.

Two interesting further facts concerning the ailing Colin Baddiel. "On average, a person with Pick disease lives about 7 years after the disease is diagnosed. In some people, the disease progresses to death much more rapidly." "The show, which tells the life of both Sarah and Baddiel’s 81-year-old father, Colin – who for the past eight years has suffered from Pick’s disease, a form of dementia that, according to his son, makes him “sexually disinhibited, irritable and impatient” – includes reminiscences and riffs from Baddiel and film footage of both parents."

He's either on the mend from a recent respiratory illness or "gravely ill" with blood infections and renal problems, depending on which news story you want to believe. Nice to see such uniformity of news. At this point, he's basically Schrodinger's Deathlist pick.

Word on the tweet has former Scottish international (and Arsenal/Man Utd striker) David Herd dead aged 82.

To pluck something from recent history at random: What has this to do with how to do things on this site? its called the death list HOWTO and i am showing you how to make pink lemonade Stumbled across this looking for something else. Missed it at the time. The combination of clueless, passive aggression, and unintended comic timing makes this my new favourite post ever. Haven't laughed that long at a Deathlist thing since the Albert Hoffman tribute translation.

Aye, well - let's hope those weeks include at least a few hours of 2017, eh? According to a complete uncited post on Digital Spy, he had "heart failure on Christmas Day 2015". I'm going to take a wee guess that's probably not the greatest Christmas he's ever had!

If only the source had said "She is absolutely devastated and also highly obitable" She's the wife of a disgraced former TV host who can't keep himself out of the papers/social media. Obit guaranteed.

Knowing their tastes, someone random like the former Archdeacon of Loughborough. (And this no-namer will turn out to be fascinating, which is, of course, the whole reason behind the show...)

Got to feel for the Diana Rots teams of the world, one of the less heralded victims of 2016. The top teams are recording so many hits, it's going to be a struggle for them to fill out an entire 2017 side.

Hmm. Dead. Aged 60. Cancer. http://www.wsj.com/articles/longtime-activist-investor-ralph-whitworth-dies-after-cancer-battle-1475189435 His cancer returned in a more virulent form earlier this year. DDP awaiting obit. A unique pick too. Reminds me of the time I went for Derek Martinus on the DDP, and he outlived the year, so I dropped him. Only my info was right, he was dying, and his death the next February was a unique bonus for some randomer!

Behold the highly informative Richard O'Sullivan thread. *innocent face*