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    I've searched the site for him and can't find any mentions of him, but Art Modell may be up for consideration in 2008. For those outside the US, Art was the owner of the American Football Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens. Several years ago, Modell suffered a stroke and has been less and less visible publicly. I was talking to my father the other day and told me that he made a concrete delivery to Modell's mausoleum (which to date has cost US$1.5 million, which these days is about 100k in real money). It's no indication of further declining health, but it peaked my interest.

     

    As far as a UK obit, I'm pretty sure he won't get one since New York Giants owner Wellington Mara didn't get a UK obit that I can find. If you're in a death pool with wider criteria for points, Modell might be worth a look.

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    what about these people:

     

    farrah fawcett: had twice arse cancer and still fighting the tumour

     

    holly johnson:had hiv positive since 1989

     

    jane hamser: has reccuring breast cancer

     

    nelson mandela: because he has a statue in london for no apparent reason and because he is old

     

    jenni murray: have to agree with other posts because she has breast cancer

     

    mickey wright: because she also has breast cancer that has spread

     

    elizabeth taylor: in a wheel chair old and decrepdid

     

    john prescott: ate too many pies

     

    stephen hawkins: just for the fun of it

     

    lance armstrong: just for fun

     

    Montel williams: ms

     

    muhammed ali: parkinsons

     

    andy bell: aids

     

    ............................................i make another list up later

     

    Don't even mention Montel. I've had MS longer than he has and I'm far from circling the drain. It's not a death sentence for anyone...unless someone really pisses me off about it.

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    NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, 77 and apparently none too well.

     

    http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10283145

     

    An excerpt: "His body is bloated; his jawline has slackened into a triple chin; his skin looks as if a dry-cleaner bag has been stretched over it," Lidz states. "Steinbrenner's face, pale and swollen, has a curiously undefined look. His features seem frozen in a permanent rictus of careworn disbelief"

     

    Would he pass the UK famousness test?

     

    I think he would get an obit on bbc.co.uk. Someone like Peter Angelos (who owns the Baltimore Orioles) most likely wouldn't get an obit overseas, but Steinbrenner has owned the (unfortunately) most successful team in Major League Baseball since the '70's.

     

    Don't think I mentioned this - Go Red Sox!!!

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    I think it's a kind way of saying "Not well. Can we change the subject please?" We all know she's going downhill and I'd hope for a hit in the next couple months, but not counting on it. Dementia is tough to predict unless you're looking at someone with it occasionally and have seen enough of dementia over the years.

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    According to this she talks to God every day

     

    I watched that video during lunch at work...talk about a frightening bag of bones. She's still not skimping on the mascara in her final days/weeks/months/whatever. I only got through a little more than a minute of the CNN clip before I went to another page. I know this is cruel to say, but I was getting a little nauseous from looking at her.

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    I remember that entrance...and couldn't stop laughing at that outfit he was wearing.

     

    I had the same curiosity when I was looking through the world's tallest people, and looked up Gonzalez. Just to get an idea, I'd refer anyone curious about what's possibly happening to him to look up Robert Wadlow (there's a video linked from his wikipedia entry) and Matthew McGrory (Big Fish, Devil's Rejects). Those two had acromegaly and I the only reference to 'giantism' is on an imdb site (obviously posted by fans), but in the only speaking role I could find for Gonzalez it doesn't sound like he has acromegaly. I know I can't look at an MRI of his to confirm it, but he doesn't sound like Andre the Giant, or McGrory in Big Fish or even Big Show Paul Wight (who I read had his pituitary tumor removed).

     

    This answers.com page hints that his health has been in decline for about 15 years. I've kept an eye out for that silly giant, but getting news on his health is tough. We'd have a better shot with (not a wrestler, so I won't go into it) finding declining health info on Manute Bol.

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    Wouldn't be tough to get the good professor to do shots - put the liquor in a syringe and feed it to him through his PEG tube. I'd like to see him control his eye to use his voice synthesizer well enough to get the words "I'm so f*cked up" out while patrons stick multicolored glowsticks in his jacket and shirt, offering X to really get him rollin'.

     

    I may have gone a little far with that one.

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    Won't make much odds that test, mind. Don't see him DP picked, don't see him lasting to 2008. Time for that old Nightride Home, eh?

     

    You're right about him not lasting to 2008 - he passed away on the 29th. Not worth putting a link in here, but I doubt his death was covered in the UK. McCorkle doesn't have an entry in wikipedia, which should give you an idea of his individual level of fame.

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    It's better than I could phrase the events. I'm behind the idea that the Bibles were placed after the fact, sign of guilt and remorse. Killing himself was a 'no other way out' of the situation at hand. Just one man's opinion.

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    Dr. H....that's just friggin' priceless.

     

    On the drive to work this morning, I heard that needle marks were found on Benoit's son, who was cited as being a little small for his age and was possibly being given growth hormones. They might've come from daddy's stash.

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