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Picked in the DDP before - but not this time. So a bit of a miss for me, and Banana. She seemed okay until very recently. It was one of those cancer battles with a lot of ups and downs.

Seems like Zak Nilsson is dead: http://www.noise11.com/news/zak-nilsson-loses-his-battle-with-cancer-20210305

I think it's worth posting this in the "celebrity pregnancy" thread.

That's a funny idea. I tried to change the web address like you can do with uk.yahoo into: https://www.bbc.co.uk/pidgin/tori-56276324 Only, it redirects you to the international one. So it still doesn't count, I'd say.

I have actually wondered if the number of "active" single-people threads is more or less stable or actually inflationary.

So, are they actually trying to fix him? I can't wait for Cyborg Phil 2.0.

Nigerian actor and brave DDP pick Sadiq Daba is dead: https://m.guardian.ng/life/veteran-nollywood-actor-sadiq-daba-is-dead/

Give arghton a like, quite nice work.

Cup and AO pool pick Spanish TV presenter Mila Ximenez, no, not dead, but there are "complications" because her lung cancer has become more aggressive in part: https://www.lecturas.com/actualidad/mila-ximenez-regresa-a-salvame-tras-meses-ausencia-y-pleno-tratamiento-contra-cancer_97932 Ah yes,

Nabindra Raj Joshi supposedly improving - off the ventilator, but risk remains: https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/joshi-s-health-improving-blood-pressure-under-control/ My first replacement, and definitely would have made it if he had been 10 years older.

DDP QO: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/02/chris-barber-british-trad-jazz-bandleader-dies-aged-90

RIP Margartet!

Lunch break mystery... (yeah, that's what I do as almost the only one in my department to not be working from home). I caught this story in the Guardian about Chinese billionaires kicking out British millionaires of newly acquired golf clubs: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/02/wentworth-golf-club-reignwood-yan-bin In the article, I stumbled across Sir Stanley Simmons, former physician of the queen, supposedly still alive in his 80s. Only, he's been dead since 2017: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=stanley-clifford-simmons&pid=185691622 And the article had already been run by the Guardian in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/20/battle-for-wentworth-golf-club-surrey-super-rich So yeah, they altered the article slightly, put a new author on top, but didn't remember to check their quotations. (I'm kind of considering talking to the author on his twitter account later) Edit: Well, the author is an author and actually relevant historian at the University of Cambridge... Jesus, you'd think he'd be a little more careful.

I kind of thought he might/should have been picked this year. There was an ominous silence. But then, I hardly committed to that thought anywhere myself.

Erminia Motika, mother of celebrity / TV cook Lidia Bastianich, has died about two weeks ago at 100: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/chef-lidia-bastianichs-beloved-mother-grandma-died.html/ Most marginal person I ever allowed in the Death By Numbers. Picked last year.