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Oh wow, noted.

Michael DeGroote, Canadian businessman, philantropist, and owner of Hockey Team the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, dead at 89: https://3downnation.com/2022/09/12/former-hamilton-tiger-cats-owner-michael-degroote-has-passed-away/ An "Idea of Possibility for 2018" of mine... obviously not the best one, but then, we're never wrong, just sometimes a little early.

Movie review of "The Cancer Conflict" - a documentary about two people with cancer, one fighting it with "official" science, the other one fighting it with alternative methods: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/the-cancer-conflict-review-poignant-documentary-on-alternative-cancer-therapies It has apparently been in the making for 5 years: https://icrowdnewswire.com/2016/11/16/cancer-conflict-feature-documentary-trust-life-line/ And the scientific case, a film producer named Grant Branton, died pretty quickly: https://www.promonews.tv/news/2016/02/16/grant-branton-1962-2016/39476 Can't find anything on quick notice on the alternative case, unfamous person Surinder Paul. Branton had stage 4 colon cancer though that had spread to the bones, whereas Surinder Paul "only" had breast cancer.

Greenspan for the 3rd time.

Wow!

Teenage boy hospitalised after connecting his penis to a USB cable: https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/teenager-measure-penis-usb-cable

Friends don't let friends read The Express.... Only interesting thing there is Linda Nolan's cancer column.

Plot twist! Russian energy CEO Ivan Pechorin doesn't fall out of a window, but instead "fell overboard": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11203945/Russian-official-linked-energy-sector-falls-overboard-death-boat.html The former CEO of that company, Igor Nosov, also died suddenly, of a stroke.

I wondered why the Guardian said that she's Europe's only Queen, i.e. where in the world do we have a queen? The arab world, no? Japan, no? This wiki list doesn't have any other queen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_reigning_monarchs_by_length_of_reign And the Sultan of Brunei is reigning longer than Margarethe...

Personally, I actually agree!

Celebrating 50 years on the throne, she's now Europe's only queen, and currently longest-reigning monarch in the world: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/11/margrethe-ii-denmark-jubilee-europe-only-reigning-queen

I think they all were surprised by this. I keep hearing how they've had the protocol for years, how to prepare the public for her death because people apparently can't deal with a sudden death. And I think they didn't want to give the impression that she died alone - though between the lines the "resting comfortably" apparnetly meant that she was in a coma. I think they wanted to keep up apeearances of a "happy end", as much as this is possible in such circumstances.

Yeah... because she stroked out and died around noon... but they're too far gone with the whole "family is coming together to meet her before she goes" storyline that they can't go back.

What is a 92-year old man doing at a porn festival anyway?

Indeed, let's get this out of the way. Both Marsha Hunt and Queen Elizabeth II are new hits for this update. Frequently picked, more points for many players. I don't add to the myriad of obituaries here. HOWEVER, I also belatedly want to add the scores for three names that passed by me. I combed through the names, and stumbled across them... I will do so before the end of the game, again, no name will be left forgotten. But for now, let's add Claes Oldenburg for doulton. A swedish artist and sculpturist (?) whose work I incidentally stumbled upon in Frankfurt last month. His "inverted tie" is prominently placed there. Torva Messor gets points for Jill Knight, who is actually Baroness Knight. That name divergence is how it evaded me - though I did add her in the DDP... ah well. And finally, Joe Monepenny's heavy focus on Asian names pays off here with Chor Yuen, who had also been picked in the DDP and got a qualifying Yahoo obit. I guess, I couldn't imagine anyone picking him here, how wrong I was! So, these 5 new hits don't change the world, but they move it a little, with JohnKey the highest-ranking player now with new points: Rank Team Score 1 Banana 1173 2 Salmon Mousse 1124 3 An Fear Beag 1117 4 gcreptile 1046 5 msc 1039 6 Book 1007 7 Predictor 970 8 Joey Russ 945 9 Cpt. Chorizo 888 10 Death Impends 838 11 drol 791 12 DevonDeathTrip 768 13 MariNisia 735 14 Kenny 716 15 Guy From Future 646 16 Toast 614 17 Sean 592 18 Great Uncle Bulgaria 583 19 Theoldlady 558 20 JohnKey 521 21 Torva Messor 494 22 Annami 489 23 JoeMoneypenny 474 24 The Daredevil 456 25 The Unknown Man 449 26 The old crem 435 27 Wormfarmer 423 28 Buffalo Phil 417 29 CalebH 397 30 Baby Blue 373 31 YorkshireBanker 364 32 Liz Lemon 336 33 Pedro67 312 34 markb4 281 35 Bibliogryphon 254 36 YoungWillz 248 37 chilean way 203 38 Famous6Eva 181 39 Doulton 178 40 Hell 173 41 keltos31 147 42 Captain Hemlock 144 43 The Spinosaurus 127 44 Gooseberry Crumble 120

Adding some Death By Numbers names to my longlist... here are some pictures of Judtih Chalmers from earlier this year, out and about, but with a leg injury and a little unstable: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10477775/Judith-Chalmers-86-cuts-relaxed-figure-goes-shopping-spree-Barbados-sporting-injury.html

I wonder how Putin was the first to congratulate Prince Charles to his taking the throne...like, is that on Putin's priority list right now? And why?

As the Pierre Cardin spot is now free, what about Valentino or Giorgio Armani?

As much as QE 2 was known to everyone, I dont think she was THAT significant in history - because her role doesn't require it. She was definitely an iconic symbol, for stability, dignity, as a woman in leadership, basically like a friendly neighbour to everyone. But she never really interfered with history, because she chose not to. It makes her similar to Obama, maybe, who was/is hugely important as a symbol, whereas his legacy, except for a couple of truly significant measures, was damaged a lot by his successor. Putin, on the other hand, almost single-handedly resurrected a Russian Empire - until he, probably, ruined it all, this year. Still, symbols are extremely important as well, see the reactions to Muhammad Ali. Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney didnt change history but "touched" millions/billions of people in little ways.

Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was killed by Capitol police on the Jan 6th coup attempt, is trending on twitter. I always confuse her with Lorena Bobbitt, the lady who cut off her husband's penis in the 90s. So whenever she's trending, I keep thinking "what has she done now" even though she's dead.

But what if the body is born as an empty vessel and is just waiting to be occupied by the billions of souls floating around? Maybe bodies are like soul vacuum cleaners.

Oh, and personally, I'm trying to battle through World War Z, the zombie book by Max Brooks, son of DeathList entry Mel Brooks. Currently, I'm only managing to read in the evening, and when I'm extremely tired. Guess I'm not giving it a fair trial.

Hm.. are there any books where the man is actually a decent person but is instead driven to suicide or into a catastrophe by the needy woman - but we only can read that in between the lines - because it's written from her perspective?

Ukraine's troops are breaking through the Russian lines everywhere, Russian morale is collapsing and they're fleeing. Things are moving fast right now.

So far, she has not been reincarnated as Trisha Paytas' baby: https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/09/trisha-paytas-queen-elizabeth-baby-reincarnation-reincarnated/