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New Coronavirus variant found in South Africa, being described as "concerning" and "heavily mutated". https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418127 Thank God, I'm so ready to get so violently sodomized by the virus until I shoot blood out of my rear end like a fountain. I want this virus to chain me to the radiator and never let me leave the house ever again.

I might even change the DDP obit because the Last Word link is less precise. She has received a couple of obits now. It seems we are in total "backlog obit" mode right now. No high-profile deaths in a week or so. I'm surprised we haven't seen a tumbleweed on here lately.

Mr. Goxx, a crypto-currency trading hamster, whose performance beat Warren Buffet has died unexpectedly: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4137453/mr-goxx-dead-crypto-trading-hamster/

League of Legends pro Yoppa, real name Pavle Kostic, dead of COVID at only 23: https://www.dexerto.com/league-of-legends/league-of-legends-pro-yoppa-passes-away-1706437/

His terminal illness: life.

Former college football player and coach Derek Sparks, dead after a pancreatic cancer fight: https://www.yahoo.com/now/former-washington-state-standout-derek-030100866.html

Would have been a popular pick in the Advent avalanche. And he actually IS a DDP pick for the always curious Theme Team "Not Gone Yet, but Still Forgotten". However, because of his illnesses, the forum actually didn't forget him.

Stu Rasmussen, the US' first openly transgender mayor, dead of cancer at 73: https://www.klcc.org/politics-government/2021-11-22/silvertons-stu-rasmussen-the-nations-first-openly-transgender-mayor-dies

"Men's meat heavy diet cause 40% more climate emissions than women's": https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/nov/22/mens-meat-heavy-diets-cause-40-more-climate-emissions-than-womens-study-finds Oh, I am the snowflake here, but yeah, if you want to turn me into a stone age conservative, try to intertwine climate change with diet, vegetarian supremacy, a little sexism, and the undercurrent of just not being woke enough. "The research also found a quarter of diet-related emissions were from “optional” food and drink, such as coffee, alcohol, cakes and sweets." It does remind me of Franklin D. Roosevelt's reasoning for ending the prohibition, i.e. "people need their drinks in these days", And I need caffeine and sugar to be productive and keep going.

I'm thinking of donating and hope I can slide a few messages in there, you know, "Why dont you have an Albert Raboteau obit up yet" or something like that.

I'm pretty sure he will. Edit: He's somewhat regarded as the forefather of the men's rights movement.

That's funny, Belinda Sykes might be the highest scoring hit ever, here.

Ted Herold, for a short time marketed as the "German Elvis Presley" dies in a house fire: https://m.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/dortmund-rockn-roll-star-ted-herold-und-frau-sterben-bei-haus-brand-78305284.bildMobile.html

Emi Wada, Oscar-winning costume designer for Akira Kurosawa's Ran, has died at 84: https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14486179 DDP pick for the Japanese theme team.

Peter Aykroyd, former cast member of Saturday Night Live, and writer for it, dead at 56: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-aykroyd-dies-saturday-night-070340253.html

19 years of ALS... I had a period of picking him in deadpools 2-3 years ago, because he looked so close to death. I should have looked more at the speed of the decline.

According to Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan suffers from severe health problems and had 25 surgeries in the past 10 years: https://www.cbr.com/wwe-hulk-hogan-health-issues/

Alright, as the year draws to a close, I'm starting to tidy up the database here and there. So here are the missing LOTL and LOTM names that are not yet written down on the site: Obviously a work in progress. I think it will be much less than in the previous year, because we've been keeping some good eyes on it. List of the Lost: - Ernst Fasan - Aino Kaarik - Jessie Lichauco - Pave Maijanen - Luis de Pablo - Lars-Göran Petrov - Morris Perry (sorry msc, it's got to happen) - Sarah Lilian Priest - Uta Ranke-Heinemann - Ken Mahood - Richard Repp - Sumiko Sakamoto - Alfonso Sastre - Belinda Sykes (?) - Vance Trimble - Ralph Watson List of the Missed:

The younger generations have decided that it's time for the Queen to go. Dying from exhaustion at multiple christenings.

He made an appearance at the Von Hagens museum in the small Brandenburg border town of Guben: https://www.rbb24.de/studiocottbus/beitraege/2021/11/guben-plastinarium-15-jahre-von-hagens.html

Estelle Parsons turns 94 tomorrow: A reply thankfully mentions that Estelle's husband, Peter Zimroth, has just passed away.

So far, the first Last Word Only QO, yes, but I don't know, she might get one of those backlog Times obits. Just like she seems a sort of "quiet times Last Word" obit. There weren't many big names in the past week.

Oh, "there is power in prayer", or in other words, nothing else is helping.

Joe Exotic, you know, from Tiger King, moved to a FED medical center: https://www.tmz.com/2021/11/19/joe-exotic-prison-tiger-king-cancer-treatment-transfer/

My example of how difficult the "published" author criterion is: Katie Smith, author of one book: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7528281/Childrens-author-terminal-cancer-feared-won-writing-competition-brain-tumour.html