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Random old name observations.... so, Wesley Pipes, apparently he actually had cancer, got a port inserted into his body in 2014 - carried it until 2020, and then it was removed. Since then, he's been in remission:

Have you heard of Reaction videos on YouTube? Now, I do wonder if there are Googlebox reaction videos.

I picked him in deadpools in 2020 here and there because of a supposed cancer diagnosis. But then apparently, it turned out it wasn't cancer after all. Still, the earlier cancer was real and he does seem to be in declining health. His son is also a bit of a star in Mexico.

So I was looking at my mostly forgotten picks in the Arghton's deadpool, and stumbled across the funeral of "Bletchley Girl" Marigold Freeman-Attwood. Died in May at 98: https://vimeo.com/566780865 https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/_PowcA7G6GU Also, another Bletchley Girl of mine, Jean Pitt-Lewis, mentioned in this church letter, don't know what that means though: https://stmarysrcchepstow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Monmouth-Newsletter-3th-November-2019.pdf

Maybe some media outfit will pick up the "poet who was supported by the stars dies" story. Could take a few days though until some celebrity pays tribute or something. Ah well, the Poker Tourney is a little short, and so the risk is relatively necessary. Axel Kahn actually got a uk.news.yahoo obit, through that url change, but it's in french! (And so fails the DDP criterion)

Sandra Richardson, Liverpool poet and activist, died yesterday according to her wife's instagram (Clare Beloved). Picked in Deadpools here and there, mostly by me, but also by DDT.

Canadian psychologist Nadia Chaudhri now in palliative care, and likely just a few days left to live: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Chaudhri

Man dies after glueing his penis shut instead of using a condom: https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/man-dies-after-using-glue-to-seal-penis-shut-instead-of-using-condom-15156223/ To be fair, the glueing was just a side note. The cause of death was drugs, and sniffing the glue.

Morteza Mehrzad, second-biggest person of the world, and a Paralympian: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/olympia/paralympics-2021-sitzvolleyballer-morteza-mehrzad-koerpergroesse-2-46-meter-blockhoehe-im-sitzen-1-96-meter-a-2794a721-cd1d-41ef-8661-65dfe1183597 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morteza_Mehrzad Appparently unbeatable in sit-volleyball, but also disabled because of his uneven growth, and sadly, seems like an early death.

Yes, there seems to be a consensus on the year of death 2000: https://www.transfermarkt.de/eugen-rupf/profil/spieler/588940 (big german language football site) https://www.dbfcz.ch/spieler.php?spieler_id=13044 (something swiss)

Swedish author and unique DDP pick Gunilla Bergström dead at 79: https://www.svd.se/gunilla-bergstrom-dod

Arthur Hoyle Smith seems to have died, too: https://salesground.org/arthur-smith-bury-times/ Very fresh news.

Oldest living football player, Arthur Hoyle Smith, died on the 21st, according to the Bury Times. Link is not loading for me, but Google knows. This seems like a copy/paste job of the original obit: https://sayarimedia.com/2021/08/arthur-smith-bury-times.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arthur-smith-bury-times

Kiss me hard before you go... ....summertime sadness....

Good thread, in my opinion. I think it's a case of "lawyers needing to lawyer". I had to post it because it reminded me a bit of that Bob Dylan case of a week ago. Looks also dubious, and more like a soft case of extortion. Now, maybe I should sue Jeff Bezos for a million or two for some extremely dubious case, but he'll accept to settle because he earns a million in a second and the court case costs him more than the settlement, simply because it takes a few minutes of his time.

The person who was the baby on Nirvana's "Nevermind" album sues for "sexual exploitation" / child pornography: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-nirvana-nevermind-album-cover-sues-band-child-porn/ I guess he'd have a point if he hadn't revealed in numerous articles, that yes, he was the baby on the cover, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/16/thats-me-picture-spencer-elden-nirvana-nevermind "It's opened doors for me..." yadda, yadda...

So this current drought is now about as long as the year has left.

This feels strangely relevant.

Confirmed by a thousand sources now: https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/jimmy-hayes-former-nhl-player-and-boston-college-champion-dead-at-31/ No reason given so far.

Sheila Bromberg, the harpist on "She's leaving home" dead at the very cursed age of 92: https://slippedisc.com/2021/08/shes-leaving-home-the-beatles-harpist-has-died/

He says: "Lockdown has accelerated my demise": https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2021-08-18/lockdown-accelerated-my-demise-rob-burrow-thinks-lockdown-made-his-mnd-worse Supposedly, he was doing okay until then. Which leaves us with the question whether his variant of ALS is one of the faster kind, or whether it just looks that way because he didn't work out. I kind of think it's the former.

Yeah, that team is a bit "Nicked, but not dead" or "Diana Rots". Still, the tactic to just pick the hot deadpooling shit from the year before, is not the worst...

Nick Davatzes, founder of the Hitler History channel, and the A&E channel, dead at 79: https://www.c21media.net/news/ae-networks-co-founder-and-cable-tv-icon-nick-davatzes-dies-aged-79/

Tallest person in the USA, Ukraine-born Igor Vovkovnoskiy, dead at 38 of heart failure: https://kroc.com/rochester-man-tallest-in-the-united-states-has-died/

"Sweet" Connie Hamzy, famous groupie mentioned in a no. 1 hit song by Grand Funk Railroad, dead after a sudden illness at 66: https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/sweet-sweet-connie-hamzy-subject-grand-funk-railroad-song-dead-66/C2KIB3RBJFBRFMEUWX7PPUXKHY/ She also flashed her breasts at Bill Clinton that one time.