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Wikipedia now tells me that yesterday we had the deaths of Kok, Kwok and Ngok.

I was mostly surprised to see she actually had a decent career after Cruel Intentions.

Gemma Nuttall also LotM...

The Guardian has absorbed the word "woke": the search for Mr. Woke: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/11/my-search-for-mr-woke-a-dating-diary Woke business: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/16/woke-business-nike-colin-kaepernick-levis-pepsi writing about wokeness: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/14/wokeness-black-writers-evening-standard-woke-christmas re-awokening: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/feb/17/pop-cultures-re-awokening-is-this-political-shift-a-movement-or-moment

Danniella on a motorbike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6297419/Danniella-Westbrook-flashes-abs-grey-crop-rides-motorbike-amid-cancer-diagnosis.html

Craig Bryden, man who made the news two and a half years ago by fighting cancer in a pirate costume, dead at 58, straight from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-45917046

Horst Herold, police mastermind during the time of the Red Army Faction, Germany's home-grown terror, turns 95 in 2 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold The inventor of dragnet (is that how you say it?). He had a heart attack in 1980 and his wife died last year: http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/horst-herold-wird-95-letzter-gefangener-der-raf-bundeskriminalamt-chef-der-70er-a-1233549.html (german link)

I hated that song.

Brian Kennedy's cancer is still there and "increasing in thickness": https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/brian-kennedy-opens-up-cancer-13439666

No QO yet... which I like here but dislike in the Windy City Deadpool.

Thank you reddit, the name of the president of Turkmenistan is "Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbanguly_Berdimuhamedow "The first dentist in the world to head a state or a government" His father, Mälikguly Berdimuhametowyç Berdimuhamedow, is still alive at 86

Buzz Aldrin's ex-wife Lois Driggs Cannon, dead at ...unspecified age: https://theblast.com/buzz-aldrin-ex-wife-lois-driggs-cannon-dead/ She was his "most recent" wife.

The "Eye of Istanbul", photographer Ara Guler, dead at 90: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45899844

manhole - peoplehole? unihole?

Even with BBC obit... https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45895230

My condolences.

"Head-turning" Belfast model Mairead O'Neill, suddenly dead at 21: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/736781/Model-Mairead-O-Neill-dead-Northern-Ireland-Belfast-tragedy

A Kenyan MP talks about the cancer of his sister, the cancer of his mum, his own cancer, and the cancer of 63 (!) Kenyan Members of Parliament: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2001299224/juja-mp-francis-waititu-battling-cancer-and-determined-to-win

Obligatory QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7509872/kate-winslet-tribute-cancer-mum-aged-29/ Daily Mail and Mirror are ON IT, too. Edit: The Mail has the comment from Kate Winslet.

Straight from Wikipedia, but too interesting: Dennis Hof, US brothel owner, dead at 72: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6283331/Bunny-Ranch-brothel-owner-Dennis-Hof-dies-aged-72-just-weeks-general-election.html He called himself the "Trump from Parumph". His partner was Heidi Fleiss, a.k.a. the infamous "Hollywood Madam". His corpse was found by Ron Jeremy a day after a birthday party with infamous Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Wants a piece of that Fujimori gig: https://www.globalvillagespace.com/musharraf-refuses-to-record-statement-via-video-link/

Former premier of Quebec (not the whole of Canada!) Bernard Landry, is on oxygen with atrophied lungs (??), also in a wheelchair: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/former-premier-bernard-landry-in-failing-health-report-1.4132854

Melissa Young is a former Miss Wisconsin, terminally ill with "autonomic failure syndrome" which shuts down parts of the brain, and she loooooooves Donald Trump. https://www.theepochtimes.com/terminally-ill-former-beauty-queen-speaks-out-to-fulfil-promise-to-trump_2690081.html She also looks like Melania and Donald loved her back.

Toast's concern is shared by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45867742

Well, as the land of the dead is pretty boring right now... Eminem is dead and was replaced by a robot: http://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/weird-bizarre-theory-claims-eminem-has-died-and-been-replaced-by-a-robot-20181015 But then we knew that from the video of "My name is..."