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    The EU Referendum Hokey Cokey

    And if anyone cares about my own thoughts on this, I am of two minds. On the one hand, I regard it as a triumph against the neo-liberal consensus, on the other hand, it's a real pity. I think Mr. Corbyn has a similar opinion, the EU has become a bit of a bureaucratic corporatist nightmare, but then the original idea was rather neat. I wonder what will happen to my british neighbors in hipsterific Berlin Neukölln.
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    The EU Referendum Hokey Cokey

    Lovely, you always have your eyes on the prize. By the way, I just read it on reddit (geddit?), "every PM is known for one, two important things. What will David Cameron be remembered for? Pig-fucking and gambling away EU membership." Usually, the REAL royal fuck-ups look like it. Like George W. Bush was a dry drunk, and a bit of a doofus. But Cameron, never has complete fuck-up-itude looked so ordinary.
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    William Shatner

    True. At some point, he WILL have his own thread.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2016

    Across my three teams, Paul Cox is now my 20th hit this year (that is, the 20th person to die and receive a qualifying obit). I have some small regrets that I spread the talent too thin, and across too many competitions (with my handicap not to use a name twice). So my teams turned out a bit too clever by half. If I had these 20 hits in one team, I'd be at 211pts now. But that's not really a valid calculation, as I would have not chosen a couple of people who actually died and obited (like Nikolaus Harnoncourt). Also, that team would have had two jokers. Ah well, there's still Kate Granger to support my quest to at least win one competition this year. Will she be the last hit for Shameless? The obitability chances of the others have already declined by a lot, maybe Mark Nurthen and Connie Johnson will be an exception. Kris Hallenga is doing very well.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    Probably the biggest case of will he or won't he make it to 2017, Craig Sager covers his first NBA Finals game and gets a Daily Mail article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3646886/LeBron-heartfelt-moment-Craig-Sager-sportscaster-covered-NBA-finals-game.html
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    Authors Last A Long Time, But....

    Very marginally famous writer Colin Butts has stage IV pancreatic cancer: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-news/ibiza-writer-diagnosed-terminal-cancer-8227488#E95AOAUQs2VtmMjp.97 His script was just turned into a movie and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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    Political Frailty

    Update on former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert: He is to serve his time in the Rochester prison, which is known for his advanced medical facility, specializing in the treatment of HIV and other infectious diseases that need long-term treatment, and also in the treatment of end-stage liver disease: http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/hastert-to-serve-prison-sentence-in-rochester/article_e54e1f2f-7a5a-58b1-ba6d-774fedb2da8c.html The decline of his health began with a catastrophic blood infection that almost killed him last year.
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    Dalai Lama

    you are trusting news supplied by a company called hacks? By now, I wish I hadn't posted it. But I also thought that the video is another sign of his beginning decline.
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    Hollywood Possibilities

    Uuuh, I'm actually shocked, because it comes out of the blue and is so bizarre (and the new Star Trek movies are a heresy!)
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    Dalai Lama

    So some people now suggest he might have cancer: https://twitter.com/IndyHack/status/744472442672914432 Edit: It is an anti-Dalai Lama source though (created by the Communist Party?)
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    Shaun`s Death By Numbers 2016I

    Points for Tom Leppard for me: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/world-famous-leopard-man-who-8193316
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    Zsa Zsa Gabor

    It's far from being beyond the realms of possibility for this to happen and I really hope it does just for the urban legend that will surely start doing the rounds that Zsa Zsa Gabor's marriage was catastrophic for Hungarian international football. Darn it, there goes that conspiracy theory. Zsa Zsa is such a spoilsport. Goal for Hungary...
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    The dead of 2016

    Margaret Vinci Heldt, inventor of the beehive haircut, dead at 98: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/margaret-vinci-heldt-dies-age-98-beehive-hairstyle
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    21. Vanessa Redgrave

    She coughs her way through an interview about life and death and the whole thing: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/13/vanessa-redgrave-interview-simon-hattenstone
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    The 7Th Death Of 2016

    Forsyth
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    MHDP Obits

    A serious question: is Magere Hein dead?
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    Maryport's Midsummer Dead Pool

    Congratulations Spade, a risk well-taken.
  18. I am on holidays over the next 16 days. I am only going to post when really important things happen, like today.
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    Muhammad Ali

    Logging in from mobile just to say RIP... for me personally, he wasnt as big as Bowie, but he is a cornerstone of Boomer culture auf as a personality, One of the defining people of the 20th century.
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    Scavenger Hunt Bingo Deadpool

    You win some, you lose some.... Rover and Out and me both picked Lady Saltoun and Lord Hapgood. On the other hand, I did not expect Arun Lal to be a unique pick, though of course, it's 'only' throat cancer.
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    Pelé

    Pelé sells everything so that his legacy can spread to other people, or something: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/31/pele-auctions-off-his-entire-football-history
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    Maryport's Midsummer Dead Pool

    Lady Susan Renouf
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Announced on his gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/welovethomas Another $62,364 reasons not to donate to anyone's GoFundMe page created for medical reasons.I've only donated once and that was to a person I knew and who I shared a stage with once who needed funding to produce a new album and tour (sadly his tours never bring him by me). Oh and unless your country has some truly crazy laws, if a person dies their medical bills die with them. SirC There was this story that some of his cancer funds were stolen at one point. That was too fishy for me to pick him. A mistake, of course.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    Kate Murtagh, 95 years old, american bit actress, but more famously, the woman on the front of Supertramp's Breakfast In America cover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Murtagh
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    From Cleric To Relic

    The "last Irish bishop to attend the Vatican II Council", Miles McKeon is dead at 97: http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/bishop-myles-mckeon-last-surviving-irish-bishop-to-attend-vatican-ii-1.2661887 Not THAT obitable, but the last surviving participants should be obit-worthy, like Luigi Bettazzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Bettazzi Raymond Hunthausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Hunthausen (interesting story, a feud with Benedict XVI) or Remi De Roo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi_De_Roo
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