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Oh, he's going into our end of year "limbo of the lost" radio show, then. "Our" ?? Sorry, myself and the other guy who alternates our show. I'll post a link when it goes out in December Oh, I didn't know about it. I googled "Limbo of the Lost", wondering if you were serious, but only found a video game.

Amy's Baking Company, notorious for having Gordon Ramsay leave them on camera before making any changes in the course of his Kitchen Nightmares show, closes: http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/2015/09/04/amys-baking-company-scottsdale-has-closed/71722292/

^^ How do you know these things.... I wouldn't be able to tell anything like that about the Premier League. In other news, Scottish football legend Ralph Milne now critical after liver failure: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/hospitalised-dundee-united-legend-ralph-milne-critical-1-3877833

That list of smokers is very interesting, from a statistical perspective. Helmut Schmidt's smoking habit has two special factors though: He likes to smoke menthol cigarettes, and his favorite (only?) brand is Roth-Händle, an ancient german product only being smoked by old people. I suspect, that this brand is so old, it might not contain all these carcinogenic additives that are meant to improve the taste. But the latter is just my theory...

O. J. Simpson is 'miserable' because his female fans have stopped sending him checks, and his health is deteriorating: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3219863/OJ-Simpson-68-miserable-bars-female-fans-stopped-sending-cash.html

Sid Siegel, the 'king' of industrial musicals is dead at 88: http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/932527/composer-sid-siegel-king-kitschy-industrial-musicals-my-bathroom-david-letterman-dies-88 He specialized in commercials, jingles, and kitschy commercial presentation soundtracks.

She reduced her foreign travel schedule: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223070/Charles-takes-Queen-s-foreign-trips-monarch-approaches-90th-birthday.html

Now I wonder what chocolate hell looks like, it's probably full of mint chocolate and chocolate cakes with orange jelly inside.

Graham Brazier, frontman of Hello Sailor, has died aged 63: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34133145 He died after a heart attack some time ago. Their biggest hit was "Blue Lady".

Tessa Ransford, founder of the Scottish Poetry Library, has died at 77 of cancer: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34133145

Dutch model Yfke Sturm had an accident with a motorized surfboard and is now "fighting for her life": http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/09/dutch-model-yfke-sturm-seriously-injured-in-sea-accident/

Statistically, it's a probability of around 40%, according to U.S. social security statistics. Hmm, could be the closest one ever got, except for that team that missed Norman Wisdom's death by a year - oh, and the one banking on Ariel Sharon, that must have been a frustrating wait. Edit: Hmm, I had forgotten I had picked Oliver Sacks here. Made my decision not to choose him for Shaun's deadpool even sillier.

Wow, Craaaaaazyyyyyy. Actually, this is not the first time I heard of her unusual behavour, but I can't recall what else I heard.

Cranberries' singer Dolores O'Riordan too sick to attend court: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220727/Cranberries-singer-ill-attend-court-Dolores-O-Riordan-receiving-residential-medical-care-following-alleged-air-rage-incident-New-York-flight.html

50 years old today!! I hope he celebrates it massively.

Tour interrupted out of health worries: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/03/motorhead-cancels-us-show-amid-health-fears-for-frontman-lemmy Apparently, Lemmy had a bad case of altitude sickness.

I'm not sure if immortality is a blessing or a curse. However, both immortality and death are pretty intimidating because they both last forever. Maybe the best solution is to be aware that your soul will survive but your identity will be wiped out, so you have a fresh life and an empty mind again. I do think that there might be astonishing medical successes this century, like extending the human life span by a century or so, until the next biological problem appears. The current generation of billionaires, the Google brothers or Peter Thiel are investing billions in fighting death. I could imagine something happening by 2060-70 and I wonder if I would like to stay in the shape of an 80-year old for decades.

Howard Hughes Also Frank Herbert to write the true 7th Dune book.

Blondell Cummings, who constructed choreographies from everyday activities like cooking, has died of cancer at 70: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/arts/dance/blondell-cummings-dancer-of-lifes-everyday-details-dies-at-70.html?_r=0 Her most famous creation was "Chicken Soup".

Death rumours spreading fast and being shot down: http://www.zimeye.com/mugabe-has-died-rumour-triggers-storm/

Surgery has happened and it went well: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/altkanzler-im-krankenhaus-helmut-schmidt-erfolgreich-am-bein-operiert/12270108.html(link in german) They say he can leave the hospital in two days.

French director Pascal Chaumeil, dead of cancer at 54: http://www.screendaily.com/news/heartbreakerdirector-pascal-chaumeil-dies-aged-54/5092304.article?referrer=RSS His most successful movie was "Heartbreaker" (L'Arnacoeur).

Helmut Schmidt might actually be the oldest internationally prominent german, and the oldest one whose death would receive universal domestic coverage. Former president Walter Scheel is a couple of months behind. 96 years is not a very high age for this category, but I guess it's only fair after Luise Rainer died at 105. But there the paradox was that Luise Rainer might have been more famous abroad than in Germany, where she was mostly forgotten. I guess Rainer achieved the highest age of any Oscar winner, but I am not sure.

I hope that doesn't mean he will have his German citizenship revoked. Hehe yes, and Schmidt is a rather serious person anyway, only allowing himself a smile if he wants to imply some politically incorrect thought. One of his most famous quotes is: "If a politician has a vision, he should go to the doctor."

"He can already smile again": http://www.bild.de/politik/inland/helmut-schmidt/gesundheitszustand-bessert-sich-42421790.bild.html(link in german) He's not in pain, as the doctors are discussing if the blood clot (?) can be dissolved with drugs and a catheter. Surgery would be the last, most radical option. His former hospitalization last month was caused by dehydration during the hot summer and because of the exhaustion after a procedure to change his pacemaker batteries. There was a second minor procedure apart from that, but they don't specify what it was.