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Here's someone for us, the notable undertaker OBE Barry Albin-Dyer, is dead at 64: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11678846/Barry-Albin-Dyer-undertaker-obituary.html His firm was responsible for the repatriation and funerals of members of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hurts so good? The guy with the pancreasburster? Edit: Or maybe "Oh no! Not again!" (from Spaceballs)

Many older threads on the forum concern people who are already dead, but they do not show it with the "dead" marker, if you know what I mean, for example, Prince Rainier of Monaco on page 57 or Howard Baker on page 56. Boo!

Mary Cherry, journalist and broadcaster who became the first female head of Oxfam, is dead at 91: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/mary-cherry It already happened in May, but now there's the obit.

Actor-turned-screenwriter Jill Hyem who scripted the ambitious TV series Tenko is dead to cancer at 78: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/jon-hassell-words-music-podcast/

Ah thanks, I had forgotten about it. I searched "soap opera" and found nothing.

Is it time to start considering one of my favorite artists, jazz/world music musician, and collaborator of Brian Eno, Jon Hassell? Here he is sitting down for an interview looking a bit like Fidel Castro: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/jon-hassell-words-music-podcast/ Also, two weeks ago he was supposed to play at the Hamburg ElbJazz festival but canceled his appearance due to a hospitalization - which is the second health scare he's seen this year.

If Robert Mugabe ever dies, the Death List might replace him with Charles Taylor of Liberia who just had a hernia operation: http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/news/7657-taylor-hospitalized

That classic sitcom "As The World Turns". Yeah, more a soap than a sitcom. But there was no thread for it. I thought "Hollywood Possibilities" was a bit much. Surprised there isn't a Soap Opera thread, you should definitely launch one with this. SC Feel free to do it. I'm too lazy right now to start the thread with a list of suggestions.

Kelly Osbourne hospitalized after a poisonous spider bite, and being forced to watch a penis diagram in the waiting room: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11466471

That classic sitcom "As The World Turns". Yeah, more a soap than a sitcom. But there was no thread for it. I thought "Hollywood Possibilities" was a bit much.

Ah, now I get it! And the photo here as well... http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2014/index.html

I was wondering if Tories might try to sabotage the vote by paying £3 each and voting in huge numbers for Corbyn. If this happened in conjunction with a leftie online campaign for Corbyn, it might be doable. . It would make the Government's next 5 years much easier if they were up against him. Ah, in America it's called "ratfucking". It's generally beleived that Nixon did something like that to have an easy opponent in 1972. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill did the same in her election in 2012 and was successful in getting a nutjob opponent she managed to defeat easily (Todd Akin).

Ok, the search function didn't show anything.... John Colenback of "As the World Turns" is dead at 79: http://www.inquisitr.com/2176183/john-colenback-former-star-of-as-the-world-turns-dies-at-79/ He already died in May, so yes, it's another death to make the news veeery slowly (unless I've missed something).

The 'Soy King' of Brazil, Olacyr de Moraes, is dead at 84: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3126948/Soy-King-Brazil-Olacyr-Moraes-dies-84.html Another 'from rags to riches' story.

Wow, this guy is incredible. Gets himself elected despite a massive corruption scandal, steps down less than a week later and takes back his word less than two weeks later? Man, just make up your mind and f%*k off already. I guess the football federations of Europe and the Americas should just secede from FIFA and found a new international organization without these corrupt African and Asian countries still backing Blatter. These teams are only fillers in the World Cups anyways. (Their only major result was a 4th place from Korea in 2002, and they shouldn't be proud about that, since they had to cheat to get there...) Sepp Blatter reminds me a lot of leftist leaders in poor countries, like Hugo Chavez or Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand. They like to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor which gives them their power base among these groups (like Sepp Blatter and the Asian and African countries), but the problem is that they have to break the laws of their countries to do that, and they establish patronage systems and get called "corrupt" by the richer people or countries who get ripped off. It's always the same mechanism. Nevertheless, the "System Blatter" went too far when it gave the World Cup to Russia and Qatar, who were not "poor countries that needed it". I cannot get quite as outraged about the (likely) corruption in 2010 than about the one in 2018 and 2022. In other news, Chuck Blazer has been a mole since 2013: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/15/chuck-blazer-fifa-ban-undercover-back-taxes-plea-deal So this recent scandal cannot kill him off more quickly than his undercover mission has done since 2013. And also, Switzerland is now investigating the story itself: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/17/fifa-investigation-53-cases-money-laundering-swiss-attorney-general

Humm, the first death I can definitely remember was that of Freddie Mercury, I think. I was 8 years old already. Edit: No I was nine already... Hmm, seems like the late 80s were relatively free of important deaths in Germany.

Fuck knows why but that 'philatelic' word gave me a mental picture of some old fella looking after the Queens Dildos. Well what gets me is that title, or even a single word of that ostentatious title, appear nowhere in the link provided. Is this a family member, GCR, or neighbour or close friend maybe? SC Google and wikipedia are your friends.

The Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection from 1995 to 2003, Charles Wyndham Goodwyn, is dead at 81: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/191726/goodwyn A real obit will probably appear in the Telegraph (and only there) soon.

Just because I initially thought you were talking about Harper Lee... I wonder why there was no "Which Lee dies first?" thread.

Bhumibol

He met a religious figure last week, but no pictures were released: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/06/13/fidel-castro-meets-with-america-rev-joan-campbell/

Announces comeback: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2015/0612/596206/jake-the-snake-roberts-announces-comeback/

Ethel Semser, an american soprano player who only started to work as an opera singer in Paris in her 30s, is dead 98: http://slippedisc.com/2015/06/late-blooming-paris-soprano-has-died-at-98/

One would think a diet of bread and water would do wonders for her condition. And, sorry to be pedantic and that, but...her legal problems simply motivated her to put on weight. Nobody actually tied her down and shoved the food in. Indeed. One is supposed to jump to the quick and clean conclusion that, yeah, she consoled herself with food or something like that. But then how does that actually happen? She sits in her kitchen or living room and eats a pizza, then she cries, then she eats another pizza, stares at her mail, eats another pizza... I mean, eating is not like crack cocaine.