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Frank Piasecki, who invented the Chinook helicopter has died at the age of 88

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Can't believe I never heard of him. Thanks for the link, I checked out some more stuff. What a talented and funny man.

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Scot Halpin who stood in for Keith Moon during one Who gig has died at the age of 54.

 

Halpin was in the audience when Keith Moon passed out after consuming a large quanity of horse tranquilizers.

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Vuk 'It's pronounced f**k' Obradovic who was a top cat former Yugoslav army general who helped overthrow Slobodan Milosevic and who was a founder and president of the Social Democratic party 'for a little while before being forced to resign on result of a sex scandal' is dead at 61. :D

 

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixQPgqE...2JgswQD8UPKC282

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Vuk 'It's pronounced f**k' Obradovic ...

 

Sorry to be a bore, but it's pronounced with a "vee" sound rather than an "ef", and the "u" is between the "oo" in "look" and "oo" in "cool". [but maybe, of course, you pronounce f**k oddly]

I'll add to the vast educational worth of my post by also noting that the name Vuk means "wolf".

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Prolific US actor David Groh has died of kidney cancer aged 68.

 

Will be remembered by many (well, me anyway) as Rhoda's boyfriend / husband Joe in the sitcom "Rhoda", from whom she later separated then got a divorce.

 

IMDB entry

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Finally another Khmer Rouge commander, Sam Bith, who was imprisoned for the 1994 execution of three western tourists in Cambodia, was reported in December 2006 to be seriously ill with diabetes. This article from 2002 mentions that has has bone cancer.

 

Sam Bith is dead

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7 spectators at an illegal drag race.

When will people learn? High heels, make-up, and speed are a dangerous

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IRA 'hard man' Brendan Hughes.

 

 

Multiple organ failure, good enough for the bastard! :rolleyes:

 

Funny how he apparently inspired the hunger strikes, yet dies 27 years later. Reminds me of

'Life of Brian' when People's Front of Judea head Reg didn't participate in the kidnap plan, due to

a bad back... :lol:

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Fatty Shum...dead :rolleyes:

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Richard Burton, former 'gentleman' racing driver who survived a serious toasting in 1965.

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Bloomberg and Reuters...check.

 

DDP eligible UK obit....let's wait and see. (slips Guardian obit writer a few quid)

 

 

I think a Reuters UK obit should secure you the points.

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Bloomberg and Reuters...check.

 

DDP eligible UK obit....let's wait and see. (slips Guardian obit writer a few quid)

 

 

I think a Reuters UK obit should secure you the points.

 

I couldn't find her name on the DDP list... :huh:

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I couldn't find her name on the DDP list... :unsure:

 

Surely Shum mishtake? Try Sum of this instead... :huh:

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