Braggarts! 
They had a bit on Liz Taylor being photographed with a bear last night. My thoughts: “Damn, she looks way too healthy – hey bear! Do something with those damn claws!”
Bllodthirst does not become you. 
Well, hell, I scored a big fat zero last year – the bitch owes me! 
45 points up and it’s only January.
:::::Throws a roll of toilet paper at Little Nemo::::::::::::::::::::::
Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas has died.
152 with four scorers, including the previously unannounced Yuri Stern (or Shtern). 
“Sol and Denny
working for a penny
Tryin’ t’ get a fish on the line…”
<sigh> - well, Cass is happy now, her man is with her.
There always seems to be a random professional wrassler, but it looks like no one had the foresight to choose Mr. Bam Bam Bigelow, recently deceased.
Former US Senator (1951-1969) George Smathers (D-FL) has died at 93.
E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, has died.
Well there was a bizarre piece of synchronousity… I’m working on a DP spreadsheet and the email notification of Santos L Halper’s post announcing E. Howard Hunt’s death arrived as I entered Rodd Hill’s selection of… E. Howard Hunt.
Colour me unnerved.
The Abbé Pierre, a French priest known for helping the homeless and refugees, died on Monday at 94. I don’t suppose anyone had him?
And oddly enough, Cazzle, at almost exactly the same time that you were entering that data, I learned of Mr. Hunt’s demise on the 6 o’clock news, and exclaimed to my (non-Doper) friends “all right! 12 points!”
I was going to post this earlier but I was a victim of the new upgrade. Actor Ron Carey best known for his work on Barney Miller and various Mel Brooks films died at age 71.
The linked obituary mentions Hunt’s denial of his purported involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Here’s more information on that spurious theory.
L.M. Boyd, whose newspaper column combined trivia, advice, and consumer assistance, has died at the age of 79. Known as Mike Mailway to readers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, his work was collected in such volumes as Boyd’s Book of Odd Facts, a copy of which I own.