ELO band members are starting to die off? Excuse me, I feel a prolonged mope coming on.
Eric Blau creator of "Jacques Brel is Alive & Well and Living in Paris and a host of other works dead at 87.
Kamila Skolimowska, who became the youngest female Olympic champion in a throwing field event when she took the gold in the hammer in 2000, has died at the age of 26. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the Polish athlete died of a pulmonary embolism after collapsing while training in Portugal.
Isn’t pairs figure skating a throwing event? Those dudes toss those pixies halfway across the rink.
Phillip Jose Farmer, author, has died at age 91.
I know this link is “only” from a newspaper from Peoria, IL but it’s all I can find right now. When it hits the big news sites I’ll update unless someone beats me to it.
Neil Gaiman reported the same news earlier on Twitter. Don’t know where he heard it.
Hope nobody swipes his grail.
Under possible new rules for next year, he isn’t dead until it has been reported by a major news outlet.
Maybe he floats in some sort of limbo until then.
If you’re on Riverworld, are you dead?
Is there a preference that we do not post until we have a link to a major news outlet? Or is it okay to post (as I did) just to point out a death?
Personally, I watch this thread not only for my own scoring, but also to keep track of celebrity deaths. (Yeah, I’m a sicko. But I’m in good company!)
You were fine. I was just twisting around a discussion that we had a few months ago as to “who counts as a celebrity”, where one suggestion was that the person’s death had to be announced by a major news organization. I twisted into their not being dead until thus announced in order to lead into a feeble reference to the opening of the first Riverworld book.
But if you were going to kill some celebrities anyway…
Wendy Richards has died.
35 points and poppin’ my cherry!
Holy carp! This is the first time I have scored points in the Death Pool! RIP, Wendy Richards… and thanks for the points. pious glance upward
Damn! It’s gettin’ to the point that watchin’ Are You Being Served makes me want to say “I see dead people.”
As has been mentioned, Wendy Richard passed away.
35 points for:
VunderBob
Ms Macphisto
Sublight
NurseCarmen
Shirley Ujest
Captain Klutz
bowler girl
MsWhatsit
CowPatty
amarone
The main list says 11 picked her, but I only found 10. Who’d I miss?
You’re right. I must have confused your name with amarone’s and though you were already on the list.
35 points for:
VunderBob
Ms Macphisto
Sublight
NurseCarmen
Shirley Ujest
Captain Klutz
bowler girl
MsWhatsit
CowPatty
amarone
amarinth