Another non-lineman dying young. Dammit.
And yet, Zsa Zsa keeps on ticking.
Keith Richards must share his heroin with her.
Pinetop Perkins at 97, was on my list last year. Three points I blew there.
Olympic gymnast Nikolai Andrianov dies at 58
Very First Spelling Bee Winner dies of hard-to-spell disease at age 97. Okay, it’s not that hard to spell, but I’m a terrible speller. Corpse is easy to spell though. And this bee champ is one now.
FTA:
Frank Neuhauser won with workd ‘gladiolus’ in 1925, met Calvin Coolidge
Bold added. 
Don’tcha just love the irony.
Liz Taylor has died.
Trying to find a link here, still breaking apparently.
NBC : Congestive Heart Failure.
And NBC is as we speak, airing the Obit Reel.
Man. And we are morbid? Really?
She played Rebecca in Ivanhoe, my favorite movie.
Damn.
No more morbid than the networks that keep such things and the newspapers that have obits for every famous person on the planet all ready to go.
As Stephen King, who has cheated death twice (once from heavy drug use and once when hit by a van), put it “We all owe a death.”
ETA: It gets posted almost every year in this thread that someone will tell a friend about the Deathpool and be told “That’s disgusting.” Then, when famous person dies, same friend will ask if anyone in the Pool had them.
Yes, really. They do it because it’s their job. WE do it for FUN.
Liz Taylor dead. Will her funeral be in soft focus?
I didn’t enter this year, but every other time I have, I’ve put Elizabeth Taylor on my list. Doggone it!
The news of Taylor broke right before I got in the shower. Was thinking of a friend of mine, and a conversation we had, while in the shower. The thought that he is going to ask me later today.
IIRC, I told him that I would let him know when he moves up a step in acceptance.
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Thank you Lizzie, I finally break through after going 0’fer the past couple years.