I thought that - but the moderator is American - so I was thinking the criteria[on] was 'UK obituary' as in reasonable fringes of fame..? No, you’re right - list includes uk soap star...
Yeeeah...(wise voice) All things considered I’d rather mess around on a writers’ forum than a death game.
I'm impressed with Herman Wouk. He published his most recent (last?) book at the age of 100. A lot of people live to be 100, but not many are still working at that age.
R.I.P. Kristoff St. John. St. John was treated for depression just last week and was found dead in his home over the weekend. His exact cause of death is TBD but is thought to be a possible alcohol overdose. People may scoff at the fact that Kristoff St. John was an actor on a soap, but his role of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless was highly influential. His character, Neil Winters, was one of the first African-American Fortune 500 executives on television and helped change the way African-American characters were portrayed. For his portrayal of Neil Winters from 1991-2019, St. John earned ten NAACP Image Awards, two Emmy Awards, and eleven Daytime Emmy nominations. Kristoff St. John was 52 and has two surviving children. His son Julian died of suicide in 2014. Spoiler: This is what Depression looks like. Fuck depression.
Opportunity has failed to respond to one last call from NASA. There will be a press conference in about ninety minutes to declare her dead. This makes me as sad or sadder than any other death in this thread.
I bet that rover is a damn turncoat. You know it works fine; it's just that some Martian kid found it and said, "Mommy! I found one of those rovers from Earth! Can I keep it?" And she said, "Sure, honey. Just don't turn it into a weapon or anything." And the kid took it home and souped it up a lot and is preparing to send it back to us to take over our planet as we speak. It will call itself O-Nity because that's all that's left of the paint on it. You can't trust rovers.
Same, it makes me wonder about it’s future. I wonder if it’ll sit where it is and remain buried for billions of years or if some curious future civilization will find it and ship it to a museum somewhere on the planet.
That is very sad, and especially so because we have a particularly good naked eye view of Mars from Earth this week. R.I.P., and thank you for your service, Oppy.
George Anthony Mendonsa, the sailor who is believed to have spontaneously kissed/sexually assaulted a passing nurse at the announcement of VJ Day, has died at the age of 95.
Of course Lagerfeld died. How could anyone survive that collar? You'd have to be Don Cherry or someone that beef-jerky-tough.
The near-headlock he has her in is especially disturbing. Also disturbing: the fact that the photo, and the sculptures made of it (in recent years, no less) are called "Unconditional Surrender". Looks like he'd just survived a car accident. Karl Lagerfeld was...unique.
Aw, that's sad. The Monkees used to be on TV after school when I was a kid. Loved them. They're still one of my guilty pleasure bands.
He's in hell. All of the Monkeys are going to hell. I'll be with them someday and be forced to listen to them for all eternity. Think I might jump in front of a bus today and hasten that.
It was a hipster reference for my hipsters actually. Yes, I too suffered Monkeys every Saturday morning like the Banana Splits. Still, good memories of a pub musician and his call/response to this beauty, idiots dancing on the tables fantasy:
Wow, your hatred of the Monkees runs deep. Let's test that. Is it more than, like, The Partridge Family? ABBA? ETA: Here, Homes, just sing this to whoever's got ya down: Nah, seriously, I hope your day goes better.
