I’m opening this one because I think it doesn’t exist yet. Also I put it in The Temp because I’m not very familiar with anything outside it and can’t find a proper place for this thread. So you guys didn’t care about this one? Dolores O’Riordan, January 15th, 46 years old. [image] Dolore…

[image] Dr_Milker: . . . Philip Roth. You guys beat me to it. Dumb me, I didn’t even see you guys’ posts, because I was belatedly responding to the Dolores O’Riordan post, so I thought I was the one breaking the news. Arrogant me, too, because I wasn’t sure anybody on the board would even k…

[image] Charlie_Jack: Arrogant me, too, because I wasn’t sure anybody on the board would even know who Philip Roth was, or at least I didn’t think they would think him noteworthy. No need to beat yourself up about it…at least we’re all still alive!

My excuse is that I’ve been distracted lately by the thought of minty-tasting fried cuttlefish.

Charlotte Fox , survivor of the 1996 Mt. Everest climb that was the subject of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, died on May 24. She didn’t fare too well in the book, where she came off as entitled and willing to endanger others because of it. From a fall on a staircase in her home. [image]

Koko the Gorilla, 46 [image] Koko The Famous Sign Language 'Talking' Gorilla Has Died Koko the gorilla, famous for learning how to speak using sign language with her human trainer, has died at the age of 46. “Koko touched the lives of millio

[image] Koko also ripped a sink out of the wall once, and when confronted by her keepers, blamed it on her kitten, signing “the cat did it.”

[image] DrewC: Is that a picture of her cat? [image]

That one went over your head like a gorilla-tossed sink.

[image] DrewC: That one went over your head like a gorilla-tossed sink. I was going to type some witty reply, but the picture of the kitten was too cute.

The Morgue 2018

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Koko the Gorilla, 46

Anthony Bourdain dead at 61