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Quickly skimming the BBC News website this morning, I came across the following, and the validity of the date can be checked from the other news stories surrounding it. This is just a cut'npaste of today's most read list.
Most read
• 1 Sunny Leone wows web in grilling over porn past
• 2 Comic actor Leslie Nielsen dies
• 3 Asylum housing doors to be repainted
• 4 'Terrorist house' schoolboy quizzed
• 5 Palin backs Trump for US president
• 6 Gunmen attack Pakistan university
• 7 IS group confirms 'Jihadi John' death
• 8 Winter's lowest temperature recorded
I immediately thought no, it can't be true - somebody on CP would have mentioned it in the lounge before now. 
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I saw it too and thought of mentioning it, however I then thought that only a image of it would convince people so I didn't go to the effort that you have gone to 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Oh no! If its on the BBC website it must be true.
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Interesting.
I'm subscribed to one of their RSS feeds, and every once in a while an old article get re-posted for some reason, so my reader says there's a few items I haven't read even though I'm keeping up to date, so I have to scroll back to find items that are weeks/months old to mark them as read.
However in this case, this wasn't one of them.
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Maybe after Lemmy, Rickman, and Bowie there were no deaths today so they figured they would do a rerun of an old death?
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Sander Rossel wrote: there were no deaths today
There must have been a few?
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In the Dutch news he died in 2010. So he might be alive somewhere else on the world. Stupid timezones....
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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digimanus wrote: In the Dutch news he died in 2010. So he might be alive somewhere else on the world. Stupid timezones....
Should be around 2020 then in the rest of the world
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So when an atomic bomb drops on the Netherlands I should you to your country. I have 10 more years then...
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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He's down to #4 now that all the CPians have stopped checking.
veni bibi saltavi
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Back up to #2 again!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The story was at the top of my Facebook feed last night.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Looks like it is one of the jokes doing social media. People are tweeting it and other people who didn't realise he had already died are tweeting their 'grief'.
Good to see the rest of Social Media is 5 years behind the Lounge.
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Leslie died? OMG! Is it drugs?
I never finish anyth
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It is well known (or not) that Mr. Nielson practices Schrödinger method acting. I hear he was is quite good at it. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I just submitted my application for Google in Irvine, and I'm curious to know if there just happens to be a CPian in the hood all about the G to the double O that has worked there before.
Jeremy Falcon
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They have a very long, tedious interview process. Think outside the box, when they start asking you to solve problems.
I see you decided to move to southern california.
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Well poo. Here I was thinking I could just sleep my way to the top. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Slacker007 wrote: I see you decided to move to southern california.
And yeah man, I moved here for acting. But the teacher I'm studying with wants me to train up for a year or so. Which means I shall be requiring a normal job. Figured as long as I'm looking, hey why not Google ya know.
Jeremy Falcon
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That's cool. I attended Conrad Studios in Burbank for a few years, after high school. Realized I wasn't Tom Cruise. Gave up acting.
I think you actually have a better chance of working for Google then making it big in Hollywood. Good luck. I mean that. 
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Glad to know we're kindred spirits. Although I personally think I have a better chance of making it in Hollywood than with Google. Guess you'd just have to know me to really see that.
Buuuuuut homey needs a normal job for now. So thanks for the good wishes.
Jeremy Falcon
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Man! What box are you talking about?! 
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