Bomber’s Away

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Dropped Biggest Bomb Until Cleopatra
(A 5-word summary inspired by Craig, the lone Pooligan to have him)
Paul Tibbets, the man who started his aviation career dropping Baby Ruth bars before moving on to bigger payloads and helping to add a certain glow to the Greatest Generation, has died at the age of 92. Tibbets harkens back to the days when men were men and could lay waste to an entire city and never look back. In the European Theater of World War II, Tibbets was generally regarded as one of the nation’s finest fliers, and was selected to test fly the B-29 Flying Superfortress and then to modify the aircraft and train a flight crew for the Manhattan Project. On August 5, 1945, in one of history’s more Freudian moments, he honored his mother by bestowing her name on the greatest vehicle of mass destruction that he got to ride inside, laying waste to all below. That’s a half season of Criminal Minds right there. The next day he dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, jump-starting the atomic age. Although he did not relish the deaths of so many civilians, he expressed no regrets, believing that the atomic bomb prevented a protracted invasion that would have led to the deaths of thousands of Allied troops. Now he’s not saying we didn’t get our hair mussed…

Craig’s Killer’s Greatest Hits are up and atom into 8th place.

And with 26 days to go, Shawn’s Team One - Old still holds a less than 1 point lead, and there are 10 entrants within 1 hit of the lead.

In other news…
So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good night
(Props to Tom)
Werner Von Trapp, whose life story was immortalized in one of the few films where you rooted for the Nazis, has died at the age of 91. Von Trapp was the second son of Captain Georg von Trapp, and in the film The Sound of Music, Hollywood decided that Werner was a little too German, and renamed his “character” Kurt. After escaping the Nazis in Austria because they were too good to sing at Hitler’s birthday party, the von Trapps emigrated to the United States, with Werner returning to Europe as a member of the U.S. Army, before resuming the family’s musical tour after the war. He is survived by three sisters and one brother.

Hitch your Wagoner to a Stump

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The Cold Hard Facts of Death
Country fans are lucky to have each other, because misery loves company, and they’ll be drowning their sorrow on the rocks as Porter Wagoner, the country music singer best known for his pompadour and rhinestone-encrusted suits that made Liberace wince, has died at the age of 80 and is due to be buried under the green, green grass of home. His 81 charted records earned him induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002, but he may be better known for introducing Dolly Parton on his variety show and for many years was the third part of their duet.

Moolah Rouge
The Fabulous Moolah, the most famous female wrestler in history, has died at the age of 84. World Wrestling Entertainment billed her as having the longest title reign of any female athlete in history, a nearly 30 year run from 1956 to 1984, then she recaptured it and defended it while in her sixties, and continued wrestling in Bra and Panties Gauntlet matches into her eighties, ‘cause there ain’t nothing hotter than watching grannies in spandex rip off young hotties’ tops.