Casualties of '07 (this year's dead)

[terminallyrelaxed]

Yeah yeah, Alouicious Barnstable McGrew, that famed wit who once told a joke to someone who once co-wrote an Archers episode has died, Big Hairy.
Lets try and make this year about interesting and useful people. If Gervais cops it I don't want to hear a peep, capiche?
Save your mawkish sentimentality for the Comedy Chat I Always Liked Him
Really, Honest I Did triubte thread. I'm only pulling your leg. Yes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6237013.stm

The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack.

"He was a self-made man who developed an epoch-making instant noodle product and spread it to all corners of the world,"

Never heard of the old coot, but how's that for interesting and useful?