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'Match Game's' Brett Somers dies at 83

I am frequently mocked for my obituary posts. They are frequently about media personalities, particularly those that figured prominently into game shows. I have no good defense to this attack.

With the passing of Brett, the three people who made Match Game what it was are no longer with us. (Richard Dawson, while influential, left the show for the spin-off Family Feud in 1978.)

Somewhere in the afterlife, they're having one hell of a ___.

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Dan Dickinson is a 28 year old living in Astoria, Queens, New York City. He works in the strange intersection of collaborative technologies, education, and medicine. His passions include finding unexpected paths and connections, music/rhythm video games, and backchannels. This has been his primary (vivid) weblog since February of 2000, seeing infrequent but overzealous updates. [more]