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Mike Pinder being reported dead, per his son on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1578796998999036/permalink/3660278857517496/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Spread the word with your contacts at the press @Ulitzer95, @Spade_Cooley and others. He's a DDP unique for me, and I'd rather like the points.

Former Irish international and player for Millwall, Sunderland and Bolton Wanderers and manager of Reading, Charlie Hurley, reportedly dead: https://safc.com/news/club-news/2024/april/safc-mourning-the-loss-of-charlie-hurley Incredibly, dropped by The Final Whistle from their 2023 DDP team, so @Death Impends he adds to the long list of List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_H.html#hurlec

Two of the five horses that bolted in London yesterday are in a serious condition - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68895233 Nowt on the state of the other three, so I guess their condition is "stable" (arf!)

Well, now that you've sent me to Wikipedia, the first one was Croatian Mirko Miocic. https://hr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Miočić

25/04/24 24 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie +4 24 Daft Punk — One More Time 24 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 20 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 20 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 20 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 20 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 20 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 20 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 20 Kelis — Trick Me 20 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 20 Pink — Get The Party Started 20 Coldplay — In My Place 20 Kate Nash — Foundations 20 Busted — Year 3000 20 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 20 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 20 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 20 Adele — Chasing Pavements 20 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 20 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 20 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 20 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 14 Taylor Swift — Love Story -6 08 Dido — White Flag

FB death notice for British sculptor Laurence Broderick (Wiki), aged 88.

Pure tripe. But let's move on. Time to find out what is, or rather isn't, the best No.2 of the 00s! GRAND FINAL Thu 25 Apr 24 Daft Punk — One More Time +4 20 Coldplay — Speed Of Sound 20 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 20 Kylie Minogue — On A Night Like This 20 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 20 Taylor Swift — Love Story 20 Wheatus — Teenage Dirtbag 20 Manic Street Preachers — The Love Of Richard Nixon 20 Kelis — Trick Me 20 Oasis — Stop Crying Your Heart Out 20 Pink — Get The Party Started 20 Coldplay — In My Place 20 Kate Nash — Foundations 20 Busted — Year 3000 20 Justin Timberlake — Cry Me A River 20 Razorlight — Somewhere Else 20 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight 20 Adele — Chasing Pavements 20 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 20 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 20 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 20 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. 20 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 20 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor 14 Dido — White Flag -6

Doesn’t look too good IMO.

Abdullah Badawi hospitalised in ICU with respiratory failure . Of course, despite being wheelchair-bound advanced dementia sufferer, he is in good condition and not in danger.

Helen Doan, Canada oldest person dead at 112

Woody Cook. A name that must be plagued by typos.

Some of these bans are odd. I found I was banned when I went beyond 45 degrees South earlier in the year. Given than En Passant started a Gooseberry love-in I'd just like to say I'm a big fan of DL's own enema queen too

Sadly I haven't. I'd be glad if you would check it, as I used to have access (at least) to MyHeritage records, but I haven't really got time for it lately so I cancelled the subscription last May.

A very impressive list. One has to say those born in the 1940s and beyond are generally holding up pretty well, so far. Does anyone know if Leonard Preston (who was the main star of one of the more memorable Tales of the Unexpected Episodes) but doesn't appear to be on your list is still alive? He appears to be born in 1954 but very little public information available perhaps due to this https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4425580

This has happened to me a few times. Sometimes it clears if I switch from WiFi to data.

I removed the ban on the IP that I think was the root of your issue. It was one where an asterisk was used after the first five digits so that would've banned a wide range of IPs. Try again.

Gaston Flosse hospitalised with heart problems last week, but already discharged. Looks pale and unwell.

German librarian Klaus Otto Nagorsnik suddenly dead at 69: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv-fernsehformate/gefragt-gejagt-klaus-otto-nagorsnik-ueberraschend-gestorben-66294b91c419f44c65ebbc9 Well-known for being the enemy of the participants in the German quiz show "Gefragt - gejagt". One of the few german shows I watched myself. A strangely low age for someone like him. You'd have guessed him dying at least in his 80s.

I would have had Kings Of Leon and Empire State Of Mind going through at the expense of Swift and Morrison, in all honesty. And I'm not sure whether Adele would have made my top 4 - would certainly have been close though.

In most cases I'd like for Tories to STFU ASAP. But every time Truss is in the news is so hilarious I don't think I could get tired of it if I tried.

Lord Byron died on this day 200 years ago, aged 36. - Byron's first name was George. He gained his "lord" title when he was 10 upon the death of his great-uncle William Byron- specifically, he was a baron. - One of Byron's earlier works, his poetry book Hours of Idleness, received scathing reviews from the Edinburgh Review; as such Byron would write the satirical piece English Bards and Scotch Reviewers anonymously in 1809, the same year he entered the House of Lords. - Byron's breakout book was 1812's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which Byron personally did not believe would sell well. From there, he became a star of Romantic era novels, which included The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, and The Siege of Corinth. Equally successful was his Hebrew Melodies collection of poems from 1815, which were lyrics Byron wrote to accompany music composed by Jewish composer Isaac Nathan. - Byron would leave England in 1816 due to his split from his wife, and rumors that he had an incestuous affair with his half-sister. He first went to Switzerland (where he befriended Percy and Mary Shelley), then to Italy the following year. - In 1823, he decided to assist Greece in their war of independence against the Ottoman Empire, because he wanted a life of adventure. He would use his own money to supply his own legion of troops. Byron did not die in battle- rather, he fell sick, and his condition was exacerbated due to how much blood was drained from his body (due to bloodletting). - Byron's daughter and only legitimate child was Ada Lovelace.

Don't care, virgin.

Wouldn't chemo be almost a given if it has spread? Unlikely he would be walking around with any hair still on his head (or walking around much at all in public) if it had metastasised to any huge degree.

As Dead as I Once Was 4/50 5th February 2024 Country icon Toby Keith has died aged 62 from stomach cancer. Keith’s career in country music started in 1993 when he released his first, self-titled, album that reached no.17 on the US country charts, with his single ‘Should’ve been a Cowboy’ reaching no.1 on the country charts and going 3 times platinum. In 2002 his seventh studio album ‘Unleashed’ became his first no.1 album on the regular US Billboard charts, a feat he achieved a further 3 times throughout his career. On the US country charts, in total Keith achieved 20 no.1 singles and 9 no.1 albums. A multi-talented man, he sometimes ventured into acting, opened his own chain of restaurants called ‘Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill’ and was a staunch supporter of the US Republican Party. In 2022 Keith announced that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer towards the end of the previous year and was undergoing treatment. Following his passing for the disease in February, Keith has been posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was making his first appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, at no.28.