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Grim, iirc, says it got lost somewhere between moves. He is, literally, the only person who posts here now you could ask? Harry Mac suggested once they never actually got round to doing a Deathlist that year. Might have been joking. Dunno. In short - not a single scooby snack.

I'm pretty sure deaths comes in waves. I expect a pretty big wave soon mixed with old folk and a few terminally ill folk.

Aye, but you keep telling us it's beautiful

I know who Loretta Lynn is but couldn't name any of her songs or albums.I would not have said Pat Harrington JR or Joseph Wapner were famous enough for the DL but then again I wouldnt have said that Gord Downie or Errol Christie were so what do I know!

2015 was at 2/50 right now, just saying.

Well the average life expectancy for a 90 year old (someone born in 1927) is 4.4 years (4 for a man, 4.8 for a woman). As this is a last man standing game I would presume that no-one will be picking people who are already ill and therefore it is likely that the average will be exceeded (even if the picks were random this is still probably true). In 2011 if you were already 90 you had a 9.3% chance of reaching 100 - I doubt that has changed much. So if there are 11 people in the game you can expect it to last about 10 years.Chances of reaching 100

On this day in 1994 Hollywood actor George Peppard died aged 65 from pneumonia whilst receiving lung cancer treatment. Peppard in his younger years was touted as the next great thing and was quite a dreamy handsome heartthrob. Born in Detroit in October 1928 to a father who was a building contractor and a mother who was an opera singer -Peppard studied method acting under famous New York acting mentor Lee Strasberg. His first big film role was in Home from the hill which was directed by Vincente Minnelli and Robert Mitchum played his character's father. His most famous role has to be in legendary iconic film Breakfast at Tiffanys as Paul Varjak. His other film's include The Carpet Baggers, How the west was won and Pendulum. After a spell of financial woes and mounting debt George took on TV roles. He actually auditioned and accepted the role of Blake Carrington on Dynasty but kept on clashing with the powers that be on the show including Richard and Esther Shapiro and was subsequently sacked and the role went to John Forsthye. To a younger generation of TV viewers his most famous role was as Hannibal the leader of The A team, a hugely successful action adventure series of the 1980's.

I have liked this post purely for the use of the word 'harridans'. My old man thinks I'm the only person in the world to ever say it, I can now prove him wrong. Thank you and well done!

Worst bowel movement ever!

Just wondering if anyone knows the story behind the lost list of 1988?How was it lost?And does anyone go back far enough to remember any of its details?

I would say she is famous, yes. I've no idea who Judge Wapner is though, and I'd never heard of Pat Harrington until he was a DDP hit.

Grim's about the only person left who knows. They lost it or just didn't get round to it that year. One of the two, it's completely lost to time immemorial.

Dan Devine died on this day 15 years ago, aged 77.

Tbh wouldn't want to change the vote but there's so much tottering talent we're surely due a score pretty soon.

On this day May 9th in 2012 British hairstylist and businessman Vidal Sassoon died aged 84 in Los Angeles. Vidal was probably the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world. Born to Jewish parent's (mother of Ukrainian descent, Greek Father) in Hammersmith London Vidal had a very difficult poverty stricken childhood. His father abandoned the family and his mother eventually was so unable to cope bringing him up in poverty as a single mother that she put him into an "orphanage". His mother who visited him in care encouraged him to take up a hairdressing apprenticeship. He became known in part for repopularising the bob cut and by the 1970s his reputation for innovative haircuts and styling established, he moved to Los Angeles. He was a great commercial success and established a worldwide chain of hairstyling salons as well as numerous hair treatment products such as hair gel. He outlived one child who died from a drug inducded heart attack and disinherited one of his son's who he was estranged from for year's.

Anyone opposed to a political awareness test for voting might reconsider after reading this. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-turning-off-labour-voters-in-slough-huffpost-uk-edelman-focus-group-finds_uk_5904443ce4b05c39767fcab0 Includes such gems as (and I'm paraphrasing) "the NHS is in crisis and the education systems fucked, but I'm going to vote Conservative because I've bought the lie that austerity is necessary." and "we'll she's a women so she's automatically better than the men" (ignoring the legacy our last damn-awful women prime minister left). oh and "i've always been a socialist but I'm voting for May" and "May's a bit socialist" (throwing out one populist economic policy on energy pricing to win pensioners votes, seen as there the only people left not disillusioned with the whole shitshow does not make a Conservative a fucking socialist), oh and the woman who voted to leave the eu last year despite the fact it was affecting her life so much that "she didn't even know we were in it." Also the socialist who thinks Corbyn's gone too far, presumably he sees Blair as some sort of socialist hero rather than the neoliberal stooge he clearly was. What happened to our country. The country that elected Clement Attlee instead of Churchill in 1945 because it recognised the justice and the economic planning that could improve the country after the war. The electorate are fucking thick, as Brexit has shown. Idiots should not be allowed to vote. Maybe an electoral test with the following questions should be completed before someones allowed to vote: Name the leader of the governing party, Name the leader of the main opposition party. Name the electoral system being used for the election. Name your local member of parliament. Name your constituency. Name the lower chamber of the UK parliament. Name the upper chamber of the UK parliament. Name the street where the Prime Minister lives. Name the Prime Ministers from 1945 to the most recent election in order, giving each election they won by month and year next to their name. Name at least three policies for each of the parties you can vote for in your constituency. Which prime minister did the night of the long knives happen under? Which prime minister resigned as a result of the suez crisis? Which prime minister resigned due to losing an eu referendum? Which prime minister did the latest Iraq war begin under? Which prime minister did the poll tax riots happen under? The first ten questions should be public knowledge before-hand but filled out in the polling booth and checked before the person is allowed to vote. The last 5 should be 5 equally recognisable events that have happened in post-war politics. The vast majority of the British populace should be able to pass that test in my opinion. And obviously phones should be banned from the polling booths, with signal jammers for good measure. (Just in case anyone is misunderstanding, I don't genuinely feel this should be implemented for the obvious equality reasons, but occasionally you do see the argument for voter knowledge tests)

Hugh Hefner also became a Dad at 65.

I originally voted for Michael

FTFY. There, your story just got more interesting now...

Yeah his new 'life' partner is size 0, about 7 feet tall, habitually dressed in black and loves to wield archaic agricultural tools.

Because then I can't do my best David Dimbleby on election night.

On holiday.... It is more like he has gone on an episode of Escape to the Country and has now settled into a spacious Devon farmhouse with excellent scope for improvements. He will be far too busy creating a decking veranda to spend any time reaping.

Peter Falk

Maurice Sendak went where the dead things are - 5 years

He could also do so badly he stays on as leader ie down to 20 odd MPs, so the renomination threshold becomes 2, and Abbott and another don't let him resign.