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Trying to make Spade's first hours on the job at DDP HQ that more difficult?

Now a paracorpse

I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the reaper, doing the werewolves of London, today in 1973.

Aww, that's a shame. I remember when I met him, I went for a drink with him. Stared at me in disbelief when I told him nobody north of Watford had ever heard of him. Which was true back then.

Prince Charles might disagree.

Just some statistics if anybody is interested. Top 10 countries of residence for the 100 oldest living people Japan: 26 United States: 25 France: 10 Italy: 8 United Kingdom: 6 Spain: 5 Germany: 4 Australia: 3 Canada: 3 Poland: 2 Average age at death of oldest living people by half-decade 1995-1999: 119 2000-2004: 114 2005-2009: 115 2010-2014: 115 2015-: 116 Number of oldest living people to die by year 1997: 1 1998: 1 1999: 1 2000: 1 2001: 1 2002: 4 2003: 2 2004: 1 2005: 0 2006: 2 2007: 3 2008: 1 2009: 2 2010: 2 2011: 1 2012: 2 2013: 1 2014: 0 2015: 3 2016: 1 2017: 1

Alive?

Goddamn idiot. You, not Trump, Jr. SC

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gaunt-cliff-richard-would-never-10778420 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2052385/sir-cliff-richard-age-net-worth-songs/ The second one from the sun reads like either a living obituary or a paid for puff piece to promote Cliff Richard.

From what I can gather sans a copy to hand, Bruce Welch says Cliff has lost a lot of weight since the sex accusations and looks "worryingly thin and frail".

Daily Mirror today runs with the front page headline My Fears For Frail Cliff by a member of the shadows. just saw it in a shop so no more details.

Jimmy Farrar, former frontman of Molly Hatchet, was flirting with disaster but has beaten the odds and is now recovering from two heart attacks and bypass surgery: http://wror.com/2017/07/11/former-molly-hatchet-frontman-jimmy-farrar-recovering-multiple-heart-attacks/

Japanese woman found guilty of killing her fourth husband: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/11/japanese-woman-dubbed-black-widow-kyoto-admits-poisoning-fourth/ She's also suspected to have killed two previous husbands and to have attempted to kill a former boyfriend. Up to ten men with whom she had relationships are dead. Between 2007 and 2013 she inherited roughly 6,8 million pounds.

To be honest that would be like stirring a tin of paint with a toothpick.

CA, I have a very spacious and luxurious Renault Scenic that you are welcome to bunk down in

She looked old in 77. She'll make 90 easily.

Lardy shouting through the letter box will have the same effect Spadey.

Maybe she would like a DDP team of Remoaners. 1. Vince Cable 2.

A foggy day for George Gershwin 80 years ago, aged 38.

He was right, then, though: Trump is a better choice than Ted Cruz. So is ebola, radiation sickness and black death...

This game seems content to try and produce as many "direct hit" routes to a win without producing the winner first. I like it. How many people are on "next hit wins", theoretically? Me, Toast, Ali, some others? Be a right laugh if I lose because I just used Random.org to pick my teams, and thus missed out a bunch of known ill folk on one of my specialist subjects (Who)....

I attended the garden party at Holyrood yesterday and got to see Philip up close. I'm not a royalist but I love him and was far more excited to see him than the Queen. When they arrive they came down a steep stone staircase with around twenty steps, and both managed that fine. They then split up and did a separate meet and greet circuit each for about forty minutes before going into the tea tent. I had unknowingly managed to end up on his route. It took him ages to get around but he was stopping every few feet and talking to dozens of people, so no real indication of his abilities. When he appeared in front of me he seemed in remarkably good form for a man his age. Walking and standing straight, unaided unless you count his rolled up umbrella. Shorter than I expected but I suppose he's shrunk a bit. The familiar aged skin. He appeared to have a tiny hearing aid behind his left ear, but seemed very alert and responsive in conversation. As you can see, he's also a snazzy dresser.

Saw this on my local news. I agree with Shaun, no sympathy for the knuckleheads. And on Twitter some of their fans were defending them.

Leah: Christ, after 30 verses, even I'm getting sick of fucking Kumbaya...

So, via Joey's post, the list distills into: Already Gone: 1. MTM 2. Joost 3. Rockefeller 4. Brady 5. Noakes 6. Sallis 7. Christie On the Clock (either terminally ill or so ill, news of death at any moment would not surprise*): 8. Liz Dawn 9. Jerry Lewis 10. Glen Campbell 11. Akihito 12. Ian St John 13. Bruce Forsyth 14. Nobby stiles 15. Gord Downie 16. Leah Bracknell 17. Tony Booth 18. King Michael of Romania (*Nor would they surviving into 2018, of course - vagaries of death...) 50/50rs - folk who could go this year or linger, but appear to be nearing the end: 19. Jill Gascoine (?) 20. George Bush Sr (?) 21. Gay Byrne (?) And the longterm Deathlist favourites, law of averages (and history) says two of these names will be pan breed by December 31st: 22. 2 of Kirk Douglas/Vera Lynn/Rev Billy G/Carrington/Philip/Norden/Olivia/Dole/lamotta/de Cuellar/Domino I think it'll average out to 13 or 14 out of 50. Now, watch Betty White keel over tomorrow while Booth and Downie soldier on to 2018!