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Could you expand on that?

Sorry, make that Motorhead guitarist and two people still alive.

"Anthropocentrism is is the belief that human beings are the most significant entity of the universe." One day Rad is going to subconsciously put that into a school exam and Deathlist will be responsible for his subsequent university career.

Love the first draft of the "celebrities we've lost this year" galleries. Motorhead guitarist, trans BB contestant nobody remembers and someone who's still alive, what a trinity.

Be careful in making this assumption (read don't add Eileen Derbyshire to your 2019 longlist just yet), Eileen Derbyshire is a notoriously private woman, she's only giving a handful of interviews in her entire life, rarely attends awards ceremonies etc and views herself as an old school actor who manages to keep the job separate from her life. It's perfectly possible that Eileen Derbyshire is absolutely dandy and enjoying a healthy and long retirement to come and wrote herself out in this way and told bosses she was only taking a break to avoid having to do the inevitable "Goodbye Emily" tour (which would have included a documentary, appearances on all the morning TV programmes and possibly a homily at the soap awards - for someone who hates publicity a bit of a pain in the neck).

Goddamn the media's having a mare recently. Fast Eddie Clarke will be dancing down the streets next.

illustrious company I find myself in. With other Halls of fames having plaques, honours boards, handprints in concrete and suchlike, I think an old graveyard somewhere, with a headstone for each winner poking up through the weeds would be wonderful. Would like to take the opportunity to thank all those who put their own time and effort into running the various deathly games. As someone who has run on line games and competitions on different subjects, I know just how time consuming and involved they can get.

Aye, something along the lines of... 'Which four letter name is shared by an Egyptian goddess, a network routing protocol, a dog from Downton Abbey and a terrorist organisation?'

If he subconsciously puts 'is is' into a school exam then I'd be rather concerned.

And to think they call folk on this forum vultures!

Oh, what's that bit in Yes Minister again? REPORTER - How about attributing it to "sources close to the Minister". HACKER - Hang on, I don't want everyone knowing it was me!

Mary Wilson has reached the grand age of 102 today!

I'm a generous soul and there's been no objections, Sir C, so let's plough on with what you have. To all: Remember I'm cutting the subs out as of Sunday. So if any of your team have died in 2017 and are brought to my attention before then (except those I have already subbed), last chance to get them subbed. And a leaderboard is a-coming soon. Yes, already. So much for sitting back until June....

Got a new avatar. For those who don't know the old one, it was this. This new avatar is quite remarkable, as it has never been seen on the internet. Today it was announced that a long lost scene from a Stan Laurel film was uncovered in the archives of the Fries Film Museum in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. About 5 miles from where I live. This scene was from the silent movie "Detained". Laurel had yet to form the legendary duo with Oliver Hardy. The scene involves an inmate who is thrown trough a wall. he subsequently and by pure accident lands his head in a noose and his neck is stretched way longer than possible. Copies of the film were usually cut short for home media and this scene was thought lost forever. So here's the avatar. A never seen before picture of mr. Stan Laurel, before he worked with Hardy. 16 minutes are now known of the film that had an original lengt of 20 minutes. These 16 minutes, including this scene, was uploaded to youtube.

Unless it's a question about Isis.

Oh you beat me to it! That was a fun waste of 15 minutes of my life! Rather strangely none of his Appointment forms show the day in June - hence why it shows as June 1946 rather than a specific date - I can't think of any good reason for withholding that information.

Correction. Some of these people lose 6+ DPs a year. Hi!

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Legendary British presenter and singer Des O'Connor is 86 today and has recently been ill according to the news.

Anyone else spotted her potential for the Scrabble thread?

Cough.... Betty Driver thread SC.....

Haha - love it! So on our Yewtree Pointless special tonight we have On Podium 1 - Two former DJs Dave Lee Travis, who mainly got found not guilty but was given a 3 month suspended sentence for a bit of adult indecent assault, and Paul Gambaccini, total dodgepot who was not prosecuted so we must presume that he's not as dodgy as he appears. On Podium 2 - Two Coronation Street stars who have both attracted the wrong kind of publicity following Operation Yewtree, Bill Roache and Michael Le Vell, however both cleared of any wrongdoing. Hopefully they have been able to 'soap' away any nasty stains from the experience. On Podium 3 - Two men who like a bit of a laugh, Freddie Starr and Jim Davidson - nothing wrong with a bit of groping I hear you say and the court agreed. On Podium 4 - Two real characters of TV who audiences have enjoyed for years (young girls in their changing rooms less so) but who are both making their comeback appearances tonight after some time away from our screens, Rolf Harris (found guilty of sexually assaulting 12 girls) and Stuart Hall (found guilty of sexually assaulting 15 girls). Rolf is hoping that tonight's show will prove a big 'draw' for his former fans whilst Stuart is hoping to be a 'knockout'. We were going to have a special bonus podium tonight but unfortunately Max Clifford and Gary Glitter were both unable to make it. And now there's only one more person to introduce, always got his fingers in a lot of pies, and those fingers are massive, it's Richard Osman. So let's get on with the show. Round One - name a Cliff Richard Top 20 hit............................

Wont be the first suspicious death in Paisley.