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Spot on, apart from the 'fat'.

If its the end, he'd go to one of the main palaces and then the entire family would flock in - big tell tale sign. I mean, the end is coming soon-ish, by default (guy is 97 soon after all) but it doesn't feel necessarily imminent.

I am fascinated by names, and how they are dictated by fashion. I have nothing against the name Barbara, but I was at school with a few and the names of my generation will take another generation or so to come back into favour. See also Susan, Sandra, Linda etc. People tend to avoid the names of their parents' and grandparents' generations, but go back one more and those names suddenly become cool. Names like Wilfred, Alfie, Arthur are all the rage now. They were 'old man' names to people my age.

I have nothing in particular against the name Barbara, except for the fact that David Mitchell and Victoria Coren named their daughter Barbara. She is now about 3 years old. And called Barbara. Who the fuck names a baby Barbara in this day and age? A pair of cunts, that’s who.

I don't like names with "eth" in them. Beth -sounds like somebody with a lisp throwing up. Ethan - makes me think of methane. Seth - a poisonous snake. Megan because it sounds ugly, clunky and robotic. Even worse when it's spelt Meghan. What is the point of that 'h'? You-neek names. I know of a Jazmyn and an Aaleigha. Enough said.

he looks like shit tbf

Or spell it!

Duly inserted. Happy to oblige.

Came in here to post this. Never met a Tim who wasn't a cunt.

This. Not least because it comes across as if your child is special and by association you are. They aren't and you're not. Everyones child is special to them, that's enough. This goes double for 'slebs picking ludicrous names....Apple, Fifi Trixibelle, Kal-El, etc etc. Get a grip.

Don't forget Lord Percy.

you forgot to add for 1960. How many people would name their daughter Brenda or Connie or Janice or Rhonda? Or their son Douglas, Dennis or Raymond? As for Madison, I'll give you that the rise in use for a girl's name was triggered by Splash, but your assertion that it wasn't a name at all is incorrect. Wikipedia: As a masculine given name, Madison can be found within the top 1,000 names for boys in the United States up until about 1952. Madison returned to the top 1,000 ranked names for boys in 1987, remaining there through 1999, and it also was the 858th-most-common name for boys in 2004, but it remains uncommon as a masculine given name.[3] Even one of Thomas Jefferson's bastard sons was named Madison.

The music -- and sexually harassing women -- stopped for Arthur Freed 45 years ago (78).

Dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'Connor_(actor) I can't say I'll be mourning him. He was probably the worst adult actor to appear in a M*A*S*H episode.

Rob

There’s an obit in our local paper for her because she lives just down the road, and that’s the first time I’d heard of her. Stories like this used to elicit a sliver of sympathy but there are so many ‘ooo look at me I’m dying’ that I find it hard to give a shit any more.

Presume you mean Deathlist candidates! It did get me thinking though; about 55.3 million people die each year and as we're only on the 102nd day of the year, by my reckoning 39,846,301 souls will succumb between now and 2019. Also think I worked out that to get a clean sweep on the DDP something like 2.76 million people not in the squad would die per successful team member and a 50/50 Deathlist would equate to 1.12 million other deaths for each hit. Edit - And just to add, last year's total of 254 DDP sucesses represented 0.00046% of all deaths for the year. Apologies for drifting off topic.

Yes, you are

I'm ornithophobic and pteronophobic so perhaps that explains it.

Don't fret drol, I feel like Le Duc Anh is going to settle things very soon.

Obligatory Blondie video

Seems we all missed this, but she died about a week ago now, and nobody noticed for some reason...

Not quite a decade, but I think you might be referring to this little number:

I do think it'd be interesting if we set up a running list of survivors of classic films and/or the last survivor of films where everyone, as far as we can tell, is deceased. Though not sure how those James Kelly "almost certainly dead but can never be proven" types could be tackled. I remember there being an old post like that on the forum but that has to be a decade old by now.