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Take my advice. Beware of people with funny names. They aren’t likely to help you much in dead pooling. Just look at Spanky Manikan and Colin Butts. They didn’t receive a QO and make Pity Da Foolz’s lead larger. The funny name is a curse...

At the end of the video, carter smiling at Meliana when she salutes is really touching/cute , idk why but i find him truthfull

1919: George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth Died 07 Mar 2022 (102) 1920: Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele Died 20 Jan 2024 (103) Mar 1921: Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland Died 09 Dec 2019 (98) Jun 1921: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Died 09 Apr 2021 (99) Feb 1924: Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin May 1924: Malcolm Greenhill, 3rd Baron Greenhill Died 13 Jan 2020 (95) Jul 1924: John Dodson, 3rd Baron Monk Bretton Died 26 May 2022 (97) Sep 1924: Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside Died 13 Jan 2020 (95) Feb 1925: John de Grey, 9th Baron Walsingham Sep 1925: John Christopher Loder, 3rd Baron Wakehurst Died 29 Jul 2022 (96) 02 Mar 1926: Richard Dickinson, 2nd Baron Dickinson Died 28 Nov 2019 (93) 31 Mar 1926: Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury Died 12 May 2024 (98) May 1926: David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie Died 26 Jun 2023 (97) 16 Dec 1926: Robert Yerburgh, 2nd Baron Alvingham Died 29 Mar 2020 (93) 27 Dec 1926: Michael Holland-Hibbert, 6th Viscount Knutsford Died 3 Jan 2025 (98) Only wrote this to 1926 but these are the oldest living hereditary peers to have lost their seats in the House of Lords after the 1999 reforms. One or two will be familiar but largely a Who's Who of "Who?". Anyway, DDP gold as they'll all obit, and all turning 93+ next year.

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Awesome man. I love sharing music I like sometimes my taste in music ain't for everyone,but glad you liked them. You might be able to tell I grew up in the 90s with those selections aswell .Listening to yours and loving these songs so far. Currently done 8 write ups.

All these interviewers ask him how he feels about his daughter's murderer being a charting musician in 2018 as if nowt happened. How do they think he feels FFS? Anyhow, Trintignant is a fine actor and will likely be on my 2019 DDP team.

The Post for Bush Sr on the main list page says he won the 1998 presidential election when I know they meant to say 1988. Just alerting Mods

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/07/my-life-in-sex-enormous-penis Not so much the article, more the comments 563 of them

Just finished listening to your selections, so here's the ratings I give each. I'll put them in spoilers of course so they don't stretch the page.

To be fair, Ronnie Wood was a reasonable pick at the time as he was known to have lung cancer and was quoted as saying he wouldn't have chemo because he didn't want to lose his hair. The news of his remission (if that's the right word) came later.

Surgery was successful. Not clear when he will be discharged. Surely the oldest (or one of the oldest if he is lying about his age) men to receive liver bypass and gallbladder removal. Next post tomorrow will be "discharged".

Another Tuskagee boy, Wilfred DeFour, aged 100. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/aircraft-technician-with-tuskegee-airmen-dies-at-100-in-nyc/

You would think so, but that brings me on to an important point I'd like to make. Basically, when the Committee make their annual list, what they are doing is weighing up a person's fame/importance (considering whether they would be a "big hit" - i.e. a death that generates news headlines around the world) versus a person's likelihood of dying in a given year. And it seems to me that the Committee often choose to miss out the people who are the most likely to die, even if they have been extensively discussed by the forums here, and instead put people who are less likely to die, but would be bigger hits if they did die. There have been some really stupid misses by the committee as a result. People who were perfectly notable and obitable, such as Howard Marks, John Wetton, and many others. And yet they come away with shite picks like Ron Wood and Paul Gascoigne? I just don't get it!

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Paul McCartney and this old dear from an Age Cymru advert:

Jobs you just could not make up. From the BBC today "Psychologist and celebrity relationship coach Jo Hemmings". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46479217

Loads and loads of good names mentioned in this thread already. Some better than others of course! Any unique picks not mentioned so far then that I would suggest? Looking at my own list from this year I can suggest: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) - hymn writer Desmond Morris (b. 1928) - zoologist Lyndon LaRouche (b. 1922) - American conspiracy theorist and political activist Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928) - former French National Front leader Josef Fritzl (b. 1935) - Austrian incest dad Irmin Schmidt (b. 1937) - German keyboardist, most of his bandmates have passed Rex Garrod (DOB unknown) - engineer, creator of Brum and Cassius on Robot Wars Plus pretty much all the other living candidates on my list in my signature as well would be decent enough picks (read it!) I had an old list of names that I wrote up in 2016. Here are some less obvious names, still living, that I obtained from that list. Hosni Mubarak E O Wilson Eugene Wright (jazz bassist) Jean Raspail Richard Lynn Jurgen Habermas Alan Greenspan Ross Perot Walter Mondale Micheline Bernardini (French bikini woman - would be an absolutely ingenious pick) Ron Jeremy Gary Glitter Anders Breivik Ian Watkins Roberta McCain Burt Bacharach Richard Sherman (Disney songwriter) Peter Tobin Tony Bennett Bill Wyman Kurt Westergaard John Cantlie Arvo Part Richard Wilson Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg Judy Blume There are probably more people that I could think of, people whose names I have encountered throughout the year and thought to myself they would be good candidates for this place, but I'm just too busy with my own life to be able to remember who they all are. I am a strictly casual Death Lister and only really come on here at Christmas and New Year, or when someone famous dies. Hope this post has helped anyway, if even in just some small way!

Famous Swiss actress Liselotte Pulver (born 1929) is in excellent form. And I thought she's wasting away in a retirement home.

Fuck it, let's try it now. So this is what the website will (probably) look like: http://s760215289.websitehome.co.uk/ The banner needs changing (graphic design isn't a particular skill of mine). And yes, the images in the slider are a little scrappy. But... thoughts? What works/doesn't work?

Love a cross-post, me.