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Yeah time for Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo to be finally stripped off that record after holding it for over 800 years.

She can make something much more impressive; Be the oldest serving state leader ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_state_leaders_by_age

Two British character actors who seem to remain under the radar are James Garbutt (born 1925) & Jean Heywood (born 1921). They played a married couple, (the Seatons) in the James Bolam drama When the Boat Comes In. Jean Heywood also played the housekeeper in All Creatures Great and Small. She replaced Mary Hignett (1916-1980) who played Mrs Hall the first housekeeper who was in the first three series but died after a risky double hip operation when initially she had gone into hospital for only a single hip operation but according to Wiki was persuaded by medical staff to have a more complicated procedure. Jean Heywood has outlived her predecessor in the role of housekeeper by almost 40 years.

Why so sure? She’s still working, appears to be in excellent physical conditional. Of the 26 names ahead of her on the list, many have been in and out of hospitals like yo-yos and all are male. She’s the only woman. Add 4 years to life expectancy over the competition. I reckon she will do it.

It’ll be a Christmas of accidentally answering the door to a canvasser because you thought it was a fucking Amazon package. Either way, given the extension coming our way (and I do doubt I’ll be eating my words on this one; Macron will back down), it appears the Brexit party are going to kill the Tory party, and not enough to gain hundreds or even tens of seats for themselves either. And not to mention, of course, the amount of Labour voters migrating to Lib Dem. This next Parliament is going to be very, very hung if this election goes ahead.

Sickipedia's gone mad for this story - a couple from the top of the front page: ♪ Trailer for sale or rent .....♪ AND... You've got to hand it to the Tories, sometimes they keep their word. Brexit's not even a done deal yet, and already there's a freeze on immigration.

Can I add to your list ? Margaret Stuart Barry - Simon and The Witch (writer) (b 1927)

Another one for you @Bibliogryphon. Thanks to Talking Pictures I've seen Elizabeth Sellars in three things this past week (Three Cases of Murder, Jet Storm and now Repent at Leisure) and apparently she's still alive aged 98.

I hate Osborne but can't help like him for this.

He's a big name American sports star, apparently. And he has had terminal glioblastoma since sometime last year so if he makes it to 2020 he'll have done very well indeed (and will probably be on enough teams to make the Drop 40 bonus).

He's been wheelchair bound for pretty much the whole year and has outlived the usual life expectancy for glioblastoma. Actually still makes public appearances sometimes, but with that illness for so long he's the type of name where it wouldn't be a surprise at all if he went tomorrow.

First I thought I had drawn a crappy deck, with no Aces, for example. But actually, because my deck is very clumped in a few types, this bonus accumulation will increase in intensity. For example, if I get a hit with Chris Doleman now, who is a 9, I get another pair of nines, and all the bonuses I already got through the 7s and Js through Marieke, plus another pair of nines, and a triple 9 - but yes, also a full house of 9s and Js, and actually TWO full houses with the 9s and 7s, one is two 7s and 3 9s, and one is three 7s and 2 9s. I will then have three 7s and three 9s...which means, actually.... it would be two DIFFERENT full houses of three 7s and two 9s (because with three 9s there are two possibilities of two 9s), and then two DIFFERENT full houses of two 7s and three 9s. So yeah, Chris Doleman results in.... five (?) full houses. Well... total mayhem would come if I had a chance to get 4 of a kind, but the Randy Romero non-obit killed that.

I picked him a year or two ago for my Dr Who DDP theme team but he's not really made much traction elsewhere. Now if anyone else wants to pick him in next years DDP that opens up a space in my "Get 'em on the DDP" theme team.

Second oldest Brit is now a man. It’s been a while...

But now it is Hilda right?

She was always there. Some articles incorrectly claimed Hilda was the second-oldest when Grace C. Jones was alive. Also, she went by Gwen.

Dorothy Payne's death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/236841/payne-dorothy-gwendoline

Apparently you don’t know the power of prayer.

Going to take a while, she has a lot of Drol-Blockers ahead of her on that list.

Made me think of this.

That's what he probably thought, but it was actually two steps down .....

Naturally I'm as aware as anyone else who reads the news that an inmate labelled as a 'nonce' is at risk of this sort of reprisal and the more abhorrent their crimes presumably the more at risk. The part I was curious about was the specific labelling of Full Sutton as a 'death sentence' compared to Wakefield, which I was unaware had the label 'Monster Mansion' (or a reputation leading to such an appellation). Clearly since Hatch and Huckle are now dead and Huntley could have been, the level of segregation in these non-specialised prisons (ie. a wing) is insufficient to ensure their safety. Something similar happened to Peter Sutcliffe on more than one occasion and his crimes were not against children. It's not my place to suggest that all nonces (for want of a better catch all phrase) should be located in the same prison, but it does seem obvious as Going Underground alludes that locating them all in one place would lead to less such attacks. I just searched for Ian Watkins as the other obvious example and it appears he is indeed at Wakefield. I'm not mourning the losses either, what they did is despicable and I struggle to even contemplate the mindset intellectually never mind the almost physical revulsion I feel emotionally, but the question was not about what I think or feel about it, rather how our prison allocation system appears to be almost condoning vigilante justice in such cases, however of course that's a statement made without knowing all the circumstances. Oh, and don't be a nonce with an H surname....

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