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Form Guides #6 and #7 - Alex Trebek and Johnny Gilbert Alex Trebek needs little introduction to the DeathList community, but if he needs to be introduced it can only be by his longtime announcer Johnny Gilbert. Though Johnny still looks and sounds great for his age, that age is 95. If an Alex/Johnny Daily Double happens in January, the Deathrace could be over faster than even a typical James Holzhauer Jeopardy! game.

Biblio's airborne out of Guangzhou, China and bound for Blighty. https://www.flightradar24.com/CSN303/22f10fee EDIT: Landed 1405hrs GMT

"looking his age now" I have known some people who look like that in late fifties but they did drink a lot and not green smoothies

Val Heim, who played 13 games for the Chicago White Sox in 1942 and was the oldest living Major League Baseball player at the time of his death, has died. He was 99. https://www.wmsfh.com/notices/Val-Heim

For the "you can't escape forever" series, Everton Weekes hospitalized for "medical emergency".

I'd like to encourage people to vote for reclusive elderly golden era Hollywood actress and 'Hitchcock Blonde' Vera Miles who turns 91 next year.

Sad news YoungWillz. I remember him most from Hannibal Brooks (yes the one with Oliver Reed and the elephant!) and Scrooged which I will be watching again this year.

Right, that's four lists in as of now, and it's already turning out to be a fascinating race...

Form Guide #12- Gudrun Ure Super Gran is long overdue for her debut on the Crowdsource List.At her age any year could be the last

Cecilia Seghizzi has died. A DDP pick, too. https://www.nordest24.it/e-morta-a-gorizia-cecilia-seghizzi-aveva-111-anni/ (Italian language obit, English one pending.)

Form guide #14 - Sir Peter Higgs Subatomic particle heart throb. If having the Higgs-boson named after him isn't enough to woo you then he has also bagged himself a nice little earner with a Nobel Prize in Physics. He may have the last laugh on us though if the Large Hadron Collider, inspired by his findings, liquidizes us all.

It is not often that one reads: Hitler was fined the equivalent of 900 dollars.

I thought this guy was a dead cert for 2019. Don't believe the hype!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Johnson v Corbyn, can be summed up thus: Blibber blibber Brexit, Lacuna, Corbyn bad, contraption Brexit done, Brexit done, waffle waffle *avoids question on personal integrity* damson jam, Blibber blibber Brexit, Brexit, Brexit *repeat until death*

Spider-Man comic artist Tom Lyle dead at 66. https://comic-watch.com/news/breaking-iconic-artist-and-professor-tom-lyle-passes-at-66-years-old He found his way onto my Oct 54321 team after an aneurysm, although it looks unlikely that he'll QO.

Happy Birthday Chesterton, 95 today!

Maybe just needs a shower to rejuvenate and bring himself back to life?

Does anyone else find it weird how elderly US politicians have got all of a sudden? Even more so than the obese 73 year old in the White House, there's also the 78 year old Bernie Sanders (with his recent heart attack), the 77 year old Michael Bloomberg, and the 76 year old Joe Biden in the running to oppose him. If any one of these four individuals (including Trump) gets elected next year, they'll be the oldest US president at the time of election in history [the relatively spry 70-year-old Elizabeth Warren falls a little shy of this mark, however; Reagan was 73 when he was reelected].

Notice !!! to the three remaining survivors of this 17 month pool (bibliogryphon, theoldlady, captain chorizo): My original plan of ending this pool by the end of 2019 looks like it could be a pipe dream. We need to finish this round and then have a round of 20 or less names (depending on overlap in the lists) hit in the month of December to do it. So the final round between our two survivors of Nov will consist of something different. You will each pick 25 names from the list (I will probably add 5 to 10 names to it so that it isn't too restrictive) and rank them for the final. There will be no restrictions on whether you picked them in Nov or not. All names on the list will be eligible for your final list. That will give us 25++ names to depend on for the final round and help us reach our goal of producing a winner in 2019. Thanks so much for sticking it out, and congratulations to the one of the three of you who comes out on TOP!

OOhh - staying power Clarissa Eden - widow of the 1950's Prime Minister - will be 100 on 28 June next year, or - may prove to be someone's scoring pick before then

Terry O'Neill reported dead by his agency, age 81.

Did they just sing "E-beat-suh" I owned an Ibizan Hound for 12 years and NEVER called it an E-beat-suhn hound. Jaysus.... The name of the island does NOT fucking rhyme with PIZZA. Jaysus....