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2 pointsFunny how the actual event AND your post had such a build up.... and then a let down.
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2 pointsStarmer is increasingly the obvious choice.
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2 pointsAlways seemed to be around in things when I was a lad. So how many possible threads could he have gone in? Pop Stars? Character Actors? Songwriters? Carry On Dying? Comics and Comedy? Children's TV? Kenny Lynch did it all, and there's probably a couple of generations who have never heard of him. RIP.
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2 pointsFor a second there I thought it was a 3rd arm
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2 pointsForm Guide #22 Bernardino Piñera Every previous World's Oldest Living Bishop has died,doubt this fella is the exception to the rule.
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2 pointsI think you folks call it a porta-potty. Brits only use the noun 'potty' in reference to the plastic receptacles used when toilet training babies and small children. 'Potty' as an adjective is a slang term for mad, so when we talk about someone "going potty", we don't mean what Americans mean.
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1 pointHyde Park Winter Wonderland expected to busier with the kids off now? https://www.royalparks.org.uk/whats-on/upcoming-events/hyde-park-winter-wonderland?&f.Park|B=&&meta_d1year=2019&meta_d1month=Dec&meta_d1day=18&sort=metaS&num_ranks=12 And there's a c
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1 pointYouth band. They were in a youth band called The Kids.
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1 pointJimmy Tarbuck, yet another one of his close friends has died and he seems in fairly poor health.
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1 pointThe Ordering is kinda like: (Importance * Likeliness of Dying) + Time of Appearance
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1 pointMary Spiller eventually getting a Times Obit. (paywalled, obv).
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1 pointRepetitive Strain Injury?
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1 pointRIP to the first black guy your gran wasn't racist about.
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1 pointHayden Fry, College Football Hall of Famer and longtime University of Iowa coach, dead at 90 according to the university and multiple reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/college-sports/university-of-iowa-says-former-football-coach-hayden-fry-has-died-at-age-90-after-a-long-battle-with-cancer/2019/12/17/a0fe3eaa-213d-11ea-b034-de7dc2b5199b_story.html
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1 pointHasn't hit Wikipedia yet, but there's another one gone over the last couple of days, upping the recent count to 4 players. He played 434 games in the NHL with 6 different teams - 5 of the Original 6 teams (apart from the Red Wings) and the expansion Minnesota North Stars. He was 89.
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1 pointNope Starmer went to Leeds and did hist post at Oxford that list is undergrads.
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1 pointJust a reminder that there’s about 2 weeks left to submit a crowdsource entry. Yes, we are really that close to the new year already...
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1 pointApparently Gudrun Zapf von Hesse died back on 13 December: No possibility of her making any list.
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1 pointFormer US Commerce secretary Frederick Dent has died at 97 . That leaves only Henry Kissinger and George Schultz as the last 2 living members of Richard Nixons cabinet. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/us/frederick-dent-dead.html
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1 pointAs I can't find another musician with the name I'll suggest that this is a death notice for the Ray Swinfield who played flute on Penny Lane: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/236611/swinfield If so, he also played on music heard on Mr Benn and the soundtrack for Chicago, played with Johnny Dankworth's Orchestra and recorded music with Roy Castle and separately the Play Away presenters.
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0 pointsKenny Lynch dies.
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0 pointsDonald Tosh died 3rd December according to Toby Hadoke on Twitter. No coverage in MSM.
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0 pointsNiels Olsen, half of the 2000 winning team Olsen brothers, has brain cancer.
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0 pointsLooks like Tamara O'Brien, who I'm sure many people had on their long lists died off the radar, and is only noted by a single line on an old article of her. Was also a Windy City pick...
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0 pointsOne listener complained to Ofcom about the radio station Gold because they played the Blue Mink hit Melting Pot. The outcome is Gold are no longer allowed to play it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7399617/Gold-Radio-bans-Melting-Pot-Blue-Mink-listener-complains-offensive-lyrics.html
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