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98 today! Only 2 more years until she turns 100!

Rachel Riley is on maternity leave right now - you should consider applying for the role......

If I fall over, it usually involves alcohol or the dog.

I have the power to add reactions so could look for a couple useful new ones over the weekend.

Christopher Tolkien goes from Middle-earth to under earth, and sees markb4 join the scoreboard with 10 base points and 4 extra for uniqueness, for 14 total. And four hits means scoreboard time. Book and RadGuy are joint top off the rapid demises of Qaboos and Scruton. Can these strong starts continue? =1. Book 75 =1. RadGuy 75 3. drol 65 4. YorkshireBanker 63 =5. CaptainChorizo 50 =5. maryportfuncity 50 =7. gcreptile 45 =7. Toast 45 9. Prophet 40 10. John Key 15 11. markb4 14 12. msc 5 =13. Everyone else 0

My father once gave wise advice on the plight so the elderly: ”When they start falling over, they’re fucked”. The Duke apparently did have a bad fall towards the end of last year so going by my father’s valuable insight he’s fucked and may be dead in the year!

Well Tolkien's son had a long and nice life making millions of his silmarillions.

Wish you'd stop doing this. Every time it gives the impression that the person has died, especially as it takes time to scroll down to the actual news.

It's probably because of an Olivia Newton-John death hoax. I won't post the links because they are infected with Malicious Redirection 36. So don't go looking for 'em.

Ah well. My dad says your fucked then. Sorry to hear you’re dying.

Yes Betty White!

George Alagiah John Andretti Daniel arap Moi Yuri Averbakh Frankie Banali Bob Barker Tony Bennett Honor Blackman Peter Brook Earl Cameron Jimmy Carter Noel Conway David Crosby Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Kirk Douglas Hugh Downs Rhonda Fleming William Frankland Jill Gascoine Jimmy Greaves David Gulpilil Rolf Harris John Hume Glynis Johns Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger John Lewis Sydney Lotterby (WILDCARD) Loretta Lynn Vera Lynn Willie Nelson Boris Pahor (WILDCARD) Javiér Pérez de Cuéllar Prince Philip (WILDCARD) Leslie Phillips Genesis P-Orridge Henri Richard Eva Marie Saint Yoo Sang-chul Tom Smith (WILDCARD) Pat Smullen Nobby Stiles Larry Storch Kane Tanaka Alex Trebek (WILDCARD) Jean-Louis Trintignant Murray Walker Lina Wertmüller 6ix9ine subs Mikhail Gorbachev Katherine Johnson Mel Lastman Donald Trump Terry Jones - 21 Jan 2020

Brian May, astronomer of the Queen Isaac Newton, astronomer of the Queen

Great work on getting it all up and running guys. Brilliant. So 6 non uniques/40's for my Catacomb ensemble I'm happy with. Surprised Sgt Mike Sadler remained Unique for a 2nd year. Pleased with 'Texas Dolly' Brunson being unique given age/health history/nailed on obit, and also that other petrol heads didn't take a punt on Bobby A, given heart issues combined with running an outlaws team and the strain that brings. Hope to hit a unique again to make it 7 out of 8 years In DDP I have.

1920 - Irving Kanarek, Franca Valeri 1921 - Stanley Ho, Francoise Gilot 1922 - George Blake, Micheline Presle 1923 - Sumner Redstone, Rhonda Fleming 1924 - Johnny Gilbert, Maria Riva 1925 - Mahathir Mohamad, June Lockhart 1926 - Phil Phillips, Ann Turner Cook 1927 - Harry Whittington, Gina Lollobrigida 1928 - Hans Kung, Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 - Gaston Glock, Vera Miles 

Another question. Is there any option to add or change the post reactions? 'Thank You' is useful, and the like and laugh get used a lot. I don't have much occasion to use the others but a OMG! one and a FFS-type eyeroll would probably get more use, if such are available.

This has been mentioned in the A Night To Remember thread, but I don't think we ever found an obit for Jane Downs, who played Sylvia Lightoller in that film and had a long list of TV credits over six decades! She had also been married to Terence Alexander and Gerald Harper. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236185/

The Committee pick whoever they feel like picking, my Lord, that's surely well established. I don't think they give a flying fuck about anybody else.

Speaking of dead people 2 teams picked Dianne Foster(though it's likely she was assumed to be alive since entries were already open when news of her passing came out in Dec)

No Siouxsie and the Banshees either, and this Hall ain't big enough for the both of them...

Christopher Tolkien, son of JRR Tolkien dead at 95 years https://www.varmatin.com/culture/christopher-le-fils-de-jrr-tolkien-sest-eteint-dans-le-var-a-lage-de-95-ans-448318

Yeah.

Twitter reporting with some veracity that Chris Darrow of the bands Kaleidoscope and The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has died aged 75: As part of the latter band he appeared in Paint Your Wagon. Band in this I believe: IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3044163/

I also think Bush is probably safe. Apart from the aforementioned security around him, I think someone would already have had a go by now if it was going to happen. Reckon Cheney and his dicky ticker will be checking out soon though.