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She surpassed Franz Joseph I of Austria, as she has been reigning for 24.826 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-reigning_monarchs

I am sure that there are millions like me who have no interest or knowledge of US sports persons.

Neville Buswell who most famously played Ray Langton in Corrie, dead at 76: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-coronation-street-star-neville-21370181 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124628/ Edit: Died on Christmas Day last year, so Deathray misses out on one of his Cobbles Theme Team.

I hadn't. So as far as I'm concerned, he isn't a major death. I'd be curious to know how many people in the UK had heard of him.

By the same token I am sure there are millions of people with no interest or knowledge of tennis,but if Roger Federer or Rafa Nadal died in a plane crash next week it would still register as a significantly bigger impact death to the public then Peart .

If on a personal level Peart is the bigger death, that’s fine, but objectively there’s no way that he tops Bryant (or Terry Jones for that matter) as the biggest death of the month.

I know why American politzi get run over. We have shite driving habits. Here’s a shot taken by SirC as he and Boudicca cross the Skye Bridge. He is driving, wrong side of car wrong side of road, steering with his knees so he can take this photo to one day post on DL. Coulda plunged to our deaths. Or run over a cop. All sorts of bad American driving habits going on here. SC

When someone's death musters 6 pages of conversation in hours then that's usually a sign a standalone thread is warranted.

I'd think that a theme team has to reasonably be some kind of small minority to be picking from. Allowing a team that can be picked from ~50% of the world's population doesn't seem particularly on. But, it depends whether the theme team league is a "fun" thing or a competitive thing. Let's get statistical and weight teams based on the percentage of the overall population that their team consists of. Therefore, a hit in the "all male" or "all woman" team might be weighted at 0.5 based on women/men being approx. 50% of the population. Then, on the other hand, selecting a team from the cast and crew of the 70s film for masochistic children, Watership Down (like my better half did a couple of years back) would afford each hit a weighting of ~100/7.5bn. So, if Ray Merrin had received a QO, then he'd have been worth the standard number of points divided by (100/7.5x10^9) which would have meant Merrin would have scored ~3*10^8 points for her (300,000,000) compared to only 8 points for the hypothetical person selecting Merrin for their all male theme team. I think we can all agree that the simplicity and satisfaction in appropriately awarding niche teams would go a long way towards making the Theme Team League a more highly respected competition.

For the people calling this the biggest death since Michael Jackson. Let's not excagurate. From my non-American perspective it is not even the biggest death of 2020 (so far).

I see what you did there.

So with Kobe dead, does Kirk regain his throne as the most famous living *gets dragged off-stage by 3,000 lawyers*

Well this is an old post. deserving of a new death. New Faces winner Johnny Carroll has died aged 78: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-mr-showbiz-johnny-carroll-17630913 For example:

It is the synergy of milking a vulgar metaphor for all it is worth combined with a timely prediction of how significant 2020 is likely to be!

Its all starting to make sense...

Yes please.

It was alright. Better than most of them this series.

***This thread may need used soon when the yanks find this site***

Wikipedia is down too at the moment. Hey, and Daniel arap Moi still lives.

A trip to a different galaxy for A.E. van Vogt on this day 20 years ago, aged 87.

Sophie Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation and one of the oldest surviving female World War II veterans, has died. She was 105. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/26/us/female-navajo-veteran-dies-trnd/index.html

Look, you'd have been disappointed if this open goal had been missed...