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Rather amusingly a Pick for ‘I can’t believe they’re not Deader’.

Death Impends was in my dream last night, wearing angel wings and helping me solve the murder of a Russian teenager.

A Massive miss-the committee should have put him on this year.

Well turns out these 2019/20 articles were just copying from Wikipedia / older existing articles after all. They assumed her to be alive, but looks like she died off radar in 2018. A DDP miss for two teams.

Disgraceful we let this one slip

This is quite simply one of the biggest, worst and embarassing misses in years.... for me! I knew he was fucked when I saw him on TV in October. Didn't pick him at all - and Drop 40 to boot.

This didn't age very well. RIP to a broadcasting great.

Should've been in this year's dl.

When it rains it pours. Expect more in the next few days.

I think this is the oldest original photograph I have. It's my great-great grandmother Jane taken sometime in the 1880s. I am not sure which of her children that is, she had a dozen, though one may actually have been a grandchild being passed off as a child, which was probably not that unusual at the time.

Well, it's more interesting than baseball.

BBC just captioned Larry King 1993-2021. Too young....

Amazing he lived until 87 given he had had quadruple by pass surgery, heart attacks, lung cancer, prostate cancer

What a huge miss for the committee. RIP Larry.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Prince Philip, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (3/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, Ed Asner (5/50)  2015: Prince Philip, Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (5/50)  2016: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (13/50)  2017: Prince Phillip, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Ian St. John, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (12/50)  2018: Prince Philip, Betty White, Linda Nolan, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ian St. John, Jimmy Greaves, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (21/50)  2019: Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Murray Walker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Ed Asner, Vanessa Redgrave, Jimmy Greaves, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (24/50) 2020: Prince Philip, Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Dole, Murray Walker, Leon Spinks, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Desmond Tutu, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (30/50) Updated for Larry King.

RIP to my first hit of 2021.

Yep a huge miss. Given his health history should have been on it

wow, that surprises me a little bit after he was discharged from hospital. RIP and definetely big miss: https://www.rt.com/usa/507925-larry-king-dies-hospital/

Hi, Book! Thank you for sending me the long list. You put a good deal of work into this! Here is my - very sketchy - list of other German - speaking celebrities over 80. I don't know how well-known some Austrian celebrities are outside of Austria, though: Lotte Ledl (1930) Austrian Actress Alice & Ellen Kessler (1936) Dancers Peter Kraus (1939) Austrian Rock'n Roll singer Hans Orsolics (1947) Austrian boxer Christian Wolff (1938) Actor who played Paula Wessely's gay son in Veit Harlan's notorious homophobic film "Anders als Du und Ich" (1957). Wessely's daughters, Christiane Hörbiger (1938) & Elisabeth Orth (1936) are also alive). Johanna Matz (1932) Austrian actress Michael Heltau (1933) Austrian actor Peter Fricke (1939) Actor in crime series. Karin Baal (1940) Actress Monika Peitsch (1936) Actress Marianne Koch (1931) Actress, Doctor Erika Pluhar (1939) Actress Nicole Heesters (1937) Actress, Tatort Karin Anselm (1940) Actress, Tatort Marie Versini (1940) French-born actress (Winnetou) Roberto Blanco (1937) Singer, born in Tunis Wolf Biermann (1936) Singer Gundula Janowitz (1937) Opera singer René Kollo (1937) Opera singer Wolfgang Petersen (1941) Film director Volker Schlöndorff (1939) Film director Dieter Wedel (1939 or 1942) Film director Peter Hajek (1941) Austrian film director Peter Lilienthal (1929) Film director Michael Verhoeven (1938) Film director Senta Berger (1941) Actress, Verhoeven's wife. Helmut Ashley ((1919) Tv-director (Derrick) Theodor Grädler (1921) Tv-director (Derrick) Paul Lendvai (1929) Political journalist, born in Budapest Hugo Portisch (1927) Political journalist, born in Bratislava Franz Vranitzky (1939) Former Austrian Chancellor Hannes Androsch (1938) Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Hermann Nitsch (1938) Austrian painter (Animal sacrifices) Frank Duval (1940) Composer Joachim Gauck (1940) German politician Ira von Fürstenberg (1940) German aristocrat, born in Rome Some notable German-speaking celebrities, who will be 80 during the next years: Wim Wenders (1945) Film director Peter Handke (1942) Author Reinhard Mey (1942) Singer Christine Schuberth (Austrian actress, Josefine Mutzenbacher) Rosa von Praunheim (1942) Film director & gay activist, born in Riga Margarethe von Trotta (1942) Film director Alice Schwarzer (1942) Feminist Cornelia Froboess (1943) Singer & actress Wolf Roth (1944) Actor in crime series Uschi Glas (1944) actress Friedrich von Thun (1942) Actor Peter Rapp (1944) Austrian tv-star Wolfgang Joop (1944) German fashion designer Jil Sander (1943) German fashion designer Marika Kilius (1943) Figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (1942) Figure skater Edit: more celebrities over or nearing 80: Michael Haneke (1942) Austrian film director Karl Merkatz (1930) Austrian actor (Der Bockerer) Marthe Keller (1945) Swiss actress Doris Kunstmann (1944) Actress Thekla Carola Wied (1944) Actress Gaby Dohm (1943) Actress Dagmar Koller (1939) Austrian Operetta singer Ingeborg Hallstein (1936) Opera singer Bernd Weikl (1942) Opera singer Brigitte Fassbaender (1939) Opera singer Anja Silja (1940) Opera singer Christoph von Dohnanyi (1929) German conductor. Claus Peymann (1937) Austrian theatre director & manager Hans Neuenfels (1941) German theatre director & manager Esther Vilar (1935) Author & Anti-Feminist, born in Buenos Aires

Off he goes with a trumpity-trump Trump, trump, trump.

Happy 99th birthday Betty White

Oh aye...that Masterlist in its full glory! Hank Aaron - mw Saleh Ajerry - oc Emperor Akihito of Japan - lb George Alagia – ed, es, ly Buzz Aldrin - mw Peter Alliss – yb – DNS DUE TO DEATH Medea Amiranashvili – yb Ian Anderson - sn Kenneth Anger – gc Ray Anthony - di Ruth Apilado – ds Jack Arends – gr*, jr, mp Arno - jr Eileen Ash – ep Ronald Atkins - ds - DNS DUE TO DEATH Isabelle Aubret – nt Hubert Auriol - oc Brigitte Bardot – ch Ady Barkan - es Zinnat Barkatullah – af, ba*, bk*, gr, ms Bob Barker – ep, m4, mw Elizabeth Sissy Barr - gr - DNS DUE TO DEATH Margaret Barry – yb Susan Bayh – ms, oc, ol, tu Harry Belafonte – cw, mw Jean-Paul Belmondo - da Jacqui Beltrao - ed Pope Benedict XVI – bk, cw, m4 Jana Bennett – sn Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello - cc Val Bettin – m4*, mp Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee - jr Tim Bilton - te Jet Black – yb S. Prestley Blake - di Ann Blyth - da Boogie2988/Steven Williams – yb Jeanne Bot - cc Abdelaziz Bouteflika – ep, jm*, mp Scotty Bowman – gf Jeff Bridges - ed Raymond Briggs – bg* Charles Bronson – gf Lawrence Brooks - ds Bobby Brown (ancient baseball player) – yb Duggie Brown – gc Gary Burgess - sn Necro Butcher – ms Anne Buydens – m4 David Byrd – ba, ps James Caan - sn Michael Caine – rr Louis Camilleri - ps Michael Caputo - ed Pierre Cardin – da, gc – DNS DUE TO DEATH Laura Cardoso - da Eric Carle - bg Jimmy Carter – an, cc, cw, ep, mw, ol, rr, tu Rosalynn Carter – bg, gb Grace Chang - jm Jeanette Charles – yb Bobby Charlton - yb Teddie Chinery – bg, da, to Bernadette Chirac – ch, da, yb Yoo sang chul – ed, es, ly, ol, qr, sn, te Kim Chul-Min - gr Ralph Clarke – lb Beverly Cleary – bg, di, ep, gb, m4, to Alan Collins - oc Jessie Colter – jr Louise Colquhoun – cc Noel Conway - es Kayla Marie Cook – ms Sidney Cook – lb, ps Kenneth Cope - td Joan Copeland – m4 Lucien Cossou – da Arnold Coster – gu Michael Cullen – ed, ms, sn Neale Daniher - jr Mingma David - gu Dai Davies – af, ba, bk, cc, di, ed, es, jr, mp*, ms, oc, ps, qr, yb Chhang Dawa Sherpa - gu Alain Delon – da Eileen Derbyshire - rr James Dewey Watson - da Tim Dillion – gf Dipjol - ps Raif Dizdarevic – ch Tommy Docherty – rr – DNS DUE TO DEATH, BUT IT WAS CLOSE! Shannen Doherty – ed, es, lb, ly, m4, td, tu Bob Dole – an, bk, cw, gb, ly, m4, nt, ol, td, te, to Caren Marsh Doll - gc Anne Buydens Douglas – an, bk, gb, to Derek Draper – ch, oc, ps, sn Isabella Dryden – gf Yudi Dukes - ba Luis Echeveria – bg Clarissa Eden – jr, lb, rr Edwin Edwards - ps, sn Queen Elizabeth II - rr Tracy Emin - ed Winnie Ewing – gf Leonard Fenton – to Brett Ferencz - gr Lawrence Ferlinghetti – to Bobby Fulton - ps Pope Francis – da Brian Fraser - ba Alice Freundlich – af Bobby Fulton - cc Reverend Enoch Fuzz - gr Sandy Gall – lb Michael Gambon – mw Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia - an Philippe de Gaulle – cc, to Alex Gavan – gu Gloria Gaynor – mw Syed Ali Shah Geelani – ba, di Greg Gilbert – an, ed, gc Johnny Gilbert – m4 Gaston Glock - lb Mikhail Gorbachev – cw, ep, te, to, tu Magdalena Gorzkowska – gu Superstar Billy Graham - ps Marjorie Grande - ch Jimmy Greaves – cw, ep, gb, lb, rr, to Jungle Grrrl – jr Maurice Guikahue - af David Gulpilil – bk, di, ed, es, gb, gf, ly, ms, qr, nt, te, tu Jessie Gutch – mp Mingma Gyalje Sherpa – gu Richard Hadley – ed Philip Baker Hall – sn Gail Halvorsen - cc Mona Hammond – gf Noel Hanna - gu Sarah Harding – ch, ed, es, lb, ly, nt, oc, td, te Amy Winifred Hawkin – gb Paul Henry - rr Jean Hindmarsh – gb Lucía Hiriart - ps Nick Hitchon – ds, oc Georgia Holt - bg Lars Hogh – ch James Hong – jm Hideki Hosaka - jr Nadine Hughes - af Marsha Hunt (old actress) – bg, ep, te Luis Carlos Garranzo Ibanez – gu Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi - mp Ion Iliescu - ch Katherine Jackson – bg Emma Jammeh - cc Joan Jett - mw Norman Jewison - gc Daniel Johns - yb Glynis Johns – m4, ol, td, tu Dana Johnson - ba George Johnny Johnson – gc, mp Hélène Langevin-Joliot – da Margaret Keane – ms Tim Keller - jr Elizabeth Kelly – gc, to Duchess of Kent - rr The Duke of Kent – rr Jim Kilpatrick - cc Larry King – ch, cw, gf, nt, oc, ol, ps, rr*, sn, tu Henry Kissinger – ch, cw, m4, td Tellervo Koivisto - di Yaphet Kotto – td Waldemar Kowalewski – gu Stanislaw Kowalski - ds Dilip Kumar – cw, di, ep, nt, qr, ol Shanta Kumar - af Robert Kuok – jm Genival Lacerda - ba Rainer Langhans – bk, gr Yasmeen Lari - af Tommy Lasorda – af, ba, cc, ps, sn Ray Lawler – bg Nigel Lawson – gb Norman Lear - mw Brenda Lee – rr Tom Lehrer - mp Tommy Leishman - gc Claire l'Heureux-Dubé - gf Rush Limbaugh – an, ba, bg, bk, cc, ch, di, ds, ed, ep*, es, gb, gc, gr, jr, ly*, m4, mp, ms, mw, oc, ol*, ps, qr, td, te, tu, yb Yu Mo-Lin (or Mo-Lin Yu) - gr Floyd Little – af*, ba, bk, cc*, di*, ds*, es, gr, jr*, ms, ps, oc, sn Emily Lloyd - yb Norman Lloyd – cw, ep, m4, te, to Brian London - gc James Lovelock – bg, to Lisa Lu – jm Tamara Lunger – gu*, mp Radu Lupu – ch Loretta Lynn – mw, oc Alasdair MacIntyre - nt Judith Magre - da Lata Mangeshkar – jm André Maranne – da, td Robert Marchand - ds Imelda Marcos - jm Biz Markie – gf*, mp Pat Martino – ch, jr Josip Manolic – qr Doreen Mantle - lb Barry Mason - nt Norman Mason – nt Jessie Matthew jr - jr Ghislaine Maxwell – ch, lb* Hazel McAllion - gf Kenneth McApline – yb Michael McKevitt – ol Don McLean - mw Terry Medwin – yb Carrie Ku Mei – jm Carlos Menem – af, an*, ba, bk, cc, di, ds, gr, jr, ly, ms*, oc, ol, ps*, qr, sn*, td Cesar Menotti - da Litsa Menounos – bk, cc, ms Philipp Mickenbecker - ba Aaron Mikami – af, ba Princess Mikasa – ms Steve Miller (boxing coach) - gr Thomas V Mike Miller - ms Sergi Mingote – gu Nirmala Mishra - af Captain Tom Moore – ep, gb Cynthia Morey - gb Gerd Muller – ch*, es, gr, ly, mp, oc, td Alice Munroe - gf Rupert Murdock – ep Patrick Murray - sn Pete Murray – gb, lb, rr Giorgio Napolitano – tu Olivia Newton-John – an, cw, es, lb, ly, m4, ol, tu Nichelle Nichols – da, mw, yb Jack Nicholson - rr Lee Noble – gc, gr, ms, ps Linda Nolan – an, es, gb, gf, lb, ly, qr, td, te, tu Greg Norman - oc Gared O’Donnell - jr Frank O'Farrell – bg, nt Ryan O’ Neal – ly, sn Nancy Olson - nt Yoko Ono – cw, jm, m4, mp, nt, rr, te Ozzy Osbourne - cw Tom Osmond – bg Geneviève Page – da Boris Pahor - di Rebecca Pan - jm Irene Papas – gf, to Tom Parker – an, bk, ds, ed*, es*, gb*, m4, mp, ol, qr, td, te, tu*, yb Michael Parkinson - rr Trevor Peacock – jm, rr, sn, td, to Pele – mw* Kili Pemba Sherpa – gu June Penn – gc* Oswald Rodrigo Pereira - gu Nehemiah Persoff – di, ep Isabel Peron – tu Lars Goran Petrov – ed, jr Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – an, bk, cw*, ds, ep, lb, m4, mw, ol, qr, rr, te, tu Leslie Philips – an, cw, di, nt, ol, qr, sn, td, to Lester Piggot – gf, rr Gordon Pinsent - gf Joan Plowright – gf Sidney Poitier - to Ivy Ling Po – jm Micheline Presle – da Sarah Lilian Priest - mp Nirmal Purja – gu Thomas Pynchon – nt* Rajinikanth (Actor) – oc Padma Shri D Prakash Rao – af, ba Queen Ratna of Nepal – gf, Lucile Randon – da, ds, qr Vanessa Redgrave - sn Jake “The Snake” Roberts – bk, ch, cw, gf, sn, te Gavin Robertson – an, ds, ms Rodion "GA" Rosca - ch, gr, jr Diana Ross - mw Patricia Routledge – jm Chad Russell - ba Sean Ryder - lb Muhammad Ali Sadpara - gu Mort Sahl – m4 Eve Marie Saint - mw Prunella Scales – cw Gregory Scarpa Jr - ms Liliana Segre- gb Kausalya Senthamarai - af Kathy Shaidle – di, gr, mp, ms, ps Baroness Pamela Sharples – gc Richard Sherman - mw Lou Shurtliff – af, ba – DNS DUE TO DEATH John Snorri Sigurjonsson – gu D'Andra Simmons - bk Renée Simonot – an, ch, di, ds, m4 Parkash SIngh Badal - gr Sangeeth Sivan - ms Atanas Skatov - gu Lois Smith – gf Steve Smith - ds Tom Smith (Rugby) – an, bg, bk, da*, ed, ep, es, gb, ly, mp, nt, ol, ps, qr, sn, td, te, tu, yb Dovid Soloveitchik – af, ba, cc, di, gr, ps Robert Solow - gc Mihai Sora - ch June Spencer – bg, cw, yb Leon Spinks – af, an, bk, cw, ep, es, jr, ly, ol, qr, rr, te, to*, tu Bogdan Stanoevici - af Barbara Steele - da Nobby Stiles – ep, DNS Due to Death Tempest Storm - gc Antonis Sykaris – gu Sylvian Sylvian - oc Jimmy Swaggart – gc Andrea Swift - ds Jean-Charles Tacchella - da Miiko Taka - jm Kane Tanaka – ch, di, ds, ep, mp, qr, te* Bernard Tapie – an, ed, ly, td Jimmy Tarbuck - ly Margaret Tebbit – gb – DNS Due to Death Abdelmadjid Tebboune - ps Dawa Tensing Sherpa - GU Colin Thackery – gb Tyrone Theophile - af Tsin Ting - jm Peter Tobin – an, ds, ol, qr, tu Ruthie Tompson – di, gc, m4, ol, te Alain Touraine – gc Dave Lee Travis – lb Rose Tremain – ds James Trent - cc Jean Louis Trintignant – an, ep, gb, jm, nt, qr, te, tu Ottaviano Del Turco - gc Bill Turnbull – bg, es, ly Cicely Tyson - mw Gudren Ure - lb Brian Urquart – gc, lb Francisco Valdovinos - ba Dick van Dyke – tu Paul Varelans – af, ba, bk, gr Bob Varsha - ed Gianluca Vialli – ol Grace Victory – af, ba, cc, gr, jr, mp, oc*, qr* Monica Vitti – gc, nt, to Murray Walker – rr Burt Ward - mw Mary Ward - yb Fanny Waterman – bg, mp – DNS DUE TO DEATH James Watson – bg, to Rembert Weakland - ms Harvey Weinstein – cw Doddie Weir – es, ly, td Tom Weiskopf - nt Fay Weldon – bg Paul Westphal – bk, ds, es, ly, tu James Whale – bk, cc, di, ds, ed, es, ly, mp, oc, ol, qr, td, yb* Betty White – bg, ep, te Sir Frank Williams – jm, lb, oc, qr Lester L. Wolff - nt Joanne Woodward – an, sn, td, to Kin Yi – jm Kim Yong-nam – jm Jiang Zemin - jm

This'll be the List of the Lost, then - ably presided over by a champion loser of the plot who managed to fit this gig into her busy (NOT!) 2021 schedule: List of the Lost 1 Jan: Floyd Little – af*, ba, bk, cc*, di*, ds*, es, gr, jr*, ms, ps, oc, sn - 364 2 Jan: Michael McKevitt – ol -363 2 Jan: Paul Westphal – bk, ds, es, ly, tu - 363 2 Jan: Brian Urquart – gc, lb - 363 5 Jan: Jim Kilpatrick - cc 360 7 Jan: Genival Lacerda - ba - 358 7 Jan: Tommy Lasorda – af, ba, cc, ps, sn - 358 9 Jan: Kathy Shaidle – di, gr, mp, ms, ps - 356 10 Jan: Hubert Auriol - oc - 355 12 Jan: Bogdan Stanoevici - af 353 13 Jan: Padma Shri D Prakash Rao – af, ba - 352 13 Jan: Sylvian Sylvian - oc - 352 15 Jan: Thomas V Mike Miller - ms - 350 16 Jan: Sergi Mingote – gu - 349 16 Jan: Paul Varelans – af, ba, bk, gr - 349 And let's have a look at the old Scoreboard! An Fear Beag - 2140 Banana - 1781 Captain Chorizo - 1446 Deadsox 1091 Death Impends - 1084 Perhaps - 1078 Old Crem - 1073 msc - 1070 gcreptile - 1069 Book - 1056 Joey Russ - 728 Eesti - 727 Sean - 722 Gooseberry Crumble - 363 Lard Bazaar - 363 Lychian - 363 The Old Lady - 363 The Unknown Man - 363 Maryportfuncity - 356 Grim up North - 349

What is it with people (espicially Yanks) thinking Jimmy Carter was a poor president. I judge him as one of the best. Look, on his watch, I understand the US lost fewer armed service personnel in action than any other President. Even counting the rescue attempt to free the hostages from Iran. The Carter foundation looks to assist and monitor elections arround the world. I'm thinking that even after seven interviening presidential terms, Jimmy Carter could do a far better job than the dangerous clown the Good-Old-United-States currently has! Long live the peanut farmer.