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Spotted in Aldi.

Got to feel bad for him, it's truly awful going through that at such a young age. Sadly doesn't seem like he has long left. Loads of us didn't buy the "improving" stories at the end of last year and it seems we were correct to be sceptical.

Obit from Columbia University's Department of Statistics.

John Billings, who flew Allied spies behind Nazi lines, dies at 98. Lonnnnnggg obit do feel free to read at your leisure; I’m posting the headline.. SC

John Parlett (wiki), British Olympic and Empire Games runner, being reported dead at 96 on Twitter. His wife, fellow Olympian Dorothy Manley, died last year aged 94. She was a DDP pick then (and a hit). He hasn't been picked this year.

I contend that you can have a drink, and be over the legal limit for driving, without being drunk, in the accepted sense of being drunk. Therefore, to call anyone who exceeds the legal limit a 'drunk driver' is just stupid.

Well considering it's not starting for another 8 months, he won't be looking good at all

Justice Christopher, who played in all three of Nigeria's "Group of Death" matches at the 2002 World Cup, is dead. Apparently he was 40, but being as he first retired from football "aged" 25, I think this might be classic Nigerian accounting.

Tomás Boy, who captained Mexico's 1986 World Cup squad and coached numerous Liga MX sides after a lengthy playing career with Tigres UANL, has died at age 70. The Mexican national team tweeted the news on Tuesday but did not reveal the cause of Boy's death. He had been admitted to a Mexico City hospital for pulmonary thromboembolism earlier this week. SC

Conrad Janis is a hit for me.

Updated Desert Island Discs 50s/60s surviving guests list for 2021–2022 passings. Not much change... just 5 in 14 months, including Robbie Brightwell. This lot don't seem to be in any rush to die and Leslie Phillips seems to be determined to survive everyone else...

Pity - Ron Stander's KO QO-ed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10592005/Ron-Stander-Bluffs-Butcher-dies-fought-Frazier-1972.html

Conrad Janis, who played Mindy's father on Mork & Mindy, obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/arts/television/conrad-janis-dead.html IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417641/ IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/conrad-janis-11925 Should be a pick on the DDP, he has been before.

Clearly I'm not with the inside knowledge group that read every single topic in the forum, maybe someone said it already on the seemingly irrelevant death thread or whatever... Facepalm me all you want, it only shows you guys as bitter, old and intolerant of outsiders. And you guys wonder why this site barely gets anyone new contributing to it...

51! Jesus. Mind you it barely registers that I'm in my 40s... Anyway, here she is at the 2018 reunion alongside fellow cast member Fiona Mowlem (Laura Regan) who is now a parish councillor just up the road from me. Small world.

A Russian warship that fired on a group of Ukrainian border guards after being told to “go f–k yourself” was destroyed in battle, according to a report Tuesday. SC

David 'Ziggy' Sigmund, a guitarist for the grunge act Slow and alt-rock band Econoline Crush, has died. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_slow_econoline_crush_guitarist_david_ziggy_sigmund?&utm_source=TwitterEDC&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=EDCTwitter

Charles Entenmann, who propelled his family’s New York bakery into a national brand, died in Florida last month at the age of 92. Entenmann, his brothers and mother expanded the Bay Shore business across the region and eventually the country, following the 1951 death of his father William Entenmann, a German immigrant who opened the bakery in Brooklyn in 1898. His family sold its cakes-and-cookies enterprise for $233 million in 1978, which is more than a billion dollars in today’s money. SC

Here's wishing him at least 10 more months, from someone who bought into this guy just being a tease again this year

Robbie Brightwell MBE (wiki) not in such decent shape now as he's died aged 82. Silver medalist sprinter for GB at Tokyo 1964. Also won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in Perth in '62. Not picked in this year's DDP. Pity, because I'd be surprised if he didn't pull an obit.

Peter Smithwick (wiki) an irish judge, and chairman and sole member of the Smithwick Tribunal has died at 85

Also mentioning here: Colonel Vasily Astafyev, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943) dead at 102: https://www.perm.kp.ru/online/news/4656155/

Yuan-Shih Chow (wiki), Chinese-American probabilist, reportedly dead at 97. Very strange no Chinese obits are out.

Astrid Qvist, Finland's oldest person is 110 today, first Finn to reach 110 in the 2020s. Picture above. Maria Branyas Morera reached 115 two days ago, picture taken on her birthday. Still seems to be able to walk. Maria Farrugia reached 110 on the 7th of March, becoming the first supercentenarian from Malta.

I am not going to enforce the rule in this round because it would be unfair to do so after the game as gone so far and I take responsibility because I didn't pick up on it at the start of the game (and no other player raised an objection) but techincally All You Need Is Cash will be an ineligible pick in future rounds because it did not have a theatrical release. This will be a bit of a tricky one when it comes to modern releases because of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon have now become eligible for Oscar nomination even though they do not always have a theatrical release. I think I will introduce a cut off date after which streaming releases will be allowed and any TV movies released before this time will not. However to be clear this will not detract from a win by @YorkshireBanker if he achieves it in this round