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Great idea. But still no hits after a month!

Mwai Kibaki (1931-2022) President KIbaki is well and about to be discharged (Kibaki's aides greeting people at the morgue) Age at death: 90 Known health issues: Strokes in 1983, 2000 and 2016, road accident in 2002, hospitalised in critical condition in 2017, continuosly in hospital in recent years with lung issues. Cause of death: Natural causes. Alignment: A popular and funny president after the monster who was Daniel arap Moi.

Richard Nixon died on this day 28 years ago, aged 81. Today's interesting subject fact: Nixon considered having a domestic political opponent killed while he was in office. In 1972, investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted for assassination by senior White House officials (these were Watergate's E. Howard Hunt and the late G. Gordon Liddy). Anderson consistently wrote negative articles focusing on White House-related scandals, and Nixon stated "we've got to do something with this son of a bitch". A mole was sent to Anderson's office, but Anderson's secretary removed them from the premises due to suspicious activity. The CIA also surveilled Anderson, but were chased away by his children, and mocked the agency's incompetence. As these didn't work, the officials decided assassination was their last option. They decided to either smear a lethal dose of LSD on the steering wheel of Anderson's car, place poisoned drugs in his medicine cabinet, kill him in a car crash, or stage a mugging... then spying on the Democratic Party's HQ became the top priority, and the idea was aborted. Anderson died in December 2005 at the age of 83, 11 years after Nixon.

Watched the documentary.Bill appears to be doing brilliantly for 90.Still exercises regularly and even physically recreated getting punched by Mike Baldwin in the Rovers throwing himself back on the table.Possibly the most mentally and physically sharp 90 year old I have seen. Barbara Knox contributed and looks and sounds fairly frail now.

Nah, I think for main list picks it's alright to have them bumped randomly once a year. I get the potential for disappointment, but for some of the more obscure names, especially to non-UK readers like me, it's always nice to be reminded they exist.

Chris Bryant gleefully sums up the state of play. I could tell how much he loved announcing "he`s toast".

Excellent thread of analysis and prediction from political economist Richard Murphy here, outlining why it’s likely Johnson is finally fucked and pondering candidates to replace him.

Mwai Kibaki dead:

Harris didn't look as good in this photo last month.

American actor Mark Damon (Wiki) is 89 today

Plaque unveiling at BBC Riverside Studios allows everyone who has Bob Harris, Carole Ann Ford or Frazier Hines in their teams to realise this is not their year.

Agree re the songwriter comment, think the greatest singer notion is debatable - Elvis for all the tonnage of shit in his least inspired recordings, has a claim on that title IMHO

Peter Frampton is 72.

I’m not British anyway so I apologize not knowing as much as you do and I only changed my tone since I just don’t want a full argument to break out here I’m not sure what the British Public thinks so that’s why I guessed since I’m not British so my sincerest apologies to you.

Perhaps he's looking for the shark tank chair activation button.

You'll be OK with Motherland then.

Entries are now closed so if you have a good idea save it for 2023 Assuming this game is going to be done sooner than the last one With many more picks and some frail looking performers this could be done by Christmas but I suspect it will drag into next year. I mean Alain Delon isn't even dead yet. I am minded to exclude documentaries from Game IV.

Come Reaper do your thing

Absolutely not trying to tell you how to run your own pool Biblio, but it would seem to me that there could potentially be a big advantage to anyone entering the pool late. If were announced tomorrow that an actor/actress who is not currently picked in this pool, had just entered a hospice, then a late-comer could put him/her in a team and get a quick hit in a week or two. In a pool where only three hits are needed, that could give them a huge head-start over the rest of the field.

As requested in the DDP thread, @Predictor has been removed from this pool, including the list of teams on Page 1, the scoreboard on Page 1, and the most recent leaderboard posted on this page. Should they change their mind and wish to return, they will be welcomed back with open arms. Thanks @Predictor for being part of this strange group, and I hope you find peace with yourself soon.

At the time Private Eye printed a genuine extract from a Charles Dickens novel, purporting to be an account of Maxwell. I can't remember which character or which novel it was, but it was spookily accurate. I sent it to my mum, who was a Dickens fan and had read everything he wrote. She loved it. I'll come back and edit if I remember more about it. Well, amazingly I've found the actual cutting. Looked inside a book of my mum's where she kept odd scraps and notes, and there it was. I'll post it here and possibly somewhere else if there's a more appropriate thread. Enjoy!

Das Boot inspiration, U-boat senior engineer Friedrich Grade is still alive at 106. A small list of 20 perennial coffinteases, people who logically shouldn't be alive, those who are frail and old as hell - I've put them to "duel" about which one will live longer as not a lot of them have died during the last month. The idea is blatantly stolen, drol did something similar in Nov 2018. Only Violeta Chamorro is alive from the 16 names mentioned in that post. 1. Violeta Chamorro (1929) vs. Francisco Morales-Bermúdez (1921-2022) Winner: Foreverdying Violeta Chamorro! 2. Khamtai Siphandone (1924) vs. Jiang Zemin (1926-2022) Winner: corpselike Siphandone! 3. Fauja Singh (Probably ca. 1928) vs. Saalumarada Thimmakka (Probably ca. 1928/1929) 4. Kane Tanaka (1902/1903-2022) vs. Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (1909-2024) Winner: Juan Vicente Pérez Mora! 5. V. S. Achuthanandan (1923) vs. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944-2024) Winner: Organ Failure Achuthanandan 6. Sidney Cooke (1927) vs. Peter Tobin (1946-2022) Winner: Sidney Cooke, may he also die soon. 7. Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022) vs. Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024) Winner: Nikolai Ryzhkov. 8. Wan Haifeng (1920-2023) vs. David Musuguri (1920-2024) Winner: Good guy Musuguri! 9. Agnes Keleti (1921) vs. Siiri Rantanen (1924-2023) Winner: Keleti 10. Leslie Phillips (1924-2022) vs. Bob Barker (1923-2023) Winner: Barker 11. Wang Huo (1924) vs. Ma Shitu (1915-2024) Winner: Wang Huo 12. Tin Oo (1927-2024) vs. Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) Winner: Jimmy. 13. Boris Pahor (1913-2022) vs. Kazimierz Klimczak (1914-2023) Winner: Klimczak! 14. Leonid Kravchuk (1934-2022) vs. Vytautas Landsbergis (1932) Winner: Vytautas Landsbergis, once in a while hospitalised due to pneumonia. I tried to make them as balanced as possible, all of them very likely to go this year, except maybe Keleti and Rantanen.

Shocking omission from this year's list.

Sorry but that pic took me back to the days of shrunken head man from that well known film....