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At the rate baddies have been improving in recent days, half expecting Nigel Lawson to come back from the dead tomorrow!

You need bury to spell Bradbury. Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, who established the state’s first-in-the-nation system of voting by mail, died Friday. He was 73. Bradbury also advocated for environmental issues and ran for governor, all while battling multiple sclerosis for more than 40 years. He died after unexpected medical complications during a six-month, around-the-world cruise. SC

“Violent crime has NO place in our state,” said the Governor. “In Alabama, violence is reserved for the laws we pass that adversely affect women, minorities, and regular citizens or anyone with common sense.”

Don’t give up @Sam081. I didn’t get a hit in this pool until July last year.

Frederic Mitterrand, son of the former president and a former minister himself, has some kind of cancer: https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/frederic-mitterrand-annonce-etre-malade-20230414

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11967095/Neighbours-fans-bewildered-soap-star-Kate-Keltie-37-recovered-aggressive-cancer.html Implication of the article is she might have faked it.

Hurd, Whale and Attenborough are the only three would feel like bad drops if they go. Frail and famous, terminally ill and famous, and very old and A list, respectively. Crosby many of us said should be dropped. Berlusconi was another common "get rid" pick.

Commissioner Nancy C. Detert has died, according to Sarasota County Government. From 1998 to 2006 Detert was a member of the Florida House of Representatives. She also served in the Florida Senate from 2008 to 2016. SC

My mind read this with the wrong intonation at first. Big difference between “speaking from experience, no doubt” and “speaking from experience, no doubt”.

Rip

22 july, which would be exactly 70 years after his father

I’ll sub in Linda Nolan please

Kissinger is more well known worldwide than the Queen Mother imo, although I still think that Kirk Douglas was the most famous centenarian.

Abdessalam Jalloud, Libya's Prime Minister 1972-1977, one of the last living of the group of officers who overthrew the monarchy and once Gaddafi's right-hand man, involved in some dissident killings, disappearances et cetera, apparently lives in some European country now(probably Italy?) here's an image that's allegedly from this or last month.

120 years and 279 days

"After the bad news of yesterday and feeling like shite, faceing the news and the worst and best case sinario. so i have a timeline to get my house in order. After the initial tears with the family, i am feeling surprising positive no more time for tears, just time to get on with the battle for as long as i can maintain my strength NO FEAR." Am going to read between the lines and guess that op didn't work.

A crowd funding appeal has been launched for MC Daddy Chester, who ravers of a certain vintage may remember. He has fallen on very hard times: 1989: 2015: http://www.gofundme.com/vzbcexug Relevance to DL? A homeless man in London has a life expectancy of 30 years less than those who have accommodation, with an average age of death being 47. Chester is 49.

Ah yes, that happened to me a few times while copy & pasting to write the instructions. That ftp server closes the connection after something like a minute has passed without user input. Does fjärrvärden translate to remote? ETA: from Google Translate I learned it means remote host. When I was in Sweden, some 10 years ago, I could do simple bar conversations in Swedish. I should have known. Dutch waard means publican. When that happens, restart from step 9. You can reuse previously used commands in ftp by tapping the up/down cursor keys to save time and typing. As a matter of fact you're past the tricky bits, you should be able to get the download without much trouble, just get on.a bit. regards, Hein

“The fastest woman of all time” died in her sleep 15 years ago: Florence Griffith-Joyner, 38, athlete. The records she set in 1988 for both the 100 metres and 200 metres still stand. I still remember her crazy fingernails! no no:

Today in 1736, German-Polish physicist and inventor of the thermometer, Daniel Fahrenheit FRS, died in The Hague, aged 50. regards, Hein

Next you'll be posting that Michael Jackson is dead.....FFS keep up

Arthur Langran - 100 years old on 8 September - a smoker for 80 years, during which time he has puffed his way through an estimated 292,000 fags, he also enjoys a glass of single malt before bed and survived being blown up by a grenade in WW2. What a man!

Dora Jessie Saint aka Miss Read. Thought she'd died long ago

Godot - mainly all of my threads attract many replys. Don't think I need to be lectured on what makes a quality one. By the way - Myself and Bou are now friends again! Had a little to much too drink last night.. Yes it was lecturing and you're quite right, there was no need for it. No harm either in having a few drinks and, now that the thread is quite explicit, all those who enter can see what they're in for. Sorry for going on so. It was that or walk the dog and the deathlist won again.

I was a bit surprised to see a moderater getting the hump in here last night until I waded through this stuff (don't, not worth it). It is a pretty silly and rather self-indulgent thread. So it attracted lots of comments? I would rather have a thread with five or six quality contributions than one with 50 inane exchanges that don't make much sense. I like to see BS etc pitching in but when they and one or two others get together it can get boring for everyone else. Then again, as BB has said before, you don't have to read this stuff and I think most other deathlisters probably steared clear of it. But it's not the kind of thing that's going to attract quality posters and it's going to put off others. Unfortunately the best way to get a popular thread is to: 1. Post something that's wrong that attracts corrections from some and derision from others. 2. Say something controversial that gets everybody going. 3. Say something political that gets everybody going. 4. Start baiting someone. 5. Say it's your birthday. 6. Be gushingly nice to a fellow deathlister. But that's not quality and its the quality and wit that keeps some of us around. I'm not claiming any special status here. I make my share of mistakes, inane comments and occasional unpleasant remarks to other deathlisters (but only if they have been particularly unpleasant to me). But most of us know there is an invisible line on here over which we should not step. I'm not having a go at anyone - I love Americans, royalists and prolific posters who like to notch up their comments - and I'm sorry this is preachy, not meant to be, and I know it might bring down the pack on me. Ah well.