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Bob Flag, musician and actor whose roles include Dennis Nielsen in Cold Light Of Day and Alan Rathbone in Calendar Girls. reportedly dead in Japan: Same guy in this video: However, we are all going to remember him as the face of Big Brother from the film 1984 and the accompanying Eurythmics track.

Well, well, well. Johnny Johnson, who was long rumoured to have died from cancer in the 1970s, was alive all this time. He discovered god by the looks of it and led a quiet life shunning any publicity, but he died in March aged 80. Legacy obit here.

Rusi Cooper reportedly dead: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/rusi-cooper-oldest-first-class-cricketer-in-the-world-100-passes-away/articleshow/102271200.cms?from=mdr

Fatboy Slim is 60. One of his more overlooked songs that I like:

This ain’t anything to do with bandwagons or being squeamish about speaking ill of the dead. I just think it’s fucking nauseating to see someone who had such a horrendously traumatic life and evidently tortured mind like Sinead end her life (if, of course, this assumption is true) and sit back and say “yeah, course she’d do that, fucking pusillanimous narcissistic bitch”, and it sure as fuck doesn’t help anyone who might be going through or has recently gone through a hideous wave of depression and suicidal thoughts. Shit-talking people who end their lives can’t half be triggering to people in a vulnerable position.

Vakkom Purushothaman dead at 95.

Previous post: Following post: 17 - 3 = 14 Corrected list (with my points): 31/Jul/2023 47 Squeeze — Cool For Cats 42 The Police — Can’t Stand Losing You +1 42 Boney M — Rasputin +2 37 M — Pop Muzik 34 Blondie — Dreaming 24 Squeeze — Up The Junction 20 Olivia Newton-John — Hopelessly Devoted To You -6 18 Roxy Music — Dance Away 16 BA Robertson — Bang Bang +1

Mon 31 Jul 49 Squeeze — Cool For Cats 46 Boney M — Rasputin +4 37 The Police — Can’t Stand Losing You 37 M — Pop Muzik 36 Blondie — Dreaming 26 Olivia Newton-John — Hopelessly Devoted To You 20 Squeeze - Up the Junction 18 Roxy Music — Dance Away 14 BA Robertson — Bang Bang 06 Elvis Costello & The Attractions — Oliver’s Army 0 Abba — Chiquitita tell me what’s wrong…every single second of this bastard song, actually. -6

As it wasn't originally specified what would happen in the event of duplicated words, I'd say allow it this occasion, but amend the rules to forbid future duplicates, the original entrant to keep their entry, the duplicate to change, applicable from now. There, it is said, approximately 35,000 ten-letter words in the English language.

Well, I'd say there's no rule against the same word. As long as it's not also a duplication of a team, I don't see the issue. Maybe a consideration for future games?

Another french daredevil not Alain Robert, but Remi Lucidi, falls to death while climbing a Hong Kong skyscraper: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/world/french-daredevil-known-for-photos-from-edge-of-high-rise-buildings-falls-to-death-from-68th-floor

You can refer to my reply above. No one ever said there isn’t sympathy for the survivors. You’re putting words in my mouth to strengthen your own point of view. All I’ve said is that you cannot expect a person in such a mental state to think or behave rationally. They are literally mentally ill. To kill yourself goes against our greatest human instincts. It is not normal. It’s not a selfish act. Many people who commit suicide believe it is for the GOOD of their survivors. Also I can just flip the script. It’s equally as selfish of the survivors to ask the suicidal person to remain living, even though they want to die. How incredibly narcissistic to wish someone to continue suffering just for you.

Denis Diderot died on this day 239 years ago, aged 70. - When Diderot decided to become a writer and translator, his father disowned him for refusing to enter law, theology, or medicine. His first work was a translation of English historian Temple Stanyan's History of Greece into French, in 1743. - Diderot became friends with the philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1742, having drank coffee and played games of chess with him. - Diderot's first original work came in 1746 with Philosophical Thoughts, where he criticized Christianity and atheism and promoted deism (God's existence proved through nature). He followed this up the following year with The Skeptic's Walk, detailing a conversation between a deist, atheist, and pantheist (belief that God is the universe itself), and it went unpublished until 1830 due to threats from the authorities. - Another of Diderot's early works was The Indiscreet Jewels from 1748, which was an allegory of the affairs of king Louis XV- portrayed as a sultan who is given a magic ring from a genie that makes women's vaginas talk when it is pointed at them. - Diderot was arrested for criticizing the government in 1749, but was allowed to bring John Milton's Paradise Lost as reading material. He would be released after four months. - Beginning in 1751, Diderot compiled his most famous work, the Encyclopedie- an encyclopedia consisting of 75,000 articles (effectively the Wikipedia of its day). Diderot stated that he wanted to make knowledge accessible to the general population, and the learning populace is considered one of the factors that led to the French Revolution. The Encyclopedie would be completed in 1772. - Catherine the Great was a fan of Diderot, and offered to purchase all of his works when he was broke (she would receive his complete library after his death). Diderot visited her in Saint Petersburg in 1773, and stayed at her court for the winter. The two would remain good friends until Diderot's death in 1784 from a pulmonary embolism. - Diderot's remains were unearthed by grave robbers in 1793, and were likely relocated to a mass grave by the authorities (the French Revolution was in its Reign of Terror at this point).

Must have been sudden. Appeared at a Wizard of Oz festival last month and looked fine.

Johnny Johnson last picked in 2021 so List of the Missed @Death Impends: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_J.html#johnsoj020 Of course, the DDP committee seemed at that time to have ruled him out for future picking, suggesting he was probably already dead. Cue anger from Gris Gris team - you know it is coming. Not that he seems to have QO-ed anyway...

Looks like you may now strike Betty Ann Bruno from your lists of surviving Wizard Of Oz actors:

tol - thank you for your interest. Yes, I plan on having a 23-24 edition. I will be starting a new thread in the next week or so, and plan to start accepting entries once I put this one to bed Aug 11. Look for a deadline to submit of Aug 31. Pool will run for the 12 months following, with only a few minor tweaks which I hope will improve the game. This one is quite exciting!

Swedish screenwriter and film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman died on this day 16 years ago, aged 89. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time, Bergman's films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Some of his most acclaimed works include The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), and Fanny and Alexander (1982); these four films were included in the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 critics poll. Bergman was ranked 8th in Sight & Sound's 2002 poll of The Greatest Directors of All Time.

What an incredibly ignorant frame of mind. May you always be so blessed that you never have to come to terms with how completely real and dangerous mental illness and depression can be.

I think calling people who kill themselves 'narcissistic' might be the silliest thing I've read this week. I could go in on pretty much every word of this ridiculous post but tbh I'll just leave it and say, as someone who has both dealt with suicidal people and been one myself in the past, ignorance really is bliss.

Thought it quite extraordinary that the late Josephine Chaplin and Esther Rantzen look very similar in their younger days.

I think it’d be better if everyone had a different word. Acts as one’s team name dunnit.

Please update the points that Imelda gave Blondie and Boney.

Ian Clegg, actor with a few roles on IMDB, death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/clegg-notices_52728 Age, profession and place of residence/death tie up completely with this entry from Companies House, so definitely him: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/L5gRZSyIgh7TS4uG9y5cJ4SqEc8/appointments

can't understand why Leontyne Price has been so overlooked by the official list and in other pools : only 4 ddp teams picked her, one of them being my theme team. Her and Marilyn Horne (who also deserves more consideration) are the last ones of the great soprano divas of the XXth. Montserrat Caballé, Callas, Jone Shuterland and Birgit Nelson are all gone. Here is her amazing interpretation of Forza del Destino by Verdi