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This thread really shouldn’t exist. Off topic clickbait being plastered by Crem and a few others is its only function.

Aussie actor Ray Lawler (wiki) died in Melbourne on Wednesday, aged 103, according to a lot of tributes flooding in on Facebook. Obit guaranteed. Maybe even a QO. At least @Bibliogryphon hopes so as he’s a unique pick of theirs on the DDP!

Ysanne Churchman (wiki) dead at 99. Straight to a BBC obit. A DDP hit for 4 teams.

Even I think this thread is shit.

Ysanne Churchman puts ladyfiona's Doctor Who team up to 2 hits.

Come on Grim Reaper do your work

"Aggedor, dor, dor, push pineapple shake the tree, Aggedor, dor, dor, push pineapple grind coffee..." (An oblique reference, I'll admit!). Ysanne Churchman died way back on 4 July, but we are only now being told the news. The Archers took aim and sent her on her way to Alpha Centauri. ladyfiona is on fire, gaining a fourth hit and we aren't even at the end of July. MariNisia gets hit number two and now has a decision as to whether to convert their Joker for their earlier hit or wait it out to see how the cards fall. At the moment, no bonuses. Biblio is awaiting a QO for Ray Lawler, but it's early in the day. Leaderboard updated.

Hospitalized with COVID and double pneumonia

Now I’m no expert in pointlessly whipping horses’ legs, but the opprobrium directed at this posho seems a trifle excessive. Having seen the offending video nasty, it doesn’t seem any worse than a jockey thrashing a horse’s arse a few times at the end of a race. After all, someone has to learn these ignorant geegees how to walk sideways to an ABBA song for our amusement, don’t they? It’s quite similar to the recent Strictly hoohah, mistreating dumb animals like Zara McThingamajig.

An actress but not on Doctor Who, rather she was the writer of the 1983 story Enlightenment.

Gu Shanqing dead at 92.

26th July 33 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved +4 32 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss -6 28 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 28 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 28 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 26 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 26 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 24 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 24 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 22 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 22 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 20 Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen — These Days 20 Drake — In My Feelings 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 20 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 20 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo 16 Drake — Nice For What 14 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 11 Drake — God’s Plan 08 Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran — River 08 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care 07 George Ezra — Shotgun 05 Lil Dicky ft. Chris Brown — Freaky Friday There you go. Be careful what you wish for I guess . I did the honour of listening to each and every one of them. Even put them in a spreadsheet with a remark.

American actress Marilyn Clark (IMDb) who appeared in movies and tv shows like Too Late Blues, Shadows, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, dead at 99 Edit: Her IMDb listed her birth year as 1929 but I changed because it was 1924.

What a diva!

Michael Chen dead at 92.

26.07.2024 38 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss +4 28 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 26 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo 26 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 26 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 26 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 25 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved 24 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 24 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 24 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 22 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 20 Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen — These Days 20 Drake — In My Feelings 20 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 20 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 16 Drake — Nice For What 14 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care  11 Drake — God’s Plan 11 Lil Dicky ft. Chris Brown — Freaky Friday 08 Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran — River -6 05 George Ezra — Shotgun Edit: Crazy how the new rules affect the game

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Sinaloa cartel top leader and "arguably the biggest drug lord in the world" arrested in Texas. Edit: Apparently suffers from leukemia.

Mick Jagger is 81.

Some other options to consider: Russell M Nelson (1924) Woody Woodbury (1924) Valdas Adamkus (1926) Estelle Parsons (1927) Jim Lovell (1928) Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Warren Buffett (1930) Jordi Pujol (1930) Silvia Pinal (1931) Maggie Smith (1934) Alan Bennett (1934)

No Guinea worm cases this year so far: https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/case-totals.html (Thanks, reddit...). It has been said that it's a race of who lives longer, the worm or Jimmy Carter.

Done.

My thoughts and opinions on a 2025 list: Keep (25) 1. Jimmy Carter (hospice) 2. Pete Murray (very frail) 3. Ethel Kennedy (very frail) 4. Cleo Laine (very frail) 5. Sonny Rollins (very old, terminally ill) 6. Imelda Marcos (diabetes, serious heart problems, ministrokes) 7. Ted Turner ("late stages" of lewy body dementia for a while now) 8. Roberta Flack (ALS, other ailments) 9. Esther Rantzen (terminal lung cancer) 10. Norman Tebbit (said to be very ailing) 11. Tom Brokaw (multiple myeloma) 12. Gene Hackman (frail, heart problems in the past) 13. Joanne Woodward (perennial dementia sufferer) 14. Stanley Baxter (no public appearances in years, care home, memory loss) 15. Nigel Starmer-Smith (dementia, bedbound for years) 16. Noam Chomsky (massive stroke) 17. Dennis Skinner (very ill for very long) 18. Hans Blix (TBE, housebound) 19. Jean-Marie Le Pen (heart failure, pulmonary oedema, stroke) 20. Willie Nelson (emphysema, other chronic health conditions) 21. Denis Law (mixed dementia for years) 22. Sly Stone (advanced COPD) 23. Clint Eastwood (increasingly frail, some health issues in the past, lost girlfriend recently) 24. Buzz Aldrin (former heavy drinker, a couple of health scares in the past) 25. Dick Cheney (enormous heart problems, see this - seems to have outlived all odds and the transplant won't last forever) Drop (21) going down from the worst drop 1. Tom Baker (weight loss, health issues) 2. Vanessa Redgrave (emphysema for a long time) 3. Brigitte Bardot (serious respiratory problems) 4. Daniel Barenboim (how ill is he?) 5. Prunella Scales (very, very slow dementia with this one) 6. Alan Greenspan (boring, but very old) 7. Dick Van Dyke (as above, but healthy too) 8. Robert Wagner (old, COPD, but doesn't seem ill enough yet) 9. Mel Brooks (very old but seems healthy and active) 10. Josef Fritzl (too stable for my liking) 11. James Whale (as above) 12. Pope Francis (recurring health problems, but has seemed better this year) 13. Louis Farrakhan (too stable for my liking) 14. Joe Bugner (severe dementia, but young and no reports of great decline) 15 / 16. Sandy Gall / Desmond Morris (seemingly healthy nonagenarians) 17. Linda Nolan (boring perennial drama queen) 18. Patricia Routledge (seemingly healthy nonagenarian and younger than most of the other healthy nonagenarians on the list) 19. Robert Duvall (yet another boringly healthy nonagenarian) 20. Raul Castro (looks, sounds amazing despite previous cancer rumors) 21. Julie Walters (past cancer) Return (4): 1. Yoko Ono (lewy body dementia for ages, other ailments) 2. Liza Minnelli (ailing for a very long time now) 3. David Attenborough (very old and should stay on the list until his death) 4. Douglas Hurd (very quiet for a long time) Add (21): 1. Michael Tilson Thomas (glioblastoma) 2. Mahathir Mohamad (enormous heart problems, very old) 3. Alain Delon (cancer) 4. Ruth Buzzi (dementia for ages, strokes) 5. Tippi Hedren (advanced dementia) 6. Sam Nujoma (tons of hospitalisations) 7. Kenneth Cope (perennial COPD sufferer) 8. Eva Marie Saint (very old) 9. June Spencer (as above) 10. Harald V of Norway (complicated health history, cancer and heart problems) 11. Sven-Göran Eriksson (pancan) 12. Sidney Cooke (how is he still alive?) 13. Tom Lehrer (frail forum favourite) 14. Geoffrey Boycott (cancer) 15. Gena Rowlands (advanced dementia) 16. Rupert Murdoch (tons of health problems) 17. King Salman of Saudi Arabia (dementia, tons of health problems) 18. David Irving (serious health problems) 19. David Graham (massive stroke, very old, very frail) 20. Jose Mujica (cancer and other health issues) 21. Alan Oppenheimer (seems very frail and pale)

7/26/2024 33 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved 32 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss 30 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road +2 30 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow +2 28 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 26 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 26 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 24 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 24 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 22 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 22 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 20 Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen — These Days 20 Drake — In My Feelings 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 20 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 20 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo 16 Drake — Nice For What 14 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 11 Drake — God’s Plan 08 Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran — River 08 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care 06 George Ezra — Shotgun -1 0 Lil Dicky ft. Rihanna Beater — Freaky Friday -5

Ysanne Churchman a hit for Bibliogryphon. Congratulations. New Round: 1924: Jimmy Carter / Priscilla Pointer 1925: David Graham / June Lockhart 1926: Abdoulaye Wade / Noreen Riols 1927: Alvin Rakoff / Cleo Laine 1928: Noam Chomsky / Hazel Ascot 1929: Charles Dumont / Violeta Chamorro 1930: Peter Procter / Gladys West 1931: James Earl Jones / Isabel Martinez de Peron 1932: Indarjit Singh / Antonia Fraser 1933: Alexander Mitta / Yoko Ono

Wang Huo turns 100. The article mentions that he had an intestinal surgery (from what I understand due to hernia or something similar) two months ago but now he is again in "good health". If nothing else will kill him, one day that pile will.