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Janey Godley Has Died... ...but I haven't updated for Bob Newhart's death yet. To be honest, I've been putting this off for months due to an annoying combination of 1: Newhart seemingly being very famous with a long illustrious career, and 2: me personally having no idea who he is. I don't mind not having heard of them when I only have a Wikipedia stub's worth of reading to do – pretty straightforward to get the gist of "Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1971)" – but having to read up on 6 decades of American TV, up to and including The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon? Kill me. Anyway, I've finally got my act together, and here's my thoughtful, well-researched obit: Looks like Bob really will need a "New hart" now!!! You're welcome. Here are the belated scores for after Newhart's death. If you're still doing well here, relish it before I write up Janey Godley's annihilation of you. GAINED TOTAL = 1. wannamaker 0 = 1. The Old Crem 0 = 1. MariNisia 0 = 1. Pedro67 0 = 1. machotrouts 0 = 6. Summer in Transylvania 1 ▲ 7. ladyfiona 3 ▲ 8. The Immortal +1 4 ▲ 9. Grimgrass 5 ▲ 9. deadsox 5 ▲ 9. An Fear Beag 5 ▼ 12. Clorox Bleachman +5 6 ▲ 12. Bibliogryphon 6 ▼ 14. Nick +5 7 ▲ 14. Toast 7 ▲ 14. Captain Hemlock 7 ▲ 14. CastAway 7 ▼ 18. Hell +7 8 ▲ 18. Death Impends 8 ▲ 20. TQR +1 10 ▲ 20. Spade_Cooley 10 ▲ 20. Great Uncle Bulgaria 10 ▲ 20. Annami 10 ▲ 20. Lafaucheuse 11 ▲ 20. YoungWillz 11 ▼ 26. Funeralopolis +5 12 ▼ 26. arghton +3 12 ▲ 28. Newjack 14 ▲ 28. LizLemon 14 ▲ 30. Perhaps 17 ▲ 30. Book 17 ▲ 32. tracy 20 ▲ 33. The Unknown Man 21 ▲ 34. Sleepiestpeep 22 ▼ 35. Torva Messor +10 23 ▼ 36. theoldlady +19 24 ▲ 37. CaptainChorizo 25 = 38. Famous6Eva +3 26 ▲ 38. MortalCaso 26 ▼ 40. maryportfuncity +4 27 ▼ 41. BuffaloPhil +4 28 ▲ 41. Joltin Joe +1 28 ▲ 43. YorkshireBanker 33 = 44. Bentrovato +5 36 ▲ 44. Sideik 36 ▼ 46. JoeMoneypenny +16 37 ▼ 47. En Passant +2 38 = 48. livingbygrace 39 = 48. max_bossetti 39 ▲ 50. chilean way 41 ▼ 51. Thatcher 42 ▼ 52. MalePoster +4 43 ▲ 52. diego 43 ▲ 54. gcreptile 52 ▲ 55. msc 53 ▲ 56. GuyFromFuture 63 ▼ 57. machotrouts' mum +17 68

Another fucking expert.

Quincy Jones is a hit for @Azrael. Congratulations. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/quincy-jones-musician-michael-jackson-producer-dies next round: 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Ella Jenkins 1925 Calvin Tomkins / Ruth Slenczynska 1926 Philip Springer / Barbara Clegg 1927 Hy Eisman / Estelle Parsons 1928 Bob Cousy / Marion Ross 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Sonny Rollins / Joanne Woodward 1931 Edwin Meese III / Carroll Baker 1932 John Nott / Nancy Kassebaum 1933 John Boorman / Bernadette Chirac

Completely agree with this. I'm utterly unimportant around here, I do a few deadpools when I can devote the effort to it and make some lame jokes - that's it. @GisoooYou put heaps of work in but in areas people like me have little interest in, obscure names to a lot of people and certainly me. So if I haven't thanked you it's only because the work you do isn't the sort of thing I can generally be arsed with, that doesn't mean it isn't extraordinarily useful to a bunch of folk hereabouts because it definitely is. TL:DR You do work I wouldn't touch if you paid me. I make dumb jokes and annoy trolls. Both kinds make the world go around.

With the greatest respect possible, most people aren't going to be especially interested in obscure actors who had two credits in the 1970s. Your research is laudable and you must devote to it a lot of time (if the GRO cases I supply dates to you for is only a fraction, I can't imagine how long it must take you to collate all your cases) but if it's becoming a chore as opposed to a hobby then a break is probably sensible. People will always welcome you here.

Reportedly considering another run for Mayor of New York. Notably, in the article it is reported that he says he has 9/11 related lung disease.

On days like these, I think about, what might have been for the 2024 DL

I think there might be a big possibility that picking Walz over Shapiro could cost Kamala the election

Quncy Jones death here reminds us all that Harry Belafonte and Tito Jackson are also gone from the OP. (From a quick scan). Edit: and Tina Turner.

Thanks @MariNisia 1924 - Walter Bingham / Libia Lobo Sardesai 1925 - Tony Christopher / Phyllis Dalton 1926 - David Frankham / Berta Loran 1927 - Yuri Grigorovich / Rosemary Harris 1928 - James Watson/ Nancy Olson 1929 - Mark Rydell / Patricia Routledge 1930 - Gene Hackman / Lois Smith 1931 - Robert Duvall / Claire Bloom 1932 - John Williams / Petula Clark 1933 - Michael Caine / Sian Phillips

Queen Ratna of Nepal hospitalised , of course stable and to be discharged in a few days.

Or as the great Librettist W.S.Gilbert wrote in Trial by Jury: She may very well pass for 42 In the dusk with the light behind her

This thread is making the Jimmy Carter one seem like a breath of fresh air

Wrong. It's not the gender that matters, it's the ideology. Unfortunately, to get to such a position requires a certain level of narcissism and ruthlessness and that's why our female PMs haven't exactly been pillars of virtue either.

Hope to have next update soon... Alberto Fujimori Barbara Leigh-Hunt Christoph Daum David Graham Ethel Kennedy Janey Godley John Amos Lily Ebert All the hits since last time I can glean from the master list. Denys Graham pending QO. And Edna May Wonacott died off radar.

Well, even if you "don’t deal with big and important names", I think everyone (well at least me) can appreciate the efforts and work you put into finding deaths. To me who’s relatively new on this forum, you’re an example (along with @Octopus of Odstock, @Ulitzer95, @arghton, @drol, @whoismakoto…)for how to "improve" like drol said. Keep on the excellent work !

Your contributions are valuable and you have enormously improved since you joined. You are a well respected member now.

Thanks for letting us know - spelling names correctly is important or else they will be missed, a friendly reminder if you enter this (and other deathlist competitions) again But easily fixed when you remind us I see we already tracked you for Fujimori (also spelled incorrectly based on the most common english spelling) but in a revised version it got fixed back down from 9 to 8, but that's an easy fix. Apologies for that mistake - part of why I manually track the score changes so that mistakes can be identified and remedied Alberto Fujimori* theoldlady 8+1 Jane Godley theoldlady 9+1 Scoreboard gcreptile 21/50 Book 19/50 BuffaloPhil 17/50 Prophet 17/50 Max_bossetti 16/50 CaptainChorizo 16/50 The Immortal 16/50 Wannamaker 15/50 Philip 15/20 Nick 15/50 MariNisia 15/50 Thatcher 15/50 six feet blunder 14/50 jonnythegamemaster 14/50 Sean 13/50 Charles De Gaulle 13/50 St3ve 13/50 Torva Messor 12/50 Salmon Mousse 12/50 Steve 12/50 Markb4 12/50 polar duck 12/50 Ladyfiona 12/50 Diego 12/50 MrShadrak 12/50 Joltin Joe 11/50 Death Duke 11/50 Bibliogryphon 11/50 Heiheiheihei 11/50 LWCZ 11/50 DeathBecomesThem 11/50 John Key 10/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 10/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 10/50 The Daredevil 10/50 Perhaps 10/50 LizLemon 10/50 theoldlady 10/50 Superstar 9/50 Imelda 9/50 TQR 9/50 dimreaper 9/50 Windsor 9/50 Brad252 9/50 livingbygrace 8/50 Grimgrass 8/50 The Old Crem 8/50 Hell 7/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 7/50 Earl 6/50 Redrumours 6/50 Arghton 5/50 Pop_Zeus 5/50 Main Deathlist 5/50 Morrisey 5/50 Tomtomtelekom 5/50 Trome 5/50 Johnnas 4/50 Khthonia 4/50 Gooseberry Crumble 2/50 Kissofdeath 1/50 Nasquacker 1/50

Conspiracy theory time... Iowa wasn't exactly on the minds of pollsters this year, and so not many polls were actually conducted. But curiously, within 24 hrs after the Selzer poll, three republican-affiliated polls appeared, showing Trump +7, Trump +8, Trump +9: https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1853284236112871763 Trump won the state in 2020 by +8, so it looks like these polls show that not much has changed here. Especially the Emerson poll is curious. It was sponsored by "RealClearDefense" and came out basically simultaneous to the Selzer poll. RealClearDefense is an off-shoot of the RealClearPolitics site. It's unclear why a news aggregator blog would want to sponsor a poll. It is becoming increasingly more likely to me that a lot of these polls are fake. It happened in 2022, too, lots of polls predicting a "red wave" that never came. This year, it's even worse - as "normal" pollsters go out of business and journalism has to cut costs. Simon Rosenberg keeps an eye on these "red wave" pollsters on X: https://x.com/SimonWDC/status/1853214212048228543 He mentions some of these outfits that are decidely partisan like InsiderAdvantage. He counts over 70 polls in the last week that are probably narrative-setting polls. Over 50% of all polls! Most notorious of these "we're independent, but actually not" pollsters is, of course, Rasmussen Reports. Mark Mitchell, the Rasmussen Reports CEO has tweeted that unfortunately, Selzer came out too late for them to "prove them wrong": https://x.com/Mark_R_Mitchell/status/1852857348580356348 Because for Republicans, the polls are a partisan issue, another tool in their arsenal to influence elections. It's an "us vs. them" thing. He thinks that the Selzer poll was made on purpose to suppress republican turnout, ignoring that this poll has been around for decades. It's also projection. The republican polling forms try to establish the idea that Trump is ahead by a lot, and if he loses, it can only be because of fraud (the Trump campaign has already started to claim fraud before the votes are actually counted). Especially, the Iowa situation tells me that republican pollsters not only put their thumb on the scale, they probably fake results outright. As a consequence, I believe that the following polling outfits are probably useless: - InsiderAdvantage - Trafalgar - Emerson College - TIPP - Morning Consult - Rasmussen Reports - Atlas Intel - every pollster associated with Tony Fabrizio - American Greatness Edit: - Mitchell Research

Oh I think it was more than likely just old age.

Manhunt underway after 17 people shot dead in two homesteads in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx25vperv9go

To play devil's advocate, she's exactly the type of person who should not be famous. It's all she's known as an adult, and she absolutely could not get a regular job without daily harassment and stalking. I would be taking my kit off, too. She's demonised more by much of the general public for being a 'whore' and having weans by different men than for legit reasons like drink driving (which is a by-product of being unstable and unable to handle fame). She's like Kim K but without a huge support network or enough money to never fail. Which is why she has, many times. At this point, certain figures barely do anything to promote themselves, because tabloids will do 95% of the work by scraping a few social media posts. They wouldn't be doing it if they weren't still making money off her name, and I'd bet those clicks come from holier-than-thou hypocrites who love telling folk they don't care about useless daft bimbos. Needed to say that. This will be my last time defending Katie Price.

Was watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents (later called The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) earlier, and was curious to see who's still around. Of the 361 episodes that aired from 1955 and 1965, only two of its many directors are still living: George Stevens Jr. (wiki, born 1932) and Lewis Teague (wiki, born 1938). Of its cast, the following (with Wiki pages) are still living: June Lockhart (wiki, born 1925) – oldest surviving but actually starred in one of the last episodes Dick Van Dyke (wiki, born 1925) David Frankham (wiki, born 1926) Barbara Dane (wiki, born 1927) Betty Harford (wiki, born 1927) Rosemary Harris (wiki, born 1927) Peter Walker (wiki, born 1927) H. M. Wynant (wiki, born 1927) Kathleen Hughes (wiki, born 1928) Nancy Olson (wiki, born 1928) Rachel Ames (wiki, born 1929) Vera Miles (wiki, born 1929) – the star of the very first episode Bob Newhart (wiki, born 1929) Ann Robinson (wiki, born 1929) Clint Eastwood (wiki, born 1930) Will Hutchins (wiki, born 1930) Gena Rowlands (wiki, born 1930) Nita Talbot (wiki, born 1930) Joanne Woodward (wiki, born 1930) Barbara Barrie (wiki, born 1931) Angie Dickinson (wiki, born 1931) Robert Duvall (wiki, born 1931) Darryl Hickman (wiki, born 1931) William Shatner (wiki, born 1931) Neile Adams (wiki, born 1932) Antoinette Bower (wiki, born 1932) Felicia Farr (wiki, born 1932) Gary Clarke (wiki, born 1933) Pat Crowley (wiki, born 1933) Kathleen Nolan (wiki, born 1933) Tom Skerritt (wiki, born 1933) Joby Baker (wiki, born 1934) Richard Chamberlain (wiki, born 1934) Joyce Van Patten (wiki, born 1934) Rex Holman (wiki, born 1935) Nancy Kovack (wiki, born 1935) Ruta Lee (wiki, born 1935) Joyce Meadows (wiki, born 1935) Nicholas Pryor (wiki, born 1935) Burt Brinckerhoff (wiki, born 1936) Bruce Dern (wiki, born 1936) Evans Evans (wiki, born 1936) Walter Koenig (wiki, born 1936) Susan Kohner (wiki, born 1936) Robert Redford (wiki, born 1936) John Wilder (wiki, born 1936) Zohra Lampert (wiki, born 1937) Barbara Steele (wiki, born 1937) Gus Trikonis (wiki, born 1937) Danielle De Metz (wiki, born 1938) Billy Gray (wiki, born 1938) Dolores Hart (wiki, born 1938) Anne Helm (wiki, born 1938) Chris Robinson (wiki, born 1938) Buck Taylor (wiki, born 1938) Lee Majors (wiki, born 1939) Eileen O'Neill (wiki, born 1939) Katharine Ross (wiki, born 1940) Susan Hart (wiki, born 1941) Jimmy Hawkins (wiki, born 1941) Tom Lowell (wiki, born 1941) Gigi Perreau (wiki, born 1941) Randy Boone (wiki, born 1942) Susan Silo (wiki, born 1942) Harry Shearer (wiki, born 1943) – child actor Cathie Taylor (wiki, born 1944) Marta Kristen (wiki, born 1945) – child actress Michael Burns (wiki, born 1947) – child actor Mimi Gibson (wiki, born 1948) – child actress Barry Gordon (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Gary Hunley (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Tom Nolan (wiki, born 1948) – child actor Veronica Cartwright (wiki, born 1949) – child actress Evelyn Rudie (wiki, born 1949) – child actress Mickey Sholdar (wiki, born 1949) – child actor Angela Cartwright (wiki, born 1952) – child actress Bill Mumy (wiki, born 1954) – child actor The most recent cast members to die were Jackie Loughery (wiki, 1930–2024), William O'Connell (wiki, 1929–2024), Mark Damon (wiki, 1933–2024), and Dabney Coleman (wiki, 1932–2024).

TQR's facepalms be damned, I'm going to post the following images of Carter that weren't posted previously. These are actually the last photographs likely ever to be taken of Carter, taken when he was driven from his wife's funeral on November 29, 2023. I think he looks frailer than Prince Philip when he was driven from the hospital for the last time, though I'd be interested to know what anyone else here might think.