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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

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.

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

4-Nov 78 Emeli Sande — Next To Me 62 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven 61 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason 44 Bastille — Pompeii 42 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 41 Nicki Minaj — Starships 32 Adele — Skyfall +4 27 Gary Barlow — Let Me Go 26 Bruno Mars — When I Was Your Man 23 Girls Aloud — Something New 22 One Direction — Best Song Ever 21 The Wanted — Chasing The Sun 21 The Vamps — Can We Dance 19 Example — Say Nothing 17 Avicii — Hey Brother 10 Dappy ft. Brian May — Rockstar 04 One Direction — Story Of My Life -6

There are 3 versions of that song as well, lol. I love the big belt Florence does near the end. Candi's extra lyrics and the production on the 1997 version win out for me.

I wouldn't say this is 100% true. Sexism certainly exists on some level in voting patterns. Hopefully we are at the point where it is a marginal one, but I'm not sure.

First past the post voting makes the problem even worse though. I voted for Labour in the last general election and I'm as happy to see the Tories gone as anyone, but let's not pretend winning 63% of seats on 34% of the vote is a great look for the UK (or US) electoral system as a whole.

Surely it's not hard to understand why mango would prefer an old, white, decrepit male. She isn't ticking any of the boxes for him.

Her run-on sentences and questions that take 30-60 seconds makes me turn her off or hit mute EVERY TIME!! Keeping Mitchell on as some tribute to a legend crap is not what broadcasting or any business should be about. At least Walter Cronkite retired when he was still at the top of his game (not that he had a choice).

So she's getting the Brokaw treatment? Unwilling to retire, but probably should, so she's going to occasionally report on something until her health forces her out completely?

I can see your point. He is looking very good in that picture, and I could see him surviving 2025 or even beyond if his health hold up. The DL Team are going to probably be making some hard choices soon on who to cut for next year as well. But Eastwood being the Icon he is would they want to take the chance that he may die and be one of the biggest misses that would probably be talked about for years on the site. If he was younger I would say sure take the chance. But being the age he is I don't know, it could be a risky cut .

Changed to Roy Clarke

Since the very notable names born in the 20s are fading out, here's a quick list, from 1924 to 1929, of the 10 people whose Wiki page was created the earliest, for each year. 1924 Jimmy Carter: former POTUS, Absolute King of Immortals, God of Deathlist Robert G. Shulman: American biophysicist, doing very well. Eve Marie Saint: American relic actress, in good health... 6 years ago. Tomiichi Murayama: Japanese PM, minor issues here and there. Khamtai Siphandone: likely on life support for a while, uberfrail. Charlie Smith Dannelly: North Carolina State Senator, doing well. Marshall Allen: Sun Ra Arkestra leader, doing unexplicably well for a hard-living character like him. William H. Webster: former FBI director, doing very well. Torsten Wiesel: Nobel Prize, doing very well despite having declined a bit recently. Lee Adams: Lyricist. 1925 Leo Esaki: Nobel Prize, still doing very well. Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian legendary PM, extensive heart issues, miracolusly doing well. Daniel J. Evans: senator and governor, frail but recently less frail than before. Ann Fagan Ginger: political activist, still doing well. Dick Van Dyke: DL legend, still doing very well. Roy Haynes: Jazz legend, unexplicably alive despite hard living for 99 years. Peter Murray: British DJ and DL pick, quite overdue at this point. Alan Bergman: recently widowed composer. Adele Addison: operatic singer, Van Vetchen's portrait, not seen in a while? June Lockhart: Lessie's mum and perennial dead pool pick, not seen in a while? 1926 Mel Brooks: comedy legend, still well, but won't be a surprising death just in case. David Attenborough: Brit legend who is reportedly doing well, but I think he has vastly declined recently. Alan Greenspan: US economist, fading from the public scene quickly. Jean-Pierre Serre: French mathematical genius, still acting as he is in his 30s, but for how long? Tsung Dao-lee: Nobel Prize and Immortal, not seen in years. Lou Donaldson: Jazz saxophonist and another unexplicably longeve guy. Gyorgy Kurtag: legendary composer, still giving interviews last year. Abdoulaye Wade: Senegalese president and Immortal. Rumoured dead multiple times, but seemingly unsinkable. Roscoe Bartlett: Legendary US representative, now living off-grid. George Ariyoshi: Hawaii governor, very frail for years. 1927 William J. Perry: Secretary of Defense who was scammed by Theranos, doing incredibly well. Herbert Blomstedt: Swedish conductor, hospitalised in December, but still working. Vernon L. Smith: autistic Nobel Prize, unsinkable. John Kander: composer, doing very well. Pierre Alechinsky: fuck, is he still alive? Major avant garde artist. Doc Severinsen: Jonny Carson's sidekick, doing well. LK Advani: BJP patriarch, frail. Marcel Ophuls: another one "still fucking alive"? William Labov: apparently huge name in sociology. Leontyne Price: American soprano, a bit overdue at this point. 1928 Desmond Morris: ethologist, DL pick, doing well. James Watson: Nobel Prize who faked dying for years in order to avoid obvious controversies stemming from his ideas. Noam Chomsky: DL pick, on the brink of death for months. Tom Lehrer: legendary comedic songwriter, very reclusive. Jean Marie Le Pen: immortal patriarch of French right wing, hospitalised multiple times in recent years, bit overdue. Zhu Rongji: Chinese PM, has suffered from Parkinson's for the last ten years, permanently hospitalised for five years. Hans Blix: OH, NO, HANS BRIX! Elias James Corey: Nobel Prize, father of the retrosynthetic approach and known in the field to be quite a slaver. John Little: MIT professor, Little's law namesake. Dr. Ruth Westheimer: survived massive stroke last year. 1929 Jurgen Habermas: disfigured German sociologist, WW2 veteran. Frank Gehry: legendary architect. Len Deighton: British writer who feels a bit overdue. Bob Newhart: Comedic genius who has been dying for the last five years. Alfred Moisiu: Overweight Albanian president, doing incredibly well. Eddie Stobart: agriculture fuhrer of UK, not seen in a while? Hal Lindsey: apocalyptic prophet, not seen in years. Eric Kandel: Nobel Prize, doing well as you expect from decrepit academics. Jim Whittaker: legendary climber and mountaineer, going strong. Ramon Luis Rivera: Puerto Rican retired politician, looks frail.