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Indeed - if he can't walk he's wheely ill!

Cooper has a mirror obit which I believe counts. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-george-cooper-dead-grange-13641234

Snaps with dead gramps!

It’s that time of year again, where we make suggestions to the committee about our favorite cowboy from Iowa and co but get completely ignored by the committee. So who do you think should make the deathlist in 2019?

I was the only one to pick Kevin Austin here. Him and Lima will help my chances of winning this...

And obits now appearing for George A. Cooper. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-george-cooper-dead-grange-13641234 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6426229/Grange-Hill-actor-George-Cooper-dies-aged-93.html

The man who'll be in the earth...

Confirmed. BBC obit Ricky Jay, American magician and actor, dies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46333968

Ricky Jay, famed magician and actor, dead at 72 according to news sources... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/ricky-jay-dead-magician-boogie-nights-actor-dies-at-72-1163708

Magician Ricky Jay is dead according to Twitter...

I too, am in. also, @Phantom would be interested in this i think.

OK here's some actionable info to update people: First, Mr. Wangford (took his name after birthplace it appears) Birth name Samuel Hutt Born 15 November 1940 (age 78) Wangford, Suffolk, England June Watson was born in 1935 in Edinburgh, Scotland as Agnes June Watson. EDIT: You can also put for Jeff Sessions, "FORMER Atty Gen under Turmp"

Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is among the most onanistic drivel I have ever seen, a plotless half-arsed amalgamation of Bunuel, Polanski and Woody Allen-style satire (no jokes please ) but with virtually no redeeming qualities. Said to be the catalyst for Aronofsky’s break up with Jennifer Lawrence, who has the misfortune to star in this bilge. I normally love most of his work but I haven’t yet forgiven him for this celluloid abomination

A well-known German base jumper has died during an attempted jump in Portugal, German media report. I don't understand why reporters keep getting this wrong. The jump was perfectly executed. It was the landing that was botched.

Is Nicolas Roeg dead?

Thought I'd share some moments from a gig I went to last night. The Kieran Poole Show is a good idea (plays pubs in the arse-end of the south east, combines comedians and has a general theme of exploring the shittest jobs anyone's ever done): https://www.facebook.com/TheKieranPooleShow/ Top gag last night was one comedian kidding on he hid his comedy career from his mum and pretended he was going out on a date. When she asked who he was seeing he said "I have a date with destiny" the punchline being..."that's when I realised my mother is a racist!" A few other gags from Mike Kelson were so old school they were back in Bernard Manning territory, one about converting a lesbian by taking her to Twickenham and kicking her over the posts being par for the course. Another one revolved around a girl with massive breasts getting hurt by falling through a glass table - the punchline being "I said 'You've got a nasty gash' and she said 'with tits the size of these people don't usually notice it" Then he told one about a catholic priest who won a bucking bronco competition largely because his favourite choir boy was an epileptic!

Geoffrey Chater, actor and poet will be 98 in March

King Albert II of Belgium: frail health, family problems, ...

So I did a full ranking for the top 50 candidates for the first time, and it looks to be extremely competitive for those who have appeared on the 2018 list, as right now 20 of the top 30 spots are filled with folk who made the 2018 list and a name did have to be disqualified from the list due to the no more than 25 carry over rule. The bigger excitement, however, is that someone unexpectedly is in the top 50 at this point and time. It’s a name that I have pushed for to make this list in the past.

George A. Cooper was one of Toast's 3, meaning 3 teams are now on the leaderboard. One slight issue... Neither Cooper nor Will Jordan have DDP-equivalent obits thus far. Could @Bibliogryphon tell us if their deaths are still hits?

1. Don't pick prisoners on compassionate leave, you know they only bluffing cuz they wanna go home 2. Don't let breast cancer patients in, they have significantly longer stage 4 survival rates than other cancer 3. Don't be Ryan Buell's friend. Seriously, don't.

The rules will be identical except BBC regional news will return as an accepted QO. There's a very boring technical issue with the site that has held me up for about a month from doing anything important, which I won't dull you with. However, I think 2019 should see the end of "updates" in the traditional sense...

Peter Flak has dyslexia.