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My first DL dream: I dreamt that @drol stepped out in front of my hire car out here in Perth and I damn nearly ran him over. I started shouting at him but then I recognised him (he looked exactly like his pic, and, naturally, he was walking a dog that looked just like @theoldlady's pic) and then said hello. He replied to me that I didn't look anything like Ainsley Harriott and we had a laugh about Sri Sri.

Here is my brave 25 1. Donald Trump 2. Queen Elizabeth II 3. Linda Nolan 4. Dick Van Dyke 5. Paul Gascoigne 6. Prunella Scales 7. Stirling Moss 8. Henry Kissinger 9. Betty White 10. Olivia Newton-John 11. Terry Jones 12. Valerie Harper 13. George Alagiah 14. Jimmy Greaves 15. Pope Benedict XVI 16. Beth Chapman 17. Carol Channing 18. Doris Day 19. Billy Connolly 20. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 21. Leslie Phillips 22. Michael Robinson 23. Bob Dole 24. Jimmy Carter 25 . Bob Hawke Subs Prince Philip June Brown Marieke Vervoort Polite applause from the Members Stand for a very patient double century...... (post count).

RIP. My second for the year. Had the curious belief that the committee had her on their list ..... but not so. That means 2-nil to me at present.

Really sad But my first hit, a little happy

Big loss in official Deathlist and my first hit this year. Here is the Obit: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/carol-channing-dead-hello-dolly-broadway-age-death-a8728676.html RIP to one of the last Broadway legends

I also dreamed of msc! I think we know now who this guy is. Sadly i didn't dream of msc but i did dream johnathan king died. Might be wishful dreaming.

You need to choose a New Name and place it in the SAME slot you had Adamowicz. The January list does not take effect/start scoring until Tuesday, January 15th. The same goes for those who chose Shirley Boone, who died last Friday. See Worm Farmers 1st and 2nd postings.

Pheeewww!

Glam rock classic, or summat

RIP, my first hit of 2019! It's always sad when a truly entertaining person passes away, but she had a fullfilled life & reached a very high age.

Goodbye, Dolly. My mother hated her. I hope I had her in some pool just as a symbolic tip o the cap to me mum but I doubt it. SC

1) Marieke Vervoort 2) Queen Elizabeth 2 3) Donald Trump 4) Billy Connolly 5) Bill Turnbull 6) Dick van Dyke 7) Paul Gascoigne 8) Linda Nolan 9) Prunella Scales 10) Bob Hawke 11) Doris Day 12) Valerie Harper 13) Henry Kissinger 14) Jimmy Carter 15) Betty White 16) Terry Jones 17) Olivia Newton John 18) Prince Philip 19) Olivia De Havilland 20) Vera Lynn 21) George Alagiah 22) Nobby Stiles 23) Pete Frates 24) Clive James 25) John McCririck SUB: June Brown EDIT: Haha - well at least I managed to miss Carol Channing - some of you have had a lucky escape!!

Richard Franklin is 83 today! Geoffrey Beevers is 78 today!

Bingo! I hope I have made amendments (just now) to the opening rules post that clarifies what you just asked about, and more! Check it out Quim - and I hope it has addressed concerns by those who didn't like the original changes from last years game.

So, following the smackdown I received, I went and ran some numbers. This is the proportion of people aged 90 or more at the time they appeared on the list over the past decade. 2019 - 60% 2018 - 62% 2017 - 58% 2016 - 56% 2015 - 64% 2014 - 62% 2013 - 62% 2012 - 52% 2011 - 56% 2010 - 50% I'd call that inconclusive, although clearly my perception was wrong. 2019 certainly is right in the middle of the range of the past few years, but one could make the case for creeping inflation since 2010. Interestingly, 2012 was the last year that none of the top 5 was aged over 86 and we lost the entire top 3 that year.

1 ALAGIAH, GEORGE 2 ALI, FATIMA ------------------------------- JOKER 3 ANDRETTI, JOHN 4 ANOA'I, SAMU 5 BARKER, BOB 6 BENDRE, SONALI 7 BLANCO, KATHLEEN ----------------- JOKER 8 BRACKNELL, LEAH 9 CHAMORRO, VIOLETA 10 CHAPMAN, BETH 11 CLEGG, JOHNNY 12 CONWAY, NOEL 13 CONWAY, TIM 14 CURRY, TIM 15 de HAVILLAND, OLIVIA 16 DIGNAM, CHRISTY 17 DOLE, BOB 18 DOUGLAS, KIRK 19 DREWITT-BARLOW, TONY 20 FAIRLIE, ANDREW -----------------------JOKER 21 FRANKLAND, WILLIAM 22 FRATES, PETE 23 FREEHAN, BILL 24 GASCOINE, JILL 25 HAWKE, BOB 26 JAKES, MILOS 27 JAMES, CLIVE 28 JAMES, DEBORAH 29 JOHNSON, DEWAYNE 30 JONAS, PETER 31 JONES, TERRY 32 JOSE JOSE 33 KERSLAKE, LEE 34 McCRIRICK, JOHN 35 McGAHAN, ANDREW 36 MEAT LOAF 37 MOSS, STIRLING 38 MUGABE, ROBERT 39 NEWTON-JOHN, OLIVIA 40 NICHOLS, NICHELLE 41 PARKER, KERRI 42 PARRIKAR, MANOHAR 43 PEREZ de CUELLAR, JAVIER 44 POPE BENEDICT XVI 45 P-ORRIDGE, GENESIS 46 PRINCE PHILIP 47 RICKSEN, FERNANDO ---------------- JOKER 48 SCALES, PRUNELLA 49 TRINTIGNANT, JEAN-LOUIS ------ JOKER 50 WEIR, DODDIE SUB1 KUMAR, DILIP SUB2 LITTLE RICHARD SUB3 PROWSE, DAVID SUB4 GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL SUB5 BOWLEN, PAT

Florida representative Alcee Hastings has pancreatic cancer: http://www.dailyjournal.net/2019/01/14/us-alcee-hastings-cancer/ The 82-year old democrat is "optimistic" and plans to stay in office. I would post him in the Ideas and Possibilities thread... but I don't think he's going to make it that far. Edit: Meh, I should have said " I'm not optimistic". Stupid posting while being in the tram.

Translation: yer thinking of Ken for the Cup? Never mind Smith, if we get by the next 5 years without an Airey Neave situation I'll be impressed...

There was only 400 of the cuntos, yet seems to have been 50 "last of" in the last few Years. Alfred Newman the latest aged 94. https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/01/14/alfred-k-newman-among-last-navajo-code-talkers-has-died/2570535002/

Mentioned elsewhere today but you could do worse than go to the Deathrace thread, find the masterlist on the first page and start Googling anyone you don't know. But he sure to check the list of the lost above to make sure they're still alive

Literally 1/1,000,000,000.

OK.... so theme team descriptions are in, the celebs are all in alphabetical order, the two dead guys I've spotted so far have been removed, there's no longer two listings for Sikrit, Queen Mother of Thailand, front page is up to date... I'm gonna declare the 2019 DDP officially open. I put about £150 of my own money into getting the site transferred to a new host, sorting out a logo, buying a Wordpress design and hiring an IT guy from Pakistan to sort out the VBscript issues that were stopping the site for the past week. I was happy to give back to the DDP community, but if any of you want to buy me a virtual coffee you can do so here: https://ko-fi.com/spadecooley

Niki Lauda's stacking up the health issues and might well be a regular news story with hospital admissions going forward. Come a long way since the last rites in 1976, but unlikely to see very old age.

Username checks out.

Well, as they're dead, something for I'd imagine, is more accurate..........