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Happy 95th birthday president Carter The first US president to live to this age

Goodness gracious.

This biggest misses by the committee thing again? I'm not certain how many times it's been re-iterated that DL started in the UK and it is still a UK committee (afaik, I'm not privy to such information) but it's more than a few. Why do these folk who are not famous at all in the UK keep getting tagged as (enter hyperbole of choice) misses? Rant done.

I didn't know either that it's your favourite Cream track

theoldlady (9) cap'n chorizo msc (10) bibliogryphon QE 2 flair bracknell ferlinghetti bracknell s carter douglas gilbert carter s QE 2 s prince p QE 2 s kissinger newton-john lynn flair s p-orridge gascoine deCuellar kissinger s reiner lear scales nolan redstone reiner s gilbert s pope ben XVI barker eden nolan s shultz cardin littlefeather vervoort james kerslake deCuellar s rogers eden s We are really getting down to the titans of the game. I see a potential weakness in this format, and that is that with fewer teams remaining, fewer names get selected and there is less chance for an elimination. So from this month on, points scored without elimination will carry over into the next round. For example, if only the queen mum goes this round, theoldlady will be eliminated, but both Cap'n Cho and Biblio will carry 8 pts with them into the next round. Meaning msc will have a head start for the next round. Right now all teams are equal in all respects. An "s" after a name means you are safe if it is the only hit this round. Biblio has 4 of them, so you might consider him to have the safest list and best chance of moving on to the next round. We will see if that pans out. Enjoy the obits!

Jacques Villeneuve, F1 champion Fergal Lawler, Cranberries drummer

That is just too fucking scary for words!

Too soon. Leontyne Price (Born 1927) is still alive. One of the greatest names in opera.

Latin American doesn't really permeate UK music that often. The better US/Mexico analogy here is the UK/France, and look how often French folk wind up on the DL...

Jerry Lewis died a few years ago

3 entries in so far.

Shyster Louisiana attorney William Gee Shyster UK attorney Boris Johnson

You are a lost cause.

She died last week! Body is very cold so cold she probably turned white I just hope she checks her privilege. Sorry but I hate racists,alot of her shit was blaming whites for how they were born I.E skin colour.

Yikes Body not even cold and you're already trumpeting some dumb boomer bs

Wow, someone I've heard of.

Jessye Norman, a legendary opera singer and four-time Grammy winner, has died. She was 74. https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2019/9/30/20892324/jessye-norman-dead-at-74-opera-star

Not forgetting Patricia Routledge

I'll organise the Noughties game. 0/00 Lists required of zero people born in the noughties. Probably need to come up with a tiebreaker.

So running with the same three loosely themed teams in sequence perpetually with minimal tweaks wasn't a winning strategy. Who knew? (To be fair, I intended to be slightly less lazy in the unlikely event that I ever got to the final two).

Obviously Alex Trebek should he survive the end of this year. Eva Marie Saint should also be up for consideration as she's 95 now

I was watching that movie "The Queen" last week and was reminded that "Queen Mum" aka Sylvia Syms OBE is still alive. She was mentioned here many years ago and spoke last year of a couple of health problems. Her public appearances since then have notably declined: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6359803/My-life-lens-Actress-Sylvia-Syms-84-shares-stories-favourite-snaps.html

Well, fuck 2016... I like to think that Bob Dylan's songs inspired a generation but Leonard Cohen's songs inspired all of mankind.

Im sure there are but, ya know, the whole point of starting a topic, even if its shite like this, is to keep the place alive and ticking over etc. Very nice link but............. Its for the good folk of DL to come up with ones, right? OK, how about this one: Caitlyn Jenner and Suzie Dent. I don't know which one I feel more sorry for. Well one of them hangs out with a bunch of annoying nerds all day, who administer a very dull form of entertainment that is showing the strain and many people think it should be put to bed. And the other one probably can't afford to live in Hollywood on her Channel 4 salary.

David Akers-Jones, a former Chief Secretary for Administration and Governor of Hong Kong, has died. He was 92. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/09/30/ex-colonial-chief-sec-hong-kong-david-akers-jones-dies-aged-92/