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    Political Frailty

    Former leader of Wigan Metropolitan Council and Labour politician, elevated to the peerage, Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh, dead at 76: https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-08-03/tributes-to-former-wigan-council-leader-lord-peter-smith
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    People Who Are Dead According To Wikipedia...

    Charles Connor - American drummer with Little Richard and James Brown et al. Thea White - voice actress for Muriel Bagge in Courage The Cowardly Dog and former wife of sometime drummer involved with the Beatles, Andy White. Rather more Twitter chatter about Thea White, but chatter - no real reliable sources.
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    The Deathlist Poker Tournament 2021

    Dead So Far: Anne Stallybrass - 3 July - Obit Rick Laird - 4 July - Obit Stan Swamy - 5 July - Obit Gillian Sheen Donaldson - 5 July - Obit Axel Kahn - 6 July Dilip Kumar - 7 July - Obit Carlos Reutemann - 7 July - Obit Jehan Sadat - 9 July - Obit Ernie Moss - 11 July - Obit Renee Simonot - 11 July - Obit Mick Bates - 12 July - Obit Edwin Edwards - 12 July - Obit Paul Orndorff - 12 July - Obit Gary Corbett - 14 July - Obit Mary Ward - 19 July - Obit Brian Henderson - 5 August - Obit Gertrude Annie Kingston - ? August 2021 Patricia Hitchcock - 9 August - Obit Gerd Muller - 15 August - Obit Paul Mitchell III - 15 August - Obit Perhaps: 423 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Sadat; Orndorff) (Sub: Swamy [4 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [4]) Cards Played: Salmon Mousse: 412 Points (Reutemann; Orndorff; Henderson; Muller) (MD: Jul [Q]) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 410 Points (Kumar; Reutemann; Laird; Orndorff) (Sub: Henderson [3 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [7]) Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 360 Points (Sheen; Reutemann; Muller) (MD: Jul [5]) Cards Played: Baby Blue: 319 Points (Reutemann; Edwards; Corbett) (MD: Jul [9]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 317 Points (Swamy, Laird; Bates) (Sub: Kumar [5 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [7]) Cards Played: Banana: 311 Points (Kumar: Laird; Corbett) (MD: Jul [J]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 258 Points (Kumar; Muller) (Sub: P. Mitchell [6 Spades]) (MD: Jul [2]) Cards Played: Caleb H: 224 Points (Simonot; Ward) (Sub: Hitchcock [K Clubs]) (MD: Jul [6]) Cards Played: msc: 221 Points (Laird; Bates) (Sub: Orndorff [10 Clubs]) (MD: Jul [J]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 114 Points (Kumar) (MD: Jul [A]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 114 Points (Ward) (MD: Jul [A]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 103 Points (Muller) (MD: Jul [3]) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 103 Points (Simonot) (MD: Jul [3]) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 102 Points (Laird) (MD: Jul [2]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 14 Points (Sub: Stallybrass [3 Diamonds]) (MD: Jul [J]) Grim Up North: 13 Points (Sub: Moss [4 Hearts]) (MD: Jul [9]) GuyFromFuture: 13 Points (MD: Jul [K]) Toast: 13 Points (MD: Jul [K]) Gooseberry Crumble: 12 Points (MD: Jul [Q]) Sean: 12 Points (MD: Jul [Q]) DeathByArsenic: 9 Points (MD: Jul [9]) Great Uncle Bulgaria: 5 Points (MD: Jul [5]) YoungWillz: 5 Points (MD: Jul [5])
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    The Deathlist Poker Tournament 2021

    It's been a month already! It's gone faster than Dina Asher-Smith, like most of the girls who competed against her. At least we made the final! Anyhow, here is the monthly Card Roulette Draw: Timestamp: 2021-07-31 11:44:48 UTC Means everyone will now be on the Leaderboard, which shall be updated shortly.
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    Doctor Who

    Look, for years it's been about relationships - like Press Gang without the charm. Tate - Tennant was probably the golden era of the present run. Precisely because they emphasised the story over the relationship like of old, whereas almost every other assistant wanted to bang the Doctor (and if they didn't - Rory - they kept punishing by killing him!)? Get a room in a fanfiction forum, say I! And @msc as you well know, I go waaay back to the start of the Pertwee era!
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    Doctor Who

    Unsaveable. Too much soap opera, not enough science, now John Bishop?
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    The Deathlist Poker Tournament 2021

    Been a while, hasn't it? I'm not aware at the point of writing of any further deaths. As we will all be congregating for a Zoom call for the Card Roulette draw tomorrow, just a reminder that you might want to let me know of anybody who has reached their use by date!
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    Korean War Vets

    Gawd knows why I picked this thread, but Native American actor and singer Saginaw Grant has reportedly died aged 85: https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/american-indian-actor-saginaw-grant-85-passes-away Various appearances on TV and film, however, British interest as he appeared as a medicine man in episodes of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in a later (let's call it less than good) series when they located to America. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0335636/ Edit: I'll point for the benefit of @gcreptile that he's a DDP Pick.
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    Glen Michael

    Speaks out to The Times, describing his fright and loneliness after becoming widowed: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/glen-michael-reveals-loneliness-of-life-as-a-widower-2z95j9rb6 Sorry if you thought he was deid. I hope you didn't feel afraid or lonely....
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    British Science Fiction Series

    He's the rat scratches and bites guy!
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    Nobel Prize In Death

    Japanese media reporting that Toshihide Maskawa, Physics Laureate from 2008, has died aged 81: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210729/k10013168691000.html
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    Former First Ladies

    Janet Banana has lost her a-peel. She dead. https://news.pindula.co.zw/2021/07/29/former-first-lady-janet-banana-dies-aged-83/
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    British Science Fiction Series

    Clive Scott, South African actor who spent a bit of time in the UK and in particular played Arthur Linwood in The Mind Of Evil for Doctor Who (can't be many survivors from that now), dead at 84: https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2021-07-29-tributes-pour-in-for-tv-veteran-and-comedian-clive-scott-who-has-died-aged-84/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778982/
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    Derby Dead Pool 2021

    @msc Hey if I'm goin to be an also-ran, might as well be a stylish also-ran. Unfortunately, I think that was true last year, but unless people start falling off the perch, it won't even be stylish!
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    Back to the Future

    Well Dusty Hill did appear in BTTF III, so there's that for this thread now he is dead. In passing, Hill is also a miss for my 1985 TOTP Theme Team this year, having hit #16 with Legs that year. Bloody typical, been meaning to pick him out but with the ZZ Top theme teams always given them a bye.
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    FIFA World Cup Players

    Honduran player at the 1982 Finals, Porfirio Betancourt reportedly dead from the COVID: https://www.eastafricanewspost.com/world-cup-player-with-honduras-dies-in-spain-82-porfirio-armando-betancourt-victim-of-covid-19-diez/
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    Van Halen

    It's the lederhosen isn't it? (I have a thing for that too, but poor Maria Mathis, she gave her heart and soul to that song!).
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    Van Halen

    Just trotting through 1989 for my research for my theme team - yeah, waaay ahead of the game. Anyway, just for example, this reached #5 in the UK charts - jaunty, but wtf?!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHKuvWh4Dm8
  19. I'm copyrighting "We Didn't Start The Pyre" when he goes....
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    Paul Daniels

    Barry Murray, record producer for Mungo Jerry, writer on the Paul Daniels Magic Show and co-creator of the seminal kids' programme Wizbit, being reported dead by the lovely Debbie McGee:
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    Scientists, Inventors And Techno Wizards

    Reports filtering through that Albert Bandura, an apparent giant in the field of psychology and DDP Pick 2021, has died at the age of 95:
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    Dead Pop Stars

    Interview with Teddie Chinery for The Times (Paywalled): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-beverley-sisterss-last-surviving-member-teddie-on-1950s-megastardom-dwzd2wzxr However, there is a photo, and she looks good. Edit: The Times used Beverley Sisters's? Really? Surely it should be Sisters'.
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    Carry On Dying

    Well, I'm going to say Brian Osborne was in 6 Carry On movies. And he now has a Stage Obituary, having died earlier this month: https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/brian-osborne-stage-tv-actor IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651623/
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    Lynch Mob

    Rick Aiello dead from pancreatic cancer: https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/27/danny-aiello-son-rick-dead-pancreatic-cancer/
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    Cricket Thread. Only Mad Dogs And Englishmen

    Mike Hendrick is dead according to Derbyshire:
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