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Can't honestly say I have seen anything after III. However, Carrie Fisher touching up an 11yo Warwick Davis in a cosplay kind of erotica?

Hmm, let me see. UK based deathlist picks John Lewis. 90 percent of the UK goes "Daft idiots, picking a department store to die!" Sadly, it's a fact....he isn't deathlisty for UK-ers. I appreciate the US side of the argument, take it to a US deathlist. (Whaur's my Union Flag to wave? )

Bang! And the year is (almost) gone. Here's my 12, personally speaking: January: James Ingram February: Karl Lagerfeld March: Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock April: Les Reed May: IM Pei/OldWillz June: Franco Zeffirelli July: Sid Ramin August: Toni Morrison September: Robert Mugabe October: Alexei Leonov November: Jonathan Miller December: Jerry Herman

Nup, couldn't find enough on him and relatively recent fatherhood seems to be treating him kindly. Let's say if I don't have at least 7 uniques on my team, I'll be disappointed.

Ha! Not really, there really are sicker candidates out there. Which probably means I'll miss a huge name. It wouldn't surprise me if Wonder went next year, but maybe he has the Poitier gene? One I looked at hard was Wayne Hussey from Dead Or Alive, thereafter The Mission. Looks and sounds like a sack of awfulness, but still touring/doing interviews and seemingly loving it. He'd be a good outside bet.

My word, Colin Farrell (the Northern comedy actor) turned up in the Iceland 5 Gold Rings ad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LoO8BxfzOg Was in Oh What A Lovely War, but I remember him best from In Loving Memory and Porridge. He's 81, you know. Wonder how Equity get round the fact that the original and best Colin's come out of retirement?

As a tribute to the Max von Sydow naysayers on here and again prodding fate in the chest: "Flash, Flash, I love you. But we only have a little over 60 hours to win this thing!"

Here's a wee list of those I considered and rejected for my TOTP theme team for 2020 (Acts who had a top 30 UK hit in 1984): Jay Aston - #15 Talking In Your Sleep (Bucks Fizz) Frank Beard - #10 Gimme All Your Lovin' (ZZ Top) Michael Caine - #11 Michael Caine (Madness) Malcolm Holmes - #5 Locomotion (OMD) Elton John - #5 Passengers Ian McCulloch - #9 The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen) Morrissey - #10 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (The Smiths) Anita Pointer - #2 Automatic (The Pointer Sisters) Sting - #17 King Of Pain (Police)/#1 Do They Know It's Xmas (Band Aid) Tina Turner - #3 What's Love Got To Do With It Stevie Wonder - #1 I Just Called To Say I Love You So who DID I pick? All to be revealed soon....

This is the source me hearties: https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/

Twitter is killing off Scottish author Alasdair Gray. Any word reached you @msc?

*sigh* Guess I'd better do the obligatory game runner thing. Well, the croupiers and table staff have been put on notice and the tellers are rootling around for the keys to lock the till. For players still at the tables, don't mind the cleaners, just lift your feet when asked. Gawd knows where I'll get the staff next year in post-Brexit ….can I say, UK? Now I'm going to be in and out of the office over the next few days, got to buy those frames for the Hall of Fame and the toilets. One player is streets ahead to fill that place above Cubicle 3 and again it's looking like the Gents will get the picture. But never fear! Remember the game won't officially end until the turn between 7/8 January 2020 to allow for those pesky late obits to arrive. So no claiming victory until the final leaderboard is published! Customers will be allowed to go home for a wash in between times. Will anyone receive a late Christmas card? It's still interesting!

As always there will be some left field deaths that come at us out of nowhere. Bowie wasn't picked in 2016 for the DDP. By anyone. Some folk this year have picked up unique hits either because they stuck with names they had been picking for years, or the stars aligned right for them. Whether it will be a huge year for deaths nobody really knows. I guess if we lost three or four Drop 40-ers in the first 3 months, it's going to look bad. But remember, 2016 stacked up corpses fairly consistently and didn't stop until just before year's end. Just a torrent, at points the Beeb's website looked like a solid obituary page. That was the shocking thing. Even more shocking was my performance in deadpools that year. 2018 been best so far, but we'll see. My main team is so far left field Jeremy Corbyn is standing for caretaker leader.

Yeah, I hear he can only walk as far as the local primary school these days.

No but I am expecting a lot of douches to die.....

Nobody has Bob Dylan dying in the next 10 years? Or Phil Spector? Or Jack Nicklaus? Or Bill Clinton? Or Tom Baker?

Sorry for the loss of your friend. Especially at this time of year when new hope is supposed to dawn. I guess it will, for those she will help with her donation. Thoughts with you, philheybrookbay.

Well this is a very Christmassy type thread!

Obituary for Mike Lindsay, Scot who competed for GB at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics in the discus and shot put: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/18126234.mike-lindsay-shot-putter-discus-thrower/ Also competed for Scotland at 4 Commonwealth Games (not 3 as Wiki would currently have you believe) performing best in 1962 with 2 Silver medals at the 1962 Games.

I always find it more interesting to see who has turned the Honour down. Should be a list of folk who were offered and said no. Anyhow, Baroness Floella Benjamin is a Dame while Derek Griffiths just about scrapes a MBE. Yep, the "totty" is now a Dame. Giving truth to the question, "Who do I have to suck off to get ahead in this business?"

Death Notice for Richard Dickinson, 2nd Baron Dickinson aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238262/dickinson

Euromillions winner and Partick Thistle investor Colin Weir dead at 71: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uks-biggest-lotto-winner-21173243

Going to pop this here. Producer Lee Mendelson, famous for producing the Peanuts TV Specials died on Christmas Day according to this: https://padailypost.com/2019/12/27/lee-mendelson-executive-producer-of-peanuts-tv-specials-dies/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578882/ Also wrote the song Christmas Time Is Here.

Christopher Benjamin is 85 today!

We Need A Little Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UL9rVtRvRI

Jerry Herman, composer for Mame and Hello Dolly! dead: https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/hello-dolly-composer-jerry-herman-dies-at-88/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379154/ IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jerry-herman-6278 Edit: Mail QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7829927/Mame-Hello-Dolly-composer-Jerry-Herman-dies-88.html