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Brian Kennedy has had successful surgery and is recovering: https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/irish-singer-brian-kennedy-making-13621972

Bob Barker's undroppable. Unless, of course, he drops before Hogmanay....

The "not dying" interview: https://www.nme.com/news/music/no-not-dying-elvis-costello-gives-cancer-update-2401211

Just A Minute....wait, different show! Seriously, having dropped him for this year and a prime candidate for next year before this news to rejoin the team, he must survive about 6 or 7 weeks!

Len Campbell, former Dumbarton player, dead at 71. https://www.dumbartonfootballclub.com/news/?mode=view&id=3864

This may be a song lyric. This may also be the post when I realise I'm no longer "down with the kidz".

Permissions hearing today for Noel Conway: https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/social-affairs/assisted-suicide/press-release/dignity-dying/99990/permissions-hearing-noel

Opening new year in about a fortnight or so? Be good to have some idea of the new rules while we are preparing lists. Thanks in advance.

Anne Carroll, actress best known perhaps for playing WPC Shirley Palmer in Dixon Of Dock Green, dead at 78: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=anne-carroll-livingstone&pid=190802972 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140731/

Now not dead on Wiki, and nothing on my usual sources....

Devin Lima has decided to FO the L outta here! @msc and @FixedBusiness both hit. Additional 10 points to msc for a pair of 9s. Leaderboard updated.

Dead so Far: Giuseppina Projetto - 6 July - No Obit. Alan Gilzean - 8 July - Obit. Lord Peter Carrington - 9 July - Obit. Clive King - 10 July - Obit. Lindy Remigino - 11 July - No Obit. Chiyo Miyako - 22 July - Obit. Bernard Hepton - 27 July - Obit. Bruce Lietzke - 28 July - Obit. Charlotte Rae - 5 August - Obit. Rosemary Powell - 15 August - Obit. Aretha Franklin - 16 August - Obit. Spencer P Jones - 21 August - Obit. Stefan Karl Stefansson - 21 August - Obit. John McCain - 25 August - Obit. Neil Simon - 26 August - Obit. Olive Boar - 28 August - Obit. Will Jordan - 6 September - No Obit. Kulsoom Nawaz - 11 September - Obit. Maartin Allcock - 16 September - Obit. Denis Norden - 19 September - Obit. Charles Aznavour - 1 October - Obit. Do Muoi - 1 October - Obit. Montserrat Caballe - 6 October - Obit. Mary Midgley - 10 October - Obit Doug Ellis - 11 October - Obit. ND Tiwari - 18 October - No Obit. Babs Chinnery - 28 October - Obit. Ted Mack - 6 November - Obit. Stan Lee - 12 November - Obit. Devin Lima - 21 November - Obit. Nicolas Roeg - 23 November - Obit. Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington - 26 November - Obit. George HW Bush - 30 November - Obit. Richard Overton - 27 December - Obit. Death Impends: 1080 Points (Miyako; Rae; Jones; Stefansson; J McCain; Simon; Nawaz; Norden; GHW Bush; Overton) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 808 Points (Miyako; Rae; Stefansson; J McCain; Nawaz; Allcock; Mack; GHW Bush) (Sub: Jones [8 Diamonds]) Cards Played: msc: 740 Points (Carrington; Lietzke; Rae; Stefansson; J McCain; Lima; GHW Bush) (Sub: Gilzean [5 Hearts]) Cards Played: FujimoriNoMorey: 710 Points (Miyako; Rae; Stefansson; J McCain; Boar; Nawaz; Mack) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 705 Points (Rae; Stefansson; J McCain; Simon; Nawaz; Lee; GHW Bush) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 642 Points (Jones; Stefansson; J McCain; Nawaz; Lee; Overton) (Sub: Rae [A Diamonds]; Allcock [Q Spades]; GHW Bush [J Hearts]) Cards Played: Sir Creep: 631 Points (Miyako; Stefansson; J McCain; Nawaz; Muoi; GHW Bush) (Sub: Carrington: [K Hearts]; Jones [J Diamonds]; Boar [7 Spades]) Cards Played: Phantom Of The Midway: 613 Points (Stefansson; J McCain; Simon; Nawaz; Allcock; GHW Bush) (Sub: Franklin [3 Hearts]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 515 Points (C. King, Hepton; Midgley; Ellis; Overton) (Sub: J McCain [6 Hearts]; Roeg [9 Hearts]) Cards Played: The Old Lady: 515 Points (Stefansson; J. McCain; Simon; Norden; GHW Bush) (Sub: Rae [5 Diamonds]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 503 Points (Rae; J. McCain; Simon; Aznavour; GHW Bush) (Sub: Norden [3 Hearts]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 500 Points (Miyako; Jones; J McCain; Simon; Nawaz) Cards Played: Toast: 413 Points (Carrington; Stefansson; J McCain; GHW Bush) (Sub: Simon [3 Clubs]) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 404 Points (Rae; Stefansson; J McCain; Trumpington) (Sub: Norden [4 Diamonds]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 404 Points (Stefansson; J McCain; Trumpington; Overton) (Sub: GHW Bush [4 Clubs]) Cards Played: Fixed Business: 400 Points (J. McCain; Muoi; Lima; GHW Bush) Cards Played: Sean: 328 Points (Stefansson; J McCain; Nawaz) (Sub: Jones [8 Hearts]) Cards Played: Skinny Kiltrunner: 225 Points (Stefansson; Nawaz) (Sub: J McCain [7 Clubs]; Caballe [8 Diamonds]) Cards Played: Gooseberry Crumble: 205 Points (Powell; Chinnery) Cards Played: Doulton: 200 Points (J McCain; GHWBush) Cards Played: WoukThisWay: 122 Points (J McCain) (Sub: Miyako [J Hearts]; Rae [J Clubs]) Cards Played:

Christopher Tolkein is 94 today. Gotta be on the clock....perhaps. He did quit as a director last year....

What I meant was a pop star in the UK. Like A-ha, Abba, Vanessa Paradis. As you can see from my post, I actually researched the fucker! Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Here's my post from Monday in the Dead on Wiki thread: Here's the faint praise from alt obits guy from Tuesday referencing only writing Brandy/Mandy: So maybe if he'd cross-quoted my post, I wouldn't have had to point out that alt obits guy had damned him with faint praise, @maryportfuncity, and you wouldn't have misunderstood my post and repeated what I'd already posted. He was a UK pop star and all.

Happy 43rd birthday to Ptolemy Slocum! Yes, you heard me right. Ptolemy Slocum.

Happy 67th birthday to Rodger Bumpass! Yes, you heard me right. Rodger Bumpass.

Damned with faint praise.

Well, I really don't know why the English legal system needs the specification. Must be degrees of assault in Brexitshire! Cf: Causing Death by Dangerous Driving.

Scott English, songwriter with credits such as Hi-Ho Silver Lining, Bend Me, Shape Me et al. UK #12 (1971) Brandy - you might recognise this as summat else!

Art historian Richard Fremantle has died aged 82. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=richard-fremantle&pid=190776213 Same family as Charles Fremantle, interestingly, for our Australian readers.

80 today!

85 today!

Ah, well in more positive news, Happy 94th Birthday to William Russell. The man seems to be immortal, did he lead Vietnam at some point?

Formally charged with sexual assault by touching. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/19/former-england-footballer-paul-gascoigne-charged-sexual-assault/ Ahh...Strangers On A Train, all very Hitchcockian.....