YoungWillz

Death Notice for Sir Simon Benton-Jones, 4th Baronet of Treeton, aged c.75. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/209897/benton-jones Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_baronets#Jones_baronets.2C_of_Treeton_.281919.29 Interestingly he played himself in an episode of American Princess: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2800532/

More on the dignity of his abdication: http://moderntokyotimes.com/?p=6402

Mysterious source claims he's on his way to the end: http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/10/charles-manson-is-on-his-way-out-prison-source-claims-6373714/ We'll see...

Clearing out my lists, might as well: 2016 12 Lords A-Leaving, 8 Ladies Dying (18/20) James Anderton; Bob Arum; Jean Barker; Leon Bernicoff (d. 2017); Jimmy Carter; Maureen Cleave; Lee Grant; Douglas Hurd; Freddie Jones; Gemma Jones; James W McCord Jr; Carol McGiffin; Vera Miles; Albert Moses (d. 2017); John Noakes (d. 2017); Mike Stoller; Gloria Vanderbilt; Henry Woolf. Comedy Cremations (18/20) Thelma Barlow; Stanley Baxter; Stephanie Cole; Billy Connolly; Barry Cryer; Ken Dodd; Sir Bruce Forsyth (d. 2017); Ricky Gervais; Terry Gilliam; Jackie Mason; Denis Norden; Paul O'Grady; Richard O'Sullivan; Pauline Quirke; B. A. Robertson; Jack Smethurst; Josephine Tewson; June Whitfield. Hits of 36 Years Ago And Hits Today (19/20) Jon Anderson; Benny Andersson; George Benson; Mike Berry; Buster Bloodvessel; Sheena Easton; Dave Edmunds; Bryan Ferry; Roberta Flack; Herbie Flowers; Bruce Foxton; Peter Gabriel; Chris "Merrick" Hughes; Fern Kinney; Kenny Rogers; Ray "Eye Patch" Sawyer; Saxa (Lionel Augustus Martin) (d. 2017); Barbra Streisand; David Van Day.

One of the very best at singing syncopation imo.

I see they dredged up a few for the Pop Quiz specials too. Nick Heyward still looked mighty damn fine. Mari Wilson? OMG! Ranking Roger definitely hasn't aged well though.

Counsel for the Defence rests. Fee-less. Ha ha. msc is right, it definitely sounds less clumsy. Branding is everything.

Oh I don't know, the Hare was fast and lost. The faster your hits come, the more likely you are to lose. That's what I thought anyway. (Superb defence of Deathray, there, my fee note is in the post!)

Thought I'd have a look at some of the articles written by "outraged of Fleet Street". The same people who with glee print stories of the ill health of say Ian Brady or Charles Manson. To paraphrase Orwell, it seems that some are more deserving of their impending death than others. As I think I've mentioned before, I really involve myself to learn about more people and their fascinating lives. I'd never have heard of Clare Hollingworth for example. It also prepares me for the sad passing of someone who may have been out of the spotlight for a while but who holds a special place for me, and the forum is also sometimes a virtual group hug when someone dear to many of us go. I'm not very good at predicting. That doesn't bother me in the side competitions as my best performance was in the Inverse DP (totally expected!). I find more comfort here than in the mainstream press.

Now we have 8 scoring teams out of 24 and 1 non-scoring team with everyone else awaiting their first hit. And it's the 10th of January! Slow and steady wins this one... Anyway, leaderboard soon towards the end of the month or when someone gets two hits, whichever is sooner.

Simon Weston???????

Wow, that is sharp. And an Inverse DP to follow...exciting...

Ok I'm in but hoping for a bye in the first round. And all the way to the final he he.

Now, here's a thought. If Poitier goes, would they end with him after the diversity controversy last year?

Dead. Properly big name in the field, so my wife tells me, though she thought he'd died years ago. Oops, forgot a link, here's one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/renowned-polish-born-sociologist-zygmunt-bauman-dies-at-home-in-england-at-age-91-associate-in-warsaw-says/2017/01/09/ec18f446-d68d-11e6-a0e6-d502d6751bc8_story.html?utm_term=.86260206ba01

Dead.

On BBC News now...looks and sounds like hell.

Roberto Cabañas, Paraguay (1986 Mexico WC) goal scorer, dead of heart attack at 55. http://www.thesundaily.my/news/2122573 Edit: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4war6p

Biggest snub this year: Liz Smith. End of package: Hard to see past Debbie Reynolds atm.

Gets a Telegraph Obit FWIW: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/09/dingo-has-got-baby-dad-dies-father-azaria-chamberlain-passes/

German actor Dietz-Werner Steck died on 31 December 2016. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bunte.de/stars/star-news/trauerfaelle/tatort-star-kommissar-bienzle-ist-tot.html&prev=search

Actor Dietz Werner Steck died on 31 December 2016. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bunte.de/stars/star-news/trauerfaelle/tatort-star-kommissar-bienzle-ist-tot.html&prev=search Jiroemon Kimura had him and was out of reserves anyway. Bad luck.

Oi! You been reading my Hare's Pool entry? Ha ha! I never really bothered reading other people's entries when I ran the thing (just ctrl + f'd when someone vaguely notable died to see if they were picked), I'm hardly going to start now am I! Was just thinking about Animal Park as due to all the repeats couldn't work out when it officially finished airing! Just picked him this year as I was reading about something and his name cropped up. Thought I'd get a unique on the game with him.

Oi! You been reading my Hare's Pool entry? Ha ha!

I do but having succumbed to a mini-rant which I chose not to continue for the sake of sanity of the forum, I'll step aside.