The Happy Reaper

As one of the admins mentioned earlier, the script showing the ages is a bit more simple than what you see on Wikipedia. It just takes the current year (2017) and subtracts the year when he was born (1916) arriving at the figures you see on the front page. It's guaranteed to be accurate at the end of the year (31st of December, 2017); but it doesn't keep track of the exact birthdates (day-month). There are only fifty of them - it can't be that much of a slog to enter the ages manually, shirley?

Why does the deathlist show the age people will reach on their next birthday (assuming they do)? Kirk Douglas turned 100 less than a month ago, yet the list shows him aged 101. Is it some sort of fate-tempting exercise?

Especially if, given that Heaven is supposed to be such a wonderful place, he'll presumably refuse any medical treatment that would delay him getting there. I voted for Bruce Forsyth, BTW,

Wouldn't it be ironic if he wandered into the road and was hit by a bus? Apparently he doesn`t have dementia he just mentioned his memory wasn`t great anymore in an interview and the rumors snowballed from there.He did also have a low grade prosytate cancer.But he was interviewed in his home recently after Carrie`s death. Ah, that's good to hear. We all start forgetting the odd thing as we get older, but it doesn't mean... er... what did I come in here for?

The writer was Richard Adams.

Wouldn't it be ironic if he wandered into the road and was hit by a bus?

She did have a memorable cameo appearance in an episode of The Big Bang Theory, when James Earl Jones and Sheldon rang her doorbell and ran away.

Dear God, are there going to be enough celebrities left alive to get a full list of fifty for next year?

I want to change my vote...

.She was like an English Betty White in the sense that she was a warm individual who the nation felt affection to. Oh, what a great analogy! RIP, Nana.

Rick Parfitt dead according to the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38427459

Piers Sellers, UK-born astronaut who flew three times on the Shuttle, dead of pancreatic cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38424071

The BBC's take on it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38423963

Jesus, I hadn't heard this until I saw it on Wikipedia. This has been a bad day for me. First John Glenn, now Greg Lake.

Dammit, woke up to this. I'm a space buff so this to me is sadder than Bowie, Ali or any of the others this year. God Speed, John Glenn. LOS for now - we'll see you on the other side.

Wait, what?

Not just yours. A few years back they ran a poll on the best soap character. Hilda Ogden got 25% of the vote, with the remainder being divided among dozens if not hundreds of other characters - she won by a landslide.

As a proud resident of Edinburgh, I love this! * A man takes his wife out to the pub and puts a glass of whisky in front of her. She protests, saying she'd rather have a sweet sherry, but he insists she tries it. So she takes a sip and screws up her face in disgust, and says, "That's awful!" "Exactly," says the man. "And you think I'm in here every night enjoying myself!"

A Polish guy goes to have his eyes tested. The optician says, "Can you read the bottom line of the chart?" The guy says, "Read it? I've shagged his sister!"

There really is one. I think this is the lot that occasionally has lunch at our local, much to the discomfort of the landlord. (although they do dress for lunch) Just me, maybe, but a combi of nudity and the section of society most likely to be incontinent isn't selling that pub to me Indeed. Would you want to sit in their seats after they'd gone?

I had the same reaction about fifteen years ago when I found out that Anthony Buckeridge, author of the 'Jennings' books I'd loved as a child, was still alive. He died in 2004 - aged 92. Hmm...

Same guy then points to another item. "Is that a sponge cake or a meringue?" The baker replies, "Naw, ye're right. It's a sponge cake."

You are Roy Hodgson AICMFP. I'm American. 'splain. Used to be the manager of the England football team. Some of his team selections at the recent European Championships could be best explained if he did it by your method.

Papers always use the phrase "fighting for his life" when somebody is in hospital. Though they never say who the opponent is... The opponent is always The Grim Reaper. They don't use the phrase "fighting for his life" if the person in hospital is a woman, otherwise that would be incorrect. That one went over my head at first!

You are Roy Hodgson AICMFP.