The Happy Reaper
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On 28/11/2019 at 16:07, markb4 said:Apparently Prince Charles has gone to meet his father to discuss the Prince Andrew situation,
I initially read that as "...gone to meet his maker"!
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On 22/12/2019 at 10:41, Bibliogryphon said:Respected theatre actor. Started in numerous sitcoms and father to very famous light entertainment presenter.
Not that light...
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"Banks crosses the line (unlike Hurst's shot)"
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Are George and Barbara Bush the first married couple to be Deathlist hits in the same year?
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6 hours ago, Joey Russ said:I got told elsewhere that he died 9 years after Ted Kennedy from the same cancer too. Now that’s a coincidence.
But at least McCain was able to drive across a bridge
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Mary Ellis, who delivered planes from the factory to their airfields during WWII, has died aged 101.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44962253
The story originally described her as the last of the female pilots but they've changed it to point out that another three are still alive
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2 hours ago, Mad Hatter2 said:Its a reference to "I don't like mondays" a song the bay city rollers made.
Though they were sneaky and released it under the name 'The Boomtown Rats'
Here's the coverage in the local paper
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12 hours ago, msc said:A glance around Twitter has the "truth tellers" linking him to the 10th December arrest, which turned out to be a chauffeur who died. Same age as Grantham.
Dead drivers seem to feature a lot in Leslie Grantham's life
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15 minutes ago, Paul Bearer said:Ok then. Who would y'all like me to start a thread for now?
The answer to a question like that is invariably Noel Edmonds.
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On 25/05/2018 at 23:19, arrowsmith said:You missed McDivitt, Cunningham, and Schweikhart.
They only went as far as Earth orbit.
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I voted for Jack Schmitt, but ideally the world will get its act together and send more men to the Moon before the last of the original twelve leaves us.
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Vladimir Lyakhov, who flew to Salyut 6, Salyut 7 and Mir and spent more than 333 days in space, has died.
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042018a-obituary-vladimir-lyakhov-cosmonaut.html
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Jim Lovell, first man to make four spaceflights, is 90 today!
Not the oldest surviving US astronaut - he's in second place, eleven days behind Frank Borman.
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Frank Borman of Gemini VII and Apollo 8 is 90 today...
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St Peter pointing through the Pearly Gates - "Let's see what you could have won..."
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5 hours ago, stonecold said:And to die on International Pi Day... what are the odds...365.25 :1
Only if you use the baffling American system of Month/Day/Year.
The proper Pi Day is 22nd July.
My favourite Hawking story is when he appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the only man ever to play himself (well, a holographic simulation). They gave him a tour of the set and as he went through the engine room he said, "I'm working on that..."
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Saw this elsewhere, thought it was fitting.
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I know the main thread will be elsewhere but Bella Emberg did a cameo in a Doctor Who episode (the one with Peter Kay).
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15 hours ago, Whitehouse said:NASA must have thought Young was a pain in the ass. They strapped him to a rocket no less than six times!
Seven, if you count his lift-off from the lunar surface!
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Rance Howard, father of Ron, has died.
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19 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said:Is Mr Rodney the first of Basils co stars to die?
Does David Nixon count?
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5 hours ago, The Ashes Urn said:Hugh Hefner will be buried next to Marilyn Monroe:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4928178/Hugh-Hefner-buried-plot-Marilyn-Monroe.html
Give it a month and he'll have tunnelled his way through...
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Is four in eight days a record on its own?
Sean Connery
in DeathList Forum
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As a fellow native of Edinburgh this is very sad news.