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Personally @Wormfarmer I would suggest that if the time of your post of picks was before the earliest announcement of Carlisle’s death, you get the points. And I can’t find any announcement of her death that didn’t happen after the time you posted your team, so I’d say you got away with this one!

Cilla's world turned Black on this day 3 years ago, aged 72.

*Tries to work out if that was a joke*

Yep, also excellent!

She's great, is Lorde. It's refreshing to see/hear a young pop star with genuine talent.

Big wobbly bollocks to this, I need an end to my death drought! Quim's August 'Angers-on 1) Lê Đức Anh 2) Spencer P Jones 3) Loretta Lynn 4) Clive James 5) Leah Bracknell (for the fourth poxy time this year )

Smile for a while and let's be jolly, death shouldn't be so melancholy; Lynn Anderson died 3 years ago today, aged 67.

He said, off the record, he was fed up with a certain member's incessant 'racism'.

This is excellent. Came on a couple of minutes ago on Absolute Radio. My personal favourite of theirs.

F1 driver Roger Williamson crashed and burned (in that chronological order, at Zandvoort, on only his second ever Grand Prix) on this day 45 years ago, aged 25.

Plumped for Prem. There's no logic behind it whatsoever, as I have cock all clue who he is.

Last time I tipped an oldie to reach the dizzying heights of 120+, she died a few milliseconds later, but Tanaka does look pretty good for it at the moment...

I saw him live in February, during which he explained the brief shaved head look (he said it was his anti-selfie look - nobody would pester him for a selfie while he's looking like a Russian war criminal). He also had the same sort of voice as the episode, the explanation for which is simply that he was at the end of an intensive 130-date tour.

Mortimer had a triple heart bypass after it was found his heart was 95% blocked, all is well now apparently. Whitehouse had stents fitted before and helped his 'stent buddy' Mortimer become less of a recluse after his surgery by taking him fishing, during which time fishing seemed such an exciting pastime they decided to televise it.

Shame, @123jeff would've had a field day

Surprised to see her scatter the ashes in the ocean, I thought she'd leave them rolling on the river.

I'm in the garden listening to someone else listening, at volume, to various Eminem tracks. It's so easy to relax, reclined, in the serene 34C sun, with a beer, to "HI" "MY NAME IS" "WHAT?" "MY NAME IS" "WHO" "MY NAME IS" "CHICKA CHICKA CHICKA SLIM SHADY"

Bracknell McCain One more; maybe James, GHW, Wouk or JP de C. This'll be a single figure year, I reckon.

@theoldlady is on fire this month! 4 points for Chiyo too; 3 to gc and 2 to Chorizo (who has overtaken me, the fucker)

She's 27 next year... *adds to provisional 2019 lists*

Kelly Jones has a mesmerising voice.

Look at this wank on the Maily Dail, saying the Met Office is declaring we're on the cusp of a National Emergency because it's a lovely summer's day out there. I know when I'm too hot. I know to drink water and not get too burnt. Don't tell me to stay indoors because it's warm outside. Piss off, Met office. Leave us. The fuck. Alone.

I love public naming things. A particular highlight of mine was when Mountain Dew wanted a name for a new flavoured energy drink a few years back, and the winning suggestion was "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong".