Hartnell 1999

Yes of course. I will delete the above post and move it to a new thread.

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Although in mass casualty events such as a natural disaster/terror attack, the event itself will receive more coverage than any celebrities involved, particularly if they aren’t A-listers. Car and plane crashes on the other hand are more likely to focus on the celebrities themselves if they make up most of the death toll.

Taylor Swift

The 2017 DL broke the all time record with 17 hits 2020 broke it again with 20 hits Lets see if 2023 can do the same with 23 hits

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Gonna post here as this forum allegedly has no filter on expletives. I’ve been wondering for ages when and how people learn their first swear words. I’m 25 now and I have an excellent recollection of circumstances which lead to me learning a particular swear word, most of which took place 10-15 years ago. Here are some examples (I have put asterisks in place of the second letter just so I’m not caught out by any secret swear filter). A*se Probably the first swear word I learned, not least because my parents were huge fans of The Fast Show. That sketch with the Morris dancers shouting the A word to the rhythm of the music was so catchy, my dad uploaded part of the clip as a track on a personalised CD in 2007. This also contained our favourite summer hits and we would often listen to it in the car. B*tch Sometime around 2007-2008, my mum gifted my aunt a personalised mug for her birthday featuring a photo of her dog and text below it reading “what a b*tch”. While mum explained that this word was a synonym for a female dog, she did mention that it was also a rude word not to be used in public. F*ck On a summer’s afternoon in 2008, me, my mum and sister were heading home from a holiday club session at a local school. My mum couldn’t drive so we had to walk into town and catch a bus back to our village from there. As we were walking down the hill with the town’s church in sight, the bus we were meant to catch whizzed straight past us. My mum, being a very neurotic person, cussed the F word in front of me for the first time. She immediately explained that this was a very rude word and I should not repeat it anywhere, but at the end of the day everyone is going to learn it at some point in their lives. Bizarrely though, I initially thought it was spelled as “Th*ck, not seeing the word in written form until a year later. F*nny One afternoon at home in 2011, the recently released song by Jessie J, Price Tag, came on the radio. Having a tendency for singing chords in a higher octave, I happened to change the chorus from “we don’t need your money money money” to “we don’t need your fa*ny fa*ny fa*ny”. I initially thought the real lyric was “funny” but apparently replacing the U with an A created a completely new word). My sister who was right next to me was completely shocked at what I had come out with, me completely unaware that what I had just belted out was a common slang word for what you call a woman down there. After that I never looked back. C*nt A friend of mine from school had a YouTube channel featuring covers of popular and rude songs. In 2012, he uploaded a cover of the London Underground song by Amateur Transplants (which itself is a cover of Going Underground by The Jam), known for its expletive chorus mocking the management and daily operations of the Tube in London (hence describing them as “lazy f*****g useless c****s). I actually showed my parents the clip to see what they thought of him, but turns out I had learned another rude phrase when mum mentioned “It contains the C Word”. They thought his singing was rubbish anyway and in hindsight it pretty much was. Can anyone else recall in that much detail how they learned their first swear words?

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And out of sheer coincidence this happened on the exact same day Netflix uploaded the movie 47 Metres Down onto their platform.

8/50 Gianluca Vialli Pervez Musharraf Burt Bacharach Nigel Lawson Harry Belafonte Rolf Harris Ted Kaczynski Silvio Berlusconi

7/50 Gianluca Vialli Pervez Musharraf Burt Bacharach Nigel Lawson Harry Belafonte Rolf Harris Ted Kaczynski

With the Deathlist rules only allowing 50 candidates per year, it is inevitable that each year will contain some sort of miss - or in other words the death of a celebrity who was not on that year's deathlist. The thing is though, that could be just about anyone bar 50 people, therefore criteria has to be defined as to what makes someone's death a Deathlist miss. The definition of "significant" in this context is rather subjective, but generally I would say that for a DL miss to be significant, it must meet either of the following criteria: 1: The candidate has made several consecutive appearances on previous Deathlists 2: The candidate is a very high-profile celebrity who is aged 90+ or has a known serious health condition Working it out based on both of the above would take months, therefore I have compiled a rough list of who I believe was each year's most significant miss, based on the most DL appearances for the earlier years while moving towards the most high-profile of these for latter years 1987 - N/A 1988 - N/A 1989 - Bette Davis 1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge 1991 - John Arlott 1992 - Alexander Dubeck 1993 - Kenneth Connor 1994 - Doris Speed 1995 - Harold Wilson 1996 - Jon Pertwee 1997 - Stefan Grappelli 1998 - Fred Davis 1999 - Robert Dougall 2000 - Alec Guinness 2001 - Geoffrey Dickens 2002 - Princess Margaret 2003 - Paul Getty 2004 - Brian Clough 2005 - Prince Rainier 2006 - Saddam Hussein 2007 - Boris Yeltsin 2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 2009 - Corazon Aquino 2010 - Tony Curtis 2011 - Osama bin Laden 2012 - Patrick Moore 2013 - Bob Godfrey 2014 - Ariel Sharon 2015 - Terry Pratchett 2016 - Harper Lee 2017 - Chuck Berry 2018 - Aretha Franklin 2019 - Peter Tork 2020 - Sean Connery 2021 - Desmond Tutu 2022 - Pope Benedict XVI

Updated for Rolf Harris 6/50

A couple more to add: - Jerry Springer and Jerry Stiller - Nick Leeson and Liam Neeson

One “same person” confusion of mine that really annoys my mother is Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise, considering she is a huge fan of the former but not so much of the latter. Some other examples of people who I thought were the same person (most of which date back over a decade ago): - Lily Collins and Lily James - Fern Britton and Fearne Cotton - Morgan Freeman and Martin Freeman - Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury - Anthony Joshua and Anthony Ogogo - Daniel Craig and Daniel Radcliffe - Kate Bush and Kate Middleton - Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Stewart

Updated for Harry Belafonte 5/50

Updated for Nigel Lawson 4/50

And on the same day the songwriter dies… https://mol.im/a/11923777

Updated for Burt Bacharach 3/50

Updated for Pervez Musharraf 2/50

2020 - Kobe Bryant 2021 - Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 2022 - HM Queen Elizabeth II 2023 - Jimmy Carter 2024 - David Attenborough 2025 - Vladimir Putin 2026 - Joe Biden 2027 - Justin Bieber 2028 - Tina Turner 2029 - John Major

Ditto

Updated for Gianluca Vialli. 1 down, 49 to go

Well, looks like 2023 has got off to a good start.