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But then there's a Mollie Moore and William Moore noted together in Solihull for 23 years (7 of which with a Stephen Moore -- does that make sense?). So maybe that's that. Anyway, I'll stop post-whoring for today before my warning thing shoots up. And I should have better things -- like sniffing glue -- to do than try to find old ladies online

Since I'm very bored I've looked up to discover that Mollie doesn't live on the Isle of Man The Indy, 11 March 2000 Today the Bay Queen is boarded up. The tourists have stopped coming. Even actress Mollie Sugden, who used to visit Port Saint Mary every summer, hasn't been seen for a good few years. A scheme to turn the Bay Queen into retirement flats has been stalled by the island's extremely tight planning regulations, aimed at protecting a stunning natural landscape that has provided a backdrop for countless films from The Wicker Man to Waking Ned. She appears to live in Pudsey, West Yorkshire [unless this is another Mollie Sugden (and I've got it with the middle initial E, which doesn't make sense... (Mollie was born Mary I Sugden))]. As ever, I may well be wrong.

Squirrel killed in operatic cycle

Best birthday wishes, LG

His character was Sidney Friedman, although I'm convinced in the first episode or two in which he appeared he was known as "Milton Friedman". When the MASH producers realised there was a real life person called the same thing, they changed his first name. However, in trying to prove this via the internet I've never found any corroborating evidence, so I might be making the whole thing up. This suggests it's not just your imagination. ...his first name on the show originally was Dr. Milton Friedman. However, a gentleman of the same name, a professor at the University of Chicago, objected and the producers changed the name from Dr. Milton Friedman to Dr. Sidney Friedman. I love the fact that he's "a gentleman of the same name, a professor at... etc", rather than "Milton f***ing Friedman, as in er, one of the most significant economists of the 20th century..."

Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer, died on Saturday, aged 42, from a suspected HIV/Aids-related illness. He choreographed the video to Madonna's hit Vogue (and had invented "vogueing", apparently, that silly thing that Madonna does in the video).

Olga Jonasson, a transplant surgeon who broke gender barriers, dies at 72.

Odds fish but you have a droll wit, Monsieur Guest I have no tattoos, not wanting my pristine body to become a blank canvas to be drawn on. Heaven forbid! C'etait moi, Boudicca, but I forgot to sign in. The upper right arm of your avatar looks the perfect place for a tasteful anchor or bluebird...

Just stumbled across this quote from Mr Bergman 'I hope I never get so old I get religious' We're hoping the same, Ingmar. Truly...

She died in February, aged 97 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_...02/ai_n16337603

Caused some alarm did we...?

Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Peter Miller, inventor of the remote-controlled Wheelbarrow bomb disposal device, died on September 2, aged 94.

Thanks for that, OoO. I love the way they've got the funeral links etc in place (though not yet linking to anything). Maybe Tongan web designers aren't quick enough to work on the hop?

Dewey Redman, jazz saxophonist, died on Saturday, aged 75. Apologies if spotted already (I do search the forum, but for some reason (perhaps my own fault) things don't always seem to appear, even though they exist (sic!?))

Paul Scrimshaw, who investigated the Versace murder, is wearing an off-white cotton burial shroud.

I liked Slow To Fade by Red Guitars way back. It has a song called "Crocodile Tears" on it, as well as "Sting in the Tale" (sic). A bargain for the funeral director, methinks...

The Hodge conjecture? Er, I'll get my coat...

I think that Godot's idea of blacking out dead munchkins and others (link here) could happily be extended to having Irwin blacked out in Ocean's Deadliest and replaced by some super-imposed celebrity. Actually, you could then have several editions of Ocean's Deadliest, and customers would buy the one with their favourite celebrity apparently swimming with sharks and all that. Personally I'd go for Barry Scott of Cillit Bang advertising fame. Who would you choose? Hmm, time for my tablets I think...

There wasn't a chicken joke as such, just that he used to impersonate one. ...The real joker in this package tour is Norman Collier, another Comedians graduate who has created two classic routines - walking on stage like a chicken and grappling with a microphone that keeps going on and off. Daily Express 2001 I'm just glad I'm too young to have seen the guy.

Sorry if you've got this already. Did a search and it didn't show up though. Giacinto Facchetti (footballer and president of Inter Milan), b 1942, died today, aged 62, of cancer. Just realised this should have gone with near misses -- perhaps somebody can merge it?

The title of the documentary he was working on was Ocean's Deadliest Insert your own wry remark here:

Evidently. I suspect that if you can't even remember the person's name you're never going to be well placed to judge his claims.

You've reminded me of Death Row Marv When he first came out in 2000 he was impossible to get hold of. I think I'll be getting one now that I see they're available again.

Not always...

The Spectator tried to kill him off in a book review this April. " Maurice Papon, who had supervised deportations from the Gironde, became de Gaulle's Préfet de Police in Paris during the police riots of 1962, in which some 200 Algerians were flung into the Seine and drowned. Papon was tried and condemned for war crimes only as an old man, in the late 1990s, and died in prison. " M Papon served less than three years of his ten-year sentence and, as we all know, is happily back at home now watching Allo Allo videos.