Cowboy Ronnie
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Former women's basketball coach for North Carolina Kay Yow has died at the age of 66. She also coached the women's olympic team to a gold medal in 1988correction - she was coach at North Carolina State, a different university and rival of North Carolina.
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First of all, nobody outside of the celebrity-obsessed Americans gives a sh*t about Heath Ledger, Brad Renfro or Allan Melvin,
Heath Ledger was Australian, so I would imagine news of him dying was pretty big there, as it was here in the UK. Also, because people around the world would have seen the latest Batman movie, that elevates the significance of his death to celebrity-obsessed non-Americans too. He's just been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and I would imagine the Academy Awards has a fairly broad following in many countries around the world.
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Edmund de Rothschild has died at the age of 93. As his surname suggests, he was a banker, but he is almost as well known for his achievements as a horticulturalist.His lifelong dream was apparently to disprove the age old adage that money doesn't grow on trees.
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I was sure he was on DL. I thought his state of health was pretty well known. Much more likely than some to go this year .. ahem .. Maggie, Ronnie Biggs ..Anyway my first DDP points so not all bad.
If Thatcher or Biggs had been left off the DL and died, everyone on here would be freaking out. There was a grand total of one post in the Tony Hart thread in 2008. As GR notes, he was one of the final nominees for 2009 who didn't quite make it. Last year we tied the DL record with 14, and we're ahead of that pace this year. If anyone had him on a DDP team or a shadow list, well done.
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Ramaswamy Venkataraman, 98, the former President of India, has been hospitalised (for that's how it is spelt in my 1948 dictionary, when and why did we make the etymological leap to hospitalized?? I suppose I should move with ye tymes) with dehydration.Brits spell "hospitalised" with an "s", Americans use a "z". Given the article was in the Hindu, the so-called "National Newspaper", perhaps we can presume this is India throwing off further shackles of the Empire. Ungrateful sods.
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Two Trek deaths within two months: Ricardo Montalban is GOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!OoO's Theme Team is refusing to let MPFC's take the lead apparentely...
What a shame though, great actor and a great guy from what I've heard.
One could argue that Ricardo Montalban's performance as Khan in the second Star Trek film saved and gave new life to the whole franchise. I liked the part when they put a silk worm in Chekov's ear, and that it featured a young Kirstie Alley, when she was still hot.
Plus how awesome was it when Mr. Rourke battled the devil on Fantasy Island? Legend.
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Sir Dai Llewellyn was picked by quite a few.I was pretty confident in my selections this year, but 4 hits by Jan 13th?
En fuego, eejit, positively en fuego. Can you please submit a list of 50 top tips for next year this coming Christmas, so it can be used for DL 2010.
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Now an heir apparent has emerged for the title of Prince of Gaffs (step forward Harry) and after years of faithful service opening his mouth and putting his royal foot in it... surely Prince Phillip of Corfu deserves a place on your esteemed list.They do say that certain "genes" skip a generation....
While some genes go right from father to son.
And he calls the guy who cleans the stables "Sweep"
God bless the royal family for upholding some of Britain's noblest traditions.
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Named a Living National Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1997Wow, Aussies have so much time on their hands they actually officially appoint their National Treasures, instead of just calling them out in the redtops, like we do here in Blighty. This sounded like a good idea until I checked out the list, The Kangaroo Court
and there's like about a hundred of them. Rolf Harris, Dame Edna, Russell Crowe, Greg Norman and Nicole Kidman are all on there, but when you annoint about a third of the population as National Treasures, it loses some of its specialness.
So who are Britain's National Treasures? Besides Chezza Cole, I mean.
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Please mister pneumonia go away.you don't have time to feel bad today.
you have work to do and things to say
And simply don't have time to play.
Even though you're not feeling your best
With a little time, good care and rest-
It won't be long until the happy day
When you're feeling fine in every way.
Patrick - the majority of people want you to recover
please get well soon
I'm confused. Is the poem being addressed to mister pneumonia, as the first line suggests, or Patrick Swayze? You can't have it both ways, Yvonne.
The Mr. Men should introduce a "mister pneumonia", who'd always be coughing and spluttering all over people, and causing those who already had some other illness to drop dead. The kids would love him.
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Don Randall who named the Fender Stratocaster guitar which was used by various musical personalities is dead at the age of 91. I never bothered to play the guitar.What a loss to the culture
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Breaking news. Veteran BBC presenter David Vine has died of a heart attack.He may not have been low-hanging fruit, but nonetheless he died on the Vine.
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Now the Giants are dead and good riddance. Birds rule.Both Tennessee and the Giants lost at home. It has been a weekend of upset victories for the underdogs.
Can you imagine the Premiership having Liverpool, Chelsea and Man United all losing, at home, to the likes of Everton, Wigan and Portsmouth, on the same weekend? European football would be so much interesting with a salary cap.
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I like Tennessee in the AFC. I think it will be a Giants-Tennessee matchup in the SuperbowlAnother one bites the dust, as the Titans fumble away their chances and lose 13-10 at home to Baltimore.
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Belated birthday greetings to both LFN and Banshees!!
Now, go on and shock the world and wish each other one.
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Interesting timing for a show called "Surviving Gazza". The average Palestinian probably has a better life expectancy. Debatable who gets bombed more often. He was extensively discussed for DL '09, just missed by the length of a footie stud.
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OK, at the risk of violating innumerable Death Race rules and all sense of sportsmanship and fair play, may I submit the following:
The Hole in the Ground Gang
1 Gertrude Baines
2 Beatrice Farve
3 Kama Chinen
4 Mary Josephine Ray
5 Manuela Fernández-Fojaco
6 Olivia Patricia Thomas
7 Neva Morris
8 Chiyo Shiraishi
9 Tomoji Tanabe
10 Maggie Renfro
11 Henry Allingham
12 Walter Breuning
13 Augusto de Oliveira
14 Jiroemon Kimura
15 Kiyoshi Igarashi
16 Aarne Arvonen
17 Takashi Hattori
18 Harry Patch
19 Susan Atkins
20 Abdelbaset Al-megrahi (aka Lockerbie Bomber)
I didn't pick a DDP team in time, and the above wouldn't have scored very well due to the ages of the first 18 nominees, but if it's all above board MPFC, it's the team I'd like to put forth. The list nobly omits the already deceased.
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Yep. I'll shamelessly join in as well, if only because Lei Clijsters has given me a head start (assuming he gets the necessary obit).So we can wait for people to die, then enter a team, including the dead? This game is easy. I'll go for the Travolta kid.
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The new VW golf ad, where a German has a fight with ten different versions of himself, using car parts, to a death rock sound track. It doesn't help that they show it during every single ad break on Sky Sports 3. The Audi one where they make a car out of cardboard isn't much better. I blame humourless Jerry advertising agencies.
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Lark Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Andre Previn died aged 35 on Christmas Day. Her funeral is today, I wonder if her stepfather and brother in law, Woody Allen has been invited?Good thing she died before Woody asked her out.
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It's a toughie then, I'd say it's 50/50 as to whether the BBC web site will report her death under the Americas section. The Wiki entry below covers her local fame but she'd - just about - be newsworthy in the UK for the somewhat public manner of her death. DDP and HPDP don't allow in CNN or NY Times obits, which would be guaranteed points in her case.Mary Adelaide Lundby (born February 2, 1948) is a Senator from the 18th District.An Iowa state senator (note for non-Americans, this is not the same as being a US senator or congressman) won't make the English media when she goes. That selection CP, for DL purposes, would be considered the lowest of the low hanging fruit. Tomato-esque even. But as a DDP candidate, she sounds a very safe bet, so good luck.
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Vigilante killer Ellie Nesler died.
With a name like that, maybe she thought she was Untouchable
Interesting story, especially the part about her son going on to become a murderer. She sort of reminds me of the evil nurse/mother in The World According to Garp, as played by Glenn Close in the film version.
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Giants-Steelers Superbowl.
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I can't find an appropriate thread for this stupidity so I am putting it here so you all can see it. If someone knows of a thread for this sort of stuff please move it over. It caught my eye because of the 999 heading. Anyway, I had Lusardi down as one of the less dense (ex-)models, but I suppose once a page 3 girl, always a page 3 girl.DWB
That doesn't seem unreasonable. It was a panto and she is Linda Lusardi, the National Treasure. Think of the children.
Oh, and Farrah was discussed at the Committee meeting. Did she make it? We'll all just have to wait and find out.....
I Destroy the Royal Family
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I'm surprised Chelsy Davey hasn't posted on this thread this morning, but she and Price Harry have moved to Spiltsburgh, which she awesomely announced on Facebook.
She's sent him Paking
I sense he may now move on to a "date someone famous" phase, a la his uncles and papa. What price Rachel Stevens or the ginger one out of Girls Aloud?