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Aye, hopeful of a credible finish though my joker - Tom Smith - has been a disappointment to many people, vast tonnage of DDP points riding on him. Outside chance one of my list of the lost - Belso - might yet score in the manner of Jim Russell who netted DDP points long after his death when BBC Sport posted a list of significant motorsport figures who died in the year.

Shameless self-interest motivates me to put this on a plate so... Kerslake Q/O: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8750815/Ozzy-Osbourne-Uriah-Heep-drummer-Lee-Kerslake-dies-73-battle-prostate-cancer.html

Aye, hangin' in there despite being down to nine players with Belso lacking a q/o (though Jim Russell went ages without one then got a mention in the BBC round up of dead motorsport figures for the year - Belso may yet deliver in that dept) For the masses addicted to nowt other than watching this exciting competition my current survivors on whom maintaining my lead now rests are Gulpilil, centenarian former international cricketer Eileen Ash and James (dad of Charlotte) Church

Chuck Feeney earned a fortune from a duty free shopping empire he co-founded but his disdain for money meant that for years he wore at $10 watch, only ever owned one pair of shoes and was prone to arriving at important meetings with his paperwork in a carrier bag. Newsworthy now because he's succeeded in giving away £6 billion - much of it in bequests to education. All the reports suggest the 89 year old is acting now because he ain't well. Thought, I'd - like - park a mugshot here. Obit chances fairly good since he's likely boosted them mightily with this philanthropic gesture.

To be fair to Twiggy she is looking good into her seventies - obitable but unlikely to be troubling those in search of safe picks for a while

87 years reduces her total but at first glance on the DDP site looks mike more than 70 teams one way or another have RBG.

Pete Murray - 95 today If he got one more broadcast on Radio Two he smash Desmond Carrington's record of the oldest codger on the wheels of steel. Anyone know how he's doing?

Went Tom Smith but there's a massive pole surge propelling Dole atm

Aye, I'd go with that - game on with regard to the other high profile totterers, then

I get the horrible feeling he'll close the gap, lose and still try hanging on claiming the greatest something or other against him at which point civil unrest will kick off for a bit

Oh aye and... Another allegation of sexual assault - she chose to come forward now because "it makes me sick" and "I just feel like I don't want to be quiet anymore" and "this is our president, this is the kind of thing he does and it's unacceptable." That said, the likes of The Guardian are piling this stuff up during the election campaign, eh? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR1rTW1L_7IqcAoZSmlVJRlXOWCUNA-XTNSPW4dwK5VbmyimNmvXqxj3SUo

Risked ABC (basically Democrat friendly) news and turned in a performance so bad those in his own party who oppose him basically turned the whole show into an anti-Trump ad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/trump-tv-town-hall-coronavirus-race-abc-news?fbclid=IwAR11CRDoEVRaFmkmlJrKLo1T0htL7udFOAWHVuJFOx_pyqIqx-HqCgAXzE0

So, Medicine Head Both of those two still alive and John Fiddler maintains the name and records/performs under it However, the final hit single is the band as a five piece incl. the now deceased George Ford (bass) and Roger Saunders (lead guitar) both of whom I'm fairly sure were mentioned hereabouts on death. Ford for sure because he was also in Cockney Rebel. Drummer in the five piece hit making Medicine Head was Rob Townsend, newly freed at the time by the disbanded Family and eventually to join the Blues Band which - I'm fairly sure - is where he still thumps the tubs

And BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/54171714

Wink Martindale - alive and obitable - thanks for the reminder!