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Well said Josco, what's to stop you is that the top prize would be worth less than the price of a decent cup of coffee. If you want to spend hours massaging the posting figures in search of that, fine. The rest of us will stick to working for cash and posting for fun. Anyway, massaging the figures could be dangerous. If we'd had the bingo this year and you'd pushed your numbers up on Ronnie Biggs a couple of months back because of his seemingly imminent death you'd be regretting it now.

It was radio, the audience didn't actually see him.

So on this seventh post I'd see it working like this. Anyone bothered could grab a bingo card in the first week of January. This means picking five names off the 06 DL and bagging the number of posts they'll achieve before death. Every player starts with a score of 1000 and loses a point for every number - over or under - for which they were out when their chosen celeb died. So - for example - if you pitch 400 for someone who dies with only 200 posts you lose 200 points. The moderators might have to adjudicate regarding time of death but once the thread has accepted death the scores are tallied. One other rule should be that anyone who has bagged a celebrity automatically has their posts disqualified in the count on that celeb's thread on the day of death, thereby stopping them artificially running up the number of posts to adjust their own score. C'mon, this was a daft idea last night but it might just work. The winner to get a DL mug?

So anyway, Chris Rea. He's ill, it's manageable and he isn't going to die soon.

And yer point is?

Time maybe for the Yorkshire miners to corner her and spring a surprise attack!

As Ms Tomlinson might say: On yer bike!

Eventually it could because the deterioration of the brain would spread to the centres controlling central nervous and motor function. In other words, your brain would stop telling your vital organs to work. But cheer up, you'll be so incapicatated well before then that pneumonia will sort you. What was I on about again?

Bloody hell, was he still alive? So, he got time to smirk over Idi's demise then.

So you obviously missed my most recent television appearances promoting my various publications. Don't worry there are more planned.

I'll bet he's cacking himself if he believes in any kind of afterlife. What were his excuses, the one about following orders by any chance or does he have a real white supremecy thing?

Either way it's little more than a month to the next Motorhead mosh pit for me. Rock on Lemmy!

So June 1st is right then?

Or an hourglass with the logo, that'd be brilliant for the desk at work.

Because it is

There were some people who served in both World Wars. Am I right in assuming none of the smattering of WW1 vets fall into this category. If so, does anyone know when the last person in this group died?

Ageing 'British' actor - despite being born in Dublin 11 June 1919. Two of his sons have committed suicide by shooting themselves in the head in the last few years. The most recent a couple of weeks back. RT looked manly enough in The Dam Busters but surely, an ageing luvvie can only take so much.

That's like saying Devil Woman is your favourite Cliff Richard song. It may be better than the others but - basically - they're all shite.

Good call, she's a class act. Still in command of most of her faculties but she is 95. Her Comeback was quite an event by all accounts

It's time we debated his best work. For my money this thread is the first time he's created real pathos and genuine sense of suspense.

Dunno, it's a possibility. Can't decide it that's real sunburn - not a problem in West Cumbria - or the good old radioactive glow displayed by workers at Sellafield over the years.

Are you serious: As a bloke with 'tits' in West Cumbria I'd be committing suicide faster than any of the local vets.

Just don't after the kids!

Good point, but it highlights the man's age.

Dropping in on the thread on the world's oldest people got me thinking. Now that almost anyone can achieve some kind of cult fame would the moderators ever consider changing the rules about qualification for the DL? We all seem very clear that terminal illness, old age etc are no basis for fame - even if you're planning a charity cycle ride. But how much would an afflicted, old or terminally ill person have to do to qualify as famous enough for the DL. Could the DL take on board newer forms of fame - like people famous via web sites created in their honour, obsessive public interest etc? Mid-week, middle of the afternoon, bored at work. Just thought I'd - you know - open a can of worms.