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Re the gay thing: I thought some closet would have fallen open by now. Are there any photographs of him and Patrick Moore together? If there are we could start a rumour if there aren't........maybe they are one and the same.

Unregistered Dave has a point. Damn shame he hasn't registered. I mean, there are hundreds of thousands of Dave's in the UK so we've no idea who to thank. I too was suspicious of the profile being given to this performance and Big Patrick's lack of movement and his somewhat slurred speech in the trailer. It's his kiss off from the BBC and - probably - something they can hold as a 'tribute' and roll out a few weeks/months later when his skepticism about the afterlife will have been given the one test that really counts.

Mister Lawrenson I think your dedicated DL work has given more to the world than your assured performances at the heart of the Liverpool defence twenty years back. It is surely the duty of others hereabouts to peruse the list and consider how many are famous enough to qualify for the big run down next year.

Rebecca - or was it Rachel? - Sadler from Holby City fell pissed from a balcony whilst her cocaine snorting boyfriend hung around enjoying the spectacle, allegedly. Not sure the McLaren chef was quite in the same circumstances. Either way, we've gone from drivers, to marshals to bit part players making up the spectacular body count from F1. Any of the old timers still looking in must think it's a wimps game now.

Anything - that is - except death itself. Lawrenson, please get that list drawn up soon. Might be one or two we should be adding to the 2006 crop.

Cyril Fletcher's other half has just joined him. Clearly no longer one of our leading ladies for 2006.

Surely she qualifies on the 'right place, right time' basis, like Sister Lucia. Also cos she's written a book and promoted it with some success. Hell, we won't be able to list old Nazis for too long anyway, let's get in there whilst we still can.

They are alive because they could produce documents to prove it. Any other version of 'alive' - like being in possession of intelligence - clearly doesn't trouble the DL because Gerald Ford is on there.

I know we speculate about people here but - as an interesting diversion - will Veritas die in 2006? Robert Ego Silk has just jumped ship from the party he founded cos nobody else would let him run anything. Presumably the annual paid up memberships and the rest will keep it - just about - on life support past Christmas, making it a kind of second string candidate for DL next year. How about listing it as 50A?

Check Cyril's thread - currently on the next page of the DL - where a link from the last post tells you everything. It's instructional to us young 'uns here to see how once household names fall for ever off the radar. The whole of London theatre knew her once.

Those mad dogs who live by the sword.....

I know I kicked off a thread about these two ages ago but the latest peace statement ups the stakes. Some of the IRA are gangsters running local rackets for financial gain and enjoying their hard man status in local communities. These people have just been ordered to work by exclusively peaceful means. I don't see the massive Sinn Fein re-training scheme to turn murderous thugs with psychopathic traits into pleasant local government types and in some cases that's the level of change they're demanding. McGuinness in particular is something of an ambivalent figure to the rank and file, having risen from the active end of the ranks to hang around with politicians. Good outside bets the pair of them.

A Man For All Seasons won him an Oscar, what do you mean 'Who?'

Neil Simon said: Danny made me laugh. He made everyone laugh. He was a character (in more ways than one) in at least nine or 10 of my plays. "I'm sure he will probably be there again in many plays to come," he said. Neil - you're in your eighties, how 'many plays to come' are there?

Paul McCartney's just bought his wife a plane. She's already got a Ladyshave for the other leg.

Dave Allen used to tell a great Ian Paisley joke. It revolved around a black catholic who wanted to spread goodwill by visiting churches of every denomination. He talked to clergy in synagogues, C of E Churches, Methodist chapels etc but went to Northern Ireland where Paisley threw him out on the street. That night the poor bloke was in his hotel room on his knees begging God to get him in the church to talk to Paisley. Suddenly - with lots of noise and bright light - God appeared to him and said: 'Forget it Son, I can't even get myself into that church.'

An observation: The Beatles and their hangers on were notoriously heavy smokers. The Stones often spent so much time drugged up to the eyeballs they couldn't get their cigs lit. Other than Keith - 'the Human Riff' - Richards the Stones have gone easier than you might think on ciggies and drink, those slow killers. Not so George Harrison, Maureen Starkey, Derek Taylor and Mal Evans. I'm guessing the toll on heart muscles, cancer fighting immune systems and the rest might have been higher amongst The Beatles. There's even a story about Keith relating to a journo interviewing him. Keith was doing his customary swigs of Jack Daniels during the interview but went out of the room briefly to take a phone call. The journo decided to help himself to a sip to check if the JD was the real stuff. It was cold tea!

Then you've got stroppy sorts like Aaliyah who think the baggage allowance applies to everyone other than them. It was a sh*t load of extra baggage and a fairly small plane. Tragic.

Indeed it has, coupled with the matchless combination of wit and mighty intelligence on show in the posts. Never again will we see people already dead on the DL as happened with William Hartnell and Wilfred Bramble. Hell DL is more up to date than the press these days, witness that little gem I unearthed from The Sun TV mag who claimed - 6 days after his death - that Richard Whitely was recovering from pneumonia.

The insult board has been disabled but by the looks of this thread she's got loads of material for the new album.

And now we know her inclinations it'd be a waste for her to die this year.....unlisted here.

it might just be me, but somehow I`ve always wanted this to happen................ It could - I suppose - be engineered. For example, if you sampled the words of the oldest person into a rap record, persuaded them to pose naked for a top shelf magazine etc.

How about we lobby a television company to stage a celebrity boxing match between the two of them? I mean, there's 500 of us on this forum and I bet we'd all get our mates round to watch. That's a big audience by today's standards.

A man with no arms and no legs is swimming the English Channel. Half a mile from France he turns to the support boat and says: I can't go on. Are you sure? They ask. Yeah, he says, the cramp has spread to both of my ears.

Wait a minute....he lives in New Zealand and works in their theatre industry. Does this count as already dead?