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The following - anonymous - quote is much loved by writers: A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded. It's easy once they're dead to say they should have been on the list. This seems an average year so far. Some have seen 10 deaths, last year saw 12, I'd say the compilers are improving in a difficult area of operation. Maybe it's the influence of the growing band of intelligent and articulate members who post here.

Clearly the world ignored the Super Furry Animals plea to 'Shoot Doris Day' a few years ago.

They still didn't drop as fast the various coke-snorting and hard living Temptations: David Ruffin and Eddie Holman.

Re the lack of celebrity in porn stars, let's give 'Chesty' Morgan her due. Her massive breasts - reportedly 73FF - were her trademark and her thick Polish accent obliged the studios to dub all her lines. Then again I remember seeing Deadly Weapons - her celebrated flick in which she exacts revenge for the murder of her boyfriend by using the massive mammaries to entice and then smother the guilty men - when I was about 15. It stands out in my mind because the opening shot is a full on shot of her chest and a guy behind me screamed out loud in horror at the sight. According the the IMDB she was born in 1928 and remains alive.

Noticed he was 48 on the 1995 list and hasn't appeared since. The man is 77 this year. Probably not a prime contender but let's at least rev up for the future by considering the all important question. Bruce Forsyth - Showbiz legend or annoying and talentless trier, discuss:

That Wikipedia entry names a smattering of others with something unexpected to feel 'positive' about. Maybe they should band together and make their own movies, ain't like they've got much more to lose now is it?

So someone should rush to his hospital bed and read him the last rites again! The man is class: back in his car while his burns were still healing, competitive soon enough and back again after he had a panic attack at the end of that season. Three times world champion including once after he'd 'retired.' Despite the sentiments that under-pin much of this site I don't want Niki Lauda dead anytime soon.

Whatever, you got my little gag, delivered in the process of repeating another.

Stress He looks a bit frazzled to me. Arf arf.

During the present European tour and Live8 appearance Stills material and stage presence are notably low key. Nash has even taken over some of Stills' lead vocal slots in songs. My money's on the chunky Texan. Crosby, Nash and Young anyone?

Bit harsh on the man aren't you? He's got at least two claims to being a decent presidential contender: 1 - He's clearly an intelligent man who undestands the issues. You'd be pushing it to say the same about the present incumbent. 2 - He probably won the 2000 election. I'll bet the environment - if it could speak on such matters - would have wanted him in the White House.

Class. Looks like a game of spectator skittles. Just watched a competitive and totally safe grand prix. They don't make races that the one in Australia anymore.

If you check over the last few years many just made double figures. This isn't an exact science. Bloody good fun posting on the message boards though.

Notable that the briefly reunited Floyd WILL NOT play Shine On You Crazy Diamond at Live 8 Money Comfortably Numb Wish You Were Here Are the rumoured choices.

Journalists love to slip in the odd joke. True story: Before the first gulf war Ted Heath was flown out to Iraq where he received and escorted a bunch of British hostages back to the UK. Because they flew out of Iraq in the evening they slept in Jordan before boarding a flight for the UK. Opening his report the following evening the BBC's man in the Middle East said: Edward Heath spent last night in Amman Boom Boom

If any of this lot could count for the deathlist it would be Milvena Dean. She did make a - predictably low key - career as a Titanic survivor doing a few of those TV shows where C-list celebs have to guess the secret of the person in front of them. The proof that Milvena was a low grade celeb at best is that she often foxed the celebs who clearly didn't think 'oh here comes that old luvvie from the sinking ship again.' So, does C-list fifties and sixties TV star count here?

Four Horsemen, what a wind up. Can't you post a link?

Link to a discussion on whether racing drivers died from lung damage due to inhaling noxious hot gases or simply burned to death. Includes a picture of the wreckage of Siffert's car. http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?s...y=&pagenumber=3 British Pathe News films taken on the day. If you follow the instructions there is a brief low quality black and white clip of the race downloadable for free. Basically tells the whole story, shows the start and then runs some footage of the accident. The race was called off at this point. http://www.britishpathe.com/thumbnails.php...=brands%20hatch

Lawrensen speaks the truth. Peterson's accident reflected badly on the performance of the Italian emergency services but it wasn't in the same grimly pathetic tradition of Tom Pryce, Roger Williamson or one or two others. The other one that caught the viewing public unawares was Jo Siffert. Killed on October 24th 1971 in that 'Victory' meeting for Jackie Stewart. If I remember rightly Siffert - trapped like the others in a blazing car - had merely broken his ankle and would have survived if the fire had been extinguished. I'm sure I remember a track marshal weeping openly in the footage I saw because he'd tried like hell with poor equipment to save Jo Siffert. The link below is an extract from an unpublished dissertation on the relationship between the death of racing drivers on television and improved safety in the sport. Recommended for anyone following this lively little thread. http://www.ucc.ac.uk/sportscience/htm/Staf...process_pdf.pdf

M.Lawrenson Thanks for your contribution and respect to your site. I don't know why I couldn't get the link directly to the Williamson accident photos but hopefully those who used my link found the rest of your site interesting. Are you sure Piers Courage's De Tomaso was made of Magnesium? I thought car builders had learned the hard way at Le Mans and that Courage had an alloy car - with a fair percentage of magnesium - in which the company had gambled he'd have a chance to get out before a fire started. How much of Courage was left when they'd doused the flames? Judging from the car body he'd have been taken away in a shoebox.

Re Williamson's accident, there are videos available online although they sometimes come up as unavailable and/or oblige you to pay for them. Williamson AccidentShould give you the still images. I couldn't get the link to work directly to the page so you have to spool down the home page to the piece about Roger Williamson. It was a shocker, the safety at the track was pathetic and the reaction of the authorities and the marshalls made things worse. The worst of it was that David Purley could hear Williamson begging him to get him out. It's a bit different now. The last two fatalities in Grand Prix racing were marshalls hit by debris from accidents.

My mistake - as pointed out by the Jackal on the other thread. The man did well mind 1919 - 2002

The worst accident - ever - was Pierre Levagh's crash into the crowd at Le Mans in 1955, he died, took 82 spectators with him and maimed another 76 or thereabouts. His magnesium bodied car doused spectators with fuel as it went, exploded on impact and disintegrated as it flew through the air. Several spectators were beheaded by the bonnet, others took fatal injuries from the axle. An interesting twist - though something I find hard to believe - is that the accident started when Levagh's car hit the back of Lance Macklin's much slower Austin Healy. According to an anorak F1 web site I surfed recently Macklin - b 1919 - is still alive.

Indeed Mighty Moose and there is footage of the said accident. Purley putting his own life in danger as the marshalls stand off. Niki Lauda's autobiography includes an interesting twist on the crash. The drivers were criticised for continuing to race past the wreck. These were the days before pit to car radios. Most of them assumed Purley was Williamson, helping the marshalls put out the fire in his own car. Interesting to see how things went for Purley afterwards. His daredevil ways saw him make the Guinness Book of Records for experiencing the greatest G-force and deceleration of any human when his throttle stuck open and he went head on into a barrier. His leg bones looked like rows of Lego bricks in the resulting x-rays. Predictably he made a miraculous recovery, got back in a car, married a stunning rich woman and died young in a spectacular light aircraft accident.

gomaryport Right Widnes. Maryport - jewel of the North and online at www.gomaryport.co.uk Hopefully the link above is working. As for the rest. Mebbe yer doin' History in which case WW1 = World War 1. From which you can work out I've lived a bit, little surprises me these days etc. So the 'stuck a bayonet' is slang for all that I've seen and got involved with. Never been down South to Widnes mind.