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Just hit on a great site dealing with popular music deaths. Enjoy!

I think I might have been the first person on Deathlist to - ahem - finger her for future use, that was ages - like over a decade - ago when she turned up in a documentary, discussed surviving the holocaust and indicated she was terminally ill. There's more life and joy in that face than in 77-year-old Donald Trump's mugshot

Aye, not sure I trust all the online speculation. Does anyone know for sure who these "bad people" are? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68841840

For the young 'uns who don't recall the TV show Shameless this bizarre kidnapping (which was faked) part of the inspiration was taken from the TV drama set in Manchester and in a bizarre twist much later, during the last series of Shameless there's a discussion between two characters, one of whom is local gangster Shane McGuire about the stupidity and likely lack of success if you fake a kidnapping.

So, if you want to watch the beautiful game in Rotherham next season, keep your eyes on the visiting teams!

Some authors seem to go on for ages and they don't appear on boards like this because they often stay out of the public eye. Many people simply assume they're dead. However the following are unlikely to be setting sprint world records or clocking up high sales figures for pin up calenders these days. J.D 'Catcher in the Rye' Salinger, 1919 - Harper 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Lee, 1926 - Robert M 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence' Pirsig, 1928 -

When the dust settled on the scare that resulted from her positive test does anyone know how many practising pornsters were also found to have HIV? Roughly when will we expect them to join our annual top 50?

She's widened and got way flabbier round the face than when she was PM. Actually looks stressed and pretty rough. Some time in her constituency doing the basics might be good for her, not that she seems interested

On paper yeah, but it's a triple curve ball situation, there'll be a Reform candidate, the local independent is making it clear he favours standard Tory policies but he's a local guy who gives a shit about his constituents (something she has a reputation for not doing), and there's the tactical voting that appears to be happening and being targeted on particular individuals (Hunt, for one is vulnerable to this), so Truss could find it being squeaky bum time, even if she has a job after the election

From Honez recent post on the deaths of 2008 thread......I take the point that thread is for people. But global markets are feeling the jitters and the odd airline, corporate giant or bank is always rumoured to be failing. So - since we speculate on the amount of useful life life wherever we find it - I reckon our recession watchers could use this here thread.

Oh aye, and... Eyebags noticeably bigger and his face/neck have got thinner of late. Tbh, take away the power suit/make up and hair and he looks old and tired. Not sure he's sleeping anywhere near enough.

Chris Mason's digest of the main threads in Truss's new book linked below - Sunday Times discussed the advances (financial) on this, which were fairly low (less than £2000 in the UK), and also the 71-year-old independent standing against her at the next election (point being the guy's basically a Conservative and very big on actually representing local issues in parliament). Truss could hang on and keep peddling her personal brand of Conservatism, or it could all go to even more shit in the next few months. Interesting times, eh? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68823526

More than Truss backing him now - this album is out at the end of the week!

Or stay awake in public and actually concentrate on something for hours on end. He has a habit of using things he seems to worry about as ways of abusing others, like saying someone has very small hands (which Trump does in relation to the bulk of the rest of him). He calls Biden "sleepy Joe," we'll see.

So, was fighting up to last year - may well be impossible to verify but continuing to take hard blows to the head into his 40s might well have something to do with that seizure

Not sure Rosemary Haughton has seen herself described as "hot" very often in the course of a writing career that's seen her lauded as a major talent where theology is concerned. That's major talent as in q/o chances, especially in the more permissive pools, are good. But things are different hereabouts, we're deadpoolers and she (on the left as we look) turns 97 today

Yeah, photo from Big Brother house and a one-line entry in which they point out he's litigious and state that in their opinion he's still a crap MP.

Bought this cheapie from my local Oxfam and greatly enjoyed it - not exactly a long read.It's a digest of represenative crapness produced in the wake of the expenses scandal. Big take away for me being that the authors clearly thought the expenses a low in political standards, they hadn't a fucking clue how low Boris Johnson's reign would drag the whole business. Useful hereabouts as a reminder that some of the expenses mob remain alive and their wrongdoings back then will guarantee q/o coverage in the broadsheets as and when. So, a reminder Anthony Steen - b.1939 Conservative, claimed £87,000 in expenses to upkeep his mansion and bawled out critics as simply jealous because he had a big house Sir Derek Conway - b.1939 Conservative, half the fucking family on the payroll, worst example being paying one son a substantial salary as a aide despite the fact the young 'un was otherwise engaged studying Geography in Newcastle at the time Margaret Moran - b.1955 Labour, multiple expense and ongoing shitstorm including sterling efforts to keep the lingering shite off her Wiki page Andrew Mackay and Julie Kirkbride - b.1949 and 1960 Conservatives, married MPs who milked the potential of flipping their main residences so's they could cash in mightily.

I'm guessing the DDP and HPDP will throw up loads of candidates fit for a paragraph and unfit for a busy thread or proper obit. Mebbe a good idea to collect such creatures on one thread so's those of us with an - ahem - sporting interest can keep tabs on 'em. I'll cop for having such an interest in Rachil Jonze, who might just be this year's Ms Groves. Similarly Ian McNicol may afford us that combination of brief media coverage and ongoing ranter fire we've come to know and love over the years. and Dawn Hughes' illness was the subject of television coverage as part of Channel 4's 'Mummy Diaries.' She's also made appearances on BBC television and the BBC web site, her husband works for the Beeb. Then there's everyone's favourite pin up: Winnie Langley. I took a long-shot punt on her for the DDP mainly because I thought if she went the various papers who'd covered her 100th birthday wouldn't be able to resist running that great picture again. Anyone else gonna cop for long shot picks before OoO and NAP do their duty and reveal all?

Sure we've had this chat before but this guy was measured and weighed regularly at 6ft 3ins and around 215 lbs

Ronda Rousey is out there promoting her new book and she's fairly frank about the fact her brutal and rapid victories were partly down to her own awareness that she'd had so many concussions in her judo career she wanted to avoid lengthy bouts in MMA. From a dead pooling point of view she's likely not the only one and that first generation of highly prominent (i.e., q/o shoo-in) female fighters, many of whom owe Rousey a debt because her fame dragged the sport to a higher profile could well be figuring regularly hereabouts within a decade. Grim stuff. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/31/ronda-rousey-i-never-wanted-to-talk-about-concussion-it-felt-like-a-weakness

Nice one, I'm thinking that leaves him more time to use his phone - no wonder they want to get youngsters off the internet.

Well, it's over 24 hours since I started a thread so... The death of Mrs Ralph Vaughan-Williams was a timely reminder of the existence of widows much younger than their more famous husbands and wives. I think it's time we pooled our knowledge on those obit-worthy if low-profile survivors. The likes of Imelda Marcos, Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan are already on the DL radar. Let's limit this collection to those out of the headlines but still obit-worthy to DDP standards and beyond. I'd wager the following brace would score, even by the exacting standards of the CPDP. Step forward, Bing's bed-steady: Kathryn Crosby and Prime Minister's poetess partner: Mary Wilson.

A few of the worlds heaviest - like Rosalie Bradford and Mike Parteleno - are still alive, albeit shadows of their former selves. As this little round up shows, that tonnage ain't good for you in the long term. Even some of the so-called champion slimmers carry long term health problems. Be warned people, some pictures on the link are not pretty! Will any of the world's biggest - like Denny Welch- bite the dust soon?