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    Death In The Family

    Lard and BHB, sincere condolences. I've been around those with brain tumours and realise it's doubly painful for the relatives since you are in danger of losing a person's personality whilst also worrying about losing them completely. Hope the medical interventions achieve a result.
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    George Bush Senior

    Just noticed Weatherman 90's comment about it being unfortunate that Jimmy Carter might see 90. Bit harsh IMHO, arguably the most significant and successful ex-president of all. Most of the others line their own pockets and/or play golf, Carter's work on world peace is positively visionary, especially for one so old with no need to push himself in search of a living.
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    Read Any Good Books Lately?

    Dead Beat the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries. Only in the thirties page wise, but it's good.
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    No-one Waved Goodbye ... yet

    New Album been out a few weeks and we haven't mentioned it here. It's called Home Again, the lyrics tackle his recent problems but - so far as I know - DL doesn't get a plug. Two gigs the week after next planned in London. Anyone fancy checking out his health?
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    The Dead - 2007

    SP Thamilselvan life expectancy amongst the Tamil Tigers remains low. Their leaders tend to get obits or BBC News write-ups when they get killed.
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    Whom Are You Tarring With The Epithet "twunt"?

    I know, I've been avoiding making this post all day, I was quite happy with 999 posts! Now it's 1000!!
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    Titanic Survivors

    Top link CP, thanks. I like the logic:
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2008

    Bygraves lives in Australia and exhibits amazingly good health for one so old. Derek Batey, Doonican and others of that vintage are also remarkably chipper. Reg Varney would be a better bet from that lot, or a Brinsworth House resident, like Pepe Poupe.
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    Things To Do While Waiting For Death... 2007

    Get some time off work by pretending your kid has cancer. Incidentally, whilst we're talking about tastelessness......you know that Welsh cop who landed in trouble for using pictures of a motocyclist who'd lost his head in an accident......does anyone know where those pictures might be nestling on the internet. Purely for research purposes you understand.
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    Paul Gascoigne

    Gazza: I Need a Hip Operation A dodgy hip - apparently - is the reason he's so often seen struggling to walk a straight line.
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    The Dead - 2007

    Philip Ambrose sturggling to find a proper obit but he was a speedway rider. Best known as a Lakeside Hammer but a guest rider for the Edinburgh Monarchs team who took the KO Cup in 1999. Badly broken leg ended his career. According to the posts etc he died in his sleep aged 25.
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    Titanic Survivors

    Whilst we wait for Milvena Dean to die let's just enjoy those corking stories and insane delusions about the great liner. I recommend cheering up a Friday afternoon at work with the meandering nonesense that is the 'Ship the Never Sank?' theory. Link.
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    The Canadian Paul Deadpool

    Cheers She also has a Wiki page.
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    The Dead - 2007

    Diana Raffle playwright with a specialist line in the female heavy casts favoured by am-dram groups. Dead at 41 - apparently - can't find an obit anywhere, mind.
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    Chad Varah

    I think wev'e discussed him before but not sure he's had his own thread. The founder of The Samaritans was born in 1911.......and he's still alive. Time to phone home?
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    Parting Shots

    As sober aesthetes, appreciating of earthly demise in its many and varied forms, what are our favourite film scenes of finality? I'd plump for a great moment in an otherwise turgid film, John Hurt's death in Waterworld. He spends most of his smallish role tottering around on the remaining oil stocks of a rusting tanker, checking the remaining fuel and hating his life. Towards the end of the film the boat is attacked and given a mortal wound when the oil catches fire. We get one head on shot of Hurt, looking through mirrored shades at the oncoming fireball of death, he emits a world weary; 'Thank God!' Class.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2008

    I think almost on principle when we have one survivor of something mega - like WW1 - we should give them serious consideration for the top 50 DL. Meaning I think Titanic survivor Milvena Dean has to be there, unless she organises her own final voyage before New Year. I mean, part of the 'fun' of the list is the way it reminds us of the inevitable and pulls grim humour from the inevitability of death and the unpredictability of the how and when it will happen. Milvena's whole notoriety now is down to an event that involved the Grim Reaper having it large one night at a truly unexpected time. When she passes, a piece of history also passes, or summat. Anyway, I reckon we should have her on the list next year.
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    Billy Graham

    Amen to that, Coats on!
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    Death List Convention

    May 24th, hmmm, I'll be in London ahead of Carlisle's play off final on the 25th, obviously. What with Leeds and Notts Forest bagging the top two places and that.
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    Paul Gascoigne

    Promo for he played in before he was thrown off a plane for being too drunk to fly back from Malta. One of the main sponsors is a chain of liquor stores.
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    The Dead - 2007

    Sally Clark Long dead I know but the inquest reported back today. You could say she was pissed off so she pissed herself off, sort of thing.
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    Benazir Bhutto

    Issues an ultimatum and plans to lead a rally/walk onto a suicide bomb in a few days. It's getting lively out there. Do we - like - have a correspondent in that area?
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    Are We Going To Keep Any Of These For Next Year?

    It's always been a lottery. For starters Hilda Braid was acting more recently than some of the actors on that list, 'nuff said. Of the above Malden and - maybe - Moore look likely carkers to me inside the next twelve months. Wasn't planning to punt my own point scores on any of the others next year. Might even pay money to see one of Eli Wallach's forthcoming films.
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    A Joke

    Paddy & his wife lying in bed one night, but the neighbour's dog's barking like mad in the garden. Paddy says, "To hell with this", and storms off downstairs. Five minutes later he comes back upstairs; his wife says, "What did you do"? "I've put the f.ucker in our garden, let's see how THEY like it!"
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    A Famous Belgian

    Also an exciting opportunity. Maybe we should have a DL International thread, speculating on which is the next soveriegn territory facing demise.
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