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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?

Likely TT's voters have had their collective ears mightily bent, the main thing to ponder for neutrals is whether this party still has the sense of its own self-worth and the number of MPs to do the usual politicing up to the end. crudely, does JC have enough of a lead that he'd lend votes and get others to encourage TT supporters to vote for RJ, the point being to stop KB getting to the last two where she's fancied to be a capable winner. If it's the two remaining lads you think JC would walk it but RJ may find himself rewarded with a really good shadow cabinet job.

Link, for anyone who wants to check it out, along with Into my Arms it's probably the best of the best in a really good collection:

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

Aye, and - along with a few others we could name - he's recoverd from death on the Wikipedia

The Comedians was massive once over but it's strange that IMBD - normally a mecca for anorak who know their facts - doesn't post a birthdate for half the performers. Has anyone around the UK noticed the likes of Charlie Daze playing a local club? How many of this lot are still alive? Some of them will be well into their seventies now, late nights, loadsa fags and drink, stressful job. We could have us some future winners here.

So, who on this thread just tweaked Wikipedia and killed him today? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Biya

When did I try and pin it on him? Didn't I just post to point out the latest trial wasn't anything to do with the Maddie case?

Yeah, but... Thieves breaking into his place found evidence he was a rapist, whether or not he had anything to do with Maddie's disappearance, he's dodged conviction here because they're unable to identify his victims.acquittal means they can't hit a standard of legal proof, it doesn't mean he's blameless for sex crimes. This case wasn't about trying to frame someone for a big crime, it was to see whether the clear evidence of his criminality could be linked to specific victims, which it couldn't.

To be clear, "the Maddie case" was no part of this trial. Basically, he's been acquitted because whilst a break-in at his place in Portugal led to the thieves and later the cops finding video evidence of his raping, it's proven impossible to identify victims and produce evidence linking said victims to our man. In one case there's even a victim recalling a rape but the whole thing is so long ago it's not possible to link the video in Brueckner's den of depravity to her case. This is hardly a ringing character endorsement of a misunderstood genius, or owt! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp95m0pel7vo

Oh aye, I'll spare you the Daily Mail link but confirming car accident - really sad

That's awful - I love that album with the Flaming Lips and I've unleashed it on the listening public, her first solo set is due out next year. Social media from her family says "Hold your kids extra tight tonight and for now please leave us to work through things. We will shout when we need you. Jude, Rachel, Jed and Ike x" - so maybe suicide, then, not a sniff of an illness on her social media

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 -

Saw this tonnage of Steve Wright stuff online - that'll do for a Monday The Quotes of Steven Wright: 1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 - Borrow money from pessimists – they don't expect it back. 3 - Half the people you know are below average. 4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. 9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. 10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ... But she left me before we met. 12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark? 13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? 14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. 15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. 16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. 17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. 18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. 19 - I intend to live forever... so far, so good. 20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? 21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. 22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice? 23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." 24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name 25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. 27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. 28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. 29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. 31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. 32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. 33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. 34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. 35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

A couple of Halibut women from Leeds are looking through an old photograph album. 'Oh look,' says one, 'there's my son on his first day at school, and here he is in the school play, and here with his football team...' 'Ah the children,' says her friend, 'They blow up so fast these days.' C'mon guys, share a few rib ticklers with us.

Seen those comparisons made online - and also the comment that Ed Gein was more innovative, he just chose the wrong way to show it!

Muriel McKay's family already had a complete podcast series and police dig in the likely resting place of her remains, non of which produced a final answer So, they're interested in buying the farm and looking themselves: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j7rx7w14xo

There's a load of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, but may be worth a punt and points if selected on a deadpool. A few obvious - Lucan, Bin Laden etc - get mentioned. But if we pool our collective brains we might hit on a few more. Like Bambi Woods age, whereabouts, real name uncertain. I'd say alive and willing the world to leave her alone, but you never know. C'mon guys, who else is missing in action?

There's a whole generation of folk singers out there straddling the mid sixties to seventies in age. Whilst not seriously old a lot of this crowd have played night after night in smoky venues, drunk heavily throughout their careers and been obliged to drive long distances in search of a few quid because many of them never really made it. One or two - like Gordon Lightfoot - did do well. Others, like Tom Paxton and many of the British crowd - Wizz Jones, Harvey Andrews etc - never made it out of the folk clubs and have no massive 'hits' covered by other artists to keep them in cash, obliging them to keep covering road miles and turning up in front of a few dozen people. It can't be doing them any good. I know Gordon Lightfoot was lucky to survive suffering an abdominal haemorrage on stage in 2002 and miraculously recovered to play Live8. There must be a few others in this category fixin' to strum their last. Anyone know more than me and want to share it?

Aye, well it was curiously absent here and I heard no radio news yesterday.

Seeing reports online of death of Martin Lee - Brotherhood of Man, two UK #1 singles in the 70s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lee_(singer)

Earn £45 for a wank: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24vd6ldypo

12-00 NOON AND NOWT ABOUT HIS DEATH ONLINE F'kin legend - go Jimmy!

Not saying owt re guilt, innocence - I'm truly confused here but it does strike me as significant that those thinking the conviction unsafe can build enough of an argument to make a decent documentary. Downloadable etc. here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023vnp