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On the home straight in the Mantel ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy (before I watch the latest series). Holy fuck, there are a lot of Thomases to deal with.

Are we all done at 51? You in the bowler hat, sir? No? Going once… going twice… mould at 51 to multiple Deathlist bidders! Now on to lot 49, Jeanne Calment. Who’ll start me at 122? Come come now…

I’d like to request ‘Going, going, gone’ as the subtitle for this thread, which I’ll admit I’ve never read until now (due diligence completed).

He does. About 20 miles away.

More preferential treatment for us in the south east - there’s barely been a strong breeze. I feel sorry for MPFC up there in Maryport, with his tin bath and his outside toilet been blown all the way to kingdom come.

Was an old signature of mine.

I think they should all be British, and in their 90s. And Richard O’Sullivan should always be number 1, even though he’s only 80. Clive Dunn back at #50, please. Anyway, I remember Pauline’s Quirkes. The title at least - was it some kind of Why Don’t You rip-off, perhaps? Edit: I see it was some sort of kids variety/sketch show, with Flintlock (poor man’s Bay City Rollers) as the regular band. It’s probably on YouTube with a “who’s here in 2025” comment.

17 years later, Garth makes it 4-4. Unless some more Grateful Dead keyboards players have died in the ensuing time that I’ve been in a coma. It’s dispiriting that I can recall an internet discussion from 2007, yet I can’t remember where I put my coffee cup five minutes ago. I didn’t know how to put this in a more suitable thread, and I didn’t even try to find out.

Don’t forget that fine police superintendent Hakmana Dissanayaka Wasala Bandara Amunugama Wijeratne Gunathillaka Rajanayaka Bandaralage Hakmana Walawwe Anuruddha Bandara Hakmana? Sadly I have no idea of his age or health situation because, as our favourite American xenophobe might say, “he’s (a) fucking Sri Lankan”. He’s probably banned from buzzing in on University Challenge starter questions, though. When oh when will a kindly Deathlist member from the Solomon Islands start a thread for their poor unrepresented nation?

Wrong thread, my apologies

Death fought the Law and, uh, Death won (AET and pens).

Plowright, Plowright, Plowright, PLOWRIGHT, PLOWRIGHT, PLOWRIGHT, PLOWWWRIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares if she was a dame or a lady or a fucking baroness. She’s worm food like the rest of us will be, and there’s no preferential treatment for poshos in heaven or hell, I’ve heard. She pranced around to Shakespeare, was in some shit films and TV programmes, married a luvvie, lived in a fancy house, went blind and moved in to Denville for some hands of bridge. No offence, Joanie.

From brief research, they’re pretty similar. BH: opened in 1911, DH: 1926. BH: 36 rooms, DH: 40. BH: from £800 pw, DH: from £600. BH: one bed blocker, DH: 0.

Denville seems to get more of the nobs, with Brinsworth housing the hoi polloi. When Dicky gets his inevitable knighthood*, he’ll hotfoot it to Northwood, no doubt. *For services to charity - he’s been nobly living off it for over 20 years.

I did a fantastic cover of this. Of the original, not of the cover. I liked some of his films eg Wild at Heart, Eraserhead, and The Straight Story, yet disliked others such as the exasperating Mulholland Drive, so he goes in the Marmite category for me. I’ve never seen Dune as I doubt it’s my cup of tea, nor Twin Peaks, though I can’t really think why. Anyway, I’m all for auteurs in general, so he’s a thumbs up from me. RIP