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    Ginger Baker

    Possibly Ginger Alden, Elvis Presley's girlfriend who found him dead in the toilet.
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    Opera

    Wow, someone I've heard of.
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    Ginger Baker

    Aww, that might have been a good question for Guess The Song.
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    50/50 Reboot

    Yes, considering one of the reasons given for abandoning the earlier game was "it had no clear end date", and given the very narrow obit requirement, 50 seems far too many. I realise it is intended to match the other pools (30 born in 1930s, 40 born in 1940s) but it's unrealistic to require more deaths when the picks are going to be increasingly younger. What next, 60 born in the 60s? 70 born in the 70s? See what I mean?
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    Ideas and Possibilities for 2020

    She looks pretty good for someone who was given three months to live, nine years ago.
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    Ginger Baker

    I knew it! All those voting for him as 10th Death have saved him. Well done
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    Members' User Names

    Reading back through this thread, there were a lot of people who didn't stick around long.
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    50/50 Reboot

    So the BBC is the only accepted obit source?
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    Eddie Stobart

    Says Toast. If you are interested, the story of my name is as follows. I originally attempted to register as Brown Bread (rhyming slang for dead), but there was already someone registered with that name. So I came up with Toast as an alternative, because: 1. Toast is bread which has become brown. 2. It is another slang term for death. 3. It's also a cheerful expression involving drinking
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    Eddie Stobart

    A bit harsh, as often there is pressure involved to keep a family name going. It used to be the norm, everybody did it. There were even set naming patterns in some regions in which children were named after relatives in a strict order. Also people were incredibly unimaginative with forenames, and there was only a small pool of names in common use until the end of the Victorian age. Sorry to be a nerd, but names have always interested me.
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    The 10th Death of 2019

    Since I don't have him in any pools, and therefore no risk of saving him with my vote - Bob Barker
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    30/30

    #metoo 6th hit
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    Ginger Baker

    Re Dick, I was surprised to see that a distant younger relative of mine who I always knew as Richard calls himself 'Dick' on Facebook.
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    Jeremy Corbyn

    Who is the second if Corbyn is third? Oh, are you a fan of Boris? Sorry.
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    Jeremy Corbyn

    Third biggest, surely?
  16. She's 69. She looks OK to me from here.
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    Boris Johnson

    He's fucked.
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    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

    He's recently released a cracking solo album - I say solo, but it's fully orchestral and string-laden, not with the usual band. Huge cinematic soundscapes, some fabulous songs on there. Give it a listen, it's called 'Western Stars'.
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    They Say We're Sick

    I realise that, but my point was that the person who posted it on social media wasn't the one who was prosecuted. I would have thought that was more reprehensible than just watching it and enabling friend/family to see it. Don't get me wrong, they're all sick, but it strikes me that putting it out into the wider world is the worse behaviour.
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    They Say We're Sick

    Hmm, I was under the impression that they had posted it on social media, but apparently not. So it seems a bit harsh.
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    Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh

    You are so right. She used the media shamelessly. A sly manipulative creature. I had no time for her at all. Spookily I predicted her death - not to the day, but while friends were musing over what else would happen in her royal soap opera, I said, "She'll die in some spectacular way while still young and beautiful. So she will become a legend. That would be bang in character."
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    Stairway To Heaven/ Highway To Hell

    Was he in the Pink Fairies? I used to like them. I vaguely remember going to see them in about 1972.
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