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Found it. Ok, now I’m really hoping he makes a full recovery. Just 3 months til Deathray mails me my pint money!

If you’re gullible enough to believe the desperate attention seekers peddling utter nonsense on Twitter, then your time deserves to be wasted.

This is getting tedious now. I come on here every morning to new posts in about 10–20 threads and they’re all of him whinging, having a go at people or spamming with things intended to piss folk off like “Poor Bob Dole” or “I am not taking part in this deadpool”. Please stick him on mod preview PB until he can adjust his attitude and learn to contribute constructively.

Euro friendly link.

Rewatched My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) tonight. I was surprised to read that not only was a sequel released in 2016, but all cast members were still alive and reprised their roles too. Michael Constantine who played the crazy Greek father of the bride is 94 in May. He looks like he was circling in 2016 to be honest. Surely can’t last much longer. What totally shocked me though was that the granny in the films (ie the mother of Constantine’s character) is still alive and she’s ancient! A little known actress called Bess Meisler. No DOB on Google but Ancestry reveals she was born in January 1923.

Crass, loud mouthed Miriam Margolyes talking shite? Well I never.

Oh FFS, what is it with the Arabic speaking world and their fucking incompetent online news sites?

Well no presenters in black on the BBC I’m watching. Just spoke to my friend the former Royal butler. He doubts the perception some have that the Duke is seriously unwell, citing the fact that the Queen is absent and the fact that Philip walked into the hospital unaided. More importantly, he also said if anything does happen to the Duke after the 10pm news, it won’t be reported until 8am.

Luis Echeverria please.

Where to start with this... Can’t spell “passed” (“past”). MI6 conspiracy nutter. NEXT!

I translated that "article". The title and the body (just a single sentence in each) both translate the same. It looks like a template. Makes me wonder if they've goofed. Is this why you're questioning it too?

Hmm, how did you get Basel? Did you press the "geolocate" on the user's IP on Wiki? I did the same thing and it shows somewhere in Canada to me. Possible that they're using a non-fixed IP, or that it's just an unreliable tool. Anyway, said user wasn't hoaxing. Her daughter tweeted earlier confirming her death:

I agree that it's not the case that people often form opinions based on popularity, peer pressure, trends etc. but to deny "bandwagons" exist at all is equally as silly.

Anything on his great(?) grandson's Instagram?

I do not believe for one second that the Palace would say the Duke is in good spirits if that was not the case. The Palace has a long history of saying little to nothing to avoid revealing the whole picture but they wouldn’t tell an outright lie in a statement.

I never said it did?

Okay Crem, time to calm it. You're not the only one with Google and Twitter.

Lefty Twitter having an aneurysm over something so trivial does not translate as "the whole country".

Corman probably a good punt for this year or next. He was active up until 2018 with appearances, interviews etc. then suddenly stopped. Then again, he is 95 in April. Maybe just decided to finally give everything a rest and lead out his final years in peace. When Stanley Donen died in 2019 all the obituaries credited him as the last surviving director of Hollywood's Golden era (or to quote his Wiki page "the last surviving notable director of Hollywood's Golden Age"). That's unfair IMO. Corman is the last. Donen is only considered the "last" because his Golden era pictures won awards at the time. Corman's didn't. His early work was largely b-movies and horror... genres that are always cruelly shunned by the Hollywood elite. He was given an honorary Oscar in 2008 nonetheless.

Telegraph obit. Says she was hospitalised with something else then caught COVID in there. Survived by her twin sister Pamela Chamberlain (IMDb).

Surprised it took the BBC so long. They went missing 14 days ago. It's not exactly like they stopped off somewhere for a cuppa with a yeti, is it? A brilliant DDP team idea GUN. Could have easily won you the DDP if the expedition had produced 3-4 more fatalities.

Cannot believe he wasn't picked in the DDP. It was reported that he had been suffering with dementia since 2009(!) and being cared for by his wife. As far as low hanging fruit goes, that's a gift of an entry. I guess when I picked my own team in December I completely forgot about him.

S. Prestley Blake... I note from his obituaries that there were 4 siblings: Hollis (1918–1920), Curtis (1917–2019), Stewart (1914–2021), and a sister Betsy (married surname Melvin, born 1922 so turning 99 this year) <--- she's a noted author and photographer. A potential for supercentenarian age with those genes?

Jessie Smith (wiki), American R&B vocalist and a member of Ike & Tina Turner's backing group The Ikettes, dead at 79/80.

QO? Says he died Tuesday so he was already dead by the time I had posted the news he was ill. -- @Grim Up North A lot of churches put the "Prayers" section in their bulletins online, usually published weekly or fortnightly and can be downloaded as a PDF. It can be a useful tool, but for DDP purposes you'd have to spend a lot of time sieving through names to find someone notable so probably not worth it. Though sometimes if they have a unique name, they stick out.