Ulitzer95

Yeah because we all know who that is....

You've had a good year... Oral hygiene not so good... Yeah not bad at all considering it 's my first year, albeit I think I'm really going to struggle next year. My team's crap. Despite a lot of people on the forum moaning that there hasn't been many notable deaths this year, there's virtually no terminally ill people left for next year, Al-Megrahi being one of the exceptions..... *sigh*

RIP, bastard. DDP points for me.. yaaay

Ooh! That'll shake things up on the DDP if she gets an obit. It could be a nervous wait for Master Mind. What do you mean "if"? I thought that rugby was a popular sport in Old Blighty. Wouldn't ARod get an obit in the USA? It is but.. women's rugby isn't. Just like women's football in the US isn't. She's relatively unknown to the vast majority of ppl (I didn't know who she was until I saw her in the DDP and did a bit of research)....

Sky News are quoting the mayor stating that he only received a few cuts to his face and was released immediately after....

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You don't have the misfortune to have met him. His sons Fraser and Scott go to Dollar Academy. Not at all like their pigheaded father. And I think you mean Ann, she's Brian's sister. Never met her. My parents claim she's a nice person and I constantly see her in the local paper for doing charity work but a lot of folk tell me she's a c**t. Yes - she is called Ann. I often call her Morag for some strange reason. You seem well connected with the Souter family. Anything you wish to tell me? Haha no not quite.. they live in Perth. I reside in Dundee. I went to a private school though and a lot of the pupils were from the surrounding areas, including Perth so they knew a lot of people at Strathallan, Dollar, Perth High, Perth Academy and so I got to meet people at parties. I met Brian because of his links with one of my ex's. Decided not to bring up Clause 28, his comments about Northerners ("council dwelling, boozed up, Labour-voting scum" or something along those lines) or the fact that Alex Salmond mysteriously dropped the policy to renationalise bus services after a £500,000 donation was handed to him by Mr. Souter... Just seemed like a tit when i was speaking to him TBH - I think he got lucky in life. A luck not shared by his sons, and not by his father anymore by the look of things

You don't have the misfortune to have met him. His sons Fraser and Scott go to Dollar Academy. Not at all like their pigheaded father. And I think you mean Ann, she's Brian's sister. Never met her. My parents claim she's a nice person and I constantly see her in the local paper for doing charity work but a lot of folk tell me she's a c**t.

Joseph Wiseman, who played Julius No in the first ever bond film, Dr. No has died aged 91. He was the last bond villain from the Sean Connery films

William Wayne Justice, an appropriately named U.S. federal judge has died aged 89. Lu Zhengcao, 104 and the last of China's first 57 generals in the Liberation Army has fought his last battle and lost.

Ah well - I've not won this sweepstake either. You've still got a few hours yet Windsor. Quite right - if not on said date then its down to the closest date - so Windy, till noon on the 15th you are still in the frame for a win. I'm bidding my time.... either way I want him out this year. I need space, Relax. He will die on November 4th of course!

I don't know how to break this to you, but...

In that vein are Paul Gerhard Vogel and Karl Lange, both of whom appear to be living. Added. Thanks!

*Peggy Gilbert, a jazz musician lived to 102. *Ruth Ellis, an early gay rights activist lived to 101. *Harry Hay, another early gay rights activist lived to 90. His partner John Burnside, the inventor of the teleidoscope, died last year at 91. *Sir John Gielgud lived to a very reasonable 96, as did Virginia Prince. *Gian Carlo Menotti was 95. *Sir Michael Tippett was 93. *Quentin Crisp was 90. *Kurt von Ruffin roughed it out for 95 years despite being kept in a concentration camp for sometime. Fellow inmate Karl Gorath lived to a ripe 90. *Moody bisexual and Hitler's favourite, Marlene Dietrich clocked it up to 90. *Berenice Abbott was 93. *Aaron Copland was another composer to see 90. *Virgil Thomson, a composer of 92. *Duncan Grant was 93. *E. M. Forster was 91. *W. Somerset Maugham, also 91. *King Gustav V of Sweden was 92. *Pharaoh Pepi II of Neferkare was roughly about 94. *Kermit Love, sadly passed away last year but he was 91. *James Kirkup passed away in May, aged 91. *Harold Norse passed away in June, aged 92. *Merce Cunningham passed away in July, aged 90. I'll stop there for the ones that are already dead because if I start going into names of individuals that lived into their 80s I'll be here all day. OK, since this thread is growing... may as well concentrate on some possibilities for 2010! *Hugues Cuenod is still alive. He is 108 next year. His husband (or civil partner to be precise) is 41 years younger than him. F**k me! Although that might be what's keeping him feeling so young! *British Army commando and journalist Micky Burn will be 98! *Gay rights activist Axel Axgil is 95 next year! *Nazi victims Karl Lange and Paul Gerhard Vogel will also turn 95! *Playwright Arthur Laurents will turn 92. *Singer Chavela Vargas will turn 91. *Pierre Cardin, already on the main list, is 88 next year. *Drag queen/WWII veteran Jose Sarria will be 87 or 88. *Composer Ned Rorem will be 87, as will Fred Richmond and director Franco Zeffirelli. *Phyllis Lyon, a very prominent gay rights activist in the U.S. will be 86 next year, as will poet Edward Field. *The great Gore Vidal, gay rights activist Frank Kameny and singer Johnny Brandon will be 85. *Ronnie Gilbert, of The Weavers and a collaborator with Pete Seeger, will be 84 next year, as will composers Lee Hoiby and Hanz Werner Henze, minister Otis Charles and Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, known for his "bisexual activities". *Underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and poet John Ashbery will be 83. *Composer Ruth Anderson, actor Jack Larson, legendary filmmaker James Ivory, gay rights activist John Challis, Labour Party politician Maureen Colquhoun, philanthropist Joan Chalmers and playwright Edward Albee will all turn 82 in 2010. *Cecil Taylor, novelist Dominique Fernandez, sex educator Betty Dodson, Canadian politician Laurier LaPierre and ufologist Ted Bloecher will turn 81. *Rabbi Lionel Blue will turn 80. *At a push, Tab Hunter will be 79 next year and Giorgio Armani will be 76, as will Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Rip Taylor. Johnny Mathis and Larry Kramer will be a reasonable 75. That's all I could find at the moment. I really don't think there are that many. Coming out wasn't really a normal thing to do until later in the 80s.. maybe even the 90s and in many places it's seen as taboo and not socially right so I think it's fair to say that a great deal of older celebs out there will be discretely gay or bisexual without us knowing about it. We also have to consider the fact that a lot of them will never come to terms with their sexuality and a lot of people didn't get to become famous BECAUSE of it and therefore didn't get the roles in Hollywood etc. because of it. All these factors produce a shorter list.

I think this is a bad idea for a thread. The first few names which you mentioned e.g. Kevin Greening would be better suited to a thread about people with drug habbits, whereas people like McGee rightfully belong in the suicidal thread which already exists. Clift and Dean were both bisexual, not exclusively gay but Clift died from a freak heart attack relating to undiagnosed heart problems and Dean was speeding like a maniac. I don't think underlying heart conditions and speeding in a sports car is really relevant to their sexuality TBH, there's no real link. I would see the sense in creating a thread about HIV-positive folk on the other hand as I can think of loads of people who have the disease (albeit the AIDS crisis is over and sufferings live MUCH longer than before, much more is known about the disease plus general awareness is better) e.g. Magic Johnson, Andy Bell and Holly Johnson. They'll probably all live for decades yet though... There's also the problem of whether people are infact gay.... e.g. Michael Jackson, Cliff Richard, Robbie Williams, Queen Latifah etc.

Don't know if anybody saw the new episode of South Park that aired last night... very controversial but absolutely hilarious. The episode was titled "Dead Celebrities" and featured quite a few of celebrities who have died in the first nine months of 2009. For anybody that's interested in watching the episode, you can watch it in full here. Basically the deceased celebs can't get to the afterlife and are stuck in purgatory because one of the passengers on their plane (Michael Jackson) won't come to terms with the fact that he's died. Featured in the episode were: Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Patrick Swayze, Bea Arthur, Ricardo Montalban, John Hughes, Steve McNair, DJ AM, Les Paul, Oscar Mayer Jr, Billy Mays, David Carradine, Dom DeLuise, Natasha Richardson and Arturo Gatti. (Pity the only Brit featured was Richardson, would've loved to have seen South Park do Keith Floyd, Wendy Richard and Jade Goody but I guess they were all relatively minor names in the U.S.). Worth a watch if you didn't see it!

Apparently a load of bull... wasn't even in hospital

Condition worsening According to her website, she's DEAD.

OMG REALLLYYY?? Why didn't anybody post this before - thanks for informing us Grande Pablo!!

Don't know who he was either but when I read the word "neoconservative" at the top and the word "dead" in your post, I smirked a little...

I'll presume I don't have to explain to you what a "typo" is...

That joke was funny the first time I heard it... which was about 9pm this morning... however when every single person has to tell it... it starts to wear a little thin

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi?

al-Megrahi!

Paul Shane most likely....... Met Paul Shane two years ago in Tenerife in a pub... quite a disgusting, grubby little git in general.... very unkept, couldn't even stand up... not really an aspiring way to see one of the ppl who was there day in, day out throughout your childhood....