themaninblack

Probably the shortest stay in my DDP list...

Noted

It was Malcolm Everett 'Mac' Wallace who did it.... ...you heard it here!

Aww shucks! Thanks guys/gals.... 31 is weird; it's not the big 3-0 and yet it's ages (well I hope its ages) till the big 4-0. Didn't do much today: a quiet pint and a created a new avatar (at work of course!) which I shall reveal in the New Year (it's nuthin' special)... Again, thanks for all the messages

My favoutrite Altman film is 'Brewster McCloud'.....

That's Sir Edward Ford, GCVO, KCB, ERD, if you don't mind, you young rapscallion. As the obit says, he was vigorous in his old age, which despite him being 96, put me off choosing him for a number of dead pools - shows what I know........ Things aren't so bad OoO, after all you're in the Top Ten of DDP now!

Here's the end quote: ''There is one TV legend, though, who’s older than all of them. He’s Frank Stanton, one of the giants of TV history who was president of CBS from 1946 to 1971. He’s still alive, if not quite kicking, at age 98''. Hmmm...sounds like one for the Deathlist. One additional peice of trivia regarding Mr Stanton: It was he who devised the Presidential debates on television.

Character actor John Hallam has died...

Wasn't he a TV presenter as well? hmmm quite possibly, I knew the name sounded familiar when I saw it on the bbc site. But had a mental block and couldn't remember where I'd heard of him before I'm sure he used to present Right to Reply, after Gus MacDonald...

''Yuri, I told you to slip him Valium, not Thallium!''

Wasn't he a TV presenter as well?

He's got a famous sugar-mummy that's why.....

Welcome to DeathList, bobtoole. I moved your post to a more appropriate topic. There's been disgustingly little news on his health. This time of year last year he looked set to go, but apparently he lost his nerve. That's one good DDP joker wasted. regards, Hein I'll second that...

We all die eventually, even though women tend to live longer. They can't keep away from the Grim Reaper for ever...

Talking of radio favourites, how is Brian Matthews these days?

Saw the obit on Puskas on Football Focus... Gerald Sindstat didn't sound right, almost as if he's had a stroke. One to keep an eye on?

I think it might be it for this year....

With two respected Economists gone this year, this has left something of a vacuum for next year's considerations. So how about Nobel-winning Paul Samuelson, born in 1915...

Cobblers! He was in my provisional DDP list too.. Maybe the DL should have a permanent slot for a legendary footballer in the list. Ah well, out Puskas, in Waters I suppose....

Definites: Biggs Pinter Moore Johnson Ford Douglas Graham Ali Heston Pinochet Dunn (you'd be kickin' yerselves if you missed out!) Perhaps not: Di Stefano Wisdom Lynn Thatcher Rayner Curtis Mandela Melly Taylor

There were no reports at all on him. I think the only recent thing on Friedman was an article he wrote just a couple of months ago that I posted a link to. Galbraith & Freidman in the same year, two economists for the price of one, very prudent, I'm sure Gord would concord with that...

This Milton Friedman, you mean? That's not ours. I failed to find any other report on the web. regards, Hein It's on the crawler on the BBC website.It is the economist who has died I wonder what the Deathlist headline will be? I hope it's mine.... Also, because he popularized the saying "There is no such thing as a free lunch" . . . in pointing out that there is a cost associated with everything to somebody, even if that person is not the end user . . . I think the quote should be "Free Lunch . . . for worms" 'Inflation isn't a Communist phenomenon, it isn't a Capitalist phenomenon, it's a printing press phenomenon'... A controversial figure though, ask the unemployed in Britian in the 1980s...

This Milton Friedman, you mean? That's not ours. I failed to find any other report on the web. regards, Hein It's on the crawler on the BBC website. It is the economist who has died I wonder what the Deathlist headline will be? I hope it's mine....

You seem to be the bearer of bad good news today OoO! Next you'll be finding a report that Friedman's death was just a media error. EDIT: This statement is tentatively withdrawn until I see just how critical Ferenc Puskas is... Is Milton Friedman dead? And talking of Freidmans, did Kinky win the governership in Texas?

They better hurry up then. Why don't they just hang him now and then carry on with the trial. At least the judge wont get interrupted this time...