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  2. Posted

    "According to intelligence information, the 64-year-old leader from the reclusive states is suffering from diabetes and other medical problems involving his kidney and liver. "

    According to US untelligence, Osama Bin Laden was supposed to be on the verge of death from those same ailments about 5 years ago, wasn't he? And I think they pronounced something similar about Fidel Castro back in the 80s.

     

    I wish the US would issue a statement that I'm about to die of renal failure and diabetes. That diagnosis seems to be gold-standard precursor to a vigorous and belligerent old age these days.

     

     

    Probably the US government are trying to outfox the Death List with disinformation for some reason or other....

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    With the nuclear test carried out today, has the 'rogue state' signed

    it's own death warrant or is this just sabre-rattling by a desperate

    leader of a poor country.

     

    Will the US or China take executive action?

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    MPFC, have you taken leave of your senses? it's not often I disagree with you but on this one I think you're pissing up the wrong tree, offering a recipe for dullness and tedium. These people are not even the Carlisle Uniteds of the obits columns. Conversation pieces they are not. The Maryport horse is more famous than these two. The deathlist should be competitive, yes, but it has to sparkle with lots of groovy picks. I doubt if either of them are household names, not even in their own households. Apart from that I agree with you 100 per cent.

     

     

    Well said that man.

     

    Edward Upward is even more boring than Ingmar Bergman and that's saying something.

     

    We have tons of good exciting candidates for next year, it's up to DL if they choose any or if they choose people more boring than Welsh Assembly - LIVE - 24 hour rolling coverage.

     

     

     

    But who's more likely to cark it?

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    Last night I had a look at a site which keeps track of noted nonogenarians (including a sizable number of Cinematographers - must be the celluloid!).

     

    Here's the link

     

    There's a fair few and I'm not sure that all of them would make the obits. Some of these have

    been mentioned as candidates before. I've made a list of possibles...

     

    Ruby Mahommed - Nation of Islam (b.1897)

    Zheng Ji - Biologist (b.1900)

    Boris Efimov - Cartoonist/Propagandist (b.1900)

    Sir Arthur Marshall - Aviator (b.1903)

    Frank Stanton - US TV executive (b.1908)

    Charles Forte - Hotelier (b.1908)

    Dame Elisabeth Murdoch - Philantropist and mother of Rupert (b.1909)

    Gloria Stuart - Actress (b.1910)

    Ronald Neame - Filmmaker (b.1911)

    Peter Rogers - Film Producer (Carry Ons) (b.1914)

    Phil Drabble - TV Presenter (One Man and his Dog) (b.1914)

    Norman Lloyd - Actor (b.1914)

    Anna Wing - Actress (Eastenders) (b.1914)

    Peter Copley - Actor (b. 1915)

    Joao Havelange - Ex-President of FIFA (b.1916)

    Olaf Pooley - Actor (b.1916)

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    If there are no other deaths this year, then it will be the poorest since 1998.

    However, never give up hope. The epochal 2003 list had three deaths in as many days.

    You never know what's round the corner.

     

    Next year should be promising. There are a couple of terminals (Hazlewood, Allen - if they hang on)

    and Ross Davidson has got to give up the ghost sooner or later. And Biggs come to think of it.

     

    And of course it's the 20th anniversary..... <_<

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    I think Moss is one of those that falls into a generation gap awareness.

     

    I'd imagine between 1961-1974, she was extremely well known, but as she fell out (rather spectactulary too) of the limelight, she became forgotten.

     

    I've never heard of her, for the simple reason that by the time I started watching television (1980 onwards), she'd already disappeared off our TV screens.

     

    I'd heard of her, and Corrie sacked her the year before I was born (though the Street and I are connected by the fact I was born on the day of it's 15th Anniversary episode. In fact, my mother squeezed me out at 7.20pm to make sure she didn't miss it). But that was only because she recorded for Joe Meek, and I have her tracks on some Meek compilation CDs.

     

    Funny that, I was born a couple of weeks before, on the day of the Porridge episode where Nasty Norris dug up the Leeds United pitch!

     

    Any other birth-days on minor TV milestones?

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    Jennifer Moss, former Coronation Street star from 1960-74 has died. Raise your glasses, or more appropriately baby bottles full of gin, in her memory.

     

    (edit) Just found a previous posting about Moss in 'Not Exactly Famous'. I'd've thought being in the UK's highest rated show for 14 years would have elevated her slightly above that...

     

     

    I think Moss is one of those that falls into a generation gap awareness.

     

    I'd imagine between 1961-1974, she was extremely well known, but as she fell out (rather spectactulary too) of the limelight, she became forgotten.

     

    I've never heard of her, for the simple reason that by the time I started watching television (1980 onwards), she'd already disappeared off our TV screens.

     

     

    I agree OoO, I'd never heard of her, she was last in the public eye before I was born, so depends how old you are and who you can remember....

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    Elections have often been held around May time, but a general election can be held at any point within 5 years of the previous one. The occasional debate crops up about whether the incumbent party should have the right to choose the date (as they do now) or if there should be a fixed term of say 4 years.

     

    On the one hand, picking your own date can be very useful and a bit of an unfair advantage, i.e. calling a snap election when you happen to do something vote-winning like start a war. On the other hand, if the date is set in stone you can't 'force' an election upon a rubbish government with lots of back bench rebels, meaning nothing gets done as bill after bill is defeated.

    May I humbly propose the Dutch approach: parliament has a constitutional maximum term of four years, after which it dissolves itself and new general elections are called, normally, though not always, in the same month the previous elections were held.

     

    Secondly, the monarch may dissolve parliament at any moment, which happens often at the request of the incumbent government when they have lost confidence of parliament. General elections are called for the first convenient moment, normally after some three months. Last time this happened was last June. Because of parliament's summer recess general elections will be held on 22 November 2006.

     

    regards,

    Hein

     

     

    An idea that popped into my head last week was that the leader of the Labour Party could be elected

    and then gets reelected (unapposed or contested) after a period of 5 years (a term) but with a maximum of two terms (10 years). This is irrespective of whether Labour are in govt or in opposition and subject to early retirement, resignation or death. This can be pushed through the Labour Party constitution and avoid all this tedious bollocks about 'the succession'.....

  23. Posted

    Harold Pinter interview.

     

    A bit of health news if you dig through the whole thing, but an interesting read even if you're not looking for death.

     

    Nothing we haven't heard before though. Hopes for a joker success continue to fade...

     

    It's seems like he's hanging on till he does the Beckett play and then after that........

     

    I think he'll make it to 2007, but not out of my list..... :ph34r:

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