Spade_Cooley

Two years to the day since Frank Vincent went home and got his fucking shinebox.

Yeah, the switch to daily updates (well, kinda daily) on the DDP homepage does reduce the necessary traffic to this thread.

Suharto's replacement as Indonesian president, BJ Habibie, dead at 83.

Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, the racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II and one of her closest personal friends, died today in 2001. I get the feeling the news wasn't reported that widely on the day.

I think these are the only living people who were a guest on more than one episode of the original GUAC run, I could be completely off. Amanda Barrie (b.1935) Wayne Sleep (1948) Honor Blackman (1925) Angela Douglas (1940)

Not gonna lie, this Hosni rebrand isn't working for me. Getting vibes of when Johnny Shentall replaced Kym in Hear'Say.

Plants are for nonces

Serbia's most popular rapper Gru has died in a paragliding accident. His 1996 album "Gru 2" is the biggest-selling album ever by a Serbian musician, and he was also the voice of Ralph in the Serbian dub of Wreck-It Ralph. Let's enjoy one of his bangers: It's a little bit more Will Smith than XXXtentacion tbh.

"Italy's Dylan", Lucio Battisti, died today in 1998, 20 days early.

Worked good for whoever picked Andrea Levy as well.

Rabbit-Proof Fence and Walkabout are both in the pantheon of "teacher can't be bothered today so he'll just show an Important Movie" for different generations of kids in the UK.

Shergar's vet and the man who was chosen to act as a go-between by police after the IRA kidnapped him, Stan Cosgrove, dead at 91. DDP pick.

When the going gets tough, the TERF get going?

Watching four pornographic films in a row suggests he has either ED or prodigious stamina and recuperation abilities that mean he's wasted in the police force.

Haven't posted mine for aeons: 2010 (5/20) Sanjaagiin Bayar Dawood Ibrahim Peter Macbeth Kauro Matsumoto Seaneen Molloy 2011 (2/20) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Rajo Devi Lohan 2012 (1/20) Val Armstrong 2013 (1/20) Ryan Buell 2014 (1/20) Ritchii Kara 2015 (2/20) Ritchii Kara Frank van den Bleeken 2016 (1/20) Luke Halpin 2017 (0/20) 2020 (2/20) Mark Allen Tim Bilton 2021 (4/20) Criscilla Anderson Michael Caputo John Harvey James Whale 2022 (3/20) Bill Steel Dick Vitale Alyson Williams 2023 (6/20) Joe Doering Jeanette Lee Steve McMichael Bill Steel Adrian Sutton James Whale

Back in happier times.

Ram Dass/Richard Alpert, Tim Leary's old mucker, says he's "ready to die".

Different guys I think. The Richard Selly petroleum expert and professor emeritus at Kingston University: Richard Selley about to die tomorrow:

He was good as Columbo.

Lollywood star Abid Ali is hospitalised, Pakistani TV says he's already dead but his daughter have denied those reports.

Data scientist Nick Berry, formerly of Microsoft and Facebook, has terminal cancer. He was one of the first people to push analytics in online gaming and was one of the key people behind Farmville dominating Facebook feeds for a year or so.

Former Iceland international and national team boss Atli Eðvaldsson has died at 62. For some additional flavouring, late DL favourite Chapman Pincher claimed Atli was the only man with evidence that proved former MI5 head Roger Hollis was actually a Russian double-agent.

We also missed chaplain and noted basketball fan Sister Jean of Loyola University reaching the centenary mark. Are there any other centenarians who've had bobbleheads of them made?