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Nine, DailyMail obitted Red Schoendienst. Another weekend at the lappy.

RIP

Few other darts players in their early 60s: Incisive punditry machine Rod Harrington: 60 ("I've known Rod for 25 years, Dave, and he will not want to have died of an agonising heart attack there") Dennis "looks like a child molester on The Bill" Ovens: 60 Disgusting scab Mike Gregory: 61 Paul Cook: 61 - Actually tried to get a tour card again last year, lost all four qualifying matches he played Jamie Harvey: 62 - Had some cancer issues a few years back if memory serves. Martin Adams: 62. Had prostate cancer. Would have been testicular cancer but he lost those when he wussed out on all those Grand Slam tournaments. Dave Whitcombe: 63 - His website has been "under construction" since 2004, http://www.davewhitcombe.com

Former World Matchplay champion/walrus lookalike Larry Butler hospitalised after that old favourite, the "massive heart attack".

OK, so the story here is that I put the TTL on the backburner while I was getting the site set up. And by the time I had everything working, and I looked at the databases, I realised that TMIB had sent the 2017 system not the 2018 one. And by that point, TMIB had vanished off the site. So... I may need to spend a day or so investigating how to create a new system for it to get it running/generating automatically.

Are you saying you don't read the DDP frontpage updates...

The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, is still alive and 91 years old.

Britain's (now former) oldest rugby international, Harry Walker, dead at 103. Surprisingly never DDP picked.

Beeb come through with the belated Malcolm Morley obit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44371397

What did I tell you? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/06/jalal-mansur-nuriddin-last-poets-obituary-grandfather-of-rap

Topic subheader not "stiffs"?

Try now

Kate Spade dead in suicide according to the wires. Update: Link.

I roared with something, I can tell you...

Entering theme teams that have a chance of more than two people dying is cheating, tbh. The theme needs to be as niche as possible. Hence my run of "people from Northampton" (0 deaths), people mentioned in Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics (two deaths!) and people who have told the same specific joke on camera (one death so far).

Guardian obituary a guarantee.

Sir Desmond de Silva, one of Britain's most famous QCs, dead at 78. Defended Lee Bowyer and John Terry, helped prosecute Charles Taylor.

Coates was the last of the pre-New Hollywood female film editors of note I think. There's not that many who'd QO over the age of 70 still around: Thelma Schoonmaker is still working regularly.... possibly Marcia Lucas? She's only given one interview since divorcing George. Although this appears to be a photo (from her daughter's Instagram account) in May this year, doesn't look like someone in a care home.

You really think I'm giving up the source that gave me "Shelly Berman and Mitzi Shore are about to drop dead"?

You can cross Walter Eich off the 1954 Swiss team now.

It's Will Jordan, the American impressionist and comedian who specialised in impersonating Ed Sullivan.

Neville Southall getting all the plaudits recently for being #woke, but Jesus Christ how fucked must this man's arteries be? He was never the sveltest stopper but he looks like the bloated corpse of a man found drowned.

Matter of seconds. I travel for work on Mondays so my reaction speeds aren't as good.

Frank Carlucci, former US defense secretary mentioned on here as a possibility for 2007, finally dies in 2018. DDP pick.

Still one of my favourite facts of all-time: the "Wearside Jack" tapes that massively hindered the Peter Sutcliffe investigation were recorded over an Andrew Gold album.