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Not the full story, though - she'd had a massive heart attack the year before, was subject of press rumours, and was reassuring friends at the Oscars that she was "on the mend" iirc.

Jim Cornette on his podcast about Triple H's health also mentions Jerry Jarrett recently had a defibrillator added to his heart due to cardiac issues.

All roads lead to 4-0, imo.

John Wayne (below) lasted 2 months, and it was the Wayne/O'Hara analogies which came to mind, tbh.

Thanks. I know she was still active a few years ago.

On Neil Kinnock's 80th birthday, the family reveal Glenys Kinnock requires 24/7 care due to dementia. Can't mind if her health was mentioned on here before (I can't find it on search) but it is, now.

Only actor to be in Bond, Harry Potter, Dr Who, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Game of Thrones? Geek bingo. The only Bond villain to have appeared in Holby City and Taggart too! (And Inside no 9, which is fab.) One of the greats. IMDB has him down as appearing in SIX films coming out later this year at the age of 87!

"See you've got Dot Cotton and Bob Barker, be a shame if I bumped off Dr Legg and Bamber Gascoigne instead..."

Looks like another @Gooseberry Crumble LOTLer. Sods law, old crumble.

Welcome to Derby, where you'll never leave... Somehow its December, which means it is now time to start drawing up your teams for the 26th edition of one of the oldest running deadpools in the world. That's right, the Derby Dead Pool, or DDP as its also known. As with 2020, the 2021 DDP will be co-hosted by the team of msc, @Grim Up North and @gcreptile. The emails are going out (apologies again for any gremlins), and so its only now to say the DDP is open for entries! RULES For the hard of reading, a reminder of the four rule changes 1. DONT PICK FFBI PEOPLE. Those who ignore this will be mocked mercilessly. 2. UNIQUE PICKS are now worth 4 points instead of the old 3, to reward those who score with knowledge or punts on notables everyone else ignores. 3. THEME TEAMS need to be a theme team ie they cant be "all men" or "all DDP survivors from last years top ten". Esoteric is OK, taking the piss is not. 4. QUALIFYING OBITS - All from 2020 plus Last Word, Daily Record, Scottish and Sunday papers, STV, UTV, Economist, UK Yahoo, Radio Times, Economist, City AM and The Independent. Otherwise, good luck one and all!

She was taught in Glasgow and used to do TV with Stanley Baxter, so it's understandable tbf.

I thought you chaps meant the lettuce you get in the bag with the pakora, which is something to do with how it takes in the moisture and keeps the food fresh or something science-y. I've never seen one of these free salad bags. I don't think they do them in Glasgow, too healthy or something.

No, it's more a case of quoting the wrong person! But yes, we're in agreement about that - but in general, this government (in the UK) has incompetently pointed out many flaws in the Commonwealth as it currently stands, and if one wants it to survive, there needs to be serious reform.

Well, worth noting it hasn't yet. The Prime Minister announced intention to move forward on it, and public sentiment for ending their place in the Commonwealth has shot up of late, but that's all so far. (Note the biggest issue there is the Windrush debacle, which was the government. There is no start to their talents...)

For those who don't follow, I guess we should mention the Triple H follow up. He's on the mend but with a defibrillator so his career is over. "I had viral pneumonia. My lungs were inflamed, and as the next couple of days went on and I got home, it got increasingly worse. My wife [WWE executive Stephanie McMahon] saw some blood and stuff that I was coughing up, and I went and got checked, and it was coming from the viral pneumonia, but I had fluid in my lungs. I had some fluid around my heart so they followed up on it and did an EKG and Echo and everything. Basically, the way your heart pumps out 55-60 percent of your ejection fraction is a good number. I was at 30 percent. I got a quick text message saying don't take time, pack a bag real quick and head to the emergency room and I'll fill you in on the way. So, by the time I got to the emergency room, my ejection fraction had gone down to 22 percent, which, ya know, I was in heart failure."

Feck, is it legends birthday day or something? Because here's another - Richard O'Brien is 80 today! (He wrote The Rocky Horror Show, appeared in many cult films like Flash Gordon/Dark City, and was original and best host of the Crystal Maze, before any sod goes "who?") Feels like 3 or 4 future DL names mentioned in the last 24 hours in this thread...

Who knows how many more he'll outlive before someone finds that portrait in the attic?

tbh the art of deadpooling started hundreds of years ago when learned philosophers in high society bet on who the next oldest codger they knew to die would be, and while we're more civilised nowadays (we don't bet money on death afaik), it would be harsh to remove the one remaining link to the grassroots of deadpooling's genesis. Or to be blunt (as the rule hasn't changed much since I put it in), people picking their 115 year old granny who is the oldest woman in Scunthorpe never bothered me much. People picking 20 year old mothers of two who got put on life support by a hit and run driver and die hours after the deadline for the round did.

Congratulations, old chap! I'll remember to stress the old chap bit from now on.

I thought I'd mentioned this, but it turns out it was in PM instead. So, another great Ron Pember role was in the Bergerac Hallowe'en special Fires in the Fall. Unusually for the gritty cop show, it went full on horror and was actually astonishingly great at it. A boy got killed in a farm fire in the 60s, and twenty years on, the mother of the dead boy is being conned by a charlatan Derek Acorah type. At the same time, the police officer who covered up suspicious facts in the death (ie that it wasn't accidental) is on oxygen, dying, and being stalked by a mysterious figure in black. Jump scares, creepy old houses, arsonist ghosts and Louise Jameson, there's a lot to love in this one. Anyhow, Ron Pember is the aforementioned dodgy ex-cop, and he's very good in the role. As he was in many roles.

If you had to list the number of MPs I want to see lose their seats at the next election, it would make 1983 and 1997 look like minor non-events by comparison tbh. The uselessly incompetent and the nakedly corrupt. Or both in Gavin Williamsons case.

Having only ever seen the name written down, this is the first I've learned that Theo Clarke MP isn't a bloke!

Yeah, that's us, too - barely space for us in this wee flat let alone anyone else. There are a number of old buildings that could be refurbed at very quick notice in the UK which could provide spaces for refugees and the homeless if the will was there, mind. (I don't mean those needing extensive fix up jobs, though we could also sort that out too for long term reward...)

Well in another example of things only being easy if you know them, this one stumped me and I'd never heard of the place before.

William Regal was talking about his issues a few years ago when we were all going "fuck, Regal's looking ill" and then he vanished for months. Cliff Notes version He broke his neck in a TV title match with Ricky Steamboat and never got it fixed. Just rested it and exercised. And did drugs. Vince McMahon paying for his rehab in 2000 when he was in danger of overdosing is well documented. A combination of the drugs and the heart issues in 2003 led to him having calcification of his heart throughout his entire WWE career. In 2013 after he had his Cesaro match he had been having neck pains so got it checked it out and turned out his entire neck vertebrae needed fixed and were being "held together by calcified shit". So he needed the first ever pro-wrestler four vertebrae fusion. Which is why he can't ever wrestle again. Sometime after that, he needed emergency surgery when his fused neck started to leak fluid. In 2018, he had to go get his heart checked as he wasn't feeling well. Turned out the earlier heart issues were causing heart failure, and he was given 6 months to live, but actual pioneering new surgery was performed on his heart to fix it and give him more time. He blames having to retire from his exercise regime for this - which is what both buggered his neck and stopped him dying from it. And then after that he got sepsis in both legs and again nearly died but for late medical intervention. Fucking hell. I mean, I'm glad it's not "pan can and see you in an Observer tribute mag in 3 months" but yeah, he's a lucky lucky man.