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Disgraceful, we should sack the person in charge of the page and replace them with someone more efficient! (Lapses in communication basically. Afaik the LOTL is up to date re missing obits but there might be a WEP type pick hidden down the back of a sofa somewhere.)

Well he was very public yesterday, the sod! Still one or two under my hat with more potential, but they'll be names a lot of folk are keeping under their hats!

Legit have Piers Corbyn on my shortlist as a gut feeling pick on him looking like hell and mixing around a whole bunch of unvaccinated folk. Guess he's no a cheeky unique now!

tbh, one for the People I Was Surprised to Find Out I Posted About Before thread!

Has got pretty much every QO going, which is interesting as someone picked a Wurzel last year (who was on their number 1 hit) and didn't get a passing mention in a QO at all.

Legendary stuntman and stunt organiser Doug Robinson has died aged 91. Indiana Jones, Bond films, Star Wars, he had a hell of a career.

Not quite as demonic as I'd joked then!

Clorox, mate, take care of yourself. Real life and health must come first, and daft old deadpoolers will be here later if needed.

It may have, it didn't, they should have, he did, it did, he is and they are. However, to quote Napoleon, never interrupt the enemy when making a mistake...

Well, uh, blimey...

You don't tend to get many alcoholics getting to Hopkins age either. Tom Baker was such a heavy drinker in the 70s and 80s he was drinking buddies with Jeffrey Bernard, and even into his 70s he could drink most fans under the table. Peter O'Toole was a heavier drinker and somehow made it to 80. There may be others which escape me at this precise moment.

Biggest party at Drols since the Eurovision/Euro 2020 double.

Such a great band.

BOB DOLE DOESN'T NEED THIS! 17/50 5th December 2021 (the rest is by @Death Impends) Bob Dole has died at the age of 98, after many months of suffering from lung cancer. Bob Dole had an interesting and storied life that Bob Dole was proud of. Bob Dole served Bob Dole’s country in WWII, but almost died from gunfire on the battlefield and largely lost usage of Bob Dole’s arms. Bob Dole didn’t like that. Bob Dole had to carry a pen around just so people knew not to shake Bob Dole’s hand. But the war also made Bob Dole a hero. It got Bob Dole some neat shiny medals. Bob Dole should’ve died then, but Bob Dole persevered, and Bob Dole’s life of service was just beginning. Entering politics as a Republican, Bob Dole would serve America and Bob Dole’s home state of Kansas for decades more, first as a representative and more prominently as a senator, where Bob Dole started off as a firebrand conservative and ended as a somewhat-more-conciliatory Majority Leader. Gerald Ford picked Bob Dole as his running mate in 1976. Jerry was a truly great man. He loved falling down almost as much as Bob Dole loved saying Bob Dole. But Jimmy Carter won. Bob Dole didn’t like that. But Bob Dole didn’t give up easy. If Bob Dole couldn’t be vice president, then by golly, Bob Dole was going to be president. Come 1996, Bob Dole was in for a rude awakening. Folks, if you thought Democrats had a monopoly on uninspiring losing presidential campaigns, Bob Dole would like to have a word with you. Bob Dole learned that Bob Dole was a sacrificial lamb against Bill Clinton. Not even adapting Sam & Dave’s classic hit into “I’m a Dole Man” could save Bob Dole. Bill Clinton crushed Bob Dole. Bob Dole didn’t like that. Bob Dole meandered in the wilderness for a few years after Bob Dole’s political career ended. Bob Dole needed a new passion to give Bob Dole’s life purpose again. Bob Dole got just that. The male impotency crisis took America by storm, but no politician wanted to take it on. It was Bob Dole’s time to shine again as a SPAM spokesman. Golly, it was the bravest thing Bob Dole did since WWII. Then Bob Dole got abducted by aliens. Bob Dole didn’t like that. Bob Dole spent Bob Dole’s final years looking like a corpse, getting up from Bob Dole’s wheelchair to salute other elderly politicians Bob Dole somehow outlived, and being cited by the public as a “good ol’ days” bygone figure of US politics. Bob Dole supported Trump, but Bob Dole also admitted Trump lost last year, so Bob Dole hopes this convinces you that Bob Dole was moderate for a Republican. Bob Dole then got lung cancer this February. Bob Dole really didn’t like that. But Bob Dole was a fighter until the end (or maybe all the SPAM kept Bob Dole going) and lived until December, and in a final act of service, Bob Dole died in early December rather than on the 27th or something to make msc's task for 2022 more bearable. By contributing the 17th success to The Crowdsourced Deathlist, Bob Dole might finally know what it’s like to be part of a winning team… Bob Dole likes this!

NO MORE WALK ABOUT 16/50 29th November 2021 Aboriginal Australian actor David Gulpilil has died after a long battle with lung cancer to give a 16th success to the 2021 Crowdsourced Deathlist. Gulpilil made his breakthrough as a 16 year old actor in the film Walkabout, often played by teachers to quieten classrooms near the holidays. This success led to films like The Last Wave and Crocodile Dundee, in which he played Neville. In 2002, he appeared in Rabbit-Proof Fence, providing for a new generation another film often played by teachers to quieten classrooms near the holidays. In recent years personal demons (introduced by the filmmakers on WalkAbout) threatened to dominate the papers more than his acting, and he was put on trial in 2006 after allegedly threatening a landlord with a machete. His defence, that of course he had a machete on his body for carving digeridoos, actually worked. He later spent a year in jail after a domestic assault trial. His lengthy illness was well documented, hence his strong showing on the Crowdsourced list.

Proper legend!

Another role I remember him for is as one of the nastier murderers in the 90s revival of Peter Falk Has Alzheimer's Columbo, when he strangles his much younger pop star wife. The 90s Columbo episodes are a very mixed bag, but that one's a good one, and Coleman convincingly plays a complete bastard in it. EDIT - Huh, he's also the voice of the Principal in Recess? That, I didn't know!

Richard Wilson was talking to Radio 2 about his health last week. The Express have a write up, but he's doing OK, all things considered, bar suffering severe memory issues now due to the whole brain injury.

To be fair, after Bill Gate's Daddy, the definition of what is or isn't DLy is rather shaky!

I did say skip the post! I was tempted to spoiler tag it but that would have brought more attention to it. Sorry for your loss, genuinely.

Hopefully, in Ozzy's case. I am admittedly blinded by being a fan. (Although I do like the Pogues too, see, typical hypocrite. ) If its Tebbit or Lawson, Tebbit, but there feels like room for both. Though now I realise I forgot Douglas Hurd. They wont all be on the list! I do note Tebbit's frequent Lords speeches appear to have ceased?

Hmm, well my reply (just take it as read the Cmme don't care, passing pedants! Unless you are in the Cmme in which case remember your mate Gorbachev ) Ulitzer's list KEEPs AGREED with Lansbury, White, Barker, Kissinger, June Brown, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Philips, Tony Bennett, Ros Carter, QE2, Belafonte, Benny, Nolan, Woodward, Poitier and Doherty out right. They are either old and frail, or old and ill, or just old and not striking you as being destined to be around in 2-3 years. The outlier to those is Queen Libby, but she is one of the very few people on the list I'd say you cannot miss and skipping now is just playing with sods law that one of her wee hospital stays next year turns out to be pneumonia or something else suddenly fatal to the very old. DROPS AGREED with Akihito (retirement seems to have given him extra time), Loretta Lynn (doing fine for a soon to be 90 year old stroke survivor), Alan Greenspan (healthy and very boring), the Ayatollah (too young and not dying), Dick Cheney (agreed he looks to have another year at least in him, if you remember Sam Galbraith there is a clear downturn in major transport folks frailty in the year or so before they snuff it), Betty Boothroyd (still active, despite her heart issues), Vanessa Redgrave (imo, she goes in her late 80s). Which leaves us with 9 from 16. Scales (could go tomorrow or 2024), Newhart (frail but seems better now than last year), Walters (MIA and ill), Baxter (still muggling along but a personal favourite), Shane MacGowan (looked fucked for centuries), Dick Van Dyke (healthiest man on planet?), Delors (clearly unwell), Crosby (boy who cried wolf?), Marcos (ill but dull), Yoko Ono (ill but not sure how quickly), Mel Brooks (legend but seems OK), Willie Nelson (performing but old and frail), Le Pen (seems to have a few years in him yet), Castro (I don't believe the rumours of ill health), Bacharach (frail but performing), and Cribbins (too sad to contemplate tbh) Of those, Castro, Le Pen, Newhart and MacGowan seem easier drops. MacGowan could go at any time, but I'm long on the record of disliking these 50/60 year old alcoholic "gotta go one day" picks. Which leaves us with 3 more to drop. I'd drop one of Crosby or Nelson and Willie Nelson seems the better bet of the two. Yoko feels like a cert Cmme drop, though if she died tomorrow it wouldn't surprise me given events. And for a bit of realism (and to avoid jinxing someone else), let's get rid of Marcos here. So the 25 being kept are: Lansbury, White, Barker, Kissinger, Brown, J Carter, L Philips, Bennett, R Carter, QE2, Belafonte, Benny, Nolan, Woodward, Poitier, Doherty, Scales, Walters, Baxter, Van Dyke, Delors, Brooks, Nelson, Bacharach, Cribbins. (Yes, I kept the healthiest 96 year old ever. I was trying to be realistic!) RETURNEES (Ulitzers) Tom Smith, Gorbachev, Jerry Lee Lewis, ONJ, Liza Minelli - 5. Can't argue with Jerry Lee or GORBA-fucking-CHEV. The latter of which seems to have spent most of the last 3 years or so in hospital! Smith, I'm agnostic on - even though having that surgery in summer was probably a huge fucking alarm bell. This is why I never win the DDP. Olivia Newton-John isn't on my radar at the moment, though I am now listening to a low quality Oz radio interview she did a few weeks ago to see if there's any health clues! Liza a solid tip. Returnees I'd put my money behind Nigel Lawson (he has shown up on TV a fair bit lately and I haven't revised my opinion that a sneeze could finish him off), Desmond Tutu (considerably frailer than he was a few years ago), and, don't groan, Attenborough (starting to show and sound his age imo, and I'm wary of a trend for DL missing out on 96 year old British legends who die suddenly). I'd also try and find some room for Ozzy, because I feel like he doesn't have much time left on the planet after, well, all the Ozzy stuff he did to himself. (This is not hypocritic after Shane, as Ozzy is now in the danger zone for men of his age with addictions. Ok, a wee bit hypocritical...) NEW AGREED - Tebbit, Whale (such a DL name), Alagiah (sadly), Field (an open goal), Pele, Charlton. Glynis Johns would be a great pick too. I could see James Watson showing up too. DISAGREED - De Gaulle, Halvorsen, Parker, K Jackson don't feel front page famous. Tim Curry feels a DL pick but 2022 might be too early by a year or two. Superstar Billy Graham has exaggerated his health so often I wouldn't trust him dying if we were having his actual funeral. Bill Turnbull I feel he has longer to go than Alagiah, but will be on the DL. The rest is a matter of subjectivity, so I'll end by adding, that, imo, Russell Bishop, Marianne Faithful, Tom Weiskopf, and Vic Elford are all ill folk famous enough for the front page. Or infamous in the Babes in the Wood child killers case. The Duke of Kent, I know someone he spoke to last month actually, and he's even frailer and iller looking in real life. Stroke suffering David Graham has gone downhill so fast, James Lovelock is of the moment (and would be doomed due to the whole oldest new pick sequence), oh, and Mohammed Al-Fayed is meant to be dying. This leaves space for a few aging A listers (presumably one of Eastwood or Hackman gets a nod, or Eva Marie Saint), and the "Oh they actually picked this sick person" (maybe the Cmme love comic books and nab George Perez) picks.

Haha, no, Sir David Butler basically invented how people cover elections before, during and after the fact - the swingometer was one of his, but so was working out the maths bit behind how safe (or marginal) all the seats are. For boring nerds like me he's an absolute boss in the stats field. The Beeb brought him back in 2015 when he was 91 and he tweeted (!) for the 2017 election, but he now lives in sheltered accommodation due to being very old.

Yes, David Butler the elections expert. Good chap. 97 now. I am useless at alphabetical order (a brain issue) so relied on Word to bugger it up for me!

To be fair I was trying to take the piss out of Sir Creep and he got the last laugh. It's not my finest DDP moment.