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Yeah I mean on my shortlist is a name I was so surprised was still alive I nearly sent a PM to Ulitzer to double check before I remembered to check (an official website) which confirmed it. Would have sworn I heard they died a decade or more ago.

Vin Scully another on the long list of very-American-centric celebs I know only because classic Simpsons used to riff on them. See also Lyndon LaRouche and the guy from Matlock (though the last one might be my age showing).

What a Kare on.

I'd rather pick Buzz than Alan Greenspan, but I'd rather pick Frank Field than either.

I see what you did there.

I have no comments on Prefab Sprout. Descriptions are rarely changed once up there, which is why Prunella Scales still has Rude Kid's surprisingly acidic one from 2007! 252 hits recorded for 2021, plus Tits if they QO (and since when has The Sun turned down an opportunity to talk about Tits metric?) 278 the record, 25 days left in the year.

I agree (I think he's got a year or two in him yet) but also: if he did die off the list, would it matter? There's only 50 names each year, of which about 10-12 are carried each year because they are old. Does Alan Greenspan jump out as a must keep instead of, say, a June Brown or Harry Belafonte? I've read his memoirs and I still say no.

*just narrowing the list of certs people might have forgotten about down by one on my shortlist*

Aww christ I've got to sub in Bob Dole's points. 26 days to get teams in, while to go yet before the annual pestering.

Bob Dole to be replaced by Christos Sartzetakis if that's OK then. Mostly as that's a cool surname.

Gone for Leslie Philips/

I mean, theres a reason I've got Jimmy Carter out there doing his warm up just in case he needs to make the starting lineup!

Never 11 without the 12th, there'll be another hit in 2021 now.

Bob Dole doesn't like this.

Hah. We do miss some obvious folk at times though. None of us went for Rutger Hauer in 2019 when he was obviously going to die. I mean, Ridley Scott made a film about Rutger Hauer dying in 2019 37 years previously, yet none of us took this obvious tip!

You've dropped him off your shortlist?

You know how it is. They're on their 11th whisky, they need to get a list up for the hell of it, ideas are running short. "Might as well try the forum" says Grim, and the rest shudder. He logs in, finds the ideas thread, looks at the first new post and screams. "What's up?" says Welshman, concerned. "It's a 500 name list by Sean!" "Oh fuck that, let's just pick Dick Van Dyke and have another round."

I think all of these are solid DL names but to focus in, based on COP and the recently focus on climate, this might be Lovelock's best chance to make the DL. Also, the Cmme have a run of their oldest new picks dying, and there aren't many other decent DLy 1920-23 newcomers. What they going to do? Actually pick Glynis Johns?

Meh, its a harmless tradition, even if it speaks for the forum delusion that anything said here makes any difference to the Committee. On that note, Gorba-fucking-chev FFS.

Yeah, his wife died in the summer as they found her cancer too late, because that family were really lacking in personal tragedies. Poor sods.

Tragically I foresee that you may be under the weather on Hogmanay and unable to travel to weddings?

Picked by 7 teams, only the DDP has had her under Eileen Whelan for decades! EDIT - By decades I mean since 2015 when TMIB registered.

He was also a well known cunt.

Not here. 86/250 Semi-impressive as most of the names were just DL-ish big names.

Reminds me of the Channel 4 or 5 tribute to Judi Dench about 15 years ago. Lots of serious actors talking about her bravery and gravitas as an actor. Cut to Brian Blessed. "Judi is the sexiest woman I've ever met and she still drives me WILD WITH LUST!" Apparently he can be a bully to staff when he thinks no one is looking (according to friends) which has put me off him a bit tbh.