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Yeah, uh, the LOTL needs updated in January. Years and years ago, TMIB and OoO agreed that only a fool would take on the DDP with a child as well. Hi, I am that frazzled fool! (Thank feck for Reptile and Grim doing the programming bit!)

Hah, yeah, I'm quite fond of the living big 5 of British actresses (ie - Dames Dench, Smith, Philips, Atkins and Marsh alll born in the same 18 months). Stephanie Cole another who is always good value. Ally Hannigan too but for, err, other reasons. As a fan of older British dramas I am quite fond of a vast number of character actresses and actors who show up all over the place!

Dagger in the heart, it was! (Dagger of the Mind was the Columbo with Honor Blackman in it instead) Now I think my favourite living actress is Jean Marsh, and I'm steadying myself for bad news there at some point soon and all...

Diana Ri...

Aww Sean's been well and truly Don Lusk'd!

I've skipped so many open goals in recent months I couldn't resist that one.

Yeah, he was the exception that proves the rule... (Wait a minute. You, a kid, in the 1970s...)

I'll sub in the great James Lovelock, thanks.

I've got everything for mince and tatties except two ingredients. Mince, and yer actual tatties. Takeaway it is. Frazzled parent...

DDP record equalled.

RIP to him (iirc he had "very frail now" news back in 2014 so he did quite well to live so long). The new Father of the Hearse for British MPs is... SIr Patrick Duffy (b. 1920), Labour, Colne Valley 1963-6, Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-92, former Navy minister and one of the outspoken smaller job Shadow Cabinet members of the 80s.

I think it'll be like 2017. 2016 was blockbuster A listers. 2017 tended to go for "musicians you liked in your teens", character actors and authors. But as Willz put it at the time (I paraphrase): that's equally as shit if you like all those things!

Worth an update imo, with the news that my 2016 DDP team are the first ones to complete an entire cleansheet.

A few but I'll know better the other side of Hogmanay. So far its been more the difficult right on the line cases that have come up, like one of those sent in by that nefarious Gooseberry Crumble! (That pick was allowed under the famous unwritten rule "if the person is getting a Netflix documentary made about them they are probably notable" for the record. ) Time will tell if the scaret letter is needed...

Gudrun Ure is her birth name too, so easier to track down in the online records!

It's your 1922-23 names I'm struggling with. All the ones I can think of are dead - some within the last year - but like the footballers, they must be out there somewhere... (I do sometimes wonder if Super Gran died off radar but pretty sure she'd show up in the death records.)

I wasn't sure if he really qualifies, but Hancock's Half Hour bit part actor Laurie Webb, who also played the poacher Ollis in The Three Doctors (Doctor Who) is still alive, born 1924.

tbh I was thinking how odd it was that Gooseberry had named 2 people in a row I'd actually heard of!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50970573 Focuses pretty much solely on TV/film so no LOTL saves...

Its the annual tradition. Midnight NYE, everyone: Hooray! The new Deathlist is up! 3 seconds later: The first "Where's my DDP joker? Why have you picked Valdas Adamkus and Yoko Ono's brother?" complaints.

Author Anne Baker, a cult favourite on here, has become the oldest person to ever get a Honour, aged 106. Services to charity.

I had the mens Wimbledon winner for 1953 on my team this year (Vic Seixas) and the Wimbledon mens winner for 1950 (!), Budge Patty, is still with us.

I think I had a dubious forum record in the Hares Pool? Latest in the year to take the lead in a deadpool and still not win it. Bloody Don Lusk!

Sadly yes and sadly yes, although I wouldn't blame the Cmme for 2022 if they tighten the rules once they see it in action.

List of the Lost and Missed will be tidied up in New Year when the front page can't be for a week or two.