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A listers circa 92-94 in 2021 right? Patricia Routledge and Burt Bacharach off the top of my head, as well as the aforementioned Chomsky. Lionel Blair? Mark Eden? Christopher Plummer? Most of whom seem quite healthy last I heard. But tbf, so did Geoffrey Palmer! Ah yes, the cricket guy? A common response to watching Fawlty Towers tbh. Maranne's roles in Bond and that are brief but larger in the Pink Panther films and his role in Doctor Who as Benoit in The Moonbase. But there's a long list of similar familiar acting faces which would be "Nice to see" on the DL but not the end of the world when they inevitably die sans mention. See also Doreen Mantle, Oscar Quitak, Leonard Fenton, Damaris Hayman, etc etc...

Yes, Felton would have counted in 2019. He almost certainly wouldn't in 2021 unless I've missed some actual albums or chart success or what not. The DDP rules since time foretold have stated it needs "the mention of death", not a full obit. Kindly fuck off with these incessant complaints that always arise from not reading the fucking rules, old chap.

There's also a number of new names you could easily see them pick - James Whale, Rush Limbaugh and maybe Alan Dean Foster too. Spoilt for choice.

Just the old news that he'd taken frail in the last 2 years, cut down on most of his planned stuff well before covid (he had to pull out of the Dad's Army remakes on poor health grounds), and he showed up on the One Show at the start of the year looking like he'd suddenly aged 50 years. Last I heard since, he was "frail but cheery". Anyhow, will be a sad day when he goes.

Point of information - he spent most of 2019 in hospital, and the reviews for the new documentary refer to his increasing frail health and further hospital stays.

Much as I hate to say it, maybe time to start considering Bernard Cribbins.

Still a month to go, Joey! But yes, that does look all but over barring huge drama...

And that's probably all she wrote for the 2020 DDP.

That would be the most weirdly specific "rule of three" ever...

From elsewhere: The news was first reported by the New York Post's gossip column Page Six, with a source telling the outlet that King has been in the hospital for some time - and even spent his 87th birthday there on 19 November. We've got a number of former DL picks playing against the clock now for a 2021 return...

Nice. 3 year itch on course for a hattrick of titles coming home to Glasgow? Don't hold your breath. Never twigged untl now that Rad Guy was the first person to *retain* the Deathrace either. Belated congrates for if he ever returns to the forum.

I still think he'll make it to 59 like Best and Osgood, based less on stats and more on gut feeling tbh. (I was going to add "and Socrates" but double checking the good doc was only 57...)

Wasn't that long ago the 1966 final was holding firm at nine survivors each - they're all in a hurry to go of late. (Well, one team is...) The 1994 final being the earliest without a death feels far too recent for my liking, even if it is over a quarter of a century now!

Peter Tobin's bound to see 80 at this rate. (Just testing this out)

"What a miss for th... Nah, the only people going "where's Maradona" before this month were the same ones thinking the Cmme should pick fucking Sinead O'Connor just in case...

TNA/Impact co-founder Bob Ryder, one of those names that always gets mentioned in dispatches without being seen much, dead.

Gooseberry Crumble last spotted on a flight home from Argentina?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54810392 Beeb for here and DDP and fucking everywhere...

15 years to the day of the other mad bastard George Best dying too.

Lots of reputable places calling it. Well, damn.

Watched the same documentary?

tbh crap threads die a death. There's also been a few that looked weird but the Cmme went "we'll use that one, thanks". If Iliescu is unworthy of comment, and I've used up all my knowledge in the previous post, this will fall to Page 14 before you can say "Norman Lear has his own thread?"

Nearly a unique for one of my teams bar for a theme team! Vaguely recall a story from the Romanian revolution of Ileiscu hedging his bets when Ceaucescu called on him by pretending to have an injury and wearing a fake cast! I can't find this online now but I'm sure it showed up in a BBC documentary once.

I don't do nice graphs like Biblio, but here's the "remaining" DDP hits mapped out. The 2020 DDP is at 243 hits, 32 behind the record, and a day ahead of the record holder now. A slow November has put the attempt at a new record in jeopardy. 275 – 28/12/2016 – Debbie Reynolds 274 – 27/12/2016 – Carrie Fisher 273 – 26/12/2016 – George S Irving 272 – 25/12/2016 – George Michael 271 – 24/12/2016 – Rick Parfitt 270 – 24/12/2016 – Richard Adams 269 – 24/12/2016 – Liz Smith 268 – 24/12/2016 – Edwin Reinecke 267 – 20/12/2016 – Michele Morgan 266 – 20/12/2016 – Patrick Jenkin 265 – 19/12/2016 - Rabbi Lionel Blue 264 – 18/12/2016 – Leo Marjane 263 – 18/12/2016 – Zsa Zsa Gabor 262 – 17/12/2016 – Henry Heimlich 261 – 15/12/2016 – Craig Sager 260 – 14/12/2016 – Bernard Fox 259 – 13/12/2016 – Thomas Schellin 258 – 12/12/2016 – ER Braithwaite 257 – 12/12/2016 – James Prior 256 – 11/12/2016 – John Moffat 255 – - 10/12/2016 – Ken Hechler 254 – 8/12/2016 – Sheila Quinn 253 – 8/12/2016 – John Glenn 252 – 8/12/2016 – David morsley 251 – 7/12/2016 – Hildegard Hamm-Brucer 250 – 7/12/2016 – Joseph Mascolo 249 – 6/12/2016 – Peter Vaughan 248 – 6/12/2016 – Adolf Burger 247 – 4/12/2016 – Moyra Browne 246 – 2/12/2016 – Sammy Lee 245 – 28/11/2016 – Van Williams 244 – 27/11/2016 – Mark Taimanov 243 – 26/11/2016 – Fritz Weaver – 2020 DDP is here, 25/11/2016

First forum mention (of 3) not by me! Which makes me believe drol can't stand him.