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Yeah, I've seen it, it's pretty good. The man loved trains.

Ah, so you're not Owen Jones then? (My humblest apologies, couldn't resist...)

I like the lingerers tbh? It adds a sort of sense of history and occasion to it. imo.

Scared off by you! (Well, officially, anyhow...) Some folk seem to post a lot for a short period of time then just fuck off - thinking of Scraggy and Mike Diablo here. And Zsa Zsa's Legs has posted nearly sod all since he tried to tell us about that dance mum being more famous in the UK than Mel Brooks... You can tell DJL has been gone by the lack of Papist conspiracy theories that have been posted in 2020! iirc Ali said he was very busy with work but aimed to return. He's pretty much universally welcome whenever he is able to, or wants to, of course.

Thanks, once again. What I do with the LOTL is give folk without obits a 2 month window before adding them (mostly as updating the table is a tad pernickty) and then go back to find the names you've listed that never got an obit.

Future front page DLer for sure. It sounds more like a "at my age you never know" rather than a Bowie tbh.

Thanks - updated. AFB now has 2 titles in a year too. (Although as winner of the 2015 and 2018 Deathraces, moving off the 2 games position can be tricky...) First update ever I didn't add an extra win to DI's pile. Must be chilling with that long sought DDP title!

Betjeman's favourite town!

NOT DEAD DISCLAIMER The Sun decided to track down Willie Nelson in self-isolation for an interview and photo. Pretty much follows the news of most living picks on the list: he's staying indoors away from covid like a sensible 87 year old guy with health issues.

He's nearly 97 and he's still doing podcasts. The man is amazing. You can listen to him here. There's about 10 mins of discussion before they get to Walker, who sounds healthier than me, tbh. Talking a wee bit slower than his prime but quite clear and still as conversational in style as ever. He thinks Lewis Hamilton is on course to be the F1 greatest of all time, apparently...

Back at the time of his 93rd in March, Reptile was wondering if they'd get Harry Belafonte to talk about the event in his honour. They did but mostly kept the camera off him. Anyhow, I'm presumably not the only person to notice, in the last 5 months of Black Lives Matters and close friends of the singer dying, there's been sod all statements on either from him. Also his once highly active social media pages has completely ground to a halt. Just noting it.

That'll be the thorny bit in any future Scotland/England independence settlement, when the overall loser is forced to keep Newcastle.

Aye Maryport and a few others have mentioned CSNY's on going breathing a fair few times. (The one that comes close being the original Black Sabbath quartet are all somehow still alive too.) Crosby's not in the best of health these days though - even by his standards - so I don't know how long that one will last. PS Jet Black lives! But Dave Greenfield died of covid. Black also not in a good way either - had a massive stroke last year. Time is catching up on our great bands...

Sorry to hear about your Aunt.

Marvin Hamlisch did far better as a songwriter of course - Nobody Does It Better made the top 10. Keep up the good work.

Aye, and a lot of folk near the blast (like the poor firemen), well, wont have much evidence of their existence anymore. The Halifax blast killed 2000 people, the Texas City one over 500 people (including every fireman, again). If this winds up lower than that its been a lucky escape indeed.

I thought folk were calling Boris Bawjaws before which is a common Glasgow insult for someone who speaks a lot but says nothing but shite.

It looks like a flashover related explosion from an ongoing fire akin to the one in Halifax Canada in 1917 which killed 2000 people. If the death tolls low folk were really lucky here tbh.

tbh I was trying to be kind and meant "interest rates on savings are shit" (But also the supermarket and generalsprices have shot up for various items since 2016 here, a mix of "uncertainty" and "folk taking the pish"). I don't doubt cleaning business gone through the roof. Stuff needs cleaned. My brother in law lost his job earlier recently due to the current climate and I keep telling him to go self-employed because he's genuinely talented at fixing plumbing issues and we aren't ever going to run out of a need for plumbers. And aye, people spend money. Economy tends to work when the poor folk have money they immediately spend, thus making "save save save" bastards like me look like old Scrooges. Oh hang on a moment...

Just to be my usual cuntish self, that Verhofstadt was basically a drunken tetchy Belgian version of Boris. The Belgians were delighted when he fucked off to the EU. We used to have running trade in sending annoying British politicians to the EU to fuck off the rest of Europe instead. But anyhow, in this specific case, Duncan Smith voted for this deal, which is probably about 99% similar to the thing May tried to pass for years, to "get Brexit done" and only now is all "hang on, I disagree with the thing I voted for." Because he's an idiot who would lose a fight to a cuddly toy. Government's spent much of the last 4 years pissing around doing fuck all and screwing things up, when if they'd had an ounce of pragmatism and done a deal with the "just get a deal done" Labour group (or you know, not held an election as they had a fucking majority), they could have passed the Norway option Farage banged on about for years in 2017-18 and worked about fixing stuff. Instead, normal hard working folks household budgets and savings have been fucked for half a decade while a boring never ending House of Commons X-Factor tournament goes on among the government front benches.

Cant copy a simple line of info, clearly. Fixed it.

To put numbers on Gooseberry's theory, every year since 2007 I've put together a small years end memorial. Here are the number of folk shortlisted (as in notable enough for a mention) by August 3rd on each year since 2014 (earlier stats lost to time...) 3rd August 2014 - 231 names 3rd August 2015 - 267 names 3rd August 2016 - 329 names 3rd August 2017 - 408 names 3rd August 2018 - 433 names 3rd August 2019 - 435 names 3rd August 2020 - 510 names (John Hume being the 510th) Even by the normal rising standards (because more boomers are getting older), 2020 is running ahead of schedule.

He seemed to be doing OK until he turned 100 and became victim to the 2020 Centenarian Apocalypse....

I thought he looked better than he did the last time time people brought up photos of him here tbh. But yeah, he's in Fergie Time of a lifespan imo.

Stop making me feel old, you. Tippi Hedren with The Birds, Eva Marie Saint with North by Northwest, Glynis Johns with Mary Poppins are all sort of on the same level, but obv Glynis has the edge with her role in a kids film presumably all of us have seen at some point. Fame wise, Saint also has On The Waterfront so edges ahead somewhat career wise but we're talking shades of difference between 3 worthy contenders.