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Ah yes, welcome to my team checking nightmare...

Silly Gooseberry, if you want a survivor from my first DDP team (Etta was the joker!) then there's always Peregrine Worsthorne or Leslie Philips. The latter of whom I picked due to reports he was very frail and on his last legs. That was nearly a decade ago.

Was waiting for that one!

Playdays thread?

Ulitzer posted this an hour ago in The Aristocats thread, and he didn't lose his seat in 1999. O for 2.

As you wish. Yer an idiot.

As your posts are showing up long after the fact you might want to @ one of the Cmme for queries. But in public, yes, I do not believe there is a home in the DDP for such cases much longer.

Update of sorts - still ill, stable but requiring 24/7 care. I think this is probably him now tbh.

Ah, there we go! Thanks for looking out for this. Sods law all the ex-MPs not on the DDP are the ones going!

Lawro appears to have been somewhat aged by cancer.

They won big on 2 reasons: getting Brexit done, and not being Jeremy Corbyn. Now they have got Brexit done (it's done, dusted and irreversibly so) and Jeremy Corbyn has fucked off to the back benches. And now we have 5 years of a government obsessed with gaining power but with fuck all ideas or nous on what to do with power. See, I agree so much I didn't even make a gag about "in your lifetime being a hell of a timespan too" with some added cheeky reference to the Jacobean uprisings. Restraint!

So far folk have been cracking at pointing out all these added bits of the DDP no one has ever considered before.

Pressreader isn't the Qualifying Obit. Pressreader is a collection of newspapers sold online behind a paywall, a Netflix of world newspapers if you will. The bit seen is aggregated from the print edition of the Qualifying obit on their selling page There's nowt in the rules that says the obit has to be digital, a throwover from when Qualifying Obits were what Big Iain saw in his daily paper. The catch has always been that a host has to see the print obit and none of us ever do. Until now. In short its a loophole playing exactly to the wording of the rules, but as the hosts need to see the obit in a qualifying source and now we have, I am wary of changing the rules specifically 6 months in. This has never come up because no one has done an An Fear Beag and actively looked up the print editions before. Anyhow, that's my two pennies on the matter. Other opinions are out there. And welcomed. Reptile's a bit bound by this one, as he's the other chap to pick this guy, I see!

Sunday Telegraph IS The Telegraph ie a Qualifying Obit. We don't turn down QOs because they were printed on a Sunday. "In April she lost close friend Rory Gilsenan, a Horse of the Year Show Trophy Winner, to a brain tumour." That is a direct passing reference to a picks death without double meaning in a qualifying obituary source which has been seen by a Cmme member (that bit is above the online paywall above) and as such, I believe Mr Gilsenan is now worth points for those who picked him. Good spot!

Am afraid I can confirm it is true via his son. I thought Terence Frisby's son might know as Danvers was his godfather and sure enough... Nice tribute to a fighter here imo. EDIT - note for the search engine - Actor Ivor Danvers dead.

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You know, call me crazy, but I think OoO's "Robert Powell should go on the 2014 DL" post in 2013 might have been a Scott Thorson Gambit special. Gerald Scarfe looked like fucking shit on BBC4 last year btw. Somehow Brian Cox (the unhealthy Scottish actor version) has made it to 74 too. Pat Boone is 86, remember him with his jazz/gospel cover of Holy Diver: Finally, nowhere near death yet, but somehow I'm now in a world where Jason Donovan is 52.

Last year I noted Sir Alexander Jarratt was still alive and had him on my shortlist for the DDP. In the end I didn't pick him and just as well, as looking up old knights there I've just noticed he died in December aged 95. Former chairman of IPC and Midland Bank. He has furthered the long list of Question Time episodes where all the guests are now dead, appearing in 1981 opposite Rhodes Boyson, Donald Dewar and Baroness Seear.

I feel a bit like Billy in Predator when he goes one on one with the Predator to try and save the others. Respected by the foe but still dead as a doornail!

April 2019 And from a 2017 FT interview with Mark Gatiss Frail and using a wheelchair for years.

Oh well, why not. Bob Dole.

John Prescott has been very quiet since his stroke, and there's been sod all news on his recovery. When I tried to make discreet enquiries about it (as Big John is one of the few politicians I actually quite like), it was solidly rebuffed as being private. Which makes me think he's in a bad way.

Nope, looks like the age was the typo. Blimey.

Died in Lambeth apparently. England really needs a ScotlandsPeople variant....

Comes from the Mirror obit However, if he was 77, then he died in 2019 not 2009, which makes far more sense.