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Probably quietly dying in a corner somewhere, he looks done in. Anyhow, watching a centenarian struggle around his garden for public views and charity raising for a public service underfunded by those with the money to do something feels all very They Shoot Horses Dont They territory to me!

Aye, the wean dealt with that... Not *quite* the effect I was going for, mind you...

Another entry into the scrapbook of surprisingly accurate DL predictions from yesteryear, if I dare say so myself.

Oh some of them are easy. Dr Who stories, US Presidents, Royal Rumble entrants. It's more fun to test the ones you don't know off the back of your head. Although a few weeks ago on Mastermind, one of the questions in the general knowledge round was "Who was the Spanish musician who died in 1987 and was famous for his guitar compositions?" and I yelled out Andres Segovia and got this "how the hell do you know that?" look from mrs msc. That's this websites fault! Also, it was correct, and Humphrys even quipped "That's one very few would get..."

I've tried the first three. I am remarkably consistent. NOW1 - 14/30 NOW2 - 14/30 NOW3 - 15/30 Going to be embarrassing when I get to NOW24 and it's still 14/30 as I bought that one.

Chris Doleman was the 28th most popular name on the entire DDP this year, so yeah, lots of people had him on their lists. The Windy City Pool for 2020-2021 (there's a thread in the Deadpool section) starts up again in a fortnight if you want to try out one of the forum games. Don't worry, folk don't bite. It took me a year or two to join in one of the forum games (the Deathrace in 2011 iirc...).

I'd love a tiger. "Just taking the tiger for a walk, essential." Never catch corona because no fuckers getting within 20 feet of you...

Angus Webb, founder of pollsters Panelbase, dead at 45 from coronavirus https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news29567.htm

However he delayed the Reaper by explaining the rules for an hour. Sad news, one of the views of my childhood gone there.

It's from an old quip by Lemmy. "The trick to not dying is to keep breathing, mostly."

Yeah, as one of the "vulnerable" I'd been advised against Stewart Adam's brilliant drug (to get round the block on saying brufen on here) as it can cause issues with corona apparently. Annoying as it was my go to for pain relief.

"There's people dying today that have never died before!" as a family member (now deceased) once put it. I refer back to W.S. Merwin's For The Anniversary of My Death: Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Could be a Deathlist anthem, that one.

And note the debate about deleting this Wiki page on an actor who, although I didn't know the name, was an instant "oh yeah that guy". Wiki Editors are crazy.

Indeed, but you can't assume coronavirus the cause of every ail in the world. Old people are still going to die of natural causes like they do every time there isn't a pandemic.

I presumed that point was succinct enough for anyone of intelligence to get, but here we are. You don't base predictions on how folk do on their STRONGEST area of the fucking map. Of course Corbyn lost because he's Corbyn, but it wasn't lost in the seats won by the Tories since the Black Plague.It was in the competitive bits of the map and the seats they lost. And even if Trump does win, which he could easily do, it wont be on the 2018 map of super red seats the Republicans win 99 times out of 100. It'll be in the competitive bits not in play that particular time round. No wonder you are a former editor if this is your understanding of politics.

" When we look back at the 2018 election, Trump lost the house but made gains in the Senate. Trump was the third president in 100 years to do this, which leaves me to believe that he will be re-elected no problem." Greatest hot take since "Tories are doing well in the English shires, bad news for Corbyn?" right there.

Michael Rosen moves from ICU after 2 weeks but according to twitter is still rather poorly.

As Willz is updating the MP masterlist, here is my promised update of surviving government members, now up to the fall of Thatcher in 1990, because she had fuckloads of folk still alive. Surviving members of the UK government from 1957-90. There's a lot of crossover between them, so I just listed them under their PM, with their year of birth and notable jobs for ease of access. Best job title is still "Comptroller of the Household", which sounds made up, but is apparently an important government dogsbody role. Harold MacMillan (1957-63) Lord Denham b. 1927 (Lords Whip, 1960-4) Alec Douglas Home (1963-4) Lord Denham b. 1927 (Lords Whip 1960-4) Harold Wilson (1964-70) Dick Taverne b. 1928 (Home Office Minister 1966-8, Financial Secretary 1969-70) Elystan Morgan b. 1932 (Undersecretary, Home Office 1968-70) Roy Hattersley b. 1932 (Labour Minister, 1967-9, Deputy Defence Minister 1969-70) John Morris b. 1931 (PPS Power 1964-66, PPS Transport 1966-8, Equipment Defence, 1968-70) Ted Rowlands b. 1940 (Undersecretary of Wales 1969-70) David Owen b. 1938 (Undersecretary of the Navy 1968-70) Shirley Williams b. 1939 (PPS Housing 1966-7, Minister Education 1967-9, Minister Home Affairs 1969-70) Bill Rodgers b. 1928 (Trade Minister 1968-9) Ted Heath (1970-4) Lord Denham b. 1927 (Lords Whip 1970-4) Lord Alexander b. 1935 (Lord in Waiting) Grey Gowrie b. 1939 (Lord in Waiting) John Eden b. 1925 (Minister Industry 1970-2, Minister Posts and Telecommunications 1972-4) Michael Heseltine b. 1933 (Undersecretary Environment 1970-2, Aerospace Minister 1972-4, PPS Transport 1970) David Howell b. 1936 (PPS Civil Service 1970-2, Treasury Lord 1970-1, Undersecretary Employment 1971-2, Energy Minster 1974, N Ireland Minister 1972-4) Lord Balniel b. 1927 (Minister Defence 1970-2, Minister Foreign 1972-4) Kenneth Clarke b. 1940 (Treasury Lord 1974) Michael Jopling b. 1930 (Treasury Lord 1973-4) John Nott b. 1932 (Treasury Minister 1972-4) Terence Higgins b. 1928 (Financial Secretary 1972-4) Kenneth Baker b. 1934 (PPS Civil Service 1972-4) Harold Wilson (1974-6) Roy Hattersley b. 1932 (Foreign Minister 1974-6) John Morris b. 1931 (Wales 1974-9) Ted Rowlands b. 1940 (Undersecretary of Wales 1974-5, Foreign Office Minister 1975-6) David Owen b. 1938 (Health Minister 1974-6) Shirley Williams b. 1930 (Consumer Protection 1974-6) Bill Rodgers b. 1928 (Defence Minister 1974-6) Barry Jones b. 1938 (Undersecretary Wales 1974-9) Eric Deakins b. 1932 (Trade Minister 1974-6) Stanley Clinton-Davis b. 1928 (Trade Minister 1974-6) Robert Hughes b. 1932 (Undersecretary Scotland 1974-5) John Smith b. 1930 (Scotland Minister 1975-8) (NOTE - Lord Kirkhill, not the tragic Labour leader) Margaret Beckett b. 1943 (Whip, 1975) Gavin Strang b. 1943 (Undersecretary Energy 1974-6) Shirley Summerskill b. 1931 (Home Minister 1974-9) John Tomlinson b. 1939 (Harold Wilsons PPS, 1974-6) Frank Judd b. 1935 (Navy Minister 1974-6) David Stoddart b. 1926 (Whip 1975-8) Jim Callaghan (1976-79) Bill Rodgers b. 1928 (Transport 1976-9) Roy Hattersley b. 1932 (Prices and Consumer Protection 1976-9) John Morris b. 1931 (Wales 1974-9) Ted Rowlands b. 1940 (Foreign Office Minister 1976-9) David Owen b. 1938 (Foreign Sec 1977-9) Shirley Williams b. 1930 (Education 1976-9) Barry Jones b. 1938 (Undersecretary Wales 1974-9) John Horam b. 1939 (Undersecretary Transport 1976-9) Eric Deakins b. 1932 (Minister DHSS 1976-9) Stanley Clinton-Davis b. 1928 (Trade Minister 1974-9) John Smith b. 1930 (Scotland Minister 1975-8) Raymond Carter b. 1935 (N Ireland minster 1975-9) Les Huckfield b. 1942 (Undersecretary Industry 1976-9) Jack Cunningham b. 1939 (Undersecretary Energy 1976-9) Margaret Beckett b. 1943 (Undersecretary Education 1976-9) Patrick Duffy b. 1920 (Undersecretary Navy 1976-9) Gavin Strang b. 1943 (Undersecretary Agriculture 1976-9) Shirley Summerskill b. 1931 (Home Minister 1974-9) John Tomlinson b. 1939 (Undersecretary Foreign Office 1976-9) Frank Judd b. 1935 (Minister Foreign 1977-9, Overseas Development Minister 1976-7) Peter Snape b. 1942 (Treasury Lord 1977-9) David Stoddart b. 1926 (Whip 1975-8) Tom Pendry b. 1934 (Treasury Lord 1976-9, Undersecretary N Ireland) Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) David Howell b. 1936 (Energy Sec 1979-81, Transport Sec 1981-3) Michael Heseltine b. 1933 (Environment Sec 1979-83, Defence 1983-6) John Nott b. 1932 (Trade Sec 1979-81, Defence Sec 1981-3) Norman Fowler b. 1938 (Transport minister 1979-81, Transport Sec 1981, Health Sec 1981-7, Employment Sec 1987-90) Norman Tebbitt b.1931 (Employment Sec 1981-3, Trade Sec 1983-5, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1985-7, Chairman of the Conservative Party 1985-7) Nigel Lawson b. 1932 (Financial Sec to the Treasury 1979-81, Energy Sec 1981-3, Chancellor 1983-9) Tom King b. 1933 (Environment Sec 1983, Transport Sec 1983, Employment Sec 1983-5, N Ireland Sec 1985-89, Defence Sec 1989-92) John Wakeham b. 1932 (Treasury Lord 1981, Chief Whip 1983-7, Parliament Secretary to the Treasury 1983-7, Leader of the House of Commons 1987-9, Energy Secretary 1989-92) Michael Jopling b. 1930 (Chief Whip 1979-83, Parliament Secretary to the Treasury 1979-83, Minister of Agriculture 1983-7) John MacGregor b. 1937 (Lord of the Treasury 1979-81, Trade minister 1981-3, Agriculture minister 1983-5, Chief Sec to the Treasury 1985-7, Minister for Agriculture 1987-9, Education Sec 1989-90) Lord James Douglas Hamilton b. 1942 (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1979-81, Undersecretary of State for Scotland 1987-95) John Cope b. 1937 (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1981-3, Treasurer of the Household 1983-7, Employment minister 1987-9, N Ireland finance minster 1989-90) John Gummer b. 1939 (Treasury Lord 1981-3, Chairman of the Conservative Party 1983-5, Paymaster General 1984-5, Agriculture minister 1989-93) Peter Brooke b. 1934 (Treasury Lord 1981-3, Chairman of the Conservative Party 1987-9, Paymaster General 1987-9, N Ireland Sec 1989-92) Alastair Goodlad b. 1943 (Whip 1981-2,Treasury Lord 1982, Lord Commissioner 1982-4, Under-secretary Energy 1984-7, Comptroller of the Household 1989-90 Deputy Chief Whip 1990-2) David Hunt b. 1942 (Treasurer of the Household 1987-9) Douglas Hurd b. 1930 (Europe minister 1979-83, N Ireland Sec 1984-5, Home Secretary 1985-9, Foreign Secretary 1989-95) Richard Luce b. 1936 (Arts Minister 1985-90) Lord Trefgarne b. 1941 (Whip 1979-81, Trade under-secretary 1981, Foreign office under-secretary 1981-2, Health under-secretary 1982-3, Armed Forces under-secretary 1983-5, defence minister 1985-9, Trade Minister 1989-90) Malcolm Rifkind b. 1946 (Scotland under-secretary 1979-82, Foreign Office under-secretary 1982-3, Europe minister 1983-6, Scotland Secretary 1986-90) Lord Elton b. 1930 (N Ireland under-secretary 1979-81, Health under-secretary 1981-2, Home Affairs under-secretary 1982-4, Home minister 1984-5, Environment minister 1985-6) David Mellor b. 1949 (Energy under-secretary 1981-3, Home Office minister 1983-7, Foreign Minister 1987-88, Health Minister 1988-9, Home office minister 1989-90, Arts Minister 1990 Geoffrey Pattie b. 1936 (Air Force under-sec 1979-81, Defence Procurement 1981-3, Industry minister 1983-7) Neil Macfarlane b. 1936 (Sport Minister 1981-5) William Waldegrave b. 1946 (Education under-sec 1981-3,Housing minister 1987-88, Foreign minister 1988-90) Lord Gowrie, Grey Gowrie b. 1939 (Arts Minister 1983-5, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1984-5) Jim Lester b. 1932 (Employment minister 1979-81) Norman Lamont b. 1942 (Energy undersec 1979-81, Trade minister 1981-5, Defence Procurement 1985-6, Financial Sec to the Treasury 1986-9, Chief Sec to the Treasury 1989-90) Sir John Stanley b. 1942 (Housing minister 1979-83, Armed Forces Minister 1983-7, N Ireland minister 1987-88) Sir George Young b. 1941 (Health under-sec 1979-81, Environment under-sec 1981-6, Comptroller of the Household 1990) Ken Clarke b. 1940 (Transport under-sec 1979-82, Health Minister 1982-5, Employment Minister 1985-7, Paymaster General 1985-7, Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1987-88, Trade minister 1987-88, Health Secretary 1988-90, Education Secretary 1990-2) Lynda Chalker b. 1942 (Health under-sec 1979-82, Transport under-sec 1982-3, Transport minister 1983-6, Europe minister 1986-9, Africa/Overseas Development 1989-97) Kenneth Baker b. 1934 (Industry minister 1981-3, Environment Sec 1985-6, Education Sec 1986-9, Chairman of the Conservative Party 1989-90, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1989-90) Sally Oppenheim-Barnes b. 1928 (Consumer Affairs minister 1979-82) Lord Mackay b. 1927 (Lord Advocate 1979-84, Lord High Chancellor 1987-97) Lord Denham b. 1927 (House of LOrds Chief Whip 1979-91) Lord Glenarthur b. 1944 (Whip 1982-3, Heath under-sec 1983-5, Home under-sec 1984-6, Scotland Minister 1986-7, Foreign minister 1987-9) David Young b. 1932 (Minister without Portfolio 1984-5, Employment Secretary 1985-7, Trade Secretary 1987-9) Ian Lang b. 1940 (WHip 1981-6, Employment under-sec 1986, Scotland under-sec 1986-8, Scotland minister 1987-90) John Major b. 1943 (Lord Commissioner 1984-5, Social Security under-sec 1985-6, Social Security Minister 1986-7, Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1987-9, Foreign Secretary 1989, Chancellor 1989-90) Archie Hamilton b. 1941 (Armed Forces minister 1988-93) Sir Tim Sainsbury b. 1932 (Whip 1985-7) Peter Lloyd b. 1937 (Whip 1986-7) Mark Lennox-Boyd b. 1943 (Energy under-sec 1981-3, Chancellor PPS 1983-4, Whip 1984-8, Prime Ministers PPS 1988-90) Tim Renton b. 1932 (Foreign under-sec 1984-5, Foreign minister 1985-7, Immigration minister 1987-9, Chief Whip 1989-90) Chris Patten b. 1944 (Overseas Development Minister 1986-9, Environemnt Sec 1989-90) Timothy Eggar b. 1951 (Overseas Development under-sec 1981-5, Foreign under-sec 1985-89, Employment minister 1989-90) Lord Caithness b. 1948 (Whip 1984-5, Transport under-sec 1985-6, Home minister 1986-88, Environment minister 1988, Housing minister 1988-9, Paymaster General 1989-90, Foreign minister 1990-2) Douglas Hogg b. 1945 (Home under-sec 1986-9, Foreign minister 1990-5) Roger Freeman b. 1942 (Armed Forces under-sec 1986-88, Health under-sec 1988-90, Transport minister 1990) John Lee b. 1942 (Defence Procurement minister 1983-6, Tourism minister 1986-9) George Walden b. 1939 (Minister for Higher Education 1985-7) Peter Bottomley b. 1944 (Employment under-sec 1984-6, Transport under-sec 1986-9, N Ireland under-sec 1989-90) David Trippier b. 1946 (Trade under-sec 1983-5, Employment under-sec 1985-7) John Patten b. 1945 (Housing minister 1985-7, Home minister 1987-92) Christopher Chope b. 1947 (Environment under-sec 1986-90) Edwina Currie b. 1946 (Health under-sec 1986-88) RIchard Needham b. 1942 (Northern Ireland PPS 1983-4, ENvironment PPS 1984-5, N Ireland under-sec 1985-92) Michael Ancram b. 1945 (Scotland under-sec 1983-7) Michael Howard b. 1941 (Local Government minister 1987-88, Environment minister 1988-9, Housing Minister 1989-90, Employment Sec 1990-92) Lord Brabazon b. 1946 (Whip 1984-6, Transport under-sec 1986-9, Foreign minister 1989-90, Transport minister 1990-2) Mark Robinson b. 1946 (Welsh under-sec 1985-7) Lord Cameron b. 1931 (Lord Advocate 1984-9) Baroness Cox b. 1937 (Whip 1985) Baroness Hooper b. 1939 (Education under-sec 1987-88, Energy under-sec 1988-89, HEalrh under-sec 1989-92) Lord Hesketh b. 1950 (Environment under-sec 1989-90, Industry minister 1990-1) Lord Beaverbrook b. 1951 (Lord in Waiting 1986-7) Lord Dundee b. 1949 (Whip 1986-9) Peter Lilley b. 1943 (Economic Sec to the Treasury 1987-9, Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1989-90) Francis Maude b. 1953 (Trade under-sec 1987-9, Europe minister 1989-90) Alan Howarth b. 1944 (Lord Comissioner 1988-89, Education under-sec 1989-92) David Maclean b. 1953 (Lord Commissioner 1988-9) Kenneth Carlisle b. 1941 (Lord Commissioner 1988-90) Stephen Dorrell b. 1952 (Lord Commissioner 1988-90) David Heathcoat-Amory b. 1949 (Lord Commissioner 1989) Tom Sackville b. 1950 (Lord Commissioner 1989-90) Michael Fallon b. 1952 (Lord Commissioner 1990) Greg Knight b. 1949 (Lord Commissioner 1990) Richard Ryder b. 1949 (Whip 1986-88, Agriculture under-sec 1988-9, Economic Secretary to the Treasury 1989-90, Paymaster General 1990) David Curry b. 1944 (Agriculture under-sec 1989-90) Lord Arran b. 1938 (Whip 1987-9, Defence under-sec 1989-90) Robert V Jackson b. 1946 (Education under-sec 1987-90) Lord Ullswater b. 1942 (Whip 1989-90) Tony Baldry b. 1950 (Energy under-sec 1990) Colin Moynihan b. 1955 (Sports minister 1987-90, Energy under-sec 1990) Michael Portillo b. 1953 (Social Security under-sec 1987-88, Transport minister 1988-90, Local Government minister 1990-2) Robert Atkins b. 1946 (Sports minister 1990-2) Marion Roe b. 1936 (Environment under-sec 1987-88) Virginia Bottomley b. 1948 (Environment under-sec 1988-9, Health minister 1989-92) Lord Strathclyde b. 1960 (Whip 1988-9, Employment under-sec 1989-90, Scotland under-sec 1990-2) Robert Key b. 1945 (ENvironment under-sec 1990) Lord Henley b. 1953 (Social Security under-sec 1989-90) Gillian Shepherd b. 1940 (Social Security under-sec 1989-90) Michael Forsyth b. 1954 (Foreign PPS 1986-7, Scotland under-sec 1987-90) John Redwood b. 1951 (Corporate Affairs minister 1989-92) Sir Edward Leigh b. 1950 (Trade under-sec 1990) Patrick McLoughlin b. 1957 (Transport under-sec 1989-90) Lord Cavendish b. 1941 (Whip 1990) Lord Astor b. 1951 (Whip 1990) Might be the odd job they did missed but I think that's every living Cabinet member, ministers and other government jobs folk Thatcher ever appointed. There are FAR MORE of them than I had thought... So yeah, lets give it a few years, corona virus allowing, before we look at Majors survivors...

Aye, its a good list, probably due an update soon. Muhahahaha etc.

British politicos tend to expire circa 92-97 no matter how robust they were before. Well, unless they are Ronald Atkins of course, who is probably more famous now for his age than anything he did or said in parliament!

One of those I never even considered me for "get them on the DDP" spots as I had assumed someone in all those political theme teams must have him. But they don't!

Can't mind any amusingly name teachers at school. That day someone produced an obit for an American sports star called Dick Trickle, on the other hands, is one of the great days in Deathlist history.

Quite happy for the round to grind to a dull end to be completely honest with you, Joey...

Yeah, I mean, I looked for PJ Hammonds DOB (Sapphire and Steel creator) with no luck, and eventually straight up asked him. He wouldn't say, he likes it being a mystery! Talented sneaky sod. He did remember "growing up in the 1930s". Last year I sent Cat O'Falk after the information with his records know how. Even he came up stuck.

Not a scooby. My guess is 90-ish like PJ Hammond as they were retired in the 80s when writing for Who. Of course, Jane Baker died on 8 September 2014, so we were on ScotlandsPeople I'd look up her death notice, see her maiden name, then look up the Jane (maiden name) and Philip Baker wedding certificate, and see if that gives any information that can send us to the actual one. But this is English records so out of my comfort zone.