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Reminds me of Gerry Ford's last few months.

Add the Speaker, Caroline Lucas, 4 Plaid, and 18 N Irish MPs and you still have 10 to play with there.

Boris majority of 30. Mostly down to seats where Lib Dem increased vote lets Tories in (Kensington for example).

Yes, George V's doctor unilaterally decided to euthanize him without consulting the family! I mean, George was going to die inside 12 hours, but still.

Yes, Grim and Reptile are going to be doing the vital work. Also, I just twigged this is going to be the 25th DDP competition.

As long as I don't need to pay, I am quite happy to beat Sir Creep in as many deadpools as possible. (Although someone ought to take over the Cup given I cant run it next year...)

Never mess with Poirot! I'll be completely honest, I never knew casually mentioning a mere MND case would cause such a stir. Remind me not to bring up Matthew Watkins or Daryl Grove on the forum then!

My "strategy" is slightly diluted by co-hosting next years DDP, but in general, its highly inspired by Agatha Christie. How do you disguise a tree? In a forest. How do you disguise one murder? In a series of murders. How do you disguise one crucial DDP pick? In a forest of useless or badly worded ones... Alternatively, one of her great stock twists is the unbreakable alibi ie: when you point to one person so that people don't go looking for other possibilities you have decided not to mention...

Technically the first celeb death I knew of was John Smith, as mum heard it on the car radio coming back from a day out and burst into tears. But I hadn't a clue who he was until years later. Anyhow, the first celeb death I remember properly is Mark McManus who played Taggart on the TV. He lived down the road from us, and one day he went into hospital and never came out. I think he had severe anxiety issues he self-medicated with booze, and in the year before his death his wife, mum and sister all died and the grief was just too much for him. Shame, nice guy. Later that summer, Peter Cushing died. I had seen some of his milder films and asked dad if Cushing were still alive, to which point he said the great actor had died 100 years earlier. And I believed him! Then a few weeks later Roy Castle died. This was HUGE. He was a major childrens TV entertainer at the time with Record Breakers, and they had to do special shows to break the news to his young fans. iirc (I haven't seen them in 25 years!) Newsround and Record Breakers dealt very well with it. 1995: remembering Fred West topping himself, long TV news for Peter Cook (though I didn't know who he was), the no memories of anything till Gene Kelly and Jon Pertwee a year later. By 1997 I was taking notes of when famous folk died!

Who could forget Princess Margaret dying. Watching Smackdown on Sky1 when the breaking news flashed on the bottom of the screen during this segment. Yup, forever linked to one of the crappest wrestling storylines ever in my mind. And yes, all of the above happened with a Breaking News: Princess Margaret Has Died banner on screen.

DJ Richard Mills

Hah. If you can't be a smug sod on Deathlist Forums, where can you?

Ye of little faith, Joey!

11 years since Mrs msc's one and only DL forum post as Guest anthro student:

What, really? Well fuck, he's probably cured of ALS by now...

Also, not sure Greg Valentine (born 1950/51 depending on source) has aged a single day since 1975...

Tank Abbott, middle aged accountant lookalike Most wrestlers at the big convention last week look shockingly healthy, but there's a few like Lex Luger who wont be around that much longer... Sika and Afa chilling:

David Hagen appears to be deteriorating quickly. Already hospital bound, unable to speak or move.

Totally missed the fact that he still has pancreatic cancer, thought he was in remission.

Sam Lloyd had a role in...Scrubs iirc, Hastings is an obscure US politician, Supernaw is an obscure country music star, Mihaljovic is as you say a footballer (and a great one too, but a complete nutter), and Henry Gray is a blues musician who worked with Muddy Waters back in the day. All notable people, I hasten to add, but none of them really Deathlisty...

Ah yes, I can see why OSCAR NOMINATED actor Sir Ian Holm with big roles in several of the biggest films of the last 50 years (Alien, the Lord of the fucking Rings trilogy, Chariots of Fire, Madness of King George, several Brannagh Shakespeares, The Hobbit, The Aviator, The Day after fucking Tomorrow, to name a few) wouldnt be A list. Not to mention Brazil (a bigger hit now than on release) or the Fifth Element (fucking massive at the time).

Willie Nelson's a good shout, Joey, looks like death warmed up. On the pretence the Cmme read these, some obvious DL type picks: Terry Jones - 5 years since diagnosis with Primary Progressive Aphasia, prognosis gets grim in Year 5 going off most famous folk who had it before. David Attenborough - A lister 94 in 2020, surely worth a call up. John Hume - Seriously ill with dementia, another A list name. Alex Trebek - Got pancreatic cancer so the traditional "open goal"? Eva Marie Saint - 96 next year, time to stop taking her for granted. Ian Holm - wheelchair bound, increasingly frail and ill, and A list. Roy Hattersley - Looked like fucking shit on TV interview few months ago. James Lovelock - Oh go on, who doesn't want to add a bit of class? As usual, law of averages suggest I'll be on the ball with one and ego will assume this post helped. PS Angela Lansbury and Nicholas Parsons due a comeback too, surely. Right time to end this before it becomes Sean length. EDIT - I didn't even know, honest!

Oh, forum cop vs forum admin. Irresistible force meets immovable object!

Gorbachev.

RIP Clive James. Always a good read, even when pushing a cause I disagreed with. Did bloody well to last this long.