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FUUUCK Church Curator - And there we have a memorial to Princess Diana. Prunella - Oh... didn't she die young? Dementia, man...

Canal Journeys is back for a one off special. No big trips, just a toddle through Oxford. The TV previews focused on Prunella's "vastly deteriorating health". Watching it, Prunella Scales apparently doesn't really talk much anymore unless heavily prompted, and is having to holding herself up by the barrier. She is also fully deaf. Her voice overs are all from previous years. She also no longer focuses on the camera. Her voice is also a lot more slurred when she does talk. Also rather notably this episode is filled of clips from older adventures. Much less current stuff. Timothy West himself has aged in the last 2 years quite badly. He says his own memory is struggling, and he doesn't look a well man. I think they wont last 6 months without the other when the first one goes. “The canals will carry on without us. I just wonder if we can carry on without them.” Timothy West

Not seen that one, but apparently, yes he was! Apart from HoC and Dr Who, have also seen him in everything from The Avengers (including the one where Diana Rigg gets into a leather corset and shows off her legs...which remained in my mind for some reason...), Fall of Eagles, Adam Adamant, Hitchhikers Guide, the various Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, and fucking shitloads other stuff. Nowadays if you ever casually watch Talking Pictures or Drama or other freeview channels he's bound to show up in something or other at least once a month. Anyhow, he saved his money well and in his mid-60s decided to retire peacefully. Showed up in one of his sons music videos few years back but otherwise it was the fishing and relaxing life. There are worse old ages!

Nope, still alive (and very well last I heard, a few years ago).

That's Mr Stamper to you. Image for folk going "I know the name...".

New Zealand by 32 South Africa by 24

I think the next election will produce a hung parliament, too. Its not beyond the Tories to spin the situation to their advantage, but currently it looks like they'd lose a chunk of their Scottish seats, a number of their London seats and their Remain held seats in the South with a Lib Dem challenge (ie Cheltenham). As Ed Miliband showed, it's really difficult to win a majority when you start the campaign at circa minus -20 seats wise and need to make it up. Not that Corbyn seems likely to gain much either. But then, one of those two will through our First Past the Post System.

So, when I was doing some work research I found a strong contender for this in the Herald archives. Sir Tam Galbraith, former Glasgow Tory MP (my family MP at one point in fact before my birth) was knighted 31st December 1981 when known to be gravely ill, and died 48 hours later. (Willz might recall this - Glasgow had 3 by-elections due to death in about 2 years!) Decided the Doddy thread was too dead to resurrect, but that this factoid was interesting enough to bring up on forum. So here it is.

Nah, you want a "LFN Is a Legend" thread, start it yerself.

Great cartoon, that. Anyhow, my school had a Recess. It was quiet "hidden" staircase area round the back of the main atrium that was oft frequented by, err, couples.

100+ points in a DDP debut is still quite impressive imo. Well better than I did, anyhow, by about 70 points...

Fort William have drawn league opposition away in the Cup, 1-1 FT. That's a shocking and sensational result for them.

I was pretty sure it was him, so had a quick search: Yep, apparently they picked Frankie Laine in 2008, despite his having died 11 months earlier. Perhaps there was another late sub? But I can't mind what it was. Must have been one when Gerry Ford died?

14th place with 16 hits, followed by 2nd place with 13! 1. #1 Papandreou (96) Deng Xiaoping (97) Zevon (03) JP2 (05), Rawls (06), Heston (08), James (12), Biggs (13), Crowe (16) 2. #2 Moore (89), Jarman (94) Leary (96) M Theresa (97), Queen Mum (02) Hope (03) Wray (04), Pollack (08), Gibb (12), Chavez (13), Simon (15), Gabor (16) Wouk (19) 3. #3 Curry (94), Bradman (01), Schmeling (05) Hofmann (08) Megrahi (12), Kalashnikov (13), Wallach (14) Havelange (16) 4. #4 Dietrich (92), Honecker (94), Mitterand (96), Sinatra (98), Peck (03), Wiesenthal (05) Lane (07) 5. #5 Hepburn (93), Gielgud (00), Theodore (01), Wilder (02) Reagan (04) Levi-Strauss (09), Rafferty (11) Priebke (13) Bhumibol (15) Sallis (17), Bracknell (19), 6. #6 Everett (95), Cartland (00), Reifenstahl (03), Kunitz (06) Robson (09) , Foot (10), Niemeyer (12) Whitlam (14), Graham (18) 7. #7 Terry Thomas (90), Rehnquist (05), jong-il (11) Martin (12) Wing (13), Pincher (14) Mugabe (19) 8. #8 Godfree (92), Denning (99) Thurmond (03), Rainer (14), Healey (15) McCain (18) 9. #9 Joel (92), Sung (94), Kennedy (95) Burns (96) Shaw (04) Malden (09) , Wisdom (10), Ford (11) Adams (16), Day (19) 10. #10 Costeau (97), Valois (01) Dangerfield (04) Lucia (05), Carrington (18), 11. #11 Nureyev (93) Mobutu (97), Moody (98) Berle (02) Alice (04), Heath (05) Astor (07), Woodhead (15) Vigoda (16) 12. #12 Larwood (95) Stewart (97), Cookson (98) Hepburn (03) Swayze (09) Mandela (13), Schmidt (15) Smith (16) Booth (17) 13. #13 Hanna (01), Lewis (06), Lee (18) 14. #14 Bixby (93), Martin (95) Guliksson (96), Banda (97), Hickson (98) Crisp (99), Dury (00) Longford (01) Miligan (02),Teller (03), Cartier-Bresson (04), Mills (05), Solzhenitsyn (08), Macnee (15), Reagan (16) 15. #15 Cadell (96),Grade (98) Lauder (04), Barbera (06) Gallo (07), Felt (08) Bradbury (12), Jowell (18) 16. #16 Jones (02), Johnson (07) Downie (17) 17. #17 Ustinov (04), Freidman (06), Deedes (07) Clarke (08) Atkins (09) Molinaro (15), 18. #18 Mann (95), Austin (00) Kazan (03) Cooke (04), Franklin (05) Nelson (06) Shamir (12), Paisley (14) 19. #19 Ireland (90), Moore (02) Amies (03), Ford (06), Messner (07) Richard (09) O’Hara (15), Banks (19) 20. #20 Sarazan (99), Swanton (00), Snead (02), Juliana (04), Nolan (13) Lamotta (17) 21. #21 Maskell (92), Cronkite (09), MacCorkindale (10) Lom (12) Michael (17) 22. #22 Segovia (87), Dali (89), Havers (92) Worsnip (96), Fairbanks (00), Scarman (04) Cecil (13) BB King (15) 23. #23 Ashe (93) Hird (03), Profumo (06) O’Brien (09) Presley (13), Hawke (19) 24. #24 Rogers (98), Fignon (10), Wynne Jones (11) 25. #25 Mature (99) , Hailsham (01), Sheene (03), Callaghan (05), Taylor (11) Bush Sr (18), Chirac (19) 26. #26 Hussain (99) Pryor (05), Botha (06) de Laurentiis (10) PD James (14) Aznavour (18) 27. #27 Ray (98) Hilary (08), Kennedy (09) Andrews (13), Rooney (14) 28. #28 Meredith (97), Stone (02), Parks (05), Weinberger (06) Widmark (08) Tarmey (12) Winner (13) 29. #29 Bonano (02), Morgan (11), Thatcher (13) B Bush (18) 30. #30 Secombe (01), Kennedy (09) O’Sullevan (15) Castro (16) 31. #31 Ginger Rogers (95), Thatcher D (03) Cole (15) Hefner (17) 32. #32 Sugar Ray (89), Johnston (94), Guyler (99), Hampton (02) 33. #33 Bernard (97), Schulz (00), Diamond (01) Smith (07) Salinger (10) Lewis (17) 34. #34 Ramsey (99) Bergman (07) Helms (08) Demjanjuk (12) Rockefeller (17) 35. #35 Suharto (08) Simon (18) 36. #36 Lancaster (94), Whitehouse (01), Adair (04) Waldheim (07), Hopper (10) 37. #37 Pym (08) Caesar (14) Nimoy (15) Forsyth (17), Harper (19) 38. #38 Doohan (05) Edwards (10) Ghali (16) Domino (17) 39. #39 Dawson (93), Eddington (95) Sykes (12) 40. #40 Castle (94) Bacall (14) Michelmore (16) Norden (18) 41. #41 Garbo (90) Diddley (08) Kasem (14) 42. #42 Mathau (00), Kramer (01), McCririck (19), 43. #43 Matthews (00) Pinochet (06) Pinter (08) Nash (15) Campbell (17) 44. #44 Novak (09) Dawn (17) 45. #45 Nixon (94) Melly (07) Ali (16) Noakes (17) Hawking (18) 46. #46 ADH (95), Rollason (99) Haughey (06) Smith (10) Kerkorian (15) 47. #47 Powell (95), Pol Pot (98) Budge (00), Amin (03) Stubbs (08) Gough (11) Joost (17) 48. #48 di Maggio (99), Spelling (06), Lee (15) Moore (17) 49. #49 Savalas (94), Burroughs (97), Cash (03) Llewellyn (09) O’Toole (13) Christie (17) Baker (19) 50. #50 Wise (99), Dunn (12) Brady (17) Smith (18) Clegg (19)

Hah, well, you know me... Ahem. Found the file in question, give me 10 mins or so to put wean to bed and I'll update the missing years!

Updating some of the out of date DL stats... Number of hits by month 1. March 39 2. June 30 3. July and September and December 27 4. August 26 5. May 25 6. January 23 7. October 22 8. February 21 9. April 20 10. November 16 (to Brackers) List of Hits (to date) Hits Per Month in Names/Years 1. January – Salvador Dali (1989), Terry Thomas (1990), Rudolph Nureyev (1993), Audrey Hepburn (1993), Brian Johnston (1994), Telly Savalas (1994), Rose Kennedy (1995), Francois Mitterand (1996), Helen Mills Moody (1998), EW Swanton (2000), Donald Budge (2000), Lou Rawls (2006), Edmund Hillary (2008), Suharto (2008), Dai Llewellyn (2009), JD Salinger (2010), Gerry Rafferty (2011), Etta James (2012), Michael Winner (2013), Patty Andrews (2013), Abe Vigoda (2016), Mary Tyler Moore (2017), Mark E Smith (2018) 2. February – Arthur Ashe (1993), Derek Jarman (1994), Deng Xiao Ping (1997), King Hussein (1999), Charlie Schulz (2000), Stanley Matthews (2000), Stanley Kramer (2001), Don Bradman (2001), Chuck Jones (2002), Spike Milligan (2002), Max Schmeling (2005), Sister Lucia (2005), Al Lewis (2006), Wendy Richard (2009), Reg Presley (2013), Sid Caesar (2014), Leonard Nimoy (2015), Boutros Boutros Ghali (2016), Joost van der Westhuizen (2017), Rev Billy Graham (2018), Gordon Banks (2019) 3. March – Jim Joel (1992), Simon Cadell (1996), George Burns (1996), Lord Denning (1999), Joe DiMaggio (1999), Ernie Wise (1999), Ian Dury (2000), John Diamond (2001), Ninette de Valois (2001), William Hanna (2001), Milton Berle (2002), Dudley Moore (2002), Billy Wilder (2002), Queen Mother (2002), Hardy Amies (2003), Barry Sheene (2003), Thora Hird (2003), Queen Juliana (2004), Peter Ustinov (2004), Alistair Cooke (2004), Jim Callaghan (2005), John Profumo (2006), Caspar Weinberger (2006), Ernest Gallo (2007), Francis Pym (2008), Arthur C Clarke (2008), Richard Widmark (2008), Michael Foot (2010), Michael Gough (2011) Elizabeth Taylor (2011), Diana Wynne Jones (2011), John Demjanjuk (2012), Hugo Chavez (2013), Sam Simon (2015), Martin Crowe (2016), Nancy Reagan (2016), Cliff Michelmore (2016), David Rockefeller (2017), Stephen Hawking (2018) 4. April – Sugar Ray Robinson (1989), Greta Garbo (1990), Sir Michael Havers (1992), John Curry (1994), Richard Nixon (1994), Kenny Everett (1995), Ginger Rogers (1995), Pol Pot (1998), James Earl Ray (1998), Alf Ramsey (1999), Brother Theodore Gottlieb (2001), Harry Secombe (2001), Estee Lauder (2004), Pope John Paul II (2005), John Mills (2005), Charlton Heston (2008), Albert Hoffman (2008), Margaret Thatcher (2013), Mickey Rooney (2014), Barbara Bush (2018) 5. May – Jill Ireland (1990), Marlene Deitrich (1992), Erich Honecker (1994), Tim Gullikson (1996), Timothy Leary (1996), Frank Sinatra (1998), Gene Sarazen (1999), Douglas Fairbanks Jr (2000), John Geilgud (2000), Barbara Cartland (2000), Joe Bonanno (2002), Sam Snead (2002), Stanley Kunitz (2006), Sydney Pollack (2008), Dennis Hopper (2010), Al Megrahi (2012), Robin Gibb (2012), BB King (2015), John Forbes Nash (2015), Ian Brady (2017), John Noakes (2017), Tessa Jowell (2018), Doris Day (2019), Bob Hawke (2019), Herman Wouk (2019) 6. June – Andres Segovia (1987), Kitty Godfree (1992), Les Dawson (1993), Dilys Powell (1995), Glynn Worsnip (1996), Andreas Papandreou (1996), Jacques Costeau (1997), Catherine Cookson (1998), Gregory Peck (2003), Denis Thatcher (2003), Strom Thurmond (2003), Katharine Hepburn (2003), Ronald Reagan (2004), Charles Haughey (2006), Aaron Spelling (2006), Kurt Waldheim (2007), Bo Diddley (2008), Vincent O’Brien (2009), Ray Bradbury (2012), Yitzhak Shamir (2012), Henry Cecil (2013), Casey Kasem (2014), Eli Wallach (2014), Sir Christopher Lee (2015), Kirk Kerkorian (2015), Chris Woodhead (2015), Patrick Macnee (2015), Muhammad Ali (2016), Peter Sallis (2017), Errol Christie (2017) 7. July – Jim Il Sung (1994), Harold Larwood (1995), Jimmy Stewart (1997), Roy Rogers (1998), Walter Matthau (2000), Bob Hope (2003), Gretchen Franklin (2005), Ted Heath (2005), James Doohan (2005), George Melly (2007), Charles Lane (2007), Lady Bird Johnson (2007), Tammy Faye Messner (2007), Ingmar Bergman (2007), Jesse Helms (2008), Karl Malden (2009), Walter Cronkite (2009), Bobby Robson (2009), Betty Ford (2011), Eric Sykes (2012), Tony Martin (2012), Bernie Nolan (2013), Anna Wing (2013), Peter O’Sullevan (2015), Lord Carrington (2018), John McCririck (2019), Johnny Clegg (2019) 8. August – William Burroughs (1997), Victor Mature (1999), Helen Rollason (1999), Bunny Austin (2000), Lord Longford (2001), Lionel Hampton (2002), Idi Amin (2003), Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004), Red Adair (2004), Fay Wray (2004), Brooke Astor (2007), Bill Deedes (2007), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2008), Robert Novak (2009), Ted Kennedy (2009), Laurent Fignon (2010), Chapman Pincher (2014), Lauren Bacall (2014), George Cole (2015), Joao Havelange (2016), Glen Campbell (2017), Bruce Forsyth (2017), Jerry Lewis (2017), John McCain (2018), Neil Simon (2018), Valerie Harper (2019) 9. September – Roy Castle (1994), Mother Theresa (1997), Mobutu (1997), Jeffrey Bernard (1997), Burgess Meredith (1997), Clement Stone (2002), Warren Zevon (2003), Leni Riefenstahl (2003), Edward Teller (2003), Johnny Cash (2003), Elia Kazan (2003), William Rehnquist (2005), Simon Wisenthal (2005), Byron Nelson (2006), Patrick Swayze (2009), Susan Atkins (2009), Cyril Smith (2010), Herbert Lom (2012), Ian Paisley (2014), Jake LaMotta (2017), Liz Dawn (2017), Tony Booth (2017), Hugh Hefner (2017), Denis Norden (2018), Robert Mugabe (2019), Jacques Chirac (2019), Leah Bracknell (?2019) 10. October – Burt Lancaster (1994), Alec Douglas-Home (1995), Joan Hickson (1998), Deryck Guyler (1999), Lord Hailsham (2001), Rodney Dangerfield (2004), Pricness Alice (2004), Rosa Parks (2005), PW Botha (2006), Levi Stubbs (2008), Ludovic Kennedy (2009), Norman Wisdom (2010), Simon MacCorkindale (2010), Erich Priebke (2013), Gough Whitlam (2014), Denis Healey, Maureen O’Hara, Al Molinaro (2015), Bhumibol Adulyadej (2016), Gord Downie (2017), Fats Domino (2017), Charles Aznavour (2018), Ginger Baker (2019) 11. November – Bill Bixby (1993), Paul Eddington (1995), Jackie Mann (1995), Hastings Banda (1997), Quentin Crisp (1999), Mary Whitehouse (2001), Milton Freidman (2006), Ian Smith (2007), Dino De Laurentiis (2010), Clive Dunn (2012), Bill Tarmey (2012), PD James (2014), Helmut Schmidt (2015), Fidel Castro (2016), Stan Lee (2018), George Bush Sr (2018) 12. December – Ray Moore (1989), Dan Maskell (1992), Dean Martin (1995), Lew Grade (1998), Lord Scarman (2004), Artie Shaw (2004), Richard Pryor (2005), Pinochet (2006), Joseph Barbara (2006), Gerald Ford (2006), MarkFelt (2008), Harold Pinter (2008), Claude Levi-Strauss (2009), Blake Edwards (2010), Harry Morgan (2011), Kim Jong Il (2011), Oscar Niemeyer (2012), Nelson Mandela (2013), Peter O’Toole (2013), Ronnie Bigg (2013), Mikhail Kalashnikov (2013), Luise Rainer (2014), Zsa Zsa Gabor (2016), Liz Smith (2016), Richard Adams (2016), King Michael (2017) DL Years Ranked by Hits 1. 2017 (17/50) 2. 2015 (14/50), 2008 (14/50), 2003 (14/50) 3. 2013 (13/50), 2006 (13/50) 4. 2018 (12/50) 2016 (12/50), 2012 (12/50), 2009 (12/50), 2005 (12/50), 2004 (12/50) 5. 2019 (11/50) 6. 2014 (10/50), 2007 (10/50), 2002 (10/50), 2001 (10/50), 2000 (10/50), 1999 (10/50) 7. 2010 (9/50), 1997 (9/50), 1995 (9/50), 1994 (9/50) 8. 1998 (8/50), 9. 2011 (7/50), 1996 (7/50) 10. 1993 (5/56), 1992 (5/37) 11. 1990 (3/42), 1989 (3/32) 12. 1987 (1/31) 13. 1991 (0/40) Digging out the slots, numbers stats to update them too.

Did we note that Robert Mugabe was the 300th DL hit since the start? Worth a mention anyhow.

On Newsnight Ronnie Campbell MP, who has struggled with cancer, looked like a strong breeze would snuff him out.

I stand by the wise words of this guy nearly 4 years ago...

Call it a farewell gift from a departing former host in December 2018...

@Death Impends remembers this better than me, but years ago they picked someone who had already died the year before (Frankie Laine?) and casually just put in a substitute after some light mocking. (Yes I know Bette Davis etc, I mean in the world where there's a forum and most folk have the internet and Wiki...)

ERG and the Kinnock lot will vote for it, it'll pass.

Genuinely hope things are on the mend or doing better.

Hmm, a rule change from earlier in the game when my December pick of Bush Sr died in November and was subbed out for Sub 1. Brackers is dead but she died in September, not October.

FAO @Sir Creep. Drol is actually doing far better than anyone. Drol's team 1)Donald Trump 2)Queen Elizabeth II 3)Paul Gascoigne 4)Linda Nolan 5)Dick Van Dyke 6)Olivia Newton-John 7)Betty White 8)Prunella Scales 9)Carol Channing DIED BEFORE GAME STARTED 10)Jimmy Carter 11)Benedict XVI 12)Vera Lynn 13)Prince Philip 14)Terry Jones 15)Olivia de Havilland 16)Kirk Douglas 17)Billy Connolly 18)Jill Gascoine 19)Ruth Bader Ginsburg 20)Jimmy Greaves 21)Henry Kissinger 22)Marieke Vervoort 23)Robert Mugabe 24)George Alagiah 25)Bill Turnbull 25) sub for Channing - Doris Day No points for Channing obviously, so 1 point for Doris Day and 4 for Mugabe = -5 in total. Whereas just having someone in 10th place is 16 points if they died... NOTE - Vera Lynn surprisingly high for a frail 102 year old. This thing ain't over yet.