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He said he would die before the election, and he did. Staggering example of a statesman keeping a promise in an election year.

Yeah, imo the DL have 1 more chance (tops) to pick Holm. Said to be rapidly getting frailer.

1. 1917 – Earl Cameron 2. 1920 – Arnold Yarrow 3. 1923 –Nicholas Parsons 4. 1924 – William Russell, Donald Pelmear, 5. 1925 – David Graham, Morris Perry, Ysanne Churchman, James Garbutt, Laurie Webb, Glyn Houston 6. 1926 – Andre Maranne, 7. 1927 – Geoffrey Palmer, June Brown, Frank Windsor, 8. 1928 – Mark Eden, Ian Frost, Peter Cellier, Michael Craig, Georgine Anderson 9. 1929 – Colin Jeavons, Steve Machin, Frank Mills, Damaris Hayman, John Woodvine, Clifford Rose, Philip Latham, John Nettleton, Thelma Barlow 10. 1930 – Henry Lincoln, Shirley Cooklin, Richard Martin, Roy Evans. Alan Curtis, David Garfield, Henry Woolf, 11. 1931 –Stanley Price, Godfrey James, Cy Town, Kenneth Cope, John Fraser, June Bland 12. 1932 – Sonny Caldinez, Carmen Munroe, John Gorrie, Jolyon Booth, Edward de Souza, Roy Scammell, Vera Fusek, Gabriel Woolf, Antony Carrick, Barbara Shelley, Vilma Hollingberry 13. 1933 – Bernard Lodge, Michael Allaby, Geoffrey Frederick, Patrick Godfrey, Donald Douglas, Michael McStay, Derek Martin, Rhoda Lewis, Richard Easton, Sheila Hancock 14. 1934 –Mary Peach, Jeremy Young, Billy Cornelius, Ann Davies, Robert Aldous, Jean Marsh, Kenneth Ives, Arthur Cox, Gilbert Wynne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Benjamin, Tom Baker, Wendy Williams, Roy Macready, Slyvia Syms 15. 1935 – Tristan de Vere Cole, George Roubicek, Derren Nesbitt, Julian Glover, Michael Imison, Glenn Beck, Terrence Dicks, David Prowse, Derrick Goodwin, Wanda Ventham, Susan Engel, Michael Jayston, Janet Henfrey, Anne Reid, Mona Hammond, Donald Tosh 16. 1936 –Ralph Watson, Philip Voss, Timothy Combe, Douglas Sheldon, David Savile, Richard Franklin, Tessa Shaw, Tim Barlow, Brian Blessed, Tony Scoggo, Richard Wilson 17. 1937 – Derrick Gilbert, Michael Kilgarriff, Tony Caunter, Eileen Helsby, Michael Ferguson, Clive Scott, Hugh Fletcher, Donald Gee, Tom Georgeson, Brian Grellis, David Bailie, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Davyd Harries, Colette O’Neil, Maurice Roeves, Sheila Reid, Gawn Grainger, William Gaunt, Ian Hogg, Barbara Windsor, David Daker 18. 1938 – Tina Packer, Milton Johns, Brian Hodgson, Warris Hussein, Spencer Chapman, Frances White, John Tillinger, David Weston, Tim Goodman, Christopher Dunham, Richard Kane, Christopher Robbie, Christopher Coll, Leslie Schofield, Trevor Ray, Louis Mahoney, Laurence Harrington, Tim Preece, Julian Fox, Roy Boyd, David McKail, Eleanor Bron, John Savident, Philip Martin, Tony Selby Incomplete, as some folks ages just aren't available. Martin Cort is alive and at least 85 now. Ditto John Rolfe. Also at some point I should look into New Who in case of oldies.

Makes it all the weirder that Kyle was the chap behind Jez's Midnight Confessions on Virgin radio at the turn of the century. He used to talk folk down from suicide on that show... to the point I never twigged it was Kyle until a few years ago!

It was good going while it lasted!

RIP Tommy. Scores updated. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 9-12 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 17-9 3. Reptile vs Banana 6-21 4. Clorox v Chorizo 19-9

Gone for Dick van Dyke on account of him probably being the healthiest of the 48.

It's true. RIP to a legend.

His lecture series on the PMs was quite good, someone ought to put it online in better condition.

Still going but understandably frail given age, according to folk when his birthday happened a few weeks back.

Fulton was a Scottish-centric comic best known for recurring TV roles such as the dour Presbyterian minister I M Jolly, and Super Cop the world's worst traffic cop with his catchphrase "Out of the car, Stirling [Moss]!" Probably dated to all hell now, but I thought he was hilarious when I were a kid. Also, my dad was one of the nurses on hand when he died.

She was a journalist with the Daily Record here for a number of years, I remember her well. Highly dispiriting to see the BBC put that to one side to do the "cancer mum" angle. Her actual career gets 1 throwaway mention. Soapbox...

Starr never really appealed to me. All a bit "Ain't I zany?" to me. I've never seen Davidson in anything other than Big Break, and he was overshadowed by John Virgo there. Manning's timing is great, but so was Frank Carsons, and Carson was able to judge the audience and tour/do TV to wild acclaim pretty much till the cancer got him. Ronnie Barker was a better actor, but Ronnie Corbett funnier (and more likeable?) and both worked far better not with each other. Alexei Sayle was hilarious, Ben Elton was not. All the puppet folk aren't funny, Rikki Fulton was (oh ye of little faith, Mr Willz! ) but I don't get Limmy. Modern comics are all a bit Michael McIntyre to me. Anyhow, funniest comic was Dave Allen. Right, thats enough hot takes. Yer right, entire things subjective.

The account was started a month ago, her husbands name was publicly known, and it mentions the wifes death as an aside in a middle of anti-Tory rants? Bit weird. And she was a pretty big face in the 90s - Londons Burning was huge. One to watch. Or get bored in mid-August and ask Cat to track down the details.

Any other sources? Not one to yell "Hoax" but that source feels like a fake account.

ftr Michael Hutchence didn't auto-erotic himself, he was a depressive who hung himself because he had brain damage from an incident in Holland and thought Bob Geldof's lawyers were taking his kids off him. His last few weeks are an all too familiar music tale of someone with demons completely falling off the deep end. Paula Yates hung to the accidental death belief thing like a crutch in the midst of her own spiral, but nah, he meant to do himself in.

BREAKING NEWS The VAR officials have had a look at that goal and reduced the points. The score is now 17-9. Kindness to a fault, I don't think anyone else of us spotted that!

82 days. She scored with Walter Jones on Feb 10th way back on Page 11 of this thread.

Ok, Sprent Dabwido is points for everyone except Spade. So TQR and Bou share points, with both scoring more than they did in the last Round(s?) and Bou's defensive record shredded. Chorizo scores, but falls further behind to Clorox who gets Joker points. Reptile also scores his joker, so reduces the margin to 12... And Death Impends scores his joker, making Spade/DI a 8 point game, 17-12 9 after a mere 8 days of action. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 6-9 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 17-9 3. Reptile vs Banana 6-18 4. Clorox v Chorizo 16-6

Russell T Davies has this week publicly mentioned the death of his husband (about 18 paragraphs down), former DDP pick Andrew Smith. Smith actually died in late September, but the press chose not to run with it at the time out of respect for his family. I knew about it at the time but elected to wait till public acknowledgement to bring it up for LOTL etc.

How many heart attack must one man have (in a week) Before you call him a Cup hit? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is... four or five apparently. Yes, Subir Nandi kept surviving heart attacks like he was in a Chumbawumba chorus, but the Reaper kept hitting him with them, like drol cursing every living old Asian. Reaper never loses, but the musician (highly acclaimed in Bangladesh) gave it a good innings, like something something cricket joke here. So that's 3 more points for Spade. The Spade List is back, everyone else give up on all 2020 deadpools now. Sir Creep and others called Spade/DI a highly anticipated boxing match pre-game - tbh, so far, it reminds me of the highly anticipated Lewis/Tyson fight of 2001-ish, when Mike got absolutely fucked. Also that is 3 points for Banana, who is looking like he wants to give Reptile his annual thumping, sorry GCR. The winner of that tie faces Spade (or DI) next round. Elsewhere, Boudicca takes the lead, at which point TQR will no doubt go "Fuck a walrus, I am utterly doomed to inevitable defeat!" or what not. Bou might have a Fairy Godcreep to talk to, but even then, luck and smart non-SC style hits have done for her very well so far. Tbh, both have done well in their Cup debuts, if you ask me. So then Jean Vanier died, and got a slam dunk BBC obit. So that's more points for Clorox, Spade and DI sharing points, and Banana unleashing his joker on Reptile. I don't know how this keeps happening, Reptile, I'd take it as an honour that some fine DPers each year assume they need to play their A* game just to beat you. And in late breaking news - thanks Clorox - Cecila Huerta has died. All GDPR-d but the gist exists on Google. So that's more shared points for Spade/DI. Less Tyson/Lewis, more your typical Acolytes/Hardys match from 99. Too obscure and I know it. I'll end this update of 3 deaths with the news that Sunny Garcia might go anytime, as he's on life support going off social media? Or was last I checked few days ago. I think if the King of Surfboards follows the King of Surf Rock, it might be time gentlemen please for sure on Reptile and Chorizo. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 3-6 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 17-6 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-15 4. Clorox v Chorizo 10-3

Someone else will need to hold Evans now. Points for Banana and Clorox. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 3-3 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 8-0 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-6 4. Clorox v Chorizo 7-3

BBC give well traveled Sensational Alex Harvey Band guitarist Zal Cleminson an interview on his 70th birthday. Interesting and of interest to locals, but hes nowhere near death, so into "cool online things" it goes.

Ok, Starling gives points to TQR and Bou. Chorizo is back in his tie, and Banana takes the lead against Reptile. Yes, Boudicca's clean sheet run has ended after 92 days. Impressive imo. 1. The Quim Reaper vs Boudicca 3-3 2. Spade Cooley vs Death Impends 8-0 3. Reptile vs Banana 0-3 4. Clorox v Chorizo 4-3

Actually had a dream about him dying two nights ago but didn't mention it because he just seemed too random to mention.