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Imagine that conversation now. "Hi Aretha, sorry to hear you have end stage cancer, I know how you are feeling, having briefly had an easily treatable different cancer years ago. Oh, that's not making you feel better, is it?" "Hi, sorry to hear you are about to be executed, but I feel your pain, I once lost a pet gerbil as a kid. We share a similar pain..."

That's right, blame the guy who reported the words you said.

Co-wrote the bits of Graham Chapman's autobiography that Chapman was too drunk to write. Also, this brilliant news story:

Source Could be nowt, but as an alcoholic with heart issues pushing 60, noted anyhow.

" We shared the fact that we had the same disease.’" What did she expect folk to take from that? The flu?

The 1961 episode of This Is Your Life with Sheila Mercier (there for Brian Rix) got deleted in the 1960s. The 1977 episode might exist. As far as I know, the 1985 one dedicated to Mercier herself is in the archives but I've never seen it online. The Thames Archive (company that made TisL at the time) was a complete mess after the break up of the ITV regions. However...a bunch of the 80s editions are showing up in the ITV Archive (via Getty Images now who have taken over ITN Source) as available for sourcing, so my suggestion would be to contact them for further details.

Nah, that just means your record continues into Year 2 or is unassailable. 243+ days without a hit is still more than 240.

As mine was 240, I think I hand over the crown now. Or wooden spoon...

Ah but I point you to Matt Lucas (off Little Britain)'s ex in 2009-ish. Picked by one randomer due to cancer, beat it in January. Bad pick. Then shot himself dead in the November. Sometimes, sheer dumb luck is a deadpoolers friend. And it was a unique for Hippoposthumous, which is one of my all time favourite DDP team names.

^ Sir Creep doesn't read my posts. And I thought I was his favourite grumpy Glaswegian Deathlist poster with an "m" in their moniker too...

Actually a DDP miss for me. When she accused Clooney of metoo-ery last year, the papers said she was terminally ill, but I never found out what was actually wrong with her.

Damn, big fan of his.

Just noticed even Michael White's journalist obits are getting chucked in Other Lives too now.

So I know who to thank if my DDP team rises from the dead in September now.

Yeah, that was the weirdest deadpooling dream I had before the Sadowitz and co one.

Nah, that was Ace Ventura.

It made Mrs msc laugh herself hoarse, so consider that a like from both of us.

I'd disagree on Harry Reid (Senate leader not too long ago) based on Deathlist precedent.

Me neither.

Apparently they've managed to film some more canal journeys so be interesting to see those. Timothy West said in the last series that her physical health was starting to weaken too.

Terry Jones for example has a faster acting and nasty form of dementia which isn't Alzheimer's. Primary Progressive Aphasia. Peter Sarstedt had Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which has a prognosis of 7 years tops usually, and so on. One of my great aunts, I'm not sure what type of dementia she has, but she's been very lucky so far in that while its wiping out her memories and she had to move into a home, she can still chat and eat and listen to music and a lot of the stuff she loved. There are lots of different types and some of them are, to be blunt, better deadpooling odds than half the cancers folk infest their teams with.

Bloody hell. Drol is 76?

Same from this thread starter, big fan of the vixen. Surprised to discover she's 91 in a few weeks - if she makes it.

I know feck all about NFL - seen 2 matches tops in my life - and I know who John Madden is. Def famous, sort of US answer to a Des Lynam or what not.

Am I the only one who finds the mental image of Vlad Putin being floored by a charon post really funny?