msc

Same, but now you've mentioned that, I can do this: Typo, Cat. *Jose Jose.

Brackers

Somehow I've managed to avoid it, despite my reaction to shiny buttons you're not meant to press being like this:

He'll be King but I'm thinking a William IV type reign, where he's old and frail and everyone knows Victoria/William is taking the throne soon. It'll be weird.

One of my favourite actors (he was snubbed for an Oscar for Sleuth the year that hack Brando got it for mumbling through 30 minutes of The Godfather imo) fwiw. Will be a sad day when folk earn points off him. And like Duvall, Eastwood and Hackman, obviously Deathlisty names. Dunno about his current health though.

Aye, so I hear. Although not everyone can be Garibaldi, you need Mazzini's too. Mrs msc woke me up around 6am to tell me and then I couldn't remember if he was on this years list or not.

Think Queen will outlive one of her kids. It's a royal tradition.

Is that the same Prince Bandar who was famously the US Ambassador? Or another? tbf it is a very big family. Big names too!

You ban a guy from this forum and he releases his memoirs.

7 on the Gleason Scale. Just for those of you who cant bear to look over a Monbiot article for that.

*nods*

They would, but they keep her hanging on.

Unlike the Olympic, football's a devolved matter. USA, boycott, Russia? (Just killing your gag for you there... )

So if the English do decide to boycott the world cup (spoiler - they wont), we could just replace them with Scotland. We'd go out ASAP when we used to qualify for things (before Rad chap was born), so no one would really notice the difference these days...

I rate this post 7 out of 10 on the Second Sight scale. Just the wrong Nazi born in 1921...

It'll be the long awaited concept album.

Hmm fair enough. I don't really see the difference in digital Indy to print Indy being "prestige media" when they're still doing much of what they did before (ie being one of the papers who pay for much of the election polling for example, and Sky Sports doesn't have a regular print edition either) but you're the boss. Oh, on that (boring) podcast: "I have been reading Cynthia Heimel, because she died last week"... 42.40 in. Not a QO, but noting as another BBC death notice which doesn't count, just so we can say: thank you very much, Deathray.

Sir David Mackay was announced in December 2015, and died in April 2016. Not quite a household name, admittedly.

CBE, no? Not Sir Humphrey either as he got his in 2000 a year before his (untimely) demise.

The great Alan Bates lasted 9 months (he was suffering from pancreatic cancer at the time of award and struggled to make the ceremony). There is another actor, household name, I am pretty sure lasted days/weeks after the actual ceremony (another known to be seriously ill with cancer), but I am struggling on who it was right now. It'll come back to me.

Why was the Independent dropped anyhow? The I is allowed and its essentially the same newspaper? I know it's digital only, but then, a good chunk of the digital obits allowed never show up in the print editions of their respective newspapers.

So this thread will start becoming hugely active then. Yer both right.

Australian novelist Peter Temple, aged 71. Authors thread name too obviously but here for DJL - bigger name in Australia than here, apparently.

Final bit of tax evading from the master.

Beyond his comedy gigs (I believe a short one would run to 10 hours) and novelty singles (Tears was a UK Number 1!), he was also quite good in Branagh's Hamlet, and his Doctor Who cameo is far better than the Ian Levine type fans will have you believe. Apparently he married his missus of 40+ years on Friday.