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When (legendary aged pro-wrestler) Mae Young was on deathwatch in January 2014, journalist jumped the gun and announced her dead prematurely. Apparently a friend told her they'd just read her obit online and she went "Dead? But I'm having dinner!" She died a few days later.

LOL at Paddington Bear sneaking in there to nick the marmalade sandwiches like a thief in the night.

Ah, so the Zimbabwean version of a real life News at Benn.

Which is more than I can say for the poor sod who has to collect the tiger semen.

Yeah, Thatcher telling us was a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.

On the Blake 7 forum, and tweeted by his nephew, apparently. Seen there Suzan Farmer has died too but a search shows Thatcher picked up on that one at the time.

Gone to Pot, is on ITV, next Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 9pm on each of those nights, apparently. It has Biggins and Fash the Bash on it too, apparently.

You know, I saw that Mikhail Zadornov had died this morning, and it was bothering me all day. I know that name from somewhere. Check shortlist/long list, nope. Check some other spots. Just twigged they were on Switch's Deathlist Cup team. That's why I've heard of him. Anyhow, he was a Russian comedian, and he's dead at 69.

Watching Ozzy via the Gogglebox repeat. He does look good. Which is nice.

Antonio Carluccio Sima Wali - Afghan human rights activist Richard Wilbur Mary Reveley Dudley Simpson (awwww, Dudley made Last Word!)

As an update of sorts, apparently she's dumped him. Talking about being single on snapchat. Perhaps not going for the Bonnie and Clyde exit quite yet.

Beware the DDP figures you completely forget about...

There is one other "bomb" on the table, btw. Still Life has Clive James, on the Drop 40. 10 points if he's a Deathlist miss this year.

Interesting intervention on that by Corey Haim's mum.

Someone somewhere is tempted to start a Mugabe v Tsvangarai who goes first poll/sweepstake, but it ain't me.

Yeah I can't remember his name either as I chalked it up immediately as a "never obit". Some esport guy with cancer.

Ah, so not the guy Spade flagged up last year?

On the bright side, 12 pointer in 2018! "Doing pretty well" I took to be a "she's doing well mentally" but the travel suggests she should be OK for another wee bit. She wont see the World Cup though.

Aye but MPFC, is it not possible you might have put more thought into it there than Trump?

Would have watched the Agatha Christie this Christmas on the BBC1, but apparently it's been axed as part of the extended Weinstein-gate.

Aye, Toast, I have now! This was back in 2008 when I first found the site. I wasn't even married or out of uni back then!

I met Martin once when he was Speaker or deputy Speaker, I forget which, school thing, I didn't pay attention to a word he said but my friend (who has the best nose for politics I know) was with me and afterwards he replied "What a shifty bastard". So, few years later, his downfall wasn't too much of a surprise. School had option for a class talk of Martin, Donald Dewar and I forget the third but it was an older Tory. Went for Martin, the dullest choice, and Dewar and the Tory were dead within a year or two. Useless. I'm quite into music but the front page was the first I'd heard of Rawls back then. I suspect he was more known to an older audience though.

Ian Dury was so famous, it was the first words she said when I got home from school that day. Not "how was double French?" (hideous) or "Hi", it was "Ian Dury's dead!" That's proper pop culture famous, like the time a teacher interrupted class to inform us all that Linda McCartney had died.

Context died at...7am or whenever it was, given Tarrantino's been muddled in the whole thing too.

Not sure he'll be in a position to be stressed, if in his last hours from cancer tbh.