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I do remember the days when my music tastes didn't extend beyond Manson or Linkin Park, or even worse. Then one day, my mum staged an intervention, got me a best of Neil Young. "You'll love this..." I think my general music tastes changed pretty much overnight.

He was right next to Monty Hall on my stupidly long list, I think this is the first time I had to remove neighbours from it on the same day. #morePointlessstats

One was set up a few weeks ago to avoid just this sort of spam.

Not picked by me on obit worries. Though I did check up on him a few days ago, and his last interview he seemed fairly upbeat too.

Unless you'd prefer a goat.

September: Bobby Heenan Whenever Peter Sallis, Michael Bond and Adam West died. January: John Hurt Simple.

LOL at 5.25 onwards in Toast's video posing the question I had all along watching it...

I had heard of Bob Barker through WWE and Happy Gilmore, but hadn't heard of Hall until I visited this place. In fact, originally I thought it was a strange American nickname for "not yet discredited back then" Stuart Hall!

Not only did he present the evening news when Alastair Burnet let anyone get a word in, Sandy Gall was also a frontline war correspondent for 50 years, covering everything from Vietnam to Iraq, and was one of the few Western journalists at various warzones like the Six Day war, for example. As a roving reporter earlier in his life, he covered the Mau Mau Rising (ie helped expose the British atrocities, and Suez, among many others. He also got arrested in Uganda for trying to uncover Idi Amin's crimes, is one of the foremost living authorities on Afghanistan (saying he respects the countries ability to repel any invasion), and made a number of interesting documentaries, not only on his exploits and charity work but also figures like the guy from Born Free. He also did a lot of charity work to raise money for people disabled in Afghanistan by bombs (all of them, be they Russian, Taliban or Western sent...), is a extensive whisky drinking Scot, and claims that live TV is actually scarier than facing live bullets on the ground. Also you know what he did after escaping a secret police camp in Uganda, after 3 days of being threatened with death? Reported on it immediately to the outside world, while still in Uganda. Dude's about as amazing as a war correspondent can be. That people on here don't know about him is their own fault and not his.

Sorry to hear that, old chap. Take care.

Coveney's obits do bring up roles which might have been forgotten by the casual reader (though not as many, I find, as Toby Hadoke's Guardian obits), but you have to get past his editorialising and critic's opinion imo. Which does grate. Still, it's not the Guardian obit on... Bob Conquest (a friend of my mums too, obit apparently toned down since, but even now rather spiteful) or poor old Peter Shore. "He wasn't that interesting" is surely worse than saying he was a Grade A prick! I'm sure the Telegraph has had similar lapses in their usual fine obituary standard (for I have cursed them in the past), but my mind fails to recall them at 10.30 on a Saturday morning.

OH FUCK!!!!! I mean, hey, cool!

Got a Mail obit, too.

Harry's Game and A Dog's Ransom, here. Fine actor. A shame.

Thought...or hoped? Hang on...who wins if Bob goes?

Henry Bolton is the new leader of UKIP. I haven't a fucking clue who that is.

Marty Jannetty wastes oxygen into his 50s and Owen Hart's been dead nearly 20 years. Clearly, there is no God.

There's no rule allowing them to be so. I suggest you just ignore them.

Jannetty now claiming his account was hacked and has now deleted the post. You know as you do, over a month after something got posted to your Facebook.

There really needs to be a ration put on the . Playing out faster than Falk Jokes, imo.

Think he made a joke about not wanting to be Valerie Harper.

Oh no, not the Martin Biles... Whoever he was.

I give Sean credit for the Tony Booth hit. His tactic of dealing with the Cmme worked wonders.

Some golden oldies could easily return: Aretha, Frank Bough, Connery... About time Angela Lansbury came back, in case she does a number on us and dies in her sleep one day.

Recorded in January 2016 and February 2017. It tells us nothing about September 2017...