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Is it? Beeb stories from today.

Son accused of drug smuggling. LOL.

One of my friends was the foremost authority in the UK on their particular subject, and when he died, it came to me to write a few lines in way of obit. Not only did the main newspapers skip him over, but so did his own university. It is a great relief that, according to Wiki user BarrelProof, the dude must be still alive somewhere!

Total edits (including deleted): 214,918 Guy really likes Wiki...

Hey, nice to see El Pais, and the Azeri consulate, are also considered atrocious sources by Wiki.

Though the idea of him going "fuck NBA, I'm off to Serie A" did raise a chuckle.

Did a double take at "Udinese" before googling to find they actually had a basketball team at one point.

Speaking of old luvvies, what's Peter Wyngarde up to these days? Now there was a fun actor. Always reminds me of Spinal Tap's "these go to 11" in terms of OTT-ness. And another thing - I was watching an episode of Taggart on one of the freeview channels the other night. One of the shite ones, but anyhow, do you know who turned up as a villain? Jill Gascoine? You can't escape the Deathlist these days.

Mixing him up with Alfred Lynch (the other guy from Fenric)? Who had a 40+ year relationship with James Culliford (who appeared in Frontier in Space!). Lynch wound up looking after him for 30 odd years. Of course, it used to be that in Who fandom, people mistook Culliford for Landen (ie for being Lynch's other half), because Landen played a wheelchair bound man in Fenric alongside Lynch, and both died in the same week, iirc. (Culliford died shortly before Lynch too, so it all sort of merges, I guess.) Curse of Fenric was fantastic though and so was Landen, entertaining in everything, even shite like The Buccaneers. One of those actors who should have been much bigger than they were, imo. Seen Adam Adamant, but don't mind his widow off of it.

We wont get suspicious until Stacy Keach dies next week...

I gave his health a vote of confidence, kept him off my team for this year. If he goes and dies now, well, he's really let me down, to be honest.

Always surprises me Pavarotti wasn't on the list. Someone that famous with Pancreatic Cancer is almost certainly a shoe in these days. This is where someone names someone nowhere near as famous as Pavarotti as a retort.

Silly Joey, he got a Times obit!

There's a Dave Allen routine about that, including the moment some guy in New York stopped in front of him and yelled: "SHIT! I stood in some doggy doo-doo."

Useless info: His death brings David Butler onto the 4th row of names living from 1924 on my stupidly long Word Doc.

All of these people. They all got QO at the time. If some of them don't, six months later, don't blame me.

Sure, Wilson appeared at Thatcher's funeral, was in the Scilly Isles last Summer, and is still friendly with a whole bunch of journalists and current MPs, but fuck it, she probably died years ago and no one noticed.

Pan Breed favourite! Sorry, it's in my Deathlist Forum contract and everything...

Yes, quite. Of course, if we really want him to live another decade, we should convince the Cmme to put him on their list for 2018. That's the kiss of life for pro-wrestlers!

80s, lung cancer, refusing chemo = dead before Hallowe'en, imo.

I did complain about the lack of an obit for a DDP pick last year, and the newspaper provided an obit within 3 days. Wasn't one of my picks, though, just coming towards the end of the year at that point.

At this point, I feel bad for not picking him, as it would have guaranteed him another 4 months of life on my form this year.

Had literally only heard of about fifteen people on that list.

Ah, the Ox Baker of boxing.

Did I miss some news?