msc

Nearly dies, comes back, sells new T-shirt. Legend. Still think he'll be dead within two years, mind you.

RIP. I feel enough of a comedic pause has passed for the appropriate tribute: ..... Fuckin' hell!

With just under 4 months before 2018 (already?), still far too much time before nominations open for the 2018 Crowdsourced Deathlist! However, an announcement of a minor rule change. Testing this out in 2018, to see if it influences turn out, but you will not need to submit 50 names for a vote to count. 50 is cool, the more of those the merrier, but many of us don't have the time or inclination to name so many people for a non-reward game. So, this November, when nominations for the 3rd annual list open, people will be allowed to send in a list of between 12 minimum and 50 maximum people. This will be tested out for the 2018 version, and if it doesn't work (ie we don't have much of a change in volume of voters), I reserve the right to revert to previous for 2019, if we're still here of course.

Despite the millennium stuff, centuries are counted 01 to 100.

Joke, Handy! You know, Joey being Mijke and all that... Anyhow, Diablo seemed cool enough, then just vanished. A shame.

Terry Waite? Norman Kember? Elizabeth Smart? Off the top of my head.

Not to say I am heavily sleep deprived, but earlier I saw Spade's comment, but not YW's news post above. Not quite as astounding timing, then!

Giant Haystacks probably still dead, though.

Man, Spade wasn't kidding!

This week on Last Word, apparently: Dick Gregory, the African American comedian and civil rights activist who was also a dietician to stars like John Lennon and Mohammed Ali. Jeannie Rousseau who spied on the Nazis' secret weapons programme. Wayne Lotter, the South African elephant conservationist who has been shot dead in Tanzania. Sean O'Callaghan, the leading IRA member who turned informer. He helped to stop a bomb attack which would have killed the Prince and Princess of Wales. And the jazz guitarist John Abercrombie.

I am of two minds, but not quite Captain Obvious because of the vast middle ground.... Either the list ambles to 12 or 14 hits, and lots of folk get disappointed (though that's a good result usually anyhow), or if it does break the record, it'll break it spectacularly. No "15/50" record...

Just cant see Zorders lasting a whole year and a bit on here without slipping into one of his muslim rants or general grumps. Can accept him being a master of disguise but not that good! Wasn't Caisson him anyhow? There was someone else who disappeared around that same time, that people often ask what happened to them and if they'll ever return... mijkediablo! I'll get my coat.

Saw that on the BBC. Seemed a bit too show-offish for my liking. But then I never liked Pratchett.

Alright, who told Rad about this "unwritten rule" and is quietly having a chuckle to themselves? Wasnae me!

Damn, there goes my theme teams for next year: Get Them on the Drop Forty and Get Them on the Drop Forty II, which would be entirely clones of the Pan Breed team.

Posting demented bollocks alone isn't a bannable offence, shown by my ongoing presence on here.

He looks pretty damn amazing, considering how frail he looked a few years back.

He would have been on my team as it stands, but, its August. Better picks will appear later in the year. Always do.

Didn't I say a week or two ago there was someone that no one was mentioning but everyone knew, and it was almost farcical? Cant mind now. Anyhow, it were him.

He was on my mental List of People I Know Other DDPers Will Pick, in a manner of speaking... For example, Tony Beard in 2016. Knew he was ill, knew he was dying, had a reasonable (correct) gut feeling he wouldn't obit, noted for potential Deathrace use (in end I went DDP team), but also knew he'd be on a few DDP teams...

Shock news... that she lasted 2 years in the job.

Aye, but take Robinson and Kuenssberg's backgrounds, and I'll give you liberal Andrew Marr and staunch trade unionist labour man John Cole, both of whom immediately preceded in the role.

Sree Sree Shiva-thingymyjig, Mary Carlisle (I had her DOB wrong), and Johan van Hulst. We've grown some other centenarians since, and others I'd missed out at the time due to not having heard of them.

Hey, the Mirror obit didn't mention her career at all. "Alexander Burke's mother died, now here's more about Burke on Strictly."

Back to death?