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Perhaps, but I can't help but wonder if you or Rad Chap aren't going to wipe the floor with the rest of us in a few years.

It wasn't about making folk healthier. It's about making more money off them, of course.

Sadly his finest moment isn't recorded. Princess Elizabeth brings Philip up to Balmoral to meet her dad for the first time. Entire room full of court hangers-on. Here comes George VI in full kilt. Philip sees him, and curtseys to the King.

Yes, but point standing, however, as Pointless points out every day, the general public can be incredibly stupid. Anytime anyone mentions Clapham I think of Up the Junction.

Bloody Joey, stealing my thunder! Seems so far we have 16 big hits, ie, folk known to be or largely expected to be on their last legs 1. 7th January – Mario Soares 2. 15th January – Jimmy Snuka 3. 19th January – Mark Sims 4. 21st January – Tracy McGiffin 5. 21st January – Paul Briggs 6. 31st January – John Wetton 7. 3rd February – Gordon Aikman 8. 6th February – Joost van der Westhuizen 9. 8th February – Steve Sumner 10. 13th February – Sara Coward 11. 17th February – Peter Skellern 12. 20th February – Steve Hewlett 13. 26th February – Jay Clark 14. 11th March – Lisa Magill 15. 14th April – Bruce Langhorne 16. 17th April – Michael Perham You can judge how well a DDP team is doing by how many of the above they scored on. For example, Pan Breed comes in at a disappointing 5/16, despite all of the above (bar Perham and Briggs) being on its shortlist.

Once the big names start dropping, Shameless will fall out of the pecking order. They did last year after the Feek/Ford/Crowe joker payouts. Christie/Downie/Bracknell holding firm just now, but they've got a long summer ahead of them.

Don't worry, for some of us, our post quality has been exceptionally low for 7 years now...

Oh I don't remember that, that is somewhat more reassuring. If he returns, of course.

MMDP Guide #23 (RIP Maths) Sri Sri Sri Sivakumara Swamiji A big name in deadpooling. Geddit? Oh suit yourselves...

Oh btw, Toast, as usual I'm shit with the right words and stuff, but I like dogs, and that sounds like a right shit situation, so properly sorry to hear about it.

Poor Cat, beginning to think he's gone for good.

Yeah that puts a more positive spin on it. When I saw the news above, it was being reported as "with immediate effect", not "this Autumn".

Hmm. One suspects this will become a busier thread within the next year then.

If its not abdication, and its not to due about the Queen or Libby, or death related... hmm, an arrest?

I wouldn't blame the palace. They just brought forward the annual meeting due to some important issue, which could easily be an admin one within the business. It's the press who immediately heard and went "oooh, death!"

Reports that he may be dead now.

Not one of mine (for a change). Though this does lower the number of notables born 1912 on my mega longlist to 7.

In twelve hours. Though given the media AND the Labour party have entirely linked their coming disaster to Corbyn, that'd spectacularly miss the point of such a bonkers scenario. Back in the world of reality: A tenner? What a waste.

I've more of a "sod you and the horse you came on" view on much of the main candidates tbh. I still think the best case scenario would be May losing the election though. It'd be funny, and would piss off a whole lot of career politicians. Also, in Brexit negotiations, which are screwed either way now, either it would kick our elite up the arse and actually get them to send out some top diplomats to negotiate, or we'd just send Corbyn and the EU would go "Aww, they've sent their slightly loop granddad, lets lower our guard..." Win/win.

^ Had/has prostate cancer, no? David Ashforth, thank you, new page.

A clean up of that list from November 2015 then, given the number of folk on it who have decided to snuff it in the last 18 months. UPDATED: A few lists of living actors from cult British SF. Tried for the twenty living actors who appeared in most episodes. Credited cast members only. There's a lot of actors out there with no dates who stopped acting decades ago, so stuck with those known to be alive. Classic Doctor Whos 1. Tom Baker (1934) 2. Peter Davison (1951) 3. Sylvester McCoy (1943) 4. Colin Baker (1943) Classic Doctor Who companions or note-worthies 1. Frazer Hines (1944) – recovered from cancer 2. Pat Gorman (1937) – now too ill to give interviews 3. Katy Manning (1946) 4. William Russell (19240 5. John Levene (1941) 6. Janet Fielding (1953) 7. John Leeson (the voice of K9) (1943) 8. Carole Ann Ford (1940) 9. Wendy Padbury (1937) 10. Sarah Sutton (1961) 11. Lalla Ward (1951) 12. Peter Purves (1939) 13. Matthew Waterhouse (1961) 14. Richard Franklin (b. 1936) – though his DOB has changed several times online 15. Louise Jameson (1951) 16. Deborah Watling (1948) 17. Maureen O’Brien (1943) 18. Sophie Aldred (1962) 19. Jean Marsh (1934) 20. Jackie Lane (1941) 21. Annekke Wills (1941) 22. Mark Strickson (1959) 23. Nicola Bryant (1960) 24. Bonnie Langford (1964) The Avengers (living actors in at least 3 episodes) Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) b. 1938 Honor Blackman (Cathy Gale) b. 1925 Linda Thorson (Tara King) b. 1947 Julie Stevens (various) b. 1936 Valentino Musetti (various) b. 1943 Peter J Elliot (various) b. 1932 Rocky Taylor (various) b. 1945 Julian Glover b. 1935 Peter Bowles b. 1936 Judy Parfitt b. 1935 Doug Robinson b. 1930 Gary Watson b. 1930 (known for Death Happens to Other People, apparently) Geoffrey Palmer b. 1927 John Woodvine b. 1929 Gerald Harper b. 1929 Jeremy Young b. 1934 Adam Adamant Lives (2 episodes or more) Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant) b. 1929 Juliet Harmer (Georgina Jones) b. 1943 Kenneth Ives b. 1934 Derek Martin b. 1933 A for Andromeda (at least one episode) Julie Christie b. 1941 Frank Windsor b. 1927 Brenda Peters c. 1937 John Nettleton b. 1929 Blake’s 7 (top 20 in order of most episodes) Michael Keating b. 1947 Paul Darrow b. 1941 Jan Chappell b. 1949 Jacqueline Pearce b. 1943 Sally Knyvette b. 1951 Steven Pacey b. 1957 Josette Simon b. 1960 Glynis Barber b. 1955 Stuart Fell c 1950 Brian Croucher b. 1942 Stephen Greif b. 1944 Deep Roy b. 1957 John Savident b. 1938 Peter Craze b. 1946 Peter Miles c. 1937 Michael Halsey c. 1952 John Leeson b. 1943 Leslie Schofield b. 1938 Tony Caunter b. 1937 Sue Bishop b. 1948 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Jeremy Wilkin (Ochre) b. 1930 Gary Files c. 1944 Shane Rimmer b. 1929 Doomwatch (in at least 2 episodes) Robert Powell b. 1944 John Bown b. 1934 Wendy Hall b. 1941 John Nolan b. 1938 Jean Trend b. 1935 Michael Elwyn b. 1943 Jennifer Wilson b. 1932 John Savident b. 1938 Richardson Morgan c. 1945 Geoffrey Palmer b. 1927 Ron Gregory c. 1945 The Prisoner (in at least 2 episodes) Christopher Benjamin b. 1934 Peter Brace b. 1924 Sapphire and Steel (of note...) David McCallum b. 1933 Joanna Lumley b. 1946 David Collings b. 1940 Edward de Souza b. 1932 Quatermass (1950s) (in at least one episode) (removed the dead and likely dead) Josephine Crombie b. 1929 Patrick Westwood b. 1924 Paddy Russell c. 1928 Stephen Scott b. 1928 Tom Clegg b. 1927 Melvyn Hayes b. 1935 Mark Eden b. 1928 Keith Banks b. 1927 30 oldest living Classic Dr Who guest actors/production staff 1. Earl Cameron (1917) 2. Arnold Yarrow (1920) 3. Peter Sallis (1921) 4. Dudley Simpson (1922) 5. Gordon Sterne (1923) 6. Nicholas Parsons (1923) 7. William Russell (1924) 8. Donald Pelmear (1924) 9. Geoffrey “Utter Living Legend” Bayldon (1924) 10. David Graham (1925) 11. Bill Sellars (1925) 12. George A Cooper (1925) 13. Morris Perry (1925) 14. Ysanne Churchman (1925) 15. James Garbutt (1925) 16. Laurie Webb (1925) 17. Glyn Houston (1925) 18. Andre Maranne (1926) 19. Geoffrey Palmer (1927) 20. June Brown (1927) 21. Frank Windsor (1927) 22. Ken Dodd (1927) 23. Mark Eden (1928) 24. Donald Tosh (1928) 25. Ian Frost (1928) 26. Paddy Russell (c 1928) 27. Peter Cellier (1928) 28. Peter Wyngarde (1928) 29. Michael Craig (1928) 30. Georgine Anderson (1928) Sorry, YW, still no Tomorrow People - though some of the above were in it!

Not many left who worked on the original Quatermass Experiment now. Bar the indomitable Paddy Russell, of course, who was a production assistant.

Enjoyable stuff though, Grim - add some nice background stats which I didn't have time to do.

Diane Abbott is one of the Tory party's greatest electoral assets of late.

A shot shy start for Death Impends meant it took him a whole 46 hours to get a hit in the Semifinals. Slacking! DDT vs Deadsox 0-0 William Henry Harrison Die-in-a-Month Squad (Death Impends) vs Heef 3-0