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Better to draft it on a Word doc and send me it when you're fully happy.

Despite being discussed on here quite a bit, a mixture of "seems to be doing better" and "will he QO?" saw nobody plump for HIntsa on the DDP. Could be a gamechanging error, because he's dead at 58. Ian St John and Rick Davies will be shitting themselves then, the only cancer sufferers axed from my 2016 DDP shortlist still alive now. It's weird to think that if I'd run my "reserves" as a team they'd be in the top 15 right now. You did have him on your Hartlepool Deadpool though, msc, didn't you? Yes.

So, it's currently a short(er) list, then Yeah, being full of those on the last legs, it turns out they don't have the legs to reach your starting line. Still, that's death for you.

Despite being discussed on here quite a bit, a mixture of "seems to be doing better" and "will he QO?" saw nobody plump for HIntsa on the DDP. Could be a gamechanging error, because he's dead at 58. Ian St John and Rick Davies will be shitting themselves then, the only cancer sufferers axed from my 2016 DDP shortlist still alive now. It's weird to think that if I'd run my "reserves" as a team they'd be in the top 15 right now.

Ken Farlow, WW2 spitfire engineer, at 95. He was on my Deathrace shortlist, which now exists.

The top 50 for 2017 Leah Bracknell 487 Kirk Douglas 414 King Michael of Romania 409 Peter Sallis 363 Prince Philip 334 Glen Campbell 316 Rev Billy Graham 315 Bruce Forsyth 306 Tony Booth 299 Robert Mugabe 286 Jacques Chirac 274 Gord Downie 263 Helmut Kohl 262 Desmond Tutu 258 George Bush Sr 257 Olivia de Havilland 251 Leslie Philips 244 Former Pope Benedict XVI 239 Vera Lynn 237 Joost van der Westhuizen 222 Sir Colin Meads 218 Jimmy Carter 217 Glynis Johns 213 Clive James 207 Gina Lollobrigida 203 Herman Wouk 200 Ian Brady 194 Danielle Darrieux 188 Stefan Karl 182 Queen Elizabeth II 182 Fats Domino 180 Sidney Poitier 169 Denis Norden 169 Ian St John 168 Clare Hollingworth 167 Sumner Redstone 165 Mikhail Gorbachev 154 Errol Christie 151 John Noakes 145 Joanne Woodward 145 Sara Coward 144 Peter Skellern 133 John Wetton 132 Gerald Kaufman 131 Monica Vitti 128 June Foray 127 Geoffrey Bayldon 119 Jill Gascoine 118 Zhou Youguang 112 Nannette Fabray 112

Airborne 1527hrs GMT. https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY2159/b9f17d8 I tell you something about Flight Radar: you don't properly appreciate how big Canada is, until you're following a plane crossing slowly over it.

Well, God did a great job as a doctor there!

Whereas I subbed in Dr Kate, and wound up with 1 more point than I'd otherwise have got had our boxer lived another 24 hours. Mind you, when Sue Carroll snuffed it early (December 2011), my first sub wound up being Luise Rainer.

You've got CNN and FOX.

He could be suffering from Wrestler Exaggerated Health Syndrome. As I've said to my wrestling fan pals for years though, they need to get him in the HOF while they can: with his health issues in the past, there's no guarantee he'll be around in 3, 5, plus years time anyhow.

Alex Hamilton just before his 86th birthday. Primarily a journalist, but known to a certain generation for his horror stories which showed up in the Pan Horror books and the like in the 60s and 70s. Most memorable, imho, is The Attic Express, about a bullying dad more interested in his model railways than his own son. Naturally, he winds up shrunk down to size, with his son using the model trains to speed towards him. Great stuff.

PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, 61. Got a suspicion she was on some folk's shortlists for 2017.

He strikes me as a December death. Don't know which year though.

Depends if they are counting all dementias/Alzheimer type illnesses in one while separating out the cancers.

It's cancer if you add up all the different types of cancers. They tend to be separated in these lists.

According to a dream I had last night, the top five on the 2017 Deathlist were Philip, Olivia dH, Zsa Zsa, Vera Lynn and Sidney Poitier, and they were all marked as dead by whenever the dream was taking place. I knew it had to be a dream fairly rapidly however - I mean, Zsa Zsa Gabor dying?

Can't be that many folk involved in the Concert for Bangladesh still going, surely? Clapton and Starr of course.

Indeed - even played him on the radio; summat that'll happen again when I get round to recording the "List of the Lost" show made up entirely of talents we lost in 2016, currently shaping up as summat of an embarrassment of riches. Aye - You've got Bowie, Prince, Cohen, Jefferson Airplane, Buster, Thunderclap Newman, Swarbrick, Clannad, Dio, ELP, Black, Maxwell Davies, Haggard, Mott the Hoople, Surfer Blood, the Eagles, Funkadelic, Blowfly, Wings, and that's just off the top of my head.

Tovar is popular this morning. I keep thinking she's already dead. Well, she is now.

At a guess off the top of my head, I'd say Spade would prove that wrong. Possibly MPFC and TMIB too.

Billy Connolly was the villain in the first Colombo I ever saw. I think Colombo's chief clue to aid him in the investigation is that The Big Yin turned to look evilly at the camera any time the ad break was due.

Well shit, mum is going to be gutted.

Two months till the inauguration. If I were her and Bill, I'd be emigrating...quickly. True story - spell check wanted to change inauguration to "incineration".

Its over. Done. Dusted. Dead parrot. Not officially, but in reality.