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Twitter tried killing off Prince Philip at the weekend. He's still about. Twitter is clearly a restless animal.

Genuinely quite saddened to see this news. RIP Sid.

James Randi. He wont haunt us.

Unexpected and deeply unpleasant news. A lovely actress.

Reference to this? Took me ages to get the Liz Taylor one. And shamefully, the Swayze one, which was genius. EDIT - Ninja'd by seconds!

Its a thread that tells you either someone related to Hollywood has carked it or looks like carking it. I see no issues with how it is being used ie like every other thread bar a few in this section.

Oh yes. I find being a tortoise is usually better than being the hare at these things. Unless there's a fire, and we are in a Lord Dunsany story.

A bunch of showbiz journos are reporting the death of producer Dick Zanuck on Twitter, no idea the authenticity of the source though. Posted before a gazillion guests do so.

I suppose its no bad being in July and not bottom of the pile, given I haven't a bloody clue how the maths works for this one!

Wouldn't put any cash on it. They wouldn't even have the biggest ground in the division even if they keep Ibrox. Btw......did you know that on the same day as the 36-0, there was a 35-0 18 miles away in Dundee. The ref actually had it as 37 but went with the clubs scorekeeper when he put in the result. MPFC - nah, I think Rangers might score one against East Stirling at least before crushing defeat. Heh. Charon - Yes, and the club secretary of that team (or someone of those lines) had used to work for Bon Accord, so he phoned up to tell them his sides score and both sides thought they were making it up. I believe the 35-0 was rounded down to be charitably, no one believing it would be beatable for some time, let alone that very hour!

Thought he'd be around forever. Also thought he was on the list this year. Was in many great films. And The Simpsons.

The DL and its posters frequently bring up people I've never heard of. I usually check them out in case its someone I should know, or if they did anything I'd know of. Sometimes, it even leads me onto enjoying a persons work I wouldn't have heard of otherwise. Some of the American ones lauded as big deaths I needed google to help me find out who they were (Brad Renfro and George Stienbrenner come to mind). Sykes was a bloody legend, as was anyone who worked with Spike Milligan.

Well done then, it's easily the 3rd funniest thing I've seen in the past fifteen seconds.

Count Robert de la Rochefoucauld He lived a quiet, non descript life. (I think this wins the award for best obituary of the year, incidentally)

Difficult one!! LOTR If you have read the books then the films are OK to watch but a wasted opportunity. If you haven't read the books then I would recommend reading the books but you might enjoy the films more if you haven't read the books!! HARRY POTTER Just don't bother! Be watching LOTR Trilogy this weekend hopefully I enjoy it lots of people only have good things to say about them. Difficult one!! LOTR If you have read the books then the films are OK to watch but a wasted opportunity. If you haven't read the books then I would recommend reading the books but you might enjoy the films more if you haven't read the books!! HARRY POTTER Just don't bother! Be watching LOTR Trilogy this weekend hopefully I enjoy it lots of people only have good things to say about them. They have lots of nice scenery. And there are some lovely filmed battle scenes. Shame about the story.

When I have re-watched the stories that featured Liz Shaw I felt she was a character who could really work alongside The Doctor and the characterisation in this series is much deeper. However the production team wanted a much more "Why Doctor?" character and so Jo Grant was born. Shame about Caroline John. When Time annotated my list he did suggest she was one to watch I'd love to take the credit for that but it was actually msc. Thank you Time for correcting me and apologies msc - excellent insight. I started the reply before checking the earlier post. When I have re-watched the stories that featured Liz Shaw I felt she was a character who could really work alongside The Doctor and the characterisation in this series is much deeper. However the production team wanted a much more "Why Doctor?" character and so Jo Grant was born. Shame about Caroline John. When Time annotated my list he did suggest she was one to watch I'd love to take the credit for that but it was actually msc. Thank you Time for correcting me and apologies msc - excellent insight. I started the reply before checking the earlier post. Technically I said she seemed to be on the mend, which I think most people thought she was! Whereas Jean Marsh seems to be on the mend now.

The 2002 spate of deaths rivals it, I think. 2 hits by the end of March (Chuck Jones and Spike Milligan) no doubt cause the tongues of whatever passed for the equivalent of internet trolls in those days wagging. Then on the 27th March, news breaks that both Dudley Moore AND Milton Berle had both died. Before the obits are even freshly off the press for either, news comes in the next day that Billy Wilder is gone. No hits on the third day, which was just a teaser, as on the fourth, only the Queen Mum goes and pops her clogs. So four hits within 70 hours of each other. That always struck me looking back as an incredible turn of events for the DL. The July 2007 splurge was astounding too, but that effected the DDP and not the DL, iirc.

What this tells me is we'll need a new Deathlist Ambassador by October!

This time I *am* going for Chapman Pincher. Now watch poor old Pat MacNee pop his clogs.

In Deathlist terms then, the Megrahi/Gibb race was almost a photo finish.

Was going to vote Pincher, couldn't see him on list, voted elsewhere then saw him. Story of my, and his life, the sod. Despite some low hanging fruit - Aziz, Gibb, Jaruzelski, a quite badly ill Nigel Lawson - I figured the next hit will be someone I quite like and admire, who is still buggering on magnificently in old age despite a number of strokes in recent years. So I've gone for Patrick MacNee.

Of those, Caroline John and Frazer Hines have had cancer battles in recent history, but seem to be recovered. (Cancer took 5 of the 7 who are gone: a weak heart and a fall down the stairs seeing off Michael Craze,and a diabetic heart attack Ian Marter). Obviously people will look at William Russell, but he's always seemed to be fairly chipper (he has a son who is about 22!). Jean Marsh is the one to watch, that stroke last year took a lot out of her, only just on the mend. Still a strong character, but these things add up.

Depends on your view of dementia.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

For the benefit of the 6 teams on the DDP, before anyone gets too excited (and doesn't check links), this is a New Zealand politician and not the UK Conservative father of the house.