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Unsure if the "vote once a day" counts when your last vote got retconned! But anyhow, as with last time, the songs which made the top 10 but didn't get to number one in 1972 and 1973 include: I'd bat for all of them over nearly 70% at least of the ones that actually made it to number one!

I agree with Toast and En Passant. Let the 1972 killing fields commence!

55 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +4 34 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water -6 31 T. Rex - Get it on 14 Slade - Coz I luv you Nowt against Art and Paul, this vote is just designed to get to Round 2 faster.

Presumably Payne and (sadly) Hendrix don't have long left, as the forum have multiple Osmonds to murder later this week, Err, I mean, Round 2, and who knows what the options are there.

No qualifying obit in over 2 weeks, mind you.

Lawson has looked like an unexpected boo would finish him off for years now. Though given he was meant to be quite badly ill with cancer about a decade ago (never did find out what type of cancer) he's done well to make it this far. As has Dennis Skinner tbh - the hushed tones from Labour folk who knew during the 2019 election made it sound like 3 months was a tall order, let alone 3 years.

Looks and sounds better there than he did during the last election, where he struggled to speak. (That is 2022 footage, right?)

39 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 38 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 33 T. Rex – Get It On 23 Slade - Coz I Luv You +2 21 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile +2 9 Freda Payne – Band of Gold -6 7 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking Tuning in tomorrow for another edition of the Freda Payne Hunger Games.

No change on the last 40 years then, what about his health?

This will not happen. But should any of the fifty fail to make the starting line, they'll be replaced by the next in line.

Scenario: "Angela Lansbury's dead" (argument about Bedknobs and Broomsticks vs Mary Poppins) "Dick van Dykes the last major cast member left from Poppins right, other than Julie Andrews?" (googles) "Oh fucking hell, Glynis Johns isn't dead" (makes DL debut)

I think its more the belief that if the Cmme were going to pick them they would have done, but then, for every name who falls into the cracks like that, I can think of names I thought had long past their DL sell by date who suddenly made their debuts - like Carl Reiner, Luise Rainer and David Rockefeller to name but three.

Buhari always reminds me of his successor and predecessor, Ibrahim Babangida, who I once called a household name on this forum in jest, and Sir Creep thought I was being serious. Both continue to live despite all the "totally really ill this time" news stories over the last decade.

Official list 1. Jimmy Carter 1807 (8th, 2nd) 2. Rolf Harris 1600 (NEW) 3. Bob Barker 1410 (5th, 8th) 4. Henry Kissinger 1285 (4th, 13th) 5. George Alagiah 1246 (5th, 7th) 6. Joanne Woodward 1124 (6th, 20th) 7. Glynis Johns 1084 (7th, 9th) 8. Roberta Flack 1037 (NEW) 9. James Whale 963 (3rd, 14th) 10. Frank Field 988 (2nd, 3rd) 11. Gianluca Vialli 957 (NEW) 12. Harry Belafonte 916 (3rd, 17th) 13. Rosalynn Carter 915 (5th, 27th) 14. Tony Bennett 890 (2nd, 22nd) 15. Jonnie Irwin 874 (NEW) 16. Linda Nolan 799 (4th, 15th) 17. Eva Marie Saint 769 (3rd, -) 18. June Spencer 736 (2nd, -) 19. Dick van Dyke 681 (2nd, 39th) 20. Ruth Buzzi 641 (NEW) 21. Nigel Starmer Smith 623 (NEW) 22. Andy Taylor 614 (NEW) 23. Mel Brooks 573 (NEW) 24. Constantine II 567 (NEW) 25. Milan Kundera 566 (NEW) 26. Ted Kaczyinski 560 (NEW) 27. Yoko Ono 552 (4th, 28th) 28. Sandra Day O’Connor 544 (NEW) 29. Bobby Charlton 536 (2nd, 36th) 30. Jean marie le pen 535 (NEW) 31. Rob Burrow 534 (NEW) 32. Shannen Doherty 528 (3rd, 21st) 33. Giorgio Napolitano 526 (NEW) 34. Norman Tebbit 516 (2nd, 32nd) 35. Jacques Delors 511 (2nd, 46th) 36. David Attenborough 499 (NEW) 37. Noam Chomsky 488 (2nd, -) 38. Ryuichi Sakamoto 486 (NEW) 39. Marianne Faithfull 477 (NEW) 40. Sonny Rollins 457 (NEW) 41. Stanley Baxter 448 (NEW) 42. Randy Jackson 448 (NEW) 43. Norman Lear 443 (2nd, 40th) 44. James Earl Jones 409 (NEW) 45. Topol 408 (NEW) 46. Francoise Hardy 407 (2nd, 33rd) 47. James Watson 397 (2nd, 29th) 48. Vera Miles 395 (NEW) 49. Duke of Kent 392 (NEW) 50. David Graham 391 (2nd, 47th) "I'm an everpresent!" "I was scheduled to be on this list but I forgot to take me immortality tablets! Ding gone!"

41 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown 40 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water 37 T Rex - Get It On +2 35 Slade - Coz I Luv You +2 27 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile 11 Freda Payne - Band of Gold -6 11 Dave Edmonds - I Hear you Knocking

Hopefully Benedict.

Ah, a De Havilland loop! Watch out for any bikes!

Guinness predated the forum, but there was a LOT of swearing, especially in the old chatroom, when Patrick Moore was a miss.

What, you mean exactly like 99% of Deathlisters? Who'd have guessed it!!!!

There's enough evidence out there to suggest that Lula's conviction was, at the very least, deeply controversial, and would have been cause for mistrial in the UK. So, it's not that difficult a choice.

Some of these people aren't that ill, they're just addicted to hospital dinners.

40 T. Rex – Get It On 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 40 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown +4 33 Freda Payne - Band of God -6 30. Slade - Coz I Luv You 25 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 16 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking

40 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 40 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 38 T. Rex – Get It On 37 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water +2 35 Slade - Coz I Luv You +2 33 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 16 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking -3 7 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel -3 Was waiting for Toast's edit. The top 6 in this is going to be some fight. Only 4 qualify from this lot for the final, right, Book?

Still Jive Bunny for me.

What they do privately is up to them. No, sorry, you said slagging. My mistake.