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Everything posted by msc
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Yet you are bound to see dozens of "random 97-year-old on the list is obviously healthy, drop them next year" DL posts before Christmas.
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Same. From an early age I used to watch Murder She Wrote with my gran!
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Good luck, then!
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Mrs msc knows about the DL and DDP. A few years ago, when I was getting checked for cancer, I wondered what would happen if I was to die and she said: "Don't worry, I'll let your fellow weirdos know." See, she cares. She is quite chill about the DDP but there's a few names I'm officially not allowed to pick (Yoko, Billy Connolly, etc) for a quiet life. I also read her the top 50 each New Year's Day for her amusement, and it often leads to a chorus of "they're not dead yet?" from her.
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Sue Carroll's death I'll never forget. The joker of my proposed DDP debut, and I saw the announcement of her death checking my phone at the family Christmas dinner and, without thinking, loudly went "OH FUCK IT!" at the top of my voice in front of my entire family (mum, gran, younger relatives etc etc). I had to pretend I'd just bashed my knee off the table.
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Genuine suggestion: Cribbins?
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Yes, he is. But no relation to the guy who had a number one hit in the 90s, Brim Fuller Asher.
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Glad someone else said that.
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You just can't do a good Scott Thorson gambit these days without someone killing it off instantly.
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Three of the sickest people on the list! Never change, Biblio!
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A cheery Monday morning thought for those of us with family histories! iirc Ashok Kumar had heart issues.
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Well, here's my two thoughts. Field has incurable, aggressive Stage IV cancer. Type, I don't know. His colleagues have referred to him as dying. Beyond that, Field was a workaholic. The sort of who did the work of ten for the hell of it. Since Summer 2021, his career in parliament just ended, all speeches, votes, articles and appearances ceased. As a hard working contrarian sod, the only way he'd not continue working when ill is if he was unable to.
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I used to suggest these things go into a different thread so as to not clog up the I&P thread, but I can see that's a losing battle. Oh well, then: DROP - Kundera, Berlusconi, Gambon, Crosby, Chomsky, Denis Law, Cleo Laine, Akihito, Dick Cheney, Ackland, Whale, Desmond Morris, Charlton, MacGowan, Gall, Baxter (the last 4 the most likely to be kept if others die) KEEP - Van Dyke, Kissinger, Lansbury, Barker, Greenspan, Starmer-Smith, Jimmy and Ros, Bennett, Belafonte, Brooks, Attenborough, Philips, Kaczyinski, le Pen, Jerry Lee Lewis, Delors, Scales, Bacharach, Treacher, Tebbit, Pele, Hurd, Faithfull, Ronstadt RETURNEES - Woodward, Nolan, Benedict, Willie Nelson, Lawson, Liza Minelli, NEWCOMERS WHO FEEL DEATHLISTY - Alagiah, Field, Duke of Kent, June Spencer, Glynis Johns, Eva Marie Saint, David Graham, Patricia Routledge, Joan Plowright, Buzz Aldrin, James Earl Jones, Fay Weldon, Duchess of Kent, Tom Baker, Topol, John Cannan, Pope Francis, Grace Slick, Rolf Harris
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Aznavour was even more of a WTF death as iirc he was on TV looking hearty for his age *hours* before he died. As for the above (not you Toast), Bacharach has been lingering frail for years, actual DLers have seen Tebbit and confirmed he's fading, they would be utterly ridiculous drops.
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Took 5 months this time, @Death Impends, I'm clearly out of practice!
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With the death of my continuous Hares pool pick, Peter Tobin, I have what can only be called my most sought-after hit in my deadpooling history.
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I certainly think he's famous enough for the list. He's pretty much retired on age related issues. The recent blu-ray interviews were done years ago when he was able to do interviews. I saw him do one in 2019 and you could see him being quite out of breath after 5 minutes, considerably downhill from 5-10 years earlier.
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msc replied to Dr. Zorders's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
@TQR antics not deaths! Much to my surprise, 3 and a half years later, the man with the emotional support alligator is still alive, and well, and people visit from all over to get therapy hugs from his nearly 6-foot long alligator. -
tbh I disagree. Numerical advantage only works if you have tactical advantage and knowledge to go alongside it, as Russia itself proved in Finland and Afghanistan. Otherwise it's just sending cannon fodder mooks to run up the Grim Reaper's score. The little training these men are getting attests to that too - most of them going from the streets to the heart of war within a week and will die or surrender unless very lucky or a natural soldier, both of which are rare attributes. Ukraine would do a deal today, because all they want is Russian troops out of Ukrainian territory. Putin would lose too much face from that, so we're left at stalemate. Given the number of assassins Putin continues to send after Zelensky, you can see why he might not been keen on a deal where the compromise is him being dead. Where Putin's Russian troops have worked best is in actions like in Georgia, a quick blitzkrieg to overwhelm the state, and back home in time for the postcards. When they get bogged down, as here, it gets messy. But you are correct, I do not believe Putin suffers internal issues. He spent 20 years bumping off his rivals, and his local police/troops in Moscow are loyal to him. Also, he knows the tricks of the KGB, hence he never meets people close enough to do anything to him. Afghanistan was a muddy graveyard until Brezhnev and his cartel were dead. Ukraine might well be the same.
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Starmer-Smith, Lansbury and 1 other for 12. Though I've a feeling one of Faithfull/Ronstadt won't see 2023.
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Aye, and in every year since 2003, there has been!
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Ran out of steam on TCD nominations after an early start. 3rd name in 3 days to die who made the top 100 but didn't make the actual 50.
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Added Starmer-Smith to the shortlist. That surely jinxes him.
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Blimey.