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Yes, imagine picking such an obscure figure. Now, eyes out for that Laird of Balgonie obit.

Allegedly Mr Kwarteng is to Tory Cabinets what David Tennant was to noughties BBC dramas. Or so we hear.

Hmm, is this the first time the Prime Minister and Chancellor have actually, err, known each other? Sounds like a query for Deathlist shagging correspondent, @Gooseberry Crumble.

I'd be surprised if Doreen Mantle died off radar - she was only on TV the other year, and is a proper NAME actor imo. But, there's a famous story about this name I kept from above here that DLers might find amusing. David Baron appeared in a few episodes of Doctor Who in 1968 opposite the Yetis, as a sort of warrior monk. Now, in the 1950s, future DL alumnus Harold Pinter, before he made it big, used to act to pay the bills under the name of David Baron. So because of this, there are Dr Who fans out there who insist that in 1968 Harold Pinter, by then one of the most famous writers in the entire fucking country, went back under an old pseudonym and played a Tibetan monk in Dr Who for 6 weeks! Not even the obvious evidence of them looking nothing alike, or the fact the Dr Who David Baron was a regarded TV regular of the time* who did not write The Homecoming, did little to dissuade some nutters.(Or you know, the fact the actor Baron got to claim the name because Pinter gave it up!) People will genuinely believe ANYTHING if they see it online. *As far as I'm aware, no Minder fans have gone "OMG that Casino owner in one episode of Minder must be Harold Pinter in disguise!"

Alternative: "Harry, dear, do not come to visit. This place is utterly crawling with TORY PRIME MINISTERS. One is not amused!"

It was going unusually well until the last few weeks!

Not oldest names, but it did twig to me earlier that with Tobin's health issues, the Candy Krush Killer and John Cannan both dying, the Unabomber's alleged terminal illness and the Australian killer getting palliative care, deadpoolers might be spoilt for choice for "good riddance" picks soon.

I remember watching the (David McCullough promoted) series The Presidents, for the first time, and noting how it claimed that between Ulysses Grant and Teddy Roosevelt it was "twenty-five years of mediocre Presidents". Oh how I laughed. Oh dear.

Pictured - honeymoon period with the public.

Apparently, Turnbull was Toast all along. Who knew? (Front page)

@Toast I know you like Susie Dent, she's been in a series of BT Sport ads of late and I keep meaning to link to them on forum for folk who don't have BT Sport. It's pisstake of "training montages" with Dent improving the chap's trash talking through linguistics lessons!

Adrian Street's shown up in the crowd at Clash looking half dead.

That's interesting. I knew Mike Davis was ill (he's been a cult deadpool pick this summer) but The Guardian covering him increases DDP obit chances significantly...

Well, he could easily die tomorrow. Or you'll be bored in 2025, reading these old DL threads, thinking "How naïve we all were!"

It's because while being quite frail, he wasn't as frail as people assumed. He was still living in his own house until shortly before the pandemic started at the very least. (This is not a call that he's well and should be dropped - the opposite. Just, you know, frail and old doesn't mean instant death, as Leslie has shown for over a decade now to DLers!)

No wonder you keep thinking of enemas, eating all these curries, clearly!

Absolutely. It's an old DL staple, going back a decade or so ago for one random example, everyone expected Bernie Nolan to die any day, when suddenly "centenarian nailed on" DL regular Anna Wing died in her sleep. Mind you, there's also Zsa Zsa, who got the last rites, and then proceeded to outlive about 70 DL hits...

She claims childhood experience of Paisley, which Paisley is horrified by. (Two references to Paisley in one day. They'll want to be a city, now!)

Marianne, alas.

What the fuck is the fucking Festival of Brexit? The Mail says it was an event in Paisley, just down the road from here. Never fucking heard of it.

Oh very well, the annual September watch list. 1. Henry Kissinger - looked very frail on Newsnight the other night. 2. Angela Lansbury - according to the fan mail community, who are as good at stalking as TMZ, now in declined health 3. Bob Barker - Was in and out of hospital due to age related illnesses before pandemic. How is he still alive? 4. Alan Greenspan - Dull pick, but Reptile is convinced he's dying. 5. Nigel Starmer-Smith - Looked a corpse in December. Still breathing, somehow. 6. Jimmy Carter - Long surpassed the usual expiry date for Presidents, and beaten up the Reaper several times now. Borrowed time, or sign of immortality? 7. Leslie Philips - Frail old man though possible not as frail as some on the list, given his longevity! 8. Desmond Morris - Oldest newcomer on the list, a fatal condition in the last decade! 9. Ted Kaczyinski - Surely destined to live and give me nightmares on TCD23, but also allegedly has terminal cancer 10. James Whale - Seems far too healthy for terminal cancer, but so did Bill Turnbull a few months ago. 11. Jacques Delors - Missed his big bash last year, meant to be very frail. 12. Denis Law - An outlier given age and recency of diagnosis, but he looked like shit in his last TV appearance so a quick downturn would not surprise. 13. Burt Bacharach - Another incredible frail old person. 14. Bill Treacher - Already wheelchair bound/retired/frail, lost a number of friends this year and didn't seem to make any public comments, which is odd. 15. Norman Tebbit - Ulitzer said he looked like shit and probably wouldn't see 2023. 16. Pele - Is selling near death like he sold SPAM. 17. Douglas Hurd - Has spent the last decade being so frail and unwell, its a surprise he's still going 18. Marianne Faithful - COPD, fucked lungs, post-covid, needs oxygen and in nursing home. Not long left. 19. Linda Ronstadt - I picked Robbie Rensenbrink in the DDP because 7 years was the limit for PSP. Ronstadt is now in Year 9. 20. Shane MacGowan - It's Shane MacGowan If we get more hits in the last 4 months of the year, I suspect they''ll come from this shortlist. Potential, yes, but a large number of 50/50s at best too. Now watch this lot all celebrate Hogmanay, while Harry Belafonte dies in his sleep over the weekend!

TURNBULL PALLS 16/50 31st August 2022 Popular BBC presenter Bill Turnbull has died after a long battle with cancer to sadly give the Crowdsourced list another success. For most of the 21st century, Turnbull was a regular presence as the host of BBC Breakfast News each morning, guiding sleepy viewers through the latest world turmoil. A solid hand, he presented other BBC shows such as Sunday nights schedules answer to Dracula, Christian music show Songs of Praise. He was a dependable, regular TV face. His notoriously gentle nature belied the fact that he'd been a BBC news correspondent for 30 years, finding himself reporting on the front lines of civil wars or in Northern Ireland. In 2017 he announced he had incurable cancer, and, alongside his colleague George Alagiah, did a lot of work on raising public awareness of the illness so others would be diagnosed sooner. A few months ago, a visibly ill Bill Turnbull appeared on popular evening quiz show House of Games, and even in the face of death, his amiable nature and razor wit were clear to see, as was the respect the other celebrity contestants had for him. He was 66 years old.

Started reading that years ago and never finished it. Unusual for me and political memoirs. Will return to it one day. No spoilers though, can't wait to see if Scotland becomes independent or not at the end of the book!

So many people for so few spots. At this point we could create free theme teams for other players, there's so many!