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Hands up everyone who saw "Chevy Chase, post by Thatcher" on the main page and thought "yep, he's dead". Me, certainly.

I have a route back in all of a sudden? This thing has more plot twists than a Netflix mini-series!

Through age I only know Delon through this forum. Bernadette a list name as a political geek but not beyond that. De Gaulle is a Fascinating obscure notable as I'd call them, his age and aliveness get him interest here more than his fame. Whereas Brigitte Bardot and say Sophia Loren I've known about for decades. Major international stars whose fame transcends their time. (We've already had the DL is British and thus British celebrities are obviously a focus so consider that read. Though I will be mischievous and state that the Bogdanoff brothers did a best-selling series of books in French about the first Doctor Who so William Russell's Ian is more famous in France than Philippe De Gaulle is in the UK!)

Found out Ruth Langford (who?) Mum is actually 92 which makes her an obvious pick after all, because not everyone who makes it to 92 gets to 93.

I'm siding with Amanda from The Traitors on general principle.

Disappointingly. I frankly suck at finding names ever since I took time out to cohost the DDP. Hmm, maybe Brian Blessed is joker material...

List of the Missed as I picked him in 2021 due to rumours of him being in ill health. Then promptly dropped him and forgot. C'est la vie.

1. TQR - Jimmy Carter 2. Scottish Evangelist - Ryan Minor 3. drol - Rohit Bal 4. Old Crem - Dick Van Dyke 5. Spade - Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria 6. Reptile - Juan Pablo Adame 7. wannamaker - Thomas P Stafford 8. Biblio - Rob Burrow 9. Toast - Noam Chomsky 10 Death Impends - Janis Paige 11. Max Bosetti - Emir Nawaf 12. Grimgrass - Yoko Ono 13. Chorizo - Zhang Lixiong 14. Lafeucheuse - Jean Malaurie 15. MariNisia - V. S. Achuthanandan 16. Book - Ingrid Steeger 17. Maryport - John Hemingway 18. diego - Steve Wells 19. Sean - Steve McMichael 20. Immortal - Jay Jay Solari 21. arghton - Tep Vong 22. old lady - Pope Francis 23. Banana - Jason Smith 24. Great Uncle Bulgaria - Nigel Starmer Smith 25. msc - Joanne Woodward And thats our shortlist. Unless Carter decides to pull a Shane McGowan before midnight...

Oscar nominee and West Wing regular Lily Tomlin.

At the time he had a bit of a reputation as a boring but reliable cabinet minister who just did their job. Christ, I've missed those after the last decade!

18 picks, 6 spots left

Alistair Darling dead!! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/30/alistair-darling-dead-former-chancellor-labour-aged-70/

Take three, mr hemlock.

It's been expected for over thirty years but still quite sad tbh. He was a genuine legend.

Don't give him an ego, he already got a Year in Review dedicated to his Mystic Meg rep.

The legend Lehrer lives on.

The Sun opposed Delors as he was opposed to everything they stand for, which is usually a good judge of character for me. Anyhow, Carter, obviously.

Never gave us a chance with his short retirement. His defeat in 1997 was caught on BBC live because the cameras rushed there thinking it was Rifkinds seat. Rifkind was known to be doomed by that point though so Douglas Hamilton's defeat confirmed there'd be no Tory MPs in Scotland. Briefly!

A reminder that this game opens tomorrow at noon British time, or midday. Which is 7am New York time. First come first served etc. You all know the rules.

Never mind Christmas, I'll be shocked if he sees Sunday here.

Genuinely get him on next year's list. Famous enough old enough and sick enough is a rare enough hattrick for a DLy name. And he doesn't feel like he's got much time left...

@Commtech Sio Bibble The legends thread is here.

There was a new hour long interview with her on BBC2 earlier this week I sent @Gooseberry Crumble scrambling to go watch for his hero. From what I've seen so far (just the first 5 or so minutes) she seems in decent nick for her age, and given its an hour long interview with Louis fn Theroux, clearly still has stamina and patience. I see her as a DL regular eventually but yeah, she's seems fine for now, barring accidents.

The bt documentary had a gutted Roy Hodgson talking about how he missed his friend which was a real eye opener.

Another 2024 name drops too early.