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Robert Wyatt in declining health and with rapidly diminished memory, sadly.

One of the debates among the forum wrestling nerds a few years ago were if 80s nutter Billy Jack Haynes would obit. Well he's not dead for now but I'd say 100% an qo name now after he's lived up to his reputation of maybe killing someone in the past by definitely killing his wife in a botched murder suicide.

That's my oldies team. So here's hoping!

She pretty much makes the one she's a villain in watchable all by herself.

I feel a bit better then, as a political nerd I'd never heard of her either!

Because in the last fifty years the helicopter crash rate in the UK is around 1 every three years, making your chances of dying in a helicopter less likely than being killed by a cow in mainland UK. Worldwide it's slightly higher than planes but again below deadly cows. I apologise for any new fear of mooing objects.

Is it the election yet?

Remember late year murmurs often come from two sources. 1. People trying to psyche out DDP opponents. Also known as The Spade Cooley. 2. People who aren't good at deadpools.

FFS!!!! Looking it up, apparently The Guardian didn't give Andree Melly an obit either by looks of it.

If even a quarter of the vast numbers of people this government claim were left wing extremists actually were we'd have statues of eternal leader Tony Benn every fucking where.

With no confirmation either way (in general, not blaming you!), annoyingly, he's annoying on my Hares team. Andree Melly died in Ibiza so the location would be accurate, but the news if true has completely skipped by most of the folk I thought would be on it. There's always a Stage reference... eventually.

A wise man once said, to notice someone is missing you have to remember they exist.

@Bibliogryphon Edward de Souza is still on my theme team and will be there till he drops.

See next time @Joey Russ tells me someone looks very ill, can you all remind me not to be a sceptic. Ta.

Damn, Michael Jayston is a hell of a loss (not to put shade on Pike here).

For the record, I agree. Bit of alleged corruption but who's the last non corrupt leader of the UK? Threads gone beyond the obvious old school dictators to encompass all of Africa from the democracies to the dictatorships so the old title is a relic and a wee bit ethnocentric too. Also I don't blame any regulars for this and think the increased interest and knowledge in non European politicians is generally a good thing.

Manfred Mann Paul Jones also kids TV legend Uncle Jack. Showing my age probably.

You and Arghton started making these names up ages ago and none of us noticed, right?

I dropped him when they said he was going for immunotherapy as that sounded like they expected he could last a bit longer. This says that, contrary to most experts opinions, the immunotherapy has worked on his glioblastoma. Time will tell but there is a slim chance this is an incredible breakthrough.

1905 was a placeholder when the Cmme couldn't find information. The system had a habit of crashing with that field blank!

Dropped him from the DDp because tbh I got bored and distracted by shiny new oldies, and 20 places isn't a lot. My trying to guess who would be picked has led to two of us bringing back Nadim Sawalha after a long absence and nobody picking Brian Glanville. Or Derry Irvine!

In my theme team so hopefully!

What?????????

Cheap, polite and never turn down a booking is a good way to keep a TV career going, I'd imagine.

You posting in this thread randomly had me convinced he'd died.