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Yeah, just to reiterate this... Double down on it, I believe the Americans like to put it.

Nabbed Kirk quickly while I still have time today...

It was a quiet week, that's why...

And then the Queen Mum died at the weekend (48 hours later).

Yes, in 2012 - Megrahi and Gibb. But otherwise, back in 2002, so almost historical by Deathlist standards.

TILL DEATH US DID PART! 18/50 26th September 2017 Actor Tony Booth has died to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another hit in a highly successful year. Booth broke into stage and TV acting in the late 1950s after demob, and became most famous for the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. As Mike, Tony Booth was the leftist counterweight to the ramblings of the other extremist, Alf Garnett. It was a role he was born to play, as a former Communist and life long supporter of the Labour party. He later became the father-in-law of the Prime Minister, after Tony Blair (husband of his daughter Cherie) became Prime Minister in 1997. Booth also made appearances in a range of shows from Family Affairs to Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall. The widow of Corrie legend Pat Phoenix, Booth has died after a long illness.

You're kidding! Flipping heck.

With Liz Dawn going, and Bracknell and Downie still on the clock, the list would be highly unfortunate not to equal the record now.

Wouldn't want to be Valerie Harper looking at the front page right about now.

Of course with Liz Dawn's death now, that's level!

RIP - she lasted far longer than I expected. Also one of the few soap actresses I'd recognise on sight. Commiserations with Deathray, incidentally.

Yes, according to her friends, but kept very low key. Don't know how far gone. Looked in when MIA (essentially) during Indy Ref. Also had assumed the Record or Mail, etc, had mentioned it, otherwise wouldn't have said aloud...

Yes, the Mail is the deadpooler's (and fascist's, of course) friend.

.... unless they're on my team, of course. wow, Joey, talk about ninja'ing a post in and completely wrecking the flow of this one!

Hey if you thought being a US general was dispiriting, imagine being a North Korean one round about now. Kim could be a 32 point joker next year... (10 + drop 40 + unnatural bonus)

Barbara Walters (allegedly), Jill Gascoine, Joanne Woodward, Winnie Ewing, Prunella Scales... Monica Vitti and Jeanne Mockford iirc... There's practically enough of them out there for a Famous Women With Dementia theme team...

Canada's weird like that. No one really dislikes it, it seems cool, but it rarely seems to be thought about. Canadian MPs, even less so. Unless they were a rare household name like Trudeau. Either Trudeau. Their PMs will obit, sure, but even their Cabinet members might struggle. Any Joe or Jane Bloggs who ever got into parliament in the UK (Scotland, Wales, N Ireland or UK as a whole) will get the obit. Any President, President's cabinet member, notable family of President, Senators, and probably most congressmen will get the obit. Their families too, if the stories big enough. Any state congress folk or dog catchers, forget it. This year's had a few wrong turns (bloody hockey players! what's up with really old chess guys? etc) but in general, the biggest group who don't obit are Obscure Nonentities no one has ever heard of.

Sports, Doctor Who, random films and docs. Actually I watch a fair bit of TV now, in bits and bobs. It helps that the BT TV comes with in-built recording, so if there's something on which looks interesting, I can set it to record, then get to watch it 5 or 6 months down the line when I have the spare time and will.

It is possible, it's always possible, but we're reliant on hindsight here.

16 – Clive Dunn 14 – Kirk Douglas, Ronald Reagan, Queen Mother 13 – Fidel Castro, Ronnie Biggs, Bob Hope, 12 – Jake Lamotta, Eli Wallach, Pope John Paul II List of most appearances last August - Lamotta's were consequetive, so... Castro missed 2011. Ronnie missed 2001. 1994 was Hopeless. Kirk is on 12 in a row. Reagan missed 1994. Dunn missed 2005. So there you go - no one has topped it.

Oh I heard something about Chubby Checker. Apparently, last summer, he did the twist. And this summer, he wanted to do the twist again, like he did last summer.

End result: 200 teams on 100+ points in 2018...

Not everyone.

Ah, Tapie. Had heard rumblings but figured he was far too big a figure to be successfully kept secret. Went to jail for rigging a Champions League (and other stuff), you know.

Didn't McGrain have heart issues recently? He was a bit before my time, the story I know him for best (possibly made up, tbh) is Celtic playing some Albanian side in Europe in the late 70s, and the Albanian dictators lot trying to ban McGrain entering the country because he hated beards.