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Citizens income is going to come in most countries at some point this century, most likely. Purely on necessity. So many jobs are going to be automated or die away, and the people still need to eat... Or we can have the French revolution, everywhere, of course. I think it was Mao's advisor who said it was still too soon to tell if the French revolution had been a success.

Him and Schleming lived for a combined 197 years, nearly - incredible for boxers, really. RIP to one of the Deathlist legends

Oh yeah, besides the "Who will be x hit of the year" threads, the only decent poll on the forum...

I know, imagine having one of Raging Bull's opponents like Joey Russ on the forum to talk to...

The evidence of my own experience is that kids LOVE toys. Can't get enough of them, black hole of money. The issue is Toys R Us sell over priced SHITE.

One family member could be mistaken. Two is a case of watch this space. Anyhow, it's September, and if he is dead, it's not like he's going anywhere.

Didn't she end up without the Labour whip too, after plotting against Brown? Reminds me of Benn's own comments about Kinnock: (paraphrased) "He changed his opinion so often to suit what he thought the likes of (The Sun) wanted, in the end the voters didn't believe a word he said was genuine."

Aye, the fact that the average life expectancy for someone with his type of dementia hits in 2018 for him iirc should see Baddiel Sr on far more deadpool teams next year should he live that far.

He wasn't booked, you see.

That Morrissey link just led me down the rabbit hole of discovering there's been a twitter storm about James Corden being friendly with Sean Spicer at the Emmys. Kiss on the cheek or some thing. And to be fair, for once I can understand the furore. I mean, hanging out with James Corden is going to be really bad for Sean Spicer's reputation...

Carston Mohren and the Swiss opera singer, for example.

The Crowdsourced Deathlist is basically a forum poll. Top 50 carry through.

Still no QO for Qureshi, but he did get one for the Alt Obits pool. This puts (our?) Cancerous Hatred 90 points ahead of the unstoppable G. Tierney with 3 and a bit months left. Also, it tells me I heavily overestimated the fame criteria for the game!

Whenever the Rotten pool rolls over, I think "this time I'll take it seriously". Then after the first dozen "not in the database" picks I give up.

Two years ago today, Brian Sewell died. There was a great gnashing of teeth among deadpoolers. Jackie Collins died on the same day. She appeared on Wogan once, and that was shown in a hastily scheduled series of Wogan retrospectives that Christmas. And did anyone pick up on this? Actually, 6 DDP teams, as you were.

According to a post in the fanmail forums, Mandan had a stroke and is now in poor health and unable to respond to mail. You get your leads where you can find them, but the incessant autograph hunters do tend to have a higher hit rate than, say, the Inquirer.

Peter Sallis. Meeting a ghost would be cool.

It doesn't have bad associations for me, I just think it's shite. RIP anyhow.

The mention elsewhere of this thread reminded me to check up on my favourite royal correspondents. Man, Dying Queen is making Zsa Zsa look weak willed at this rate for grasp on life...

Fairly high profile UK politician during the Blair and Brown years. A zealot Blair supporter. She was in charge of the government part of the London 2012 bid, promoted gambling, Rupert Murdoch and anti-BBC-ness. One of those people who rose far because of who they supported while other better people got the heave in favour of yes people, you might say - but so was John Ashcroft and he'd be a Slam dunk Qualifying obit if he had brain cancer, too.

Saw Patrick Cryne in the crowd during Channel 5's not very good Goal Rush show. Looked like another 3 and a bit months is completely beyond him, tbh. Could wind up the pivotal hit this year.

Not to undersell the moment, Joey, but if Trump and North Korea blow up the world tomorrow, it'll only be the second worst thing to happen this week.

Aye, but look at how many DDP teams she was on back then...

Mo Mowlam kept her terminal diagnosis secret, but I suspect modern Deathlisters would have spotted it.