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Everything posted by DevonDeathTrip
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Charlatans drummer Jon Brookes has had to be resuscitated by a doctor in the audience after he "stopped breathing" and collapsed during a gig.
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Goalkeeper saves penalty
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Country For Old Men (And Women)
DevonDeathTrip replied to Anubis the Jackal's topic in DeathList Forum
Merle Haggard will be at a concert in January. Quite the accomplishment, less than two months after lung cancer surgery... will be interesting to see if it happens... Merle Haggard has just cancelled the remainder of his tour due to a "respiratory illness". Worth keeping an eye on, given his medical history. -
Kim Jong-il has abruptly pulled out of an eagerly anticipated public appearance, in which he was supposed to have announced that his son Kim Jong Un would succeed him. This has fulled rumours that his pancreatic cancer/diabetes/kidney malfunction/strokes/spontaneous combustions/possibly might have caused a further recent deterioration his health.
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I've always thought that the outlawing of tontines was done on a pretty shakey legal premise and that perhaps this law should now be repealed. I believe that Nick Clegg set up a website whereby member of the public could suggest changes to the statute books as part of his Great Reform Act...but I can't find it.
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Eileen Nearne, MBE, a modest war hero who never spoke publically about her spying exploits (even long after the event) has died alone in Torquay. The local council will be organising her funeral, in the absence of any next of kin.
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Alline Bullock, Tina Turner's sister, has died at the age of 73. She wrote a few of Ike and Tina's songs, including "Bold Soul Sister" and "Funkier than a Mosquito's Tweeter".
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I'm going abroad for a little while, when I come back I fully expect James Garner to be dead.
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Cammie King Conlon has died.
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It's probably just sloppy journalism, but the Daily Mail and The Shropshire Star also state that Raymond Hewlett died in April. Mail: Shropshire Star: I remain to be convinced that he died in 2009...
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I feel that Michael Douglas deserves his own thread. Despite his upbeat manner, the latest reports that his doctors were unable to diagnose his condition for several weeks and the fact that he now has stage 4 cancer mean that serious consideration should be given to him appearing on next year's DL. I'm not sure his survival chances are as good as he suggests. Other statistics on the www indicate that he perhaps has a 30% chance of living another 5 years.
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Ray Bradbury - He's looked like Death since 2004.
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dead Laurent Fignon
DevonDeathTrip replied to harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy's topic in DeathList Forum
I second that! I already expressed my feelings towards Fignon more specifically here. He certainly will be remembered as one of the greatest champions in cycling. I remember that final time trial of 1989's Tour de France well. With a few friends I was bobbing on the IJsselmeer in a 20' yacht, under a scorching sun on a windless day. The radio did a live broadcast of the stage. Theo Koomen couldn't have made it more exciting (Koomen, 1929 - 1984, was a Dutch radio sports commentator, who was able to report a goalless 2nd division footie draw as if it was the world cup final). Fignon's death is a hit for 35 DDP teams and two NDP teams, none of them mine. BTW: we did get to our destination Muiden eventually, using the yacht's diesel engine. regards, Hein For some reason, that reminds me of a short visit I made to the sleepy town of Wincanton in Somerset. I am not sure why your story about Muiden should remind me of Wincanton. Wincanton is landlocked, unvisitable by yacht and was approached by car, it wasn't scorching hot that day, the town has no links whatsoever with Laurent Fignon, I wasn't with friends and I wasn't even listening to the radio. But even so, I read your post and thought "Wincanton!". Strange. Sorry to waffle pointlessly. -
dead Laurent Fignon
DevonDeathTrip replied to harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy's topic in DeathList Forum
Obit: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100831/sp_wl...gfrafignondeath RIP. Quite sad about this. -
Franklin Brito a Venezuelan farmer has starved himself to death after five months on hunger strike to protest at the government's land policies, his family has announced.
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How many "hits" will DeathList 2010 have?
DevonDeathTrip replied to Vaagheid's topic in DeathList Forum
I'm going for nine as well. Zsa Zsa Gabor, Norman Wisdom, John Edrich, Billy Graham, Betty Ford and Oscar Niemeyer to all justify their selection by the end of the year. I can't see any reason why not. -
Death Anniversary Thread
DevonDeathTrip replied to themaninblack's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
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Janet Ruff, 73, who set the 400 metres athletics world record in 1956 and was also a hockey international, has died of cancer.
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Fiddly work, isn't it? I will update the Nobel list towards the end of the year, when I have a spare hour or two. (PS In homage to The Unknown Man, Lord Simon needs italicising) Do peers on the absence register get paid? No. I think they lose their entitlment to free 1st class rail travel as well.
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Hmm, this is an interesting list. I never actually knew what the absence register could imply, but I understand it to be a kind of unpaid leave, meant for Lords that are too frail, ill or busy to show up regularly. I think it's a remarkably short list, considered that there are over 700 members, many of whom never participate as well. Has it been successful in previous years in predicting upcoming deaths, I wonder? I don't think there is any obligation to go on the register for health reasons, so it's just as likely that a sitting peer who has decided to stick around and pick up his/her daily attendance allowance (£300) will die. It's only a hunch, but I suspect the older peers on the register may be no longer of sound mind and, for everyone's benefit, need to be kept away from running the country. Having said that, completely losing her marbles, resulting in her having the mental capacity of a blancmange, hasn't stopped Baroness Thatcher from turning up, but I don't think she makes speeches any more.
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The House Of Lords leave of absence register has been recently updated. Some of the peers listed below are absent for work related reasons, but others may have been reduced to such decrepitude that they are no longer able to function in Britian's upper chamber. Given the fact that many sitting peers look like they died several years ago, one can only imagine the physical or mental state of those who feel unable to take part. I don't know when they will all die, but they will all get obituaries when their time comes Apologies to HMBWA for the blatant theft of his idea of making posts more pleasing to the eye, I've gone for a slightly more gaudy colour combination and also opted for Trebuchet (in italics and bold, naturally) over Comic Sans.. Baroness Amos (now British High Commissioner to Australia) Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Now Vice-President of the European Commission) Baroness Carnegy of Lour (Aged 85, that's all I know) Lord Chalfont (A Life Peer since 1964, longer than anyone else) Marquess of Cholmondeley (Aged only 50, might be devoting more time to being a playboy?) Lord Goff of Chieveley (Ancient Judge - "Father of restitution law") Lord Hapgood (Former Archbishop of York. OoO has him on his DDP team and he doesn't pick just anyone, so he must be ill) Lord Hutchinson of Lullington (95 year old lawyer and ex husband of the late Dame Peggy Ashcroft) Lord Kilpatrick of Kincraig (Hadn't made a speech in The Lords for 11 years) Lord Northfield (86 year old former director of Wembley Stadium - retired before Exeter City ever played there and therefore missed out big time) Lord Mackie of Benshie (Aged 91 - Oldest living person ever to have been a Lib Dem MP) Lord McCarthy (Ancient humanist and socialist) Lord Prior (Aged 83. former Northern Ireland Secretary, fell out badly with Thatcher in the 1980s) Lord Randall of St Budeaux (Aged only 72, not working elsewhere and no info about health - but young to take a leave of absence) Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover (Tory philanthropist - a contradiction in terms these days) Marquess of Salisbury (Work related absence, now Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire Lord Simon of Highbury (Former Chief Exec of BP...)
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The death of Edwin Morgan means that Jack Ramsay and Shih Ming Teh are the only men left standing from my cup winning 2008 DDP team. I know the competition ends at the end of the year, but it has been nice keeping an eye on the former prodigies from my squad, watching most of them go on to achieve what I knew they were all capable of, even if they didn't manage to find the back of the net while playing for me. I was wondering if any team entered in DDP history has ever eventually achieved the clean sweep?
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James William Fawcett, Farrah Fawcett's father, has died aged 92.
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Mindy McCready's former beau Roger Clemens has been indicted for telling lies to a Congressional Committee. In addition, her grandmother has been killed in a car crash. All of this added stress could drive poor Mindy back to her well stocked medicine cabinet before too long.
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Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, the Duke of Parma and Piacenza, has died of cancer at the age of 80. He was an in-law to Dutch royalty and was also perceived by subscribers to the traditionalist Carlist movement to be the rightful King Of Spain.