DevonDeathTrip

You're right Godot. Remember there can only be one winner of the DDP this year:

One of the forerunners for the "80 Days Around the World", eventually taken up by Michael Palin, to huge success. I think Kington would probably have been just as enjoyable. A great shame - we're losing too many of the likes of him early whilst boring old fossils or idiots continue to roam the earth. For my money the best columnist of the 80s well ahead of Alan Coren. Radio 4 are doing a feature this week on letters Miles Kington wrote after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January. I tuned in this morning (shamefully admits to listening to Woman's Hour ) and it was very good. You can listen online here

Playing around with the idea of including her on DDP 2008, came across this article. It's in foreign, so I'll quickly summarize the most important parts. First of all, I get the feeling that the picture associated with the article is not a recent one, so don't base any decisions off of that. She's in a wheelchair and in a nursing home, but she's still cognizant enough to be giving a deep and meaningful interview. An interesting quote, and of the two big headlines, is "Death is the most beautiful moment of life," used to discuss how she has no qualms with going when she goes. Is she "another old person?" More or less, depending on your point of view, but if you really want to do this Belgian thing on a deadpool, she's probably the best shot. And she doesn't even seem like she'd mind. Famous? Well, that's subjective, but if you thought that Abbe Pierre was famous, then she should be as well. And Abbe Pierre got a UK obit as well. Between that possibility at the new acceptability of the New York Times, there's a pretty comfortable chance of an obit. She's dead. BBC obit.

Meet Your Maker is not going to give up his title without a fight... Actually on second thoughts, having glanced at who else picked Mr Plews, congratulations to The Living End! Most boring deadpool candidate ever. Not a single article about him since he was mentioned on DL last year. Next please!

Ben Weider, 85, body builder and internationally renowned Napoleonic scholar.

Jame Lamotta is due to be making a public appearance in Britain next month, he's heading to the bright lights of Loughton, Essex for a dinner to be held in his honour. Are there any Deathlisters with money to burn who might make the trip?

James Bevel, a civil rights activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King, is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and has been given six weeks to six months to live. He has just been convicted of child sex offences and was given a fifteen year jail sentence.

Hamed Karzai

I see another Great Escape veteran, Wing Commander William Thomas, has died. The Telegraph describes him as one of the few remaining survivors of the event. Three men actually managed to evade capture. Two of them are long dead, but I can't find a date of death (or birth) for the Norwegian Jens Muller. I'm assuming he's dead as well, because he doesn't exactly look youthful in his prisoner of war photo. I suppose they didn't dish out much Oil of Olay in Stalag Luft, though. I'm not sure I can contribute too much to this thread, Godot, otherwise it might bring my anorakish tendencies to the fore. [Edit The Daily Mail say that William Thomas was the last surviving participant of the Great Escape, so it looks as if they've all been rounded up now]

Singer Russ Hamilton. Once he was famous, then he was forgotten. Now he's dead.

Rochus Misch the last remaining remaining survivor of the Führerbunker, is 90 years old.

Neil Hefti, composer of the Batman theme tune, has da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-died of a heart attack, aged 85.

Something to do with him being a Rhodes scholar perhaps? Really not too sure what David Icke's reasons were. Here's the full list of the (alleged) evil reptilian shape shifters: The British Royal Family Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton (a "high Illuminati witch") Al Gore (Icke says Gore is a "serious blood drinker") Dick Cheney Robert C. Byrd Henry Kissinger Tom Foreman, CNN Correspondent (Long time post-acadian swamp reptilian. Big Time)) William F. Buckley (whom Icke says is a "head of the elite JANUS mind control operation based at NATO headquarters in Belgium which trains mind-controlled psychic assassins") Edward Heath Tony Blair (perhaps not a reptilian, more likely a "mind- controlled multiple") Peter Mandelson Rupert Murdoch Bob Hope ("Life-time asset of British Intelligence, mind-controlled slave handler") Frank Sinatra Billy Graham Pat Robertson ("high Illuminati priest") Kris Kristofferson Boxcar Willie Bill O'Reilly Jim Davidson Andrew Marr David Aaronovitch ("high-order reptilian") Richard Littlejohn Pierre Trudeau Brian Mulroney

Brian Harvey has turned a bit peculiar.

HH Prince Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the oldest surviving member of the massacred Romanoff dynasty, died last month at the age of 88. He lived in Australia and worked as a painter and decorator. His friends called him Mike. If his mother was George V's cousin. What relation does that make him to our Queen? I got dizzy trying to work it out, third cousin twice removed was my best guess.

Obit???? Well, he'll need to die first. Then he should get one.

Samak Sundaravej, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, is thought to be suffering from liver cancer.

Dove of peace dies during ceremony.

Gordon Brown can't see what's happening in the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...mong-aides.html

Joe Cook, 85, the leader of Little Joe Cook And The Thrillers, is suffering from colon cancer. I'm not sure he's famous enough to get a UK obit, but you never can tell. Here's his best known song, Peanuts, which went to No 7 on the Billboard charts in 1957. I like it.

He got pissed basically... Those Q awards are getting earlier and earlier. He must have got well and truly trolleyed, so much so that he spent three days in hospital afterwards.

He's "gravely ill" now and suffering from an unspecified serious illness. Go Seve!

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