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I had to check this out to see who she was but the Archer link makes it more significant. I didn't watch Howard's Way.

Key quote in this one "Unable to attend because of poor health"

True but I do not want to proliferate threads for every alcoholic ex footballer. I did check the football thread but did not realise that it had been moving so quickly as I saw the article whilst I had been on holiday. I only searched the Deathlist forums for the name. Which thread do you think would be most appropriate?

This is a fascinating thread. I agree about the weird respect issue, we acknowledge the passing of people everyone else has forgotten and when people like Herbert Lom, Patrick Moore and Clive Dunn died there was a lot of positive appreciation of their work. OK we will make the black jokes but my Father in Law did a bit of work driving for a funeral directors and when the boss was looking to rename the business he suggested The Body Shop. Black Humour is a way of dealing with death. When I go to funerals I am a wreck it really gets to me which probably comes from losing my mother when I was nine years old. However the factor that does hit close to home is the list obsessive slightly autistic tendancies. I work in an scientific establishment and my Deadpool game has almost 20% of staff playing. Where better to hide a tree than in a forest. I am a teetotal vegetarian.

Fixed Absolutely. Marcus Brigstocke is about as funny as having both your grandparents suffer strokes at the Christmas dinner table, in front of the kids. I actually find MB very funny and Stupid and its stable mate 1'm Sorry I've Got No Head were both very funny but the first is that he would not be a safe person to present to kids.

Look in the football thread... FFS... Just one page back from where it is now, page 110, post 2186. I would think that the Football thread is in the extra-curricular section whereas this is on topic.

Rusty Goffe was in the CBBC show Stupid! as the Gremlin Goober who works for King Stupid played by Marcus Brigstock. Who had the bright idea of giving Marcus Brigstock a kids TV show?

Another former England player following the George Best rule book - Kenny Sansom I have looked around the forums and surprised no-one picked up on this one. Or are alcoholic ex footballers just a too big a pool to pick from?

This news has come as a complete shock to me.I had no idea that he had anything wrong with him Apart from being a member of the Conservative party. That isn't normally terminal, though it might be different in Scotland.

I know I have previously recommended them but his diaries are excellent reading whether you agree with him or not. Little snippets like Margaret Thatcher crying at Eric Heffer's funeral and the bits where he described his own wife's deaths made me cry buckets.

I put something in here that was completely wrong so I have edited it out. Sorry

That will be the coffin with flakey lid

Will the funeral be a quiet affair or will there be lots of photographs of ageing European royalty to get our 2014 teams into line?

This one would need pictures to run!!!

I do not think 100 is within him. He has been yo-yoing in and out of hospital for nearly two years. I now think he will last the year out but at Christmas I was predicting a March death for him so I don't have a good track record. I think 2016 at the latest.

I hope it will not be but reading this does suggest that Tony Benn would be a good 2014 pick.

Are these stories generated by computer. Pick famous person 1 Pick Crisis Pick scandal Pick Famous Person 2 It sounds like a great new card game. Michael Gove/ career nose dive/ after cocaine binges/ with Kerry Katona

New series of Just a Minute starts tonight on Radio 4. OK so these are all pre-recorded but I don't think he will go this year (or next)

He's alive

I am indeed correct I have just found out that the liklihood for a woman who is 96 of dying within the year is 25%. So if we picked a list of 96 yearold women we should get 12 hits just by probability. The statistics comes from a maths website on understanding uncertainty. However the author might consider our use of his information a debasement of science.

Make that three trains now with the Lausanne incident the other day. The law of three - train travel should be safe for a while now.

I think it is a bit harsh to be critical about putting someone who is 96 on the list. I imagine that for any individual who is 96 I bet the statistics for dying before reaching 97 must be at least into double figues.

Honor Blackman in Casualty

The most significant thing about this story is the possible effect it will have on her ambitions to be tory leader if Cameron crashes and burns in 2015 (please please)

We don't need a new Zsa Zsa. We can't get rid of the old one.