Bibliogryphon

I can handle it. Sometimes I can go days without creating a list....... I'm fine, I really am. How are the 'Listaholics Anonymous' meetings going btw ? Not well. The first thing we do is write a list of all those attending and then cross reference it against previous attendance. We then all have a drink so we create a list of who wants coffee, tea or other beverage and by the time we have done that we compile a list of future meeting dates. I am definitely going again next week.......

I can handle it. Sometimes I can go days without creating a list....... I'm fine, I really am.

Some discussion about lack of Bernard Ingham's remorse and health today.

"Turned on the TV and every other story is telling you somebody's died" Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Huston - The three black megastars of Eighties pop all died early..............

Bowie also acted and was very innovative which I why I think Prince is more akin to Bowie than Michael Jackson. They both experimented. Those experiments didn't always work but they allowed later artists other freedoms.

Back on 15th April Guy Woolfenden died. He was Director of Music for the Royal Shakespeare Company for many years.

Obama has come in for some stick for his intervention on the EU referendum but my take on it is that he is like a bloke telling another bloke that if you split up with your girlfriend there is no way on Earth you are kipping on my sofa and I am still going to be friends with her because she has a subscription to Sky Sports.

Corbyn might.

For the past three years I have cross referenced my 1000 name long list against all the DDP picks and the following list is the twenty oldest people on my list who have not been picked in each of those three years. 1. Peter Brook – Theatre Director (b.1925) 2. William McPherson – Judge (b.1926) 3. J P Donleavy – Writer (b.1926) 4. Margaret Stuart-Barry - Writer (b.1927) 5. Shirley Hughes – Writer (b.1927) 6. John Habgood – Former Archbishop of York (b.1927) 7. Babs Chinnery – Beverly Sister (b.1927) 8. Teddie Chinnery – Beverly Sister (b.1927) 9. Jeanette Charles – Actress (b.1927) 10. Kate Wilhelm – Writer (b.1928) 11. Nicolas Roeg – Writer (b.1928) 12. C W McCall - Singer (b.1928) 13. James Ivory – Director (b.1928) 14. Peter Firmin – Producer (b.1928) 15. John Barton – Theatre Director (b.1928) 16. John Woodvine – Actor (b. 1929) 17. Tony Soper – Naturalist (b. 1929) 18. Clifford Rose - Actor (b. 1929) 19. Lynne Reid-Banks – Writer (b. 1929) 20. Jack Higgins – Writer (b. 1929) However looking at this list suggest more about the sort of names on my long list rather than being real suggestions for 2017.

Who? I know who three out of six are but only because they have been discussed here.

Bowie trumps Prince for me.

The Queen keeps one.

Yes they do. It's years since I read it, but I can still remember the bit where Hazel dies There is also a description about the fate of the rabbits left behind at the original warren.

I wouldn't say so either but I'm not sure how sane I am. I'm not particularly sane and therein may lie the catch! Though it does seem to me, over the years I've been here, the older posters have been fairly welcoming to a whole lot of newer posters: DJL, Bibliogryphon, and Shaun to name but three. I must admit when I started I was a bit nervous and it took me a while to work out who you could joke with and who was a bit scary. However I did try to respect the spirit of the forum and did as a guest in their house not try to dictate how the whole site should be run. I have had a lot of very interesting conversations and I have learnt a lot. So, who is a bit scary then? I had a couple of run-ins with Tempus Fugit but eventually I realised that everyone got that treatment.

I think what is happening here is that because of budget cuts the four horsemen of the apocalypse are faced with becoming the three horsemen of the apocalypse so Death is going for high profile targets to make it look like he is really putting the effort in before the redundancy notice heads his way "Right whose next Bob Dylan (crosses off list) ha ha - Take that Famine"

Fourth hit for Unusual Suspects. Maybe I'll get David Jenkins next.

Rodney Bewes

Mods, ban this cretin gcreptile immediately. Dare I? Dare you not? *Quaking with fear....... oh come pb there's nothing to be af*lard bazzar removes cloths Ahhhhhhh Ahhhhhhh ITS HIDOUS. kILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!. As some of the luckier DL regulars who have actually met me will tell you, I am stunningly attractive with the figure of a Rubenesque beauty, full of wit and intelligence, the alcohol-consumption skills of Oliver Reed and have a cracking pair of norks. I'm a man's best friend and his sexual fantasy all rolled into one lovely, legendary ball of awesomeness. The likelihood that you will ever be fortunate enough to see me naked is nil, largely because I'm not into getty jiggy with pre-pubescent, illiterate wankmonkeys who are younger than most of my socks. Wow MK you got away soooooooooooooooooooooo lightly.

You can make these comments from over there but if Lard were to go postal do you know how much devastation she could cause. The whole of the South West of England would become a barren wasteland........ ...... oh

I wouldn't say so either but I'm not sure how sane I am. I'm not particularly sane and therein may lie the catch! Though it does seem to me, over the years I've been here, the older posters have been fairly welcoming to a whole lot of newer posters: DJL, Bibliogryphon, and Shaun to name but three. I must admit when I started I was a bit nervous and it took me a while to work out who you could joke with and who was a bit scary. However I did try to respect the spirit of the forum and did as a guest in their house not try to dictate how the whole site should be run. I have had a lot of very interesting conversations and I have learnt a lot.

Mods, ban this cretin gcreptile immediately. I thought he was on dangerous ground when I saw that.

She hadn't been funny for years. I didn't watch Dinnerladies but the stuff she did in the eighties was fantastic and she wrote great characters for others to perform like the two soups sketch and Susie Blake's bitter continuity announcer. I also think she was very truthful akin to a 20th Century Jane Austen than a hilarious gag a minute comedian.

We are actually way ahead of the curve 5 hits in the first third of the year. Often the Autumn can provide some surprises. I don't agree with every name on the list but my Shadowlist is way behind so I am not going to criticize. Yes, maybe you're right. I only said they could improve. Unfortunately Zsa Zsa, Billy Graham, Bhumibol, Castro, Olivia, Douglas will never die so they are only dead weight although they must stay on the list. What really makes the difference are the other picks; I agree that Peter Sallis will probably die (like Havelange, Adams, Carrington) but the rest is messed up (Piggott? Walker? Gall? Mary Tyler Moore? Tommy Chong? James Randi? Doug Ellis? what did they smoke?). Still not sure Carrington will go. He looks like he has 100 written all over him. Still think MTM is a good call but Walker and Gall might be canny picks. We have to lose 25 each year so new blood has to come from somewhere. I still think there are at least 12-13 on the list. Maybe even 15.

I think it is more significant that Lady Forsyth went by herself which mean he wanted someone to be at Ronnie funeral but he himself was not up to it. Until now I have thought he was going to go on and on but I did also say that when he gave up being on telly we should pay more attention to him. Are you sure she didn't just go herself. You'd assume if Corbbet and Brucie were such great friends, then Lady Forsyth would have known him well? What I was saying that by going alone was more significant for our purposes than if they have both stayed at home. I think everyone assumed she was 'representing' Bruce irrelevant of her own relationship with Ronnie and his widow, Being married to a celebrity doesn't disqualify her from being a person in her own right. I think that's rather disrespectful. She is a celebrity in her own right being the only Puero Rican to win Miss World. I am sure that there were many famous faces at the funeral who were not included in the BBC webpage but by picturing Lady Wilnelia alone they knew the significance. If there was no mention of Bruce who had frequently performed with Ronnie some people may have tried to read this as a snub. The presence of Mrs Forsyth was important. My Father's partner died recently after being in a care home for 4 years with dementia. Initially my father was undecided whether he would go to her funeral because of his own health but if he had not we his children would have gone to represent him even though we had never met her sister and nephew who were organising the funeral. No. You said You implied that she was there solely as Bruce's representative. I understand what you are saying Toast and I am not trying to diminish Lady Forsyth as a person. I will accept that I have not expressed myself completely clearly but Brucie was Ronnie's some time comedy partner, I think it would have been unlikely that Ronnie would have made the social acquaintance of a Puerto Rican former Miss World unless they were introduced through Bruce. I am sure they all became firm friends but the connection is Bruce and the BBC knew that when they put her picture in their story.

OK 2016 you seem to be running amok with an AK47 through my cultural icons. Who next Peter Purvis, Tom Baker, John Craven, Jan Chappell, Johnny Ball, Brian Cant? This one was a shocker. I had her on my very long list because I remember her having treatment for something a while back but I was not planning to promote her to any of my teams. On the BBC website the first two tweets they quoted were from David Cameron and Ricky Gervais. Two bigger twats would be hard to find. Very sad day.