Bibliogryphon

When it pays them to do so

Do you think his passing might foretell the end of the world and thereby confirm all those dire predictions for December?

You have to remember about all those stories where staff in hospitals neglect pensioners. What number of nights in hospital within any 12 month period gets someone a definite listing on the DL?

Damn - I was going to include him for 2013. But it ain't over until Adele....

Another opportunity for Brian Aldiss to remind us he is still alive by commenting on the passing of a contempory (but better) writer.

A little thin perhaps!!

Mike Nesmith is definitely the most talented but they have demonstrated that they can (will) tour without him but as Micky & Davy shared vocals they are what the public would perceive as the sound of the Monkees. Mike Nesmith released an ironically titles Best of collection entitled " and the Hits Just Keep on Coming"

It will be more the Monkees than Queen would be Queen without Freddie Mercury. Mickey Dolenz sang on the better songs.

How good can they be if we have never heard of them.

He looks elderly not infirm. To be honest he had some weight to lose. I think George Bush Snr will be the next presidenterd interred (rather than interned!)

Or should that be cooling down?

Now Gore Vidal has gone I have had to draft in Eric Hill (of Spot fame!) and I have A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie warming up on the bench

He was also one of the few actors (who did not have a lead role in the series) whose likeness adorned an adaptation of a Doctor Who Book - His role as Mr Popplewick in the Trial of a Timelord (13/14)

I think there is something in this and I have been thinking about it myself. Is there an age at which your chances of survival actually impove in some form of statistic. Having said that there are a lot more people alive who are in the 60-70 age bracket. Maybe we should send a question to More or Less on Radio 4.

I went for Billy Graham

Subway vigilante of justice/racist nutjob (delete as applicable) who shot four black guys who tried to mug him/begged for change back in the early 80s. Yes I researched that after I left yesterday. I'll put that up to 4 then.

Nooooooooooooooooo every death counts, so yeahhhhhhhh, it´s a great day for DL!!!!!!!! Only if people are going to score points and if you see the discussion above she wasn't even featuring on the radar. Did anybody get points??

Danny Devito looked quite sprightly in his Big Issue interview this week and is appearing in the West End opposite Richard Griffiths in Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys

Nooooooooooooooooo

Sympathy - Zero Surely this was a potential outcome when you bid for them! You do realise that if people who know you have read this and see you at the match - they will turn up at your house with a brick

I would go with 3 (QEII, BB & Mr Zimmermann). I will freely admit that I have no idea who Bernard Goetz is.

What you mean he stays sober for long periods of time and had incredible will power.

And that picture proved what good shape he is in......

Do youi mean to suggest that there is religion that's not fucking bullshit? regards, Hein This is to distinguish it from political, artistic, military, scientific and sporting Bullshit

Scratch that, she's dead. And with her, Sobol, and Sendak dead any motivation for me making a Children's Book author theme team dies too. I have been thinking about writers too a couple of suggestions that might perk up your interest again Jan Pienkowski b.1936 who provided the distinctive illustrations for Helen Nicol's (b.1937) Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938 I'm sure I could find hundreds of elderly children's book authors, but if I were to make a theme team for them I would want it to be a list of authors I have heard of before, of series I read when I was younger. Michael Bond (b. 1926), creator of Paddington Bear. Thats a start Bond, Beverly Cleary, Richard Adams, and Eric Carle were all ideas I wrote down. I could stretch the definition a bit to include Sir Terry Pratchett and Harper Lee. It's a moot point though, I have other theme teams put together that were much easier to make and more entertaining. I have an Authors theme team drafted out but Ray Bradbury put a hole in its bows but it is still afloat. I kept some names back!!