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  3. Posted

    Count me in

     

    1. Jeremy Hutchinson
    2. Earl Cameron
    3. Beverley Clearly
    4. Diana Athill
    5. James Lovelock
    6. June Spencer
    7. Don Lusk
    8. Mary Wilson
    9. Sheila Mercier
    10. Yashihiro Nakasone

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    getting pregnant after a one night stand

    It's astonishing how often that happens in soaps :rolleyes:

    It's astonishing how often that happens in Basildon
    It's astonishing how often it happens to your moms.
    There is a very thick line drawn between you being a bit funny and being a complete prick.

    Complete prick wins.

    If you cant post funny just f**k off, the forum will survive without you.

    I will go and suck my dads penis.

     

     

    You have more than one Dad?

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    1920 - Lewis Gilbert, Nanette Fabray

    1921 - Silvio Gazzaniga, Muriel Pavlow

    1922 - Peregrine Worsthorne, Janis Paige

    1923 - Shimon Peres, Judith Kerr

    1924 - David Butler, Patricia Knatchbull

    1925 - David Kenneth Fieldhouse, Margaret Rhodes

    1926 - Desmond Carrington, Katie Boyle

    1927 - David Hedison, Rosemary Harris

    1928 - Peter Firmin, Patricia Hitchcock

    1929 - Antonio Carbajal, Damaris Hayman

     

     

    That kind of thing?

    Silvio Gazzaniga is dead at 95. Wait for the QO.

    Biblio had him this round.

     

    In the back of the net.

     

    Do I get to lift the trophy?

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    1920 Fanny Waterman/Michael Anderson

    1921 Jane Freeman/ Silvio Gazaniga

    1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards

    1923 Dina Merill/ Franco Zeffarelli

    1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King

    1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker

    1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton

    1927 Babs Chinnery/Dick Bruna

    1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin

    1929 Patricia Routledge/David Fisher

    As before.

     

    I think I win this round if we can get a BBC obit.

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    John Berger - writer, academic, kinda public intellectual of the swinging sixties - has been getting some coverage with his 90th coming up. Still fairly active and alert, mind

     

    Ah, Ways of Seeing! Didn't realise he was that old!

     

    He is the oldest surviving Booker Prize winner.

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    Booker Prize Winners Updated for 2016 Winner

     

    Booker Prize Winners updated for 2014 & 2015 Winners

    V S Naipaul (1932)
    John Berger (1926)
    David Storey (1933)
    Salman Rushdie (1947)
    Thomas Keneally (1935)
    J M Coetzee (1940)
    Keri Hume (1947)
    Penelope Lively (1933)
    Peter Carey (1943)
    Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
    A S Byatt (1936)
    Ben Okri (1959)
    Michael Ondaatje (1943)
    Roddy Doyle (1958)
    James Kelman (1946)
    Pat Barker (1943)
    Graham Swift (1949)
    Arundhati Roy (1961)
    Ian McEwan (1948)
    Margaret Atwood (1939)
    Yann Martel (1963)
    DBC Pierre (1961)
    Alan Hollinghurst (1954)
    John Banville (1945)
    Kiran Desai (1971)
    Anne Enright (1962)
    Aravind Adiga (1974)
    Hilary Mantel (1952)
    Howard Jacobson (1942)
    Julian Barnes (1946)
    Eleanor Catton (1985)

    Richard Flanagan (1961)

    Marlon James (1970)

    Paul Beatty (1962)

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    Here are twenty five new names for consideration

     

    1. Tony Booth
    2. Don Rickles
    3. June Brown
    4. Everton Weekes
    5. Sidney Poitier
    6. Abdelaziz Boutelfika
    7. Robert Mugabe
    8. Bill Maynard
    9. Pope Benedict XVI
    10. Dick van Dyke
    11. Claire Hollingworth
    12. Mary Wilson
    13. Sheila Mercier
    14. Frank Miller
    15. Richard Baker
    16. Jeremy Hutchinson
    17. Carl Reiner
    18. Lilliane Bettancourt
    19. Paul Darrow
    20. Shirley Hughes
    21. Robert Hardy
    22. Valerie Harper
    23. Rodney Bewes
    24. D C Fontana
    25. Peter Tork
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    The seventeen I would dump would be

     

    1. James Randi
    2. Prunella Scales
    3. Henry Kissinger
    4. Tommy Chong
    5. Doug Ellis
    6. Robert M Pirssig
    7. Lester Piggot
    8. Stan Lee
    9. Jake Lamotta
    10. Stephen Hawking
    11. Paul Gascoigne
    12. Peter Carrington
    13. Sandy Gall
    14. Murray Walker
    15. John Noakes
    16. Gordon Banks
    17. Fidel Castro

     

    I got to eleven OK but the last six were grudging removals and I know that now Fidel has reached 13 there are going to be people urging him to stay on until he goes but I don't think it will be 2017

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    I'd recognise Dot Cotton, but had to google her name, because I always mix the actress up with June Whitfield.

    Exactly.Soap opera stars enjoy a high level of recognition but they aren`t known for being them.Same can be said of voice actors.For example few people can visually recognise the voiceovers on the Simpsons but if any die it will make the news.Peter Sallis is a good example of someone who if you are under 30 you probably couldn't name but you would recognize him as Clegg from last of the Summer Wine and as the guy who voiced Wallace.

     

     

    OK so she is more Gillian Taylforth than Wendy Richards. I haven't watched Emmerdale since they dropped the Farm.

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    She might be low hanging fruit and an easy hit but I don't quite feel the fame factor. It does not bring prestige to the list. For me she is this year's Joey Feek

     

    Genuinely, I've tested her name out on a few casual folk I know, non-Deadpoolers, and they've all known who she was. I knew those of us who don't watch soaps didn't really know of her before, but a lot of people are addicted to the bloody things, and she was apparently far better known than I'd thought.

     

    In my book - Meads, Bracknell, Christie, St John, King Michael, Booth, and Sellers are all famous enough for the front page, given earlier precedents (and I'd pick Downie, citing the Beeb! Hah), but I am not the Committee. They have their ways.

     

    Whereas even people into Christian country hadn't really heard of Feek.

     

     

    I realise I am not well versed on soaps but she is not Anita Dobson, Liz Dawn or Sheila Mercier or even Leonard Fenton. This is probably why I never win.

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    The south east has over heated to such an extent that the M25 is now quite outdated too. I think that another orbital motorway is required. Before the M25 plan was given the green light the idea was that many orbital roads would be constructed.

     

    I'll term it the M17.

     

    Junction 1 being Stanstead Airport, going clockwise.

    J2 Between Braintree and Chelmford.

    J3 Brentwood.

    J4 Basildon.

    J4 Tilbury Docks, new tunnel below the Thames then between...

    J5 Stood and Gravesend,

    J6 new junction 3a on the M20 for Maidstone,

    J7 Tunbridge

    J8 Gatwick, making

    J9 Cranleigh,

    J10 Haslemere and

    J11 Alton New Towns,

    J12 crossing the J7 of the M3 at Basingstoke,

    J12a new 12a junction on the M4 between Newbury and Reading,

    J14 west of Abingdon,

    J15 Oxford and

    J16 west of Kidlington,

    J17 junction looping above Bicester to the M40 J10 and Upper Heyford,

    J18 topside of Aylesbury,

    J19 below Dunstable,

    J20 new junction 9a on the M1,

    J21 Luton Airport,

    J22 through junction 7 on the A1M below Stevenage,

    J23 then making a new town at Sawbridgeworth and

    J24 linking with the M11 at a new junction of 8a then back to Stanstead.

     

    That will cost about £17 billion but it should keep the South East moving for another 50 years.

     

     

    I can hear the howls of Nimbies already

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    Bibliogryphon's on the first leg of a two leg trip from Birmingham to Addis Ababa.https://www.flightradar24.com/UAE38/b75e5afhttp://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=bhx-dxb-add

     

    What does he do with the air miles?

    I dunno.

    Love you as I do Cat, that is one shit answer!

    I know. I toyed with with the idea of saying that on a point of pedantry because he doesn't pay for the ticket his boss gets the miles but I didn't want to land BG in the shit. :D

    Because of the way we book flights we do not repeatedly use the same carrier. I did join the Lufthansa scheme on my last trip but they weren't offering a convenient flight this time.

  24. Posted

    Just to give some context, Weebl, Harry Houdini's oldest living assistant got an obit in 2011, when there were less qualifying obits. An 104 year old who worked with Logie Baird and was involved in the first colour TV experiments = Guardian, Telegraph and BBC references when he dies.

    Just to give some context, Weebl, Harry Houdini's oldest living assistant got an obit in 2011, when there were less qualifying obits. An 104 year old who worked with Logie Baird and was involved in the first colour TV experiments = Guardian, Telegraph and BBC references when he dies.

    Sounds like LAST WORD fodder to me.

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