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    What about Lady Gaga? Shes got stalkers who want to kill her right?

     

    I think Lady Gaga would not be a good pick better go for one of the more genuinly dangerous young singers Brittney, Miley or Rihanna.

     

    Lady Gaga's wackiness is carefully stage managed I think her head is screwed on right.

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    When I looked at the list at the beginning of the year I thought it looked good. George H W Bush was in hospital, Nelson Madela was in hospital and DoE had been in and out of hospital. I look at the list now and wonder how some of these people are still alive.

     

    Does this suggest a change of strategy for 2014 or put this down to bad luck and hope for a better harvest next year? There are still three months to go and if these winter months equal the first three months we could get another 4-5 hits.

     

    Lynne, Mandela, Adams, Reagan & Graham are my picks

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    If jack nicholson dies only person alive to have played the joker will be mark hamill , Seems weird for such a iconic character .

     

    Frank Welker (1980s cartoon series), Larry Stotch (1960s cartoon series) Greg Eagles (Batman of the Future), Kevin Michael Richardson (2000s Batman cartoon).

     

    Yes I do hate myself for looking that up.

     

    But you didn't include thier DOBs. ;)

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    In all seriousness there may be a strategy to keep Nelson alive because in some ways as long as he is alive the post apartheid consensus still exists, and South Africa, when compared to many of its neighbours is relatively stable. Jacob Zuma is going to want the country to be prepared to prevent a decline into civil war. Not immediately but over the years following his death.

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    I know I could look this up for myself but I know that there are a lot of statisticians out there........

     

    We've not had a hit on Deathlist since Anna Wing in early July - what are the Top 5 driest spells between one hit and another?

     

    OK so this is not exactly the question you asked but it is now 77 days since Anna died but this is nothing compated to at least two other droughts which I have identified

     

    28th Sept 2003 (Elia Kazan) - 20th March 2004 (Queen Juliana) - 174 Days

    9th July 2011 (Betty Ford) - 07th December 2011 (Harry Morgan) - 151 Days

     

    To be fair though I think there is a distinct lack of celebrity deaths I have only had three since Anna Wing on my works game (Whicker, Smith & Frost) which has over 400 names on it.

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    I know I could look this up for myself but I know that there are a lot of statisticians out there........

     

    We've not had a hit on Deathlist since Anna Wing in early July - what are the Top 5 driest spells between one hit and another?

     

    I was having similar thoughts myself.

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  9. Posted

    Just heard David Jacobs last show on radio 2. Reminds me of Patrick Moore in hi s final months.Could hardly make out what he was saying.Definately not long for this world judging by what I heard :(

    Oh dear :(:xbones:

     

    Coronation Street would be a good target for 2014 - Liz Dawn, Jean Alexander and Doreen Keogh are all possibles.

     

    Eileen Derbyshire must be getting on a bit too.

     

    And Barbara Knox

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    I'll give him two weeks tops from here...

     

    8th October.

     

    I hope you are right (give or take a day or two) because if by some miracle he makes it to the end of the year he will on every DDP (including theme teams) - "I never realised Nelson Mandela appeared in Last of the Summer Wine"

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    Dame Vera is the oldest living person in the top 20 UK albums, though this isn't quite the achievement the news programmes are suggesting. A major reason for this is the way album sales are dropping and one small section of the album buying public - pensioners - are bucking the trend by shelling out for hard copy whilst everyone else just steals stuff online. Dame Vera's sales wouldn't have registered for chart purposes ten years ago, now she makes the top 20. Jim Reeves had a top 10 album this year for much the same reasons.

    Out of curiosity, have any other "nostalgia" acts made the top 20 since Jim and Vera? I've not heard of any but surely album sales have continued to decline since 2009, leavingthe door open for a Doris Day or an Engelbert Humperdinck to have another crack at chart glory.

     

    David Bowie?

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  13. Posted

    Tomorrow is Day 250.

     

    We are now 5 deaths behind 2008 and bearly one death ahead of 2011. However this point in 2003 sparked a frenzy.

     

    "Watch out for that asteroid Mr O' Toole"

    It is eerily quiet at the moment and it has been for quite a while. The calm before the storm?

     

    We have less than 100 days till the end of the year.

     

    At this rate people might be hoping to be included on next year's list to take advantage of its magical protection.

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    This thread got me thinking and when my ipod spewed up Kate Bush's Army Dreamers I thought this song ticks all the boxes for morbidity and potential controvosy. In some ways it is more relevent now that when it was originally written.

     

    For those of you not familiar this is a song concerning the waste of young life fighting other peoples wars. Check it out.

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    I have decided to update the list of Booker prize winners to remove the deceased and bring it up to date. I am just about to embark on Wolf Hall.

     

    V S Naipaul (1932)

    John Berger (1926)

    Nadine Gordimer (1923)

    David Storey (1933)

    Salman Rushdie (1947)

    Thomas Keneally (1935)

    J M Coetzee (1940)

    Anita Brookner (1928)

    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)

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