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  1. Posted

    I am not going to rage but rather make maybe the obvious comment that your methodology seems a little flawed. 36 out of your 50 in the 2012 death list are 85 or over. Now while James May described 85 as the age the human body falls off its perch it has to be said a success rate of just 4 out of 36 ain't that great ( and yes I realise it is possible things may turn round in the remaining 5 months of the year). By contrast people in the 60 - 70 bracket have been dropping like flies. The first three successes on the list were all younger and very recently we have had the sad deaths of Mary Tamm, Angharad Rees Sally Ride, David Barby, Jon Lord, Geoffrey Hughes and Simon Ward all household names or faces. I suspect that if you manage to survive to a great age there's a fair chance your strong constitution will see you through another year. The problem is celebs especially actors people can be secretive about their health and their deaths are consequently a shock. Mary and Angharad for example had been ill for some time but few people were aware. Jon Lord though had announced his pancreatic cancer a year ago so could usefully have been flagged up on the site.

     

    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.

  3. Posted

    I will freely admit that I have no idea who Bernard Goetz is.

     

    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.

  5. Posted

     

    Of the Burton and Schumacher Batman films, the only person of note to have passed away so far is Michael Gough. I guess either Jack Nicholson or Arnold Schwarzenegger will be next, with Danny DeVito in the running as an outside chance.

     

    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

  7. Posted

    I got tickets for the football at Wembley South Korea vs Gabon,fucking brilliant,I'd rather have my arse rubbed with a brick

     

    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

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  8. Posted

    With the death of Sally Ride, only eight people mentioned in the lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire" are still alive: Queen Elizabeth II, Brigitte Bardot, Fidel Castro, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, John Glenn, Doris Day and Bernie Goetz.

     

    I'd guess that at least five of those are gonna outlive Billy Joel.

     

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

  11. Posted

    What a load of religious fucking BULLSHIT!!!!!!!

     

    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

  12. Posted

    A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

     

    Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

     

     

    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!!

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    . But all that money and his 4 kids could make him reconsider.

     

    Like it kept Paula Yates going!!!

     

    Well she died of a heroin overdose , though taking heroin is a kind of suicide in many ways.

     

    And your point is?

     

    she didn't commit suicide .

     

    No she didn't.

    However, the care of her four daughters did not prevent her from continuing with her precarious lifestyle which eventually claimed her life.

  16. Posted

    For your consideration veteren theatre actor Richard Pasco, CBE (b.1926) who is married to Barbara Leigh-Hunt (b.1935). Barbara is best known for her performance as Lady Catherine de Burgh in the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice which was made in 1995 and I was surprised to find she was still alive.

     

    I was watching said adaptation last night at the behest of my wife and daughter and I wondered about some of the older members of the cast particularly Benjamin Whitrow (Mr Bennett) b.1937 and Christopher Benjamin (Sir William Lucas) b.1934 both still with us and both look like they have enjoyed fine food and wine.

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  19. Posted

    A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

     

    Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

     

     

    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 Nicols Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

     

    Alternatively you could put Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles on your team of Children's authors

     

    Neither is particularly old, or in poor health as far as I'm aware

     

    Oh you are playing to win. I was just trying to be controversial. Think of all those diseases that you might contract from sucking dirty toes! :D

  20. Posted

    2 old soap actresses worth keeping an eye on;

     

    Elizabeth Kelly (Nellie Ellis, EastEnders) b. 1921

    Sheila Mercier (Annie Sugden, Emmerdale) b. 1919

     

    Sheila Mercier is the older sister of actor and charity campaigner Brian Rix (b.1924) who is married to Elspet Gray (b.1929) who played Blackadder's Mum.

     

    Hmmm interesting, have there ever been siblings or married couples appeared together on the DL? Know we've had father and son in the past.

     

    Staying with soap actors, a slightly tenuous link perhaps but Ron Moody (b. 1924) did a guest spot on EE not too long ago...

     

    "But he thought he better think it out again"

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  21. Posted

    A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

     

    Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

     

     

    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 Nicols Meg & Mog books & Alan Ahlberg b.1938

     

    Alternatively you could put Sarah Ferguson and Prince Charles on your team of Children's authors

  23. Posted

    2 old soap actresses worth keeping an eye on;

     

    Elizabeth Kelly (Nellie Ellis, EastEnders) b. 1921

    Sheila Mercier (Annie Sugden, Emmerdale) b. 1919

     

    Sheila Mercier is the older sister of actor and charity campaigner Brian Rix (b.1924) who is married to Elspet Gray (b.1929) who played Blackadder's Mum.

  24. Posted

    A brief reading of Sendak's various obituaries revealed that Else Holmelund Minarik, the Danish-born author of the Little Bear series, which Sendak illustrated, is still around at the age of 91.

     

    Can't find any health on her, but she's been retired since 1989 and might be a good idea for the DeathList next year.

     

     

    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

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