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    In the ddp-site, why does it say that Princess Lilian was still active in the Swedish royal family, when she's struggled with Alzheimer's for a long time? Btw, she's my second hit for this year.

     

    She was still active whenever she was first picked on DDP

     

    Yes a few entries could do with updating as the Queen is described as not a popular pick but she must be heading for the drop forty in the next two years.

     

    There's well over 3000 names chosen, lots of whom are new this year. Perhaps someone will volunteer to go through them and identify which need updating, write the updates and edit the site. In the meantime, perhaps the rest of us should just shut up bitching.

     

    No bitching was intended. I realise the enormity of the task and we are all grateful to TMIB for all his hard work.

     

    The incongruity of the description with the then long list of picks rather made me smile.

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    In the ddp-site, why does it say that Princess Lilian was still active in the Swedish royal family, when she's struggled with Alzheimer's for a long time? Btw, she's my second hit for this year.

     

    She was still active whenever she was first picked on DDP

     

    Yes a few entries could do with updating as the Queen is described as not a popular pick but she must be heading for the drop forty in the next two years.

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    We don't seem to have mentioned this bloke anywhere but Richard von Weizsäcker, President when Kohl was Chancellor, is still alive at 92. He maybe one to keep an eye on.

    Indeed.In fact there are currently 57 former presidents and prime ministers over the age of 90 as you can see here http://en.wikipedia....g_state_leaders I've been keeping an eye on them all.Only one has died this year so far

     

    Very interesting list.

     

    I am a bit concerned that most of the names on the list that are familiar are only so because I have read them on this site.

     

    May be teachers of A level politics should get each of their students to compile a statesman Deathlist and offer a prize so it would encourage them to do Research.

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    There is a new tell-all book about Dr Who producer John Nathan-Turner.

     

    "A sex scandal splashed across the tabloids is the last thing Doctor Who needs in its 50th anniversary year, but that’s precisely what it’s liable to get once the seamier details of this book start spreading – especially in the wake of the Savile investigations."

     

    "It finally addresses head-on rumours that have circulated in fandom for many years, detailing how JN-T used his position of power to bed young fans. His long-term partner Gary Downie (also a production manager on Who) was the procurer, scouting the conventions for (to use his charming phrase) “doable barkers”."

     

    Matthew Waterhouse's Blue Box Boy seemed to make some allegations about senior DW directors. I haven't read this but picked this up from the coverage in the DW press.

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    I totally fucking hate her - however, a few years ago, it was my sister's 40th birthday, so I asked her if she could do anything for her 40th what would it be, and she said 'to go and see a West End show and stay in a hotel and all that' - so I booked us tickets to go and see Chicago and stay over in London. It wasn't until a short while before we went that I realised that Bonnie Langford was playing the role of Roxie Hart. That, coupled with the fact that I really am not a musicals person, made me think oh for fuck's sake why can't I just go to the pub while my sister watches the show - but actually I really enjoyed it and Bonnie Langford was really good. In that. Nothing else. I still hate the ginger bitch.

     

    A few years back SFX magazine listed the 100 worst things in Science Fiction and dear old Bonnie was appointed as the worst thing for her role as Mel in Doctor Who.

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    Another list that no-one asked for:

     

    Living Winners of the Carnegie Medal

     

    The Carnegie medal is awarded for outstanding Children's books whether fiction or non-fiction. It was won by C S Lewis's The Last Battle in 1956 and Neil Gaiman said winning the prize was very important to him. No-one has won the prize three times although seven authors have won it twice.

     

    I have listed the authors in order of thier first win.

     

    Pauline Clarke (b.1921) Won in 1962

    Sheena Porter (b.1935)

    Alan Garner (b.1934)

    Rosemary Harris (b.1923)

    K.M Peyton (b.1929)

    Richard Adams (b.1920)

    Penelope Lively (b.1933)

    Gene Kemp (b.1926)

    Peter Dickinson (b.1927)

    Kevin Crossley-Holland (b.1941)

    Berlie Doherty (b.1943)

    Susan Price (b.1955)

    Geraldine McCraughrean (b.1951)

    Anne Fine (b.1947)

    Gillian Cross (b.1945)

    Robert Swindells (b.1939)

    Theresa Breslin (??)

    Philip Pullman (b.1946)

    Melvin Burgess (b.1954)

    Tim Bowler (b.1953)

    David Almond (b.1951)

    Aidan Chambers (b.1934) Won in 1999

     

    I have only added those winner before 2000 but one post 2000 winner Siobhan Dowd was already dead when she won.

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    Sky News tweeting that Bruce Reynolds has died

     

     

    Bruce Reynolds, the mastermind behind the 1963 great train robbery, has died

    — Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak)

     

     

     

    The BBC has the story too.

     

    If all his criminal pals turn up the funeral I presume it will be a case of Corpse and Robbers.

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    Do you support a team ?

     

    Who do you support ?

     

    I am a passive Leicester City supporter.

     

    I know when they are playing and check the score but I have only once ever been to a game.

    I dont think there is much on Planet Earth that can make you feel so involved and alive watching a live match............... unless you watch Leicester City. :lol:

    I support Rangers :rolleyes:

    Nah, its Spurs, im addicted to supporting them and its an addiction im not ashamed of.

    I try to get to as many games as I can but its a 200 mile round trip, two tickets and a pile of money spent in the Spurs shop which adds up.

    Worth it tho.

     

    I am a theatre goer and am frequently shocked by how much it costs. We spent a small fortune going to see Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night last year but this pails into insignificance by the amount of money people spend week in week out going to Football matches.

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    So what's the actual current scores? Do I need to quickly go and leave a skateboard at the top of Rihanna's stairs?

     

    No need to go to such lengths just e-mail Chris Brown and intimate that she has told you that he is not very well provided for in the trouser department. You will be collecting points before you know it.

     

    This post is wrong in so many ways!!

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    Richard Briers is the 3rd guest actor from Doctor Who to die in as many week following Bernard Horsfall and Peter Gilmores passing. .He was of course the chief caretaker on Paradise Towers.I'll be honest it may not have been his best work ever but for us Dr Who fans he will always be fondly rememebred for it. He was also a good friend of Tom Baker who succeeded him on Monarch of the Glen. RIP Richard.

     

    6 days older than Baker don't you know. It's sad that Briers has passed away but the day Baker goes, you'd have to times that by 1,000,000...

     

    To suggest that Baker is more loved than Briers would be an intersting claim. I think the people who post here will make a lot more noise when Baker goes but overall more people watched The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles than Doctor Who.

    Everyone is mentioning the Good Life but the thing I know him from (besides Dr Who) is the Monarch of the Glen. Since that is a more recent show, I am surprised the media (at least over here) aren't mentioning that.

     

    And I knew about Briers from his voice work on the Watership Down movie, where I thought he did a great job of capturing Fiver's personality. Watership Down fits the broader category of speculative fiction rather than science fiction, of course, but it's interesting that even though it came out in 1978, more recent than a lot of movies and TV shows we discuss here, only four of the fifteen actors who voiced the major characters are still alive as far as I know: John Hurt (Hazel), Richard O'Callaghan (Dandelion), Hannah Gordon (Hyzenthlay), and Clifton Jones (Blackavar).

     

    Joss Ackland was the Black Rabbit.

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