Predictor

We should ask Robin Scott.

Champion gurner Anne Woods, who won the World's Ugliest Woman competition twenty eight times has died, aged 67 . What's the deal with the ring-shaped thingy? Why would anyone with a sense of dignity enter these competitions in the first place? We don't have such in Sweden, we're much too beautful for that. ;)

It would be interesting to test this probability. So below is a list of 20 randomly selected 96-year old women without any regards to specific health problems that they might have. Let's see how many are still with us on March 30, 2016.

Lord F. Nelson, they didn't reply because they know gorillas can't drive.

Ah, now I remember. The movie was called La Sorcière (or Häxan) and the Russian-French actress is Marina Vlady. She is quite aged now (77) but appears to have maintainted her good health and looks so I guess we can remove her from "Slavic candidates" at least for now...

I remember watching this French-Swedish movie from the 1950s when I was younger. The person who played the main role of a Swedish girl was ethnically Russian, I believe. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name, just her face. She must be in her 70s-80s by now.

Here's a candidate that's certainly not dull: Sacheen Littlefeather is said to have breast cancer according to a 2013 interview. For those who are too young to remember, she became world-wide known in 1973 for entering the Academy Awards stage when Marlon Brando won for Best Actor. While up there, she said that Marlon refused the award because of the mistreatment of Native Americans by the motion picture industry. It remains one of the most shocking moments in Oscar history. Being born in November 1946, she'll be worth 8 points for most of 2016 but not all of it. http://modernnotion.com/marlon-brando-refused-1973-oscar/

Mr. DL: Hey! You see, I have this idea for a new reality show called "Die Zsa Zsa". It's gonna be a real success, I tell ya! Television producer: Oh, I don't know. The title sounds kind of suspicious... Mr. DL: Don't worry, it's the....uhmm...the German "die". I have no bad intentions whatsoever, I swear...heh...

I didn't know they all had sex-changes? I don't see anything wrong in referring to Thespians of either sex 'actors'. We don't make a distinction for doctors. (At least in English - Swedish maybe different!) With doctors, there's no need for a distinction because a doctor of either gender can do the same work just as well as the other. Whilst with acting, a male actor would have a hard time playing the role of a girl!

I didn't know they all had sex-changes?

Well they will probably all come soon in one big ugly clump. You wanna know what things feel really dire to me?: 1. Hearing an annoying lecture from a guest who says "we", when he's a guest. 2. How many boring New Zealanders (double negative?) there are on the list that we've never heard of. 3. How Simon's selection for the DL is "making" me read his Twitter feed constantly. If I wanted constant gross health updates from an ignorant old fart I'd take my ear-plugs out when my mum is in the room. you should have more respect for your mother ! Maybe you're right, Mr. Quest........... she's got a pretty scary glint in her eye when she's holding a big carving knife.But if your mother is crazy, mean or whatever, then why not stop seeing her altogether?

This is gonna sound really weird but I have this strong desire to visit the North Sentinel Island. I'd probably get if I tried to get close, but it'd be worth the risk! What I want to know is why they hate visitors. Are they hiding something supercool over there that they don't want anyone to find out about?

Recently said about Lassie Lou Ahern: Hospitalized at age 94 can't end all too well, can it?

Well, since his brother Jack is dead, I guess no one can assist him whenever he feels suicidal. Thus, he will survive 2015.

2/50 For fuck's sake, man. Whatever happened to "rest in peace"? Your "x/50" posts everytime you get a hit seem so heartless. Jourdan and Scott were major stars, WE ARE LOSING ALL OUR MAJOR STARS AND SOON THEY'LL ALL BE GONE.........and they won't return.

This is quite a comeback: 26 years after his first DL appearance! If he was in bad health back in 1989, then it's admirable that he's still alive today. I doubt the committee chose Mr. Cole on the basis of old age, since he was just 63 years old at the time. So what was the deal with Cole in 1989?

Same here, I pick up a few words here and there, but I think it's much harder to understand Danish when hearing it as opposed to reading it. I think of German when I hear it, it has the same type of vocal/intonation "style". Norwegian is much easier for me. You can think of the three languages as a spectrum where Swedish and Danish are at both ends with Norwegian being in the middle. So, a person from Norway has it easier to understand both other languages than we and the Danes do. If only we Brits were to put so much emphasis on foreign languages as your guys' countries do. I salute you gentlemen. Thanks, the main credit is due to the education system here. In 3rd grade, it's mandatory to learn English. In 6th grade, every student gets to pick one foreign language. Normally it's either French, Spanish or German, but in my case, I couldn't pick the one I wanted: Spanish. Why? Well, the teacher quit and they couldn't find a new one. In the end, I went with French in the hopes of being served French cuisine every now and then during class; You know, stuff like baguette and French fries.

Same here, I pick up a few words here and there, but I think it's much harder to understand Danish when hearing it as opposed to reading it. I think of German when I hear it, it has the same type of vocal/intonation "style". Norwegian is much easier for me. You can think of the three languages as a spectrum where Swedish and Danish are at both ends with Norwegian being in the middle. So, a person from Norway has it easier to understand both other languages than we and the Danes do. I agree that the difference in intonation is remarkable. My mother spoke a dialect (Twents) that's essentially Low Saxon strongly influenced by Dutch1. When she told a story in it, she sounded much like mrs Theilade, the difference being that I could understand her. Standard Dutch is accented more sharply, but in a more restricted tonal range. Danish sounds to me as if it doesn't use voiceless stops, sounds both German and Dutch are rather fond of, they use 't' a lot to conjugate verbs. Danish doesn't bother with that. I can read the Nordic languages, Icelandic excepted, with a dictionary at hand. My knowledge of Dutch, English and German and, to a moderate extent, Frisian is a great help. I do have some basic knowledge of Danish grammar and vocabulary, but only in writing. The spoken versions I understand poorly. I picked up one word from the interview, what sounded like German Mitarbeiter and may or may not have been Danish medarbejder, that sent me on a train of thought. German Mitarbeiter translates to English employee. Dutch has a word of similar meaning, medewerker. The most used Dutch word for worker is arbeider. Does this sound familiar in Swedish ears? 1Here's a sample of a conversation in Twents. The subject is eye-wateringly dull: toponymy. regards, Hein Yes, we say "medarbetare" here, which means "co-worker", someone you work with (med = with). Now that you bring up regional dialects, it's possible that I'd understand Danish more if I lived down South and spoke Skånska. As a root admin, I think you have already a good estimate of my whereabouts. I listened to the audio file and I can definitely see its closeness to German. Lol, yes, toponomy can be boring...at least until you become famous and start demanding to have a street named after you.

Same here, I pick up a few words here and there, but I think it's much harder to understand Danish when hearing it as opposed to reading it. I think of German when I hear it, it has the same type of vocal/intonation "style". Norwegian is much easier for me. You can think of the three languages as a spectrum where Swedish and Danish are at both ends with Norwegian being in the middle. So, a person from Norway has it easier to understand both other languages than we and the Danes do.

Is the blurry picture of Mary Carlisle really the best you guys could find? There are much better ones out there... EDIT: Also, according to Wikipedia and IMDb, she was born in 1914, not 1912. Also, I've never heard her sing. Where'd you get that from?? Plus, her filmography shows that she wasn't a child actress except for like ONE role. Geez...

Sorry for the late reply. I don't know the current health of Lisbet Palme. But I reckon she was devastated back in 1986, for what it's worth...

Hmm...Considering that he died on January 26, I'd say that his current health status was probably not that great at the time...Oh well, I'll substitute with another 1915:er who was born just 4 days after Ebbe. The Indonesian-born Danish-French ballet dancer Nini Theilade is still alive at age 99. What does she have to do with Sweden? Well, in 1934, she appeared in a Swedish film called Sången till henne. She only played a dancer, though, and already next year, she would travel to Hollywood and be in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Along with Olivia, she's the only surviving person from that film. Unless the weirdo Kenneth Anger's claim is accurate. Video from 2011:

After finding out about Anita Ekberg's death just a few minutes ago, I thought of another Swedish-American actress; Ann-Margret. No, not suggesting that she should be considered but instead her husband Roger Smith. He was famous for his role in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Junior. In the 1960s, he was forced to quit acting due to things like "blood clot in the brain" and "myasthenia gravis." Now, obviously it wasn't life-threathenig since he has managed to stay alive at age 82...but this is not the kind of guy who'll turn 90 either. He is "wheelchaired" nowadays and has Parkinson's disease. I see that no one has picked him for this year's DDP; perhaps a contender for 2016 instead? http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ann-margret-dishes-on-sexy-legacy/ By the way, impressive to see a Hollywood marriage that's lasted for 47 years!

Even his name sounds like a crime. Lol, no it doesn't. Stig is the Swedish word for trail/path. Berg means mountain. Dunno the meaning of the -ling ending, but this is just an ordinary name here. Nothing weird about it, Toast. Yes but it sounds like burgling, a crime HERE!!!!! As for the lost opportunity of calling him Terd, perhaps we wont go there, eh? Mwahahaha! Except that the letter "g" here is pronounced like a soft "j". Terd? Well, we do have a closely related nordic name in Tord: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tord