En Passant

March Carl Reiner Jimmy Carter Valerie Harper* Doris Day* Jose Jose Jill Gascoine Pierre Cardin Al Jaffee* Phil The Dodgy Chauffeur* Katherine Johnson *January.

People are gluing themselves to the intercontinental in London where there's an Oil Execs Meeting (rightly in my view, something needs to be done). OTOH, some folks don't think jetting all over the world is screwing it up fast enough, lets go to space (and it's not actually, it is, as is so rightly pointed out, just an extremely high flight). I don't mind so much that some people have too much money (well, arguably I do, but that's a whole other discussion) I do resent that they think they can just fuck the planet for their own specious desires to the detriment of their own, and everyone elses children.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Why did you have to change your name? Thought double-barrelled wasn't quite down with your message? Jailed for mortgage fraud yet still lives in a house worth near a million which I doubt many of us do and not at his age. Wanker through and through who knows how to stir up a populist argument to serve his own ends. This.

I want to punch his obnoxious supercilious god-fearing face with a passion and I'm not even sure I can picture it.

Yes, clearly completely lost it at that point. Right then a left sweep looking at least partially controlled, followed by something like a wingover straight into the deck? Increasing loss of control becoming total at that point? Fire maybe? You'd need to be a better analyst than me really. Horrible for them

Something utterly catastrophic then, that's 300 odd mph vertically.

I must've missed the detailed report, what i read wasn't quite that specific.

Just so my horological friend.

Which of course is the problem with any such list. They are almost always subjective. One might argue that some set of metrics against which to measure would increase the objectivity. Of course then all you'd end up doing is arguing about the things you are measuring. As an example it is probable that most people in the UK would know who June Brown is whether or not they watch Eastenders but unless the show has been syndicated to the US, on Broadcast tv not some niche soap cable channel (and I'm assuming not), there's no particular reason an average american will have ever heard of her. The same is true of Barbara Walters in reverse. No major presence on UK tv, as far as I know and thus is far less known here. The problem is, what are you measuring here? Because if its purely the number of people who know who someone is, Walters beats Brown by 5 to 1 or so on population alone. Yet this is a UK site and a UK deathlist so Walters simply isn't as famous here. Arguably in fact there are far more Americans on the list than statistically there should be. Partly due to American domination of Film Production and the rest of the world considering American politics to be newsworthy. There are similar generational issues, I recall several posts claiming Avicci (sp?) as being a momentous death that wasn't sufficiently weighted here. Yet many of a certain age had never even heard of him.

I know, it's been done to death, but I'd sooner watch this on an endless loop with my eyelids glued open than endure little and large for 30 seconds.

heh, no, have to put it down to similar thought patterns or the "great minds..." cliche. Give up your secrets to / the girl next door. Since it lasted more than a minute for once. 7,2,2 the first part (track). 5,7 the second part (artist).

Spin Doctors - Two Princes?

Phil the Greek breaks innocent motorists arm driving without due care and attention at the least. Subsequently 2 days later gets into a replacement 80 grand motor and drives without a seatbelt. Action? None. Meanwhile, a homeless man is prosecuted for not filing his tax return on time. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/14/homeless-man-fined-by-hmrc-for-missing-tax-return-krzysztof-pokorowski You really couldn't make it up.

Are you looking over my shoulder? Every one I put you got in seconds....3 for 3 well done. Clearly I shall have to start thinking like Toastie to make them harder.

Eccentric bankers topics are not what they seem.

It isn't...Party Fears Two..... ETA Deathers should get the credit though, he did the harder part.

Oh it was and indeed still is, regardless. Can't do anything about blind (or in this case half blind) luck though.

Water for Elephants then.

Oh it didn't get lost by me, just that I don't really have much of a clue. Watership Down? Though aside from being about animals and having water in the title....

Well me too. I mean clearly I've never seen planet of the apes for a start....

Don't be so hard on yourself you nailed rain - status quo almost instantly in the music one. ETA Nailing rain is quite a feat in itself..... I need coffee I think.

Ah, might have helped had I ever seen it all the way through, rather than in the background some place years ago. My error. It's stretching my brain to think of questions that can't be googled, now you want accuracy as well? Ptui.

Now I begin to see the difficulty of crossword compilation, I don't know how anyone can consider all the possibilities that might also be quite close. I might have guessed this too, had I ever watched it. The trouble I have with quotes and other straightforward relevant information is that so much of it is just cut and paste to google and the chances are your answer is in the first half dozen hits. Or if not you can follow a trail. Thus my amateur attempts at cryptic clues both here and in the music equivalent. In any event, this time toast got what I had initially intended, so I suppose I can't have missed entirely.

Indeed Toastie.

No, but a fine guess. The mimicry doesn't involve deception in that way, it's more a synonym in the standard cryptic fashion.