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    this thread being specific to OLYMPIC medallists, finishing 5th doesn't qualify. Needs to be put elseswhere

    This thread "being specific to OLYMPIC medallists" in only true in the same way that the death anniversary thread is for anniversaries that are multiples of 5 years.

     

    Olympic Deaths/Dead Medallists

    He's a dead olympian and a dead Empire Games medallist; seems to me he fits on both counts. :huh:

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    Paris - Charles de Gaulle Airport.

     

    This is the most horrible airport I have ever been in. It is sprawling, confusing, poorly signed, the staff are rude and don't even care if you can't speak French.

     

    Its OK now because I have reached the BA Lounge.

    Whatever you do, don't have the fish; go for steak or lasagne. :lol:

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    out of interest how old are you?

    Approaching 49 but thanks to good genetics and a decent face cream I look about 34-36.

    I have a favourite mirror like that, too.

    I have a different problem with the mirror. It shows a rapidly greying slightly tubby 45 year old when I am certain that I am a healthy slim raven haired 26 year old.

     

    I was when my daughter was born.

    there's still a ton of things you can still do at 45 that you can do at 26

     

    And so much more that one can't

     

     

    Like what?

     

    Auto fellatio.

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    I am presuming that the Radio Times Genome uses some sort of scanning software because the whole thing is littered with spelling mistakes.I do like Katie McFath for Katie McGrath in Merlin.

    Either that or lousy typehand shortists. :D

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    Her last credited acting role appears to be (according to wiki) in the 10th Kingdom which was broadcast in 2000 but I would have thought that she would at least have been noted if she were to die.

    IMDb has her latest appearance to be in Casualty in 2009

     

    Casualty is always a difficult one to call because it could be anytime from early ninties onwards.

     

    The episode was The Devil You Know, it was first broadcast on Saturday 28th November 2009 as Radio Times Genome confirms (although they can't spell her name right).

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    Her last credited acting role appears to be (according to wiki) in the 10th Kingdom which was broadcast in 2000 but I would have thought that she would at least have been noted if she were to die.

    IMDb has her latest appearance to be in Casualty in 2009

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    Yet another leadership spill on tonight. Abbott could be gone in a frw hours, meaning 5 PMs in 5 years for us!

    to be fair 2 of those 5 is the same guy Kevin Rudd so it should really just be 4

     

    Grover Cleveland disagrees.

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    Starting a thread for the new honorary inheritor of the Clive Dunn chair.

    Ain't gonna happen, besides, I'm sure there is already a thread for her.

    Just found it and it was YOU that started it on 1st January 2014.

     

    Bless him; he's had a drink and been to bed since then. :lol:

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    Cory Ledbetter (age 42, full stop), New Mexico State Univ QB, led the nation in total offense one year. Played a little in the CFL. Then decided treating women like shit was a good idea. Meh, we all have our foibles :-| lol

     

    One more suicide for the books if anyone is keeping score at home. I love the idea of a suicide thread but apparently I'm in the minority. Coulda stuck this in Under 45 thread as well. Like many posts, they offer alternatives.

    SC

    http://krqe.com/2015/09/08/former-nmsu-star-quarterback-dies-at-42/

    Did it involve a chainsaw?

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    Dunn was legendary because he had appeared to be fucking old for decades.

    He was playing septuagenarians when he still had hairless bollocks.

    That was they key to his DL legendary status 'How does somebody who is so old live for soooooo long?'

    Twas all smoke and mirrors.

    That's the way it goes, unless we can find another BRITISH character actor who has appeared to have lived for centuries there cannot ever be another Dunn.

    Let it go!

    On that basis, Warren Mitchell would fit the bill, he's British and has looked ancient since the sixties. Yet somehow he doesn't seem worthy.

     

    It's a difficult one as I think DL benefited in a strange sort of way from worshipping at the totem-pole of the omnipresent deity that was Clive Dunn, but, as you say, he is just irreplaceable.

    I think a lot of Dunn's legendary status is down to the perception of time.

     

    Those of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties would have sat through episodes and episoses of Dad's Army understanding that the programme had been running forever (before one was born) and because it represented the war (which in 1975 was closer then than the Falklands war is now) pushed it further back in time in our minds. We would also recognise Dunn from kids TV and again assume the distance between the two was longer and then 20 years later when we start deadpooling and the guy is still alive it is a miracle.

     

    I agree Mitchell is a possibility but I think the closest is probably Peter Sallis who spent 40 years playing a retired man in LOTSW. As well as delighting everyone as the voice of Wallace.

    I just had a brainwave: what about Gudrun Ure?

    Brilliant! Having known her as Supergran when growing up I was surprised to find out when googling a few years ago that a) she was still alive and B) wasn't as old as most seemed to think.

     

    GUDRUN IS ALIVE?

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    No the House of Lords doesn't count. It is an endearing part of the British political system that we still elevate the barking mad to a position of supposed superiority.

     

    Don't forget there are a few Dagenhams in there too.

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