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12 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Tony Green QO: https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/04/bullseye-star-tony-green-dies-aged-85-20397447/

 

Awaiting Eleanor Collins and Joe Shannon.

 

Edit: And Maurice Bembridge.

 

Eleanor Collins QO https://uk.news.yahoo.com/canadian-jazz-legend-eleanor-collins-023956517.html

 

Maurice Bembridge may not get something until Sports Personality of the Year, quite golf-centric only obits thus far.

 

Nothing for Juli Lynn Charlot either yet as far as I can see.

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I was looking through the DDP for biographies that got truncated when there was a 255 character limit imposed. I was delighted to find this - 

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The Man In Black fondly recalls his adventures in a children's education programme back in the midsts of time. The programme ended on a cliff-hanger when Aitken caught his bike on a train rail just as 

 

(The Aitken referred to is Tony Aitken, British actor).

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1 hour ago, time said:

The Man In Black fondly recalls his adventures in a children's education programme back in the midsts of time. The programme ended on a cliff-hanger when Aitken caught his bike on a train rail just as 

 

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1 hour ago, time said:

I was looking through the DDP for biographies that got truncated when there was a 255 character limit imposed. I was delighted to find this - 

 

(The Aitken referred to is Tony Aitken, British actor).


Tony Aitken is the old dude in the latest Tesco advert, isn't he?

Who's the old woman? (who is now my avatar due to lack of imagination on my part)
 

 

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I was expecting the cashier to launch into a Caroline Aherne routine.

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On 15/01/2023 at 18:20, Ulitzer95 said:


Just for the sake of curiosity, using that archived link here are all the surviving picks from the 1998 DDP:

Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925)
David Attenborough (b. 1926)
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931)
Ray Reardon (b. 1932)
Akihito (b. 1933)
Dickie Bird (b. 1933)
Michael Caine (b. 1933)
Chris Bonington (b. 1934)
Tom Baker (b. 1934)
Barry Humphries (b. 1934)
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935)
Ernest Saunders (b. 1935)
Jacob Rothschild (b. 1936)
Richard Wilson (b. 1936)
Frank Ifield (b. 1937)
Jack Nicholson (b. 1937)
David Bailey (b. 1938)
Arthur Scargill (b. 1938)
Bob Dylan (b. 1941)
Paul Simon (b. 1941)
Willie Carson (b. 1942)
Barry Manilow (b. 1943)
Keith Richards (b. 1943)
Geraldo Rivera (b. 1943)
Gary Glitter (b. 1944)
Jimmy Page (b. 1944)
Anne Robinson (b. 1944)
Kate Adie (b. 1945)
José Carreras (b. 1946)
Iggy Pop (b. 1947)
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947)
Gerry Adams (b. 1948)
Christopher Biggins (b. 1948)
Matthew Corbett (b. 1948)
Richard Simmons (b. 1948)
Steve Tyler (b. 1948)
Martin Amis (b. 1949)
Geoff Capes (b. 1949)
Benjamin Netanyahu (b. 1949)
Richard Branson (b. 1950)
Russell Grant (b. 1951)
Michael Barrymore (b. 1952)
John Goodman (b. 1952)
Mr. T (b. 1952)
Janette Pink (b. 1952) <--- though granted, if she died, we may never know
Kathy Lee Gifford (b. 1953)
Gerry Kelly (b. 1953)
John Travolta (b. 1954)
Bill Gates (b. 1955)
Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955)
Terry Nichols (b. 1955)
Jo Brand (b. 1957)
Julian Clary (b. 1959)
Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1959)
Prince Andrew (b. 1960)
Holly Johnson (b. 1960)
Greg Louganis (b. 1960)
RuPaul (b. 1960)
Harry Enfield (b. 1961)
Jimmy Somerville (b. 1961)
Karen Duffy (b. 1962)
Eddie Izzard (b. 1962)
Demi Moore (b. 1962)
Carlos Sainz Sr. (b. 1962)
Wesley Snipes (b. 1962)
Tatum O'Neal (b. 1963)
Nicolas Cage (b. 1964)
Courtney Love (b. 1964)
9th Earl Spencer (b. 1964)
Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965)
Trent Reznor (b. 1965)
Slash (b. 1965)
Mike Tyson (b. 1966)
Noel Gallagher (b. 1967)
Paul Gascoigne (b. 1967)
Julia Roberts (b. 1967)
Paul Tracy (b. 1968)
Puff Daddy (b. 1969)
Michael Schumacher (b. 1969)
Beck (b. 1970)
Snoop Dogg (b. 1971)
Liam Gallagher (b. 1972)
Tori Spelling (b. 1973)
Naseem Hamed (b. 1974)
Alanis Morissette (b. 1974)
Kate Moss (b. 1974)
Robbie Williams (b. 1974)
Drew Barrymore (b. 1975)
Ralf Schumacher (b. 1975)
Fiona Apple (b. 1977)
Melissa Drexler (b. 1978)

There's one name on there that I couldn't check. Who da fuck is "Kevin Chin"? (discussed last year)

Thought I'd pop this forward. A few fallers.

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14 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Malachy McCourt QO, not that there was too much doubt about it.

 

Obit

That link leads me nowhere.

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15 minutes ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

 

Yep, not sure why the link didn't work, sorry about that.

If I had to guess, I'd say copying from the title bar has only caught the second half of the link - easy to do if you click more than once to copy. That's why I always copy out the whole link, if there's something wrong with it, it's obvious. 

 

We've all been there, I'm sure.

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On 11/03/2024 at 18:46, YoungWillz said:

I'm just going to assume this was the link OoO was trying to post: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/malachy-mccourt-irish-american-actor-171500162.html

ICYMI Malachy McCourt QO above.

 

Philippe de Gaulle QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/general-charles-gaulles-son-philippe-100540830.html

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2 hours ago, time said:

How come McCourt is filed under 'M', but de Gaulle is filed under 'G'??:scratchhead:

 

(General question, not for YW specifically).


The question easier to explain is why is de Gaulle under G and de Niro under D.

 

It depends whether the person setting up the name in the database chooses the surname as De Gaulle or Gaulle and De would effectively become a middle name. There is so little consistency over the site already on this that there is little point setting up a rule at this point.

 

So answer to your question is that Gaulle has been selected as surname and McCourt has been selected as surname.

 

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20 hours ago, time said:

How come McCourt is filed under 'M', but de Gaulle is filed under 'G'??:scratchhead:

 

(General question, not for YW specifically).

Even under Wikipedia he's listed under G

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12 minutes ago, Phantom said:

Even under Wikipedia he's listed under G

 

Strange, as Charles is definitely a "de Gaulle"!

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In this article, the surname is De Gaulle, not Gaulle.

 

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On 06/03/2024 at 17:00, Ulitzer95 said:


Who's the old woman? (who is now my avatar due to lack of imagination on my part)
 

 

I would have loved to have seen 'Tesco Lifer ' Pat Bevan on the till.

 

 

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