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The Dead - 2007

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I'd like to know how much DDP near misses one can actually have in a bloody year.

I'm getting bored of this routine...

 

For me, 3. Denard, Lady Bird Johnson and King Zahir Shah were all in the top 20 at some point in December, when I dropped them for Hermon, Yitzhak Shamir & Billy Graham respectively.. all of whom are still alive.

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How do you solve that problem?

Werner von Trapp, a member of the family made famous by "The Sound of Music", has died at the age of 91.

 

I chose the wrong von Trapp child, I put Maria on my list :P

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is Gordon Browns political career dead?

well menzies campbells career is well and truly dead thats for sure..

 

anyway , actress Carol Bruce is dead too

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The Eurovision fans amongst us may remember Toše Proeski, who represented FYROM in 2004 with a little ditty called 'Life'. Sadly the tite of that has proved to be somewhat ironic as he's he's died in a car crash.

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VT, good to see you back in action.

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Ron Cunningham, who went by the stage name "The Great Omani", has died aged 92. He was:

 

"An escapologist and end-of the-pier artiste specialising in feats such as eating light bulbs and removing a straitjacket while hanging upside down with his trousers on fire."

 

According to his Telegraph obit, he didn't retire until he was 90.

 

He announced his retirement several times before finally bowing out in 2005 with a bravura performance at the Bedford Tavern in Brighton.

There, surrounded by a bevy of Brazilian beauties, he crushed broken bottles with his bare feet, set himself alight with lighter fuel, stabbed himself several times in the chest with a bendy knife, smashed a beer glass into his neck with a hammer and rounded things off by telling his infamous chicken joke. :lol:

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He announced his retirement several times before finally bowing out in 2005 with a bravura performance at the Bedford Tavern in Brighton.

There, surrounded by a bevy of Brazilian beauties, he crushed broken bottles with his bare feet, set himself alight with lighter fuel, stabbed himself several times in the chest with a bendy knife, smashed a beer glass into his neck with a hammer and rounded things off by telling his infamous chicken joke. :lol:

 

Sounds like quiz night in my local...apart from the Brazilian beauties, natch.

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Ron Cunningham, who went by the stage name "The Great Omani", has died aged 92.

 

He announced his retirement several times before finally bowing out in 2005 with a bravura performance at the Bedford Tavern in Brighton.

There, surrounded by a bevy of Brazilian beauties, he crushed broken bottles with his bare feet, set himself alight with lighter fuel, stabbed himself several times in the chest with a bendy knife, smashed a beer glass into his neck with a hammer and rounded things off by telling his infamous chicken joke. :lol:

 

And the chicken joke? Telegraph sleuths have hunted it down:

 

"A man goes into a butcher's shop and asks for a chicken.

 

"After the butcher sells it to him he realises it's got one leg longer than the other so he says to the butcher, "Oy, this chicken's got one leg longer than the other."

 

"So the butcher asks him: "What do you want to do, eat it or dance with it?""

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British actress Deborah Kerr has died at 86

 

 

 

 

 

(Dave, stop being a pratt, you only have to post once. [HCW])

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... Deborah Kerr, has also just died at 86

No!!!!! I always wanted to have a chat with her, having seen her in several movies, not least of which was the classic Black Narcissus, which is well worth a viewing. Gutted she's gone.

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Deborah Kerr

30th September 1921 - 18th October 2007

 

Last 2 posts merged [HCW]

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40 pigeons.

 

I mean, it's tragic and all.....unless you live in Cumbria and specialise in AI and animal breeding.

 

I'll away in get some chips and a few bread rolls in and we'll head down the pigeon loft.

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Only championed her on the DDP, where a snippet in a tabloid will do. Roll on tomorrow, but not for Dorothy Webb, obviously.

 

DDP rule:

 

"Obituary" simply means an article which mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.

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Reggae musician Lucky Dube has been shot dead.

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Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (and eccentric) has died today aged 81, a week shy of his 82nd birthday.

 

There goes one of my nominations.

 

EDIT:

Links on the death of Wolkers:

Dutch novelist, poet and sculptor Jan Wolkers dies at home on Texel island, aged 81

Dutch literary great Jan Wolkers dies at 81

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Co-founder of Twycross Zoo and trainer of the PG Tips chimps Molly Badham has died aged 93... :(

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Paul Raven, bass player for Killing Joke, has died of a heart attack aged 47 :( .

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Max McGee, former receiver for the Green Bay Packers has fallen off his roof and died.

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Max McGee, former receiver for the Green Bay Packers has fallen off his roof and died.

Not adjusting his receiver, was he?

 

Edit: No, having read the article, it seems he was blowing leaves off the roof. A bad day for irony.

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Edgar Allen Poe, obviously his death isn't news. But the fact it may well have been a brain tumour is a convincing addition to the wild speculation on how it happened.

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S.S. Bajwa, the deputy mayor of New Delhi, killed after falling from his balcony during an attack by marauding wild monkeys.

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