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I'll open up this thread by saying that it's a very good pick - his health has been declining for some years & no longer will I be able to choose him as an unique pick, like I did in 2006. He surely can't keep going on much longer.

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I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

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I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

 

Ditto... :banghead:

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I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

 

Ditto... :banghead:

 

There seems to be quite a lot of us got him on their DDP list. (Myself included)

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dead according to BBC

 

 

I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

 

Ditto... :rolleyes:

 

There seems to be quite a lot of us got him on their DDP list. (Myself included)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7283708.stm

 

dead according to BBC

 

 

I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

 

Ditto... :rolleyes:

 

There seems to be quite a lot of us got him on their DDP list. (Myself included)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7283708.stm

 

dead according to BBC

 

 

I agree, he's on my DDP list. It can't be long now. I'm sure he's only hanging on in an effort to outlive Thatcher but it's looking unlikely.

 

Ditto... :rolleyes:

 

There seems to be quite a lot of us got him on their DDP list. (Myself included)

I'll raise a glass of Pimms to that news.

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He'll be buried under a landslide probably...

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Congrats for number 3!!! :rolleyes::P

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Looks like it could be a fair trickle of deaths this year to around a dozen or so, so this death is timely and expected...

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Francis Pym is the third success of 2008.

He is the 163rd hit since 1987.

The 2008 list is now in 17th place shared with 1989 and 1990 out of a possible 22 lists.

 

 

That's all for now...

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Congrats to DL for keeping up the at-least-one-hit-per-month trend and especially to OoO who is not only off the mark on the DDP, but also gets a CPDP hit when I update (hopefully tomorrow)!

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Congrats to DL for keeping up the at-least-one-hit-per-month trend and especially to OoO who is not only off the mark on the DDP, but also gets a CPDP hit when I update (hopefully tomorrow)!

 

Woohoo! Parteeee! :P

 

Umm.. bringing a little more respect to the news, I am hardly surprised, for, as I might have mentioned before, I worked for the NHS in Bedfordshire in 2003-2004. Pym was receiving regular medical treatment for dementia-type symptons then, so it was obvious he was only going one way, as it were.

There were only two famous people receiving major treatment in Beds at that time - one was Bob Monkhouse, who died whilst I was there (the two ARE un-related :rolleyes: ) & the 2nd was Pym.

 

Time to get a job with the NHS in London me thinks.... :ph34r:

 

 

P.S. Pym's cabinet colleague Lord Carrington lives near where I live now. The last I heard (January) he was still doing pretty okay for his age.

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We're doing considerably better this year than we were this time last year. Last year was fairly unexciting on the whole, apart from the summer which had a load of hits.

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If you said to me, it would be him,

I'd never have guessed old Francis Pym!

 

Poetry Man in the style of Ogden Nash - March 2008

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Glad that I put Pym on my list for this year.

Finally I'm giving my father-in-law a run for his money on this year's dead pool

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Deathlist: Bringing families together since 1987

Glad that I put Pym on my list for this year.

Finally I'm giving my father-in-law a run for his money on this year's dead pool

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The demented politico Pym

Toddled along to the gym

Thatcher said "you're not one of us"

and pushed him under a bus

The result was particur'ly grim

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Well it looks like he only just beat Thatcher as she's been rushed into hospital and seems all set to do a Suharto.

 

I'm surprised she isn't on this years list as she now seems a dead (pardon the pun) cert to be next to shrug off this mortal coil.

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I don't get it. ;)

 

I haven't put too much thought into it.

 

Why is his 'headline' It's Pyms o'clock?

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I don't get it. ;)

 

I haven't put too much thought into it.

 

Why is his 'headline' It's Pyms o'clock?

 

I'm glad someone else asked because I don't get it either.

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I don't get it. ;)

 

I haven't put too much thought into it.

 

Why is his 'headline' It's Pyms o'clock?

 

I'm glad someone else asked because I don't get it either.

 

The slogan for the drink Pimms was It's Pimms O'Clock

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I don't get it. ;)

 

I haven't put too much thought into it.

 

Why is his 'headline' It's Pyms o'clock?

 

I'm glad someone else asked because I don't get it either.

 

The slogan for the drink Pimms was It's Pimms O'Clock

 

For those (like me) who have never heard of the drink Pimms. It is a gin based drink popular in Southern England. Because of reduced demand other versions of Pimms were discontinued in the 1970s.

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I don't get it. ;)

 

I haven't put too much thought into it.

 

Why is his 'headline' It's Pyms o'clock?

 

I'm glad someone else asked because I don't get it either.

 

The slogan for the drink Pimms was It's Pimms O'Clock

 

I get it now. Thanks for explaining it. :)

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