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#1 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:38 am


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#2 Post by Capetonian » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:47 am

Mostly show business and sports people whom I'd never heard of. An interesting and long list.

It was good to see Robbing Mugabe there, hardly an honourable mention, as he is dispatched to the sewers of history.

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#3 Post by Boac » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:53 am

Hmm. Like Cape, not 'Notable' to me - I probably recognised less than 10% of that lot.

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#4 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Dec 29, 2019 10:56 am

Can we have a Brit list please?

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#5 Post by llondel » Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:33 am

I counted 29 I recognised by name. Others I was aware of once I read the accompanying text.

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#6 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:34 am

Llondel, was it edifying?

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#7 Post by llondel » Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:20 pm

I thought a few were worthy of mention but not many. They omitted my aunt, who passed away a few months ago so clearly not an inclusive list.

I think on balance it was more ossifying than edifying.

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#8 Post by Slasher » Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:42 pm

First for 2020?

Neil Innes.



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#9 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:29 pm

Slasher wrote:
Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:42 pm
First for 2020?

Neil Innes.
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#10 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:36 pm

Slasher wrote:
Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:42 pm
First for 2020?

Neil Innes.
Innes died of a heart attack on 29 December 2019.

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#11 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:38 pm

Need a new thread then we can have a running total. Of the two mentioned, never heard of either.

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#12 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:54 pm

Prospective candidates 2020:

Olivia de Havilland - 103
Kirk Douglas - 103
Vera Lynn - 102
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#13 Post by llondel » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:11 am

I'd put Prince Philip on the list too, he's not quite ready but it wouldn't surprise me to wake up one morning and hear on the news that he'd passed away.

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#14 Post by Slasher » Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:23 am

G-CPTN wrote:
Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:36 pm
Slasher wrote:
Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:42 pm
First for 2020?

Neil Innes.
Innes died of a heart attack on 29 December 2019.
Ok. Thought it was on the 1st. That’d make him the last to die in 2019 then.

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#15 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:54 am

I hadn't realised that Peter Sissons had shuffled off this mortal coil in 2019. Only 77! He always struck me as a good chap.

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#16 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:22 pm

I used to listen to a local (well, regional) radio programme which had a feature called Brown Bread.
The presenter would announce the name of a well-known person and then listeners would call in and guess whether that person was still alive or not.
This was in the days before mobile phones were so widespread, so listeners had little chance to google it.

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#17 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:40 pm

Well, until I saw 🙁 Dame Edna on the box I would have plumbed for dead. Having watch a few minutes I am not sure.

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#18 Post by tango15 » Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:52 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:54 am
I hadn't realised that Peter Sissons had shuffled off this mortal coil in 2019. Only 77! He always struck me as a good chap.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... s-obituary
I was at school with Peter Sissons and a good friend of mine - who also went to the same school - was a good friend of his brother who later became a doctor. You could tell even at school what direction his career would take. He was a good orator and was often asked to read out passages from the bible in the days when the bible formed part of everyday school life. I didn't know him well, but he seemed a decent enough chap at school. It still amazes me just how many famous (and one or two infamous) people my old school turned out.

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#19 Post by Ibbie » Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:06 pm

Somewhere I have a CD called Gravelands with tracks by artists who are no longer with us.

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