Celebrity deaths always come in threes

Emerson, Lake and Palmer...........Emerson shot himself 9 months ago.

Indeed, Tone. Carl, Carlton and Geoffrey have all been contacted and given a panic button.

Walter Swinburn and Ian McCaskill check out.

Jim Prior completes the hat trick.

Swinburn was a big shock, Tone. Good jockey who comfortably held down a top job when working alongside some absolute greats (thinking the Kentucky Kid in particular) but he always looked younger than I do. He was an athlete at the same time I'd nominally have been an athlete.

Zsa Zsa Gabor cops it trying to nick a quick single for the century, falls 50 days short.

"cops it trying to nick a quick single for the century"

Rick Parfitt and George Michael shuffle of the mortal coil........who brings up the hat trick I wonder?

You could have a few, Tone. Miruts Yifter went for the treble (the Ethiopians did always run as a tight three) and John Buckingham went a couple of days earlier. Buckingham of course the most famous traffic dodger in English racing history...

A very swift end of year hat trick.........Carrie Fisher, Liz Smith and Richard Adams.

I once wrote a play at school, Tone, and in I think seven lines (I never kept it, it was one of those two minute thin gags, taking the piss out of melodrama**, that only come back to you when your deep memory goes "remember...?") I killed 22 characters individually.

It feels like someone found it and published it on the news.






**Same writing that when somone needs killing off in Emmerdale, they get run over despite the road above the village only seeing about nine cars a day

January only 12 days in and Buddy Greco, Peter Sarstedt, Paul Went, François Van der Elst and Graham Taylor all caught by the grim reaper.

Brian Fletcher as well, Tone. 69, I'd have had him as older; seems he won his first National as a non-voting minor (at that time), aged 20, in '68.

Lord Snowden caught and bowled by the grim reaper......decent innings though.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Lord Snowden caught and bowled by the grim reaper......decent innings though.

Famous for having sex with just about anything, becoming Lord of a mountain because of his services to wedding cake and taking photos.

Rachael Heyhoe Flint has her bails whipped off while out of her crease.

Off go Gorden Kaye and Mary Tyler Moore.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Off go Gorden Kaye and Mary Tyler Moore.

John Hurt brings in the hat trick.

Nobby Cheese wrote:

Nobby Cheese wrote:Off go Gorden Kaye and Mary Tyler Moore.

John Hurt brings in the hat trick.

"I appear to have offended you gentlemen"

Classic Hurt in "The Naked Civil Servant" when being beaten up by a gang of queer-bashers. No-one else could deliver that line in such a fashion. Except Quentin Crisp, I suppose.

Alex Young and John Surtees.....two great performers I saw in the flesh.

What happened here then?  Has the 1000 year thing gone into effect already?
By the way Bert and Nobby, would you like me to post a pic of my tits?

Fucking hell, Jonesy, where have you been? Good to see you on, mind

3 things
(i) It became like the opening of the sale doors at Harrod's, we couldn't keep up
(ii) Who in their right mind offers to get their lils out on an obituary thread...
(iii) ...but oh fuck aye, go on, I might be aging but I do like a bit of theatre

I see what you did there seriously my daughter has been ill so been off the radar for a bit x

What is wrong with her?

Psychosis