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[Paul Bearer]

Thats life...... or in this case, not

[Paul Bearer]

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QUOTE (heaven can wait @ Dec 22 2004, 08:47 PM)
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I read in last weeks paper that he was already dead !!!!! does anyone know the truth?

Dead or Alive?





(offending article was in the daily mail page 49 14th December edition) On closer examination, it would appear that it was one of their readers mentioned the Late Cyril Fletcher of odd ode fame ...etc etc...

Daily mail reader..... enough said


That's Death!
They were merely a little ahead of schedule. I don't remember him from "That's Life", but he's gone today - a sad early miss for DL2005, I think.

http://news.bbc.co.u...dio/4141367.stm

[Rude Kid]

I had him in my DDP2005 team, as did Notapotato!

No-one's going to believe this isn't a fix though, as we haven't got round to posting the teams on the website yet...

[Tuber Mirum]

Doesn't say exactly when he died. I assume it was already 2005.

[IKYWN]

As Esther Rantzen use to say "And finally Cyril.."

I thought he'd gone years ago for some reason, but perhaps he'd just pulled a Gascoigne

[football_fan]

Cyril Fletcher will be sadly missed. I was fortunate to hear some of his old recordings from BBC1's, "That's Life" the other day. He was quite a character!

[football_fan]

Congratulations Rude Kid and Notapotato for the first points with Cyril Fletcher. I am also counting on a strong performance from deathlist.net for 2005. Come on Ronnie Biggs.

[Death Watch Beatle]

Refering back to the comment from Notapotato regarding when Cyril actually popped-off. If it did turn out to be a couple of days ago and the family didn't break the news immediately do the points get taken away and a substitute employed in the DDP team? If so, how do you judge who is to be used as a substitute - Notapotato and RK would now have had more time to think about a replacement and have more information to work with than any of the other players.

Just a thought.

Well actually I just wanted to stir it up a bit, but I think it is a valid point, sort of.

DWB

[Rude Kid]

Dunno. We make the rules up as we go along

But yep, I reckon deduction of points and the introduction of a sub would be in order.

[eejit]

The Times have the date of death as the 1st of Jan officially.

http://www.timesonli...1424003,00.html

[weatherman90]

Speaking of the Fletchers, his Wife, Betty Astell, is Still around. She is a year older than him making her 93 this year. She was in over 20 films in the 30s and 40s but I doubt she's famous enough. She could get an obit in BBC, being that she was born in England. See HERE for more.

[The Yeti]

The Guardian has the date as 2nd Jan.
Er ? When ?

The BBC, I think, also has the 2nd
Are you sure ?

The Scotsman
Have we settled on a date yet ?

[weatherman90]

IMDB isnt even showing that he's dead yet,

Im guessing he died on the brink of the two days, probably between 10pm and 2am. In that case, The date of his death would depend on his time zone...., he wasnt on the list, so it really doesnt matter.

[football_fan]

The date of Cyril Fletcher's death would matter for those who selected his name for the Derby Death Pool. But it is now a *dead* issue, as everyone agrees that he died in 2005.