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Too late. He pegged it a fortnight ago http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Cooley

I do agree that ALL deaths should be recorded in the yearly thread, as well as in the appropriate and specific thread. Ideally the person who is first to post a death should post it in both. Nobody should be derided for posting a death in the year thread simply because it has been posted in another thread.

Well, it would be. (Disclaimer: I haven't looked at it. I don't do clickbait.)

Its not as if there is even 100 posts a day on here, just read them all you lazy fuckers

Money raising programs for schools like the Campbell's Labels For Education program. While I think it's great that companies are willing to donate money for local schools when you purchase products all you have to do is send in a portion of the label to earn points for your school which they can redeem for supplies. I was just browsing the website for this and looking at their catalogue. So for a mere 550 points, you can get a new football for the school. You usually get 1 point on the back of each tin of soup. So you'd have to consume 550 tins of soup to raise enough to get 1 football. So after spending approximately $500 on soup you'll have enough for the school to earn 1 football wihch costs $10. The schools could just easily say "hey kids, we need new footballs. Can you ask your parents to send in $1" If 500 parents were to do that, they could buy 50 footballs.

It gets a bit annoying when the same death is posted in 4 or 5 different threads. Like some bit part actor that had a walk on part in Dr Who, then had a talking part on Blakes 7, and had a week or two in a soap. Fair point, but I still think that's no excuse for a death not to get a mention in "The Dead of [insert year]". As someone else put it, this thread should act as a one-stop shop, like a reference section, and be fully inclusive. That way there's no need to look at the other threads unless we wish to - no risk of missing a death. I don't mind the repetition myself. I see the more specialist threads as being a place for general discussions, which may range beyond the person who is dead or dying.

Bizarre interpreation of the record. We've got a long way to go before we beat any records.. This how I see it... The record depends on how you phrase it: Longest time without a hit within the year would go to 1991 and 1989 shared Longest time until the first hit would go to 1987 Either way we've a long wait to break either record and declare an absolute drought. Judging by the records below the end of march could be classed as a significant drought as it would beat all bar 2 active and 1 dead year in the Deathlist history. Anyway which way no need to head to panic stations for another month or so. ----First hit of the year----- 1991 - No hits whatsoever 1988 - No hits whatsoever - potentially no list. 1987 - 2nd Jun 1992 - 23rd March 2004 - 20th March 2007 - 7th March 2003 - 5th March 2002 - 23rd Feb 2001 - 20th Feb 1997 - 19th Feb ---- We've beaten these years for the drought length within that individual year---- Will be moved as applicable. 2014 - 12th Feb 1999 - 5th Feb 2005 - 4th Feb 2010 - 28th Jan 1989 - 23rd Jan 2000 - 22nd Jan 1995 - 22nd Jan 2013 - 21st Jan 2012 - 20th Jan 2009 - 14th Jan 2008 - 10th Jan 1990 - 8th Jan 1996 - 8th Jan 2006 - 6th Jan 1993 - 6th Jan 1994 - 5th Jan 2011 - 4th Jan 1998 - 2nd Jan

But you do get all the best jobs and better pay.... ...oh wait. At least you get into clubs for free on a Friday night whereas us blokes have to pay.

Yeah, we've got talent on the long list, have faith, or summat. I'd say 9-10 of them will go, eventually.

Sam Simon Martin Crowe and Leslie Phillips are the only dead certs for this year.There are many others who are incredibly decrepit though .This year feels like one of those penny slot machines that you think must drop something soon.

2nd June 1987 to 23rd January 1989 (if you accept the recent theory, put forward by one of the committee, that there wasn't actually an 1988 Deathlist) and 18th May 1990 to 23rd March 1992 are the longest periods without a hit. But Davey, I remind you - what year holds the Deathlist record? 2003. And there was no hits back then until March!

Long long way to go -none died in 1991

No it ain't. http://www.aeroinside.com/item/3388/etihad-a332-at-brisbane-on-nov-21st-2013-quotwe-lost-our-airspeedquot Quote: "Subsequent engineering inspection detected that the captain's pitot probe was obstructed, the probe was removed from the aircraft and sent for further analysis. The manufacturer found that the probe had been almost completely blocked by a wasp nest composed of sand and mud consistent with nests of mud-dauber wasps". Re number 7 - manholes; they can be quite scary.

If only Denis Howell was still alive!

How many of these celebs even have radars and why would they sit under them instead of on a nice chair?

Case in point..... While a good number of celeb deaths have occurred in the past 48 hours, NONE are posted HERE, in the forum called the Deaths Of 2015. Yet I have to read all this garbage banter for what...,, 8 or so posts over whether some Guest posted first? In the meantime no obits are posted here in the forum called DEATHS OF 2015. What is the function of this forum if ALL obits aren't posted here? This should be one stop shopping. You wanna get cute and put a Nobel prize winner in that Nobel prize too, great. Yet you deride a guest for posting here....cuz he thought he was first...cuz logic told him a forum called DEATHS OF 2015 may in fact be the place to post, oh I don't know, deaths for the year 2015? For the record Lesley Gore died but you'll have to search all over to find it. Try dead Pop Stars. She is a dead pop star but apparently not part of the Class of 2015 Dead people. Smfh. And if posting obits in the other forums was priority, then having SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES of forums is asking quite a bit for a Guest to consume at one sitting. How about archiving 90% of those and making the list of forums something useful? Why a thread for 'who will be the 4th hit of 2014?' Archive that shit. You've only yourselves to blame for duplicitous posts what with duplicitous forums, a plethora of needless forums to sift through , and a search box that leant work on many occasions (it sure as hell doesn't list results by 'most recent update' which would be the only way it was useful). SC (Reposting in rant section)

Harsh. Guests are people too. In fact, although some are clearly just stirring, others post some of the more original comments in this place. In my view If you turn up here and aren't simply a case for the 'ffs we heard it all before' thread, more is better. YMMV.

Chinese is indeed a smart choice, and an admirably difficult one. Learning a tonal language isn't easy when your first language doesn't know that. Learning some 2500 common characters to get basic literacy is quite a job. As the joke goes: learning Chinese is much easier when you know Chinese. A colleague of mine of Chinese ancestry (but Dutch upbringing) speaks Chinese. Last year he paid a visit to China and soon experienced that what he learned from his parents didn't work in Peking. He can't read Chinese, so he often used English. I suppose your nephew learns Mandarin. Apart from the UK (and perhaps Ireland), things have changed in Europe. Even in large nations with a tradition of language chauvinism, say France, Germany, Italy or Spain, the majority know one or more foreign languages at a useful level. In the 90s I went to France for business a few times, and without some French one was fucked there and then. In 2013 I was in Paris and Normandy for hols and was pleasantly surprised by the number of locals whose English was better than my French. The Americans I meet are not average yankee Joes and Janes, after all they moved here at some time. Their language skills vary. I met a 23-ish student (at some business school) from Lansing, Michigan, in the pub last year. She'd learned German in high school and had been learning Dutch by trial and error for a month. She asked me what I was reading (a novel by W.F. Hermans) and she read out loud a passage -in an unusual accent- and translated it almost perfectly. I was much impressed. Of course the same pub is full of Americans, Australians and New Zealanders who don't even try. regards, Hein Of course old Zealanders don't have to.

sorry guys - falling down on the job - 30 basic and 12 bonus points to Book for Richard von Weizsaker and 25 points to DDT for Kim Fowley (never heard of him!) still, and he is... 6th Leader Board - 2015 1st - 70 points - Estuarian Float 2nd - 50 points - time 3rd - 49 points - CaptainChorizo 4th - 42 points - Book 5th - 40 points - Maryport =6th - 25 points - Tick Tock =6th - 25 points - DDT 8th - 7.007 points - LFN, you asked for it... =9th - 0 points - Everyone else

If he emerges from his coffin at the wake that would be kinder surprise!

The rom-com surely could be a Shallow Hal stylee job in which some slacker hell-bent on a clean sweep in the Rotten Dead Pool nails an early lead with a lucky snagging of aged celebs and a few who die in random accidents, at which point the only living person on his team is a Z-list reality TV bimbo down on her luck so far that she thinks she's in when he takes her out for coffee. A series of hilarious slapstick gags ensue as well-meaning passers by (played in cameo roles by well known faces) intervene to save her as his carefully laid plans to kill her in an apparent accident are thwarted. In the inevitable clinches and outbursts of crying that follow the near-death scrapes our anti-hero gradually develops genuine affection for the lady and the whole thing ends in the kind of mush-fest that puts the rom into the com, a la the final half hour of Three and Out, right? Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the Shatner idea above but my idea could cast anyone within reason and be filmed in any country harbouring celebrities and obitable talent. I was going to go more Richard Curtis than Adam Sandler. A young former child star (not based on anyone at all) comes to the UK to appear in a woefully miscast costume drama in order to get her career 'back on track'. She ends up getting drunk and doing something really stupid (car-crash) and her despairing manager contrives for her to stay in the UK whilsy she recovers. She is so bored that she Googles her own name and discovers a dead pool site where she is a frequent topic of discussion. She is so outraged she actually registers and starts stalking one of the most vitriolic posters. By some coincidence she somehow ends up actually meeting him and he turns out to be a nice (ish) but nerdy guy. They stay in touch and then she recovers and goes back to Hollywood where she has been cast in a massive SF blockbuster. Nerd guy makes a bet with her. He gives her a list which he tells her to look at in the future but if he is right she has to get him on to the set of the SF movie (of which he is a massive fan). Fast forward a few months and she has returned to her bad habits when one night she and a group of industry friends are out on the town when one of the girls ends up dying (drink, drugs, chokes on own vomit) at which point she remembers Nerd Guy's list. Her friends name is on the list alongside her and four other people saying one of these people will die in the next 12 months. She contacts him again and she pays for him to visit her when she asks him to explain how he knew. He says he didn't but there are things to look for. She fulfills her side of the bargain and he then flies home. She then gets her act together and decides to tackle some serious roles which works out really well and she is nominated for an award. She decides that the sole reason she did this is thanks to Nerd Guy and she asks him to accompany her to the award ceremony. At the award ceremony (cameo heaven) she naturally wins but at the after party she sees NG talking to a veteren actor or actress (Betty White would be perfect) and he gives them a list. She challenges him to say what was on the list and he says the names of six people in this room who will die before 'Betty'. She asks if her name was on the list and he challenges her back asking If she has anything to live for....cue romantic ending. Your one would probably do better at the box office.... Yeah, but yours borders on a proper drama with some challenging roles, it'd be the (re)making of Ms Lohan.

There's going to be a cracking spread at his funeral! I do hope the Ambassedor goes...

There's going to be a cracking spread at his funeral!

Am I a bad person for finding this post amusing? Solely because it was liked by "youwanticewiththat?"

Thank you for dropping in Brian.