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Just think too: there is some totally obnoxious teenage girl out there right now, born circa 1999-2000, who is going to become famous as "the last surviving person born in the twentieth century" in 100 years' time. Think of that when you see the horrible spoilt brats on your train to work in the morning.

What a load of tosh, nothing wrong with me.

The old Italian Catholic lady dies the day before Easter. Book wins with Emma Morano, once the proper English obit shows up.

Ah, April. As the weather gets warmer, the DDP hits get fewer. But - not to fret - as the Windy City Deadpool is here to save us all from a summer of deadpooling boredom! Basics: Pick a team of 20 people. The higher their rank, the more points they get when they die and obit. Submit it to me via PM or on this thread, by the end of April. Scoring System: 1st pick: 500 points 2nd pick: 450 points 3rd pick: 400 points 4th pick: 350 points 5th pick: 300 points 6th pick: 275 points 7th pick: 250 points 8th pick: 225 points 9th pick: 200 points 10th pick: 180 points 11th pick: 160 points 12th pick: 140 points 13th pick: 120 points 14th pick: 100 points 15th pick: 85 points 16th pick: 70 points 17th pick: 55 points 18th pick: 50 points 19th pick: 45 points 20th pick: 40 points No bonus points! As you can see the margin slowly decreases from 50 to 25 to 20 to 15 to 5. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by whoever has the most unique hits. Acceptable Obits: Anything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool, plus The Independent. Plus the following national American news sources: - ABC News - NBC News - CBS News - Fox News Plus the following local American news sources: - New York Times - LA Times - Chicago Tribune Duration: The competition lasts from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. Get your team in before Big Ben welcomes the month of May.

Haven't had a drink since 1st of the month, I'm fucking parched! Currently got two books on the go - The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell and When You Dead You Dead by Guy Martin.

That's a shame. I was only reading about him last week, as he shows up in Jeremy Hutchinson's biography due to the Romans in Britain trial.

Okay, moving this conversation forward, to recap the stats, we now have only two people alive who were verified to be born in the 19th century (1900) and who were drawing breath at the same time as Queen Vic. These are: Violet Brown (10 March 1900) Nabi Tajima (4 August 1900) Of these, only Violet was one of Queen Vic's subjects, making her the last Victorian. As of today, she is exactly 100 days younger than Emma Morano was when the latter died, making her the 6th verified oldest person ever (Emma was the 5th). After these two clear out, we are on to the Edwardians!

Is that a psychic ability Lardy - or just what you've got to hand?

........a very small vole.

I always felt that there was something wrong with that quote, hints being that you misspellt Leia's name as Laia, and that – according to the quote – Debbie specified that her mental health problem would continue to be with her in "2017" (as if that year had been in any way special for her). OTOH, the fact that she had been likely to get a role in the new SW movie was not suspicious at all – she presumably already had a contract for it when she died.

You know I really hate it when the world's oldest person dies because I have to deal with dumb Facebook comments under the obituaries. There are two types: 1) People claiming the recently deceased person wasn't the oldest. Under Emma's obituary, people wrote stuff like "there's a guy in Africa who's 145" - sure there is, buddy. There was also a guy who made like five posts about his grandma in Guatemala who is apparently 123. Yeah, ok... 2) People who can't do basic fucking math. Obviously, the obituary stated that Emma was 117 years old, and that she was the last survivor of the 1800s. You have no idea how many people commented some dumb shit like "but 2017-117=1900 so how can she be the last survivor of the 1800s"? Because she was turning 118 this November...

To pick up on an older point, its a sobering thought to realise we're not that far off haing modern young celebrities where we can go and check what Deathlist forum posts were made on the day of their birth. (There''s footballers born 2000/2001 now, so, only a few years to go...)

The 02 on Cup Final day - which is a stresser to my Chelsea supporting mate but not so for anyone who follows Carlisle United

Article here on Bobby Doerr, the oldest living MLB player and Hall of Famer, who turned 99 a little over a week ago. Now spends 20 hours a day sleeping and has been receiving hospice care for over a year, so I'm guessing the Doerr closes before he sees his hundredth.

Furries would probably see the name "Anna Raccoon" and assume she's one of theirs.

Not sure if I'm posting in the wrong thread or not, but I'm suprised this hasn't been posted yet honestly. Emma Morano, last person left born in the 1800s and oldest living person at the time of her death (I think I worded that wrong) has died aged 117. She was born in 1899. Now the oldest living person is Jamaican Violet Brown aged 117 but born March 10th 1900. EDIT: just realised now that there's a world oldest thread. god I'm dumb... http://www.vcoazzurratv.it/notizie/prima-pagina/4683-morta-emma-morano-aveva-117-anni-e-137-giorni-4

Cheers, Book! It took 117 years to Emma Morano to die, less than one day to you to win this deadpool.

She's now gotten proper obits as mentioned in the world's oldest thread Well done to Book

I see the scary score PB and console myself that Strathspey were 0-2 down with five minutes to go against lowly Deverondale. Fort could yet cling on to a lofty second bottom despite a goal difference that'd shame any self-respecting club. Edit - let's make that a 0-3 defeat for Strathspey. GO FORT!

Good to see you about, OoO. Hope you're keeping well. Yeah, her being a schoolkid in 1951 blows the 1921 date out of the water! Nice to see Jane getting a number of posts on here when she died though, in comparison with the radio silence from the BBC on the matter.

Thomas Andrews sank down with the Titanic on this day 105 years ago, aged 39.

Jane Freeman a hit for Bibliogryphon. Normally I wouldn't do an update for a single, unique hit, but this very well may be the last hit. Just over 2 weeks to go. Book 1625 DeathImpends 1600 Wormfarmer 1370 Shaun of the Dead 1305 msc 1285 Captain Chorizo 1010 The Unknown Man 960 RadGuy 950 gcreptile 945 Jiromeon Kimura 895 ImNotHades 690 Davy Jones' Locker 655 Bibilogryphon 145 YoungWillz 30

It's a cup of Yorkshire Tea and a black pudding sandwich down Sid's Café for Bibliogryphon, who hits his Joker with Jane Freeman.

Just looked it up because I hadn't heard of it. According to Wikipedia: "There is an association between endometriosis and certain types of cancers, notably some types of ovarian cancer,[17][18] non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and brain cancer.[19] Endometriosis is unrelated to endometrial cancer"...

In no way do we pretend to be the best death list, the most successful death list or the definitive word in death lists. It's just our death list and this is how we do it. Success is measured against how we did it in previous years and for ease of comparison we try to do it the same way each year. i.e. we meet in the pub, argue a lot and then the Grim Reaper goes home and mis-types up the results I'm happy with that format anyway. Viva the Death List - long may it prosper.