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Death Race Form Guide #12 Whether you like him or not, there's no denying that Robin Williams is an absolute legend who is known for a lot of things. Some people know him for hits such as "Wichita Lineman" or "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas", while others may recognize him as a guitarist for rock legends AC/DC. Outside of music, he has also had his fair share of acting roles, with some of his legendary performances including his role as Paul Kersey in Death Wish, Scotty in Star Trek, Penguin in the Batman TV shows, and astronaut George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, as well as being the voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo. Perhaps most notably he refused to give up his seat to another white person, and it's because of this he became the 40th President of the United States 25 years later. In short, he may have had more achievements in life then any other person, well, apart from Javier Perez de Cuellar...

Botha died of a heart attack. Unnatural for a man without a heart to die of one...

Sick, us?! No way - there are proper rules and everything, look: Deathrace 2018 - Those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the Deathrace is to be the first contestant to reach 2018 points. 2 - To enter the Deathrace a contestant must have: i: a team of twenty topplers ("topplers" must be at least 18 years old on 1 Jan 2018; but are otherwise unrestricted). ii: Deathlist membership (i.e. be at least a pointless ranter and at most a dedicated Cumbrian corpse hound, or summat) 3 - Entries close promptly at midnight on 30 December and entry can be made either by sending a team of twenty to MPFC via PM hereabouts and/or by posting a team of twenty on the Deathrace 2018 thread. Once entered a team cannot be altered. MPFC makes sterling efforts to get a response from those careless types who omit a joker from their teams but if such efforts come to nothing the pick in first place on the list is - by default - deemed to be the joker. 4 - Players score points every time a team member dies and accrues an obit (see point 9 below) and the score for each death is calculated as one point for each complete calendar day remaining in 2018 after the death of the team member; so a death on 1 January earns 365 pts, a death on 2 January earns 364 pts etc. 5 - Each team must nominate one member as a joker and the joker scores double points on death. 6 - The winner is the first player to reach or exceed 2018 pts. 7 - In the event that a death or deaths on a specific day push more than one player beyond a winning score the player with the highest overall score will be deemed to be the winner. 8 - In the event that two or more players tie for victory a Deathrace play off will ensue with all potential winners continuing to compete until such time as one potential winner scores more points than any other potential winner (such points continuing to be accrued as per the scoring system described in point 4 above). 9 - An "obit" in the context of the Deathrace is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes MPFC's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 - To qualify for entry purposes team members must be alive at 00-01 hrs on 1 January 2018 or qualify for the Raymond Hewlitt Memorial Exemption (RHME) (see point 11). 11 - In honour of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive on 1 January and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded 366 points in the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the Deathrace all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifyiing RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME points and these points are still in play at the time a winner is declared the points will not subsequently be voided and may - therefore - count towards a championship. All disputes relating to RHME will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace thread by venting their fury). 11a - Similarly to pt 11 above, if an obited death occurs during play of the Deathrace and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of Deathrace participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11a will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of teams, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the Deathrace and banned for life from subsequent entry into Deathraces. 13 - The prize will be awarded as follows: i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcholic drinks (pints, wine or spirits) will be supplied by MPFC along with much hearty congratulations and back-slapping. ii: A carefully chosen and appropriate prize will be posted to the winner (such as the DVD copy of the original Deathrace movie supplied to the 2009 champion). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with four of the five existing winnings of the Deathrace). This course of action is highly encouraged and is known to show dead poolers as something other than the sicko scum many ranters believe us to be. AND FINALLY... A masterlist of entries will be posted after the closing date. MPFC will undertake to update the scoreboard at least once every seven days. On completion of Deathrace activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectactors offer well-deserved congratulations to the skilful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion.

It's fast, it's furious it's f***in' good fun. Teams of 20 topplers posted on this thread or PM'd to MPFC will be collected into a masterlist to provide a carnival of carnage, the counting of which goes live in the first second of 2018. Points aplenty pour into the scoreboard until someone snags the stupendous total of 2018, at which point the event that used to be the fastest deadpool in common useage (until MPFC started something faster!) slams on the brakes and the lucky winner is duly given metaphorical back-slaps and allowed to claim a prize worth about a tenner (though tradition thus far dictates this turns into a charitable donation)*. Closing date for entries is midnight on 30 December 2017. · Bear in mind an alternative to the charitable donation is a double measure of spirts or a couple of pints bought at a DL Con and such an event is scheduled for 24 March! And here's that list of entrants in full: Bibliogryphon - bg Book - bk Captain Chorizo - cc Dead Cow - dc Deadsox - ds Death Impends - di Deathray - dy Devon Death Trip - dt Drol - dr Earl - el FixedBusiness - fb FrankieSayRelax - fs GC Reptile - gr Gooseberry Crumble - gc Grigori - gg Grim Deeper - gd GrimUpNorth - gu JoeyRuss - jr Lard Bazaar - lb Maryportfuncity - mp MSC - ms NiceGuyEddie - ng Phantom of the Midway - pm TheQuimReaper - qr Sean - sn Toast - to Torva Messor - tm The Unknown Man - tu Mr Whit - mw YorkshireBanker - yb YoungWillz - yw Ol' Clive James gets into the Deathrace spirit, simply glad to have a presenting job again and totally heedless that he's now in the firing line after our previous MCs - David Cassidy and Johnny Hallyday - withdrew their services to those making deadpool picks for 2018. Reigning champion: MSC (2018 winner) And those former champions in full: 2009 - Raskolnikov 2010 - Nobody, I mean f***in' nobody, reached the winning points total 2011 - DDT 2012 - Spade Cooley 2013 - DDT 2014 - Death Impends 2015 - MSC 2016 - DDT 2017 - Death Impends

John Nash in 2015. Died in a car crash.

Form Guide #3 Stefan Karl Stefansson, who is most well known for playing Robbie Rotten on Lazy Town, had a few struggles with cancer ever since his diagnosis in October 2016. If someone decides to choose him for the Advent Avalanche, will they be rewarded with being number 1 for this dead pool?

It could indeed. Matilda's at 25. I think the name (if a girl) is odds-on to be among the top 25, as below.

Deathrace Form Guide #5 Nobel Peace Prize winner heavily involved in the Good Friday agreement, John Hume is now "severely ill with dementia" after suffering with the illness for over a decade. Notably had others give his statement for him when McGuinness died this year. Could be a big deadpooling pick in 2018.

Okay, will tidy the above up with some photos and the like this afternoon but it's on. Are you?

Diana is one of Charlotte's middle names so that seems unlikely. I don't think we'll see Diana as a first name until George and Charlotte start to breed.

Applebee's also let's kids eat free on (Tuesdays I believe), and the food is passable, it's a decent place. From what I see in parking lots of eateries, business is booming. But that's perhaps the local economies of Lafayette, LA vs other parts of the country. As far as ethnic foods go, I think you're right on,Old Lady. Given my druthers, I prefer to eat Arabic or Mexican vs a steakhouse. Sadly, living in Acadiana, there is no Arabic food. And they're kinda crazy there -- open up another Cajun restaurant and people flock to it lol the same stuff they eat at home smh. But open a Red Lobster, it goes out of business (It ain't authentic lol). True. SC

I disagree. I think he looks ten years younger than his age.

2 months off the 50 anniversary of Just A Minute. Given they celebrated the 45th anniversary in 2012 as the BBC didn't think Parsons would be around for the 50th.

Parsons is doing great for 94 can see him lasting a few years.

Ah, a royal club sandwich.

The point is though that there's no way she'll die next year so it'll be a wasted choice. She'll live for another 5 years easily, possibly 10.

Philip at 1, Queenie at 50. Royal sandwich!

We've never had so few candidates; so more chance of success if you vote Great days for dead pooling these are!

Right. Queen Elizabeth is another one who definitely shouldn't make 2018's list.

Cleavon Little turned in his badge 25 years ago (53)

I wouldn't count on Huff Post to deliver a trustworthy story, if the left is going to beat Trump then they will have to offer an actual alternative rather than just calling Trump racist over and over.

I doubt she will be bumped off in mysterious circumstances. I'm sure there is something that was signed when they were married, preventing her from divulging any damaging information.

Cleo Laine celebrates a milestone birthday today 90 today! So still not dead despite the thread being bumped again!

Tolkien illustrator Roger Garland dead at 67 from Motor Neurone Disease: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2017/10/tolkien-illustrator-roger-garland-has-died/