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Personally I find New Years Day (reveal of the new Deathlist, people's DDP teams) to be the most interesting deadpool day of the year, and nobody of note ever seems to die on it, or needs to!

A fair point really - a useful target would be to have a record number of women on the list.

Get well soon Dead Cow.

I will be entering in a few days.Working Xmas so will be about the 28th 29th.I am compiling the list on the back of work newspapers but only using final two birth years so no one catches on.Remembering who each year is especially when there are several from a certain year can be a bugger though.

I saw Call Me By Your Name recently and it was stunning.

Those rules in full are here: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8600-dl-dead-pools/?do=findComment&comment=257243 and on the first page of this thread. Look forward to hearing your team if you are interested.

Hope you are ok Dead Cow. Concentrate on getting well.

Jerry Greenberg, Oscar-Winning Editor Of 'The French Connection,' Dies at 81 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-greenberg-oscar-winning-editor-french-connection-dies-at-81-1070242

for the Hare's Pool 20 names(+backup's picks if you send early) before the start date If your pick dies on On Jan 1 2018- 1 point, Jan 2 -2 points ....etc etc if they die on Dec 31 2018 then 365 points Can pick any living famous/notable person who gets a newspaper mention - death row inmates scheduled for execution,or people only famous cause their dying(ie cancer muums/dads,star trek fan with stage 4 cancer,Daniel Craig's limo driver etc)

I do think Gorbachev should be included in 2018 - he'll be 87 in March - quite a good age when you think of other Russian/Soviet politicians. Or he could be the next Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and live to 96. When you think of his importance in world politics at the end of the Cold War and the other main leaders (Reagan, Thatcher, Kohl) are now all nearly gone it would be quite a miss. Also was thinking of George Shultz who'll be 98 next year although with Bush, Carter, Dole and a possible return of Kissinger the committee may not want any more US politicians in the list. Another extremely deathlisty pick IMO would be Geoffrey Palmer who will be 91 next year. Been in bloody everything really and his last screen role was in 2014 for Paddington so looks like he may now have retired (?).

"World's Oldest Man", José Aguinelo dos Santos, a Brazilian, dies aged 129. Not verified by Guinness, but recognised by the Brazilian authorities (and The Mirror).

I've a feeling there's going to be a bit more feminine energy on next year's deathlist.

What did Tarzan say when he heard that a herd of elephants is coming over the mountains??? "Listen, a herd of elephants is coming over the mountains"

Happy then, happy now

He's doesn't look like a man in the departure lounge (crosses off long-list)

Get your children in to the Christmas spirit by referring to glasses of water as "snowman blood".

He's the one wrinkly old Willie that everybody wants to see

Because RIP is Latin. Requiescat In Pace. It's just a coincidence that the English words fit the abbreviation. It works in Italian too, unsurprisingly.

So, around this time of year I try and work out who will die via sods law. There's a semi-tradition of the Deathlist dropping someone, seemingly for perfectly reasonable reasons, who then snuffs it soon after New Year. An extensive (but potentially not complete) list for example: 2017 - Robert Pirsig 2016 - Harper Lee 2015 - Shaw Taylor, Terry Pratchett 2014 - Richard Attenborough, General Jaruzelski, Pete Seeger, Elaine Stritch, James Garner 2013 - Bob Godfrey 2012 - Geoffrey Hughes, Jack Klugman, Ravi Shankar, Dom Mintoff, Ernest Borgnine 2010 - George Steinbrenner, Captain Beefheart, John Forsythe 2006 - JK Galbraith 2005 - Arthur Miller 2004 - Yassir Arafat 2003 - Buddy Ebson, Benny Carter 2002 - Princess Margaret, Mary Wesley, Bert Millichip 2001 - John Lee Hooker, Anthony Quinn 2000 - Alec Guinness, Victor Borge, Julian Critchley 1999 - Anne Haddy, Willie Whitelaw, Johnny Morris 1995 - Peter Wright, Harold Wilson 1994 - Doris Speed, Charles Bukowski 1992 - Magnus Pyke 1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge Going by that list, a sneaky pick on say, David Prowse or Gay Byrne in 2018 might provide dividends.

A great talent,he was also Composer for the Django Theme

Thoughts: The Deathlist committee have a nose for aged actresses about to snuff it. Maureen O'Hara, Lauren Bacall, Luise Rainer and Elaine Stitch all survived less than 20 months from their Deathlist debut. This is ominous news for Mary Tyler Moore and Prunella Scales, and indeed for Liz Smith. Me, a year ago Smith and Moore continued this recent trend, which leaves Prunella Scales as the survivor so far. This suggests that all of Betty White, Honor Blackman, Jill Gascoine, Liz Dawn and Leah Bracknell will be dead by January 1st 2019, and that White and Blackman may actually be better people to carry over onto the 2018 list (should they survive 2017) than some others.

Yes but for anyone of a certain persuasion there is sufficient information for them to be intrigued and also to find us - it does state 'the warped online outlet, named The Death List'. However shit it's free publicity - trust me the quality of the article is irrelevant - no one in a year where all the 'nation's treasures' have died one after another is going to write a glowing article about The Death List!

DL is the only website stored on my phone for quick access and it's the only one I've regularly posted on for any length of time. It is a bit dull sometimes but that's life 😄

Whilst not human, sadly I have to have my baby girl Tamsin a staffy/lab cross to sleep later today. She’s nearly 14 and in pain and is struggling to breathe. She was my first dog and I’m in pieces at the thought. But I know it’s for her best and I’m being cruel if I keep her going. Still sucks mind