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The Entire List for 2018 1. George Bush Sr 1246 (3, 15th) 2. Leah Bracknell 1219 (2, 1st) 3. John McCain 1133 (NEW) 4. Kirk Douglas 931 (3, 2nd) 5. Rev Billy Graham 915 (3, 7th) 6. Olivia Newton John 747 (NEW) 7. Prince Philip 720 (3, 5th) 8. Nobby Stiles 712 (2, -) 9. Robert Mugabe 712 (3, 10th) 10. Vera Lynn 652 (3, 19th) 11. Leslie Philips 612 (3, 17th) 12. Clive James 600 (3, 24th) 13. Herman Wouk 598 (3, 26th) 14. Charlotte rae 582 (NEW) 15. Glynis Johns 563 (2, 23rd) 16. Olivia de Havilland 561 (3, 16th) 17. Dilip Kumar 535 (NEW) 18. Barbara Bush 531 (NEW) 19. Tessa Jowell 523 (NEW) 20. Stefan Karl Stefansson 515 (2, 29th) 21. Denis Norden 482 (3, 33rd) 22. Jill Gascoine 463 (2, 48th) 23. Former Pope Benedict 462 (3, 18th) 24. Jimmy Carter 458 (3, 22nd) 25. Franco Zeffirelli 427 (NEW) 26. Sidney Poitier 423 (2, 32nd) 27. Greg Gilbert 370 (NEW) 28. Mikhail Gorbachev 367 (3, 37th) 29. Fernando Ricksen 360 (2, -) 30. Lord Carrington 358 (NEW) 31. John Hume 336 (NEW) 32. Linda Nolan 324 (NEW) 33. Montserrat Caballe 306 (NEW) 34. Stan Lee 305 (NEW) 35. Joanne Woodward 301 (2, 40th) 36. Jean of Luxembourg 290 (NEW) 37. Diana Athill 278 (NEW) 38. Jacques Chirac 272 (2, 11th) 39. Alberto Fujimori 267 (NEW) 40. Valerie Harper 264 (2, -) 41. Bob Dole 260 (2, -) 42. Pearl Carr 259 (NEW) 43. Liam Miller 254 (NEW) 44. Beverly Cleary 242(NEW) 45. Monica Vitti 241 (2, 45th) 46. Mary Wilson 233 (NEW) 47. Diana Serra Cary 230 (NEW) 48. Yoko Ono 224 (NEW) 49. Val Kilmer 226 (NEW) 50. Morgan Tsvanigari 208 (NEW)

Nobby Stiles ...oh

Happy new year everyone and I love you all.

My analysis person by person then Kirk Douglas - Made a record tying 16 appearances. I suspect he might die right before he's able to reach 17 appearances, but I don't think it's certain Leah Bracknell - I think this is 100% her year, and since I'm getting the Sam Simon/Crowe vibe from her, she'll be dead around early March Herman Wouk - I think this is his year, considering he that he was on a nasal cannula back in July Olivia de Havilland - Still believe that she'll live to be 110, so I don't think she'll be a hit next year Prince Philip - Retired his royal duties last year. Think he will be gone by 2020, but I'm not sure when he'll be a hit Billy Graham - Well, he's soldiering on to 100. And he's still slowly suffering from parkinson's Betty White - Looks a bit weaker, but too much of a legend to be dropped. Still, I think she has years left in her John McCain - Had glioblastoma since July and his prognosis is up to October 2018. Think he'll be long gone before then. Linda Nolan - Has metastatic cancer, which could mean she may last a few years yet. Still, Bernie Nolan took a sudden turn for the worse in March, so it's not impossible. Lord Carrington - Well he turns 99 this year, but he's still determined to breath Javier Perez de Cuellar - Probably won't know anything about him till he dies Pierre Cardin - Old fashion designer who's doing alright at the moment Stan Lee - Lost his wife 6 months ago, and people who loses there spouses at this age often die within the following year, so I think he's likely Stirling Moss - Said to be in poor health right now, so I think he's a likely hit Tessa Jowell - Has glioblastoma and look terrible at her appearance at the house of the lord. Fucked Doris Day - Unlikely hit, but she is old and probably undroppable for now on Bob Dole - Was hospitalized last September, so I think he will die either this year or next year, cause I expect hospitalizations to continue Bob Barker - Only news on him is the tabloid bullshit that is common. One of the safer bets to see out the year Prunella Scales - Still suffering from dementia, but I don't think it has advanced enough yet Jimmy Carter - Successfully beat cancer in 2015, it could relapse or he may easily see another year out Leslie Phillips - Has been in poor health since 2014, it's more of a matter of when rather than if imo Jill Gascoine - Think her dementia has advanced enough to probably kill her this year. Though Nobby is a much better bet to die, and he's not on the list Vera Lynn - Chalking up her 10th appearance, she's still doing alright at 100, but don't get too comfortable on her certainly seeing the year out Robert Mugabe - No longer the dictator of Zimbabwe. I'm not sure whether we'll be seeing any updates from him or not till his death George Bush Sr - Continuing hospitalizations. It may take a while, but my gut feeling is that he's a goner this year Charles Aznavour - One of many celebs who seems to be in good health at this point, and is not likely to die this year Henry Kissinger - Same as Aznavour Honor Blackman - Think she's healthy, but msc did say statistically she may die to the committee being good at sniffing out old actresses Barbara Bush - Like her husband, she's currently in poor health, and if he goes, she goes as well imo Dick Van Dyke - Very much active and one that I might be surprised at legitimately if he dies Stanley Baxter - One of the more cult like picks, as in he might die, but it's not certain Valery Giscard d'Estaing - He's merely just old. Jacques Chirac would've been a much better pick as he's actually ill Mel Brooks - Though he may be healthy, I think he's a lock for the list till he dies Pope Benedict - Said to be in poor health, so I think he'll die next year Neil Simon - Currently at an advance stage of Alzheimer's, so he's certainly a likely hit June Brown - Don't know much about her cause I'm a yank, but people are saying she's fine, so I'll go with them Hosni Mubarak - Still think he'll last a while, but I think he has become more of a deathlist cult pick than anything Sean Connery - While his death wouldn't surprise me, the last time I saw a picture of him he looked decent. Mind you, so did Hugh Hefner before he died Louis Farrakhan - No idea on his health at all, and probably the pick that most surprised me tbh Denis Norden - Still said to be in poor health, and I think it is his year this year Ian St John - Look very good last time I saw his picture, yet he still on the list and not Nobby. Stage 4 cancer may kill him, but he got a while left imo Jimmy Greaves - A much safer bet to die than Jimmy Greaves, but he's still 50/50 imo Valerie Harper - Medicine is starting to wear off, but she may or may not be a hit this year, another 50/50 bet Clive James - Quit working for the Guardian now, and it's been awfully quiet with him. Imo, he's fucked Stephen Hawking - Well, als will kill him eventually, but he's more likely to survive the year than not Ronnie Wood - Lung cancer is currently in remission, but if the lung cancer does return (and lung cancer has been known to be a real deadly killer when it comes back), it might be a well paid off gamble in the year Olivia Newton-John - Think she'll easily see 2019, but on solely for the just in case she dies Joni Mitchell - She has been in poor health, so she's certainly not the worst pick on the list Paul Gascoigne - I'm in shock in why he returned. He might be dead by 60 (and I say might very warily), but I doubt he'll die this year Mark E Smith - Has been cancelling a bunch of concerts recently and is currently not in the best health right now. He's a decent bet to die, and I have a gut feeling he will go this year In short, I don't expect this to be a record breaking year, but I think this may due better than we expect.

The Tesco Extra store, or just the Express?

I though maybe Fernando Ricksen might have been included this year.

Banshees' post at the top of this page reminds why I'm still drawn to Deathlist like a moth to a flame over a decade and a half since I joined. Anyway, Happy New Year beloved (you really are, I don't tell you often enough how much you make me laugh) forum people and line manager, bosses / executives too I suppose...Wishing everyone all the best for their various lists in 2018.

Gord Downie played the drums so bonus points for many. Rad Guy 30.8 plus 12. Captain Chorizo 45.7 plus 18. Jiroemon Kimura 35.6 plus 14. The Unknown Man 35.5 plus 14. msc 25.4 plus 10. Maryport 40.3 plus 16. Deathers 30.2 plus 12. Book 30.1 plus 12. Morbid Kid 35 plus 14. On the same day 17th October, Danielle Darrieux died. This was a double day hit for Book. She was down to score 20 points and depending on who died first, her or Gord Downie each death should affect the others score. I don't know now who died first so will count it as a draw and not move the team members up or down but also I'll provide a special bonus of 20 points for the double hit. So with the bonus of 8 points that's another 48. On the 18th Nov, Malcolm Young died and provided 20 basic points plus 8 bonus points for I'mNotHades. Final hit of the year looks to have been Rose Marie, on the 28th Dec. The Dead Cow pulls in 40.1 basic points plus 24 bonus points. Death Impends adds 68 points and I add 32 points to my score. the bonus hand out for not playing subs is this year one short rated at 10 bonus points for Billiogryphon, I'mNotHades and Maryport. If two were blank then together they score 25 points to Jiroemon Kimura and Prosperina. DDT wins a bonus few points for again playing an adventurous team - almost the same line up as last year's effort. 25 extra points on that basis. And as Book was the 13th finisher, an extra 50 points are added. Well done Death Impends. Left it till three days and the last hit of the year to re-pass RadGuy. 20th and final leader board for 2017 was... 1st - 411.7 points - Death Impends 2nd - 378.8 points - RadGuy 3rd - 323.2 points - Drol 4th - 322.9 points - Maryport 5th - 314.0 points - Morbid Kid 6th - 308.5 points - The Dead Cow 7th - 295.5 points - Captain Chorizo 8th - 294.2 points - msc Position 8 & 1/2 - 262.6 points - Book 9th - 248.3 points - gcreptile 10th - 231.5 points - Prosperina 11th - 227.2 points - Pedro67 12th - 219.3 points - Jiroemon Kimura 14th - 188.1 points - Deathers 15th - 179.9 points - Uschi 16th - 179.1 points - I'mNotHades 17th - 176.9 points - Bibliogryphon 18th - 168.2 points - time 19th - 156.2 points - DDT 20th - 154.5 points - The Unknown Man 21st - 130.5 points - Toast 22nd - 120.2 points - RottenAli 23rd - 119.3 points - Joey Russ 24th - 115.7 points - LFN 25th - 82.4 points - Young Willz 26th - 79.7 points - Tick Tock

The above is now the confirmed Masterlist for the 2018 Pool. Your subs will remain on this list until 14 January, which should be enough time for any deaths before 2018 to be notified and the subs inserted in their place. The subs will then be erased from the Masterlist (I'll keep a note for my own purposes). A round 30 entries, many many thanks for supporting this Pool. And as I have said to everybody, good luck!

It’s been 65 years since Hank Williams became so lonesome he could die, aged 29.

Oh, now why is he back on? This is a wasted pick...

FWIW here's my team: The Sunday Supplement's Premature Review of 2018 Liam Miller (Joker) Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Terry Jacks Olivia Newton-John Dilip Kumar John McCain Tessa Jowell Jill Gascoine Clive James Leah Bracknell Bernard Tapie Barbara Walters Paul Darrow Burt Reynolds Eileen Derbyshire Mo Moreland Stirling Moss Alberto Fujimori William Terence Clark (Battle of Britain veteran) Paul Farnes (Battle of Britain veteran) Theme Team (football): At the end of the day Brian, it gets dark... Liam Miller (Joker) Stanley Bowles Peter Lorimer Fernando Ricksen Danny Wallace Alan Hudson Paul Madeley Pele Martin Peters Jimmy Greaves Ian St John Paul Gascoigne Ray Kennedy Ivor Boradis Jean-Pierre Adams Eduardo Berizzo Dino Zoff Kenny Sansom Billy McNeil Nobby Stiles Good luck everyone, Spade especially...

This has cheered me up no end; thanks guys. Deathray, loony bin is fine; that's what I call it.

Interesting list this time around, sensible decision to drop the Queen, as expected Clive James returns but oddly way down the pecking order but dropping Stiles is the mother of all gambles.

Both ETA Thinking about it, we have three Tesco Expresses and one massive Extra in my town, so everyone will be lucky enough to have a peek!

As 2017 is now over, I can announce Drol as the winner of the Inverse Dead Pool 2017! Here is the final scoreboard 1st - Drol - 25 points 2nd - Shaun of the Dead - 44 points 3rd - Grim Up North - 45 points =4th - Bert Trautmann - 52 points =4th - CaptainChorizo - 52 points 6th - gcreptile - 55 points 7th - Book - 56 points 8th - The Unknown Man - 57 points 9th - Bibliogryphon - 58 points 10th - msc - 60 points 11th - The Mad Hatter - 61 points 12th - Dr_T - 65 points =13th - Garn2 - 66 points =13th - YoungWillz - 66 points 15th - WednesdayAddams - 68 points 16th - Death Impends - 69 points 17th - Phantom of the Midway - 71 points 18th - Toast - 79 points =19th - esher - 87 points =19th - Pedro67 - 87 points =21st - Deathray - 88 points =21st - Joeyruss - 88 points 23rd - rockhopperpenguin - 97 points =24th - CharonsCrew - 99 points =24th - GraveDanger - 99 points 26th - Switch - 106 points 27th - Dead Cow - 118 points 28th - Angels - 134 points Congratulations @drol, an excellent performance in a year brimming with hits. I say this every year, but this was certainly the best Inverse Dead Pool yet, and it's been a pleasure to host this wonderful dead pool for another year. Unfortunately, it will also be my last year as host, and as such we'll need a new host to carry this dead pool forward in the upcoming year(s). So I'm passing the baton on to @Death Impends, who I'm sure will make a superb host and continue to keep this game alive. Thanks to everyone who competed, I hope you'll all join in again for 2018. Happy New Year and good night.

Nah mate, you are just pissed that you did not pick Eric Pickles

Aw, rockerhopper is much missed*, you're quite right. *And Zorders. **And MK and his antics Disclaimer: Views are my own and not those of my employers.

This is the place to come to be cheered up and revived.

Big name politician in the UK. Also seriously ill. Good pick.

Well, I suppose he could always have a fall.

Seems too soon.

The Glen Campbell Hollywood Squares bonuses. Missed a few hits - for Drol - Smith Hart was 30 points and unique 12 points but this takes 5 off the Glen Campbell score. Also missed was a hit on Carsten Mohren on the 31st Jan. This should be an extra 42 points for Jiroemon Kimura. He is missing 56 points for the hit on Sasha Lakovic. This also puts an extra 10 points his way now for Errol Christie. 17th leader board is... 1st - 305.1 points - RadGuy 2nd - 293.0 points - Drol 3rd - 258.8 points - msc 4th - 231.2 points - DeathImpends 5th - 227.2 points Pedro67 6th - 201.0 points - Captain Chorizo 7th - 196.1 points - Maryport 8th - 185.0 points - MorbidKid 9th - 170.9 points - Prosperina. 10th - 169.4 points - The Dead Cow 11th - 168.2 points - time 12th - 166.9 points - Bibliogryphon 13th - 144.7 points - Jiroemon Kimura 14th - 141.1 points - I'm Not Hades 15th - 131.2 points - DDT 16th - 130.5 points - Toast 17th - 124.6 points - Uschi 18th - 122.5 points - Book 19th - 121.9 points - Deathers 20th - 120.2 points - gcreptile 21st - 119.3 points - Joey Russ 22nd - 115.7 points - LFN 23rd - 88.2 points - RottenAli 24th - 79.7 points - Tick Tock 25th - 49.5 points - The Unknown Man 26th - 33.4 points - Young Willz. next the hits since.

Here's my shadowlist for 2018 George Bush SNR Mary Carlisle Stirling Moss Montserrat Caballe Robert Fyfe Hubert De Givenchy Jean Boht Mary Wilson (widow of Harold) Mark Eden Rhonda Fleming Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) James D Watson Barbara Bush Franco Zeffirelli Cindy Adams Prince Henrik of Denmark Clarissa Eden Billy Graham Mikhail Gorbachev The Dowager Duchess of Grafton Bob Dole Julie Goodyear Loretta Lynn Sidney Poitier Yoko Ono Des O'Connor Sean Connery Vera Miles George P Shultz (Former US Secretary of state) Rosamunde Pilcher Lionel Blair Elizabeth Kelly (played aunt Nellie in EastEnders) Eilleen Derbyshire John McCain Bill Treacher Joanna Woodward Winnie Ewing Stanley Donen (film director) Kenny Rogers Sheila Mercier Cleo Laine Imelda Marcos Marianne Faithfull Herman Wouk Eunice Gayson Barbara Walters Leslie Phillips Robert Benton (film director kramer versus Kramer) Joy Westmore (prisoner cell block H actress) Ursula Andress Best Wishes and a Happy New Year to all of you x Gooseberry Crumble

Fuck all wrong with him, he's not going anywhere for years.