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I really doubt Ronnie Wood....

Can an Admin please change the title to something proper like Who Will Be THE NEXT RS To Die?.....it ignores Brian Jones, at the very least. ‘Guest Tom Green’ was an idiot when he created the thread. That’s why guests should never ever be allowed to create a thread. Nor anyone in their first 90 days of membership.

I too would love to meet both Olivia de Havilland and Dick van Dyke. It would be interesting to hear about the old Hollywood as well as their thoughts on the current state of the film Industry.

#30, in part to thank him for sending me a signed photo last year in response to my fan mail.

And I like to share my thoughts on what I think on other people's team, just for fun. I already mentioned that I really like gcreptile's team; very risky, but may turn out to be very rewarding. And even with him being unlucky with having Monson and Redstone join his main team after Dudley's and Willow's demise, I still think he could win. People have won in the past with having old people who didn't make the drop 40 as recently as last year, so not all is lost. I think one of the other riskiest teams this year is DevonDeathTrip. He went for a lot of oldsters with minimal 40 chances (Blanco, Lorimer) and even went with a lot of names that he has brought up on the forum himself (Clegg, Remigino, Goldberg). Along with his two potential uniques, I think this might have DevonDeathTrip go back to his glory days. Death Impends, while never in doubt to be a strong team, looks strong and might be a 20/20 team this year. While I honestly have no idea who Laura Barry is even though I tried looking her up after you announced your team, I absolutely love your Cynthia Heimel pick. Very much a name that goes for one of my interests (feminism), and honestly would have made a spot in my B Team if I had known about her. I did know about David Shutts, but he was one of those names that I looked at but completely ignored afterwards, so no doubt that he'll score points for you now... RadGuy, you say you might not make the top 20, but I say that's a strong team right there imo. Some interesting punts, and once again, has a lot of old people with minimal drop 40 chances like DevonDeathTrip with no FFBI types. Honestly, I like that some of the contenders are completely moving away from FFBI in general. Speaking of that, Toast has always been one of those people who avoids FFBI, and I think she has a strong team to prove that you don't actually need FFBI to do very well in the DDP. Some strong picks on her team (honestly, why didn't the committee plump for Willie Nelson), and I love to see a team with mainly well known celebrities in the top ten. Grim Up North looks like on paper to be this years rookie of the year. Of course, I haven't seen many other rookie teams, but he does a decent enough job with other dead pools that I think he'll be fine here. And finally, the Dead Cow. This year is actually going to be quite interesting between you and me, especially since we share 14/20 picks (it was 13 but Willow unfortunately died before the starting, but she may not receive a QO by the looks of it anymore). So it's a game between Youngs/Tapie/Stiles/Willesee/Falkholt/Toothill vs Forster/Fraser/Jowell/Nolan/Smith/Stefansson. Really going to be a tight game between us, though I think you have the better team especially with Youngs and Stiles. Not to mention if one of our shared picks don't obit, we'll both fall behind. Some very great teams this year, and as I said before, I think it'll be a while before we can guess the true contenders...

We can arrange that ;-)

They might not right now, but for anybody using the threads as a reference later on it would be helpful to post deaths in the appropriate thread.

Made a Venn-diagram over the three main types of deathpooling picks and how they intersect. Using this as a template, where do your picks fit in? Cancer mums: Those who are neither famous (in the traditional meaning of the word) nor old, but quite ill or even terminal. Obitability is a toss-up, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. List of the Lost: Those who are both old and ill, but lack the necessary fame to get obits when they do die. Theme team fillers: Similar to the above, except there are no known health issues (other than old age). Usually used to fill out remaining spots for theme teams. The worst kind of picks for ambitious deathpoolers. Olivia de Havilland: Famous old people that have no problems with their health. The kind pick that tends to stay on the DeathList for years and years by virtue of their fame. Non-serious picks, i.e. Bieber: Usually wishful thinking, and/or not really taking the competition seriously. Could also be part of some theme teams. DL-types: Look up the word "deathlisty" in the DeathList glossary lexicon at your local library, and this is what you will see: Someone who is both old enough, sick enough and famous enough to be a prime candidate for the committee. Title-winning picks: These are the ones that guarantee high scores by being terminally ill, relatively young and left a sufficient mark in Britain to get a write-up in newspapers such as BBC.

Open for business

betty white or paul gascoigne.

Fiar enough, I haven't read that thread for a couple of days now!

In February of that year she will turn 87. I've been looking for news about her on Spanish-language sites, some say that she has difficulty walking and that she just leaves the house to go to the doctor. We must also consider that in 2007 she suffered a fall from the stairs when she was to be questioned by the justice system because of the disappearance of an Argentine student in February 1976, a month before the coup organized by Jorge Rafael Videla. She also suffers from osteoarthritis that affects her spine and hips, and that has already deformed her hands https://www.infobae.com/politica/2017/03/28/recluida-en-su-casa-y-sin-vida-social-asi-vive-isabelita-en-espana/

A mighty salute to main and theme team winners in this titan of pools and BIG respect to every man hour that went into running it. 29= for me after years of being shite; so fairly happy with that.

This spot for a list of people confirmed to be in the Cup (At present it is a list of people who have specified interest as well, hence ? next to name) 2018 entrants 1. Msc 2. YoungWillz 3. Deadsox (Champion) 4. Death Impends (last years runner up) 5. Maryportfuncity? 6. Bibliogryphon 7. Heef 8. JoeyRuss 9. Pedro 10. Sean 11. Roverandout 12. Phantom of the Midway (AKA RadGuy) 13. The Dead Cow 14. gcreptile 15. FixedBusiness 16.Grim Up North 17. DDT 18. Captain Chorizo 19. Wormfarmer 20. Deathray 21. Spade Cooley 22. Garn 23. John Key 24. Charon 25. Sir Creep 26. Book 27. The Engineer 28. Yorkshire Banker

might as well post any 2017 deaths here as I doubt anyone will bother reading the 2017 thread

Agreed! No one missed Cat O'Falk more than me. We are so glad to have you back. SC

Welcome! Don't fret about errors, I'd like to think the new folk here are exempt from having an irate, faceless twunt coming down on them like a tonne of pricks. Enjoy!

Anyone know anything regarding Barbara Taylor Bradford. She is knocking on a bit.

I think Ive found a car big enough...

Yes