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We don't need a seperate topic for every obscurity you can find, this is why the Ideas and Possibilities for 2019 thread exists...

Jeez, I sure am glad I never heard of this Willow bird, can you imagine the kerfuffle if she was on my after-the-deadline team

Agreed. Fart jokes are very last scentury.

Dear god, someone have a word with Souza...

My answer would be similar to msc. I lost a family friend prematurely before Christmas who was a good person who deserved for me to care about his death at all levels (and I did). I use him here only to illustrate the point that I understand the pain of the death of a loved one. The people I have selected in my death list teams I do not actually know at all although the world of celebrity would like me to think I did. Most of the people on my teams are dying way before their time and I would not want anyone I truly knew or loved to be in their shoes although when death finally comes to claim them it will probably be a relief - none of my picks are going to die suddenly and unexpectedly. My selections are based on a logical process (still flawed by being a newbie) to try and get a maximum score in a game that rewards young and famous deaths in my attempt to win the game. I cannot attempt to link dead pooling and caring because my mind has already divorced the two (rightly or wrongly). As a related point I try to follow the following etiquette on this site. When someone dies I will be respectful in my comments on their thread and in the deaths of the year thread (unless there is a harmless joke or pun to make which sometimes I can't resist) however in the Dead Pool threads I can celebrate the points a death might earn me. It's not perfect, like me, but I think dead pooling is a pretty harmless way to spend my time really.

I was asleep, you know! Define "care". Of the 60 people on my 3 teams, the only two I wouldn't raise a glass to are the two murderers. There are some I outright hope buck the trend - Falkholt, Lewis - and others I have outright sympathy for their condition. I take no joy from the actual death (it's just part of life) but after the Tony Benn debacle*, I don't pick people who mean massive amounts to me on a personal level. Hence complete lack of Mr Lambie on any of my teams. *My team in 2013 was shit. Benn was ill. I picked him the next year as a sort of jinx to try and keep him alive. Failed. Very sad. Not repeating that. Hope that helps!

Looking at the ages of some of the people on the list I’m surprised Glynis Johns (Winifred Banks from Mary Poppins) hasn't been included, 95 this year and hasn't worked since 1999.

Not heard much from him in many years, maybe worth keeping an eye on. While I am sure most of you are cultured and know this man, some members like SC and Joey Russ may not. He was the one of the great artists of and voices of a generation, on the same level of Aretha Franklin or Diana Ross.

Around the same as Carlisle lifting the FA Cup

I don't expect to get very far, but I'll try it if you need more teams to bounce out in the early rounds. Then again, there's always the luck factor.

It may have taken him 11 years but Jan 2 was the Return Of The Mack to page 1

I always feel that when a bank holiday rolls round, that we will lose him.

Hen, you're ginger; just like me.

God knows what I'm going to do when Glynis and Kamala cark it, I'll have nobody left to bang the gong for around here. Leslie Phillips ended up high on my list mainly because of my mother going "Leslie Phillips is still alive? Really?" during a Christmas dinner conversation.

Might be useful if there was a Deathlist Cup type thing, you know, where FFBI picks are banned.

IMHO Death Impends will finally win DDP this year, but it will be a stiff competition.

If I die, and Mrs Msc's newspaper notice refers to me as a "beautiful angel", that'll be Exhibit A for the case that she has actually murdered me!

I put him on my DDP list this year, but I'm starting to seriously consider he might be a Highlander Immortal. Or possibly an android. Maybe the real Kirk snuffed it in 1955 or something.

A video from earlier 2017 (april?) with Gurney and AJ Foyt. Gurney's faculties are basically there -- but looks frail physically. Hard to decide if 2018 is his finish line. SC

NOT DEAD Cribbins is 89 today! Also, he's reading the bedtime story on Cbeebies - apparently filmed recently - and looking very good for his age. Heartening to see, I like Bernard Cribbins.

Happy Birthday to Roy Hattersley who is 85 today. Just saying....

Am I white? How would you know?

Hmm wouldn't that then be the Douglas-Addams Family?

What kind of wood doesn't float? Natalie Wood! BOOM BOOM!!

He's going deeper underground.