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Speaking on behalf of all males, wouldn't you try to pop it?

IT'S GONE! They weren't supposed to collect it until this afternoon, but as I was getting up I heard a lot of beeping and clanking, cautiously peered out of the window and yes! So no pleading or bribery required Result!

Looking at my very first list in 2013 I have to admit that a) nobody died this year b) until today only 5 of this list have died c) 10 picks never made it to any lists again First lists are mostly done quickly , so no need to be embarassed.

One of the luckiest knob twiddlers in the business given that he sat in on the Beatles' start at EMI during his first week at work. Went on to win Grammy awards and help some of the best McCartney post-Beatles stuff including Band on the Run

Some of the deaths reported in here are somewhat obscure (nowt wrong with that, I hasten to add) but Emerick's a name even I know well. Quite a CV over last 50 years and generally considered a great. RIP.

When life gives you testes like lemons, make lemonade.

Fake news; it was a pig.

Herr @Book ist ein twunt! Well done geez

Its recently come to the attention of deathpoolers everywhere that Helen Reddy resides in a nursing home. It was announced that she had dementia back in 2015. With these revelations I think she is Reddy for a thread on the death list.

She is 103 years old and incredibly famous.Charles Aznavour was on TV looking great 3 days before he died and Pete Seeger was chopping wood ten days before he died.Over 90s can take a quick turn for the worse.At 102 an infection fall stroke can finish you off swiftly.

Speaking of Germany / Italy axis, apparently Rocchigiani was killed by a Smart.

My pick in the Silver Screen thread. Tony Roper.

Just discovered today, through his Times obit, that Michael Bettaney, an MI5 officer jailed for 23 years in 1984 for attempting to pass secrets to the Russians, died in August aged 68. I remember his case very well, probably because he lived in my home town of Coulsdon in Surrey.

I'm not habitually a big subscriber to the Motown sound. But this was, is and will always be utterly superb.

These are all too common. We should have a "death by bathtub" thread by now.

Roy Kinnear in his Army days?

#MeToo

Marcel Duchamp 50 years ago today at 81. For a bit of variety rather than a photo of him here is his most famous and controversial painting. As you can obviously tell it's a Nude Descending a Staircase.

The last round-up for Gene Autry on this day 20 years ago, aged 91.

Graciano Rocchigiani, two-weight world champion probably most famous for ah fuck someone's already typing it up aren't they?

A surprise hit for my Derby Dead Pool "#1 Hits" theme team. I resented "having" to include him, because as the oldest living male UK #1 hitmaker, he was on there effectively by default regardless of his health. I expected him to outlive most of his 19 teammates. I believe the oldest living male #1 hitmaker is now Tony Bennett, who I intend to start resenting from 2019 onwards.

I've started reading a horror novel in braille. Something bad is going to happen, I can feel it.

Spade Cooling.

I might be wrong but I think we've had "bad" (I use the term loosely all press is good) press before and it's blown over. My response is I've learnt about the achievements of hundreds, if not thousands, of people they've probably never heard of through this site in three years. It's a shame that recognition has only arrived after their death but hey-ho. Nobody actively wants the celebrities who they picked in pools to die, we're just using common sense and a bit of nouse to say "it looks as though they might die." If 20 out of 20 of my picks in the DDP survived and maintained good health I'd be delighted at their resilience, given the reason they'd even made it into the list was that being a slim chance. On another note, we've been online for over a (if not two) decade(s), so why are we suddenly news? Aye, though they needn't die either for this. See the number of times someone mentions an aging celeb in the Ideas or other threads only to find other regulars going "Wow, didn't know they were still going!" Or when the careers of, say, Winkle Brown, are "bigged up", as it were, by MPFC long before their death. These conversations always remind me of Anne Feeney. I wouldn't have heard of her if it weren't for DDT, and that was only because she was potentially terminally ill. So I began to listen to her music, and it was right down my street. Long story short, she actually beat the cancer, and is still around now, so, while death is a common partner of the deathlist, the breadth of learning need not always be linked with the Reaper. Anyhow, The Sun and the Express, or any other paper of that ilk calling deadpoolers sick? Sick in my mind is publishing photos of 15 and 16 year old girls with the "all grown up" thing. Sick is colluding with the police and Irvine Patnick over Hillsborough and feigning ignorance. Sick is crashing an accident tribunals to ask underage girls about their sex lives, forcing your way to someone's deathbed to demand they confess dying of AIDS, celebrating the death (and making light of the disfiguring injuries) of soldiers in a stupid war. The News of the World claimed the Derby Dead Pool was sick, and yet which one of them hacked the mobile phone of a murder victim, and then used it after she was dead, thus convincing police and family that she was still alive? Fuck them, the sick bastards.