Leaderboard

One man's meat is another man's poisson.

By end of 14th December last year 63 teams had entered the DDP. By early morning 14th this year 96 teams are entered (a 52% increase!).

I can't really take the credit because I think that's actually the origin of the saying

Here is my entry for 2021: George Alagiah John Astin Bob Barker Susan Bayh June Brown Tony Bennett Pierre Cardin Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter Beverly Cleary Shannen Doherty Bob Dole Derek Draper Lawrence Ferlinghetti Mikhail Gorbachev David Gulpilil Glynis Johns Larry King Henry Kissinger Angela Lansbury Rush Limbaugh Norman Lloyd Loretta Lynn Gerd Muller Giorgio Napolitano Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Yoko Ono Janis Paige Tom Parker (WILDCARD) Isabel Perón Prince Philip Sidney Poitier Jake “The Snake” Roberts Eva Marie Saint Yoo Sang-Chul Prunella Scales Tom Smith (rugby player, born 1971) Leon Spinks Bernard Tapie Peter Tobin Jean-Louis Trintignant Bill Turnbull James Whale (radio presenter) Joanne Woodward Dick Van Dyke Monica Vitti Paul Westphal Betty Whte Jiang Zemin Subs: Gene Hackman Ozzy Osbourne Walter Mondale Alan Greenspan Shane McGowan

Just seen this news. No thread of his own? Astonishing! While I remember my dad forcing us to sit through what seemed to me at the time as an interminable bore of a mini series, Alec Guiness' portrayal was utterly fascinating to me. Still, I'll freely admit to never having read a Le Carre novel on the back of that.

Hello Everyone, as the 2020 season is coming to a close and we are all terribly excited to see who is going to win that close race at the top of the 2020 competition, here is the thread for the next round of this all-encompassing, difficult to manage deadpool. The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from now on until Dec 31st 2020, 23:59 GMT. You can choose one joker with double points - and you can also submit up to five substitutes in case one of your 50 dies before the end of the submission window. You may also choose new subs before the game starts if they die. Submission form: Just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format You don't need to number them before! No need to give birthdays! And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Kamala Harris (wrestler) - Update 2020: Well, this one is dead. Kamala Harris (US senator) - Update 2020: Well, this one is soon president. The scoring is [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2001 will get 101 points in case of death You may submit the following people: living, not having set a precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on the beginning of January 1st, 2021, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a campaign, a book, or a winning court case. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage will usually convince me. More details: Notability is getting ever more diffuse nowadays, it is a difficult thing to judge. Some more guidelines: Media personalities and such will be accepted in any case if they have a social media account with more than 100.000 followers. So, as a contrast to last year, Criscilla Anderson is now a valid pick! A person that gets rejected in the DDP will also be rejected here - no exceptions. Family/friends of people, i.e. reality TV appendages like Litsa Menounos: Yes, they will be allowed if they actually play a meaningful part in these shows, as Litsa Menounos did. No, they will not be allowed if they only accidentally get an imdb entry because of an accidental appearance, or because they say a few sentences in a documentary. Also: "Oldest Person of XYZ" will always be allowed - even a completely irrelevant person (in the grand scheme of things) will be accepted if they are the oldest person of their country, or last survivor of World War II, Korean War, etc... Usually those people do not give many points, but maybe 5 pts is better than zero? And they are of a certain "historic relevance", you know President Tyler's grandson, and such. Anyway, I will allow them. Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2021 GMT you may switch 5 old people still alive for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2021 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2021 or the first seven days of 2022. The QO rules are: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2021 plus The New York Times. Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so two posts below by December 15th at latest and hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. Main reason for not already submitting right now is that I want to avoid the situation of 2019, when I ran out of subs and then filled the gaps with "new" names, especially Edmund Capon, who revealed his illness mid-December. So I hope I will not run out of subs if I submit a little later. As in last year, I will also make use of the substitution window, but only use 2 names. After all, there's always a pretty broad consensus of a couple of names (example 2019: Ivan Milat, Michael Sleggs, Tom Long), so I wouldn't steal anyone's names by picking those who are universally known anyway. Also, I will substitute on the 30th of June, so you can see my two names. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. This also means that I might discuss borderline acceptable picks with you on January 1st or 2nd. We will have to talk then. If you're unavailable, I will replace a disqualified name with one of your substitutions. Remember, the disqualification in some cases might come only after the DDP committee has decided, so maybe not before the 2nd week of January. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread!

I'm In the Mood For Dancing, Romancing......

This is Linda clearly starting her campaign to be on DL2021

Pakistani dumbass Islamic scholar Tariq Jamil, who blamed the COVID pandemic on "women's immodesty", hospitalised with women's immodesty COVID-19.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/june-browns-heartbreaking-last-phone-23153507 June Brown pays an emotional tribute to her friend Barbara Windsor.

Based on some upates in the Anzac thread Picnic at Hanging Rock writer Cliff Green is a hit https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9032215/Screen-legend-Cliff-Green-Picnic-Hanging-Rock-fame-dies-85.html Margaret Guilfoyle a pick in 2019 joins List of the missed http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_G.html#guilfom018

Former Chairman of Spear's Games (you know, the people who brought you Scrabble), Francis Spear death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/246267/spear-francis-alfred

Thought it was the Mitchell brothers in panto

The Daily Express pretending to have inside information on the Royals again even though we kinda guessed that at 94 and 99 the pair of them were going to be at the front of the queue even before taking into account their royal status...

....and there speaks another warm hearted D.L member.

That I don’t understand either. What do they squander it on? They’re never out of the spotlight. Never before has a set of siblings been so pointlessly celebrated for doing bugger all. They’re like Pikey poundshop versions of the Kardashians.

Trevor Peacock is actually a better DL 2021 pick than I initially thought. He has lived with dementia for over a decade and it was announced as advanced in 2017. Furthermore, Peacock is at the extremely dangerous age of 89, the most common age of celebrity death nowadays, in my opinion. Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lauren Bacall, Peter Alliss, François Lalande, Bernard Fox, John Carson, John Bluthal, Martha Hyer, Warren Mitchell, Frank Finlay, B.B King, Fats Domino, Bruce Forsyth, Martin Landau, Robert Guillaume, Katherine Helmond, Jeanne Moreau etc all died in recent years at age 89.

3 days late to the party but he did it. Prince Philip became the oldest Duke ever on Thursday.

Why do people update this message everytime Queen Elizabeth breathes? This website is so excited for royal death that half the users are going to die.

Also worth noting that George P. Shultz turned 100 years old today. He was Secretary of Labor and the Treasury under Nixon and Secretary of State under nearly all off Reagan's 2 terms. Also surely one of the last living US cabinet members who served in WW2. Edit: Yeah sorry, I saw he has his own thread and it was mentioned there already but whatever.

The pandemic certainly doesn't seem to have affected boxing's unique way with hype and hyperbole: "It's the only fight to be made in boxing. It is the biggest fight in British boxing history." "biggest fight since Muhammad Ali v Joe Frazier in 1971" "biggest UK sporting event since the 1966 World Cup final". "one of the greatest sporting occasions Britain has ever known" My fiver's on a dogged DDT to knock out a tiring Paul Bearer in the final round, and Deathray (aka The Boy Who Cried Porn) to be allowed back.

Here's an updated list of immortals who escaped (?) 2020: 1)Dilip Kumar (1922). The King of Them All. 98 years old an counting. If three years ago someone would say he would be still alive by now he would have been transferred to Bedlam Asylum immediately. 2)Bob Dole (1923). With an incredible history of hospitalizations at Walter Reed, extensive heart and lung disease and having looked like a corpse for at least seven years, this wheelchair hero deserves his high spot on the list. 3)Jimmy Carter (1924). Cancer survivor who seemed fucked, fall, brain hemhorrage, extremely frail. But going on nonethless. Which is amazing. 4)Thich Nhat Hanh (1926). Suffered a tremendous stroke in 2014, expected to be dead within months then. Went to Vietnam two years ago to "spend his last days" there. Was reported to be dying last year. Sought treatment for pneumonia in Thailand in autumn 2019. Again weak and not eating at his 94th birthday, quickly recovered. 5)Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929). Has suffered from heart failure and lung disease for years. He has been on the brink on death at least four times in the last five years. In February 2020 his death seemed imminent. 6)Tin Oo (1927). Survived a terrible stroke and a consequent fall in 2017. Expected to be dead within days, he is still hanging around in his wheelchair with seemingly swollen legs. 7)Mikis Theodorakis (1925). Has suffered many heart attacks and he was reportedly "on the brink of death" (yeah, again...) last year in March. 8)Leslie Phillips (1924). This guy is incredible. He has suffered multiple strokes, has been on a wheelchair for years and anyway kept watching while many other beloved British actors and entertainers were wiped out in recent years. 9)Monica Vitti (1931)/Joanne Woodward (1930)/Carmen Sevilla (1930). Their resistance to Alzheimer's is incredible. Vitti has had a neurodegenerative illness for 17 years and counting, the other are above 10 years (not sure about Woodward). 10)Ma Shitu (1915). Popular writer of Sichuan, he is a three-time lung cancer survivor and also suffered from other types of cancer. Was on his deathbed in 2003, he pulled a surprise recovery. Retires in July 2020 due to failing health, likely another recurrence of cancer. Hospitalized again some months later, he bounces back as nothing even this time. A prodigy. 11)Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik (1921). He has been close to death many times. In December 2019 he was so much dying he was a Deathrace pick. Now he is still dying, but a human corpse like him survived a severe bout with COVID, which put him on life support and forced him to undergo tracheostomy. Now in danger for complications. But his time never comes. 12)Saleh Ajeery (1920). A COPD and heart failure sufferer who has been on a critical condition with COVID for two weeks. Seemingly he will test negative and be in a Meshulam-like situation. Against the unbelievable odds, again. 13)David Musuguri (1920). This Tanzanian general was reportedly near death at his 100th birthday due to "sever complications of diabeetus". Wheelchair bound guy is still somehow going. 14)Vassos Lyssarides (1920). Suffering from emphysema and heart failure, he bounced back from a critical condition ahead of his 100th birthday and itw as the second time at least. 15)Wan Haifeng (1920). Reportedly bedridden, selling memorabilia, and mostly unable to even speak, his moment seems to never come anyway. 16)Saalumarada Thimmakka (????). Was in a critical condition some years ago, was in a bleak condition in May this year. Somehow this incredibly frail environmentalist from K'taka (also the land of Venkatasubbiah, we hail you, 108 year old fucker) looks good enough at her last appearances. K'Taka has something magical, way too many old geezers down there. I'll continue when other spring to mind.

That film was fecking awful.

If that were true then gerontologists wouldn’t be studying the genepool of centenarians / supercentenarians to work out why many of these people don’t get cancers, why they deteriorate far slower, and why some never get ill with colds/flus etc. Also, it’s a common misconception that as you age cancer precedence just keeps going up and up. It peaks between 55-75 then comes down. Why? Because as I said, it’s not randomised. It depends to a significant degree on lifestyle and genetics: Under 20: 1% 20-34: 3% 35-44: 5% 45-54: 14% 55-64: 24% 65-74: 25% 75-84: 20% 85 and over: 8%

Try here or here https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8516-shadow-lists/