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My theory is that years ago, a mysterious man in a dark alley told the committee never to pick Glynis Johns. When they asked why, they were not given an answer. Yet they obliged year after year, despite incessant calls for the aged British national treasure to be selected. Until one day, they finally caved in to peer-pressure and made her #15 on the DeathList 2024. Within merely 4 days, she was dead. A short-lived high, certainly, but at what cost? Has it unleashed a new dark era of DeathList filled with disappointment and sorrow? Can the curse ever be lifted? Only time will tell...

Why the fuck were they doing heart surgery at the palace? A hospital is the place for that sort of thing.

Five left, and only one hint of Christmas remaining. I asked at the start of the game what Christmas is all about. We’ve answered: anything, as long as it’s not Christmassy.

Welcome to the pool. I must inform you that picking people who are already dead (namely Munger, Delors, Jara, and Santos), as well as people picked by other players (namely Ariyoshi, Magre, Lovell, Dougan, Woodward, and Caine) is not allowed as per the rules of the game, and is probably more damaging to one's own chances of success than anything else. You will need to remove and replace these names in order to have a fully functioning team.

Thierry Jacob, former french boxer and WBC and EBU bantamweight title holder, reportedly dead at 59.

Mentioned also in other threads by @drol Om Prakash Chautala (Wiki), Indian politician who has served as the 7th Chief Minister of Haryana dead at 89

Considering they're going to have to find a lot of new names for the 2025 DL, have absolutely zero objection to the committee shoving Chuckie in the low 30s.

It must be a terminal, but (so far) manageble kind of cancer. Chronic leukemia, bladder cancer, or prostate cancer.

His son on Facebook says he's dead. https://www.facebook.com/justinleocummings/posts/10229980473629577?__cft__[0]=AZWQiBKqk_dI9RCtnff2cMD5XWLb-E1R2JchG6U7NBhogWVJMS_NEEi54hgXBRp6gkpTLgUmEfK1bLNXLCXvfWl9eXqpGnELd0EzYSZx8pY8snK5P2-4BafY5rnn3gX72sBsS4goDER4Z0k2NSfxV2QTZpQxffQx1whEKgMJVf8jKA&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Here is my team for 2025 . Thanks for running this pool @gcreptile It is appreciated Warren Beatty Roy Hattersley The Duchess of Kent Wayne Dobson Jane Rossington Germaine Greer Gil Gerard David Winnick Elspeth Ballantyne Frank Zane Ann Thwaite Alan Beith Judith Chalmers John Conteh Robin Oakley Susan Howard (Dallas Actress) Micky Fawcett Alana Stewart Daphne Fowler Paddy McNally Bruce Beresford Richard Beymer Billy Butler Nicky Haslam Rosemary Conley Jean Shrimpton Rupert McGuigan (joker) Sophia Loren Andrew Davies (screenwriter) Carl XVI - King of Sweden Marti Webb Graham Kerr Michel Aoun Frederick Barclay Julie Goodyear Rod Laver Jackie Stewart Ken Morley Peter Kilfoyle Jess Conrad Alan Greenspan Alison Halford Lynda Chalker Leo Scullion Art Evans Princess Astrid of Norway Maria Riva Norman Coburn Valentino (fashion designer) Jefferson King Subs Diane Ladd Jonathan King Joe Namath Cheers and thanks again Any queries or clarifications required just let me know!

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Princess Michael of Kent breaks both wrists in fall at palace after undergoing heart surgery | Daily Mail Online Princess Michael of Kent breaks both wrists in fall at palace after undergoing heart surgery. Both she and Princess Alexandra are the royals I think deadpoolers should be most focused on.

Welcome.. Peggy Dow,Jim Lovell, George Ariyoshi and Jenny Craig are also names I believe that are taken

Mary Keir, oldest person in Wales, reportedly dead aged 112: https://nation.cymru/news/wales-oldest-person-dies-at-112/

Palace say they optimistic. Sounds like One doesn’t want to be on the 2025 list to me

Any news on George Cummings of Doctor Hook from the FB? This dame (a fan of the band) seems to indicate he's died:

20.12.24 34 Erasure - Blue Savannah 30 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon +1 27 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin -2 26 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire +1 25 Spin Doctors - Two Princes +1 25 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) +1 25 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 24 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992) 24 Suede - Stay Together -2 23 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much 22 EMF - Unbelievable  22 Faithless - Insomnia 22 No Doubt - Just a Girl 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 17 Suede - Trash 17 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 12 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 12 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 09 Enigma - Return to Innocence -2

I'm always happy to see you play. If your goal is to get a higher score you need a few good names though. To improve your score you probably need about 10 hits. I think the forum itself has some pretty good suggestions, easily good enough for that. But I also predict that next year this competition will not be won by secret young names, but rather by a bunch of 60-70 year olds. Especially in this competition that would mean that the scores will be lower.

So you've got: England: Ethel Caterham (115)/Donald Rose (109) Scotland: Jenny Smart (109)/Hugh Kerr (109) Wales: Kathleen Somerville (108)/Owen Filer (105) Northern Ireland: Agnes Thompson (109)/Norman Irwin (106) Ireland: Ruby Druce (108)/Joe Veselsky (106) A lot of mega-oldies don't really get coverage anymore: neither of the Scots have, for example. These are also only the oldest folk who've been identified: it's possible there's older folk who are anonymous.

Bowie Wu Buzz Aldrin Cecilia Fung Sing Lee Chen Ning-Yang Don King Fairuz Fong Yim Fun Gene Hackman Grace Slick Kim Yong-nam Larisa Latynina Lin Jiamei Line Renaud Mickey Curtis(Japanese Actor) Norman Tebbit P Diddy Patti Kim Rebecca Pan Robert Kuok Sadaharu Oh Song Ping Ted Ngoy Tippi Hedren  Tsai Chin Zhu Rongji(joker) subs Ivy Ling Po Lisa Lu Sophia Loren Asha Bhosle Esther Rantzen

Ruth Langsford hopes her mum Joan will be discharged in time for Christmas. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14199443/Eamonn-Holmes-makes-contact-Ruth-Langsford-social-media-marriage-split-pays-emotional-visit-ailing-mother-Joan-hospital.html

Donald Rose is also a WWII veteran.

Hi everyone - wasn’t sure where to post this but here seems as good a place as any. After a few false alarms I am finally being made redundant on 31st December and at 56 and a half I plan to try and eke out a fun existence on what I have so unless I get bored my redundancy will double as my retirement. With incredible bad timing whilst I was planning to spend the next 10 years hiking all the Wainwrights and having a jolly good time my wife has been busy developing a heart condition - still awaiting a final diagnosis but she’ll be on meds forever by the sounds of it (she’s not obitable before @maryportfuncity asks). Anyway I’ve decided to also retire from Deadpooling and being a member on this site - get on living rather than monitoring who might be dying. I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive, I’ve had some great fun reading and posting on here but I also want to try and reduce the time I spend staring at a computer/phone and this site is definitely something that pulls me in. Somewhere on here there is a post by @Spade_Cooley that says something like ‘it won’t be the last one’ when I won the Hares Pool. In actual fact as it turned out it was my one and only. Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful posts, less so to those of you who are obsessed with old and obscure people, and also to those of you who have run the Dead Pools on here that I have very much enjoyed taking part in. I wish you all many happy years living and deadpooling until, like me, you have tired of it (deadpooling) and wish to fill your lives with something new. I’ll still be around until 19th but I won’t be entering a team in this year’s DDP - I think that site and the people who maintain it is amazing and a real labour of love. Take care you wonderful bunch of strangers! Cheers, GUN

Recent articles on Eeva Kilpi talk of her like she's dead already, and there have been lots of events celebrating her life recently. Strong implication she's very ill and a good low requirement pool possibility for next year.

Its called hitting your 50s, same thing happened to my dad. Looked 45 for 7 years then just aged out of nowhere.

Skinner would tell the King where to shove an honour, I'd suspect.