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There's clearly something not right about Madonna. Be it illness or her rampant narcissism. Actually, that could be her killer blow, the fact shes not the person she thinks she was. Even my other half whose a massive fan thinks shes loosing the plot - Madame X is a clearly a cover up for something.

Oh that's demoralising. That's it, the campaign to get him on the 2021 list starts now. #Schaferknackered2021

All good Sean Here's how the battleground for the Crowdsource list is currently looking like 41. 321 42. 309 43. 297 44. 287 45. 285 46. 278 47. 277 48. 264 49. 255 50. 253 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51. 244 52. 243 53. 241 54. 238 55. 235 56. 234 57. 234 58. 212 59. 211 60. 206 Anything is possible really, I'm just showing you that's kind of about where the margin is to qualify...

The one who knew Jeffrey Epstein. I put him and Ghislaine Maxwell on my list, because I think their lives are in danger. Happy new year!

Btw, if you aren’t submitting a list because you think your list will have 0 impact on the crowdsource, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Especially this year. Multiple names have made some major comebacks within the last few days. Which means there is still time to make a bit of a shakeup on the crowdsource list...

I know, I just added a bit to my comment above. Your English is fine!

There's more than 4k Indian MLAs, plus they tend to be on the older side to begin with. Not surprising imo.

Team Name-Roasting Bodies In Redcar 1-Vera Lynn 2-Bobby Brown(Rangers Legend) 3-Bobbi Brown(Bobbi Brown Cosmetics) 4-Judith Magre 5-Margaret Stuart Barry 6-Aaron Carter 7-Daniel arap Moi 8-Michael Verhoeven 9-Medea Amiranashvili 10-David Gulpilil 11-Freeman Dyson 12-Chris Doleman 13-Roger Scruton 14-Lynne Reid Banks 15-Mary Ward (actress) 16-Anne Baker(writer) 17-Demi Lovato 18-Jean-Claude Carriere 19-Shin Kyuk-ho 20-Jill Knight(Parliament)

Dear DL predictors, the end of 2019 is near, I have to do the dishes and have got no more time, so here are some stats*: *if there are still hits within the next hours, I will adjust everything, of course! Overall winner based on point system: Vaagheid, as mentioned on 01.01.2019 Most hits with 14: Book 13 hits: @The Old Crem, also the Official DeathList/ the Committee 12 hits: @gcreptile @Joey Russ @theoldlady 10 hits: @msc @RadGuy (Phantom of the Midway) @YoungWillz 9 hits: @Kinnock (Deathray) @nantonian2013 @Vaagheid 7 hits: @WhoamI Our hits in 2019: 01. Carol Channing (15.01.2019): nantonian2013, WhoamI 02. Windsor Davies (17.01.2019): WhoAmI 03. Shivakumara Swami (21.01.2019): theoldlady 04. Diana Athill (23.01.2019): gcreptile, msc 05. Jonas Mekas (23.01.2019): Vaagheid 06. Albert Finney (07.02.2019): Deathray 07. Gordon Banks (11.02.2019): Book, Deathray, YoungWillz 08. Paul Flynn (17.02.2019): The Old Crem 09. Peter Tork (21.02.2019): Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady 10. Le Duc Anh (22.04.2019): Joey Russ, theoldlady 11. Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg (23.04.2019): The Old Crem 12. Doris Day (13.05.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, The Old Crem, YoungWillz 13. Tim Conway (14.05.2019): gcreptile, Joey Russ, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, Vaagheid 14. Bob Hawke (16.05.2019): WhoAmI 15. I.M. Pei (16.05.2019): Joey Russ, theoldlady 16. Herman Wouk (17.05.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldLady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 17. Judith Kerr (22.05.2019): gcreptile 18. Franco Zeffirelli (15.06.2019): Book, gcreptile, Joey Russ, YoungWillz 19. John McCririck (05.07.2019): Book, Deathray, Joey Russ, msc, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, YoungWillz 20. Freddie Jones (09.07.2019): gcreptile 21. Johnny Clegg (16.07.2019): Book, Joey Russ, Phantom of the Midway 22. John Paul Stevens (16.07.2019): nantonian2013 23. Kathleen Blanco (18.08.2019): msc, The Old Crem 24. Valerie Harper (30.08.2019): Book, gcreptile, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 25. Robert Mugabe (06.09.2019): Book, Deathray, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 26. Fernando Ricksen (18.09.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, theoldlady, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 27. Jacques Chirac (26.09.2019): Book, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI 28. José José (28.09.2019): nantonian2013, theoldlady 29. Leah Bracknell (09.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, YoungWillz 30. Gay Byrne (04.11.2019): Book 31. Clive James (24.11.2019): Book, Deathray, gcreptile, Joey Russ, msc, nantonian2013, Phantom of the Midway, theoldlady, The Old Crem, Vaagheid, WhoAmI, YoungWillz 32. Sheila Mercier (13.12.2019): Book, The Old Crem 33. Martin Peters (21.12.2019): The Old Crem Most picked candidates: Herman Wouk and Clive James (12 times, every player) No.1-hit: gcreptile: Herman Wouk Joey Russ: Clive James theoldlady: Tim Conway The Old Crem: Doris Day Vaagheid: Leah Bracknell YoungWillz: Herman Wouk No.50-hit: msc: Leah Bracknell RadGuy (Phantom of the Midway): John McCririck theoldlady: Fernando Ricksen The Old Crem: Martin Peters Vaagheid: John Mekas There are two hits on the DeathList nobody picked here, Ginger Baker and Tony Britton, so the Committee remains a mystery... Thank you! And thanks for joining this fine little game in 2019... and in 2020! Happy New Year everyone!!!

Since Alex Trebek has been suggested several times. I suggest Johnny Gilbert who has been the announcer for Jeopardy since 1984. At 95 no telling how long he will be with us. Perhaps his life in Jeopardy as much as Trebek's.

Who watches Welsh TV anyway ?

Happy new year, Greptile! May I submit my death-by-numbers list too? 1. Alex Trebek (Joker) 2. Very Lynn 3. Loretta Lynn 4. John Lewis (US political activist) 5. Ralph Nader (US political activist) 6. Richard Bonynge 7. Gabriel Bacquier (Opera singers -->) 8. Sherrill Milnes 9. José Carreras 10. Fiorenza Cossotto 11. Leslie Bricusse (Composers -->) 12. John Williams 13. Richard M. Sherman 14. John Kander 15. Stephen Sondheim 16. Pierre Soulages (Painters -->) 17. Gerhard Richter 18. Wayne Thiebaud 19. David Hockney 20. Chen Peigiu 21. Kenneth Anger (Author, Hollywood Babylon) 22. Tony Bennett 23. Cleo Laine 24. Honor Blackman 25. Cicely Tyson 26. Betty White 27. Joan Plowright 28. Angela Lansbury 29. Suzy Delair 30. Renée Simonot 31. Marsha Hunt 32. Diana Serra Carry (Baby Peggy) 33. Tippi Hedren 34. Claire Bloom 35. Lee Grant 36. Isabelle Huppert 37. Kim Novak 38. Leslie Caron 39. Felicia Farr 40. Sean Connery 41. Carl Reiner 42. Nehemiah Persoff 43. Robert Duvall 44. Robert Blake 45. Don Murray 46. Norman Lloyd 47. Michel Bouquet 48. Sultan of Oman 49. Queen Elizabeth II 50. Queen Sirikit Sub: Carroll Baker

I'll never do well because I don't know enough international people to consider. My list is very US/European-centric, with names basically everyone in the Minnesota backwoods would know. BUT if a bad batch of heroin goes out and decimates rapper/music youth, I may have a shot of getting out of the bottom quarter of the list. Thank goodness I have no ego on the line with the Deadpool, or I'd be disappointed all year long. I just have fun playing the game. (It's just an honor to be nominated...")

Submitted my team, which confessedly is fairly conventional. While I'm keeping hopeful of a top 10 spot, I doubt there's that extra oomph for an outright win. All I personally wanted is one DDP win, and with that likely to finally happen, and the way life is shifting meaning I likely won't have as much time for extensive research, I now shift to a more relaxed approach, largely picking the (competitive) names I want to pick, even if some others are better coldly logically. Good luck to all! (and of course, if I lose the lead within the remaining hours, then that's a sign from the deadpool Gods I shouldn't bother trying to win anyway... )

Ah, you're the Adric fan...

American singer and songwriter Ricky Nelson died on this day in 1985 aged 45 in a plane crash whilst travelling between Guntersville Alabama and Dallas Texas.

1 prince phillip 2 kirk douglas 3 vera lynn 4 jimmy carter 5 olivia dehavilland 6 alex trebek 7 Godvier Perez De Cueller 8 Terry Jones 9 Henry Kissinger 10 Bob Dole 11 Murray Walker 12 Pierre Cardin 13 George Alagiah 14 Betty White 15 Dick Van Dyke 16 Jimmy Greaves 17 Stirling Moss 18 Sidney Poitier 19 Bob Barker 20 Nobby Stiles 21 Gudrun Ure 22 Olivia Newton-John 23 Little Richard 24 Roger Scruton 25 Larry King 26 Valery Giscard D'Estaing 27 Honor Blackman 28 Sandy Gall 29 Jerry Stiller 30 Little Richard 31 Leslie Phillips 32 Sean Connery 33 Mel Brooks 34 Prunella Scales 35 Hosni Mubarak 36 David Attenborough 37 Mikhail Gorbachev 38 Ian Holm 39 Willie Nelson 40 Ozzy Osbourne 41 Pope Ben 42 Genesis P-Orridge 43 Tony Bennett 44 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 45 Rolf Harris 46 Linda Nolan 47 James Randi 48 Beverly Cleary 49 Burt Bacharach 50Joss Ackland backup jerry lee lewis,glynis johns drops MacGowan,Turner,Lynn,Laine,Asner,Redgrave,Tutu,Belafonte,Greenspan,Akihito,Brown,Walters

@Skinny kiltrunner adjustment made for Bob Watson - and no need for the apologies - this procedure is something of a light-hearted annual tradition at this point. My final victims for passive aggressive distain and barely tempered sarcasm finally round of the so far submitted public teams to be subject to FFBI and clarification checks.... @Book All good no FFBI disqualifications or queries. @etib80 All good no FFBI disqualifications or queries. @nantonian2013 your team is all good. No FFBI disqualifications or queries. @Bibliogryphon All good no FFBI disqualifications and no clarifications need. Given you've only submitted 25 names I'd normally ask for subs but given your track record..... just kidding.... @CaptainChorizo No clarification queries. Toby Dawson just scrapes past FFBI filter - almost disqualified him before doing a double check..... That all went disappointingly smoothly, off to see if i can hurl abuse at any of the PM entries then oh and the one person who decided status update was the best method of entering the Hares this year (that's a new one @Wormfarmer? ).....

here's my list : 1. Jean-Louis Trintignant 2. Bernard Tapie 3. Yoo Sang-Chul 4. Prince Philip 5. Kirk Douglas 6. Javier Perez De Cuellar 7. Olivia Newton-John 8. Stirling Moss 9. Olivia de Havilland 10. Renée Simonot 11. Pierre Soulages 12. Benoit XVI 13. Giancluca Vialli 14. David Stern 15. Robert Marchand 16. Roland Dumas 17. Philippe De Gaulle 18. Edgar Morin 19. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing 20. Jimmy Carter 21. Jiang Zemin 22. Pierre Cardin 23. Jerry Sloan 24. Bernadette Chirac 25. Michel Piccoli 26. Jean-Marie Le Pen 27. Joanne Woodward 28. Sidney Poitier 29. Giampiero Boniperti 30. Billy Connolly 31. Akihito 32. Jacques Delors 33. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 34. Hosni Mubarrak 35. Harry Belafonte 36. Nobby Stiles 37. Mikhail Gorbachev 38. Jimmy Greaves 39. Little Richard 40. Alberto Fujimori 41. Sinisa Mihajlovic 42. Carlos Bilardo 43. Marty Schottenheimer 44. Pervez Musharraf 45. Mark Gastineau 46. Albert Uderzo 47. Bob Cousy 48. Val Kilmer 49. Françoise Hardy 50. Desmond Tutu

Loved the scene at the end of Rogue One when Darth Vader took Down all the rebels. One of the best moments in the franchise With Darth Vader

Andrew is coming by?

Brexit; The Wilderness Years by T. May.