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  1. Posted

    Annual polite reminder your teams are available in Post 2 and a few post above here there's absolutely no need to post them again yourself.... with 43 players that is likely to get messy incredibly quickly.....

  2. Posted

    @The Old Crem 

     

    The Soap theme team league as it currently stands.....

     

    1. Slippery Soap (Leah Bracknell, Freddie Jones, Edward Kelsey, Sheila Mercier)
    2. Around the Square (Nicky Hanson)
    3. The Cobbles to a Coffin (everybody lives)

     

    Still waiting on the bloody Emmerdale and Hollyoaks teams, 2020 maybe?

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  5. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

    'cept i had a sub.  And mine wasn't dead FOR TWO WEEKS.

     

    I also had several substitutes, 3 in fact............

     

    Also it wasn't two weeks. My teams went in on the 23rd December. Ron Hogg died on the 17th December - that's less than a week. 

     

    It's an improvement last year when I submitted Ayn Rand.........

     

  7. Posted

    12 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    My Nifty Fifty for 2020:

     

     

    13. C J de Mooi

     

    You haven't fell for his 'on my deathbed and destitute' media bollocks have you? I thought you knew better. :lol:

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  8. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Wickerman said:

    There are quite wonderful and reflective moments reading Death Listers Shadow Lists. Those moments of recognition and remembrance; moments of: “Are they still alive? I haven’t thought of them for years. Where are they now? What are they doing?” and then the research to answer those questions. 
    Thank you Death Listers everywhere :old:

     

    Indeed.....

     

    This is exactly where the enjoyment from Deathlist comes for me, so my random celebrities I'd never have known about have been introduced to me via this forum. You can have all your cancer mums in the world and become a successful deadpooler but that's never been the point. The one great thing about shadow lists is that generally people actually screen their picks for 'would they put them on the real Deathlist?' if they were committee members which gives you a much higher calibre of pick than some of the competetive deadpools hereabouts with woefully low obit requirements (this isn't a criticism of them, they have their place... i set one of them up for fuck sake :lol:) 

     

    To those who say we celebrate people's deaths, to those who say we're sad bastards reveling in other peoples misery or that the magic of Deathlisting has died off. Get your head out of the FFBI ridden sands of Deathrace, the DDP and Hares come hear to have your mind cleansed and remember the good old reason for Deathlisting.

     

    It's a hobby that breathes life in forgotten careers. Each time someones name is breathed - or type - a bit of life is bled into them whether the are alive or dead. I've come to the conclusion were I a long forgotten celebrity who was to stumble upon this sight I'd be flattered people were still talking about me and that my career was notable enough to end up on one of these lists. To read lists of people of genuine fame and amazing achievements you'd never knew about is a true education.....

     

    Here's to Shadowlists, the saving grace of demoralised deadpool hosts.  I've just remembered what drew me to this site and kept me around in the first place... :) 

     

    normal bitter, pthy, aggessive, non-soppy Deathray posting will resume at some point when the drugs wear off...... 

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  9. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Auri said:

    I am requesting with Miraheze to create the DeathList Wiki.

     

    Honestly there's absolutely no bloody need for one. And even if there was.... we would not be given admin duties on it to a new poster with 9 posts, most of which were about a Singaporean nobody.....

  12. Posted

    And re that spreadsheet - it's seems people have thankfully (from a host perspective) combined around a relatively smaller number of dead cetrs. Including subs there was a potential 1290 names that could be entered if everyone had a unique pick (and if this had happened I think I'd have concurrently had some form of mental breakdown, so this justifies not award bonuses for unique picks in my head....). I currently have 499 names on my spreadsheet. 

     

    Re Spreadsheet - feel free to start the annual process of telling me that Actually Famous is Random Nobody of the Same Name or I've fucked up the data entry on your team (there will be errors).....

     

    Edit also has a sheet for you to leave pithy notes for the host like 'you fucked this up, you fucked that up,  here's my Butffuck Nowhere Times obit for my WTFAT award winning pick....'

     

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zZ5lmZKfanzhKq8HTW7XItDiUaHmiehOqDfT5NNn-0k/edit?usp=sharing

  14. Posted

    So the died very late in Decembers are starting to crop up.

     

    The aforementioned poker player Aaron Corson died 30 Dec 2019 - I missed that one in the mad rush for entries. Brings Henri Richard - a Canadian hockey player off Sir Creeps sub bench. Probably a lucky escape for SC as so far not even a local obit has shown up for our minor poker player. :) 

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    Just a little more justification for my joker. Yuri Organnason is the only living scientist to have a chemical element named after him. 

     

    I mean he didn't even feature in the obscure cunt shortlist. He has a wikipedia page after all.....

  19. Posted

    Really feels like the committee have decided to relax the fame requirements a bit before. You always knew the Deathlist was a cut above the rest, it would never compete in the DDP seriously because it picked actually celebrities. Philip rightfully first is good.

     

    Yes Bill Gates Sr is notable, but he's hardly a bonafide celebrity is he. He's not Bill Gates to be really crass.  Similarly is Genesis P-Orridge or Alan Greenspan really that famous?

     

    Tom Smith, Leon Spinks are okay but borderline on that score for. Sports-people but is every sports person properly famous.

     

    Pervez Musharraf is cheating.....

     

    Dropping 92 year old chainsmoker June Brown is unforgivable though....... was Tony Bennet really a better use of a spot?

  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

    Nice work Roey, well done.
     

    Just out of interest geez, where exactly was Schafernaker placed? Just so we know how much to campaign in 11 months time like...

     

    Generally Joey reveals this information in a couple of months time (I don't think the absolutely no fucking hopers are tracked that throughly on NYE to be honest, fairly enough.)

     

    And thanks to Joey for doing this. Both the actual Deathlist and this crowdsourced one look seriously good - can see 15-20 hits on both of them.

  21. Posted

    A direct copy of my email - a team initially intended as a theme team (people with terminall illness - When Will I-FFBI Be Famous becomes Kervorkian Clinic due to a inability to let Shot in the Dark go and the Corrie team being a stalwart at this point.) Msc has already politely wondered me that should any of these actually obit the team will be open to sustained ridicule..... fair enough I suppose. 
     
    Deathray's Kervorkian Clinic
     
    - these people have all had news reports in press which seems to be pitifully low standard for the DDP. Yes, this team is partly an attempt to make a point and partly because i'm pushed for time and googling terminally ill was a quick research method - submitting this in the hope none of them die any who do don't obit.....
    1. Lisa Griffits (vowed to beat cancer - Daily Mail favourite)
    2. James Church (Charlotte Church's step dad)
    3. Garry Holmes (sun favourite  with runny nose that turned out to be cancer)
    4. Rob Burrow (motor neurone disease, Leeds Rhino)
    5. Sheila Yeo (former primary school teacher who contracted cancer and is trying to blame it on the school)
    6. Tracey Hill (terminally ill woman who's co-workers and friends made a naked calendar for in the welsh valleys)
    7. Bruce Evans (terminally ill Great North Air Ambulance volunteer who's vowed not to give up the fight)
    8. Doug Allen (terminally ill but won't kill himself due to wife facing clink for helping - daily mail coverage)
    9. Edwin Smith (terminally ill man living in Thailand who had a gofundme started to bring him home to Ireland)
    10. Haley Casey (cancer mum)
    11. Simona Birdsell (cancer mum)
    12. James Matthews (father of a girl who somehow made the news for caring for them and a free laptop)
    13. Roberta Burton (another cancer mum)
    14. Lisa Fry (another cancer mum)
    15. Bethan Close (another cancer mum)
    16. Andrea Swift (cancer mum _ Taylor Swifts to be precise)
    17. Debbie Winn (cancer mum)
    18. Ron Hogg (terminally ill Police Commissioner and right to life campaigner)
    19. Peter McLeave (terminally ill former ironman competitor)
    20. Ria Collins (cancer mum)
    21. Dr Peter B Scott Morgan (worlds first 'full cyborg)
    22. The Amazing Johnathan (magician - stand up comedian)
    23. Charlie Bishop (cancer dad)
     
    The Cobbles to a Coffin

    (theme team - Corrie actors, put which character they are in brackets to save a google)
    1. William Roache (Ken Barlow)
    2. Thelma Barlow (Mavis Wilton)
    3. Kenneth Cope (Jed Stone)
    4. Anne Reid (Valerie Barlow)
    5. Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole)
    6. Geoffrey Hinsliff (Don Brennan)
    7. Barbara Knox (Rita Tanner)
    8. Alan Rothwell (David Barlow)
    9. Neville Buswell (Ray Langton)
    10. Ernst Walder (Ivan Cheveski) (the internet thinks he's still alive? fuck knows)
    11. Patricia Shakesby (Susan Cunningham)
    12. Timothy West (Eric Babbage)
    13. June Brown (Mrs Parsons) (yes, she was in Corrie as well, there's your pub quiz question.
    14. Bernard Cribbins (Wall Bannister)
    15. Julie Goodyear (Bet Lynch)
    16. Gareth Berliner (Macca)
    17. Maureen Lipman (Evelyn Plummer)
    18. Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop)
    19. Brian Capron (Richard Hillman)
    20. Mark Eden (Alan Bradley)
    21. Madge Hindle (Renee Bradshaw)
    22. Johnny Briggs (Mike Baldwin)
    23. Lisa George (Beth Tinker) [I'm struggling and the daily express is playing up her 'chronic health battle' with fucking diabetes for pete's sake)
    24. David Neilson (Roy Cropper)
    25. Sue Nicholls (Audrey Roberts)
     
    Shot in the Dark.
    (sort of not really a theme team - the first 25 names I thought of, no filtering whatsoever (except for removing the dead) )
    1. Arthur Scargill (trade unionist) (Joker)
    2. Michael Gorbachev (soviet leader)
    3. Albert Luque (footballer) 
    4. Ray Reardon (snooker player)
    5. John McDonnell (socialist)
    6. Wilfrid Zaha (footballer)
    7.  Norm Coleman (lobbyist)
    8.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (judge)
    9.  Emperor Akhito (Emperor)
    10.  Pope Benedict XVI (immortal by the grace of god seemingly)
    11.  Geoffrey Robinson (Labour MP)
    12.  John Bercow (remoaner in chief)
    13.  Sandy Gall (Scottish journo)
    14.  Sandy Thom (wishes she was a punk rocker)
    15.  Lionel Richie (shit singer) 
    16.  Paul Gascoigne (alcoholic)
    17.  Kenny Sansom (alcoholic)
    18.  Ed Sheeran (alcoholic)
    19.  Ant McPartlin (druggie and scum of the earth)
    20.  Michael Carroll (lotto lout)
    21.  Sajid Javid (chancellor)
    22.  Jamie T (singer)
    23.  Aaron Bastani (Novara media presenter and probable assasination threat by Boris)
    24.  Prince Andrew (car crash - too obvious?)
    25. Liam Gallagher (professional wanker)

  23. Posted

    On 11/12/2019 at 13:20, Kinnock said:

    Reserved for the masterlist. 

     

    In the meantime team progress reports through the tradition Masterlist/FFBI filter - if you've two YES's in these boxes your team is sorted unless you want to make changes under Rule 7. 

     

    Processed and Properly Formatted Team Sheets……

     

     

    • markb4

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Barbara Walters

    3. Betty White

    4. Bob Barker

    5. Bob Dole

    6. Christopher Tolkien

    7. Chuck Yeager (WILDCARD)

    8. Ed Asner

    9. George Alagiah

    10. Henry Kissinger

    11. James L. Buckley

    12. Javier Perez de Cuellar

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. Katherine Jackson

    15. Kirk Douglas

    16. Larry King

    17. Larry Storch

    18. Lata Mangeshkar

    19. Nicholas Parsons

    20. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    21. Roberta McCain

    22. Rosalynn Carter

    23. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    24. Ruthie Tompson 

    25. Vera Lynn

     

    Subs: Norman Lloyd, Katherine Johnson, Glynis Johns, Beverley Cleary, Olivia de Haviland

     

    • Joey Russ

     

    1. Alan Greenspan 

    2. Alex Trebek 

    3. Bob Barker 

    4. Bob Fass

    5. Chitetsu Watanabe 

    6. Daniel Arap Moi

    7. Genesis P-orridge

    8. Jean Louis Trintignant 

    9. Jill Gascoine 

    10. Jimmy Carter 

    11. Kane Tanaka

    12. Kirk Douglas 

    13. Lee Kerslake 

    14. Little Richard 

    15. Mikhail Gorbachev 

    16. Nobby Stiles 

    17. Norman Lloyd

    18. Pope Benedict 

    19. Robert McCain 

    20. Roger Scruton

    21. Stirling Moss

    22. Terry Jones (WILDCARD) 

    23. Tommy Devito

    24. Vera Lynn 

    25. Willie Nelson 

     

    Subs: John Andretti, Larry King, John Hume, Everton Weekes Javier Perez de Cuellar

     

    • The Quim Reaper

    ,

    1. Anne Buydens

    2. Bill Turnbull

    3. George Alagiah

    4. Henry Kissinger

    5. Javier Perez de Cuéllar (WILDCARD)

    6. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    7. Jimmy Carter

    8. Katherine Jackson

    9. Kirk Douglas

    10. Lee Kerslake

    11. Leslie Phillips

    12. Little Richard

    13. Mikhail Gorbachev

    14. Murray Walker

    15. Nicholas Parsons

    16. Nobby Stiles

    17. Olivia de Havilland

    18. Pope Benedict XVI

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Prunella Scales

    21. Stirling Moss

    22. Terry Jones

    23. Trevor Peacock

    24. Valery Giscard d’Estaing

    25. Vera Lynn

     

    Subs: Alex Trebek, Daniel Arap Moi, Bob Dole

     

    •  

    • Msc

     

    1.  Arnold Yarrow

    2.  Beverly Cleary

    3.  Bob Barker

    4.  Bob Dole

    5.  Chuck Yeager

    6.  Clarissa Eden

    7.  Earl Cameron

    8.  Elizabeth Sellars

    9.  James Lovelock

    10.  Leslie Philips

    11.  Murray Walker

    12.  Nehemiah Persoff

    13.  Olivia de Havilland

    14.  Peregrine Worsthorne

    15.  Peter Tobin

    16.  Prince Philip

    17.  Vera Lynn

    18. Aaron Beck

    19. Freeman Dyson

    20. Henry Kissinger

    21. Kirk Douglas

    22. Nicholas Parsons

    23. Ronald Atkins

    24. Sumner Redstone

    25. William Frankland (WILDCARD)

     

    Subs: Eva Marie Saint, Jimmy Carter, William Russell, Christopher Tolkein, Kenneth Kuanda

     

    • The Unknown Man

     

    1. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    2. Anastasia Zavorotnyuk

    3. Bernard Tapie

    4. Chris Doleman

    5. Daniel Arap Moi

    6. David Gulpilil

    7. Eva Marie Saint

    8. Everton Weekes

    9. Frankie Banali

    10. Genesis P-Orridge

    11. George Alagiah

    12. Giorgio Napolitano

    13. Isabel Peron

    14. Javier Perez de Cuellar

    15. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    16. Jimmy Carter

    17. John Andretti

    18. Kirk Douglas

    19. Lee Kerslake

    20. Nobby Stiles

    21. Olivia de Havilland

    22. Prince Philip

    23. Sam Lloyd

    24. Tabaré Vázquez

    25. Terry Jones

     

    Subs: Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Giscard D’Estaing, Olivia Newtown John, Hosni Mubarak, Bill Turnbull

     

    Prophet

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Barry Du Bois

    3. Bob Dole

    4. Bob Gibson

    5. Daniel arap Moi

    6. Frankie Banali

    7. George Alagiah

    8. Harry Reid

    9. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    10. Jimmy Carter

    11. John Andretti

    12. June Spencer

    13. Kirk Douglas

    14. Lee Kerslake

    15. Mark Gastineau

    16. Nobby Stiles

    17. Norman Lear

    18. Olivia de Havilland

    19. Prince Phillip

    20. Roger Scruton

    21. Ruthie Thompson

    22. Vera Lynn

    23. William Frankland

    24. Willie Nelson

    25. Yoo Sang-chul

     

    Subs: Norman Lloyd, Rosallyn Carter, Ian Holm, Peter Tobin, David Gulpill.

     

    • JoeMoneyPenny

     

    1. Demi Lovato

    2. Dilip Kumar

    3. Everton Weekes 

    4. Genesis P-Orridge 

    5. Grace Chang 

    6. Grace Slick 

    7. Hau Pei-Tsen 

    8. Imelda Marcos 

    9. James Hong

    10. Jordan Peterson 

    11. Kane Tanaka 

    12. Kim Yong-nam 

    13. Lata Mangeshkar 

    14. Manolis Glezos 

    15. Miiko Taka 

    16. Mikhail Gorbachev 

    17. Prince Phillip 

    18. Robert Kuok 

    19. Stanley Ho(joker) 

    20. Susan Bayh 

    21. Tim Pool(Bald youtube political commentator) 

    22. Vera Lynn

    23. Vishwesha Teertha 

    24. Yang Hyong-sop

    25. Yoo Sang-chul

     

    Subs: Pope Benedict, Pope Francis, Donald Trump

     

    • Torva Messor

     

    1. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    2. Barbara Walters

    3. Beverly Cleary

    4. Bob Dole

    5. David Gulpilil

    6. Diana Serra Cary

    7. Frankie Banali

    8. Genesis P-Orridge

    9. George Alagiah

    10. Harry Reid

    11. Hugh Downs

    12. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. Kirk Douglas

    15. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    16. Marsha Hunt, actor b. 1917

    17. Nobby Stiles

    18. Norman Lloyd

    19. Olivia de Havilland

    20. Olivia Newton-John

    21. Roger Angell

    22. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    23. Susan Bayh

    24. Vera Lynn

    25. Willie Nelson

    Subs: Bob Gibson (baseball), Aaron Carter, Howie Meeker, Ray Anthony, Charlie Munger, 

     

    • JoePesci (aka The Mad Hatter - formerly known as MorbidKid)

     

    1. Bob Dole

    2. Daniel Arap Moi 

    3. David Dinkins

    4. Don Murray (actor b. 1929)

    5. Genesis P orridge 

    6. Ian Holm (actor)

    7. Isabel Peron 

    8. James Earl Jones

    9. Jean louis trintigant 

    10. Jimmy Heath 

    11. Joanne Woodward

    12. John Andretti (wildcard)

    13. John Hume (Irish politician)

    14. Kirk Douglas

    15. Larry King 

    16. Lee Grant

    17. Little Richard

    18. Luis Echeverría

    19. Olvia De Haviland

    20. Prince Philp 

    21. Prunella Scales

    22. Roger Scruton

    23. Sidney poitier

    24. Terry Jones 

    25. Walter Bernenstein

     

    Sub: Roberta McCain

     

    • Death Impends

     

    1. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    2. Art Rupe

    3. Beverly Cleary

    4. Clarissa Eden

    5. Diana Serra Cary

    6. Earl Cameron

    7. Harrison Ruffin Tyler (surviving grandchild of John Tyler)

    8. Ian St. John

    9. Javier Perez de Cuellar

    10. Joe Vento (Sinatra's pianist)

    11. John Hume

    12. Kane Tanaka

    13. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    14. Leslie Phillips

    15. Lyon Gardiner Tyler,  Jr. (surviving grandchild of John Tyler)

    16. Mad Mike Hoare

    17. Nehemiah Persoff

    18. Norman Lloyd

    19. Pearl Carr

    20. Robert Clary

    21. Roberta McCain

    22. Ruthie Tompson

    23. Stirling Moss

    24. Sumner Redstone

    25. William Frankland

     

    Subs: Daniel Arap Moi, Bob Barker.

     

    • Skinny Kiltrunner

     

    1. Alcee Hastings

    2. Bernard Ebbers

    3. Bernard Tapie

    4. Bob Watson (baseball player)

    5. Brian O'Conner (EODM member)

    6. Chris Doleman

    7. Christy Dignam

    8. Doug Supernaw

    9. Frankie Banali

    10. George Alagiah

    11. Gianluca Vialli

    12. Gray O'Brien

    13. Harry Reid

    14. John Andretti

    15. Karen Lewis

    16. Mary Fairhurst

    17. Michael Diamond, trapshooter

    18. Michael McKevitt

    19. Nick Berry, engineer/ data scientist

    20. Nobuhiko Obayashi

    21. Olivia Newton-John

    22. Sumner Redstone

    23. Susan Bayh- (WILDCARD)

    24. Tom Smith - rugby player/coach

    25. Yoo Sang-Chul

     

     

    Subs: Jean Louis Trintagent, Henry Gray, Ed Battle (jazz singer)

     

    • YorkshireBanker

     

    1. Aaron Carter

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Anne Baker

    4. Bella Thorne

    5. Bobby Brown-NY Yankee(1924 born)

    6. Bobby Brown-Rangers(1923 born)

    7. Daniel arap Moi

    8. David Gulpilil

    9. Eileen Ash- (WILDCARD)

    10. Freeman Dyson

    11. Gudrun Ure

    12. Henry Gray

    13. Johnny Beattie

    14. Kane Tanaka

    15. Katherine Johnson

    16. Lynne Reid Banks 

    17. Margaret Stuart Barry

    18. Olivia Newton-John

    19. Paul Hogan

    20. Sandy Gall

    21. Sinead O'Connor

    22. Vasily Kulkov

    23. Vera Lynn

    24. Vivian Pickles

    25. Winning Ewing

     

     

    Subs: Terry Jones, Monica Vitti

     

    • Theoldlady

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Bob Dole

    3. Catherine Deneuve

    4. Celine Dion

    5. Daniel Arap-Moi

    6. David Gulipilil

    7. David Prowse

    8. Dilip Kumar

    9. Ennio Morricone

    10. George Alagiah (WILDCARD)

    11. Henry Gray

    12. Javier Pérez de Cuellar

    13. Jean Louis Trintignant

    14. Jimmy Carter

    15. Katherine Jackson

    16. Kirk Douglas

    17. Larry King

    18. Loretta Lynn

    19. Nobby Stiles

    20. Olivia Newton-John 

    21. Prince Philip

    22. Rosalynn Carter

    23. Ruth Bader-Ginsburg

    24. Stirling Moss

    25. Willie Nelson

     

    Subs: Samantha Last, Yoko Ono, Sidney Poiter, Bob Barker, Chris Rea

     

    • Book

     

    1. Ágnes Keleti

    2. Alfred Biolek

    3. Bibi Johns

    4. Christiane F.

    5. Cleo Laine

    6. Gina Lollobrigida

    7. Gotthilf Fischer

    8. Hannelore Minkus

    9. Iris Apfel

    10. Isabel Perón

    11. Jimmy Carter

    12. Margot Leonard

    13. Maria Riva  (Wildcard)

    14. Maria Sebaldt

    15. Mario Adorf

    16. Michel Piccoli

    17. Mikis Theodorakis

    18. Monica Vitti

    19. Peter Mark Richman

    20. Ralf Wolter

    21. Rolf Eden

    22. Rolf Schimpf

    23. Rosalynn Carter

    24. Sonja Ziemann

    25. Val Kilmer

    Subs: Barbara Wetting, Peter Beck, Gunther von Hagens

     

    • Etib80

    1. Alain Delon

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Barbara Walters

    4. Bernard Tapie

    5. Betty White

    6. Bob Barker (wild card)

    7. Dame Angela Lansbury (actor)

    8. George Alagiah

    9. Glynis Johns

    10. Harry Belafonte

    11. Jean Marie Le Pen (French Politician)

    12. Jimmy Carter

    13. Keith Richards (of the Rolling Stones)

    14. Kirk Douglas

    15. Norman Lloyd (American actor)

    16. Olivia de Haviland

    17. Pelé (football player)

    18. Pierre Cardin

    19. Pope Benedict XVI 

    20. Prince Philip of England

    21. Rosalynn Carter

    22. Tenzin Gyatso (current Dalai Lama)

    23. Valery Giscard d'Estaing

    24. Vera Lynn

    25. Yoko Ono

     

    Subs: Eva Marie Saint, Dick Van Dyke, Queen Elizabeth II, Jean Paul Belmondo, Mikhail Gorbachev

     

    • Nantonian2013

     

    1. Abdullah The Butcher (Wrestler)

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Andrew Romanov

    4. Bill Turnbull

    5. Bob Barker

    6. Bob Dole

    7. Brian Cowen

    8. Brigance

    9. Clarissa Eden

    10. David Butler

    11. David Gulpilil 

    12. Everton Weekes

    13. John Hume

    14. Kamala (Wrestler)

    15. Katherine Jackson

    16. Leon Spinks

    17. Little Richard

    18. Michael Jopling

    19. Nobby Stiles (WILDCARD)

    20. Pope Benedict

    21. Roberta McCain

    22. Roger Scruton

    23. Sumner Redstone

    24. Tabaré Vázquez

    25. Tom Smith (rugby player)

     

    Subs: Margaret Tebbit, Jack Charlton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronnie Wood, Lee Kerslake

     

    • Bibliogryphon

     

    1. C W McCall

    2. Clifford Rose

    3. Clive Barker

    4. Gina Lollabrigida

    5. Erich von Daniken

    6. Henry Blofeld

    7. Herbert Kretzmer

    8. Joanne Woodward

    9. John Astin

    10. John Wakeham

    11. Judith Durham

    12. Leslie Caron

    13. Murray Walker

    14. Pat Carroll

    15. Patricia Routledge

    16. Pete Murray

    17. Peter J Hammond

    18. Shirley Williams

    19. Sonia Gandhi

    20. Sylvia Simms

    21. Teddie Chinnery

    22. Tom Lehrer

    23. William F Nolan

    24. William Russell

    25. Yuri Oganessian (WILDCARD) (nuclier scientist - in case you were wondering ?)

     

    Sub - Annette Badlands

     

    • CaptainChorizo

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Bernard Ebbers

    3. Bernardino Piñera

    4. Bob Weighton

    5. Boris Pahor

    6. Chitetsu Watanabe

    7. Denis Goldberg

    8. Frankie Banali

    9. Genesis P-orridge

    10. Hugh Downs

    11. Jessie Lichauco

    12. John Lewis(US Congressman)

    13. Johnny Harris (scottish born musician)

    14. Kane Tanaka(joker)

    15. Lee Kerslake

    16. Lucia Hiriart

    17. Luis Echeverria

    18. Mary Fairhurst

    19. Raymond Allen(Sanford and son actor)

    20. Roger Scruton

    21. Sugar Pie DeSanto

    22. Terry Jones

    23. Toby Dawson

    24. Tom Belso

    25. Tom Smith, Scotland rugby captain

     

    Subs: Vera Lynn, Lee Noble, Prince Philip, Rosina Quintana, Javier Perez de Cuellar

     

    • An Fear Beag

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Belinda Sykes

    3. Bill Turnbull

    4. Bob Dole

    5. Bob Gibson

    6. Bob Weighton

    7. Chris Doleman

    8. Daniel Arap Moi

    9. David Gulpill

    10. David Hagen (WILDCARD)

    11. Frankie Benali

    12. Genesis P-orridge

    13. George Alagiah

    14. Harry Reid

    15. Jean Louis Trintagent

    16. John Lewis (American politician)

    17. Kane Tanaka

    18. Kirk Douglas

    19. Litsa Menounos

    20. Olivia Newton John

    21. Pat Smullen

    22. Peter Tobin

    23. Roberta McCain

    24. Terry Jones

    25. Tom Smith (rugby)

     

    Subs: Denis Goldberg, Prince Philip, Jimmy Carter

     

    • Pedro67

     

    1. Angela Lansbury (WILDCARD)

    2. Billy Connoly

    3. Boris Pahor

    4. Christopher Plummer

    5. Doddie Wier

    6. Doyle Brunson (poker)

    7. George Alagiar

    8. Ian st John

    9. Jackie Stallone

    10. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    11. Joyce Randolph

    12. Kirk Douglas

    13. Linda Nolan

    14. Linda Rondstadt

    15. Murray Walker

    16. Nanci Ryder

    17. Olivia Newton John

    18. Pele

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Prunella Scales

    21. Ronald Atkins MP

    22. Rupert Murdoch

    23. Sandy Gall

    24. Sir John Nott

    25. Terry Jones

     

    Subs: June Brown, Eileen Derbyshire, Roy Hattersley

     

    • Clorox Bleachman

     

    1. Bill Freehan

    2. Chitetsu Watanabe

    3. David Hagen

    4. Deborah James

    5. Dermot "Bugsy" O'Neill

    6. Dilip Kumar

    7. George Alagiah

    8. Hester Ford

    9. Irene Sinclair

    10. Jana Bennett (ex-BBC boss)

    11. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    12. Jim Carr (American politician)

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. John Andretti

    15. Julie Strain

    16. Kane Tanaka

    17. Lee Kerslake (WILDCARD)

    18. Lucile Randon

    19. Micah Bowie (baseball player)

    20. Penn Pennington (session musician, no me neither)

    21. Prince Philip

    22. Thuy Thanh Truong

    23. TJ Ducklo (Joe Biden's press secretary, no me neither....)

    24. Tom Smith (rugby)

    25. Yoo Sang-chul

     

    Subs: Bob Weighton, Stirling Moss, Greg Gilbert

     

    • Sir Creep

     

    1. Aaron 'Ace' Corson  (very minor poker player).

    2. Alcee Hastings

    3. Balbir Singh, Sr.

    4. Bill Freehan

    5. Daniel Arap-Moi

    6. David Gulpilil

    7. Deane Sutherland (NZ singer - sattelite spies)

    8. Dilip Kumar

    9. Frankie Banali

    10. Henry Gray

    11. Ignatio Trelles

    12. Jay Allen

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. John Andretti

    15. Joni Tada

    16. Ken Wilkinson

    17. Kirk Douglas

    18. Lee Allen Zeno (WILDCARD) (session musician)

    19. Paul Rutter

    20. Renee Simonot 

    21. Ruth Bader Ginsberg

    22. Ruthie Thompson

    23. Sen. Harry Reid

    24. Tim Bilton

    25. Tom Smith (rugby)

     

    Subs - Henri Richard, Roberta McCain

     

    • The Old Crem

     

    1. Alex Trebeck

    2. Barbara Walters

    3. Bob Dole

    4. George Alagiah

    5. Glynis Johns

    6. Jill Gascoigne

    7. Jimmy Carter

    8. Jimmy Greaves

    9. Joanne Woodward

    10. John Hume

    11. John Lewis

    12. Kirk Douglas.

    13. Leslie Phillips

    14. Lorretta Lynn

    15. Mikhail Gorbachev

    16. Nicholas Parsons

    17. Nobby Stiles

    18. Olivia de Havilland

    19. Pope Benedict

    20. Prince Philip.

    21. Rosalynn Carter

    22. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    23. Stirling Moss

    24. Tom Smith

    25. Vera Lynn.(WILDCARD)

     

    Subs: Desmond Tutu, Olivia Newtown John, Barbara Windsor, Harry Belafonte, Harry Reid

     

    • YoungWillz

    1. Arnold Yarrow

    2. Bernard Cribbins (WILDCARD)

    3. Christopher Benjamin

    4. Damaris Hayman

    5. David Prowse

    6. Earl Cameron

    7. Frank Windsor

    8. Geoffrey Palmer

    9. Georgine Anderson

    10. Henry Woolf

    11. Hugh Futcher

    12. Julian Glover

    13. Kenneth Cope

    14. Mark Eden

    15. Michael Kilgarriff

    16. Morris Perry

    17. Nicholas Parsons

    18. Philip Latham

    19. Roy Evans

    20. Sonny Caldinez

    21. Tom Baker

    22. Tony Caunter

    23. Vera Fusek

    24. William Russell

    25. Ysanne Churchman

     

    Subs: John Rolfe, John Gorrie, Thelma Barlow, Gabriel Woolf, June Brown

     

    • Kinnock (formerly known as Deathray)

     

    1. Alan Alda (screenwriter and actor)

    2. Arthur Scargill

    3. The Amazing Johnathan (comedian/magician)

    4. Barbara Knox

    5. Bill Stevenson (Descendents drummer)

    6. Billy Connolly

    7. Clarrissa Eden (is she even still alive?)

    8. Dennis Skinner

    9. Dr Peter B Scott Morgan (worlds first 'full cyborg')

    10. Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest)

    11. James Church (Charlotte Church's step-dad)

    12. Jim Boheim (US College Basketball Coach) [WILDCARD]

    13. Jimmy Carter (US President)

    14. June Brown

    15. Kieth Richards

    16. Michael Heseltine

    17. Ozzy Osbourne (walking corpse)

    18. Peter McCleave (terminally ill former ironman competitor)

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Prunella Scales

    21. Ray Kennedy (footballer - arsenal)

    22. Richie Kavanaugh (Irish entertainer)

    23. Ron Hogg (terminally ill Police Commissioner and right to life campaigner)

    24. T Boz (singer)

    25. William Roache

     

    Subs: Illr Meta (Albanian president), Ray Reardon, David Blunkett, Carrie Simmonds.

     

    • LizLemon

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Barbara Walters

    3. Buzz Aldrin

    4. Cloris Leachman

    5. Ed Asner

    6. Harry Belafonte

    7. Imelda Marcos

    8. Jerry Stiller

    9. Jimmy Carter

    10. Johnny Isakson

    11. Kirk Douglas

    12. Loretta Lynn

    13. Olivia de Havilland

    14. Olivia Newton-John

    15. Pope Benedict XVI

    16. Prince Philip

    17. Roberta McCain

    18. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    19. Sidney Poitier

    20. Sumner Redstone

    21. Susan Bayh (WILDCARD)

    22. US Rep. John Lewis

    23. Vanessa Redgrave

    24. Walter Mondale

    25. Willie Nelson

     

     

    Subs: Betty White, Burt Bachaach, Joanne Woodward, Gena Rowlands, Lois Capps

     

    • Toast

     

    1. Anne Buydens Douglas

    2. Betty White

    3. Bill Treacher

    4. Bob Dole

    5. Chris Rea

    6. Clive Barker (WILDCARD)

    7. Gerald Harper

    8. Glynis Johns

    9. Ian Holm

    10. James Dewey Watson

    11. Jason Becker

    12. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. Joanne Woodward

    15. Judy Dyble

    16. Leslie Phillips

    17. Michael Lonsdale

    18. Michael Medwin

    19. Pearl Carr

    20. Raymond Briggs

    21. Sidney Poitier

    22. Stirling Moss

    23. Trevor Peacock

    24. Vera Lynn

    25. Willie Nelson

     

    Subs: Kirk Douglas, Jill Gascoigne, Lee Kerslake, Doreen Mantle, Michael Schumacher

     

    • GraveDanger

     

    1. Alberto Fujimori 

    2. Barry Du Bois (Australian Designer)

    3. Bill Turnbull

    4. Chris Doleman (Former NFL star)

    5. Chris Rea

    6. Deborah James (cancer blogger, born c.1982)

    7. Dennis Skinner (former British MP)

    8. Dewayne "Lee" Johnson (Former Groundskeeper, won lawsuit against Monsanto)

    9. Emperor Akhito

    10. Genesis P-Orridge

    11. George Alagiah

    12. Greg Gilbert (Delays frontman)

    13. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    14. Jill Gascoine

    15. Jimmy Carter (US President)

    16. John Andretti (WILDCARD)

    17. Lee Kerslake (Uriah Heep Drummer)

    18. Linda Nolan

    19. Nobby Stiles

    20. Noel Conway (Assisted Dying Campaigner)

    21. Olivia Newton-John

    22. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    23. Sonny Rollins

    24. Susan Bayh (Former First Lady of Indiana)

    25. Terry Jones (Monty Python)

     

    Subs Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Vera Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Haviland, Bob Dole.

     

    • Banana 

     

    1. Alcee Hastings

    2. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    3. Bob Gibson (baseball)

    4. Bradley Murdoch

    5. Chris Doleman

    6. Derek Aucoin (baseball)

    7. Frankie Banali

    8. Greg Lewis (State Rep. of KS)

    9. Henri Richard

    10. Howard Sattler

    11. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    12. John Lewis

    13. Joseph Hannesschlager

    14. Lee Kerslake

    15. Matt Loede

    16. Mike Miller (Maryland senate)

    17. Prince Philip

    18. Ruth Morrissey (activist)

    19. Stan Bowles

    20. Steve Blackmore

    21. Susan Bayh

    22. Terry Jones

    23. Tom Belso

    24. Tony Pena (football)

    25. Yoo Sang-Chul

     

    Subs Karen Lewis, Prunella Scales, Anastosia Zaravutnoik.

     

    • JiromeonKimura

     

    1. Alcee Hastings

    2. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    3. Bernard Tapie

    4. Bob Gibson

    5. Boris Klyuyev

    6. Brett Sinclair (brother of Sherrie Hewson)

    7. Chitetsu Watanabe

    8. David Gulpilil

    9. Derek Aucoin

    10. Frankie Banali

    11. Gavin Robertson

    12. Genesis P-Orridge

    13. Joseph Hannesschlager

    14. Judy Dyble

    15. Lars Hogh

    16. Lee Noble

    17. Lone Dybkjaer

    18. Michel Gauthier

    19. Rep John Lewis

    20. Rod Nordland

    21. Scott Dureau

    22. Steve Blackmore

    23. Tabare Vazquez

    24. Tom Smith

    25. Yoo Sang-chul

     

    Subs: Lee Kerslake,. Ed Genson

     

    Wormfarmer

     

    1. Bill Freehan 

    2. Bob Dole

    3. Boris Pahor

    4. Daniel Arap Moi

    5. David Gulpilil

    6. David Stern

    7. Dilip Kumar

    8. Frankie Banali

    9. Genesis P-orridge

    10. George Alagiah 

    11. James Randi

    12. Jean Louis Trintignant

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. Jjohn Cruickshank

    15. Karen Lewis 

    16. Kirk Douglas 

    17. Lee Kerslake

    18. Leslie Phillips

    19. Majek Fashek 

    20. Norman Lloyd

    21. Olivia Newton-John (WILDCARD)

    22. Renee Simonot

    23. Ruthie Thompson

    24. Susan Bayh

    25. William Frankland

     

    Subs: Bob Barker, Kane Tanaka, Matt Millen

     

    • RadGuy (formerly known as Phantom of the Midway)

     

    1. Alcee Hastings

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Bernadette Chirac

    4. Bernard Tapie

    5. Bob Barker

    6. Bob Dole

    7. Chris Latchem (Radio 5 presenter)

    8. Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot drummer)

    9. Greg Gilbert

    10. Jimmy Carter

    11. John Andretti (WILDCARD)

    12. Karen Lewis (Chicago labor leader)

    13. Lars Hogh (Danish footballer)

    14. Lee Kerslake

    15. Michael Robinson (footballer and presenter)

    16. Mikhail Gorbachev

    17. Nanci Ryder (Hollywood publicist)

    18. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    19. Sam Lloyd

    20. Samu Anoa'i

    21. Susan Bayh (former Indiana first lady)

    22. Terry Jones

    23. Tom Long (Aussie actor)

    24. Tom Smith (rugby)

    25. Willie Nelson

     

    Subs: Dominic Matteo, Stirling Moss, Jill Gascoigne

     

    • Gcreptile

     

    1. Alcee Hastings

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Alexander Peskov (Russian comedian)

    4. Andrew McDonald (former chair of SCOPE)

    5. Bob Gibson (baseball)

    6. Bob Joers (Middleton Athletic director)

    7. Chris Baggoley (former Australian chief medical officer)

    8. Danny Oosthuizen (South Africa journalist)

    9. Don Asmussen (comics)

    10. Frankie Banali

    11. Gianluca Vialli

    12. Jhon Jairo Velasquez (killer)

    13. Karen Simpson (former Royal Bury theatre director)

    14. Lars Hogh (danish football player)

    15. Lee Kerslake

    16. Mama Bruschetta (Italian comedian)

    17. Mary Fairhurst (US judge)

    18. Mikhail Gorbachev

    19. Miroslava Duma (Russian influencer)

    20. Pat Smullen

    21. Peter Bonetti

    22. Peter Schjeldahl (joker)

    23. Ricardo Valero (former Mexico ambassador)

    24. Todd Portune (US politician)

    25. Yoo Sang-Chul

     

    Subs: Pawel Krolowski (Polish actor)

     

    • the engineer

     

    1. Alex Trebek(WILDCARD)

    2. Arnold Spielberg

    3. Barry Du Bois

    4. Bob Dole

    5. Chris Doleman 

    6. Clive Barker (author)

    7. Deborah James

    8. Dennis Goldberg

    9. George Alagiah

    10. Jean Louis Trintignant

    11. Jill Gascoigne

    12. John Andretti

    13. Kane tanaka

    14. Kirk Douglas

    15. Larry King 

    16. Lee Kerslake

    17. Nobby Stiles

    18. Olivia de Havilland

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Roberta Mccain

    21. Roger Scruton

    22. Ruthie Thompson

    23. Shane Macgowan

    24. Steve Gleason

    25. Tim Bilton

     

    Subs Norma Lloyd, Betty White, Vera Lynn, Eva Marie Saint,

     

    • Whoaml

     

    1. Betty White

    2. Bob Dole

    3. David Attenborough

    4. Desmond Morris

    5. Emperor Akihito

    6. Ethel Skakel Kennedy

    7. George Shultz

    8. Glynis Johns

    9. Jean Kennedy Smith

    10. John Andretti

    11. John Lysak

    12. Joyce Randolph

    13. Katherine Johnson

    14. Kirk Douglas

    15. Marge Champion

    16. Mel Brooks

    17. Norman Lloyd

    18. Olivia De Havilland

    19. Olivia Newton-John

    20. Olympia Dukakis

    21. Prince Phillip

    22. Ray Lawler

    23. Rosalynn Carter

    24. Terry Jones

    25. Tinto Brass

     

    Subs: Chuck Yeager, Pele, Nichele Nichols, Illie Nastase, Alexei Navalny

     

     

    • Great Uncle Bulgaria

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Anne Buydens Douglas (WILDCARD)

    3. Barry Briggs (4 x world speedway champion)

    4. Benard Cribbins

    5. Colin Thackery (BGT winner)

    6. Cynthia Morey (author, former principal with D'Oyly Carte Opera)

    7. Daniel Arap-Moi

    8. David Attenborough

    9. George McGavin (BBC)

    10. J-L Trintignant

    11. Jim Dale (Carry On actor)

    12. Kirk Douglas

    13. Larry King

    14. Murray Walker

    15. Olivia Newton-John

    16. Pete Murray (DJ)

    17. Petula Clark

    18. Richard Bonynge (opera conductor, widower of Joan Sutherland)

    19. Roberta McCain

    20. Rosalynn Carter

    21. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    22. Stirling Moss

    23. Teresa Berganza (Spanish Opera singer)

    24. Tom Smith (rugby)

    25. Vera Lynn

    Subs: Barbara Walters, Beverley Cleary, Olivia de Haviland, Jimmy Carter, Stanley Baxter

     

    • Drol

     

    1. Ady Barkan

    2. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    3. Bob Gibson (Baseball HoFer)

    4. Daniel arap Moi

    5. David Gulpilil

    6. David Hagen

    7. Denis Goldberg

    8. Dilip Kumar

    9. Doddie Weir

    10. Genesis P-Orridge

    11. Gianluca Vialli

    12. John Andretti

    13. Kerri Parker

    14. Lee Kerslake

    15. Luton Shelton

    16. Majek Fashek

    17. O.J. Brigance

    18. Pat Smullen

    19. Qaboos of Oman

    20. Roger Scruton

    21. Samu

    22. Shin Kyuk-ho

    23. Sinisa Mihajlovic

    24. Sumner Redstone

    25. Tom Smith (rugby player)

     

    Subs: Bill Freehan, Nobby Stiles

     

    • Predictor

     

    1. Arif Sag (Turkish musician & politician)

    2. Barry Lategan (South African photographer)

    3. Ben Cooper (American actor)

    4. Cadaveria (Italian musician)

    5. Carlos Venna (Argentine politician)

    6. Charlie Manuel (American baseball coach)

    7. Donnie Sutherland (Australian media personality)

    8. Francisco Jose Cox (Chilean bishop)

    9. Gareth O'Callaghan (Irish media personality)

    10. George Keiser (American politician)

    11. Hideki Hosaka (Japanese wrestler)

    12. Hobie Billingsley (American diver)

    13. Jan Tinetti (New Zealandic politician)

    14. Jim Carr (Canadian politician)

    15. Joey Image (American drummer)

    16. Kelly Davis (American journalist)

    17. Kevin Thompson (American karate champ)

    18. Martin Drennan (Irish bishop)

    19. Paulo Maluf (Brazilian politician)

    20. Peter Schedjal (American art critic)

    21. Pio Tikuaduoduo (Fijian politician)

    22. Shirley Abrahamson (American judge)

    23. Slim Andrews (American country singer)

    24. Sornphet Sornsuphan (Thai musician)

    25. Takako Okamura (Japanese singer) (wildcard)

     

    Sub: Dave Gettleman , Francois Rebsamen, Daisy Loongkoonan

     

    • Grim Up North

     

    1. Alex Trebek 

    2. Bernard Tapie 

    3. Chris Doleman 

    4. David Gulpilil 

    5. David Hagen

    6. Denis Goldberg 

    7. Ernie Moss 

    8. Frankie Banali 

    9. Genesis P-Orridge 

    10. George Alagiah 

    11. Greg Gilbert 

    12. Howard Finkel 

    13. Jimmy Carter

    14. John Andretti 

    15. Judy Dyble 

    16. Kirk Douglas

    17. Lee Kerslake 

    18. Liz Clarke-Saul 

    19. Nobby Stiles 

    20. Pat Smullen 

    21. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    22. Sinisa Mihailovic 

    23. Stirling Moss

    24. Tom Smith   (rugby) (WILDCARD)

    25. Vera Lynn

     

    Subs: Jean Louis Trintigant, Sacheen Littlefeather, Barry Du Bois

     

    • Etushispushingupdaises

     

    1. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    2. Anastasia Zavorotniuk (Russian soap actress who may have brain cancer)

    3. Armen Dzhigarkhanian (Frail 84-year-old Russian actor)

    4. Bill Turnbull

    5. Bob Gibson

    6. Brandon Sorensen (An Iowan wrestler with leukemia)

    7. Cullan Brown (A Kentucky golfer with bone cancer)

    8. Daniel Arap-Moi

    9. Doddie Weir

    10. Frankie Banali

    11. Genesis P-Orridge

    12. George Alagiah

    13. Gianluca Vialli

    14. Jay Allen. (Detroit Tigers announcer with bile duct cancer)

    15. Jimmy Carter

    16. John Andretti

    17. Kirk Douglas 

    18. Lee Kerslake

    19. Michael York.

    20. Pat Smullen

    21. Roger Scruton

    22. Tabare Vazquez

    23. Terry Jones

    24. Tom Smith (the rugby player)

    25. Vasily Kulkov (Russian footballer with esophageal cancer)

     

    Subs: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alcee Hastings, Margarita Terekhova, , Vera Lynn, Olivia Newton John

     

    • Sean

     

    1. Alex Trebek

    2. Dave Serella

    3. Douglas Hurd

    4. Eva Marie Saint

    5. Everton Weekes

    6. Gerd Muller

    7. Javier Perez de Cuellar

    8. Jimmy Carter (WILDCARD)

    9. John Hume 

    10. John Lewis

    11. June Brown

    12. June Spencer

    13. Kirk Douglas

    14. Leon Spinks

    15. Leslie Phillips

    16. Nicholas Parsons

    17. Olivia de Havilland

    18. Olivia de Havilland

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Prunella Scales

    21. Rosalyn Carter

    22. Roy Hattersley

    23. Terry Jones

    24. Trevor Peacock

    25. Vera Lynn

     

    Subs: Shirley Williams, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fyfe

     

    • FixedBusiness

     

    1. Alec Baldwin

    2. Alex Trebek

    3. Bill Turnbull

    4. Daniel arap Moi

    5. Dick Cheney

    6. Donald Trump

    7. Genesis P Orridge

    8. George Alagiah

    9. Gerd Muller

    10. Henry Kissinger

    11. Jason Becker

    12. Kirk Douglas

    13. Lee Kerslake

    14. Leslie Phillips

    15. Mel Gibson

    16. Nobby Stiles

    17. Norm MacDonald

    18. Prince Philip DoE

    19. Ray Kennedy (WILDCARD)

    20. Rosalynn Carter

    21. Sean Connery

    22. Shane MacGowan

    23. Sinead O Connor

    24. Tom Smith (rugby player with cancer)

    25. Tomasz Schafernaker

     

    Subs: Warren Buffet, Alan Greenspan, Billy Idol, Betty White, Ozzy Osbourne

     

    • John Key

     

    1. Alex Trebek (WILDCARD)

    2. Anastasia Zavorotnyuk

    3. Bill Turnbull

    4. Bob Gibson

    5. Chris Doleman

    6. David Gulpilil

    7. Desmond Tutu

    8. Frankie Banali

    9. Ged Stokes

    10. Genesis B. P-Orridge

    11. George Alagiah

    12. Henry Gray

    13. John Andretti

    14. Joni Mitchell

    15. Kirk Douglas

    16. Lee Kerslake

    17. Leon Spinks

    18. Morrissey

    19. Prince Philip

    20. Qaboos bin Said Al Said

    21. Roberta McCain

    22. Ruth Gader Ginsburg

    23. Sam Lloyd

    24. Tom Smith

    25. Yoo Sang-chul

     

    Subs: Bob Dole, Chris Kirubi, Vera Lynn, Michael Gorbachev, Olivia de Haviland

    Teams for those who can't click back 4 pages (how the fuck did you cope with the old thread :lol:)

     

     

    Inb4 the - damn I wish I'd known about glorified Cancer Mum 7 posts....

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    Right then - personal New Year festivies weren't all they're cracked up to be.... which is great news for Hares Competitors.

     

    An impressive 43 teams - same as last year - lost a few gained a few. Welcome or welcome back, 

     

    And as new years eve fireworks litter the UK landscape and auld lang syne is belted out we are ready to provide another year 

     

    I've added everyone but the lazy bastards to the masterlist spreadsheet, experimenting with holding all picks as a spreadsheet with competitors  next to them rather than a post due to excessive length or the old spreadsheet I used for personally purposes that required each pick to be entered points tallies in each team, this one is pick - team. Once I've added the latecomers in tomorrow that'll be available to check and you'll see what I mean. When it's publishe head over here to check it’s accurate at this is where we’ll be awarding points from from now on (it’s easier).  once I've taken care of that I'll finish compiling the Hares scoreboard for last year - there's still a week for late obits though, so i'm not hurrying it as I can't be arsed re-doing it when we discover someone died yesterday (you can follow progress on this front in last years thread - I'm doing it inthe most.).....

     

    Given the above is all an incredibly boring, technical  thing few people are going to care about on to the good stuff....

     

    Firstly it’s time to dish out the new  You’ve Got to Be Fucking Kidding Award -

     

    The wanker who shall remain nameless who submitted an 18-year old car crash victim as a road safety campaigner. I've seen it all now. The full list of annual rejections is below, I’ve decided not to name the culprits - they can bring themselves forward below for ridicule (I’ll fess up to Marianne Nolad, I mean one of them did sing for her… but still FFBI). The dead one died after submission, for the first time I can remember no-one who died in the 1980s or 1990s was submitted, improvements.

     

    Rejected Picks (Full List)

     

     

    Pick

    		     

    Rejected:

    Mariane Nolad

    dying westlife fan

    Creative description justifying them:

    Westlife superfan

    FFBI

    Gemma Sissons

    cancer ridden 'gym addict;

    Creative description justifying them:

    bodybuilder and gym addict

    FFBI

    Vishwesha Teertha

    Indian Guru

    Actually famous

    (In players defense died after they submitted their team)

    Dead

    Ky73 W3@r

    car crash victim

    Creative description justifying them:

    road safety campaigner

    FFBI

     

     

    And the Who the Fuck Are They? Award

     

    Impressively Sir Creep hasn’t won this….. 

     

    Bob Joers - a gcreptile pick who somehow squeezed through the FFBI filter. Bob is a high school sports director whose ‘claim to fame’ is as the high school sports director of Middleton High School is claim to fame is an article about a softball coach who worked at his school and was essentially sacled - that referenced him for a comment about how the softball coach was a great guy and he was sad to lose him. Gcreptile will be hoping the Middleton Times that provided the above qualifying article will also provide an obit…..

     

    Sir Creep however does get second place for minor poker player Aaron ‘Ace’ Corson’s, a relatively unsuccessful poker player  whose public results sheets from prelimary tournaments in the Heartland Poker Tour prior to his cancer diagnosis serve as his ‘claim to fame’ - the Poker News website will probably cover his death - so he’s fine for our purposes……

     

    There’s also a littanny of famous peoples mothers in hospital, session musicians who’ve contracted cancer, Eastern Counties League football teams (that;s level 9 for those not familiar with non league), the minority of players who treat the non-English obit requirement as an invitation to submit a team full of people famous in their own country they can't play anywhere else - (honestly these are the greatest teams to receive, so thanks to gcreptile and Book for the annual education) who’ve got cancer and all the other usual absolute fucking nobodies who pull over the FFBI line by the skin of their teeth.…...

     

    Thankfully, despite an obvious increase of borderlines (or maybe I’m just being more thorough this year), the torrent of Who the Fuck Are They Picks that I was worried about in including this award hasn’t materialised - so the tradition may continue (see below, it’s not up to me). 

     

    And finally - you may have noticed a certain casual and almost demob happy vibe in the nature in which team checks and general Hares work has been conducted over the past few days - even more so than the usual casual approach. There’s a reason for that - 6  years after the first edition of the Hares Death Pool kicked off into life in January 2014 - many things have changed away from the forums and many things have changed on them. I’m no longer a spotty teenager with stupid amounts of free time (that lets be honest was never really put into this whole business anyway, so you can imagine how useless I’d be as a host without that free time), and I find far less to be enjoyed in the whole deadpool hosting process (that’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed hosting it I have. But things they change….). 

     

    It’s time for one more thing to change - I will be retiring from hosting duties of this pool once YoungWillz is ready to take over the reins on a permanent basis - after his excellent job as stand-in host when I fucked off a few years ago and in appreciation that you’ll all press gang him into it as soon as you read this anyway. I’ll still be around on the forums.  I feel more comfortable ditching the hosting duties knowing they’ll be in good - dare I say better - hands. The exact switchover date is in YW's hands up to the limit that I will not be google local league footballers with cancer for their teams results next NYE.....

     

    News that will no doubt be greeted with loud sighs of relief by competitors. Enjoy the more frequent scoreboard updates when they come. To be clear this isn’t a ‘i’m taking a bit of time off hosting it.’ - It’s a permanent handover. I've enjoyed learning about so many obscure celebrities when I've been running, but it's time to move on. An exact handover date hasn’t been set, but the transition will be a smooth, managed process rather than the usual ‘oh fuck, he’s disappeared, YW you’re up’ affair.

     

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    1 hour ago, Pedro67 said:

    Sorry its late and prepared for abuse.

     

    HARES POOL 2019

    1 Angela Lansbury

    2 Sir John Nott

    3 Billy Connoly

    4 Boris Pahor

    5 Doyle Brunson (poker)

    6 Christopher Plummer

    7 Jackie Stallone

    8 Prunella Scales

    9 Joyce Randolph

    10 Kirk Douglas

    11 Linda Nolan

    12 Linda Rondstadt

    13 Jean-Louis Trintignant

    14 Murray Walker

    15 Olivia Newton John

    16 Pele

    17 Prince Philip

    18 Ian st John

    19 Ronald Atkins MP

    20 Rupert Murdoch

    21 Sandy Gall

    22 George Alagiar

    23 Nanci Ryder

    24 Terry Jones

    25 Doddie Wier

     

    Reserve

    1 June Brown 2 Eileen Derbyshire 3 Roy Hattersley

     

    Jesus fucking christ..... so I step away from the new years revellery for a couple of minutes to check just to make sure nobody has been mind-boggling stupid enough to enter after 10pm on New Years Eve, I mean what kind of utter moron would risk entering this pool at this point....... you know a few years we had a 4pm deadline for this thing right now I'm tempted to bring that back next fucking year or at very least rememberant of why I had that bloody rule......

     

    You forgot a fucking wildcard by the way and have roughly 55 minutes to give me one otherwise it goes to Angela Lansbury by default, to be honest I'd be tempted just to not give you one out of your petulance at this point. By the way tax deadline is 31st January by the way in case you've forgotten that as well, and your heads screwed to your neck and glasses are resting on your nose if your looking for those things as well, I bet your house keys have got your address written on them not in case you lose them just in case you forget where you fucking live. Thank god your picks are actually bloody famous.......

     

     

    Thank you for your entry and good luck :) 

     

    Anyone else still got teams to submit???

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