Joey Russ

I got a team ready for tomorrow. I'm certain that it'll do much better than the last one. Oh, and all my survivors this time are going to be cut, and my disappointment of the survivors will make me never consider them for this ever again...

Have fun in Colorado, and good luck dead pooling next year.

Rudolph got ran over by a redneck...

Merry Christmas from the US of A.

It was George Michael’s Last Christmas one year ago today aged 53.

Could be a decisive last week hit...

So are we safe to send a PM to you for those of us that has some potential hidden picks? I mean, I probably won’t send till the 30th, but I’m asking for those that are a little more ambitious...

Current team count?

Glad to see you back anyhow. I hope you enjoyed your time while you were off the site...

@Deathray An article on your favorite Polish weatherman...

Having a few people show up in the last week is going to make a hard decision on whether to pick them or not...

Dean Francis is preparing for Christmas...

Behold. I have done some random research because I was bored and got together the list of true bonafide deathlist misses by age, ie. anyone who appeared on before but died afterwards. I know some of the smartalecs will probably go like "oh, De Cesaris died of a car crash so he shouldn't count" or "Fergie Fredreikssen didn't obit so he isn't a miss", but for the purposes of this list, they are considered a miss. I have excluded Wilfred Bramble, William Hartnell, and Arthur Marshall due to the fact that they died before their first appearance, while Bette Davis is included since she was alive at the time of her first appearance, but her later appearances were post mortem. I have also excluded George Harrison even though he was part of any one Beatle the first year it was on, since I don't think it should count. So without a further of due, here are the people who were on the list but died off it and their ages: 103 - Ruby Muhammad 97 - John Kenneth Galbraith 96 - Jack Jones, Dom Mintoff, Nicholas Parsons 95 - Ernest Borgnine, Benny Carter, Buddy Ebsen, Doris Speed 94 - Doug Ellis, Les Paul, Pete Seeger 93 - Frankie Laine, Fred Pontin 92 - John Forsythe, Ravi Shankar, Frank Thornton 91 - Victor Borge, Baroness Castle, Geoffrey Dickens, Tom Finney, Bob Godfrey, Oral Roberts 90 - Chuck Berry, General Jaruzelski, Jack Klugman, Shaw Taylor, Stanley Unwin, Mary Wesley, Jane Wyman, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 89 - Red Auerbach, Stephane Grappelli, Harper Lee, Bill Maynard, Arthur Miller, Patrick Moore, Elaine Stritch 88 - Perry Como, Alfredo di Stefano, John Lee Hooker, Kenneth Kendall, Bert Millichip, Robert, M Pirsig, Dame Muriel Spark, King Taufa'ahau Tupou 87 - Thor Heyerdahl, Helmut Kohl, Malcolm Muggeridge, Jack Palance, Little Richard 86 - Robert Dougall, James Garner, Alec Guinness, Ayatollah Khomeini, Anthony Quinn, Gore Vidal 85 - Don Ameche, Gay Byrne, Tony Curtis, Arthur Mullard, Fred Perry, Jeremy Thorpe 84 - Fred Davis, Harlan Ellison, King Fahd, Jimmy Savile 83 - Jill Gascoine, Ken Kercheval, Jack Kevorkian, Manuel Noriega, Magnus Pyke, Peter West 82 - George Chisholm, Jack Hargreaves, Yehudi Menuhin, Johnny Morris, Laurence Olivier 81 - Peter Cushing, Bette Davis, Larry Hagman, Wilf Mannion, Lord Len Murray, Prince Rainier, Willie Whitelaw, Norman Willis 80 - Marlon Brando, Basil D'Oliveira, Joe Fagan, Stewart Granger, George Steinbrenner 79 - Tariq Aziz, Johnny Carson, Lord Goodman, Claire Rayner, Lord Harold Wilson 78 - Denis Compton, Eddie Large, Peter Wright 77 - John Arlott, Bob Paisley, Frank Muir, Beryl Reid, Peter Tork 76 - Corazon Aquino, Ronnie Barker, Aretha Franklin, Bernard Manning, Jon Pertwee, Boris Yeltsin 75 - Yasser Arafat, Kenneth Connor, Vaclav Havel 73 - Charles Bukowski 71 - Princess Margaret, Joan Sims 70 - Alexander Dubcek, John Paul Getty Jr 69 - Captain Beefheart, Brian Clough, Julian Critchley, Saddam Hussein, Evel Knievel 68 - Anne Haddy, Geoffrey Hughes 67 - Hunter S Thompson 66 - Terry Pratchett 63 - Stan Flashman, Leighton Rees 62 - Fergie Frederiksen 61 - Elizabeth Edwards, Alex Higgins, Rowdy Roddy Piper 60 - Anne Kirkbride 55 - Andrea de Cesaris, John Smith 54 - Seve Ballesteros, Osama bin Laden 53 - Jerry Garcia 50 - Marti Caine 30 - Red Rum A couple things to note: 1. Excluding Ruby Muhammad (who was an outlier in so many ways), there were only three people 96 and older who were on the list but became a miss, meaning the likes of Javier Perez de Cuellar and Betty White will probably stay on till they die and Doris Day will probably return 2. A lot of people who are misses are those who were in the age range of 88 - 91, meaning that if they were on the list but they reach this age range, it might be a good idea to put them back on again... 3. Another age range that has a lot of people being missed is the 79 - 82 range. I know many of them were on the list in the early days, but I still found a certain amount of people who debut post 2000 that died in that age range Anyways, I kind of thought it was interesting to do, so enjoy it, Or not...

Ooh. Last minute twist potentially...

So does Charlton Heston.

She’s definitely a guaranteed lock for anyone who is trying to compete for gold next year, but if I’m honest, I would rather have her die before the new year so can be free from her pain than to have her suffer another week...

Box office success doesn’t always equal a good film though. The films of the new DC Universe (apart from Wonder Woman) has all been terrible, yet it’s doing decent at the box office...

I'm sure DevonDeathTrip will be excited to see me mention Sister Wendy Beckett as a possibility for next year, as I think she could make an appearance next year perhaps...

Looking forward to the new year.

He wasn't overreacting to try to salvage his career after all...

The major will she won’t she make the starting line pick now...

Get well soon Dead Cow.