Joey Russ

Not to mention that two of your three died later folk also ended up getting a QO…

Msc had a team like that earlier, and while it was largely a success, he had a few who didn’t die and even a couple who got a qualifying obit!

I think dropping Linda Nolan would be a big mistake tbh, not sure why multiple people think she should be dropped.

Here’s that Vincente Fernandez QO if anyone is interested.

Well, Rob Burrow was well enough to attend a charity lunch. Also doesn’t look the worst here. Dunno, this case kind of confused me…

Did a provisional 20 and I’m surprisingly happy with it. Of course, there’s your Frank Field’s and Gary Burgess’s who probably won’t make the starting line so there would be more spaces to fill in…

Michael Nesmith for the LOTM. Last picked in 2019

Nope. Michael Nesmith dead:

Sykes continues to be absent from Last Word. Given the larger amount of celeb deaths recently I don’t think that mention is coming at this point…

Pele is looking like a must for next year alas

I miss Iain at this point honestly. Gags like the Tennessee none are far better than this shit.

At this rate our lists would have to be filled with Rick Davies and Yoshiro Nakamatsu!

Jimmy Carter

My dead pooling research has been far more laxed this time, so my teams would probably be about 90 - 95% public names this time around. I don’t know the full extent on how much I’m gonna enter in this upcoming year, though it’ll still be more than the DDP and Alt Obits…

Thank you for your very insightful posts Captain Obvious. Without it nobody would ever have thought of checking his QO chances.

Social media seems to have her as dead. Awaiting for more info though…

Congrats on making it even more sure that there will be a 12th hit.

I agree, this is a very sound suggestion. Y’all should pick him for 2022.

I mean, it’s a fool game to think that they listen to the forum most of the time but they do seem to throw a bone to the forum every now and then. I mean, remember when Errol Christie and Gord Downie snuck onto the list? Would never have happened if they didn’t look at the thread.

Pretty sure the committee doesn’t look at the ideas and possibilities thread. I tend to see that thread as more of a catch all for dead pooling in general, whereas the who should make the Deathlist thread is actually focused on names that should make the Deathlist

The deadline has always been the same every single year. If you miss out because it’s not advent yet, that’s on you.

Alright, masterlist is up. Obviously game doesn’t start until midnight in the UK, so if any of these end up being DNS you guys can definitely replace names.

Unfortunately it looks like you two were a bit too late. Apologies for that.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (4/56)  1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli (2/50)  2002: (0/50) 2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: Angela Lansbury (1/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger (2/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (4/50)  2016: Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Paul Gascoigne (10/50)  2017: Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth ll, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito (10/50)  2018: Betty White, Linda Nolan, Bob Dole, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, June Brown, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (18/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Betty White, June Brown, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Desmond Tutu, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (20/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Dole, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Desmond Tutu, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Lester Piggott, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (26/50) Updated for Ray Kennedy.

By my count we only need 2 more entries before I get to choose my own pick