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  1. Posted

    Have been away for a few days and  having just got back, checked to see if anyone had picked Gloria Vanderbilt, but apparently not; so here goes for another round:

     

    1920: John Paul Stevens, Norma Barzman

    1921: Al Jaffee, Iris Apfel

    1922: Carl Reiner, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Max von Sydow, Lady Pamela Hicks

  2. Posted

    Very sad to hear this news, I missed the Pointless Celebrities episode he was on, so didn't realise till I read his obit that he'd had his legs amputated.  Blake's 7 was always must watch viewing at Squonk Towers. I might have to dust the DVDs off and re-live a bit of my younger days.  Farewell Avon, and thanks for many happy hours glued to the TV.

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  3. Posted

    9 hours ago, Toast said:

    I never understood that Brand New Key song.  Roller skates is something I never had.  What's the key for? 

     

    Having considered it carefully, with the Freudian possibility of sexual innuendo (lock and key) I came to the conclusion: she was looking for a word that rhymed with 'me'.

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  4. Posted

    And my list, cunningly exactly the same as last time....

     

    1920: John Paul Stevens, Norma Barzman

    1921: Al Jaffee, Iris Apfel

    1922: Carl Reiner, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Max von Sydow, Lady Pamela Hicks

  5. Posted

    I came on here expecting a new round with Doris Day taking a sentimental journey...am I missing something, or did none of us pick her in the current round???

  6. Posted

    8 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    Carl Reiner has been Squonked.

     

    8 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

    Fuck, back to the bad old days of naked thievery!

     

     

     

    How very dare you...I'll have you know when I stole Carl Reiner I was not naked, I was wearing my least smeggy pjs, the ones with only three holes in each armpit and only two custard stains down the front.

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    3 hours ago, Book said:

     

    Do you mean Fashion Icon Iris Apfel?

     

    Yes, I don't know where Irene came from...apart from the fact it's a name that sounds appropriate for a 97 year old!   :facepalm:

     

    Thanks for spotting.  To confirm my (corrected) list....

     

    1920: John Paul Stevens, Norma Barzman

    1921: Al Jaffee, Iris Apfel

    1922: Carl Reiner, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Max von Sydow, Lady Pamela Hicks

  8. Posted

    Been away for a bit and surprised to find how many of my original picks have expired since I first compiled my list!

     

    1920: John Paul Stevens, Norma Barzman

    1921: Al Jaffee, Irene Apfel

    1922: Carl Reiner, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Max von Sydow, Lady Pamela Hicks

  10. Posted

    D'oh, took my eye off the ball there....I'd have entered the same team again, but missed this round, and Andre Previn would have been a hit.  Still, you snooze, you lose.....

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  12. Posted

    If we can still join in, accepting I'm starting some way behind.....

     

    1) Jean-Louis Tringtignant

    2) James Earl Jones

    3) Peter Alliss

    4) Mikhail Gorbachev

    5) Norman Tebbit

    6) Frank Williams (Dad's Army actor, not the F1 bloke)

    7) Don King

    8) Angie Dickinson

    9) Jean Boht

    10) Jack Smethurst (Love Thy Neighbour)

    11) Loretta Lynn

    12) Brian Murphy (George of George and Mildred)

    13) Ray Reardon

    12) Jacques Chirac

    14) Little Richard

    15) Dickie Davies

    16) Gene Kranz

    17) Tom Skerritt

    18) Larry King

    19) Wole Soyinka

    20) Dave Prowse

    21) Dean Stockwell

    22) Bill Wyman

    23) John Hume

    24) Jill Gascoigne

    25) Tommy Chong

    26) Diana Rigg

    27) Ginger Baker

    28) Valerie Harper

    29) Clive James

    30) Harry Reid

     

     

     

  13. Posted

    Well, knock me down with a feather!  Seeing as I'm getting my ass well and truly whupped in the 2019 Deathlist Cup, I think we can chalk this one down to luck rather than anything else.  Pity I didn't enter ole' Lyndon in that competition....

     

    1920: Le Duc Anh, Norma Barzman

    1921: Hugh Downs, Irene Apfel

    1922: Dilip Kumar, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Andre Previn, Lady Pamela Hicks

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  15. Posted

    4 hours ago, msc said:

    News:

     

     

     

    Yep, that's gotta be Cain!  Paul Cain, of course. 3 points plus unique point for Spade Cooley.

     

     

    1.       JoeMoneyPenny Vs. Pedro 3-3

    2.       Nantonian 2013 Vs. Maryportfuncity 0-3

    3.       Gooseberry Crumble Vs. John Key 0-3

    4.       Spade Cooley Vs. Squonk 16-0

    5. Markb4 vs Dr T 0-6

    6.       Banana Vs. Great Uncle Bulgaria 12-0

    7.       Yorkshire Banker Vs. Skinny Kiltrunner 9-9

    8.       Alt Obits Guy Vs. Time 13-0

     

    9.       Clorox Vs. Fixed Business 16-3

    10.   The Mad Hatter Vs. Exu 9-0

    11.   Master Tech Vs. Bibliogryphon 0-0

    12.   The Unknown Man Vs. Boudicca 0-3

    13.   Torva Messor Vs. The Old Crem 10-0

    14.   The Quim Reaper Vs. BuffaloPhil  3-3

    15.   Wormfarmer Vs. The Old Lady 6-0

     

     

     

    Poor Squonk. Cup baptism of fire.

     

     

     

     

     

    Please....look at my medic-alert bracelet......(Homie the Clown , classic episode, great choice!).

     

    Well, it was fun whilst it lasted, but safe to say I'm not bothering to prep a March team, even though we're not half way through the month yet.

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    2 hours ago, time said:

    Quarter of the way through the round and I'm 13 points down. There's going to be one hell of a half-time team-talk.

     

    Half time team talk?  My team aren't even at the ground, never mind on the pitch.  They're all enjoying a nice cup of tea at the Sunshine Home for the Terminally Eternal. 

  18. Posted

    1920: Le Duc Anh, Norma Barzman

    1921: Hugh Downs, Irene Apfel

    1922: Lyndon LaRouche, Beverly Pepper

    1923: Murray Walker, Gloria Henry

    1924: Tony Britton, Carole Cook

    1925: Baron Christopher, Honor Blackman

    1926: Stanley Baxter, Cloris Leachman

    1927: Harry Belafonte, Estelle Parsons

    1928: Joss Ackland, Jean Ann Kennedy

    1929: Andre Previn, Lady Pamela Hicks

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  19. Posted

    Edit: didn't see alt obits guy's post on this company before I posted mine, how did I miss that!  The story just gets weirder as time goes on, though....

     

    QuadrigaCX.  (Who???).

     

    A Canadian cryptocurrency exchange.  Run by a 30 year old chap called Gerald Cotten.  Poor old Gerald suffered from Crohn's disease, and he died in December 2018 in India from complications of that disease whilst opening up an orphanage - so much for karma.  Or does karma know something we don't?

     

    Rumours had surfaced the company may have been in trouble when it was slow to repay investors who wanted to withdraw their currency, prompting speculation that they were using other customer's deposits to repay withdrawals.  Was the money lost, or hacked?  Was it all a giant ponzi scheme?

     

    Luckily Gerald had filed a will a few days before he died, so his widow will inherit some properties, a yacht, a plane, and two pet chihuahuas.  And presumably the laptop on which he conducted all the company's business.

     

    Except (and here's the kicker) the laptop is encrypted, but Mrs Cotten can't get into it.  Gerald clearly followed the advice not to write his passwords down anywhere, and he didn't trust anyone else with them either.  Without the data on the laptop, no-one can access the £140m or so of digital currencies.  Experts brought in to try and hack it have met with 'limited success'.

     

    The fact he died in India where fake death certificates are not unknown, together with the implausibility of one guy with a laptop running a multi million dollar currency exchange more or less by himself, has caused more than one person to express doubt that all is not necessarily as it seems at QuadrixaCX.

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47123371

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    Thanks @Spade_Cooley; the bit about which papers obit which types of celeb is a point I'd already considered, although not that successfully!  It does seem to me that the BBC and newspapers in general do give undue prominence to 'one of their own'; journalists, and newsreaders who did two shifts in 1967 may well get a write up even though they've mostly been forgotten except by their nearest and dearest.  Of course, it's not enough predicting who will get an obit, you have to also work out who's going to die....!  (Ayub Ogada, a Kenyan actor and musician who had played with Peter Gabriel, died on Feb 1st but it doesn't look like he's scored a UK obituary...yet).

     

    Perusing the Graun today (Guardian website for those not in the UK, a newspaper famed for its lack of proofreading and spelling errors which get published) I noticed an obituary published yesterday evening for Oliver Mtukudzi, the Zimbabwean musician.  I'd never heard of him, but I thought 'ah yes, world musician, precisely the sort of character the Guardian would obit'.

     

    Then I cross referenced to the BBC website and found he'd died two weeks ago and I missed the obit at the time.  That'll be why no-one entered him in the February deathlist cup.  

     

    Must. Try. Harder.

  24. Posted

    9 hours ago, Master Tech said:

    I seriously dont know how you guys are so  knowledgeable on nearly dead celebs. Google does fuck all for me. I am not worthy, and I think I’m going out in round one, almost like January’s cadavers 

     

    Seconded!  And thanks to @Sir Creep and @msc for their replies.  I have, as I'm sure many here also have, known friends and family with cancer.  Some of them live with it for ages and then suddenly deterioriate and expire, which is why Clive James and Leah Bracknell feature in my own shadow list for 2019; the one thing I always think about cancer is that it's unpredictable.  Johnny Clegg diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015?  My mum lasted 34 days between her diagnosis from pancreatic cancer and death, although admittedly she was around fifteen years older than him.

     

    This is the first year I've had time to put together a list and I've been doing a bit of research, expanding my list since considerably even I put my shadow list together.  I've now got over 250 names on a list, ranging from the 'they're old so statistically can't last much longer', surely' to the 'got something nasty' (James, Bracknell), to the 'well you never know' (Schumacher, Minelli).   For a shadow list of 50 I'm happy to put a couple in the latter category on the list, but I wouldn't enter them into a monthly competition unless there was a specific and suitably downbeat update on their health.  In which case they'll feature on lots of lists.

     

    As i'm sure you've found, googling 'celebrities with cancer' throws up unhelpful lists dated 2013, or 'celebrities who have survived cancer'.  Googling 'who will die soon' helpfully often points you back to this very forum.  One promising website of 'celebrities with serious diseases' gives you Cher with ME, or a chef with agoraphobia.  And, god help me for mentioning her name, Kim Kardashian with psoriasis.  Did psoriasis ever feature as cause of death on the death certificate?

     

    In short (thank fuck for that, I hear you say) to some extent I think it's a bit of luck as to who will go in the short term, and hats off to those who do find the cancer-ridden Australian novelists in their trawls of the internet.  

     

    Either that, or despite what people say about their occupations, the successful deathlisters are all oncologists. 

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