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  1. Posted

    since everyone is debating who should stay and who should sashay away on the list, here is the 11 candidates I would drop considering there is no hit left for this year : 

    - Akihito 

    - Tony Bennett 

    - Stiles

    - Prunella Scales

    - Desmond Tutu 

    - John Edrich 

    - Shane MacGowan

    - Dick Cheney 

    - Lester Piggott 

    - David Crosby

    - Pervez Musharaff 

     

    after all, they did drop Little Richard last year… 

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  3. Posted

    6 hours ago, Wee Jum said:

    They have got a lot of thing spot on.  Can ,HOPEFULLY, this be another Simpsons prediction

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    Everyone thought it was related to him being murdered... maybe not after all ? 

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    8 hours ago, gcreptile said:

    Occasionally I check up on her. She's a huge star internationally.  She seems to be doing okay for now. But she could be on the list in 1-2 years.

    In France she’s a real star, the generation following Greco’s and Cordy’s one. A real important singer alongside with Mireille Matthieu who is a few years younger (74 now) 

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  10. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

    Well, to cut a long story short... Once upon a time there was a nasty man called Adolf Hitler that decided that he wanted to conquer Europe and then, obviously, the World.

    Now there was this little Island he could not conquer, infact, this little Island sacrificed so many, whole generations were lost in helping to free Europe and liberate France because they could not do it themselves.

    Old Tom is an old Soldier from those times and now walks around on a zimmer frame for 'charidee' or summat.

    Hope that helps.

    Looks like the beginning of every Asterix Comics... 

    Anyway, he is absolutely unknown here in France (maybe we don’t value your help as much as we should but that’s another question...), does a soldier is deathlistable ?

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    42 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    To be fair, you're all mocking CoffinLodger but Jackie Stallone is a bigger household name in the UK than Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

    It's not that much about notoriety but more about what the death of RBG represent, how powerful and important this woman was and how influent her death is, compared to the one of Jackie Stallone, who, for a large part of the population (at least outside of the UK) is none other than the mother of Sylvester… 

  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, CoffinLodger said:

    R.I.P to possibly the best Celebrity Big Brother housemate ever .Certainly made the best entrance ! 

     

    To lose 2 American icons like  Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jackie Stallone within days is just too much !

    What ?? 2 american icons ? « Is just too much » ? Man you can’t be serious, Jackie is a nobody compared to RBG, how dare you...

     

    besides that I’m quite angry that I took her Of my list this year... A shame but hey, you can’t win everytime, can you ? RIP 

  14. Posted

    1 minute ago, CoffinLodger said:

    I will say 18 too just to go one better than 2017 but I had hoped for as many as 20 earlier in the year.

     

    9 minutes ago, Kenny McCormick said:

    According to the statistics thread, we are estimated to hit 18 deaths by the end of the year - so that is my guess...

    Too late I already got it at the beginning of the year ahahah

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  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

    Though that new thread is unnecessary, I do like the idea of discussing whether the record will be broken or not. We are now ahead of 2017 by about 10 days, who’s 15th hit is about a month ahead 3 years ago. However, I’m not 100% sure that it’ll be breaking the record. I’d call it a coin flip at this point. 
    The thing about 2017 is that when the 14th hit came around, there was still many obvious dead certs still alive at that point (thinking about Downie and King Michael in particular). This year? Probably the closest to a dead cert is Leon Spinks at this point, and he’s not a guaranteed death either. 
    Trebek’s treatment is working right now, while Tom Smith has his tumors shrunken. I think at this point those two will more likely see the year out than not (though a sudden downturn for either would not shock). 
    Outside of that, there’s certainly potential for some of the rest (like Delors losing his wife, or Joanne Woodward feeling such a has to be this year name), but none of them are guarantees. In fact, a big reason why we’re at 14 hits today is because the old’s people lottery has been successful on this years list. I’d actually consider 10 of the 14 hits part of that old people’s lottery (even folk like Stirling Moss is part of that cause he could’ve died at any point). The four who weren’t old people’s lottery names? RBG, who people could deduce that she couldn’t really fight off her pancreatic cancer last year; Terry Jones, who while he had dementia there were some end of the year warning signs that he was likely on his way out; Genesis P-Orridge, who was really ill with leukemia; and Daniel Arap Moi, who, unlike the others over 90, had a ton of life threatening ailments at the end of last year that made him a sooner rather than later name. 
    I’m not saying the record is impossible, it is an enema year after all, but I just wouldn’t be surprised either way with what happens. 

    I agree with you but at this point, I'm way more convinced that 2020 is gonna either be a tie with 2017 or a record breakin year : we're only 3 hits away from 2017 now and there is more than 3 months to go. One week ago I was not so sure about the result of this year but there's a few names that can surprise us all (Delors, Walker, Barker, Stiles or Woodward who have all been really quiet recently) and some others that are lingering and could drop dead anytime now (Spinks, Trebek, Sutcliffe, Smith, Philips, VGE, Dole…). I predict something like 17 or 18 deaths by the end of the year but I could be completely wrong and there could also be no other deaths till the end… Time will tell !

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  23. Posted

    43 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Roger Carel, voice dub actor for Benny Hill, C3PO in Star Wars, Poirot (that made me chuckle) and Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and many many others including Asterix and Dogmatix, dead: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/cinema/mort-du-comedien-roger-carel-il-etait-une-voix-18-09-2020-8387133.php&prev=search&pto=aue

     

    In English, with apologies to the mods of this thread!

    I was gonna report it ! Sad... +1 on my french team

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  25. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Book said:
    Based on my current shadow list, I also didn't know 22 people when I came across this forum in 2013 (minus 6ix9ine, as he was not yet public). But over time, I also took the obvious candidates into my teams so that I could get points. And that is the goal: to get more points than the biggest competitor, maybe better than the committee, better than your own team from last year. Also, I have never heard of Tom Smith or Genesis P-Orridge before, but they were much discussed people here in the forum from the art/music or sports area, it was obvious to include them. With Bill Gates Sr., that wasn't so clear, which is why he's considered one of the most controversial DL picks this year. Genesis P-Orridge certainly too, but as I said: They were a major topic and discussed. For most people, Gates Senior was simply the "father of", which for many users is not enough to get on the list. And while the DL had a hit with one of the most controversial picks of 2020 (Gates), my shadow list also had a hit with Pat Smullen (whom, of course, I didn't know before) - an Irish jockey with incurable cancer. He could have been a very good and fitting pick on the DL ...
    Regarding the remaining candidates on my shadow list: I think that everyone is a well-known personality in their own right, famous or known through music, drama, politics, media, etc. Certainly it always depends on the personal point of view, e.g. Jackie Stallone (also a mother of ...) is a celebrity for me, Gates Senior is not like that.
    And about the Germans: More of them could be represented at the DL! Three French in 2020 but not a single German? - A scandal!! :D
    But no matter: With their tactics, the DL has 13 hits so far, with my tactics I have 17 hits. All is well.
     

    Actually there’s 4 french on the list : VGE, Cardin, Delors and Le Pen

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