Commtech Sio Bibble

17-Dec 26 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World +2 23 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 22 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells +2 20 Pet Shop Boys — Always On My Mind 20 Wham! — Last Christmas 17 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 16 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me 14 John Williams — O Holy Night 14 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 13 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 12 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In the Wall 09 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 08 The Pretenders — 2000 Miles -2 03 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas -4

The Dictionary Deadpool Returns Welcome back to the Dictionary Deadpool (The Squeakquel), a few things have been tweaked since last time so make sure to read the rules. Each participant must pick a 10 letter word reasonably valid in the Oxford English Dictionary and then for each letter of the word choose a ‘celebrity’ who’s first or last name matches with the corresponding letter (similar to the ABC deadpool). If your chosen word includes the same letter more than once, please choose different ‘celebrities' for each. Example - Strawberry Simon Cowell Terry Gilliam Ryan Reynolds Alan Alda William Shatner Barlow, Thelma Ewards, Huw Roberts, Eric Roberts, Julia Yuri Oganessian Scoring - Each death will be scored based on the value of the letter in the English language Scrabble so in the example above Thelma Barlow would be worth 3 points as B is worth 3 in Scrabble. There's no difference in points whether first or last name is used, however Alliterative Names, such as Alan Alda, will score double points. Unique picks are worth an extra point. Unique & Alliterative picks are worth triple points. General Rules - Entries close at midday (BST) August 4th and must be sent by private message. Usual deadpooling rules apply (have to be reasonably famous, no death row picks etc…). Make sure to clarify who you’ve chosen if necessary or else the first google result for that name will be used. No need to pick subs, if one of your picks dies in the next week I'll PM you to ask for a replacement. I’m not particularly fussed about obituaries just as long as there’s enough proof to say they’re dead, so feel free to pick as many famous Mongolian sheep farmers as you want. Posting in the thread that your chosen celebrity has died is greatly encouraged, however at the end of the game I will check to ensure no-one has been missed from the scoreboard. In the case of a tie, the team with the most unique picks wins, if it’s still a tie after that the winners can either choose to share the victory or agree to meet in real life and fight it out. Duplicate words are not allowed so if 2 players submit teams with the same word, it’ll be first come first serve and the second player will have to change their entry. A bonus point will be awarded at the start of the game to the player who, in my opinion, has chosen the most interesting word. The game will end one year after starting (August 4th 2025). Thank you for playing.

Mon 16 Dec 25 Wham! — Last Christmas -6 24 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World +2 22 Pet Shop Boys — Always On My Mind 20 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 19 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 18 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 18 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells +2 15 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me 14 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 14 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In the Wall 13 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas 13 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 13 John Williams — O Holy Night 07 The Pretenders — 2000 Miles

Sci-fi author David A. McIntee best known for his work on an assortment of Doctor Who novels and a few Big Finish plays is being reported dead aged 55 by Gary Russell on Twitter. Has also written novels for Star Trek, Space: 1999 and Final Destination.

Antony Carrick (IMDb) died November 2nd (tribute page & twitter post). For Doctor Who he played Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora. Probably best known for the recurring role of Bill Pritchard in the Yes, Minister franchise.

Sun 15 Dec 127 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 81 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 +28 56 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 55 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 33 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 13 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand 

With 2024 heading into its final 2 months, in keeping with tradition, it seems about the right time to start making the preparations for next year's Crowdsourced Deathlist. Your 2024 list has, so far, absolutely smashed the official list out of the water, let's see if we can do it again. This is my first year fully hosting, the only change to the rules that I will be making is making entries close a few hours earlier. The rules are below, in case you need a refresher or want to check the new closing time. THE RULES 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Commtech Sio Bibble (myself), before the deadline. The list must have a minimum of 12 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Yes, this means we are open now. Please send them by either PM or via Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! Private messaging is preferred. Any entry in the shadow list thread must have myself tagged in it so I know to include your entry. 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. This is true even if you only send in 12 names, or 13 names, or 49 names. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List.  4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2024. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 4b) Anyone who wishes to avoid a Pope Benny the Fuckwit Meltdown and just says "oh put my subs in at the number of the person who died" gets 10 post quotes from Comped.  5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Buffy Sainte-Marie, less Joan Langsford, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2024 at 4 pm GMT (or your equivalent local time) This earlier deadline is so everything can be organised and ready for January 1st and so I don't have to sort out submissions whilst drunk/hungover (it is new years eve after all). 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Although I have no intention of taking any of them. Plus if they're unique in the DDP they're hardly gonna score big here. 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrities from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2024 survivors will be used, this is something for me to worry about, not you... 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2023 survivors, then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. If you really want to you can include all of the survivors in your entry, it will just reflect poorly on you in my eyes.  11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January (that's what subs are for), but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. Thank you for participating. Surely Ar Jimmy can't make it long enough to make his 10th appearance.

14-Dec 116 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 75 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 61 BandAid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 44 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 +5 23 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 23 Leon Jackson — When You Believe 20 Harry Belafonte — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Shayne Ward — That’s My Goal 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 20 Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You 18 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand  10 Ben Haenow — Something I Need -10 10 Spice Girls — Too Much

12/13/2024 101 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 91 BandAid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 75 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 30 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 23 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 23 Leon Jackson — When You Believe 20 Harry Belafonte — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Shayne Ward — That’s My Goal 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 20 Ben Haenow — Something I Need 20 Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You 18 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand  15 Westlife — I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 10 Spice Girls — Too Much 6 Ed Sheeran — Perfect -15

12/12/2024 76 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 70 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 45 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 33 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 33 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand 32 Leon Jackson — When You Believe 23 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 26 Ed Sheeran — Perfect -15 20 Harry Belafonte — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Spice Girls — Too Much 20 Shayne Ward — That’s My Goal 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 20 Ben Haenow — Something I Need 20 Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You 17 Cliff Richard & The Shadows — I Love You 15 Boney M - Mary’s Boy Child 15 Westlife — I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun

12/12/2024 36 Bastille — Pompeii +4 00 Adele — Rolling In The Deep -2 Fin.

Wed 11 Dec 51 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 43 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 31 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand 29 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 +7 29 Leon Jackson — When You Believe 25 Wings — Mull Of Kintyre / Girls’ School 25 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 21 Cliff Richard & The Shadows — I Love You 21 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 20 Harry Belafonte — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Boney M. — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Spice Girls — Too Much 20 Spice Girls — Goodbye 20 Westlife — I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 20 Shayne Ward — That’s My Goal 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 The Justice Collective — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 20 Ben Haenow — Something I Need 20 Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You 20 Ed Sheeran — Perfect 19 LadBaby — We Built This City 19 LadBaby — I Love Sausage Rolls 15 Alexandra Burke — Hallelujah 10 LadBaby — Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ -4 10 LadBaby ft. Elton John & Ed Sheeran — Sausage Rolls For Everyone -4

Wed 11 Dec 43 Bastille — Pompeii +4 26 Rag’n’Bone Man — Human 11 Adele — Rolling In The Deep -6

10/12/24 36 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 35 The Beatles — Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out 29 Leon Jackson — When You Believe 28 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 25 Wings — Mull Of Kintyre / Girls’ School 24 The Beatles — I Feel Fine 22 Spice Girls — 2 Become 1 +1 21 The Beatles — I Want To Hold Your Hand 21 Cliff Richard & The Shadows — I Love You 20 Harry Belafonte — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody 20 Boney M. — Mary’s Boy Child 20 Spice Girls — Too Much 20 Spice Girls — Goodbye 20 Westlife — I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 20 Shayne Ward — That’s My Goal 20 Leona Lewis — A Moment Like This 20 Alexandra Burke — Hallelujah 20 Matt Cardle — When We Collide 20 The Justice Collective — He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother 20 Sam Bailey — Skyscraper 20 Ben Haenow — Something I Need 20 Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir — A Bridge Over You 20 Ed Sheeran — Perfect 19 LadBaby — We Built This City 19 LadBaby — I Love Sausage Rolls 14 LadBaby — Don’t Stop Me Eatin’ -5 14 LadBaby ft. Elton John & Ed Sheeran — Sausage Rolls For Everyone -5 00 LadBaby — Food Aid -4

10th December 41 Bastille — Pompeii +4 25 Adele — Rolling In The Deep -3 24 Rag’n’Bone Man — Human -3

Ian Frost (IMDb) died on the 7th July 2024 according to the Doctor Who Cast & Crew blog. Had in minor roles in The Ark (1966) and Frontier in Space (1973).

Obituary from the Doctor Who Guide website.

Schrodinger's tumour?

Arnold Rüütel

Sat 7 Dec 58 Rag’n’Bone Man — Human 53 Bastille — Pompeii 36 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +4 20 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger 12 Adele — Rolling In The Deep -6 11 George Ezra — Paradise 06 Emeli Sande — Heaven

Sat 7 Dec 50 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen -4 50 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 50 John Williams - O Holy Night 49 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells 46 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World 37 Edward Caswall — See Amid The Winter's Snow 34 The Muppets Ensemble — It Feels Like Christmas +4 30 James Chadwick — Angels We Have Heard On High  30 Cecil Frances Alexander — Once In Royal David’s City  29 The Muppets Ensemble — Bless Us All +2 18 Thomas Oliphant — Deck The Halls 16 Franz Xaver Gruber — Silent Night  16 James Montgomery — Angels From The Realms Of Glory 07 Vince Guaraldi — Christmas Time Is Here 05 Jehan Tabourot — Ding Dong! Merrily On High -5 

My Spotify wrapped top artists were Rick Astley, Taylor Swift, The Sweet, Rainbow and Sabrina Carpenter. In terms of movies, I've watched Hot Fuzz about once a month this year and it never gets old.

I'm now only just realising that this thread isn't named after Brian Johnson aka The Liver King and there is in fact another nutter of the same name.

6/Dec/2024 52 Rag’n’Bone Man — Human 47 Bastille — Pompeii 31 Adele — Rolling In The Deep -6 30 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream +4 20 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger 11 George Ezra — Paradise 09 Emeli Sande — Heaven 08 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason

51 David Willcocks — God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen  49 John Williams-O Holy Night 46 Charles Wesley — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 43 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells 40 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World 37 Edward Caswall — See Amid The Winter's Snow 30 James Chadwick — Angels We Have Heard On High  30 Cecil Frances Alexander — Once In Royal David’s City  28 The Muppets Ensemble — Bless Us All +3 24 The Muppets Ensemble — It Feels Like Christmas +3 21 Thomas Oliphant-Deck The Halls 16 Franz Xaver Gruber — Silent Night  16 James Montgomery — Angels From The Realms Of Glory 14 Jehan Tabourot — Ding Dong! Merrily On High 14 Lewis Redner — O Little Town Of Bethlehem  11 John Mason Neale — Good King Wenceslas  08 William Sandys — I Saw Three Ships -9 07 Vince Guaraldi — Christmas Time Is Here