Cowboy Ronnie

Dick Burns, eh? Sounds painful.....

Not to split heirs or anything, and it's a pretty good deadline, but Estee Lauder was famous for cosmetics rather than clothes, so perhaps the line should have gone to the Queen's dress maker when he went last year (whoever the hell he was). My nomination would have been "Mascara of the Red Death", if plays on E A Poe short story titles aren't too obscure. But I was out of town for the weekend, so this is all barn doors and horses anyway...

sounds like he "Burstall" his blood vessels before keeling over. Anyway, the point is moot as I'd be willing to wager no one on the DL committee had ever heard of him. Still looking for some famous Aussies. How about that cricket commentator guy, he's got to be a zillion or so.

Hey, that's my ex-grilfriend you're talkin about. And she did something your soccer team always struggled to do - kicked some Argentine butt. Although she did look pretty far gone in those pics in the Sunday Times a few weeks back....

Now, I know y'all think I'm a moron, but isn't "Great Norwegians" an oxymoron? Walter Mondale. Ah yes, one of my favorite whipping boys. Crushed him when he was Carter's toady, then crushed him again when he tried to take me on himself. And is DWB suggesting the ugly one out of Abba wasn't even Swedish?

doesn't this guy raise the age old (or should that be old age?) debate about whether he's famous enough. I'll grant you: a) we know there is a Norway but before seeing the posting below did we know: a) Norway currently has a king that said king was named Harald c) that he was the fifth King Harald d) even one salient fact about him, other than he was King of Norway? Now, Ron Santo I've heard of......

those blue guys just wouldn't let up. 0.56 seconds

seems we're doing quite well in the Derby Dead Pool. Tied for first, and one of the other people in first is only there because Alisdair Cooke, their joker pick (which counts double), passed on. But why was Queen Julianna, our number 20, not amongst the 20 entries? I do fear the Reaper might have made a slight tactical error, but all in all an excellent effort....

and we could have waved him off to the great winner's circle in the sky with the parting message "Sangster the Memories".

Who? The premier of Queensland? That's not even a country, right? He'd fail the fame test (to the extent this list has one) every time. There's always room for Aussies (and every other nationality) on the list, but at least some of the committee must have heard of 'em. And isn't "Townsville" a bit of a stupid name? It's like redundant, and stuff.

Claire Voyant has such a clever user name, it's a shame she couldn't back it up by writing something coherent. By day she's probably one of those scary women you run into once a year at the train station, trying to make you take bits of heather, and putting a curse on you if you don't. By night, a lunatic trawling the web.

Right on about John Daly. Saw a few highlights (if that's what you can call golf replays) over the weekend and the guy's so huge he looks like he'll soon be ready for the next darts World Championship. Interestingly his recently-increased girth is coinciding with a return to form. Seems a direct correlation between a gain in weight and performance is further evidence that golf isn't really a sport. But I don't think Big John is ready for the list yet - do we know if he still drinks like a fish and smokes like a chimney? How about that morbid f*&% Ronnie O'Sullivan, who recently said something to the effect of "snooker makes me miserable, and winning makes me miserable because it means I have to play more snooker"? His dad could sort him out if it's all too much......

My fellow Americans (and other DL Forum participants), Nice to see I'm still stirring up emotions in all you kindly (and not so kindly) folks. The last thing I'd want is to be a forgotten footnote to history. And thanks for the reminder of the denture-saving incident there, Mr. Bee Gee. I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was yesterday, wasn't it? As for my policies, well, when you're pruning the yard sometimes a few flowers accidentally go out with the weeds. And the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Unless you get rid of one of that enemy, in which case his enemy might become your enemy, instead of your friend. If even a confused old man like me can keep that straight, sure you youngsters can too.

Nancy loves me...

Excellent research, and an interesting story, but I've never heard of him. Rin Tin Tin, yeah, but the Cambodian hostage-taker - nope. But then I'm a xenophobe, so I wouldn't have heard of him, would I? Only Americans on the DL from now on, I say, because we're the most important, powerful country ever. Did you see how many medals we won at the last Olympics, how badly we kicked Iraq's butt (twice), etc. etc. USA! USA! Gotta go - I have a world to dominate.......

Chill, McBro, I wasn't saying Scots are bad people, just that some of them appear to be getting overly flustered about the passing of a 79 year old gent who presumably lead a long and full life. Hogmany (what is that, exactly) will never be the same because someone reached the end of the (tarmacadam) road? Seems a bit dramatic. And we'd have come up with those inventions anyway, probably just have done them a little better.......

Wow, those Scots are a maudlin bunch aren't they. I suppose it's due to the crappy weather, crappy football, crappy bands etc. The point of this site is, it's interesting when people die, as my fellow Californian Don Henley once sang, so long as we've heard of 'em. Rikki Who? That's not that guy out of that crazy Office show that stole the Golden Globe from Joey from Friends, is it?

Yawn, forget the analysis. How about having forum participants enter their own, say, 10 person mini-lists. Points would be scored a) by e.g. 10 points for each person's number 1 ranking down to 1 for the number 10 ranking (i.e. the "Stiffs" method), or 1 point for the difference between the decedent's age and 100 when he/she dies (therefore rendering the likes of Princess Alice as worthless as is their inclusion on the main list), or c) some other method that no doubt the smart arses on this forum can come up with. To add further spice (or should that be spite?), any names submitted would have to pass a fame test which would require endorsement by a minimum number of forum participants, or some other officially-recognized group. We could then have monthly or quarterly winners, or just score updates. This would also allow for the generation of some new names which may have been inadvertently missed for the 2004 DL 50.

why are they always "brave" if they've got cancer? Doesn't seem very brave to me, more likely he just smoked a few thousand packs of fags too many.

Agreed, you shouldn't be allowed to add someone after the start of the year just because someone else already on the list has gone clog-popping. If news comes out that so and so has just weeks to live, and the crack research team wasn't aware of it when compiling the list, then tough. Plus, one shouldn't be allowed to make up the rules as one goes along. Only the Bush administration can do that!!

I saw some of this darts guy on TV on Sunday. Talk about larger than life. The other bloke he was playing was someone King, the shitter who complained once that the air conditioning was on too high and it was making him miss his throws, then this year he apparently made them re-measure the distance from the throwing block to to the board because he said it was wrong. The net result was I ended up hoping for the Tubby Round guy, to the extent one actually hopes for one darter or another. Not that any of this has anything to do with death. Does Fordham drink and/or smoke heavily? I suppose everything he does, he does "heavily". Remember what happened to John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley and a few other overweight 24 hour party people. But the Reaper is right on the fame test - I'd never heard of Fordham until the other night.

Mr. Stats' hat must be on too tight, because no one in the Home of the Free has ever heard of some damn fool called "Brother Theodore". And here's to Catherine and the comment that "you don't want a list composed almost solely of 97 year olds and up". I'd be up for nominating almost anyone with the name "Youngblood", even if they weren't old, unwell or particularly famous. Any of you Brits ever heard of Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw who also has claims to fame as father of country singer Tim McGraw, hubbie of the luscious Faith Hill? He'd have been a good one, but sadly passed into the great bullpen in the sky.