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From Honez recent post on the deaths of 2008 thread......I take the point that thread is for people. But global markets are feeling the jitters and the odd airline, corporate giant or bank is always rumoured to be failing. So - since we speculate on the amount of useful life life wherever we find it - I reckon our recession watchers could use this here thread.

Just hit on a great site dealing with popular music deaths. Enjoy!

A few of the worlds heaviest - like Rosalie Bradford and Mike Parteleno - are still alive, albeit shadows of their former selves. As this little round up shows, that tonnage ain't good for you in the long term. Even some of the so-called champion slimmers carry long term health problems. Be warned people, some pictures on the link are not pretty! Will any of the world's biggest - like Denny Welch- bite the dust soon?

This briefly popped up online when I was Googling earlier, but the page isn't bearing it out and I'm thinking fake news

Imagine showing up to some social event and saying, "The name's Bukkake, Splat Bukkake!"

When the dust settled on the scare that resulted from her positive test does anyone know how many practising pornsters were also found to have HIV? Roughly when will we expect them to join our annual top 50?

I'm guessing the DDP and HPDP will throw up loads of candidates fit for a paragraph and unfit for a busy thread or proper obit. Mebbe a good idea to collect such creatures on one thread so's those of us with an - ahem - sporting interest can keep tabs on 'em. I'll cop for having such an interest in Rachil Jonze, who might just be this year's Ms Groves. Similarly Ian McNicol may afford us that combination of brief media coverage and ongoing ranter fire we've come to know and love over the years. and Dawn Hughes' illness was the subject of television coverage as part of Channel 4's 'Mummy Diaries.' She's also made appearances on BBC television and the BBC web site, her husband works for the Beeb. Then there's everyone's favourite pin up: Winnie Langley. I took a long-shot punt on her for the DDP mainly because I thought if she went the various papers who'd covered her 100th birthday wouldn't be able to resist running that great picture again. Anyone else gonna cop for long shot picks before OoO and NAP do their duty and reveal all?

It's fast, it's furious it's f***in' good fun. Teams of 20 topplers posted on this thread or PM'd to MPFC will be collected into a masterlist to provide a carnival of carnage, the counting of which goes live in the first second of 2025. Points aplenty pour into the scoreboard until someone snags the stupendous total of 2024, at which point the event that used to be the fastest deadpool in common useage (until MPFC started something faster!) slams on the brakes and the lucky winner is duly given metaphorical back-slaps and allowed to claim a prize worth about a tenner (though tradition thus far dictates this turns into a charitable donation). Closing date for entries is midnight on 30 December 2024. All ably MC'd by a nonagenarian knocking on 95 (20 January) who has stoutly resisted the pressures applied by the Deathlist committee to cash in his chips. Will he offer Deathlist points, or disappointment? Either way, nice teeth Buzz! In it to win it this year are... arghton - ar Bibliogryphon - bg Captain Hemlock - ch Gooseberry Crumble - gc JoeMoneypenny - jm TheKillingTime - kt livingbygrace - lg YorkshireBanker - yb Top talent aplenty in our list of previous champions: 2009 - Raskolnikov 2010 - Nobody, I mean f***in' nobody, reached the winning points total 2011 - DDT 2012 - Spade Cooley 2013 - DDT 2014 - Death Impends 2015 - MSC 2016 - DDT 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - MSC 2019 - Phantom of the Midway 2020 - RadGuy 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Banana 2023 - Banana 2024 - Banana Small print - I'm buried in work currently and seriously considered canning this responsibility, but we'll give it one more go at least. That said, tardy entries, rule transgressions and the like might well be less tolerated this year. In other words, if you post a team with no joker, I might not chase I'll just put the first place pick in as joker etc.

A couple of Halibut women from Leeds are looking through an old photograph album. 'Oh look,' says one, 'there's my son on his first day at school, and here he is in the school play, and here with his football team...' 'Ah the children,' says her friend, 'They blow up so fast these days.' C'mon guys, share a few rib ticklers with us.

There's a whole generation of folk singers out there straddling the mid sixties to seventies in age. Whilst not seriously old a lot of this crowd have played night after night in smoky venues, drunk heavily throughout their careers and been obliged to drive long distances in search of a few quid because many of them never really made it. One or two - like Gordon Lightfoot - did do well. Others, like Tom Paxton and many of the British crowd - Wizz Jones, Harvey Andrews etc - never made it out of the folk clubs and have no massive 'hits' covered by other artists to keep them in cash, obliging them to keep covering road miles and turning up in front of a few dozen people. It can't be doing them any good. I know Gordon Lightfoot was lucky to survive suffering an abdominal haemorrage on stage in 2002 and miraculously recovered to play Live8. There must be a few others in this category fixin' to strum their last. Anyone know more than me and want to share it?

Some authors seem to go on for ages and they don't appear on boards like this because they often stay out of the public eye. Many people simply assume they're dead. However the following are unlikely to be setting sprint world records or clocking up high sales figures for pin up calenders these days. J.D 'Catcher in the Rye' Salinger, 1919 - Harper 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Lee, 1926 - Robert M 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence' Pirsig, 1928 -

Three dead including the shooter in a shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin yesterday, ironically the school is called the Abundant Life school! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvpl89p8eo

Dunno about you but I get that tingle of anticipation when I hear the music introducing the news and find myself thinking: I wonder where a lonely nutcase will strike today? So I've lined up 50 nations with one notion; call the venue from the menu and feel made up when others get slayed up. Seriously though folks, where do you think the lonely and rejected world tour will touch down next?

Reading between the lines, her lawyers have sent him difficult questions, he's been obtuse regarding answers and they're trying to bounce him into more. He's attacking them publicly but not being dogmatic about believing what he said in court. So, if they dragged him back and faced him with a few of the same questions he faced on the road to convicting her, it could get lively

Didn't intend to leave, apparently - likely owes his life to the fact he did https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd0zz5edqo

Well, she might find herself driving past some white police in Minneapolis, just sayin'

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For the busy DL'er facing too many choices in too little time, this is the thread to provide advance warning of media coverage of those we might like to 'research.' Studs Terkel - 94 year old author, still chucking them out - is on The Culture Show, BBC2, next Saturday, repeated Sunday.

The Comedians was massive once over but it's strange that IMBD - normally a mecca for anorak who know their facts - doesn't post a birthdate for half the performers. Has anyone around the UK noticed the likes of Charlie Daze playing a local club? How many of this lot are still alive? Some of them will be well into their seventies now, late nights, loadsa fags and drink, stressful job. We could have us some future winners here.

He raced motorcycles in Northern Ireland and lived to be 90, not a claim many people could make

21 entrants (20 quickest off the mark plus your host and - ahem - master Maryportfuncity). Competition opens on 1 June with the aim of getting a winner by midsummer's day. Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2019 (That’ll be MMMDP to you lot!) The Duke still has the DRIVE to serve as MC this year! Ah....the Masterlist, excellent!! 1. Clorox Bleachman: Ani Yudhoyono 2. Quim Reaper: Lee Kerslake please 3. GC Reptile: Demetris Cristofias 4. Spade Cooley: MC Ren 5. Theoldlady: Ric Flair 6. YoungWillz: Pervez Musharraf 7. Captain Chorizo: Javier Perez De Cuellar 8. The Old Crem: Micheal Sleggs (Actor) 9. Bibliogryphon: Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont 10. Yorkshire Banker: Vivian Pickles 11. Great Uncle Bulgaria: Kathleen Blanco 12. Book: Tom Long 13. Msc: Ivan Milat 14. Grim up North: David Powlison 15. Joey Russ: Chinese dissent Ji Sizun 16. Death Impends: S. Prestley Blake 17. Skinny Kiltrunner: Ernesto Cardenal 18. Fixed Business: Leah Bracknell 19. Sean: Fernando Ricksen 20. Pedro67: Jill Gascoine 21. MPFC: Nobby Stiles

Dunno which is the bigger news, the fact he had another dodgy friend or the fact he had a friend at all! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd75vwdg3yvo

Harsh...but fair

And very crap

There's a load of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, but may be worth a punt and points if selected on a deadpool. A few obvious - Lucan, Bin Laden etc - get mentioned. But if we pool our collective brains we might hit on a few more. Like Bambi Woods age, whereabouts, real name uncertain. I'd say alive and willing the world to leave her alone, but you never know. C'mon guys, who else is missing in action?