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Who knows how the mind of a madman works?

Armitage feels deeply hurt by this remark - all he does is offer a free tip and gets it thrown back in his face. Ah well...

Hello Chaps, Top tipster Armitage Shanks at your service. Now, I feel sure that many of you DL members like the odd flutter, so how about taking advantage of my extensive and not-in-the-slightest-dodgy insider knowledge of the racing game by having a small wager on the occasional good thing I may nudge you gently towards? I will, of course, be accepting no blame whatsoever if the nag goes arse over tit at the first and takes your mortgage with it, but will gladly take full credit when it romps home by 20 lengths. Anyway, this week I rather like the look of Alderburn in the Betfred gold cup at Sandown on Saturday, and will be at the excellent Esher establishment putting my money where my big mouth is. The fellow should be around about 5/1 on Betfair and the vibrations are positive, to say the least. Oh, and I must just thank my good friend Harry Mac for allowing me to deliver this nugget of information via his, er, log-in (so he tells me). And remember people...COME RACING!!!! Armitage Shanks MBE

Not sure whether to applaud you or suggest a good psychiatrist, but you sure must have been happy when they invented the interweb...

I won't even begin to ask how you know that the 1970 Moroccan world cup team (squad?) has remained entirely intact...

Are any actual famous people members of the DL, or just those that have had brushes with fame? I suppose the closest I've come is winning an edition of Fifteen to One and shaking Bill G Stewart's gnarled hand.

It's the footballing equivalent of The Conqueror.

My word, is that avatar of Bamber Boozle, from the magical C4 teletext (4-tel, I think it was) quiz Bamboozle? That, the IQ test and 'The Adventures of 4T' used to keep me amused for hours when I was younger; hours because it took so f*cking long for the pages to update and you had to make sure you had nigh-on perfect TV reception for them to be readable... Suggesting I was pretty much destined to become an internet surfer when it was finally invented... Bamber Boozler?!! Never heard of him, that's just a photograph of myself...

I don't remember us being too bothered about only getting 1/31 in 1987. I expect we were pretty chuffed when we heard that Segovia had gone, though. In fact, I'm surprised that Andres's wiki doesnt mention that he was the first ever DL success.

Why has Clive Dunn escaped so many lists? I thought he was the totem, the mascot, the spiritual raison d'etre of the Death List, yet he slipped through the net several times in the 90s and 00s. All i can say is that I hope he'll never go AWOL again.

BOC's (Don't Fear) The Reaper. Unless you've posted something off topic, of course.

I have no intention of affecting good old funreal. I mean funereal.

Thank you sir.

hey NAP, i dont think my thread shoulda been dumped onto here. it was related, i give you, but different all the same. but far be it from me..

A couple of doozies for ya - Jacques Brel's Funeral Tango (Oh I can see me now So cold and so alone As the flowers slowly die In my field of little bones Oh I can see me now I can see me at the end Of this voyage that I/m on Without a love without a friend Now all this that I see Is not what I deserve They really have a nerve To say these things to me No girls just bread and water And your money you must save For there'll be nothing left for us When you're dead and in your grave ) and Drugstore's My Funeral, which somehow features the incomparable lines "All my ex-lovers will talk through the night Heartbreaking tales of passion and pride And they’ll say That I had a c**t made of gold"

No doubt there are already threads on the subject, but I'm too lazy to find them of course. Anyway, I just wanted to celebrate some of the fine music that has embraced the concept in some way or other. I'll kick things off with the great Jacques Brel's My Death, pretty much the most existential number I've ever heard, with the most bloodcurdlingly garish chord change (D to G#m for you musos) known to man - actually that's only in the equally great Scott Walker's cover version - Jacques' original has a much lighter and more sardonic feel. In fact, quite a bit of Jacques' stuff is preoccupied with death, and of course he died pretty young after doing just about all he could to hasten himself to the grave. Anyone else got a favourite that gets to the gist of the matter? I'm sure there are people out there for whom even Whigfield's Saturday Night leaves them pondering on what it's all about in the end, really... Harry Mac. (thread merged- NAP)

Although Wikipedia has been wrong many times before, it is correct in this case. Betty Davis died from cancer on October 6th, 1989. Interesting. Are there any other occasions when the DL has embarrassed itself by listing people who are already dead? It's not as if Bet Davis was obscure. Here's a bit of a DL history lesson for those who may or may not be interested (and apologies if this has been reported in earlier posts). Although my memory of drunken evenings in 1986 mightn't be what it once was, the original night of the Cary Grant death list was a grand affair and the 31 names on the final list was whittled down from a weird and wonderful selection from the 6 or 7 people that attended - I seem to remember there was even a racehorse (Brimstone Lady??) suggested, but possibly because it had suffered a fall in a race that day after one of us had backed the useless nag. By the late 80s four of us were flatsharing in Walthamstow and carried on the tradition, with a few others chipping in on selection night. I have to say that in those pre-interweb days we didnt take too much care about whether someone was actually dead (eg Davis) or had much chance of actually dying (de Cesaris, Bruno) and we couldnt google who the world's oldest celeb with cancer was, which is why we didn't have much success. But it was all done in a devil-may-care spirit that's a bit lacking in the cold professional times of today, and I'd quite like to see some more oddball names return in the future. It won't happen, of course. Anyway, I seem to have lost my thread a bit and I'm getting bored of typing, so I'll leave it there for now.

Afraid not. even back then he'd always be wearing the hooded cloak and sickle combo.