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Mystery writer Donald E Westlake has died aged 75...

Which is particulary ironic when you consider this...

There is no way on God's clean earth that Mark Lamarr will participate in this sh*t (that I will probably watch) - I would pay good money, however, to watch John Leslie go in there and send his non-existent career even further down the shitter. If I am wrong about Lamarr, I will bare my bottom in Trafalgar Square at the next DL meet. So you's all had better hope I'm right. It seems that London will be spared the sight of the Bazaar buttocks, as Mr Lamarr has not made an appearance in the House. Reds are in, Patrick is not. Sadly. I can hear the utter disappointment in your voice, harry. Not just mine, Boris Johnson was already busy planning a one-day festival and tickertape parade. The Weather Girls were going to come out of retirement to sing Fat Bottomed Girls atop the fourth plinth too. "It's a tragedy for our capital", said Johnson. "We shall just have to raise Tube and bus fares by 26% instead". Well, I'd hate to think that London commuters will be inconvienced through lack of my lilly-white butt cheeks blotting out the sun over the Trafalgar Square fountain, so I'll take one for the team and do it anyway - when's the next meet, I'll make sure I've got my best pants on. It's probably all for the best LB, it's bitter out!

Count me in. Sounds like fun... They're Dead, Y'Know! Corazon Aquino Susan Atkins Richard Attenborough Stefano Borgonovo Rev Ian Cundy Dick Dale Annette Funicello Silvio Gazzaniga David Hart Steve Jobs Edward Kennedy Dai Llewellyn Iain McColl Ralph McQuarrie Robert Novak Kenneth Pitt Sir Bobby Robson Patrick Swayze (Joker) Linda Uttley Sir Norman Wisdom

Before we close this thread, a final look at the standings... Top 20 The Living End - 13 hits, 108pts Godot's Waiting List - 13 hits, 102pts Wormer, He's a Dead Man! Marmalard, Dead! Niedermeyer - 11 hits, 98pts Canadian Paul - 13 hits, 95pts Master Mind - 11 hits, 88pts They're Dead, Y'Know! - 12 hits, 84pts Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy - 9 hits, 82pts Meet Your Maker - 11 hits, 80pts Already Dead - 9 hits, 80pts No Noose is Good Noose - 8 hits, 80pts Octopus of Odstock - 10 hits, 67pts They Died And Left Me In Charge - 9 hits, 67pts Hunting Halos - 9 hits, 66pts Clathrate Gun - 7 hits, 66pts Misers - 9 hits, 63pts Croaker De'Ath And The Prognosticators - 8 hits, 62pts Rude Kid - 8 hits, 62pts Eejit - 8 hits, 59pts The Last Gasp - 7 hits, 58pts R.I.P. It Up And Start Again - 7 hits, 55pts The End of the World As We Know It - 6 hits, 55pts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The White Jersey goes to Tonight Matthew... as the best rookie. Also good debuts for Hunting Halos and Misers. Best placings ever for The Living End, Godot, Wormer, Canadian Paul, Master Mind, No Noose, They Died etc, Clathrate Gun. Indeed the top seven was different from last years top seven. Indeed of the top 10, They're Dead, Y'Know, Meet Your Maker, Already Dead and No Noose had made the top 10 before... The highest climber was Croaker D'eath, up from equal 205th!

Yes I find that a bit unfair too. How about a weeks grace?

Bit surprised Dickie Attenborough didn't make it...

I thought Miriam Karlin was dead! I swear she died of cancer years ago. Not long after that comedy she did playing a ghost...

Wisdom. We may have to wait a while too...

Pishflaps! Thought he might be a unique pick for my team. I don't actually know how ill he is. Last news I had on him there was a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear in court. That's the second time I've shat on someone's hopes tonight! (DDT thought he'd have David Hart all to himself) Let battle commence...

Anyway an actual death, Vincent Ford, who wrote 'No Woman, No Cry', has died aged 68...

Post it where you like. Live dangerously. I will Windsor... They're Dead, Y'Know! Corazon Aquino Susan Atkins Richard Attenborough Stefano Borgonovo Rev Ian Cundy Dick Dale Annette Funicello Silvio Gazzaniga David Hart Steve Jobs Edward Kennedy Dai Llewellyn Iain McColl Ralph McQuarrie Robert Novak Kenneth Pitt Sir Bobby Robson Patrick Swayze (Joker) Linda Uttley Sir Norman Wisdom Good luck everybody...

David Harts listed on Wikipedia don't - currently - include our croaking man. So, no CPDP points, then. He ought to get one for the DDP though, quite a notorious figure in his time, friends in high places, all that...providing he pops it next year... Well I picked him for my DDP team - only to be told in DL Chat last night that he was already dead. I can find no evidence to support this claim, so I'm hoping he still breathes. I hope that, unlike Phil Drabble and Steve Fossett, I'm right about this one. I might have to concede on this one, DDT - can't find evidence of his demise, so perhaps he passed away in one of my regular dreams about the heroes of the Thatcher years. Well that's a relief. I can concentrate all my efforts on tracking down Gerry Rafferty now. I too had night time visions about David Hart recently - it was dark, dark stuff; Arthur Scargill had sort of morphed in to Hannibal Lecter and was roasting your hero on a spit, using the contents of Hart's wallett to keep the fire going and feeding bits of him to Dave Nellist, Derek Hatton and Dennis Skinner. Someone (possibly the late Eric Heffer) was videoing events, so that the tape could be sent to Thatcher. If he had died, then he would have got an obit in the main papers. He was a key figure in the defeat of the Miners (or was it all in his own head?) Hart is one of the few choices in my team out of malice, as well as thinking he's going to cop it...So Basil stays on the subs bench!

Joanne Evans is a young British woman (age 24) who is reported to be terminally ill with inoperperable cancer and a prognosis of only having weeks to live. She is definitely in the famous for being sick category, but I thought that she was one of those low hanging fruits worthy of a try. Here is the link to her story Too low hanging, but I suppose you've got a championship to win back FF... Congratulations to DevonDeathTrip (AKA The Living End) for his fine win. Handrejka: That Suzman dying a day late was a pisser... I'm not posting my team yet until confirmation, but do I do it here or in the special thread devoted to such things on the main forum?

David Harts listed on Wikipedia don't - currently - include our croaking man. So, no CPDP points, then. He ought to get one for the DDP though, quite a notorious figure in his time, friends in high places, all that...providing he pops it next year... Well I picked him for my DDP team - only to be told in DL Chat last night that he was already dead. I can find no evidence to support this claim, so I'm hoping he still breathes. I hope that, unlike Phil Drabble and Steve Fossett, I'm right about this one. No f*****g way! Check the Guido Fawkes blog as its run by his mate, if true then Basil does get an airing for 2009...

Yeah I saw that too. My brother reckons he's gone deaf or summat...

I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2009. Near the end of the 1st decade of the 21st Century, fancy that....

You've got approximately 7 1/2 hrs to enter the Derby Deadpool! Pick 20 names and 1 sub... Here's a link And good luck!

Finally sent mine in. With that off my mind I can finally get round to constructing my blog...

Still writing and being interviewed And that pretty much makes up my mind not to include him for my DDP 2009 team...

George Miller, who played for Dunfermline Athletic under the legendary Jock Stein, has died aged 69...

2008 is incidentially the first year in which the top 3 positions were correctly guessed. 2008 was also a more evenly spread year for deaths, whereas 2003 had bursts in the middle of the year...

And of course the British Gas Business Southern League is the acme of professionalism...

2008 will be the longest year ever, thanks to the leap day and leap second!

I'm guessing... Tolimir... was the last hold out? Just to be different, I've kept Richard and kicked out Llewellyn, mainly because I hate typing his name all the time. Toyed with Birch as my joker, but picked someone more certain instead. I'll submit tomorrow OoO, just in case I run into someone strange or unique worth picking. At most I'll have 3 uniques but, since none of them are terribly secret, that number will likely be a lot closer to 0. Haven't enjoyed this this much in a while... brings back memories... No as it happens. I've not even considered Tolimir for this years list. Last man standing was John Mortimer, who gets the consolation of being the sub. Actually, I may put in a self-imposed rule of completely replacing my DDP team, rather like the 25 replacements for DL every year. But that might compromise my chances of winning. Would make for interesting teams every year though...