themaninblack

You're fooking joking! Really? It was reported as a main news story on Calendar (local Yorkshire TV channel )...He died in Chesterfield , I think...they showed a clip of him as a ref at the crucible .....he will be front page on the Yorkshire tabloids ! They'll have him on the BBC website for sure, he was part of the golden years of the 70s/80s.... Wish I had him as a joker now.....

I know now Grobler! What a start. You better believe it baby...

You're fooking joking! Really?

I don't have either on mine so... GO ON, LET 'EM OFF! PLEASE! Yeah...I think they are both innocent and there is a potential massive miscarriage of justice here . This opinion is in no way connected to me not picking them in ANY of the 4 DP's that I have recently entered . However...bearing in mind that TMIB has already got a DDP hit ...the fact he is missing these 2 criminals shouldn't hurt his prospects Yeah I got it...last year! ah well, my team is for a whole year, not the first week...nil desperandum UPDATE: Sorry Grobler, I didn't realise you meant John Smyth until later....nil desperandum indeed!

You could make yourself more famous by out-messaging ol' Maryport...

I don't have either on mine so... GO ON, LET 'EM OFF! PLEASE!

That'll just be taking the piss...

Thinking that meself....

Hmm..no longer has that power base either...

After half the team was decimated in December it looks quite different than I expected. In order of age:- Doku Umarov Barzan Al-Tikriti Awad al Bandar Tammy Faye Messner Lansana Conte Basil d'Oliveira Lee Hazelwood Jimmy Langley Ariel Sharon Sir John Herman Fidel Castro George Melly Charlton Heston Francis Pym Les Leston Rev. Billy Graham Baroness Jeger Yifthak Shamir Hans Ruesch Maurice Papon No real surprises in that lot. Hopefully 6 unique picks, but we'll see. Doubt I'll win, but if I can make the top 10, that'll do me just fine. Intriguing selection as always OoO.... I could have added a few more possible uniques (including that footballer I was talking about) but I decided to play a bit safe this time....

Eejit you Eejit! - and I thought Daly was gonna be a Unique pick... Ah well, with 450 contestants, you'd be lucky to get any uniques these days...

Is that the Scottish artist or the DUP guy? Neither Octo my good friend, he's a snooker referee from the Golden age. He was ref at the first Crucible final in 1977, Alex Higgins' greatest moment in 1982 and was famously embraced by Kirk Stevens in 1984 when the Canadian did his memorable 147 at the Masters. Whilst watching the snooker in December, Willie Thorne mentioned that he was 'very poorly' Did a bit of research, thinking that he was a current ref. Lo and behold turns out he retired ions ago, so I took a chance... I'm hoping he's my 'Kenneth Griffith' for 2007... Where's your list Octopus? I looking forward to yours....

Is Tim Johnson 2007's Di Stefano - a hastily picked sickie? Time will tell...

Eli Wallach - still making films...

I'll have to reluctantly agree, but you never know...

Hmmm....12 and Levi-Strauss...

Right here goes, here's mine.... They're Dead Y'Know! DDP 2007 Muhammad Ali Captain Beefheart Fidel Castro Cahal Daly Basil D'Oliveira Estelle Getty Billy Graham Larry Hagman Lee Hazlewood Jessie Helms John Freeman Charlton Heston Deborah Kerr Gabriel Garcia Marquez Tammy Faye Bakker Messner (Joker) Harold Pinter Jesus de Polanco Ariel Sharon John Smyth Robert Anton Wilson Good luck everyone, especially me!

Congratulations Football Fan AKA Meet Your Maker... good luck with the defence!

Yes it's that time of the year folks.... DL07 Top 50 from themaninblack (in Alphabetical Order): Muhammad Ali Michaelangelo Antonioni Brooke Astor Captain Beefheart George Blake Ray Bradbury Sid Caesar Elliot Carter Fidel Castro Cahal Daly Basil D'Oliveira Blake Edwards Louis Farrakhan John Forsythe John Freeman Estelle Getty Billy Graham Larry Hagman Joao Havelange Lee Hazlewood Jessie Helms Charlton Heston Phil Hill Gordon B. Hinckley Albert Hoffmann Ladybird Johnson Jack Jones Robert Kee Ludovic Kennedy Deborah Kerr Claude Levi-Strauss Karl Malden Gabriel Garcia Marquez Robert McNamara Ricardo Montalban Luciano Pavarotti Harold Pinter Carlo Ponti Bobby Robson Peter Rogers Ronald Searle Ariel Sharon Sidney Sheldon Edward Short George Shultz Jeremy Thorpe Reg Varney John Archibald Wheeler Gough Whitlam Robert Anton Wilson Hoping to improve on 13/50 of 2006....

British pride wouldn't stand for it, whatever that is...

A problem I have is with the other Ideas and Possibilities thread. There's too much stuff about the latest health scares of somebody or other, rather than proper suggestions. Maybe there should be a 'Latest News' thread for 2007, with the I&P thread being used just for suggestons, idle speculation and over-confident prediction.. Just a thought...

Should be a 'sticky' for next year I think...

It's turning out to be a tense finish: it's been a corking month for the celebrity deaths!!

You happy you had him now Windsor? Indeed. The 5 points will hopefully get me into the top 20. On the other hand, the death of Ford and Hussein at this late stage make my 2007 team weaker. 5 points gets me into the top 5! 2007 is gonna be one hell of an act to follow....

Fantasy Death League...interesting! Here's a suggestion - give an aggregate age limit. Say the Average would be 80 and you pick 10 - so the total number of years would be 800 and no team can exceed that total. Better hurry up though, or you can drum up support and wait for another fixed date in 2007...