themaninblack

What a flying start with Rawls! Is that the quickest death? I didn't know he'd go that quickly, we all knew he was terminal. We did miss a trick with Sharon however. I've gone with Gerald Ford again...

If it's ageing Italian film directors you're looking for, then Michaelangelo Antonioni's yer man! In my list for '06 aged 94...

Sorry about all that, I didn't know there was another poll, should have guessed really! Anyway I voted for Ford, an ex-President stiffy with the additional media kerfuffle would be just the tonic for the beleaguered Dubya!

New Year: New funerals and if anyone thinks this site is bad taste have a gander at the Guardian Magazine from last Saturday. During the review of the year a list of prominent deaths were given what can only be described as the 'Deathlist' treatment, with lots of puns and jokes at the expense of the dearly departed. Maybe we're catching on....

Augurs well as far as Labour Politicians are concerned. I have former Labour MP John Freeman in my DDP20 and ex-Deputy Leader Ted Short in the 50...

Beefheart is a good old fashioned guess. With Christmas and that, I could have done with more time to consider the 50, so I concentrated on the DDP 20. Is she not well then?

Here we are guys and gals, my 50 for 2006. They're in no particular order, although the first 20 (italics) are my entry for Derby Deadpool... Harold Pinter Gerald Ford Al Lewis John Kenneth Galbraith Mark Felt Charles Haughey Ricardo Montelban John Spencer Lou Rawls Chris Rea Joe Longthorne General Pinochet Saddam Hussien Charlton Heston Margaret Thatcher Michaelangelo Antonioni Larry Hagman Shelley Winters John Freeman Kenneth Griffith Brooke Astor Albert Hofmann Oscar Niemeyer Claude Levi-Strauss Ernest Gallo Joseph Barbera Byron Nelson Milton Friedman Frankie Laine Michael Foot Mary Travers Tony Martin Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Olivia De Havilland Walter Cronkite Betty Ford Herbert Lom Peter O'Sullevan Patrick Moore Ludovic Kennedy Ronnie Biggs Elizabeth Taylor Elliott Carter Ladybird Johnson Edward Short Gough Whitlam Robert McNamara Sid Caesar Johnny Walker Captain Beefheart

Never give up Iain, never give up! Besides, Christmastime is a great time for Celebrity death...

I would like a piano, but I'm more likely to get a scarf or something. Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have Christmas one year or make it a bi-annual event?

Saw him in the UK Snooker Championship this week. He didn't look the ticket....

She's talking about her funeral now... http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/sto...1664581,00.html

They all say that...

There's a lot to do at the end of the year. I intend to enter the Derby Deadpool for the first time and regale the Deathlist on my top 50 for the year for their consideration. And now this one's got to be in order! My brain will hurt!

Agreed. I just love short hairy women... Perhaps Kelly dipped her toe in the waters of Lesbos and decided to scamper back to Hairy beach.

Yeah, like we had no prior warning or anything.... Geddit, gedditt.....oh please yourselves!

Talking of which, I for one was a mite disappointed that Dame Ellen didn't turn up with a frock on at last night's 'Sports Personality' awards. She looked smart enough in jeans and brown leather jacket, but Dame Kelly looked great in her red dress and she's a dyke! As far as I know Ellen isn't, so why didn't she make the effort?

This came out of the blue didn't it? First year on the list too. For all those who are 'offended' by such sites as this, I'm quite sure Mr Pryor would have appreciated his inclusion. Perhaps we ought to think of other MS sufferers as contenders next year. Don Van Vliet (AKA Captain Beefheart) turns 65 on January 15th 2006...

There must a mpeg or video of the great man's final moments floating around the net somewhere. I missed it by minutes all those years ago, but the rest of my family saw it. I had a habit of missing key TV moments. In 1986 I had to take a call during England's World Cup QF against Argentina. By the time I returned to the sitting room, I'd missed the Hand of God and the greatest goal ever. Bloody typical.

I'm not so sure that he's a dead cert for '06. It is said that he has recovered from the throat cancer and that the current condition is in his mouth, but not cancerous. He may well be good for a couple of years yet...

Wasn't that due to some sort of Native American curse? I read about it some years ago, when Bush was about to be 'elected'...

(clicks fingers) a merge I think....

Saw him Doc Martin t'other night and he hasn't changed a bit!

Isn't that the case with every Man U player? It was Liverpool fans that caused the rumpus at the City of Manchester stadium BTW.

It is generally known that Karl Malden was born in 1912.

Interesting to note that before some matches today, there was a minutes applause rather than a minutes silence. I wonder if that might start to become standard for football figures that peg it, so as not to suffer the indignity of a minutes silence ruined by a minority, which happened today at Man City (Liverpool) and Millwall (Leed Utd)...