timmyun

Hello everybody, I'm new on here but have been looking in for sometime. Great Forum, very useful for my (relatively) new Death Sweepstake. I organise a league seven players with 'teams' of eleven with the first to ten deaths the winner. We all pay in £2 a month and hope that it lasts a while as the winner will collect a nice amount. Glad there are others around with a sense of humour about these sorts of things, I've been very surprised at the amount of people that know about my league that aren't offended. Even my parents keep an eye on the obituaries for me. Any advice on sources of more information (such as ailing celebrities?) would be grraetly appreciated. Keep it up, I will be checking in from time to time. Thanks, Tim P.S. Our league leader has 'celebrated' 4 deaths from 11 since february!! I however have just had Sir John Mills.

right, I'm only going to the bar once so make sure you've all given me your orders... Anyway, back to my league... PHIL Prince Ranier Gerald Ford Robert Mugabe Jake La Motta Robert Hardy Charlie Watts B. Bel Geddes Arthur Miller Stan Lee Mel Brookes Carl Reiner PAT Pope JPII G'card-Destaing Ian Brady Max Schmelling James Doohan Richard Todd Fats Domino ZZ Gabor Jim Callaghan King Sihanouk AC Clarke RON Ariel Sharon Michael Foot Ronnie Biggs Diego Maradona Clive Dunn Herbert Lom James Brown Liz Taylor Steven Hawking S. Wiesenthal Rupert Murdoch DAN Alex Higgins Larry Hagman Dof Edinburgh Edward Heath Charlton Heston Peter O'Toole Keith Richards Nancy Reagan Richard Pryor Saddam Hussein M. Kalashnikov CARLTed Kennedy Fidel Castro Boris Yeltsin George Best Ernest Borgnine Kirk Douglas Chuck Berry Betty Driver Hugh Hefner PW Botha Betty Ford AUSTIN Kim Jong Il Maggie Thatcher Kurt Waldheim Ian Huntley JA Samaranch Adam West Mickey Rooney O. De Havilland Edmund Hillary Bernard Manning Ravi Shankar TIM Yitzhak Shamir Nelson Mandela Augusto Pinochet Tom Finney Norman Wisdom Sir John Mills Jerry Lewis A. Solzhenytsin Henry Kissinger Cliff Michelmore Vera Lynn I organised a half sweepstake half choice selection process where I made ten catergories with ten celebrities in each. Each player took it in turns to pick a catergory from a hat, i.e. politicians, and had first pick from that list. They then picked last from the next catergory. Not totally random so people had to do their homework but still couldn't guarantee they all got their choices. Complicated but successful. Thanks for reading, any comments would be appreciated.

I'm stuck with the team I've got. Like I said, it's first to ten out of eleven. My team is: Nelson Mandela Vera Lynn Cliff Michelmore Yitshak Shamir Augusto Pinochet Henry Kissinger Jerry Lewis Alexander Solzhenytsin Norman Wisdom Tom Finney and already down, Sir John Mills Any reflections on my 1st XI?

Whatever it takes! Should have said "My only points so far have come from the sad passing of cinematic genius Sir John Mills" I haven't had Vera Lynn yet but will look forward to it!