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Fuck! Terrible news!

2019 Cup changes btw - Stressing Refs decision on a QO is final for judgement calls. - FFBI more strict. - Jokers Added. Otherwise, as it was. Right, you can enter the 2019 Cup....now!

Confirmed Entrants 1. Msc – ref/host 2. Sir Creep – 2018 finalist 3. Deadsox – 2017 winner 4. Death Impends 5. Gcreptile 6. Joey Russ 7. Young Willz 8. Book 9. Grim Up North 10. Deathray 11. Rad 12. nantonian2013 13. Theoldlady 14. Bibliogryphon 15. John Key 16. Clorox 17. Maryportfuncity 18. charon 19. Fixed Business 20. The Mad Hatter 21. Boudicca 22. The Old Crem 23. Skinny Kiltrunner 24. Engineer 25. Heef 26. DDT - Reigning Champion 27. Alt Obits Guy 28. markb4 29. Torva Messor 30. Squonk 31. The Quim Reaper 32. BuffaloPhil 33. Banana 34. Chorizo 35. Pedro 36. Time 37. The Unknown Man 38. Wormfarmer 39. Gooseberry Crumble 40. The Dead Cow 41. Dr T (2018 DDP winner) 42. JoeMoneypenny 43. Exu 44. Master Tech 45. Yorkshire Banker 46. Great Uncle Bulgaria 47. Spade Cooley

Kirk Douglas - Herman Wouk - Leah Bracknell - Vera Lynn - Robert Mugabe - Bob Dole - Javier Perez de Cuellar June Brown - Stirling Moss - Bob Hawke - Nobby Stiles - Barbara Walters - Jimmy Greaves - Loretta Lynn Gorbachev - Tony Britton - John McCririck - Little Richard - Johnny Clegg (joker) 19/50, apparently. Oh well, get to stick to what the evidence suggests.

Something about folk in glasshouses...

I've worked out DJL's real life job. He's an editor!

Well done, Dr T!

Yeah, the Cmme used to pick really old and dead folk in the days before the internet. Bette Davis is the most famous, but Bramble, Hartnell, iirc Troughton and others all managed the same seat. Fastest hit is surely still Helen Moody on January 2nd 1998. Fastest I can ever recall while on forum was the late great Gerry Rafferty on January 4th 2011.

Genuinely thought he'd be on your team after picking him in the 5-4-etc. Was on my shortlist till a number of similar types died without a QO.

The last time Bou an unnamed mod was threatening me with modship suggesting we need more mods, I suggested charon got made a mod and we all called him Sherrif charon. Veto'd, alas.

She wasnae in it. Neither was June Brown. Or Leonard Fenton. Fecking Shirley Carter was, though.

Its the nefarious Pelican, a long standing DDP player. 11 years in the DDP? Achelous is a mod very well known to the other mods, no worries.

2017 - Deathrow-gate 2018- Caswillow-gate 2019 - Sean-gate This race's got more annual controversy than the infamous Ben Johnson 100m final!

Nah, this guy.

Huddersfield Town?

Don't get too excited, but tomorrow I will open up The 2019 Deathlist Cup thread! And entries will be welcome from the opening of the thread until 20th January as usual.

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We're even now! Prepare for 2019 in which I shall kick your ass, deadpool style. Or try to. And likely fail. He's quite good at deadpools, you know. Nah, congrates. Best team wins it over 12 months, and mine suffered from a terminal case of Shite Joker-itis.

Ah, well, get another like for a good summary then!

I've usually done this by now, but first thoughts: Kirk Douglas - Boring top pick. May or may not die. Herman Wouk - Somehow still alive. Olivia de Havilland - Healthiest centenarian the list has ever seen? Prince Philip - On the downward slope, but slowly imo. Leah Bracknell - Terminal lung cancer is terminal lung cancer, I think she'll be gone this year. Vera Lynn - Quieter than she used to be, could be one of the obligatory "random old folk on the list for year who die". Robert Mugabe - Hospital for several months last year, time is nearly up. Jimmy Carter - Should beat Bush's record, but reaching the Expiry Date for former Presidents and cancer survivor. Doris Day - She got hit by a train over 80 years ago, and still breathes. Will take a lot to take down Doris Pierre Cardin - Just really old? Bob Dole - Looked like fucking shite at Bush's funeral, has to be a good bet for 2019. Henry Kissinger - 96 must be close to 200 for his weight. Didn't similar heavy built Al Molinaro go at 96? Hmm. Jerry Stiller - No idea about his health. Interesting newcomer. Javier Perez de Cuellar - Zzzzzzzz. Death hoax in late 2018, maybe he's doing a Bill Pertwee. Bob Barker - Lots of hooha about him on here end of last year. Think hes on mend though. Murray Walker - Old, still chats apparently, smashed cancer to bits in his 90s - surely a few laps left in his tank. Akihito - Frail for years, surprisingly still around. Betty White - Looked frailer last year but not to the point I'd get worried. Gordon Banks - DL Cmme loves old footballers, clearly. Has Banks been quieter than usual of late or did I tune out all the Engerlund stuff last summer? Hosni Mubarak - Not convinced he's close to the end. June Brown - Clearly going downhill on Eastenders. Not got too long left. Stirling Moss - Shocked he made it this far. OoO says wont see 90, I believe him. Bob Hawke - Says he wont see May, hospital in and out in 2018, and his wife was crying talking on TV about his health few days ago. Think his goose is cooked. Alan Greenspan - Really old, and random death hoax last year. Jacques Chirac - Increasingly frail, likely a top pick. Dick van Dyke - Super healthy? Trying to do a repeat Aznavour imo. Nobby Stiles - Great pick. Barbara Walters - Quiet and demented, sleeper smart pick. Honor Blackman - Very old. Guessing Cmme has Avengers fans. Harry Belafonte - Good pick, A lister looking old. Desmond Tutu - In and out of hospital, in and out of the list d'Estaing - Just old Ed Asner - This years surprise comeback. Vanessa Redgrave - COPD so time limited but looked OK in recent public. Jimmy Greaves - Looks like shit, cant have long left. Sidney Poitier - About time this frail permanent A lister got on the list. Valerie Harper - Quiet dying? Quiet putting feet up and chilling? Who knows. Cleo Laine - Dunno much about this pick. Loretta Lynn - In lot of ill health, likely a big pick in 2019. Gorbachev - Finally! Frail, increasingly poorly, might be here in nick of time. Tony Britton - Really old actor. Thought his window of opportunity had long passed! John McCririck - Looks fucked tbh Clive James - Looked fucked tbh. Didn't I say that in every year since 2011? Prunella Scales - Rallied enough to do another TV series. Gone mentally, OK physically, could go downhill rapidly within 12 months though. Think Timothy might got within 6 months of her tbh. Little Richard - frail A-lister with health issues, good pick. Larry King - Just old? Tina Turner - Seems to be on the mend from rotten health. Shane McGowan - Fuck yer Gazza and Mark E Smiths, this is the one that'll gut me if he goes. Getting married suddenly end of 2018 after 30-40 years cohabiting is a huge warning bell. Ginger Baker - How is he still alive? COPD, for yonks. Johnny Clegg - He got pancreatic cancer in 2015, got remission, it came back, so he got the full Whipple Surgery in 2017, only for his pancreatic cancer to come back when he no longer had most of his pancreas etc and spread to his lungs. You don't need me or A Google Dr to tell you he is fucked. So saying that, and adding 2 to the score for the inevitable long time oldies who just don't wake up one morning, I think a reasonable target for this list is 16. In fact, IF enough of the long termers go in 2019, the record might be under threat. There's enough ill, frail and generally ancient picks to go around.

Well, you make considerably more dough than I do but I see no harm in a small donation (in the region of £5) to charity if wrong. Remember Hunt is a very local case for Willz and I - the hospital involved (which is crap) is within walking distance for me. So she's been all over our local press.

IST is India time, which is 5 hours ahead of the UK (and 10 ahead of New York). So 4am IST is 11pm the day before here, and about 6pm Toronto.

I tried Clayton in case anyone else like AOG was allowed him. As 22 this year, likely to be the prime candidate for the 50 points bonus for youngest hit. Rejected, though.

1. Peter Marshall – actor, Hollywood Squares 2. Andrew McGahan 3. Johnny Clegg 4. Kathleen Blanco 5. Lloyd Klein 6. Jean Louis Trintignant 7. Lee Kerslake 8. Kaye Ballard 9. Fatima Ali 10. Arte Johnson subs 11. Gerard Bassett 12. Andrew Fairlie As sent to DI around Christmas.

Ah, see, I fast forward all the bits that aren't June Brown/Leonard Fenton form spotting, so missed that.