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DDP main - 14 locked in baring deaths and about 15 name vying for the other 6 spots DDP themes - Sorted. Crowdsourced, Hartlepool, Alt Obits, Hares - All sent in Deathrace, DbN - leaving till last minute.

New thread was long overdue, things were getting difficult to find and we all know how temperamental the search function is. Thread clutter? What is this, 1998 and everyone's still on dial up? Merry Christmas, incidentally!

I can confirm DI sent me his team and I have already bored him with anecdotes about at least one person on it. Yep, I'm that guy you find in bars.

I think her greatest achievement was in the 1980s. Here's a picture of The Wombles, shortly after they beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final.

All I want to add is that if we're all coining "popular crap DDP picks" as "Sinead O'Connor type figures" now, I'm really proud.

Pa Broon will outlive Blair imo. Would Kinnock suddenly shuffling off surprise anyone? Or indeed the "now veggie for health reasons like Clinton" Salmond? Who's going to see off more younger successors - David Steel or Bobby Brown?

Sicknote and Jean were involved in an environmental protest in the last series (S11 I think?) on Drama. First thing to come to mind given possible hippy couple types. And somehow, I'm shit at Only Connect. Anyhow, I digress.

Assume it was these 2 miscreants from the 90s. Yep, the opportunity for a dated pop culture reference sod all anyone will get. *Actually watching it on Drama the now. First time since an episode in the late 80s terrified toddler me. Notable downturn in quality as each of the long term cast get bumped off...

2018 - Colin Butts 2017 - Keith Farnham 2016 - Caroline Aherne, Asa Briggs 2015 - Chris Woodhead, George Cole 2014 - Derek Martinus, Sandy Jardine, Jaruzelski 2013 - Glafcos Clerides, Ronald Coase Yes, that's right. Every single year I have played the DDP (except debut in 2012, obviously) I have dropped someone from the previous years team who wound up dying. So with that said, here's an early Christmas present. The following 3 names are getting dropped by Pan Breed for 2019. Steffan Lewis, the terminally ill Plaid AM. Carl Piddington, son of Bill Tarmey Philomena Lynott, Phil's mum. I have now signed the 2019 death warrant of at least one of the above, so you'll probably want to nab them while they're living...

The open goal was there for one of us to go "If that exit post by Sean is accurate I'll eat my hat" or likewise. Group fail.

Thought he was going to be on the 2019 DL tbh.

OK, here's one that I can't find room for on my teams (not enough spaces) but is too interesting a character to leave in the cold. Remember Fred Holroyd? The whistleblower who revealed various nefarious activities in N Ireland? Well, he's been suing the MoD this year for their tactics in making him look unreliable, including inventing mental health problems. Apparently he is in poor health, and going downhill. Will get a QO easily. If anyone goes for him, ala Dryden, I wish you luck.

Response spoiler tagged with proper grim warning..

It's grim, but it cuts out some of the grimmer stuff. At uni, I knew folk who were there on the day, and it's like Challenger - the more you know, the less you wanted to.

Only watched The Thing again last week. This guy. Not as famous as Kurt Russell, Bou, but still pretty good.

Exorcist/In the Heat of the Night/etc actor Peter Masterson dead aged 84 after a fall. Also directed Trip to Bountiful, nommed for various Oscars and got Geraldine Page Best Actress. Isn't that like the 3rd or 4th person involved with Best Little Whorehouse to die this year?

Ah, I have mentioned that before, but possibly not on here. Part Castro/part Tony Benn, Carillo was a fascinating character. OoO fave Adolfo Suarez also stands and causes Tejero an awful amount of grief.

Yep, that's him. Did well to last so long with glioblastoma.

I was disappointed when I first saw him cut corners in health and safety leading to a huge skyscraper fire, and then leaping onto a fire carry, causing the death of dozens more people. Then when I wasn't five any more, at some point I twigged The Towering Inferno wasn't a documentary. Great film, though.

All Creatures Great and Small producer Bill Sellars dead aged 93. Here because he directed Celestial Toymaker, but mostly because directors dont fit into the Acting Threads and I can't be arsed looking any longer to find the "more" right thread.

Oh very well then, an update. 2011 - Dr Sree Sree Swaniji (1/50) 2012 - Peregrine Worsthorne, Clive James, Leslie Philips (3/20) 2013 - Robert Mugabe,Judy Blume, Bob Dole, Michael Jopling, Mark Eden, Ryan Buell, Freddie Starr (7/20) 2014 - Ryan Buell, Valerie Harper, Wilko Johnson, Chris Moncrieff, Pat Rice, Ian Watkins, 6/20 2015 - Seumas Milne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jacques Villenueve Sr, Vojislav Seselj, Peter Sutcliffe, 5/20 2016 - Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Nobby Stiles 2/20 2017 - Al-Baghdadi, Bracknell, Gilbert, Holmlund, Ricketts, 5/20 2018 - Blanco, Bracknell, Frates, Gilbert, Lewis, Lynott, Piddington 7/20

One of you lot clearly made this one. I only got 49/50!!

I didn't either, but there's issues with the email system I use for the DDP (ie its old and shite). Will probably move DDP emails over to current account for 2019.

OK, with me and Grim, that's 3 teams sorted...

Blanco will be a hit for me in this year or the next, so if the rest of you want to add her to your DDP teams so I can get a Drop 40 bonus off it, it'd be much appreciated.