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Remember when he punched the BBC man.

Actually no. That's another guy whose CV seems to be greatly exaggerated.

Linking to charon's gag from 2014:

Dad was in his early 50s at the time. His dad became one in his early 50s. His grandad became one in his early 50s. I see a trend here!

Congrates. I remember that when my dad first became a granddad, he kept asking folk if they thought he wasn't a bit young to become one. I pointed out he was older than his auld man when he became one, and that killed off his last remaining non-grey hairs.

From what I can see with a quick(ish) glance, some of the oldest living home nations international footballers. Not convinced some of those Irish/Scots are still going, and there must be gaps in the Welsh list. But it is what it is. Scottish 1. Bobby Brown – 19th March 1923 2. Jimmy Walker - 1925 DIED IN 2000 3. Doug Cowie – 1st May 1926 4. Jock Aird – 18th December 1926 5. Tommy Docherty – 24th April 1928 6. Ian McMillan – 18th March 1931 7. John Grant – 16th June 1931 8. Mick Cullen – 3rd July 1931 9. David Mathers – 23rd October 1931 10. Campbell Forsyth – 5th May 1934 11. Eric Caldow – 14th May 1934 12. Jimmy Millar – 20th November 1934 13. Lawrie Leslie – 17th March 1935 14. Eddie Connachan – 27th August 1935 15. David Holt – 3rd January 1936 16. Pat Quinn – 26th April 1936 17. George Herd – 6th May 1936 18. George Mulhall – 8th May 1936 19. Ralph Brand – 8th December 1936 20. Tommy Ewing – 2nd May 1937 21. Duncan MacKay – 14th July 1937 22. Willie Bell – 3rd September 1937 23. Jackie Plenderleith – 6th October 1937 24. Andy Weir – 15th November 1937 25. Ron Yeats – 15th November 1937 26. Bertie Auld – 23rd March 1938 27. Ian St John – 7th June 1938 28. Dave Gibson – 23rd September 1938 29. Alan Gilzean – 22nd October 1938 30. Johnny MacLeod – 23rd November 1938 31. Frank Haffey – 28th November 1938 32. Davie Wilson – 10th January 1939 33. Pat Crerand – 19th February 1939 34. Ian Ure – 7th December 1939 35. Frank McLintock – 28th December 1939 Welsh 1. Des Palmer – 23rd September 1931 2. Terry Medwin – 25th September 1932 3. Alan Harrington – 17th November 1933 4. Cyril Lea – 5th August 1934 5. Colin Baker – 18th December 1934 6. Cliff Jones – 7th February 1935 7. Vic Rouse – 16th March 1936 8. Graham Williams (Everton/Swansea) – 31st December 1936 9. Trevor Edwards – 24th January 1937 10. Mel Nurse – 11th October 1937 11. Dave Hollins – 4th February 1938 12. Graham Williams (West Brom) – 2nd April 1938 13. Mal Lucas – 7th October 1938 14. Frank Rankmore – 21st July 1939 English 1. Ivor Broadis – 18th December 1922 2. Bert Mozley – 23rd September 1923 3. Bill Slater – 29th April 1927 4. Gordon Astall – 22nd September 1927 5. Derek Ufton – 31st May 1928 6. Johnny Wheeler – 26th July 1928 7. Ron Baynham – 10th June 1929 8. Tommy Banks – 10th November 1929 9. Doug Holden – 28th September 1930 10. Colin McDonald – 15th October 1930 11. Brian Pilkington – 12th February 1933 12. Stan Anderson – 27th February 1933 13. Colin Grainger – 10th June 1933 14. Albert Quixall – 9th August 1933 15. Ken Brown – 16th February 1934 16. Maurice Norman – 8th May 1934 17. Bryan Douglas – 27th May 1934 18. Ron Flowers – 28th July 1934 19. Frank Blunstone – 17th October 1934 20. Ray Wilson – 17th December 1934 21. Jack Charlton – 8th May 1935 22. Jimmy Armfield – 21st September 1935 23. Ray Crawford – 13th July 1936 24. George Eastham – 23rd September 1936 25. Gerald Young – 1st October 1936 26. Peter Swan – 8th October 1936 27. Tony Waiters – 1st February 1937 28. Gordon Milne – 29th March 1937 29. Tony Kay – 13th May 1937 30. Bobby Charlton – 11th October 1937 31. Wilf McGuinness – 25th October 1937 32. Alan Peacock – 29th October 1937 33. Jimmy Melia – 1st November 1937 34. Gordon Banks – 30th December 1937 35. Mike Hellawell – 30th June 1938 36. Roger Hunt – 20th July 1938 37. John Angus – 2nd September 1938 38. Derek Temple – 13th November 1938 39. Terry Paine – 23rd March 1939 40. Edwin Holliday – 17th June 1939 41. Frank Wignall – 21st August 1939 42. George Cohen – 22nd October 1939 43. Tony Allen – 27th November 1939 N Irish 1. Frank McCourt – 9th December 1925 2. Tommy Forde – 14th March 1931 3. Billy Bingham – 5th August 1931 4. Jimmy Shields – 26th September 1931 5. Jimmy McIlroy – 25th October 1931 6. Jimmy Walker – 29th March 1932 7. Harry Gregg – 27th October 1932 8. Peter McParland – 25th April 1934 9. Hugh Barr – 17th May 1935 10. Billy McCullough – 27th July 1935 11. Jimmy Hill – 31st October 1935 12. Billy Humphries – 8th June 1936 13. Sammy Wilson (Falkirk) – 1937 14. Victor Hunter (Derry) - 1937 15. Albert Campbell – 4th January 1938 16. Johnny Crossan – 29th November 1938 17. Eddie Magill – 17th May 1939

Aye, imagine picking and he turns out to have a terminal case of the pissed up and arthritic.

1. Shaun – King Michael 2. YW – Bob Newhart 3. Spade – Rabbi Ephraim Einhorn 4. Chorizo – Sir Wilson Harris 5. Grim – Ami Brown 6. Biblio – Carol Channing 7. Msc – Peter Overton (footballer) 8. EricDjembaDjemba - Lucia Hiriart 9. Bentrovato - Shane McGowan 10. Toast - Nobby Stiles 11. Gcreptile - Naryan Datt Tiwari 12. RadGuy - Franco Zeffirelli Handy list of the picks so far.

Will use this spot for one on my shortlist I doubt will get a DDP QO: Peter Overton (English non-league footballer)

There used to be lots of online databases that question could be looked up on - where have they all gone to? Question added to avoid the fact the person I thought might fit Ulitzer's question, on second looks, has actually been dead for 17 years...

Sam Smith?

Never did find out who the guy who looked hideously ill was. Hansard just had "taking of oaths" or something like that, and not the actual people.

tbf to morbid, he's right there.

Hmm, this reliant on it being 50/50, him *having* cancer or *had* cancer. There might be a third option: he had cancer, beat it with usual treatments, and is pretending prayer healed him, like your standard average hypocrite. Human, but useless to deadpoolers in that option!

Apparently Deathlist alumnus Profumo shagged a Nazi spy. So what I get from this is that the Nazis wanted to blackmail young likely MP John, so they send a 1930s glamour model (and spy) to seduce him. He sleeps with her for nigh on 4 years. Then, he votes the opposite way to what the Nazis would have wanted in parliament in the first place, making it all a waste of time. Then he got a long career of sleeping with society girls before the whole Keeler thing. Not much of a cautionary tale, really!

I like the story about George Harrison on holiday in France. In a hotel, when he hears the familiar shrieks of teenage fans, and got worried. Then into the hotel walked Johnny Hallyday, and the shy Beatle breathed a sigh of relief. EDIT - Actually, trying to think where I first heard that, and come to think of, it might well have MPFC on here?

Yes, 2015! When anyone going after Schmidt would have broken the record. Of course, the record is already broken this year, and it is set to be a cold Winter...

I think you both have a 50% chance of being right.

Ah, yes.

There's this thing in Doctor Who fandom, you see. And other fandoms, undoubtedly, but I'm not qualified to make deadpool analogies about them! You have the stories that a majority of fans adore, then you have the stories that a majority of fans hate, and in the middle, you have this spread of about 100 stories that are neither outright adored or universally hated. Just there. Terror of the Autons, for example: enjoyably kitsch 70s Jon Pertwee stuff with a mix of great stuntwork, dodgy FX and even dodgier acting. Just there, no real feelings from the majority. This happens every year with deadpooling: you've got the "certs" or "favourites", then at the other end of the spectrum "the droppable names" or "bad picks", and in the middle, a whole bunch of "could pick 'em but easily lost in the shuffle" names. What surprises me is that we have reached over 50% of the list total from 2016 (let's smash that record, eh?) and there's a huge deadpooling/Drop 40 name threatening to be one of those lost in the shuffle. 100% certainty to qualify by December 31st imo, but the fact it's even in doubt now is shocking.

Nice reference to Tony Judt in that. He is, to my best memory, the first person I ever had to scratch off a DDP shortlist due to dying too soon.

Naturally if he *had* been lying about not having cancer, and was trying to cure it by the power of prayer, he'd be of far greater interest to deadpoolers.

That is correct. Although Zsa Zsa would have, but died early. She was on 640 points when she died! From 800 possibly!

According to FIFA.com he was on the bench for both games. According to a flimsy google search, subs were first allowed at the 70 World Cup?

Indeed. There's a fair few of the old timers hanging on - enough for a theme team. Trelles is the oldest known to be still about though.