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    Do You Actually Research?

    Funny enough, there's been a name on my shortlist for a while (who is 99.9% going to be on TJS 2018, their kind of pick, but I'm pretending otherwise just in case) and ever since March or so, each time Gcreptile posts in that specific thread, I think "oh, he's posted X". Not yet.
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    Old Folkies Home

    ^ There goes one of the "no ones mentioned but they're on everyone's shortlist" names. Poker season already?
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2018

    Someone hurt and/or ill from Westworld? Post vague due to vague news - presumably if big, more will follow.
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    Death In The Family

    Sorry to hear that YW.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2018

    The other big call: will the Cmme pick him for the Deathlist 50, and risk the site being overrun by tetchy Rangers fans?
  6. And now folk can lobby their friends on who they want to see on the list.ie Glynis Johns or whoever. Different from the slam guide in a way I guess, as there's nothing stopping you voting for no name perfectly well Polish weathermen if you so wish, but now you want to get other folk to vote for them too....
  7. 1. George Bush Sr 1246 (3, 15th) 2. Leah Bracknell 1219 (2, 1st) 3. John McCain 1133 (NEW) 4. Kirk Douglas 931 (3, 2nd) 5. Rev Billy Graham 915 (3, 7th) 6. Olivia Newton John 747 (NEW) 7. Prince Philip 720 (3, 5th) 8. Nobby Stiles 712 (2, -) 9. Robert Mugabe 712 (3, 10th) 10. Vera Lynn 652 (3, 19th) 11. Leslie Philips 612 (3, 17th) 12. Clive James 600 (3, 24th) 13. Herman Wouk 598 (3, 26th) 14. Charlotte Rae 582 (NEW) 15. Glynis Johns 563 (2, 23rd) 16. Olivia de Havilland 561 (3, 16th) 17. Dilip Kumar 535 (NEW) 18. Barbara Bush 531 (NEW) 19. Tessa Jowell 523 (NEW) 20. Stefan Karl Stefansson 515 (2, 29th) 21. Denis Norden 482 (3, 33rd) 22. Jill Gascoine 463 (2, 48th) 23. Former Pope Benedict 462 (3, 18th) 24. Jimmy Carter 458 (3, 22nd) 25. Franco Zeffirelli 427 (NEW) 26. Sidney Poitier 423 (2, 32nd) 27. Greg Gilbert 370 (NEW) 28. Mikhail Gorbachev 367 (3, 37th) 29. Fernando Ricksen 360 (2, -) 30. Lord Carrington 358 (NEW) 31. John Hume 336 (NEW) 32. Linda Nolan 324 (NEW) 33. Montserrat Caballe 306 (NEW) 34. Stan Lee 305 (NEW) 35. Joanne Woodward 301 (2, 40th) 36. Jean of Luxembourg 290 (NEW) 37. Diana Athill 278 (NEW) 38. Jacques Chirac 272 (2, 11th) 39. Alberto Fujimori 267 (NEW) 40. Valerie Harper 264 (2, -) 41. Bob Dole 260 (2, -) 42. Pearl Carr 259 (NEW) 43. Liam Miller 254 (NEW) 44. Beverly Cleary 242(NEW) 45. Monica Vitti 241 (2, 45th) 46. Mary Wilson 233 (NEW) 47. Diana Serra Cary 230 (NEW) 48. Yoko Ono 224 (NEW) 49. Val Kilmer 226 (NEW) 50. Morgan Tsvanigari 208 (NEW)
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    British Science Fiction Series

    Also, Invasion of the Chewit Monster: Which I am quite fond of, tbh. None of the issues with that are at the door of Russell anyhow, being smart enough to know the bloody things were best kept in the background as much as possible!
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    British Science Fiction Series

    Via twitter reports, the wonderful (and terrifying) Paddy Russell is said to have died aged 89.
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    By-Election Bingo 2017-22

    Kelvin Hopkins suspended from Labour. "For alllegations", soon to leak in the Telegraph by sounds of it. Given some of his own colleagues are already throwing him under the bus, this one might have legs. Not on my bloody team.
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    Richard Wilson

    He appears in a billiard room, on ITV, in the 1980s! Stunning update.
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    38. Harvey Weinstein

    Apparently Brett Ratner, a director I've never heard of, has been accused of sexual assault and/or rape by several women. Am reliably told he has a long history of being a creepy sod who badmouths women who speak out about him being a creepy sod. Always the least likely suspects...
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2018

    Nah, you don't want to make the Deathlist bad taste...
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    Pope Benedict XVI

    I note Davey Jones hasnt been on the forum for 4 months. I think Benedict's men got him...
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    The Dead Of 2017

    Ok, Deathrace candidates really don't have staying power in October/November then. Jeez.
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    Baseball

    Deathrace candidates just don't have the staying power in October/November. Of course, they make it to January, and suddenly they're Lazarus - sods law.
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    Political Frailty

    Might be in for a new International Trade minister before long. And rumblings about Green's long term job prospects, which is far more interesting, given he is essentially May's bulwark. Michael Fallon is a useless sod who screws everything up. I half expect he went to defend himself and resigned by accident...
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    2017 Wtf Deadpool 5 For ?

    Rad Guy had Fats on his team, apparently. RIP Deathray's Calculator.
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    Sir Anthony Hopkins

    I like Lear. You can tell a decent Shakespeare by the body count. EDIT - Nah, its 500 years old, if that spoils anyone, tough.
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    Sir Anthony Hopkins

    They were filming. You know, street scene, normal members of public walking by. Happens so often in "modern" BBC shows it's practically a cliche.
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    Political Frailty

    I'm sure she's had better days, tbh. I do like how she plans to run for election next year still.
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    Pope Benedict XVI

    Brain bleach required in the Pope Benedict thread...
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    Queen Elizabeth II

    Default "it's their list, they can put who they like on it" here. That said, I like the historical element of the list. You know, the folk who are on the list for nearly a dozen years and then one day go in their sleep. The way some folk graduate over the course of a decade from "they've picked who", to "they've picked them again?" to "they keep picking them" to "damn, RIP to a Deathlist legend" as does happen. The Queen strikes me as the sort of person with 7 plus appearances on the list and a lengthy write up one day, but then, so did Christopher Lee, and he ruined that by randomly dying out of the blue to pnuemonia. Room for both them and folk "likely to die" on a list which has never really been about the numbers. (Otherwise, a whole host of names would have been on it...) But you know, if they want to put the Queen on it 15 times, more power to them. If they drop her and she immediately snuffs it on January 2nd, well, d'oh. But that's life. It's their list, not mine or ours.
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