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Nasty cancer? Check. Aiming to have it treated via a combination of homeopathy and God? Check. No mentions of note, even in passing, in the DDP QOs, ever? Check. Reliant on a bored Guardian journalist and a slow news week in 2017? Check. I've got my Delpech dilemma sorted for the next eleven days then.

According to the grapevine, character actor Alan Curtis is very frail now. 87 next year, and he'll obit due to appearances in enough cult classics (Dr Who, Jason King, even the odd Carry On film).

Terminal cancer in his stomach and pancreas. Saw this a fortnight ago (or then abouts) and thought to myself: bet that's a potential unique of Spades. Or, at least, I did when I saw it, then thought the name looked familiar and did a search to see if his name had ever come up before.

Another sub required for the 2017 TCD then.

Anyhow who entered this by PM and didn't publicise their team are at an obvious disadvantage when it comes to non-Shauns totting up the scores, yes. Hence it being an aid rather than an absolute.

Right, as Shaun is currently medicated - chap, you need to stop chasing that roadrunner, it's no good for your knees - here is a rough estimate of the current scoreboard. By rough estimate I mean the sum aggregate of everyone on your list who has died, minus those you subbed in June. Those who didn't get obits I leave to Shaun but to make things easier I include a complete list of "hits" at the bottom per player so if someone didn't fufil the QO criteria, all he need do is deduct the points for that player off a persons total. The scoreboard, my maths notwithstanding: DDT 1838 (33/49) Death Impends 1515 (26/50) Captain Chorizo 1512 (24/50) Sir Creep 1149 (25/50) Gcreptile 1025 (17/50) JiroemonKimura 974 (20/50) RadGuy 967 (17/50) Rotten Ali 941 (16/50) The Dead Cow 921 (15/50) Grim Up North 883 (17/50) Msc 848 (17/50) Shaun 820 (17/50) Book 771 (14/50) Handrejka 674 (12/50) The Unknown Man 625 (12/50) NottheNagsHeadReading 623 (17/50) Maryportfuncity 591 (14/50) Chopped Liver 475 (12/50) NotSirPeterMaxwelDavies 467 (9/50) Morbid Kid 460 (11/50) Bibliogrypon 445 (5/50) YouwantICEwiththat 381 (6/50) Windsor 352 (9/50) Gooseberry Crumble 130 (5/50) Young Willz 42 (2/50) Those taken so far: DDT (Feek, diski, gartside, travis, crowe, plowright, esterhazy, b brown, Lubbock, ford, caslavska, fekete, mulkearns, hailu, angelil, mcdonald, Maxwell dacies, marks, haggerty, ellis, edhi, cruyff, blue, Wilson, hoferlin, farren, granger, ghosh, raiola, armenteros, jones, Kincaid, renouf) Sir Creep (adamowicz, angelil, crowe, cruyff, derby lewis, diski, ellis, esterhazy, farren, feek, ford, Harrington jr, hechler, hooker, marks, Maxwell davies, mccullough, mulligan, sm jones, smith, slocombe, mikasa, Bentley, cardile, sager) JiroemonKimura (SM Jones, Lang, Crowe, Granger, feek, angleil, marks, ford, hooker, libous, bhumibol, ali, gabor, hechler, slocombe, renouf, cruyff, sager, mcdonald, derby lewis) Gcreptile (smith, Kincaid, mulligan, sm jones, michelmore, raiola, latourette, buster, granger, borges, ford, leppard, dorr, armenteros, diski, jones, Washington) Msc (Susannah Mushat Jones, Douglas Slocombe, Robert F Dorr, Monty Brinson, Vera caslavaks, Peter esterhaz, Peter Maxwell davies, Colin smith (Sheridans dad), Douglas Wilmer 20, Guy Hamilton , Er Braithwaite, Rowena Kincaid, Kris travis, Dr kate granger, Albert mcquarrie, Craig sager, Zsa zsa gabor) Rotten Ali (Caroline Aherne, Muhammad Ali, Rene Angelil, Senator Robert Bennett, Martin Crowe, Jenny Diski, Joey Feek, Rob Ford, Dr Kate Granger, Goran hadzic, Dan haggarty, Joao havelange, Zsa zsa gabor, Howard marks, Susannah Mushat Jones, Craig sager) Book (feek, crowe, angelil, ford, aherne, granger, ali, brown, jones, honecker, castro, esterhazy, marks, gabor) The Dead Cow (SM Jones, feek, aherne, granger, crowe, cruyff, travis, diski, Kincaid, ali, ford, marks, angelil, kiarostami, sager) RadGuy (bhumibol, adamowicz, ali, angelil, granger, castro, crowe, diski, feek, Kincaid, ford, gabor, havelange, sm jones, marks, Reagan, travis) YouwantICE (not rice) with that (aherne, feek, crowe, stigwood, castro, prince) Handrejka (plowright, crowe, aichinger, ali, fox, gabor, aherne, angelil, marks, castro, feek, sm jones) Chopped Liver (gabor, crowe, havelange, bhumibol, ford, angelil, castro, vigoda, marks, slocombe, sm jones, glenn) Morbid Kid (feek, Reagan, vigoda, bhumibol, gabor, crowe, marks, ford, michelmore, young, peres) Gooseberry Crumble (dehaven, bhumibol, wilder, Hamilton, gray) Bibliogryphon (crowe, mcnamara, sm jones, aherne, diski) Grim up north (ali, Reagan, crowe, bhumibol, aherne, gaynes, marks, sm jones, feek, Corbett, ford, michelmore, diski, martin, cryuff, granger, sager) Death Impends (Bhumibol, Angelil, Crowe, Cruyff, Belanger Diski, Esterhazy, Farren, Feek, Ford, Glenn, Kincaid, Renouf, Granger, Harrington Jr, Hudnut, Jones, SM Jones, Latourette, libous, Lubbock, Marks, Sager, Smith, Travis, Vigoda) Shaun (Crowe, Kwouk, Slocombe, Mikasa, Gabor, SMJ, Rivette, Sim, Marks, Michelmore, Ford, Ali, Cruyff, Koide, Granger, LaTourette, Kincaid) Young Willz (Brown, Perry) The Unknown Man (Feek, Crowe, Angelil, Castro, Marks, Gabor, DeHaven, Bhumibol, Diski, Havelange, SMJ, Ford) Chorizo (SMJ, Brinson, Travis, Crowe, Feek, Angelil, Diski, Raiola, Marks, Aherne, Kincaid, Maxwell Davies, Eiselen, Esterhazy, Caslavska, Cryuff, Cox, Pateman, Harrington Jr, Ford, Dorr, Wiedmier, Granger, Renouf) Maryportfuncity (SM jones, jones, angelil, granger, crowe, diski, feek, miller, gabor, castro, glenn, Reagan, michelmore, havelange) Nags Head (Diski, Marks, Crowe, Esterhazy, Plowright, Bhumibol, Ford, Havelange, Cruyff, Slocombe, Castro, Gray, Glenn, Reagan, Michelmore, Gabor, Aherne) Windsor (Crowe, Marks, Gsabor, Bhumibol, Lubbock, Castro, Ali, Reagan, Sim) NotSirPeter (Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nancy Reagan, Joey Feek, Johan Cruyff, Piete da Jong, Caroline aherne, Susannah mushat jones, Martin crowe, Zsa zsa) It's a day off, I thought, I'll just tot these numbers together, can't take that long. I'm never doing this again! Hah. Also, I think I know who is going to win. THIRTY-THREE out of 49? Fucking incredible, DDT, my hat's off.

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi John Bain Tony Booth Glen Campbell Errol Christie Keith Farnham Gary Haggarty Luke Halpin Bruce Langhorne Mary Lucas Yoshiro Nakamatsu Terri Roberts Bishop Geoffrey Robinson Mark Sims Ian St John Nobby Stiles Seijun Suzuki Joost Van der Westhuizen John Wicks Andrew Yeaman No, hang on, that's Diana Rots's shortlist... Still, got to feel for them - you have to go right down to Poochie just to get 20 names...

Best way to win a derby, err, I'd imagine - we don't get much practice at that, being Thistle!

Although going by my Liverpool supporting pals elsewhere, not sure if you'll still rate that decision - it's apparently been dire.

In future I'll remember to just say "He's big in the polling world so political geeks are likely to get him an obit" instead...

It's a daft name for people like Peter Snow. He might show up on the Deathlist one year, or not.

Shot eight times and dead according to journalists on Twitter.

Someone on the last five Deathlists in a row, and highly popular around these parts.

Are you expecting a 2 for 1 deal with Timothy West on this one?

Well, either that or the deluge remains unceasing, eh? The DL committee would be well advised to start the shortlist meeting on New Year's Eve and leave their phones on Iiirc one of the Cmme did say one year that the meeting was on New Years Eve. Think it was the year Schumacher had his skiing incident. Found it! Schumi was discussed until 8pm 31-Dec. Brian May didn't get mentioned. Also accidentally stumbled across in that search: Sharon discussed but rejected for 2014, Hitchens discussed at length for 2011 but rejected. Funny the little gems of info scattered around the forum!

I bet celebs love this. It's like the kiss of life.

Louis Harris was a fairly big name within psephology so if he has snuffed it, there'll be a notice before Christmas.

The forum remembers - there's a blue star next to the name you picked in the poll at the top.

Iola Brubeck lasted 15 months in similar conditions, and that was fairly impressive.

First post - "Castro has youth on his side". Fidel promptly snuffed it first of the eight.

Yes, but a few scattered through 100 teams is less obvious than one trying to win the whole thing with 20, imo anyhow. Plus I feel you'll be aiming for a top 5 spot with The Love Boat anyhow...

Never trust anyone with pancreatic cancer. Steve LaTourette and Vera Caslavska come to mind.So do Wilko Johnson and Ryan Buell. Or are we only picking names that fit our assertion and ignoring the rest? You should be a politician. SC Only one of those two actually had pancreatic cancer, mind. Although, iirc, the thing about Wilko is it turned out he had some super rare slow acting cancer around the pancreas, rather than actual pancreatic cancer. Dumb luck and a matter of millimeters can mean life or death.

OK, I might just admit that MPFC was on the right lines here. Though I hope he wasn't on his 2017 team.

It's been a special performance here.

Now she's gonna learn how to fly She's gonna make it to heaven?