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Looking around for something else, I stumbled across the fact that Scottish character actress Edith MacArthur (High Road, Taggart, the underrated Omega Factor, Hamish MacBeth, practically everything remotely Scottish on TV ever...) is still around, and 91 in March. Was convinced she'd died ages ago.

So, wait, he says he doesn't have cancer, yet he uses a cancer painkiller to relieve pain in one of the most common areas of the body for metastases? And he's 72, I thought he was Chavez-aged. Won't be many pages to this thread, he'll be dead within three years at the absolute most.

The Indy, which seems a fond promoter of Shameless cases, is being dropped. People used to want the Guardian axed as a QO because of the AP copy and pastes in 2007-9ish. But even if it meant that only the BBC front page was a qualifying obit source, cutting everything else, all the AP and America feeds, and thus there was only about 40 DDP hits a year, if even that... Kate Granger would have still been a successful DDP hit!

Someone at the BBC is convinced Parsons wont be around for the 50th. Hence them having a big show of the 45th anniversary.

Brinson/m's DOB was not pubic information either iirc, but Death Impends managed to find his birth details. Probably because folk assumed the guy was in his 60s, and DI was to hell with losing that one DDP point, or something.

Ah yes, Craig Whyte, the secret Rangers billionaire. Worked out well.

Magnus! It took me a good 5 minutes to think of that, clearly I'm not up for the Mastermind challenge today.

That was a Spoiler!

Howard Bingham dead, 77. Photographer who took lots of photos of Muhammad Ali.

I thought he was a bit like Sharon Osborne: not famous at all outwith their famous partner*, but a key part of the history of that person to their fans, so 100% obit guaranteed. *This analogy only works with 1980s Sharon and not Sharon Osborne at any time after, say, 1995.

"Shaun's cuddly uncle"

One of those punt picks for some folk. Thomas Buffel's other half, Stephanie, incurable bowel cancer.

There's at least a dozen on my list, probably more, who I'd say will certainly be dead before January 1st 2018. I'd guess the folk with an actual research game have far more. That's not listing folk who are in good spirits but with nearly irreversible cancers, including one who was mentioned on this forum...about a year/eighteen months ago, took a down turn over the summer, still breathing, hopefully forgotten by the rest of the forum. Won't pick any of them, of course. I need to defend the vital 121st place spot - I screwed that up badly this year...

Why not? My 2014 DDP team was awesome in October 2013...

Didn't he attend the Hall of Fame thing? That was quick then.

How I always imagined the Deathlist Committee to be honest: drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink...more drink, drink, drink, drink With "five minutes" before closing: "Hey, is that Norman Tebbitt still alive?" (checks Wiki on phone) "Yeah, he is. Get him on the list. Right, job done." More drink, drink, drink, drink, drink... But I suppose that takes the fun out of folk's lists.

Is that like the South African "ag"? I was thinking more the exasperated sound a parent makes before trying to explain why it's a bad idea to play with the electricals or something. Though technically that's more of a "Hmmm-gnarr" sound which doesn't translate on paper, but anyhow, I digress...

Ack, it's hard to explain, but over time you know a Deathlist candidate name when you see one, basically. And the opposite.

I'm a dad, I know what LazyTown is. (Though it's more Mr Tumble these days - can't stand him and he's always on!) More pertinently, I know what pancreatic cancer is too.

Well, my proposed joker is certainly famous (though not a household name, per say) before they got ill, and likely worth a lot of points too.

My main advice is to not do what I did in my first DDP year. See that particularly shit team here. (Still finished above 500 other teams though )

I've got a list written down, but I'll give it till the 29th-ish as usual to PM you them, as this lot have been far too eager to participate in the competition. They keep dying before the start, requiring subs in. Terribly unsporting, really.

Looks like someone with pancreatic cancer, to me.

Cheers A name we'll doubtless get to know very well in early 2017 Apparently he isn't trying to win DDP giving away names like that. I saw her posted on Dec 9th, though I figured she'd be spotted by most and all fair in love and war there ain't much war when an idiot lays his weapons down before the fight starts. It's mid December--the 'sharing' horsepucky should have come to an end by anyone taking DDP seriously. You get a good name why would ANYONE in their tiny mind share that info? You think Spade Cooley and I had a chat at a coffee clatch about Hassan Asif? Hell no, and though we ruined each other's jokers we were still the only two that had him. Maybe you need to have the initials SC to be smart around here. SC In fairness to Joey, Spade already mentioned her a few days ago. Although in fairness, if I hadn't heard about it, as soon as Joey said "celebrity's sister", I'd have been putting "celebrity sister terminal cancer" through Google faster than you could say "not unique". I believe it was a cunning deception along the lines of the murderer's plot in The ABC Murders. A lot of people are keeping their powder very dry this year, though, on here. I've got three bankers I'm keeping very close to my chest, but I know one of them will certainly be on Spade's team, and the second almost surely too much of a temptation for DDT to avoid. The third certainly wont be a unique, because their plight has been covered by major newspapers, but the lack of mentioning on here allows one the pretence. Whereas everyone knows about Leah Bracknell's nut job terminal cancer cures. Hell. even the potential Lauren Hill of 2017 hasn't been mentioned on here, which ironically makes her a dodgier obit.

According to the Mail (also repeated by the Beeb at the time), about 5% of 63 MILLION went to the actual starving folk.