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He died today, apparently. 1. Danish There's a start.

A bit of a cult pick on deadpools a few years back.

Are you kidding? It was either him or Lee....who else? I'd say Lee. World wide famous, many roles. But I'd say that also Nash, Lemmy, Berra, Malone for example are more famous than Nimoy. Nimoy was just an old TV-series icon. Would e.g. Al Bundy die, would you consider that as the biggest death of a year? I don't think so. Nimoy had the most coverage on social media for sure. Aye, and so did Ed Miliband.

Cases like this are a primarily example of why DDP rules needed changing, it was never intended to include people like that poor bairn. It's a celebrity death pool for famous people, not anyone whose had any coverage of their illness in the history of man. This year I will be compiling an alternative DDP leaderboard at the end of the year which excludes anybody whose team includes non-famous people. I'd dispute that, given the very first DDP ever had an 11 year old score points. That suggests it's always been considered a free for all.

Spade might be on the money there... Jenny Diski ‏@diski Mar 17 Cambridge, England @maartenthissen No nor enough painless implements that ease the bloody stranglehold of thinking might ease the festering fume. In reply to "Are you able to write?" It'll be like Tony Hart all over again, and he didn't have terminal cancer. If she's still around in six weeks, I'll be very surprised.

I saw a mention of palliative care last night but figured it might be twitter talk. If so, funny how a pick can go from a potential waste to a potential ten points suddenly in the space of a few weeks.

Over the centuries, the story will be simplified. No doubt its the same for all the saints. eg St Patrick popular story - got rid of the snakes from Ireland. what has been lost by history - got rid of the gypsies from Ireland. Or something like that!

James Sheldon dies: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/arts/television/james-sheldon-director-whose-career-reflected-tvs-evolution-dies-at-95.html?_r=0 Naturally, It's a Good Life is the best known of his Twilight Zone episodes, but I highly recommend Long Distance Call, in which a dead gran tries to convince her child grandson to join her on the other side. From memory, it has a lot of suitably creepy moments. Checking his imdb, it's a shame he wasn't a unique hit for The Love Boat. Too obscure for DDP, I'd guess.

Readily admitting he's played his last gig. Shame, I've got a ticket to see him in July...just like I had a ticket to see Lemmy in January. Who should I buy a ticket to see next? Tony Blair's next lecture tour.

Superstar Billy Graham pulls out of Wrestlemania weekend Axxess, gives reasoning on Facebook. As with everyone Superstar Billy related, take with several pinches of salt.

Ok, THIS is the sixth hit of my B-Team. Needless to say, Mother Angelica is still alive. The B-Team is now one death away from the top 10, with the joker still alive. The other day I was looking for the B-team in the listings. I'd thought it had a name and you were referring to it as the B-side ie to The Love Boat. I had a good laugh when I realised it's name actually was the "B" team!

John, Norma or James? Lee? Or that old favourite, Major Major Major Major?

Would that be a Class 1 Major Death, Class 2 Major Death or Class 3 Major Death?

A shame, but not unexpected news. It actually was a bit unexpected; I thought McDonald was an outsider pick for me on DDP. Terminally ill, and there was local word a few months ago that his health had deteriorated.

Do not diss Enid Blyton. She may not be brilliant but she could tell a story. So many of my generation learned to love reading on Famous Five, Secret Seven. My own daughter loved The Tales of Binkle and Flip which is so anarchic, I liked The Naughtiest Girl in the School, which was basically The Worst Witch, without magic. When msc says he liked The Naughtiest Girl in the School please note this is a book title and not a confession. Well done, Biblio: damn near made me choke laughing there.

Do not diss Enid Blyton. She may not be brilliant but she could tell a story. So many of my generation learned to love reading on Famous Five, Secret Seven. My own daughter loved The Tales of Binkle and Flip which is so anarchic, I liked The Naughtiest Girl in the School, which was basically The Worst Witch, without magic.

A shame, but not unexpected news.

Star Wars was only my cup of tea in small doses. I liked Harry Potter but I was the right age for them. The thing which bored me senseless was Enid Blyton, but she's somewhat out of fashion these days.

*all the leftists who were dumb enough to think Francis would be some kind of liberal even though he's an 80 year old fucking priest start freaking out* I don't know about that. I do know that she was intended to become Saint Witch well before Francis became pope. Normally I'm the one savvy to Catholic machinations but I have to ask what has Theresa done to earn the epithet "Saint Witch"? I know Christopher Hitchens critiqued her heavily but is there anything else? For me she is, and will be forever, the Witch of Calcutta. Extracting large sums of money, quite a bit of it gained through crime, ostentatioously to help dying poor people but rather let them rot and use the money for private expense is such an evil that witch is a relatively mild appellation. It´s a shame there´s no hell, it should be invented for her. I have deeply religious members of my family who met her, and came to exactly the same opinions as yourself and Hitchens. She would deliberately help exacerbate health issues from people who came to see, for example, as she believed that "suffering = Godliness".

As we say about every deadpool, except the Deathrace of course, its a marathon not a sprint.

The "eeny" elimination game left us with Fidel Castro. So that's not one I'm expecting to win, but I've clicked on him in the poll anyhow.

It's the fastest start in Deathlist history, beating the previous record (2001) by nearly a week.

MICHELNOMORE! 4/50 16th March 2016 British TV broadcasting legend Cliff Michelmore has died aged 96, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. An RAF squadron leader during World War Two, Michelmore was a regular face on the BBC from the 1950s until the 1990s, and hosted election night coverage in 1966 and 1970. He was first on the scene at the Aberfan disaster, and the first man to interview David Bowie on TV (managing to do it before Bowie had even become famous). Michelmore was in 44th position, and was the fourth hit of the year.

Guardian has it already: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/15/asa-briggs-historian-higher-education-pioneer-dies-age-94 I can't go into reasons because work related, but, well, good riddance. You run a health food store? Very witty, Spade.

Guardian has it already: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/15/asa-briggs-historian-higher-education-pioneer-dies-age-94 I can't go into reasons because work related, but, well, good riddance.