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At this point in 2013, he had around 75 points. Mind you, at this point in 2013, you were, what? 30-40 points behind the leaders?

A big one for The Living End, as none of the others at the top had him.

Sorry to hear that. Best wishes to Mrs Bearer and family.

Kenwright could be seen, live on BBC1 there, cheering on his side thrashing Chelsea. Dying, my arse. He looks healthier than most.

BT Sport showed that 30-for-30 about a month ago. Watching some of those without actual pop culture osmosis of the events can be a bit unexpectedly traumatic. There was one about basketball, full of youth players doing showboating and all that. Suddenly, one of them (Hank Gathers apparently) bloody went and died on the court during a live TV game! I'm now more surprised when the punchline at the end is "they're still alive and reasonably well".

I'll always know of Morton (and his smoking) for the following reason:

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-emerson-dies/ C'est la vie.

Do Shatner, James Earl Jones, Landau and Maggie Smith have sudden downturns in health I was not privy to? I'm sure that might have made the news, or this forum.

Creep is right. I had my hopes WAY up in 2015. I expected Gabor, Bush, Graham, Adulyadej, etc., and many more to die. All of them made it to this year. Since then I've pretty much realized that a bunch of famous 90-year-olds aren't going to die from being 90 in a single year. 2015 - Schmidt, O'Hara, Molinaro, Healey, Cole, O'Sullevan, Macnee, Lee, Kerkorian, 2014 - Whitlam, James, Wallach, Rooney, Caesar 2013 - Wing, Andrews, (and really Mandela and Kalashnikov too) 2012 - Dunn, Lom, Martin, SHamir, Bradbury Yes, the Deathlist never has a bunch of famous 90 year olds dying solely for being 90 odd in any given year.

Hey, it was my annual suprisingly succinct reply!

Further notes for Sir Creep: relegation is something that proper sports leagues have to create consequences for bad decision-making and awful play. Americans don't really understand the relegation process. I've tried explaining it to a few here (at work) with very little success. I thought it was pretty straightforward. Surely I have the names wrong and that part isn't relevant, but isn't it basically if you finish with the worst record(s) you get booted to League 1 and the leader(s) of League 1 moves up to take your spot in Premier League or whatever? Oh I could look it up but where's the fun in that? Anyway, I await enlightening. What I DO NOT understand is how Wigan won the FA Cup but was relegated. Now that takes some 'splainin. And at least a minor admission that that's fucking stupid. SC SC Yeah, that's the basic jist. Though the league below the Premier League got rebranded about a decade ago to become The Championship. A decision so stupid, the Scottish league has followed suit, ffs. As for Wigan, the cups aren't connected to the league, they're entirely separate entities. So Wigan were a good cup team but a not so good league team that season.

This week there seems to be lots of threads randomly being made for people just because they're about to turn 90. It'd be dreadfully bad form if someone was to bump their Robert Hardy thread. No word on if he's ill or anything though, but him selling off some of his prized possessions suddenly was far more ominous than people remembering Harry Belafonte exists.

I'll just vaguely go for "Whenever The Living End or Tommy Jefferson Survives could do with a dramatic 10 points in the DDP, sometime later in the year".

I don't actually mind Sir Creep. His style can be a bit loud at times, and the obsession with what forums certain posts should go in rather daft in a forum which makes up the rules as it goes along, but even so, he does post a lot of potential DDP fodder. I reserve the right to denounce this post if Keith Farnham and Steve LaTourette die sans Daily Mail obits!

When I signed up for this forum and joined in my first deadpool (the 2011 Hartlepool Deadlypool), Martin was seriously ill and so became the first name I wrote down for any deadpool. He outlived that list by several years! A legend in his field, RIP.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Joao Havelange Bhumibol Adulyadej Billy Graham Herman Wouk Javier Perez de Cuellar Kirk Douglas Prince Philip James Randi Joost van der Westhuizen Henry Kissinger George Bush SrV Vera Lynn Leslie Philips Fidel Castro Jake Lamotta Gordon Banks Muhammad Ali I'm going for it being the biggest year in Deathlist history, myself.

I would suggest that might be too high it would be a lot to keep uptodate I would guess 100-200. Bob Chaundry, former BBC obit chief writer, said "several hundred". There was a bbc documentary about this a number of years ago. I can't remember who presented it, but it wasn't a top name journalist, and the BBC had their obituary on file too, which leads me to believe we could be talking a four figure number. You wouldn't at least know the name of the documentary? No, because I seem to recall it was a vignette segment within something like Newsnight.

I would suggest that might be too high it would be a lot to keep uptodate I would guess 100-200. Bob Chaundry, former BBC obit chief writer, said "several hundred". There was a bbc documentary about this a number of years ago. I can't remember who presented it, but it wasn't a top name journalist, and the BBC had their obituary on file too, which leads me to believe we could be talking a four figure number.

NANCY AIDS THE CROWDSOURCED DEATHLIST 3/50 6th March 2016 Former American First Lady Nancy Reagan has just said no to another year on The Crowdsourced Deathlist, by becoming it's third success in a week. A former actress, Nancy married then actor Ronald Reagan in 1952, and was at his side as he became Governor of California and later President. During her time as First Lady, she launched the famous anti-drugs campaign with help of the Grange Hill kids, and campaigned for stem cell research. Reagan was 94 and was in a respectable 11th place in the inaugural Crowdsourced Deathlist. After a quiet start, there are signs the 2016 list is revving into gear.

Given precedent, you should be safe for top 50. If some of the really old guys start cancelling their appointments, even more so. As for Strickland, I believe I've found a DDP precedent. In December 2012, horse racer Owen Brennan disappeared. On the 10th January, after three weeks missing, he was found in the River Derwent. He was counted by TMIB as a 2013 death, even though time of death was never properly established, and Occam's Razor suggests there was a fairly obvious reason a near eighty year old with dementia couldn't be found before Christmas. Given we'll never be official on Strickland's date of death (though we all have suspicions), I'd assume under the Brennan principle, the points stay unless proven 100% wrong. Fossett didn't count, but that was under Octopus of Odstock running the DDP, and also because someone being found dead in a plane crash does sort of narrow the potentiality for having survived four months afterwards in the middle of nowhere! Mail obit, as mentioned in the other thread I can't believe he got one. While I'm replying, something which has been on my mind, TMIB. The 2009 section refers to "Matthew, tonight i'm going to be badly-torn boy" not coming back to defend his title in 2010. However, he did. He finished 6th. I'd assume this was your predecessor's work, but just thought I'd point it out.

Mail obit I'm sure I'm not the only person currently in the top ten who saw Hannaford and thought "No way he gets a qualifying obit". Congratulations, gcreptile, a risk well paid off there.

With 2013 mentioned a few times, I had a glance at how the table looked on this day in 2013: Stardust 75 Octopus of Odstock 69 Thomas Jefferson Survives 65 The Living End 55 Going Underground 54 Crossing the Styx 51 Wormer! 49 Heading Nowhere 46 Very Ill Turned Very Dead 42 Master Mind 40 Stab in the Dark 40 Eternity Tours 40 With DQSP (the champions) down on 22 points. So there's hope for A Pelican in the Wilderness yet!

Top work, TMIB! I've smashed my previous best points total, and am now one more death away from a new personal best number of hits in a year. Long time to go before I'm comfortable of declaring a personal best finishing spot though. With the way this year is going, 72 points might not even be worth a top 40 spot in the end.

I'll say 6th September 2016, which I'm assuming is during the first international break of next season, when Newcastle will be about 20th in the Championship.

I thought Janet Jackson was a lot older than that. That's my only contribution to any debate. Other than to say "Joe Jackson is a cunt", of course.