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Relax. There's still near four months left. After all, in the 21st Century, 50 Deathlist hits (a whole 28% of the total since 2000) have arrived in the last four months of the year.

Pivotal in that Spade and DDT don't have him, whereas you did! But then you seem to be right he's going the slow route. It does look like its DDP's to lose now, especially with a number of teetering potentials. But you never know. All very intriguing, says this also ran.

So, the best part of 4 months left, and there's 8 points separating the greatest ever player, the unstoppable force of the last few years, a newcomer giving it a damn good shot and unheralded (as of late) regulars slowly sneaking up on the chasing pack. They have left: DDT – Blazer, Crowe, Derby-Lewis, Dignam, Drummond (?), Gross, Clive J (think he’ll survive), Lee Kun Hee (issues?), Scullion, Frank van den Bleeken (not dying), Jacques Villeneuve Sr (back racing) TJS – Aherne (better), Crowe, Granger, Gross, Odjick, Beitzel, Bryan Murray, Sultan, Whitworth Spade – Crowe, Dignam, Granger, Kara, Kwouk, Boggs, Jock Scott, Zorreguieta, Travis (on mend), Van Den Bleeken (not dying), Shivdasani Star Dust – Aherne (better), Berkowitz, Fawkes, Graham, Granger, Odjick, Robbins, Sakamoto (recovering), Seselj, MT Moore, Willett Which suggests Blazer, Odjick, Kara, Jock Scott (and obit) are pivotal dying folk at this point.

What's the official line the Church is taking? Only the farm takes up most of the day and at night I just like a cup of tea so I might not be able to devote myself full time to the old racism.

Probably. Though as I say, when she does go, it'll probably take people by surprise as we're all used to her hanging in there. There have been 57 Deathlist hits since Zsa Zsa got the last rites.

I had no idea who he was. As I had no idea who half of the celebrities under 30 were, he fits right in. There was a guy on it the other week who looked like a constipated Jack Swagger, Rob Beckett or something like that. And even worse, they put Gyles Brandreth on the screen. He was on Countdown last week and all.

Yeah, I think I got the spelling wrong too, but he is on my team. We're moving into the September-December window, or the reaping period of the next year's DDP line up, as it's also known.

Dead. Damn.

DDT can probably confirm but the twitter I saw was from David Lammy MP, thought that was a good enough source. She'll come off the round up next time anyway. There is also this.

Did Mandela's death leak before the announcement? I don't mean the hundreds of preemptive ones. That's the closest to how it would be kept under wraps in the modern social media age.

Reminds me of the Spitting Image with the Queen singing "One will survive". "As long as Charlie's next in line, I've got to stay alive!" Doesn't appear to be on youtube, sadly.

I'm sure within the next year or two Derek Acorah will claim contact with him. Damn, you mean by "seance". Got my hopes up there...

I agree with him on modern art, but then I think modern art is shit. "Hey, look, its a can of Irn Bru, but I put a first class stamp on it, after drinking it. It's a deep message and metaphor about the underlying condition, give me ten million, thanks."

He's one of those types like Gyles Brandreth who just look and sound like a boring toff.

On a famousness level, Sewell is better known than Shaw Taylor. Admittedly, I know him best from being pilloried on Dead Ringers...

Hmm, despite being "everyone else" I'm admiring this lively little contest. It has legs for an interesting year long contest, certainly.

I'm sure I heard recently that the US averages 7 bubonic cases a year. Closer to 100. It's never gone away, but modern antibiotics tend to zap it. Well, apart from that strain which appeared in Madagascar a year or two back.

"Non-lead" actors. Or the person playing 2nd villain who you think is quite good, while the camera spends all its time focusing on someone like Tom Cruise.

Now that would be proper financial Armageddon, rather than some of the previously forecast ones in recent years. Though, if the EU ref has one of these results: a) UK votes out, but Scotland votes massively in favour of staying. UK votes to stay in narrowly, with Scotland votes keeping the rest in the EU. Then the resulting shitstorm will be very interesting. Clearly this is all setting the scene for Prime Minister Tim Farron...

It's metastatic melanoma apparently. 6-12 months average survival time once its spread, but you can half that with brain and liver. So if its just spread, he might just see January. He's also going for the several month longs radiotherapy course which might extend that time. Plus, you know, vagaries. He'll die tomorrow now.

So, its January the something, some year, and a obit worthy soul is reading his emails. "Oh, I'll go check the Derby Dead Pool". So he does, and finds himself as someone's unique pick. The shock of seeing this is too much for the old dear, who has a heart attack and expires. The headlines all focus on heart attack as result of seeing own name on DDP. Unnatural death bonus?

how future? He may not make the main list next year but a few players might feel he is worth a punt on a DDP team He had a triple heart bypass a little over 10 years ago. In that picture he looks all 80 of his 72 years. Yeah, he became Gerry and the Pacemaker.

Prince William is older than the Queen was when she took the realm, it's not about mental readiness - Charles has just waited too long not to take it. I should have mentioned that I read about that when William was still a teen. But anyhow, yeah, he ain't stepping aside. [And nor should he, really.] Except for his history of political meddling unbecoming of a modern era king and potentially ready to undo what George VI and later the Queen worked for. We know he meddles. We don't know, beyond whispering, how much the Queen has meddled. Besides, the first thing the palace suits would do is make Charles watch To Play a King over and over till he got the message.

Prince William is older than the Queen was when she took the realm, it's not about mental readiness - Charles has just waited too long not to take it. I should have mentioned that I read about that when William was still a teen. But anyhow, yeah, he ain't stepping aside. [And nor should he, really.]

The Queen will go when she dies. Charles, providing he hasn't died by then, will be King until he dies. Then the masses will get William. The Queen is too enamored with duty to step down*, and Charles, iirc, is determined to last as long as possible so that William isn't thrown into the monarchy before he is mentally ready. *That said, for all her public political neutrality, I'd love it if she just did a big shoot interview one day. "He's a bigot, he's a bigot, she's a secret lizard person, he's a spy, Thatcher's a cunt, peace out..." etc.