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Sorry but that reminded me of this It went through my mind as I was typing it, too.

Incredible. Christopher Lee is no longer here. True enough. Fair enough, "From blues to soul" as headline for BB King amuses. Seems a bit obsessed with old cardinals, so I'll assume this is Francis's private deadpool.

RadGuy has it. Just Fontaine, who played for France, and still holds the record for most goals in one World Cup tournament: 13. Outwith the DDP, I tend to fill my deadpool teams with interesting older folk.

If you take the (*ominous music interlude*) Curse of the Deathlist to heart, Ozzy's not got much time left. Namely, that in 2010, there was five members of the original Deathlist still standing (discounting the Any One Beatle thing, as George snuffed it in 2001): Anna Wing, Jimmy Savile, Ozzy, Andrea de Cesaris and Deathlist favourite Clive Dunn. Then in 2011, Jimmy Savile died, though his monster lives on. In 2012, Clive Dunn actually died. In 2013, Anna Wing. And then in 2014, de Cesaris managed to die in a car crash. So in 2015, we have one original Deathlist pick left, so if the cycle continued... Clearly this is a curse as worthy as that of Tutenkhamun. Just think, people thought that was coincidence too, but here we are, a mere ninety years on, and everyone involved has died. Heh.

Incidentally, not saying you're wrong, but my list based on the front page is only at 245 now. Spoiler tagged below, who am I missing? Windsor must have a copy of the fabled 1988 list (which accounts for 4 of the deaths absent from your list).you are missing prince Rainier and Dom Knott's Neither of those were on the Deathlist, that I know. I'm going by the lack of mention of them on the main page, and people mentioning they were left off the lists at the time of their respective deaths on this forum. In fact, the Reaper himself said Rainier was a bad miss.

Incidentally, not saying you're wrong, but my list based on the front page is only at 245 now. Spoiler tagged below, who am I missing?

In roughly six weeks (cheating by a few days), 2003 saw for Idi Amin, Warren Zevon, Leni Riefenstahl, Edward Teller, Johnny Cash and Elia Kazan. But I direct you towards 35 days in 2002: 23rd Feb - Chuck Jones 27th Feb - Spike Milligan 27th March - Milton Berle 27th March - Dudley Moore 28th March - Billy Wilder 30th March - The Queen Mum All Deathlist picks. I knew you wouldn't let me down. Next bit of homework then, when does the 7th hit have to come for it to be a record? From BB King to now - 44 days Between Kramer and Secombe in 2001 - 50 days Off the top of my head, I think thats the record. Proper stat-folk like Ali might know better though.

In roughly six weeks (cheating by a few days), 2003 saw for Idi Amin, Warren Zevon, Leni Riefenstahl, Edward Teller, Johnny Cash and Elia Kazan. But I direct you towards 35 days in 2002: 23rd Feb - Chuck Jones 27th Feb - Spike Milligan 27th March - Milton Berle 27th March - Dudley Moore 28th March - Billy Wilder 30th March - The Queen Mum All Deathlist picks.

Even back in 2001 when I first heard of Motorhead, Lemmy would stand by the mic and mumble the lyrics. It's just his style. I do love that he got fired from Hawkwind for his drug use though. A bit like getting fired from the Tea Party for being too right wing.

Mugabe. Not out of any belief, other than the Reaper needs to level the field after taking some fine folk recently.

RIP Patrick.

Just wait till, err... Spassky goes. Yes, that's the only living chess player I can think of.

24% of the electorate, 31% of those who turned out in 2015, 54% of those who voted Tory. Its a better mandate than most MPs could muster!

Seems every year there's a big name US actor dying around June/July, so Kirk Douglas.

That makes sense about Kidney as I was quite into the old school British wrestling when I was younger and had never heard of him. Neither, incidentally, has Cagematch or Online World of Wrestling. Are RAW mentions counted for the DDP? If so, that really opens a can of potential. Denucci would probably get a passing mention here somewhere due to be Mick Foley's trainer, I'd assume. Nick Bockwinkel is the one (apart from the ailing Littlebrook) I'd considered, as he is meant to be severely ill with dementia now, but I'm still over cautious about the obits, and more sensibly cautious about the fact one of the main sources of that information was Ric Flair. Though, truth be told, I expect all of those names to outlive at least one more 90s after thought decades younger. Van Hammer or the like.

A slight miscalculation in dropping him from the Pan Breed DDP team, then.

Cora Combs was the oldest living wrestler - that we know of. It used to be assumed Mick McManus was born in 1928 until he suddenly celebrated his 90th birthday one year, and there's a lot of folk for whom DOBs just aren't known. This demise puts British wrestler Dave Kidney into the Top 10 on Wiki's list of oldest pro-wrestlers though. Never heard of him, beyond that list, but no doubt someone on here knows his entire CV!

So, last night, did this website actually have problems? Midway through using the forum, it died. Checked the front page, to find it was now a website for a hardware store in Haddington. A mispelled store, incidentally, which suggested hacking. Anyhow, after a few checks, I went to bed. Check it now in the course of the morning, and its back to normal. Only no one has mentioned the outtage. So, did this actually happen to others, or did I have a particularly lucid stroke/sleep deprivation? It wasn't even a dream, as I'd never heard of this place, but it actually exists and on the same road Deathlist.net claimed it did too.

The way life is, folk will look at Jimmy Greaves, Nobby Stiles and the Charltons, and then one day Peter Bonetti will randomly cark it. At which point, overnight, he'll suddenly become "the legendary goalkeeper" in English lore.

One to watch closely, Blackjack Mulligan has had another heart attack. He was already in fairly frail health before this.

I feel fairly young in comparison, as the first celebrity death that I remember and knew who he was, was Roy Castle.

Aye, he's one like Julian Glover, collecting roles in various cult things! the whole article doesn't even mention his other movies just his minor role in Harry Potter My son who is 6 knows him from the animated version of Lord of The Rings as the voice of Aragorn / Strider, from Doctor Who as the War Doctor, and also from the Harry Potter movies. Mind you, all fans can be so myopic. I remember when Geoffrey Hughes died, some places had him "best remembered for his role in Doctor Who". A role which took up a whole two episode. No one watched Corrie, Heartbeat or the internationally renowned Keeping up Appearances there, I take it! I don't even remember Geoffrey Hughes in Doctor Who, although if he appeared in it at a time when Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy played the Doctor it's likely that I didn't pay much attention as I more or less stopped watching it by that time as I just couldn't get into the storylines and for me they didn't seem right for the role. He was in Trial of a Time Lord, briefly.

the whole article doesn't even mention his other movies just his minor role in Harry Potter My son who is 6 knows him from the animated version of Lord of The Rings as the voice of Aragorn / Strider, from Doctor Who as the War Doctor, and also from the Harry Potter movies. Mind you, all fans can be so myopic. I remember when Geoffrey Hughes died, some places had him "best remembered for his role in Doctor Who". A role which took up a whole two episode. No one watched Corrie, Heartbeat or the internationally renowned Keeping up Appearances there, I take it!

To be fair it hasn't been that exciting. When I joined the forum I was married, then during my divorce year I went a bit mental, embarked on a couple of rather inappropriate (but sometimes jolly good fun!) dalliances, and then met the current sucker lucky bastard and have settled into domestic mediocrity. By the way, I only looked at the text because it was late at night, and usually when someone texts you late at night it's because someone has died. Oh, wait..... I find if I wake up and there's multiple texts on my phone, someone has died. Usually because my friends who get up earlier have caught it on the 6am news. I learnt about David Frost and Tony Benn that way.

Ah, but Sir Creep, you forget the good old pillar of deadpooling, the wishful thinking. Mind you, in DL terms, theres a number of names that wont leave the list until they leave the earth. Either because they are felt too big to miss (especially after the list missed Patrick Moore), or because they have a great pun set up and don't want to waste it. Which is, I assume, one of the reasons - other than "hes bound to go, one day" - they kept Michael Foot for so long. Purely to do the "One Foot in the Grave" gag. As a fan of Mr Foot, I approve. And, bringing it full circle, Mugabe is bound to go, one day. And given his seeming indefatigability on the list, it will come out of the blue one day as a pleasant surprise.