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Another person not considered due to my getting burned on Lakovic. (I was convinced someone I'd actually seen on British TV would get a QO...)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. I was well fucked off at that one at the time. But, hey, so it goes!

Oh go on, then: Kirk Douglas - Older than last year, will go one of these days and is stuck on the Deathlist till that day. Leah Bracknell - Will almost certainly die in 2018. Avg takes her to about March-May time, if she survives December, she'll outdo Errol Christie! Herman Wouk - Ancient and looking quite frail last year. Think this is him. Olivia de Havilland - Still seems full of life. Hope for all of us that advanced old age doesn't mean dementia, care homes or lose of personality. Prince Philip - On the downward slope now, aging increasingly and retired last year. I think he'll see the World Cup but Remembrance Day might be more of an issue. Billy Graham - Dunno how he's still alive. His god doesn't want him. Betty White - Seems fairly active. John McCain - Fucked. Glioblastoma AND more tumours on top of that. Ted Kennedy lived about 16 months with it, that'd take McCain to November, and if he manages that, he'll have done very very well. Linda Nolan - Wasted pick for now. Incurable cancer but treatable and it hasn't spread yet... Lord Carrington - Very old, still in good nick despite his age. Could do a Healey one of these days, but seems less frail than Denis. Javier Perez de Cuellar - That guy! Pierre Cardin - Old but I know little else. Stan Lee - Another who looks to be on the downward slope. Could be this year, could linger on. Still seems active for his age? Stirling Moss - OoO says he wont see 90. I trust OoO's judgement on motorsport people. Tessa Jowell - High grade brain tumour, looked like a ghost warmed up at Christmas. Likely fecked. Doris Day - Really old, survived a train crash in the 1930s. Must be made of strong stuff. Bob Dole - Think he's on the list till he drops now, but he's not looked great for some time, so that might not be too long away. Bob Barker - Really? Prunella Scales - The last canal journey looked like a goodbye. Not in the sense of her going immediately, but in the sense she can no longer do TV. If that's the case though, I think someone who desperately wants to do their job might go downhill faster than expected. 2018/19. Jimmy Carter - On till he drops, but seems far too healthy for now. Leslie Philips - Frail and rarely seen. Seen last year, looked frail. One of those "how are they still going?" names. Jill Gascoine - Said to be on the road out. Vera Lynn - Good for her age, but misses a few things due to age. Robert Mugabe - Still posting on this forum. Might be one of those out of power swiftly snuffs it types. George Bush Sr - Looks frail, lots of health issues, long year ahead for him. Charles Aznavour - Seems too active. Henry Kissinger - A cant miss, imo. Honor Blackman - Looked in fine nick in that Bond doc, but apparently it was a repeat. Had a bad stroke few years back. Barbara Bush - Looked worse than George at that concert in November. One goes, other will follow, imo. Dick Van Dyke - Far too healthy. Stanley Baxter - I like this pick. Even if he's not likely to die in 2018. Giscard d'Estaing - Thought if he were going to be on the Deathlist he would have been years ago. Mel Brooks - Old, Deathlisty, but active. Pope Benedict - On till he drops. Neil Simon - end stage dementia, notable, likely good pick here. June Brown - Interesting pick. I think she should see out 2018 though. Mind you, if her career ends... Mubarak - Lying sod. Sean Connery - Back at long last. Looked really good at the US Open imo but other reports say frail. Not been in great health for many years hence the surprise of that US Open appearance. Louis Farrakhan - Deathlist in recent years is very good at bringing back an old Deathlist pick right in time for them to die - George Cole, Ali, etc. So this might be a clever pick. Denis Norden - Really old and doesn't work as much now due to eye issues. Feels like a 2018 pick, this years Sallis. Ian St John - Statistics bugger him, but... perhaps he got better. Either way he ain't telling us, and I'm less sure on him than I was last year, considerably. Jimmy Greaves - A pale shadow of himself, has the sense of the someone on the road out. Valerie Harper - Not sure when or where, tbh. She's defying medical science! (Warning - exaggeration preceeded) Clive James - Now MIA. For a man who talks about everything, that's worrying. Stephen Hawking - His year to come back on the list. Like Randi but he got dropped entirely. Ronnie Wood - A punt pick, but maybe a good one. Olivia Newton John - Bad pick imo. Joni Mitchell - Surely out of danger now? Gazza - Usual view on bad pick. Mark E Smith - It's a punt, but maybe a good one. So that gives me a baseline of 14, apparently: Brackers, Wouk, McCain, Moss, Jowell, Scales, Philips, Gascoine, Bush Sr, Barbara Bush, Simon, Norden, Greaves and Clive James. If true, that's a far better list in potential than it looked at midnight.

Yeah, he was a lock on my main team for a month, then I luckily went to double check it and found what I thought had been a BBC Sport page was actually a BBC local page. D'oh.

I thought the Les Mutrie would be Overton or Latham Grant, though they were more non-leaguers. Latham Grant is fucked, he'd have been a lock for me if BBC local pages were still allowed. I think Truong was one of those people I saw for 2 seconds before dismissing their obit chances, but fortune favours the brave. My biggest gamble - keeping Catherine Nevin. Oh, and not main teaming Vervoort. Uniques - none of them. There's always someone I miss in my research categories and this year it appears to be Anna Pavord and John Cocks. Also I missed out that Tiffany Youngs cancer had got worse, but so it goes.

Cutting Room Floor then Peter Lorimer – We don’t actually know whats up with him, it could be a treatable brain tumour? Went 50/50 on him lasting the year. Bill Heine/Vanessa Lafaye/Barry Dubois – Respectively 15 months to live on average, terminal but under control, and aggressive but not necessarily deadly quite yet. I’d assume all will be up for contention in 2019. Fatima Ali – Ewing's Sarcoma is an immediate red flag, but I wasn’t sure of the obit criteria. Latham Grant – He will die in 2018, but lack of BBC regional obits KO's him from attention. Scott Riddle – Got a lot of coverage in summer for dying but reading between the lines it’s a 2-3 years thing, not months. Ruth Strauss – Couldn’t find out how ill she was in the end. Gerard Basset – Esophageal cancer, but what stage? I couldn’t find out, so left him to the side. Feels like a Spade Cooley unique type pick in previous years. Joe Vento – too old Hugh Masekela/Celeste Yarnall – too 50/50 and I went for Blanco and Jowell to be my 70 year old picks. Ron Villemaire – Dying SF fans who want to see something are ten a penny, and will the press remember him when he goes? Clive James – Was on my shortlist for ages, but I just couldn’t fit him in. Think he is going in 2018 though. Linda Nolan/Olivia Newton John/Val Kilmer – Never considered because I don’t think they are going to die anytime soon!

Still waiting for it to be updated in 2025 at that rate.

Never say never in a deadpool with multiple bonuses! A well deserved win. Although, I guess this makes up for my ninjaing you in the 2015 Deathrace, which now means RadGuy will ninja me in something in the future, and so the circle of deadpool continues...

Ditko was the inspiration for the team, in fact. At one point I thought it was going to be just Trelles and Josip Elic types.

Died 24th December, announced 27th. Richard Adams died 24th December, announced 26th. I think both were delayed by the family for personal reasons. Caroline John, who played a Doctor Who companion, and thus headline BBC news when she went, got announced 3 weeks AFTER her death, because everyone kept it quiet till after the funeral for the sake of her family, some of whom were very old and frail.

Other teams Here's Who You Could Have Won (the reserve team of - even more so - no hopers) 1. Jessica Falkholt - yes, gcreptile, I couldn't resist her for the B-team... 2. Marieke Vervoort (JOKER) 3. Fernando Ricksen 4. Dean Francis 5. Kevin Carr - the All Blacks logistics guy with cancer 6. Pete Stokes - who I wanted to pick for my main team, but unsure of the obit 7. Hugh Masekela 8. David Cervinski 9. Peter Overton - footballer 10. Kevin McAllister - Witney Carson's father in law 11. Ami Brown 12. Paul Alcock 13. Mike Pintek - KDKA radio host 14. Angus Sinclair 15. Bernie DeKoven 16. Lindy Remigino 17. Charlotte Rae 18. Lady Mary Wilson - Pan Breed favourite 19. Chris Mortensen 20. Johnny Hubbard - charon's Rangers tip And the shite theme team.... And Yet You Had Space for Sinead O'Connor THEME - people who have never been picked for the DDP before, according to the DDP website. The more actually famous the better. Alan Ayckbourn (JOKER) J Aelwyn Roberts - Welsh folklorist and priest David Kenneth Fieldhouse - big name historian David Berglas - magician Edith MacArthur - Scottish actress Steve Ditko - comics Dick Taverne - famous Labour MP splitter Lawrence Gordon Clark - directed the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series William Goldman - author Joan Lingard - author Jean Carnahan - US politician, won her husband's election when he died in a plane crash. Penelope Lively - author Kenneth Ives - actor Brian Cosgrove - Danger Mouse Vernon Dobtcheff - "Patron Saint of Actors", also in Father Ted and Dr Who George Chakiris - West Side Story Janet Henfrey - actress, Dr Who, other stuff Judy Parfitt Guy Playfair - investigated the Enfield Poltergeist Jehan Sadat - Sadat's widow subs Michael Frayn, Josef Venglos, Sir Alan Beith (Lib Dem)

Cue a DDT saunter to the title. I promised DI in the chat I wouldn't predict TJS to win as that prediction has been kiss of death for him last 3 years!

Congrates Bert - one of the great wins in DDP history. Shame to see you go out, but look forward to see you about again. (And sticking around the forums of course).

Here is Pan Breed 2018. It wont win, it's just here for the fun and games as it were. Pan Breed 1. John McCain 2. Kathleen Blanco 3. Patrick Cryne 4. Rayya Elias 5. Leah Bracknell (JOKER) 6. Greg Gilbert 7. Philomena Lynott 8. Ian Toothill 9. Vanessa Goodwin (Australian politician) 10. Catherine Nevin 11. Carl Piddington 12. Tessa Jowell 13. Matt Cappotelli 14. Stefan Karl Stefansson 15. Liam Miller 16. Cas Willow 17. Satoru Anzaki 18. Pete Frates 19. Steffan Lewis 20. Devin Lima subs Pete Stokes - the boxing trainer Dean Francis Fernando Ricksen

Dudley's death brings Masekela directly into the B-team. Sorry about your lack of unique joker, YoungWillz! Blame the guy who... did he even play an actual game for Villa?

Well done Death Impends, that Hollywood Squares bonus is far more pivotal than I'd realised! As for my lot, storming first quarter, then ran out of steam entirely. Top 8 is nice given usual spot in the bottom 4 though.

Nah, at the moment it sounds like a good pick for your team. Just never a pick I could ever personally make.

He stays! And is right next to Greavsie on the list!

Aye, so when I said I thought he might be Number one this year, I was close!

Wouk.

I think this is a bad pick. Linda will see 2019.

I'm stunned. Brackers lead from 2 vote.... until 5pm yesterday! And her lead over Bush at Christmas was around 250 points!

Yeah but I don't think he'll have much chance to get comfy on it.

Read the list out from 50 to 1 to the wife (as is our wee tradition). Her response? "What? Stanley Baxter is STILL ALIVE?"

I said in the chat: "one of Sean's threads is an official Deathlist thread - he'll be so happy!"