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Reminds me to put Pan Breed favourite Mary Wilson into one of my teams. I didn't this year and it just looks wrong. The very first name I ever wrote down for any deadpool, anywhere, before you ask, ages ago (2009ish). I try to include her on at least one deadpool a year out of tradition, like my very own Clive Dunn.

Ah yes, looking over coy folk on the shortlist and wondering "how ill are you?" I've consigned most of them to the scrapheap short of news in the next few days. Shortlists got 42 names on it, though many of those are "in case of emergency" standbys. Strangely of the first draft team I wrote in July, only three are still hoping for a spot.

Oh, since I'm nice (allegedly): Admin: Paul Mod: DDT Post of the year: mine err, I mean the mini-convention. Shitposter - N/A, though I wouldn't give it to Sir Creep anyhow Sage - DD "Grim Reaper" T. Farewell - Magere (for now?) Chief Lister - Biblio (and that's meant as a compliment, you) Tip - charon didn't seem to want this one nominated so I'll say Sir Creep's neverending faith in Gordie Howe's mortality. Crystal Ball - ImnotHades Best Female Poster - Toast Best Male Poster - YoungWillz Gimmick - Mugabe. Not a case of whose sock, but who isn't, most likely. Death of Year - Zsa Zsa. Joke - Paul's David Cameron joke Best Newcomer - Joey (though you've not given yourself much opposition there!) Deadpool of the Year - Death by Numbers Best Deathlist pick - Abe Vigoda from the options. Worst - Tommy Chong I didn't answer a fair few of them because I have no opinion on the matter.

That's an interesting link you've posted, but nothing to do with Zazu. http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/those-darlins-jessi-zazu-diagnosed-with-cancer-w456912 Ah you found the right one. There's the flaw of posting on here and using Get Iplayer at the same time...

British conservationist Allen Bathurst, the Lord Bathurst, is still not in the best of health following a five month stay in hospital for multiple organ failure from a deer fly bite! Also, his house got burgled while he was fighting for his life.

Jessi Zazu, guitarist for Those Darlins', diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer.

Nasty cancer? Check. Aiming to have it treated via a combination of homeopathy and God? Check. No mentions of note, even in passing, in the DDP QOs, ever? Check. Reliant on a bored Guardian journalist and a slow news week in 2017? Check. I've got my Delpech dilemma sorted for the next eleven days then.

According to the grapevine, character actor Alan Curtis is very frail now. 87 next year, and he'll obit due to appearances in enough cult classics (Dr Who, Jason King, even the odd Carry On film).

Terminal cancer in his stomach and pancreas. Saw this a fortnight ago (or then abouts) and thought to myself: bet that's a potential unique of Spades. Or, at least, I did when I saw it, then thought the name looked familiar and did a search to see if his name had ever come up before.

Another sub required for the 2017 TCD then.

Anyhow who entered this by PM and didn't publicise their team are at an obvious disadvantage when it comes to non-Shauns totting up the scores, yes. Hence it being an aid rather than an absolute.

Right, as Shaun is currently medicated - chap, you need to stop chasing that roadrunner, it's no good for your knees - here is a rough estimate of the current scoreboard. By rough estimate I mean the sum aggregate of everyone on your list who has died, minus those you subbed in June. Those who didn't get obits I leave to Shaun but to make things easier I include a complete list of "hits" at the bottom per player so if someone didn't fufil the QO criteria, all he need do is deduct the points for that player off a persons total. The scoreboard, my maths notwithstanding: DDT 1838 (33/49) Death Impends 1515 (26/50) Captain Chorizo 1512 (24/50) Sir Creep 1149 (25/50) Gcreptile 1025 (17/50) JiroemonKimura 974 (20/50) RadGuy 967 (17/50) Rotten Ali 941 (16/50) The Dead Cow 921 (15/50) Grim Up North 883 (17/50) Msc 848 (17/50) Shaun 820 (17/50) Book 771 (14/50) Handrejka 674 (12/50) The Unknown Man 625 (12/50) NottheNagsHeadReading 623 (17/50) Maryportfuncity 591 (14/50) Chopped Liver 475 (12/50) NotSirPeterMaxwelDavies 467 (9/50) Morbid Kid 460 (11/50) Bibliogrypon 445 (5/50) YouwantICEwiththat 381 (6/50) Windsor 352 (9/50) Gooseberry Crumble 130 (5/50) Young Willz 42 (2/50) Those taken so far: DDT (Feek, diski, gartside, travis, crowe, plowright, esterhazy, b brown, Lubbock, ford, caslavska, fekete, mulkearns, hailu, angelil, mcdonald, Maxwell dacies, marks, haggerty, ellis, edhi, cruyff, blue, Wilson, hoferlin, farren, granger, ghosh, raiola, armenteros, jones, Kincaid, renouf) Sir Creep (adamowicz, angelil, crowe, cruyff, derby lewis, diski, ellis, esterhazy, farren, feek, ford, Harrington jr, hechler, hooker, marks, Maxwell davies, mccullough, mulligan, sm jones, smith, slocombe, mikasa, Bentley, cardile, sager) JiroemonKimura (SM Jones, Lang, Crowe, Granger, feek, angleil, marks, ford, hooker, libous, bhumibol, ali, gabor, hechler, slocombe, renouf, cruyff, sager, mcdonald, derby lewis) Gcreptile (smith, Kincaid, mulligan, sm jones, michelmore, raiola, latourette, buster, granger, borges, ford, leppard, dorr, armenteros, diski, jones, Washington) Msc (Susannah Mushat Jones, Douglas Slocombe, Robert F Dorr, Monty Brinson, Vera caslavaks, Peter esterhaz, Peter Maxwell davies, Colin smith (Sheridans dad), Douglas Wilmer 20, Guy Hamilton , Er Braithwaite, Rowena Kincaid, Kris travis, Dr kate granger, Albert mcquarrie, Craig sager, Zsa zsa gabor) Rotten Ali (Caroline Aherne, Muhammad Ali, Rene Angelil, Senator Robert Bennett, Martin Crowe, Jenny Diski, Joey Feek, Rob Ford, Dr Kate Granger, Goran hadzic, Dan haggarty, Joao havelange, Zsa zsa gabor, Howard marks, Susannah Mushat Jones, Craig sager) Book (feek, crowe, angelil, ford, aherne, granger, ali, brown, jones, honecker, castro, esterhazy, marks, gabor) The Dead Cow (SM Jones, feek, aherne, granger, crowe, cruyff, travis, diski, Kincaid, ali, ford, marks, angelil, kiarostami, sager) RadGuy (bhumibol, adamowicz, ali, angelil, granger, castro, crowe, diski, feek, Kincaid, ford, gabor, havelange, sm jones, marks, Reagan, travis) YouwantICE (not rice) with that (aherne, feek, crowe, stigwood, castro, prince) Handrejka (plowright, crowe, aichinger, ali, fox, gabor, aherne, angelil, marks, castro, feek, sm jones) Chopped Liver (gabor, crowe, havelange, bhumibol, ford, angelil, castro, vigoda, marks, slocombe, sm jones, glenn) Morbid Kid (feek, Reagan, vigoda, bhumibol, gabor, crowe, marks, ford, michelmore, young, peres) Gooseberry Crumble (dehaven, bhumibol, wilder, Hamilton, gray) Bibliogryphon (crowe, mcnamara, sm jones, aherne, diski) Grim up north (ali, Reagan, crowe, bhumibol, aherne, gaynes, marks, sm jones, feek, Corbett, ford, michelmore, diski, martin, cryuff, granger, sager) Death Impends (Bhumibol, Angelil, Crowe, Cruyff, Belanger Diski, Esterhazy, Farren, Feek, Ford, Glenn, Kincaid, Renouf, Granger, Harrington Jr, Hudnut, Jones, SM Jones, Latourette, libous, Lubbock, Marks, Sager, Smith, Travis, Vigoda) Shaun (Crowe, Kwouk, Slocombe, Mikasa, Gabor, SMJ, Rivette, Sim, Marks, Michelmore, Ford, Ali, Cruyff, Koide, Granger, LaTourette, Kincaid) Young Willz (Brown, Perry) The Unknown Man (Feek, Crowe, Angelil, Castro, Marks, Gabor, DeHaven, Bhumibol, Diski, Havelange, SMJ, Ford) Chorizo (SMJ, Brinson, Travis, Crowe, Feek, Angelil, Diski, Raiola, Marks, Aherne, Kincaid, Maxwell Davies, Eiselen, Esterhazy, Caslavska, Cryuff, Cox, Pateman, Harrington Jr, Ford, Dorr, Wiedmier, Granger, Renouf) Maryportfuncity (SM jones, jones, angelil, granger, crowe, diski, feek, miller, gabor, castro, glenn, Reagan, michelmore, havelange) Nags Head (Diski, Marks, Crowe, Esterhazy, Plowright, Bhumibol, Ford, Havelange, Cruyff, Slocombe, Castro, Gray, Glenn, Reagan, Michelmore, Gabor, Aherne) Windsor (Crowe, Marks, Gsabor, Bhumibol, Lubbock, Castro, Ali, Reagan, Sim) NotSirPeter (Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nancy Reagan, Joey Feek, Johan Cruyff, Piete da Jong, Caroline aherne, Susannah mushat jones, Martin crowe, Zsa zsa) It's a day off, I thought, I'll just tot these numbers together, can't take that long. I'm never doing this again! Hah. Also, I think I know who is going to win. THIRTY-THREE out of 49? Fucking incredible, DDT, my hat's off.

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi John Bain Tony Booth Glen Campbell Errol Christie Keith Farnham Gary Haggarty Luke Halpin Bruce Langhorne Mary Lucas Yoshiro Nakamatsu Terri Roberts Bishop Geoffrey Robinson Mark Sims Ian St John Nobby Stiles Seijun Suzuki Joost Van der Westhuizen John Wicks Andrew Yeaman No, hang on, that's Diana Rots's shortlist... Still, got to feel for them - you have to go right down to Poochie just to get 20 names...

Best way to win a derby, err, I'd imagine - we don't get much practice at that, being Thistle!

Although going by my Liverpool supporting pals elsewhere, not sure if you'll still rate that decision - it's apparently been dire.

In future I'll remember to just say "He's big in the polling world so political geeks are likely to get him an obit" instead...

It's a daft name for people like Peter Snow. He might show up on the Deathlist one year, or not.

Shot eight times and dead according to journalists on Twitter.

Someone on the last five Deathlists in a row, and highly popular around these parts.

Are you expecting a 2 for 1 deal with Timothy West on this one?

Well, either that or the deluge remains unceasing, eh? The DL committee would be well advised to start the shortlist meeting on New Year's Eve and leave their phones on Iiirc one of the Cmme did say one year that the meeting was on New Years Eve. Think it was the year Schumacher had his skiing incident. Found it! Schumi was discussed until 8pm 31-Dec. Brian May didn't get mentioned. Also accidentally stumbled across in that search: Sharon discussed but rejected for 2014, Hitchens discussed at length for 2011 but rejected. Funny the little gems of info scattered around the forum!

I bet celebs love this. It's like the kiss of life.

Louis Harris was a fairly big name within psephology so if he has snuffed it, there'll be a notice before Christmas.

The forum remembers - there's a blue star next to the name you picked in the poll at the top.

Iola Brubeck lasted 15 months in similar conditions, and that was fairly impressive.