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Well, a lot of our number play this game, and Gcreptile currently leads it on Day 3 after Thomas Monson (related to Gorilla, right?). Given the Rotten Dead Pool appears to have gone the way of the dodo, and this pool gets talked about a fair bit - I found it via DDT - I thought it could have its own thread? Where we cheer on any of our lot against the (nearly) unstoppable Mr Tierney and co. The points system is similar but different to the DDP, and their criteria is somewhat America, but it's all good fun. Home Page Standings Who's Dead so Far Deathlisters playing in 2018 include Gcreptile, deadsox, Joey, me, Jireomon, Death Impends, Toast, and others I don't immediately spot. In 2017, Deathlister JiroemonKimura won, ending the reign of terror of Gerard Tierney, who won the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions. Good luck everyone. PS We should have started this thread in December and swamped it with DDPers but hey, always 2019, right?

William Russell better get a lovely send off in that 2 hour Memorial documentary BBC are showing before the end of the year or else I'll... sigh and be disappointed, I guess. Actually, Ulitzer's list above lacks Edna O'Brien who is getting a segment in next weeks thing so maybe some were left off because of that.

I'd mentioned to Joey the other week that had I woken up in time on the day picks were made (I had a very rare lie in instead and woke at a reasonable time to find it all over) I had intended to pick Jody Gormley, so it was probably fresh on his mind. (Not because I thought he was doomed, but as an obvious ill pick everyone knew about already). Amusingly ironic, as, err, Alanis would have said.

In retrospect the highlight of the year for the DL was them picking the wrong Pope at midnight on the 1st.

Sounds suspicious to me, I want to know Calvin Klein's alibi. ngl Ioved We Have Come for your Parents when I was about 14/15.

People also really underestimate how long it takes to starve to death. Bobby Sands was committed to the job, Thatchers lot happy to let it happen and it still took 66 days. Any glance at drols immortal thread should tell people the human body can sometimes be remarkably resilient.

That's right, the big guy gets his own thread after his appearance on BBC1 tonight reminded me to start a fucking thread for him. Tom Baker, The Doctor Who to anyone with a vague awareness of the show, is 86 now, and has apparently been in frail health the last few years after a lifetime of booze started to catch up. Apart from his 7 year lead role in Doctor Who and its lifetime of pop culture references, he was also famously Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra. He's also the narrator of Little Britain, Captain Redbeard in Blackadder and the voodoo loving artist in Vault of Horror. Anyhow, here he is on BBC1 an hour ago: Proper future DL front pager.

As promised, my theme team drops for 2025 (feel free to nab them, I mean you could have done that anyway, but you know what I mean)... Dr Who David Anderson Barbara Clegg Warris Hussein Edward de Souza Gabriel Woolf Clegg and Hussein's fraility means they should be on a fair few teams next year, which freed space for some newcomers. Woolf and de Souza were on other peoples theme teams. Anderson, just no room. Was quite unwell in the past. Here's Who You Could Have Won Moira Armstrong Martha Bartlett Michael Billington Frank Bowling Andrew Davies Giles Havergal David Irving Stacy Keach Jim Rafferty Nadim Sawalha Jim Sillars Christopher Timothy An absolute massacre, aided by my interest in new names (and DI refusing to let me sign on extra times under a false name for some reason). Billington was a joke pick. Crem has said they want to pick Christopher Timothy so I'm standing him down to be fair. Sillars/Sawalha/Irving/Davies/Bowling all too popular these days, will be on many DDP teams in 2025. Gerry Rafferty's brother I am worried about a QO, ditto Martha Bartlett. Armstrong and Havergal there was just no room for.

Taking Joey's advice, I sent in my theme teams and got an acknowledgement. The Dr Who one will be much as before given no one really died. There is one welcome return (after a heads up elsewhere) and a few fresh names. The Notable Oldies team welcomes back a few former picks, finds space for a few old favourites yet to make their DDP debut, and has half a dozen names I was shocked to find are still alive. Still couldn't find room for Lynda Chalker so someone else will have to go for her. Will post the theme team drops in the Ideas thread in a moment for people who want to fit them into their own plans.

A relatively optimistic Crem post? I think I'm going to faint from shock! My view - they put Julie Walters on this years list just in case her news turned bad, they can do that for the bloody King.

His son on Facebook says he's dead. https://www.facebook.com/justinleocummings/posts/10229980473629577?__cft__[0]=AZWQiBKqk_dI9RCtnff2cMD5XWLb-E1R2JchG6U7NBhogWVJMS_NEEi54hgXBRp6gkpTLgUmEfK1bLNXLCXvfWl9eXqpGnELd0EzYSZx8pY8snK5P2-4BafY5rnn3gX72sBsS4goDER4Z0k2NSfxV2QTZpQxffQx1whEKgMJVf8jKA&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Stay away from me, Satan! Ahem.

I think Lee Evans was a deadpool hit about a decade after the trap too? Yet Ryan Buell lives on with his Stage 6 pancreatic brain ALS. And whatever happened to that vegetarian drag act with Creutzfeldt-Jacob despite never touching beef? (A fatal illness I always remember the name of, thanks to that X-Files episode with the cannibals, which, Google tells me, I saw 30 years ago next year. We're all getting old.)

The Scott Thorson Gambit really wouldn't work in today's forum.

Left Belfast Methodist School in 1993 to join the prestigious Glasgow uni vet course so 49/50 years old.

In line with the above, watching a recent interview with Aspel where he looks and sounds incredible for his age. In fact I tried the "guess how old they are" question with msc jr and they, knowing it's always a trick question, went for the older guess of 70. Barring accidents, no rush for the DL here.

A future DLer but still acting, shouldn't concern us for a few years yet. Didn't recognise Caroline Quentin, mind you.

The only man to show up at WrestleMania XV looking more dead than Gorilla Monsoon.

Also the dad in Taste, one of the most memorable Tales of the Unexpected. (The one where Ron Moody's wine expert bets the daughters hand in marriage over his ability to name where a rare dinner wine comes from.) And he's got a small but recognisable role in The Living Daylights. And yes, Willz, he's in the Clapham Cook Poirot too. Always been on the fringes of my Oldies team, but I had a feeling he'd be ignored by the press when he died which has (shamefully imo) come to pass.

Eric Idle in November 2024 for people wanting to do some form spotting. IMO decent knick for an 80 year old who had a cancer battle.

Ah.

You thought Ed Davey was doomed in January tbf!

They both look like they could outlive Ian McEwan there.

Between the pictures of the crash and West Ham asking people for "thoughts and prayers", rather ominous tbh.

@arghton heard the story of British super centenarian Reg Dean? Actually a fairly fascinating old guy as he'd been a war hero and then had a lengthy career in the Church of England. During WW2 he saved an old mystic's life in Mumbai and was given a life extending drink which he took despite being sceptical. Decades go on, Reg stays alive but puts it down to vegetarian life style and exercise. Retires, still lives. Reaches 100, 101, 105...still very healthy. Moves into assisted living in his late 100s, still in great health for his advanced age. Starts to get frail aged 109 but reaches 110 and publicly told the press "maybe I was wrong and that elixir was accurate and I could live to 120!" The second he publicly recanted his scepticism, his health took a rapid decline and he died weeks later!