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http://www.nytimes.c...omedy.html?_r=0 "While it is true that Mr. James suffers from several grave ailments, it is also true that the most serious of them, leukemia, is in remission." From October In fact, this from December last year says his leukaemia is in remission, before he even said he was on the way out

Nile Rodgers - because I only recently found out he's been cancer-free for ages Leif Garrett - unreliable Ornette Coleman - was initially more a hunch than an educated guess, of which I've only got room for one (and that spot's gone to Barry Chuckle) Plus other standard picks like Ali, Hawking and Thatcher. And lost Andrew Andre due to him not seeing out the year

Can always hope that his "recovery" is like that of Waddell's But that was bloody quick considering he said he was on the way out 6 months ago

Kalashnikov

Few more weeks to go yet then

Should never have trusted that gobshite, especially after he denied saying he was on the way out

Surprised so many of those haven't been on the list before, particularly Gough Whitlam. Never heard of Elaine Stritch before but I think that's out of ignorance rather than her not being famous - she seems a good shout. And I've also gone for Garner in my theme team so I'm glad he's come up

Pessimism aside, I think he might just hold on long enough to make 2013. Or at least I fucking hope so, anyway

"Who's this guy? Why is he on the list if no one's ever heard of him?" "Too many old people. DeathList is getting lazy and unoriginal" "This list is against the rules because of Clause 125.6b in the DeathList rulebook which states that..." "When are you going to write the obituaries from the people that died last year?" "Why isn't Peter Falk...oh never mind"

Doubt anyone will be looking too hard so 4 hours early, here are my teams: I Shall Need To Get The Black Out Nelson Mandela Michael Winner Stephen Lewis Clive James Liz Dawn Jimmy Greaves Reg Presley Roger Ebert Henry Cecil Barry Elliott Sandy Jardine Bruno Metsu Hugo Chavez Mark "Chopper" Read Bernie Nolan Stefano Borgonovo (JOKER) Steven Adler Bashar al-Assad Joost van der Westhuizen Ryan Buell I went with Nolan, Buell and Read despite not being fully convinced they're about to cark it, as the pay-off could be useful. Also hoping Assad gets Gaddafi'd and Adler continues his path to self-destruction - continuing the Celeb Rehab theme, Leif Garrett is one of my subs but unless Chavez and Mandela both go tonight, he won't come into play. Stephen Hawking is my first reserve and I'm a tad disappointed I couldn't fit him in. Dropped Jaruzelski, Thatcher, Mugabe and the Pope because they're not worth much even if they do go, and Ali, Dickson Wright, Franklin and Pratchett because they're unlikely to go soon Red-Flagged (motorsport theme team) Robert Manzon Jose Froilan Gonzalez Geoff Duke Murray Walker Ron Tauranac Jack Brabham Maria Teresa de Filippis Erik Carlsson James Garner Stirling Moss Guy Ligier Bernie Ecclestone Dan Gurney Tony Brooks John Surtees (JOKER) Mauro Forghieri AJ Foyt Jean-Pierre Beltoise Frank Williams Julian Bailey This is a complete stab in the dark team

BBC news ticker reporting that Hilary Clinton has been admitted to hospital with a "blood clot following concussion" Everyone who's already submitted DDP teams hoping it's not too serious...

New complications, so he's now in a "delicate" state Got him in my 2012 and 2013 teams so can't work out whether I want him to survive another 24 hours. He probably will, though

The MP who supplied misinformation to The Sun regarding Hillsborough. His death comes two months after the end of the independent panel's enquiry

RIP Quincy

Has improved ("slightly")

Thought that was about programmes which are coming up featuring people of interest to DL...

Searched and searched but couldn't find a thread on people off of the radio generally (other than the Radio 4 thread), which is a bit surprising, so here's one Two ageing stars of BBC Radio Humberside, who won a Sony Radio Award this year, are leaving after the Christmas Day show - they are 86 and 91 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20809677 Meanwhile, I didn't realise that Peter Allen of Five Live was 66

The 50s is a big gap in my F1 knowledge. I wasn't sure who would be obit-worthy and who wouldn't. I'm guessing Manzon will as he was a good driver and is the oldest around at the moment (I think). De Filippis will be on account of being the first female F1 driver. The rest are all fairly "mainstream" figures

Yeah I was JamesB Might as well reveal my theme team as it's no big deal, I guess - it's not the most educated of groups of guesses. It's not all F1 Robert Manzon Jose Froilan Gonzalez Geoff Duke Murray Walker Ron Tauranac Jack Brabham Maria Teresa de Filippis Erik Carlsson James Garner Stirling Moss Guy Ligier Bernie Ecclestone Dan Gurney Tony Brooks John Surtees (joker) Mauro Forghieri AJ Foyt Jean-Pierre Beltoise (I must tip my hat to you for that suggestion) Frank Williams Julian Bailey Subs: Jackie Stewart Chris Irwin Vic Elford

You had me going there for a second when I saw you'd posted in here, OoO - I've just submitted my DDP motorsport theme team, Red-Flagged (hence the reason for my new name here)

Fifteen of the worst Team Name: I Shall Need To Get The Black Out Nelson Mandela Bob Dole *JOKER* Margaret Thatcher Stephen Lewis Clive James Liz Dawn Jimmy Greaves Reg Presley Roger Ebert Henry Cecil Sandy Jardine Hugo Chavez Stefano Borgonovo Steven Adler Bashar al-Assad

Joined the bandwagon and submitted early, as I'm away from the internet for New Year's Eve Thanks for running this again TMIB

Something I found out recently (although this may be unrelated to the Savile cases) is that former BBC Radio 1 DJ and Video 125 train video narrator Chris Denning was involved in the Jonathan King scandal in the late 90s and is currently serving time in Slovakia for producing child porn

Not really. But it's hardly uplifting to go onto Twitter, Facebook et al to see a load of people say "oh so the world didn't end after all, what a surprise, hurr". That's on a par with those atheists who love telling you they are atheists and how stupid Christians are for believing in God

The one thing more stupid than the idea that the world's going to end today is the load of shit jokes and unfunny things people trying to be clever have said about the idea that the world's going to end today. Might as well avoid Twitter for the day