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He was given the all clear for his testicular cancer yonks ago and his chrohns is not going to kill him any time soon. Weird/stupid choice. Thanks for the info. I had missed that update. But it is also irrelevent cos he wasn't needed to complete my starting line up.

Is this in English or is it a translation? I hope you have not got The Colour of Magic because despite being the first in the Discworld series it is not the best place to start. I have met Terry Pratchett twice at signing sessions - he seemed like a nice guy.

Never felt entirely comfortable with a guy in a prolonged coma as a deathlist pick. The time of his death seems more at a Doctor's whim than as an act of God.

James Herbert Iain M Banks Mel Smith Frank Thornton Ray Harryhausen

I was surprised not to see the General make a return and thought that Liz Dawn and Tony Benn would have been good picks. Not too sure about the inclusion of P D James and Terry Pratchett but I was one of the neigh sayers who though Peter O' Toole was a bad pick last year. I think that we should be comfortably in the 10-12 region with this group.

I went with Billy Graham.

She is probably down to more like four tunes I still think Peter Sallis on Boxing Day

Yesterday was on Start The Week with Andrew Marr (Radio 4). BBC have kindly posted a picture. Anyone who hasn't picked him for 2014 can think again after that.

Although not regarded as his best film I would suggest that you fast forward through all the homoerotic bits of TROY to get to the bit where King Priam (O' Toole) comes to Achillies' (Brad Pitt) tent to request the return of his son's body. Peter O' Toole gives an impassioned performance of genuine grief whereas Pitt is aiming for impassive but the result looks more like balsa. Proof that they don't make em like that any more.

Gone for Peter Sallis as he has the right feel for that Boxing Day Death.

Hi I am going to replace Ronnie Biggs with the former MP John Freeman. I am also going to play a sub as I will be out of circulation over Christmas and you might need another replacement to make sure that I have a full team for the starting tape. That someone is snooker player Ali Carter.

Twenty five names who are not on this year's list that could (should) go on in 2014 Tony Benn Liz Dawn Cliff Mitchelmore Mickey Rooney Wilko Johnson Herman Wouk Alice Coachman Joan Fontaine Peter Carrington Maureen O' Hara Jimmy Young Jackie Stallone Mohammid Ali Paul Gascoigne Pope Bendict XVI Eddie Kidd Norman Lloyd James Lovelock Javier Peres de Cueller Pamela Cundell J T McNamara Sheila Mercer Tito Vilanova Patrick McNee Jimmy Hill

Esther Rantzen would be appalled.

Yeah, well I guess running that chain of greeting card retailers into the ground, would not of helped one bit!! The introduction of the "I'm so sorry I ruined your dress" range was probably a mistake.

Yeah but doesn't the fact that the Queen doesn't want to fly to SA show maybe she isn't as robust as we all thought? I'm surprised such a flurry of speculation hasn't already appeared in this thread. No No.... As a general rule the Queen does not do funerals. If she started going to foreign dignitaries funerals there would be a careful analysis of each decision to see if there was a snub. She didn't even go to Pope John Paul II funeral and sent Charles to get photomugged by Robert Mugabe. Queen not a contender for 2014. Oh, right. Yeah. I would have thought it was more a case of she doesn't go to foreign funerals in case someone there is armed with a snub....... nosed revolver. Especially in some place like South Africa (no racism/post-colonial snobbery intended) Will King Wilhelm be going? I'm afraid you've lost me there. Really lost me. Worse than an Alzheimer's patient loses grip of the plot of The Wire. The King of The Netherlands who were also a colonial power in South Africa. No Wire like plots here, its much more Miami Vice (Good looking and utterly pointless)

Yeah but doesn't the fact that the Queen doesn't want to fly to SA show maybe she isn't as robust as we all thought? I'm surprised such a flurry of speculation hasn't already appeared in this thread. No No.... As a general rule the Queen does not do funerals. If she started going to foreign dignitaries funerals there would be a careful analysis of each decision to see if there was a snub. She didn't even go to Pope John Paul II funeral and sent Charles to get photomugged by Robert Mugabe. Queen not a contender for 2014. Oh, right. Yeah. I would have thought it was more a case of she doesn't go to foreign funerals in case someone there is armed with a snub....... nosed revolver. Especially in some place like South Africa (no racism/post-colonial snobbery intended) Will King Willlem be going?

Yeah but doesn't the fact that the Queen doesn't want to fly to SA show maybe she isn't as robust as we all thought? I'm surprised such a flurry of speculation hasn't already appeared in this thread. No No.... As a general rule the Queen does not do funerals. If she started going to foreign dignitaries funerals there would be a careful analysis of each decision to see if there was a snub. She didn't even go to Pope John Paul II funeral and sent Charles to get photomugged by Robert Mugabe. Queen not a contender for 2014.

He was also in an episode of Blakes' 7. I thought I remembered seeing it, but after checking, I realise I hadn't. I've never seen past the first few episodes so I must have remembered his face from somewhere else. Seems to have been in a lot of stuff. He played Kendall in Series 1 Epsiode 7: Misson to Destiny. This is not a good example of B7 as it is an excuse for a pretty poor whodunnit with Avon playing at Hercule Poirot and an sub Scooby Doo clue written in the murder victim's blood. However said victim is played by deathlist potential Brian Capron. Sorry about this when I couldn't find which episode he was in on Wikipedia I had to resort to looking it up in a book. Thank you Mr Attwood.

I see that Charles will represent the Queen at Nelson Mandela's funeral. He propbably wanted to get some practice in before the two big ones.

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Pretty sure there would be interruptions if McCartney went. Possibly even Dylan McCartney yes, Elton John yes, David Bowie or Mick Jagger yes, but whilst Dylan would merit lead news article I don't think there would be extended bulletins and a hastily resheduled doc immediately after the 10pm news. (In the UK that is).

Dora Bryan strips off her tracksuit and heads for the field of play. Yeah, but she thinks she's going to primary school! Nice one. I am running out of names my first team only had 15 names on it then I had to replace Godfrey and now Nelson. If anyone else goes before the starting gun I will be scraping the barrel.

# OH NO! How awful! Christ. If only we could get Mandela to die just before 10PM British time every Thursday night for the rest of all time, he truly would be worthy of the word saint. That is the first time i remember them taking off normal programming since michael jackson died . I wonder what other deaths would command this ? Castro ? ex pm ? A list celeb dying before their time? When does a death become big enough to take off normal the programming ? I do not think that normal programming would be affected for anyone but a world statesman or a member of the royal family. The decision to cancel question time was probably a matter of timing as he went during the evening. There is a difference between scheduling in a tribute programme in place of something that could be shown later and having a rolling news programme continue in place of a current affairs discussion programme. I remeber there being changes to the schedule when Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft died. Most celebrity deaths don't even make the lead item on the news bulletins.

Dora Bryan strips off her tracksuit and heads for the field of play.

Send to this email address: ddp2014@derbydeadpool.co.uk That is a very low key starting gun for 2014