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I would agree with all but Healey. Like Patrick Moore he could go at any time and I think we would be kicking ourselves if we missed him. Anyway it adds political balance to having Maggie on the list. I think we should go for three Labour - Healey, John Freeman and Tony Benn (he is looking very frail these days) and three Tories - Lady T, Lord Carrington and Morgan Morgan Giles with Jeremy Thorpe as the token Liberal. Seven places is a lot to dedicate to one constituency (UK politicians) considering there are only 3 on the 2012 list.

I would agree with all but Healey. Like Patrick Moore he could go at any time and I think we would be kicking ourselves if we missed him. Anyway it adds political balance to having Maggie on the list.

36 is some months but so is 3.

This sentence generates an invisible air of smugness!

They are often over rated and require a lot of maintenance.

Yes, and it's time for me to look blankly at a list of names and think "who the fuck are they?" The game I run at work has a basic list of 400 names and I get players saying they don't know who some of the names are. Admittedly they are often very young but some of the people should be household names. The other possibility is that I know far too much about obscure elderly celebrities than is healthy. But I am in good company.

It was reported that the crowd were chanting long live the King but it did not report whether he responded by performing a rendition of "I should be so lucky"

Almost a year after this post, Hayes is now cancer-free. Looking at the piccie I'd say as 'cancer free' as Robin Gibb was. I'd give evens that next reports feature the words 'has spread to his liver'. I do love this site 'tis better for me amateur diagnosis game than Holby City. It is easy on Holby City the entire cast have Ash die back disease

Do you mention you know what on your CV? Good God no! Even though it has given me skills (html, databases etc) it would be a little awkward if I mentioned I run my own website and we get into the details... Yes I learnt the hard way what not to put on the CV under hobbies. Even using the acronym FRPG was fraught with difficulties. If you had to explain it they didn't want you and if they knew what it was you didn't want to work there!

Are we still allowed three teams?

There are a lot of different ways to handle this issue. In the league that I'm in, at least half of the other contestants must say they've heard of a new candidate or he/she is permanently banned. Once a celeb has been in the league, they can't be challenged. My league is small so we can use a rule like this. Other options are like what the Derby Dead Pool uses, they must be mentioned in one of several national newspapers/websites. Another idea is that any celeb must have a wikipedia page. I would suggest that the New York Times could be used as a yardstick. It seems to me that anyone of any real celebrity is mentioned there. On the issue of extreme old age, my own feeling is that if a person has lived to a remarkable age, that is an accomplishment worthy of celebrity. Others, obviously feel differently. I hope you reach consensus. The way I handle this is the Wikipedia page rule and by warning contestents that if their pick's deaths are not publisised then they will not get the points. The administrator will not check every possible outlet for Death information. Wikipedia isn't infalliable there are a number of potential picks who do not have a year of birth on there.

He will have to be 'throne' off

I must be missing something here. Why would it be any of them? I assumed that if one gets three lib dems together one of them might have Mark Oaten tendencies! If you want the news first, then the Deathlist brings it to you.

Not forgetting Davy Jones! I wouldn't bet on Jean Alexander but Barbara Knox might be a possibilty.

I haven't seen a Star Trek movie since Generations but I think I will be dragged to this one because of the presence of said Cumberbatch. I have heard different things from Prometheus one person said it was brilliant and another less than brilliant (abbr). The scriptwriter should not be held responsible for Transformers as the script was quite witty but the action sequences tedious beyond belief. I watched John Carter on a plane and thought it was quite good. I may not have been so magnanamous if I had paid £30 for the whole family to go and see it in glorious 3D.

Today is 22 years since she tendered her resignation as Prime Minister to the Queen. Any chance of it being today she tenders her resignation from the human race?

I agree, it was seeing Bob Holness in a wheel chair at Johnny Dankworth's funeral that made me pick him in our game at work (admittedly it took over 12 months).

I think Satan might be the cause of the lack of conclusion to this thread. He has probably been talking to Ted Heath and doesn't want her coming down here and taking his job in the same way.

I am not a big football fan. However from an outsiders perspective it seems to me that the Championship is a much more exciting competition than the Premiership in as much as any of the teams could conceivably win or lose it at the start of the season. Whereas I would not expect anyone to confidnetly claim that a team outsise of the big 4 will be in with a shout at the Premiership title. It just seems a shame for the fans of the Championship teams that the prize is to spend the next season watching your team get thrashed by a bunch of overpaid foreigners. Light blue touch paper and retire.

Nile Rodgers battling prostrate cancer This has only become public now. It looks like he might be on the road to recovery.

Sad to see Larry go. I think people underestimate how he made the character of JR which itself gave the show its longevity. A few years back they re-ran I Dream of Jeannie during daytime on BBC. My young daughter loved it.

I draw the conclusion your day job is too easy! But I'm something of a hypocrite cos I'm posting at work too. To be honest these statistics can easily be produced in five minutes with a copy of the list and a pocket calculator but I am not sidestepping the fact that I am thinking about this when I should be writing articles on European Chemicals Legislation.

Is there a technical term for those who die before we get them on the list? I will suggest replacing Dinah Sheridan with Edna Dore.

At the beginning of this weeks SCD. He seemed to go on a bizarre unscripted rant about the set lighting and then was struggling with the autocue for the first few minutes but the show must be so slickly put together that it is all a credit to him. I read somewhere (forgive me if it was hereabouts) that a well placed source says that Anton du Beke is lined up to take over SCD when and if Brucie decides to call it a day.

I think Timothy Dalton got Bond wrong. He tried to play him as a character, not a characature. However I haven't forgiven him for Rassilon yet.