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My Shadow List / Competition list: Shadow List 1 Rolf Harris 26 Jonnie Irwin 2 James Whale 27 Chris Snow 3 Ryuichi Sakamoto 28 Andy Taylor 4 Tony Bennett 29 Michael Tilson Thomas 5 Ted Kaczynski 30 Derek Draper 6 Gianluca Vialli 31 Shane MacGowan 7 Steve McMichael 32 George Alagiah 8 Nigel Lawson 33 Christopher Fowler 9 Nigel Starmer-Smith 34 Mohamed Al Fayed 10 Bobby Charlton 35 Anita Kupsch 11 Gordon McQueen 36 Burt Bacharach 12 Joe Kinnear 37 Henry Kissinger 13 Mark Pilgrim 38 Alice Munro 14 Franz Beckenbauer 39 Johnny Ruffo 15 Tony Marshall 40 Charlie Bird 16 Frank Field 41 Eric Lamaze 17 Tim Lobinger 42 Menahem Pressler 18 Teresa Taylor 43 Roland Griffiths 19 Mike Sertich 44 Richard Rohr 20 Roberta Flack 45 Francoise Hardy 21 Rob Burrow 46 David Linden 22 Frank McGarvey 47 Frederic Forrest 23 Daniel Paul 48 Vladimir Putin 24 Mutulu Shakur 49 Carolyn Bryant Donham 25 Jeanette Lee 50 Miroslav Blazevic

Hello Mr. Custard! Welcome and thanks for playing. To clarify, you can choose one joker out of your 50 picks for the double points. Please tell me which one of these five jokers is the "real" one. I also assume you really want to use these jokered names in your team, but then they have to replace 5 other names of the 50. Please tell me which ones have to be changed.

@tracy You may pick a new joker. Also, my team is now LIVE - barring any more DDP disqualifications.

In everything I did I tried to maximize the number of hits, instead of their quality. I pushed Andy Taylor onto the B-team because of that. Also Nigel Starmer-Smith and Faye Fantarrow. Other people I couldn't convince myself to pick: Billy Dib, Rhod Gilbert, Janey Godley, Linda Nolan. And I had to, very reluctantly decide against picking Zoleka Mandela, at least in the DDP. I'm surprised I haven't seen her anywhere else here so far. There were also a couple of young people I rejected, like Rodion Amirov. The Enkyboys guy seemed like one for 2024 to me.

Awesome job, msc. The additions seem rather fine to me. We had to replace half of it, always interesting to see who gets traction and who doesn't.

Jeremiah Green will have to be subbed... ... oh dear, this year is a special kind of pain during these final and first hours.

Natalie Fornasier might be marked as my joker on the masterlist.

Interesting addition. But any real reason?

Dropping James Whale is deadpooling malfeasance. You guys need a new impulse.

My opinion is perfectly expressed by the "meh" meme of future DeathList member Larry David.

Well what to say... a pretty boneheaded decision for the no. 1 slot. The no. 1 should, by principle, not be a repeat - because the no. 1 should be a safe hit, so that a repeat is unnecessary.

He was in Bad health late 2021, but a crisis was denied by the family a bit later. Still an attractive addition to the list.

The committee LOVES their classic show business picks, a film star preferably with added theatre work. Problem is, these names are disappearing for natural reasons. The 60s are 60 years ago now!

Great choice, I will enjoy Sir Creep's coffee a lot.

He'd need another co-morbidity to be worthy of inclusion- even though I'm proud to have created the thread.

As long as they don't pick Mohamed Al-Fayed, I'm fine with it.

Sports commentator Simon Hanley has died at 60: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-simon-hanley-commentator-dead-28849386 Sounds like a Spade name... (which is a compliment!)

Khandaker Mahbub, who was surely a popular pick, has died: https://bdnews24.com/politics/cnwgmf84fe

Khandaker Mahbub, who was surely a popular pick, has died: https://bdnews24.com/politics/cnwgmf84fe Edit: LOL, wrong thread.

An incredible 56 teams so far, can we get more? I won't be adding any more teams to my game file THIS YEAR, but you can still enter until midnight.

Sorry, substitutions have to be used in order as submitted. That's what they are there for.

That list is accepted, thanks for playing! Pope Benedict is replaced though by your first sub.

She was a terrible person.

@John Key @The Old Crem Would you like to pick a new joker? Otherwise it will be the current no. 2 of your team.

Yes, there will be 1-2 more updates. I know, Benedikt, Barbara Walters, Don West, Tony Vacarro, Pelé...