Canadian Paul

Obviously DDT, how you get that mixed up? I must admit too, I skipped a beat or two when I saw that, until I clicked on the wiki-link.

A bit of a shaky diagnosis if you ask me.

82% ( in science (better than I thought I'd do) and a 9/10 on the Nobel prize (guessed wrong on the WWII one)

Gone

You are Riff-Raff. You have some freaky astro-boy hair later on in this movie! Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make a Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code My cat's name was Riff Raff, so I'll take it.

Suggestion for next year - now that every surviving World War I veteran and many people over the age of 110 now have their own incredibly-difficult-to-excise-from-the-project Wikipedia articles, maybe you should limit the number that can be chosen to one or two... see here for an example of what I mean.

Happy birthday MW! Wander on in her sometime, eh?

Add Al Oerter to that list.

No longer life-threatening, may even walk soon.

Congrats to the two teams on the DDP scoring their first hit with Lois Maxwell and her BBC obit.

Updated to reflect the death of Lois Maxwell and my new format for the Hall of Candidates. Hopefully this will make the Hall of Candidates go up much faster (unlikely, but possible).

Picked by Dead to the World's Theme Team and To Die For's ordinary team, with my pre-determined tagline noted above: You only live once. Not stealing it from Whitehouse, just to be clear, the old version (from last year) had that one anyhow. I'm working on fixing the new format at the moment, then I'll have it uploaded.

According to his official website, he had a quick recovery and has been touring for months now. Won't remove him off the big list, since he's had poor luck since birth, but I'll amend it. According to his official website, the cancer has returned to his lungs and he's cancelling a tour of Scandanavia. I'm still not sure about his UK obit chances, but I am sure he is going to die before too long. Does this mean you're going to be putting him on your DDP next year? I'm putting him on mine. I dunno guest, I'm not sure how Jeff Healey would fit in to the ecclesiastical dream team I'm preparing for next year... Well he IS a very religious man, as I'd imagine one who's survived so much would be. I'm sure there's some religious symbolism in "the blind musician" as well. Strangely enough, I think only Godot's Last Minuters picked him for the CPDP.

Looks like you forgot to add a "(Year 2)". Thanks. Fixed. So I screwed up again (forgot to add Jeff Healey) so there's going to be a new format. Starting soon, the current candidates will have their own frame on the CPDP, therefore meaning that I only have to update one list the next time I screw up. Thanks to NAP for the brilliant idea. The Hall of Ghosts candidates, however, will still have their own table.

Specification - metastatic and terminal stomach cancer. As always, believe what you will - for various reasons, I trust the report.

'Falling down the stairs was my line for that clown 'Michael Foot' You are 'so copying me' Paul. Anyway 'Getting serious' you are right about the 'risks of leaving off' it's absolutely devastating. I mean ' LSD's father Dr.Albert Hofmann' and 'Modern Architect' Oscar Niemeyer are both a 'must have' I have a few Economists and Authors in mind for my DDP along with a few surprises which should make some noise. Next year will no doubt be my most competitive list ever. I would rather put a bullet in my brain than copy you Banshees Scream, and if it ever gets to the point where I'm like you, I will.

Now having gotten my bitterness out of the way with, I'd say it's risky. Old is of course, old, and something a simple as a fall could easily be the end of her within days. Wikipedia says that she was "in good health" on her 98th birthday, although seeing as how that fact is uncited, the exact opposite is likely true. So you could put her on and she could go the way of Ernest Gallo or the way of Albert Hofmann. If I say "don't put her on," she could fall down the stairs on January 2 and I'd look like an idiot. I could also say "put her on" and she could sit in her wheelchair and live for another 5 years. So I put forth the following consideration and leave it up to the discretion of the committee: she did do fairly well when both her husband and son died within a year of each other. She's obviously old, but she's nowhere near as sick or frail as someone like - say - Lady Bird Johnson was in the years leading up to her death. I personally think she'll live to see 100, but that's subjective. She will almost certainly get a proper UK obit - probably even a BBC one - by virtue of her marriage to Bob if nothing else. It's really the eternal question of DL here - balancing out the probability of hit versus the quality of candidate - will the complaints be greater if you leave her off and she dies or if you put her on and people are incensed that you've added the 98 year old relative of someone famous? I can't answer that question.

I'd be far more impressed if she didn't already have a thread. (Ta Paulie. ATJ)

Beaten almost 2.5 years ago. By Bruno Brimley no less.

Dieing? I'll say no. Delivering the goods? Back Down! It's not Halloween until mid October! Halloween is mid October, since when? Since stores wanted to capitalize on a pagan holiday and started selling decorations, candy and other Halloween-themed items weeks ahead. Same reason that Christmas begins in November these days.

Update time and issues abound. So when I got to "H" I realized that I had included a "W. Houston" (probably Whitney Houston) despite the fact that no one had picked her. So I had to go back and delete her reference from ALL of the candidates that I had done up to that point. Took some time, but I got it done. Then today, I got to "K" and realized that there was an "H. Karzai" (I'm assuming Hamid) that no one had picked. Further inspection showed that I can included Edward Upward as well, but thank God I realized it before I got to the Us. So now I have to excise Karzai and Upward from all the candidates that I've done thusfar and then place Upward in the Hall of Ghosts and all of the "ghost" candidates from last year. Deciding that the latter would be easier, I went ahead and did that, so hopefully that's all sorted. So I guess the whole point of it is this: A-J are now up, along with anyone who's died, Mikhal Kalishnikov, Weird Al Yankovic and Rabbi Oviada Yousef. Out of all those, however, the A-J all have slight errors that I now have to go back and fix, which will cause further delays in getting the Hall of Candidates up. Other than venting, the point of me telling you this is to ask you to please take a quick look and see if there's anything else that will require mass changes like this, so I don't end up in the late Ts and have to go back and redo everyone's page.

He looks pretty good, especially for someone who has cancer and has decided against conventional treatment. It would be nice to see him well, I'm actually beginning to quite enjoy this fellow.

You mean this chap, CP? Funnily enough, there is an uncanny resemblance. Yup, that's the one, except with much less head hair and substantially more facial hair. No DL dreams this night, just a mess of dreams including my friend and I trying to raid CIA headquarters, almost getting caught, then helping a very young and attractive girl with black hair escape (when asked "who are you?" she replied "four warrants in three states. You figure it out"). Another included my Croatian friend and Asian nemesis from Freshman Year of college hanging out with me before getting busted by the cops for "camping out on the sidewalk" (we had tried to move all of our possessions up the hill, but he saw through our ruse). Later, the detective got pissed and told us that we were all on probation because his investigation had uncovered magic mushrooms among our possession. I ran after him to tell him that they were Mikey and Marina's, but he didn't seem to care (he was a ginger, full bear and moustache) and said now I looked like I was ratting on my friends (which I wasn't!).

You know 'arry, ever since you started this damn thread, I think I've had a DL-related dream every single night except one, which is disturbing because I often don't remember dreams, at least not long after I wake up. So this one is for you, mainly because it concerns you. I don't remember much about it, but basically I was in England and you took it upon yourself to show me the best of English culture, which apparentely amounted to a rock concert and a wild and crazy party afterwards. Not ever having seen what you look like, my brain processed one of your former avatars I think, because you looked sort of like a celebrity that I can't really think of... maybe whatsisface from Timeline. Lots of scruffy black and curly hair and a thin but full black beard and moustache, along with a strange tie die t-shirt and sunglasses at your side (which was surprising since it was night time). All I remember is that the party was so wild that a reporter took a picture of the party as "the wildest of Britain" and in the picture were a lot of celebrities (and ourselves), including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, but you remarked that it probably wasn't the real celebrity and I said "Yeah, I know that 'arry." The rest is fuzzy.

For the record, this isn't just a Wikipedia hoax - it's been confirmed by the gerontologists on the World's Oldest People forum. No proper obit yet though.