Dr. Zorders

You may as well ask us would you bet on heads or tails.

It'll be interesting to see what the Drop Forty will look like this time - especially at the top, since Thatcher and Mandela both went. We'll have trouble finding someone as iconic as that to replace them, I think. On that count, I hope a lot of people have the good sense/taste to nominate Ozzy Osbourne... Also as of now there are eight other new empty spaces to be filled and there's every chance of a couple more of them dropping off in the next couple of weeks.

Well, I think I used the wrong word there. I just meant more comprehensive and better researched/recalled from memory. Don't want to sound like I find those those kind of guys too "interesting" do I? Haha. In fact I felt a little ill just writing 10 or so names down/checking Wiki pages for 10-15 minutes.

Because they would clash with your IQ. You're hilarious. I just don't understand how someone with terminal cancer who turns 18 on the 2nd January isn't allowed but someone who turns 18 on the 31st December is? I can understand the sensitivity towards the issue of predicting a child's death but this seems arbitrary and limiting. My final question; is a theme team of convicted/on trial famous sex offenders allowed? Of course but I'm already working on one and mine will be more interesting so don't waste your time.

Because they would clash with your IQ.

I've been weighing this post up over the last few days because I find this "joke" absolutely disgusting and it's even made me decide whether I want to keep visiting Deathlist. Do I want, or can I justify being a member of a site where making jokes about raping babies is deemed acceptable? As my children get older and take interest in what Daddy's looking at on the laptop, can I really feel comfortable about some content of what I'm reading here? For now, I'll just register - publically, that for me, this is a joke too far even for this site. I have said, in the distant past, that its very difficult to preach let alone be "morally selective" about stuff on here when its very subject matter is in piss poor taste. What would happen if you actually met a relative of one of your picks? How could you possibly justify the enjoyment of waiting for somebody to die for the sake of a stupid game? That somebody is a human, a real person loved by the people closest to them. Im quite sure your kids would be utterly mortified and, frankly devastated and enraged if, for whatever reason you actually ended up on somebodys death list. Personally, I didnt find the joke funny because I dont find the subject matter funny, however, Im acutely aware that this place is not the bastion of good taste and, erm, moral fortitude or summat. Mary is a boundary pusher,fact. Some of what he posts can either make me laugh my tits off or wince,thats the way he rolls. No. Even I almost laughed at it because I love humour so much I thought I had to admire the pun. Then I just realised it was way over the line. Actually, no... if I'm honest, the apprehension came first, then the nervous uncomfortable laughter afterwards. Sometimes you have to have a judgment and maybe we're all going a bit soft but hey.....no we're not actually, I don't think even Chris Morris would have made that joke. I'm perfectly happy for MPFC to obviously keep making "sick" jokes it's just that one joke on this one topic that he went a bit far on that's all. But remember this is a unique (hopefully) and uniquely sick and low crime/event/case/story that's brought shock to even the most hardened observers. So, seeing as hopefully we won't be seeing a story this bad again any time soon, we also won't be seeing any joke that goes as far as that one again. Because there won't be anything this sensitive/repulsive coming up that people can't accept that kind of joke about it. MPFC keep on truckin' but I hope you can accept that particular one was, er, a bit bad.

And Darby Crash died the day before Great post. Imagine a guy deciding that he'd had enough at the age of 22 and checking out..... I don't know whether to admire his balls or feel sorry for the guy (because I read that the unbridled homophobia of the punk scene contributed to his depression).

Found this on Twitter. Seemed like the best thread to post it in. Merry Christmas everybody.

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) Oh, right. Yeah I knew they used to be in SA. I thought maybe that's what you were referring to. I just had no idea that they had a King called Wilhelm and I'm not in a googling mood today. So yeah. Be more clear next time, Oblique-tron 9000. (just kidding. Run along kiddo, go and smoke your Chinese opium or whatever it is you shady globe-trotting types do.)

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.

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)

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.

Well, it's even bad enough that BBC just did a brief report on it. And usually they are filled with thinly-veiled contempt for America and would never bother covering something unless it was Katrina-esque. Whenever I hear of bad weather in places like Texas, I'm so confused. I just don't fucking understand how a place that is so normally associated with scorching hot deserts filled with fucking rattlesnakes and shit like that can get such icy death-weather just because it's December. It's one of those things that will always be a mystery to me, like...... how people find American football entertaining, and other stuff like that.

Apparently when Tom Daley came out, Michael Barrymore's ears pricked up - finally a guy who takes it up the arse and can swim as well.

I can't read that sodding handwriting for shit, and I'm not old enough to remember which Tory MP was alleged to be.. "y'know", so I'm just gonna have to wait until it's officially announced. I could just about recognise "Cliff Richard" though.

Erm... there's a pretty simple way of figuring that out. A. Is he conscious? B. Did someone tell him? Christ..... (no pun intended).

At the other end of the football spectrum - I spotted this earlier while they were going through the tables on the Saturday afternoon coverage (which I usually never watch) - Hyde are bottom of the conference (or "The Skrill Premier League" as it's known this season, haha) with only 3 points (!). The second bottom and third bottom teams have 18 and 19 points respectively...

Send to this email address: ddp2014@derbydeadpool.co.uk That is a very low key starting gun for 2014 Seconded. I can understand you not wanting to be swamped by entries but can you at least start a new thread for it at some point (like within two weeks of Dec 31).

What happens if you have a "Mandela Overload"? Do you start dancing uncontrollably on the set of Breakfast with Frost? No, I will end up putting my fist through the TV. Well, TV fucking sucks anyway so maybe that would be a good step in the right direction. And you might end up with a nice good looking nurse stitching up your hand for you.

What happens if you have a "Mandela Overload"? Do you start dancing uncontrollably on the set of Breakfast with Frost?

Just occurred to me....... who will be "Mandela's Mother Teresa"? (If he has one.) You might recall Mother Teresa died about a week after Diana. Almost as if she was "dying in sympathy" or something. Wonder if some other frail old "saint" will go in the next few days. I'm thinking... possibly Ali?

Also, David Rockefeller was born in 1915 not 1914. Some interesting choices, though. I had no fucking clue Lauren Bacall was still alive until I wiki'ed her about a week ago.

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.

Try fifty first...

Well, they quite possibly will. Especially the General. As that blonde haired guy in Die Hard said... "it's not over yet".