msc 18,439 Posted May 23, 2023 Should point out the conversation I thought I was referencing with Clorox doesn't appear to exist. I put it down to senility on my part, clearly... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,300 Posted May 23, 2023 2 minutes ago, msc said: Should point out the conversation I thought I was referencing with Clorox doesn't appear to exist. I put it down to senility on my part, clearly... Welcome to the Club. Free Membership. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zsa Zsa's leg 884 Posted May 24, 2023 Musharraf, Bacharach, and now Turner are three pretty big misses. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Esox masquinongy 19 Posted June 10, 2023 Ted Kaczynski has died. Hit 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve 599 Posted June 10, 2023 So we need to create a 8th Crowdsourced Deathlist hit thread and as per theoldlady close the 4th, 5th and 6th hit threads. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Esox masquinongy 19 Posted July 24, 2023 Milan Kundera, Tony Bennett, and George Alagiah are hits 8, 9, and 10, respectively. RIP 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted July 26, 2023 Ted Kacyzinski 7/50 10th June 2023 The Unabomber died, by his own hand, decades after several other people died by his own hand. This gave the Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted July 26, 2023 CZECH MATE 8/50 11th July 2023 The Czech novelist Milan Kundera has died, only five years after we were first told he would imminently die. Next to Zsa Zsa Gabor, a rank amateur in the Grim Reaper avoidance dance, of course. Born in Brno in 1929, Kundera was captivated by music and then Communism, but he couldn’t afford piano lessons and in 1950, the Communist part of Czechoslovakia expelled him, so he turned to writing satirical novels ridiculing the Communist set up. He remained somewhat connected to the Communist party (which un-expelled him, before banning him for life finally in 1970) and actively thought Vaclav Havel’s protests after the Prague Spring were alarmist, up to the point where the new regime banned the books of Milan Kundera! Kundera swiftly emigrated to Paris, via Rennes, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1984, he published the book he is best known for, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a philosophy heavy book somehow transformed into a Hollywood film starring Daniel Day Lewis. He was a critic of nostalgia, and while his tragi-comedic look at the authoritarianism of the Czech regime was akin to Solzhenitsyn, Kundera himself claimed his books had no political message, in much the same way a speech by Jeremy Corbyn is apolitical. He married his own secretary, had an asteroid named after himself, and in 2020, won the Kafka Prize, having metamorphosed into a lifespan over twice the length of The Trial author. Kundera’s death leaves a clutch of successes for the Crowdsourced Deathlist in the 24-26 spot, which presumably leaves Mel Brooks and Yoko Ono feeling worried. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted July 26, 2023 STRANGER NOW IN PARADISE 9/50 21st July 2023 In news about as surprising as its possible for be for a ninety-six year old with dementia, legendary singer Tony Bennett has provided The Crowdsourced Deathlist with another success. In an eighty-five year career (longer than some TCD successes entire lifespan) he worked with Frank Sinatra and Lady Gaga. A New York Italian-American, Bennett had the choice to go into music, or go into the Mafia. (Or be Frank Sinatra and do both.) Tony was singing publicly by the age of ten, and earning money for it by a teenager. He also studied art, and worked as a copy runner for the AP, before winding up as infantryman in France during the latter stages of World War Two. His experiences crossing the Rhine, and later in liberating concentration camps, turned the young Tony Bennett into a lifelong pacifist. Post-war he quickly developed a reputation as a crooner, and his cover of Because of You sold over a million copies in America in 1951. He’d recorded several number one hits by the mid-1950s, and already showed a capacity for moving with the times, which was to prove crucial to his longevity as rock n roll became in vogue. Whilst crooners fell out of fashion unless they had seven horcruxes hidden at Fort Knox (hi Pat Boone), Bennett expanded his output, involving himself in the successful American jazz industry, and working with the legendary Count Basie. Basie Swings, Bennett Sings was the result, and following that, Tony Bennett became, in 1962, the first male pop singer to perform at Carnegie Hall. A TV regular, he popularised the likes of The Best is Yet to Come, and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Grammy's came his way, followed by a tsunami of likewise awards. In 1966, he appeared in the film The Oscar, which didn’t win the Oscar. In the 1970s, even time seemed to pass Bennett by, like the other crooners, and he wound up an impoverished drug addict. In 1979, he nearly killed himself with an overdose of cocaine. He survived that, and went on a health kick, and with the help of his sons he made a comeback with The Art of Excellence album. His sons also got him roles alongside The Muppets and Bart Simpson, which introduced him to a much younger audience. (“There’s a swinging town I know called Capital City” – yes this was my introduction to Bennett!) This gave him new fans who would go onto work with him in his elder statesman part of his career. He would work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kd Lang and found the new generations receptive to his Gershwin and Cole Porter classics. By the late 1990s he had his own MTV Unplugged Special, had headlined Glastonbury, and was a multi-millionaire once more. Outside the arts, Bennett participated in the Selma march, was an outspoken critic of apartheid South Africa. Even as his health declined in his nineties, Tony Bennett stated that the only thing that could retire him from music was death itself. True to form, reports stated Bennett kept his own spirits up on his deathbed, singing the Great American Songbook, until the final curtain call. This was only his second appearance on The Crowdsourced Deathlist. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted July 26, 2023 EARLY MOURNING NEWS WITH GEORGE ALAGIAH 10/50 24th July 2023 Easily one of the most popular British news presenters of the last 30 years, BBC broadcaster George Alagiah has lost his long and public battle with bowel cancer to give the Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Born in what is now modern day Sri Lanka, Alagiah’s family moved to Portsmouth when he was in secondary school, and after a degree with Durham University, he moved into local journalism, before being snapped up by the BBC in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, George Alagiah was a familiar face on BBC news as a foreign correspondent, being their man on the ground during the Rwanda genocide and being stuck in the middle of civil wars in Somalia and Afghanistan, and his coverage of the Kosovo crisis won a BAFTA. By the late 90s, he had swapped the danger of war zones to the dangers of live TV, as a regular news anchor for the BBC news, a role he continued in until close to the end. In 2007, he graduated to the most plum position in British news broadcasting, solo anchor of the BBC Six O’Clock evening news. With his contacts from a decade as a correspondent, Alagiah managed to nab prize interviews for the BBC, such as Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe. In 2014, George Alagiah was diagnosed with bowel cancer, and would become the public face of male awareness in getting checked for the disease. Like the late Bill Turnbull, Alagiah was credited with encouraging thousands to get checked, saving countless lives in the process. His own cancer went into remission for three years, but returned as Stage IV in 2018, and, despite stoic treatment, eventually spread to all his major organs. The widespread tributes since his untimely death this week befit a man well respected for his integrity, his knowledge and his bravery in the face of insurmountable odds, be they from the bullets of genocidal soldiers, or the march of incurable cancer. The Daily Express even referred to him as “fearless and kind” and the Telegraph, no friend of the BBC, said George Alagiah was the “gold standard for newsreaders”. Because he was. George Alagiah had been picked every year since his cancer relapsed, and this year was in 5th position. 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted August 27, 2023 The full list of votes for The Crowdsourced Deathlist, 2023. - 1807 points – Jimmy Carter - 1600 points – Rolf Harris - 1410 points – Bob Barker - 1285 points – Henry Kissinger - 1246 points – George Alagiah - 1124 points – Joanne Woodward - 1084 points – Glynis Johns - 1037 points – Roberta Flack - 988 points – Frank Field - 963 points – James Whale - 957 points – Gianluca Vialli - 916 points - Harry Belafonte - 915 points – Rosalynn Carter - 890 points – Tony Bennett - 874 points – Jonnie Irwin - 799 points – Linda Nolan - 769 points – Eva Marie Saint - 736 points – June Spencer - 681 points – Dick van Dyke - 641 points – Ruth Buzzi - 623 points – Nigel Starmer Smith - 614 points – Andy Taylor - 573 points – Mel Brooks - 567 points – Constantine II - 566 points – Milan Kundera - 560 points – Ted Kaczyinski - 552 points – Yoko Ono - 544 points – Sandra Day O’Connor - 536 points – Bobby Charlton - 535 points - Jean Marie le Pen - 534 points – Rob Burrow - 528 points – Shannen Doherty - 526 points – Giorgio Napolitano - 516 points – Norman Tebbitt - 511 points – Jacques Delors - 499 points – David Attenborough - 488 points – Noam Chomsky - 486 points – Ryuichi Sakamoto - 477 points – Marianne Faithful - 457 points – Sonny Rollins - 448 points – Stanley Baxter, Randy Jackson - 443 points – Norman Lear - 409 points – James Earl Jones - 408 points – Topol - 407 points – Francoise Hardy - 397 points – James Watson - 395 points – Vera Miles - 392 points – Duke of Kent - 391 points – David Graham - 390 points – Prunella Scales - 388 points – Imelda Marcos - 386 points – Burt Bacharach - 373 points – Nigel Lawson - 370 points – Violeta Chamorro - 355 points – Pervez Musharraf - 350 points – Joss Ackland - 337 points – William Russell - 335 points – Steve “Mongo” McMichael - 322 points – Cleo Laine - 317 points – Alan Greenspan - 309 points – Clint Eastwood - 308 points – Robert Wagner - 303 points – Dennis Skinner - 296 points – Douglas Hurd - 283 points – Pope Francis - 274 points – Patricia Routledge - 271 points – Linda Ronstadt - 269 points – Liza Minelli - 262 points – Buzz Aldrin - 257 points – Bob Newhart - 238 points – Vanessa Redgrave, Ethel Kennedy - 235 points – Jean Marsh - 231 points – Sandy Gall - 229 points – Janey Godley - 221 points – Gina Lollobrigida - 218 points – Shane McGowan - 199 points – Winnie Ewing - 197 points – Michael Tilson Thomas, Iris Apfel - 195 points – Phyllida Law - 194 points – Tina Turner - 192 points – Stella Stevens - 186 points – Michael Parkinson - 184 points – Willie Nelson, Raul Castro - 181 points – Johnny Ruffo - 180 points – Bernadette Chirac - 175 points – Frank McGarvey - 174 points – Carlos Bilardo, Tom Lehrer - 172 points – Ayatollah Khamenei - 171 points – Fay Weldon - 170 points – Lee Grant - 168 points – Chris Rea - 164 points - Akihito - 161 points – Frederic Forrest - 159 points – Isabel Peron, Gudrun Ure - 156 points – Mohammed Al Fayed - 154 points – Rhod Gilbert - 152 points – Derek Draper - 150 points – Martti Ahtisaari - 148 points – Amanda Bynes - 141 points – Queen Ratna - 139 points – Ozzy Osbourne - 136 points – Kate Keltie - 134 points – Ray Anthony - 133 points – Paul Hogan, Ted Turner, Benjamin Ferencz - 131 points – Phyllida Law - 127 points – Michael Caine - 125 points – Dick Cheney - 124 points – Jeannette Lee - 123 points – Julie Goodyear - 122 points – Desmond Morris - 117 points – Abdullah the Butcher, June Lockhart, Tom Baker - 116 points – Mahathir Mohammad - 115 points – Alice Munro - 112 points – Katherine Jackson - 111 points – Nana Mouskouri - 109 points – Vladimir Putin - 107 points – Dr Ruth - 106 points – Alexander Jodorowsky - 105 points – Pat Robertson - 104 points – Princess Mikasa, Milos Zeman, David Crosby - 101 points – Khamtai Siphandon - 100 points – Betty Boothroyd - 97 points – James L Buckley, Anita Pointer - 96 points – Lynne Reid Banks, Brigitte Bardot - 93 points – Carolyn Bryant Donham - 90 points – Juan Carlos I - 89 points – Gene Hackman, Lucille Randon - 88 points – Don King, Toby Keith, Norman Jewison - 87 points – Tippi Hedren, Edie McClurg - 86 points – John Cannan - 85 points – Richard Franklin, Mary Quant - 84 points – Queen Sirikit - 83 points – Valerie Perrine - 82 points – Julie Andrews - 80 points – Renee Taylor, Rita Moreno, Michiko - 79 points – Rupert Murdoch, Dianne Feinstein, Ray Reardon, - 78 points – Manmohan Singh, Willie Mays - 77 points – Jane Fonda, Jean-Pierre Laboulle - 75 points – Cesar Luis Menotti, Denis Law - 73 points – Sophia Loren, Janis Paige, Joni Mitchell - 72 points – Guidio Gorgatti - 71 points – Philippe de Gaulle, Frankie Valli, Estelle Parsons - 70 points – Phil Collins - 69 points – Ysanne Churchman - 68 points – Malachy McCourt, Stuart Hall, Alain Delon - 67 points – Alberto Fujimori, Sidney Cooke - 66 points – Arthur Scargill, Marla Gibbs, Kat Bjelland - 65 points – Lindsay Buckingham, Zhu Rongii Dikembe Mutombo - 64 points – Gordon Lightfoot - 63 points – William Daniels, Bill Butler, Al Jaffee, Maggie Smith - 62 points – Donald Trump, Lisa Lu, Grace Slick, Valdas Adamkus - 61 points – Tim Curry, John Astin - 60 points – Alan Bennett, Margrethe II - 59 points – Richard M Sherman, Liliana Cavani - 58 points – Edna O’Brien, Hazel McCallion, Tim Lobinger - 57 points – Richard Wilson, Roy Hattersley - 56 points – Eugenia Cooney, Ady Barkan - 55 points – Roy Clarke, Eileen Derbyshire, Bill Wyman, Roger Corman - 54 points – Iron Sheik, Joe Exotic - 53 points – Silvio Berlusconi, Roman Polanski, Ratko Mladic - 52 points – Robert Kuok, Gena Rowlands - 51 poinnts – Julie Walters, Luis Garavito, Malcolm Hebden, Carole Cook, John Fetterman - 50 points – Andrew Tate, Leontyne Price, Bobby Vinton, Ryan O’Neal, Jose Marie Marin, Ion Iliescu, Bas de Gaay Fortman, Cheng-ning Yang, Larry Pressler, Barbara Eden, Hu Jintao - 49 points – Helene Joilot, Thomas Noguchi, Johnny Gilbert, Anastasia Zavortynuk, Jeremiah Green, Neale Adams, Lee Majors - 48 points – Princess Astrid, Emerich Jenei, Wilson Fittipaldi Jr, Shintaro Tsuji, Peter Procter, Arnold Yarrow, Tomichi Murayama, Jim Carter, Wilfred Benitez, Princess Bajrakityabha - 47 points – Edouard Balladur, Vic Seixas, Josip Manolic, Bill Hayden, Joe Biden, Teresa Nervosa, Sofia Gubadiulina - 46 points – William Labov, Tim Keller, Terry Medwin, Lando Buzzanca, Pam St Clement, Martia Camacho Quinos - 45 points – Carmen Silvera, Alan Bergman, Rowshan Ershad, Dick McTaggart, Virginia Halas McCaskey, Florina Piersic, Annette Crosbie, Oscar Wyatt, Dave Marsh, Steve Lawrence - 44 points – John Savident, Anouk Aimee, Gerard Depardieu, Dick Button, Louis Farrakhan, Dennis Lottis, Andres Garcia - 43 points – Freddy Quinn, Fredrich Grade, Chuck Grassley, Margaret Stuart Barry, David Linden, Pierre Richard - 42 points – Jiri Ono, Caren Marsh Doll, Sam Bankman-Fried, Steve Gleason, Tom Stafford, Timothy Dudley-Smith, Robert Solow, Giles Brindley - 41 points – Denny Crum, Bill Tidy, Tammy Slaton, Charles Burrell, Lance Henriksen, Patrick Leahy, Robert Badinter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy - 40 points – Jim Lovell, Joyce Randolph, Song Ping, Teddie Chinnery, George Johnson, George Koonymans, Albert S Ruddy, Nikocado Avocado - 39 points – Gavin Robertson, Takhesi 69, John Boorman, Pauline Kana, Wanda Poltawska, Doyle Brunson, Ion Tiriac, Martin Bashir, Chevy Chase, Walter Mirisch, The Hong Piow, Rodion Amirov, Ray Lawler, Amy Price, Tenryu - 38 points – Claudia Cardinale, Ella Jenkins, Jack Nicholson, Pete Murray, Tiger Mask, Lee Corso - 37 points – Just Fontaine, Clarence Thomas, Brian Wilson - 36 points – Terry Venables, Doreen Mantle, Chubby Checker, Pat Boone, Jessica Alves, Anita Cornwell, Joseph DeAngelo, Saijida Talfah, Billy Dee Williams, Harvey Weinstein - 35 points – Khaleda Zia, Claude Lelouch, Jet Black, Silvia Pinal, Gene Shalit, Pauline Clayden, Kitty Hart-Moxom, Lucille Song, Frank Gehry - 34 points – Saalumarada Thimmakka, Jordan Peterson, Fred Lorenzen, Baroness Jane Campbell, Michael Schaefernaker, Ronald Blythe, Asha Bhosle, Earl of Airlie - 33 points – Charlie Munger, Michael Gambon, John Cruickshank, James Bolam, Jan Svankmaier, David Steel, Franz Beckenbauer, Kazimierz Klimczak, Albert II, Derren Nesbitt, Gloria Deukmejan, Margia Dean - 32 points – Lou Donaldson, Marlene Matthews, Shin jung-hyeon, Rosemary Squires, Dalai Lama, Harriet Anderson, Micheline Presle - 31 points – Jake The Snake Roberts, Chief Buthulezi, Fernanda Montengro, Yoon Jeong-Hee, Steve Way, Kim Novak, Giorgio Moroder, Joan D Vinge - 30 points – June Squibb, Joseph McGrath, Mamie van Doren, Quentin Blake, Juan Ponce Enrile, Lech Walesa, Jan Englert, Hugo Broch, Salman - 29 points – Wee Willie Harris, Jean Malurie, Mike Yarwood, Bobby Caldwell, Adriano Celetano, Salman Rushdie, Miiko Taaka - 28 points – Clint Hill, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Tarbuck, Gwneth Jones, James Ivory, Joe Benton, Sandy Gall, William Shatner, Marilyn Horne, Gordon Pinsent, Connie Francis, Kenneth Cope - 27 points – Marion Ross, Larisa Latvina, Clive Barker, Jane Morgan, John Williams, William Perry, Borie Salming, Tsai Chen - 26 points – Jirinia Bobdalova, John Prescott, John Hemingway, Ronnie Atkins, Leonard Laudier, Rebecca Pan, Elaine May - 25 points – Ram John Holder, Earl Holliman, Ann Blyth, Dick Bottoms, Chas McDevitt, Gheorge Zamfir, Barbara Knox, Shirley Jones, Engelbert Humperdink - 24 points – Peter Max, Derek Jacobi, Lou Gan, Al Roker, Elizabeth Dole, Mihai Sora, Meg Wynn Owen - 23 points – Mario Zagallo, James C Floyd, Jimmy Swaggart, Ibrahim Abi-Ackel, Ronnie Milsan, Boogie2988 - 22 points – Kenneth Anger, Rosemary Harris, Marlyne Barrett, Clive Wearing, Milan Kucan, Michael Epstein, Harold V - 21 points – Joan Collins, Bill Cosby, Gerald Harper, John Ashton, Jose Sarney, Lee Adams, Wilhelm Bueseing, Kim yong-nam, Jose Mujica, Smolashy - 20 points – Um aing-ran, Joe Brown, Val Kilmer, Raoni, Jack Hanna, Suge Knight, Jacqueline White, Rachid Mekhloufi - 19 points – Christiane F, Parnelli Jones, Tony Soper, Frank Miller, Mahmoud Abbas, Ringo Starr, Joe Lieberman, Mick Jagger, Amy Callaghan, Sadaharu Oh, Ed Slater - 18 points – GFOTY, Ugo Mifsud Bonicci, Yang You, Claude Jarman, Dionna Warwick, Clive Revill, Barbara Barrie, Giorgio Forltini - 17 points – John Kander, William Gaunt, Jacques Dutronc, David Oreck, Janet Baker, Donovan, Philippe Bouvard, Prince Michael of Kent - 16 points – Amartya Sen, Ashley Fin, Cher, Dario Argento, Aboulaye Wade, Annette Warren, Farah Pahlavi, Judi Dench, Robert Blake, Angie Dickinson, Ornella Vanoni - 15 points – Jurgen Habermas, Galina Gorokhova, Butch Miller, Harry Whittington, Sian Philips, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Terry Jacks, Michael Dukakis, Theodore McCarrick, Louis Gossett Jr, Young Chop - 14 points – Sepp Blatter, Chief Keef, Morgan Freeman, Peter Ackroyd, Shirley Bassey, Scotty Bowman, Francoise Fabian, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Benjamin - 13 points – Aerek Hersh, Lula a Silva, Warren Buffet, Lois Smith, Nino Benevenuti, Wilfredo Gomez, Masahiro Shinoda - 12 points – David Hope, Tom Oliver, Gary Glitter, Ellen Burstyn, Khuie Sampan, Johnny Mathis, Al Quie, Wei Wei, Sinead O’Connor, Bull Nakano - 11 points - Alison Hammond, Virginia McKenna, Diana Armfield, Menachem Pressler, Mina, Derren Nesbitt, Dump Matsumato - 10 points – Teri Garr, George Soros, Alan Oppenheimer, Hans Blix, Elizabeth Kelly, Thomas Noguchi, Jamilia Boulbired - 9 points – Sonia Gandhi, Cecile Langlois, Koko B Ware, Ivana Knoll, Carl Erskine, Jack Thompson, Greg Lemond, Bernie Sanders, Dick Groat, Paul Dooley, Cheryl Lynn, Julietta Serrano, Boris Spassky, Mel Ribiero, Rachel Ames - 8 points – Fauja Singh, Hwang in shik, Hal Linden, Joe Lieberman, Annette Allard, Antonia Fraser, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vivian Pickles, Carlo Sauga, Valentine Strasser, Sandra Weir, Bobby Kimball, Su Pollard - 7 points – Barry Humphries, Bill Cobbs, Ivy Ling Po, Eckhart Dux, Hunter Biden, Sally Struthers, Vivian Pickles, Dominic Chianese, Victor Orena, Lex Luger, John Standing, Amanda Lear - 6 points – Wendy Williams, Heather Locklear, Agnes Keleti, Woody Woodbury, Tin Oo, Alexandra Stan, Art Shalloc, Lil Pump, John Woodvine, Slyvia Syms - 5 points – Steve Halliwell, Jack Bruce Jr, Lina Medina, Rosey Grier, Dave Whelan, Miso Kovac, Sheldon Harnick, Paul Vachon, Albert Delpy, Rose West - 4 points – Muazzes Cig, John Morris, Jose de la Parra, Cissy Houston, Petula Clark, Vashtai Bunyan, Robert Duvall, Bella Thorne, Gilberto Gil, Elsie Kelly, Billy Connolly, Michael York - 3 points – Constance Towers, Whang-od Oggay, Alan Dean Foster, Jose Sarney, Ida Vitale, Linda Perhac, Bill Clinton, Tila Tequila, Emilio Fede, Arnaldo Forlani, Judith Magre, Maryportfuncity, Wilbur Ross, Mitzi Gaynor - 2 points – Scarlett Moffat, Abigail Kawanakoa, Maria Fux, Bernie Ecclestone, Ted Kotcheff, Alfonso Aaru, Demi Lovato, Rick Davies, Billy Two Rivers, David Hamilton, Ricky Knight, Mary Costa, Lee Ka-Shing, Macha Merill, Christopher Timothy - 1 point – Mavis Staples, Lil Wayne, Dick Pound, Penelope Lively, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, Henry Sandon All spelling typos either mine or the person who voted for them. Any doublers down to ye old "didn't remove one after adding late points", so no "you split someone's points in two" conspiracies round here. DROPPED FROM 2022 Milos Zeman – 104 points, never came close to readmission. Was below 20 points for most of the voting. Douglas Hurd – 296 points – Seemed a cert to make the list until an unexpected deluge of extra lists on Hogmanay left him well adrift. Jake Roberts – 31 points – Very much forgotten. Jean Marsh – 235 points – Miles behind until Christmas. Made a late charge but was too far back, finishing nearly 160 points off the pace. FORMER PICKS NOT PICKED IN 2022 Prunella Scales (390), Imelda Marcos (388), Burt Bacharach (386), Violeta Chamorro (370) – all came very close Sinead O’Connor – 12 points Alberto Fujimori – 67 points Val Kilmer – 20 points Willie Nelson – 184 points None of these came close to qualifying in 2023. Maybe they’ll do better in 2024. Well, not Sinead. DL PICKS NOT ON OURS Michael Parkinson - 186 points Tina Turner - 194 points, a fair way off the pace. Nigel Lawson/Burt Bacharach - As seen above, near misses. Pervez Musharraf - 355 points, so again, someone on the radar but who just missed out. OTHER NOTES The lack of Deathray has hurt the tiny weatherman bandwagon. The vastly increased points tally to get to 50th place meant bandwagons in general suffered a tough time in the voting. Clint Eastwood, Patricias Routledge and the Pope all saw huge swings to towards them, and seem to be gaining momentum as potential future picks. Meanwhile Billy Connolly almost got a clean vote of health, and Michael York and Joan Collins perhaps have surprisingly few voters given their fans on forum. With a little over 120 days till Hogmanay (fecking hell), made sense to finally sort this out before the whole rigmarole starts all over again! 5 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 742 Posted August 28, 2023 It’s fun to see who got so little attention despite many forum mentions. I would have thought Wendy Williams, John Astin, and Mario Zagallo would have been much higher up. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Esox masquinongy 19 Posted September 22, 2023 Bob Barker and Giorgio Napolitano bring us back on even footing with the main list. RIP 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Esox masquinongy 19 Posted October 21, 2023 RIP Sir Bobby Charlton. Number 13. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,046 Posted December 1, 2023 Carter, Kissinger and Day O’Connor bring our total to 16 tying the official list 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 THE HEADLINE FORMERLY KNOWN AS "TV HOST IS GHOST" 11/50 26th August 2023 US TV host Bob Barker is now a ghost, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Best known for his hosting of The Price is Right for thirty five years, Barker was also known for his animal conservation activism, frequently telling people to get their husbands neutered. Sorry, dogs. To back this up he supported those well known animal lovers PETA. Between Price and his earlier show Truth or Consequences (New Mexico), Bob Barker was a frequent on TV screens in America for over half a century. Barker appeared in Happy Gilmore, a film which shocked audiences by starring Adam Sandler and yet actually being funny. In his scene, Bob Barker plays TV host Bob Barker, who gets in a fight with the main character over the results in a charity goal tournament. At least an alligator didn’t bite his damned hand off, though! Nearly 90, he made a popular appearance as guest host of Monday Night RAW, sparring with fellow Republican Chris Jericho. He won eighteen Emmys, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Hall of Fame, and had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but clearly his greatest achievement was winning a Slammy Award in 2009, which put him on equal terms with Sunny Owen Hart . (Joke pre-written 5 years ago edited due to Sunny murdering a guy.) Bob Barker was on the verge of his 100th birthday and ends many years of people being surprised he was still alive. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 MORTERISMO 12/50 22nd September 2023 Giorgio Napolitano has died aged 98 to give the Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Napolitano was President of Italy from 2006 until 2015, under which time Italy won the World Cup and made to the finals of Euro 2012. They also crashed out in the group stages of the World Cup in 2010 and 2014, but hey, they’ve yet to qualify for the World Cup under Sergio Mattarella’s tenure as Italian President, so that guy is clearly a jinx. A 1940s Communist, he shifted towards social democracy and became a member of the Prodi government. He was also a friend of Henry Kissinger, the Nobel Peace Prize winner. When the European financial crisis hit Italy, Napolitano had to replace Silvio Berlusconi as Italian PM. Luckily, he was listening to a lot of R.E.M. records at the time, and knew that Monti, this seems strange to me. Like a true Communist, he got a state funeral. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 A RIGHT BOBBY FRAZZLER 13/50 21st October 2023 Footballing legend Bobby Charlton has died aged 86, after a long struggle with dementia. Charlton was immediately synonymous with Manchester United. A survivor of the Munich plane disaster, he played for Manchester United from 1956 to 1973, playing in over six hundred games and scoring over 200 goals. A scorer of great goals, Hugh McIlvanney remembered a fellow journalist bemoaning “Not another one of your aimless long sh…WHAT A GOAL BOBBY CHARLTON!” Charlton’s United won three league titles, the FA Cup, and famously the European Cup in 1968, when the deadly trio of Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best trounced Benfica. (Bela Guttman was haunting Benfica, even before he died.) With England, Charlton played in three World Cups. He wasn’t picked to play in 1958, when England went out early. In 1962, he played well, but found the team ill designed to cope with his talents, or Brazil, and another exit happened. In 1966, Alf Ramsay decided to build his entire team around Bobby Charlton. Charlton’s midfield nous, and goals led to the team to the 1966 World Cup final, where oddly he and Franz Beckenbauer were told to mark the other. This is why the two greatest players in the world in 1966 had no bearing on the World Cup final as they expertly marked the other one entirely out of the game! Bobby, alongside his brother Jack, won the World Cup for the only time in English football history. In 1970, Charlton again played well against Brazil and the Germans, but oddly Alf Ramsay substituted Charlton, wishing to rest him for the Semifinal. As Brian Glanville quipped, no point resting if you don’t make it, and the lack of Charlton inspired Beckenbauer to dump England out of the Cup. Bobby Charlton retired from England duty on the spot. Charlton remained linked to his first love of Manchester United, and was a frequent ambassador for the club. Behind the scenes, he had a family feud with brother Jack, but both managed to patch things up before Jack’s death in 2020. Charlton was an outspoken promoter of United and England and the 1966 team, so when he became unable to do so, through health, alarm bells began to ring. He was also manager of Preston North End in the 1970s, and they were relegated. Even legends have their limits. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 GOT CARTER 14/50 19th November 2023 Former First Lady of the United States, Rosalynn Carter, has died after a battle with dementia. That’s right. The former White House host is toast. I thank you. Rosalynn’s midwife was Jimmy Carter’s mum, so they knew each other from when they were toddlers, dated in the 1940s, and married in 1946. This started a seventy seven year marriage, which is longer than most life sentences. Rosalynn pushed Jimmy to succeed, she was the one who got him to run for President. As First Lady, she sat in on Cabinet meetings, represented the US at high conventions, was an envoy and used her position to push for mental health reform. It was she who pushed heavily for the formation of The Carter Centre, and she became an honorary fellow of the American Pyschiatric Association. In 2007, she successfully pushed Congress to pass a bill legalising equality in health insurance between physical and mental illnesses. She was ninety-six. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY 15/50 29th November 2023 The much loved American politician Henry Kissinger has died at the grand old age of 100. Kissinger was widely respected for his behind the scenes dealing with most US governments since the 1960s. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, for heroically bombing the shit out of Cambodia and Vietnam, and Tom Lehrer retired in honour at his idol winning the prize. Kissinger pushed heavily for the rise in power of peaceful friends to America like Pol Pot and General Pinochet, and even in recent years, as an aged old man, he continued to use his stature to call for world peace, by giving Putin everything he wanted. In America, he helped pushed History’s Greatest Monster Jimmy Carter out of office with overwhelming public support. The Wall Street Journal mourned his loss, stating that places like Cuba where the CIA hadn’t bombed to shit had remained under the control of anti-American dictatorships to this day. Henry Kissinger named Diplomacy, a game where you conquer the shit out of other countries, as his favourite board game in 1973, and his legacy remains in the millions of people he freed from their enslaved lives, with the power of napalm. He also served on the International Olympic Committee, because even Joao Havelange wanted to look better sitting next to someone. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 REAPER v DAY 16/50 1st December 2023 Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died aged 93 after a long battle with frail health. When O’Connor was nominated for the US Supreme Court in 1981 by Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman in history to be promoted to that bar. She gained a reputation as a moderate, which was eighties speech for someone who voted with William Rehnquist 99% of the time but put on a sad face about it. She backed the majority against Al Gore in 2000, as without she wouldn’t have been able to retire until 2005. Which is when she retired anyway. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,439 Posted December 9, 2023 TV’s MAUDE’S HOST IS A GHOST!* 17/50 5 December 2023 American TV producer Norman Lear has died, aged 101, to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist another success. Lear was the brains behind legendary TV shows such as Maude and the Jeffersons and was credited with using his platform to push progressive messages well ahead of their time. Such as “don’t be a shit” and "sometimes women can be intelligent too". Such messages are still controversial on modern TV. He brought Till Death Us Do Part (All in the Family), and Stepford and Son (Sanford and Son) over to the US with remakes, which proved as popular as their originals. This meant he worked with Beryl Vertue, who signed Terry Nation's famous Daleks merchandise contract, and who also was the mother in law of Steven Moffat, and no, I am not using Six Degrees of Separation to mention Doctor Who links and build up the obit of someone not very known in the UK. He won six Emmys, and founded the People for the American Way to fight religious influence on TV. *Couldn't resist 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted December 28, 2023 Jacques Delors makes hit #18 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
