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If you get time, look back through the forum and pick out the people who you really think are strong contenders for next years list. Be brief, the discussion threads about these people are obviously already on the forum.

 

To get the ball rolling, here is my number 1 strong choice (providing he makes it through the next couple of months):

 

Fred Dibnah - not very well at all according to some reports.

 

Lets hear from you then.

 

DWB :D

 

The list so far:

Fred Dibnah - DWB

Ronnie Biggs - Grim Reaper

Fidel Castro - Typhoid Harry - Seconded by Night

Charlie Drake - Heaven Can Wait

Diego Maradona - Moosey

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Honez

Marc Almond - Anubis

Patrick Moore - Guesty

Sir John Mills - Faustus

Sir Tom Finney - The Four Horsemen

Reg Varney - VSBfromH

Sir Edward Heath - IKYWN

Michael J Fox - iamonodowahgah

Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia - Little Sister

Larry Hagman - VileBody

William Rehnquist, Chief Justice, US Supreme Court - Cowboy Ronnie

Yasser Arafat - Night - Seconded by Heaven Can Wait

David Lange, former NZ Prime Minister - Guest

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Assuming he survives the year, my number one pick is Ronnie Biggs.

 

For Derby Dead Pool purposes I'm hoping Ronnie doesnt make it to 2005 though :D

 

GR

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Care to support your suggestion with some further details Typhoid?

 

Is Fidel in a bad way?

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I'll leave it somebody else to suggest the very obvious Karol Joseph Wojtyla and take instead...

 

Diego Maradona seems to have spent most of the year hammering on the self-destruct button. His family forced him into a rehab clinic in Buenos Aires, but he had that injuction lifted last month and has scuttled back to Cuba. I figure he's odds-on to go in the next 12 months.

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Harking back to a previous post of mine, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is a definite candidate if he holds on until 2005.

He'll be 94 in January and is not at all well. To be honest, I expected him to be long gone by now.

He's a cert to not-be-alive-come-the-end-of-05.

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Guest guesty

My personal fave :

Patrick Moore - if he makes it to the end of this year.

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Guest Guest_Faustus

How about Sir John Mills, definitely getting on now...

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Apparently Lady Sinden has got cancer, but if she falls foul of the famousness test then I think I'll nominate Sir Tom Finney for no other reason than he's old and we haven't had a footballer for a while.......

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The composer Malcolm Arnold is knocking on - he will be 83 on Thursday and has not been in good health for some time according to (amongst others) the link below.

 

Suddenly This Winter?

 

Wrote some great music, including scores for the "St. Trinians" films, "Whistle down the Wind", "Suddenly Last Summer", "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Trapeze", "Hobson's Choice", "Albert R.N." and many more.

 

Also the tune that was then used as the theme for "What the Papers Say", along with many other great classical pieces.

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I'd like to nominate Sir Edward Heath for 2005. He'll be 89 next year and well beyond his sell-by date.

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He's been beyond his sell by date for years.

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I see he's been mentioned on here before, but I would like to nominate him:

 

Still on that bus!

 

Another one I assumed had started pushing up the daisies year ago!

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Anyone notice how crappy Michael J. Fox is looking lately????????????

 

:)

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OK - I'd like to nominate Larry Hagman whose on his second liver, is drinking again and has told the docs that he doesn't deserve another transplant. As the attached article says - what a truly heroic drunk, and an example to us all! And isn't Best a tosser????

 

Long Live Larry!! (Well you know what I mean...)

 

Telegraph article

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I notice Stayin' Alive hasn't contributed to the list of runners and riders yet. Would Mr. Alive care to enlighten us with his top tip for the drop?

 

DWB :D

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