Ideas And Possibilities For 2012

[Spade_Cooley 9,535]

The investigation into the death of Natalie Wood has been reopened after 30 years. Don't be surprised if this means that either Robert Wagner or Christopher Walken has a sudden, mysterious heart attack after stopping taking their medicine any time soon.

[Guest dave]

I have an idea.Since this has been such a dismally poor year for deathlist why not just leave the list unchanged for 2012 and see if any 'low hanging' fruit pop off early in the year?There must be quite a few that are overdue .resetting he list just runs the risk of taking off the ones that are due to go soon

[Magere Hein 1,400]

I have an idea.Since this has been such a dismally poor year for deathlist why not just leave the list unchanged for 2012 and see if any 'low hanging' fruit pop off early in the year?There must be quite a few that are overdue .resetting he list just runs the risk of taking off the ones that are due to go soon

 

Well, that might work, but it's against the Unwritten Rules. See this post.

 

regards,

Hein

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Aye, but a thread called Unfinished Business with 44 or so surviving 2011 picks would be well within the rules.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Aye, but a thread called Unfinished Business with 44 or so surviving 2011 picks would be well within the rules.

 

Of course.

 

It's pretty much how I made my 2011 DDP team. You can see in my .sig how well that worked.

 

regards,

Hein

[Guest Guess]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

[Guest Guest]

we just have to face up to the fact that people are not dying as fast as they used to,thanks to modern bloody medicine

[Windsor 2,233]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

[Guest Guest]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

It's not the black pope you have to worry about.if herman cain is elected president of the USA we can all kiss goodbye to our asses...

[Windsor 2,233]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

It's not the black pope you have to worry about.if herman cain is elected president of the USA we can all kiss goodbye to our asses...

 

I thought it was his lady employees' asses he was interested in?

[Guest Guest]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

It's not the black pope you have to worry about.if herman cain is elected president of the USA we can all kiss goodbye to our asses...

 

I thought it was his lady employees' asses he was interested in?

 

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

[Windsor 2,233]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

It's not the black pope you have to worry about.if herman cain is elected president of the USA we can all kiss goodbye to our asses...

 

I thought it was his lady employees' asses he was interested in?

 

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

 

If he were elected the next US President - which seems unlikely - he would not be in office until January 2013.

[themaninblack 2,112]

Umh, for 2012 i suggest the pope and queen Elisabeth II

 

Although the Pope needs to die (or possibly abdicate) next year to make way for a black Pope, and thus trigger the end of the world in 2012, it is highly doubtful that he will actually die.

 

Queen Elizabeth II has a good 5 years left in her at least...unless King George VII gets impatient...

It's not the black pope you have to worry about.if herman cain is elected president of the USA we can all kiss goodbye to our asses...

 

I thought it was his lady employees' asses he was interested in?

 

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

 

If Cain was to win next year, he would be inaugurated as President on January 20th 2013...

[Magere Hein 1,400]

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

If Cain was to win next year, he would be inaugurated as President on January 20th 2013...

 

While we're in the realm of mythology, does Mr Cain have the Mark?

 

If so, we're doomed, doomed!

 

regards,

Hein

[Guest Guest]

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

If Cain was to win next year, he would be inaugurated as President on January 20th 2013...

 

While we're in the realm of mythology, does Mr Cain have the Mark?

 

If so, we're doomed, doomed!

 

regards,

Hein

 

what mark?

[deadsox 894]

did Nostradamus say that a black pope will be elected in 2012 thus bringing about the end of the world? because m aybe he got m,ixed up between pope and president.In his day maybe the pope was the m ost powerful guy in the world,so maybe Hermain Cain will press the biug red button on his oval office desk on december 21 next year! (presumably mistaking it for an escort room service)

If Cain was to win next year, he would be inaugurated as President on January 20th 2013...

 

While we're in the realm of mythology, does Mr Cain have the Mark?

 

If so, we're doomed, doomed!

 

regards,

Hein

 

what mark?

 

The Mark of Cain no doubt.

[Blartman 2]

Ideas for 2012? I can give 45 names NOT to put on the list

[wildstorm 297]

How about the actor Larry Hagman (famous for portraying J.R. on Dallas).

 

Aside from having a 'life-saving liver transplant' in '95, the 80-year old was recently diagnosed with cancer.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

How about Mpondombini Sigcau, the legless King of East Pondoland?

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Masao Yoshida, the head of the tsunami battered Fukushima nuclear plant - who has spent the last nine months facilitating repairs at the site - has resigned due to ill health. He is currently in hospital, amid speculation that he may be suffering from the effects of exposure to radiation.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

 

One to keep an eye on, James Burke Shelley, mainmain of Welsh power-rockers Budgie. I think we missed the reports of the 6cm aortic anyeurism he survived this time last year, but Budgie's future remains in the balance.

[Windsor 2,233]

Either Joe Kapp or Angelo Mosca. Both men are 73 years old, and retired 'Canadian football legends'.

 

They both also hate each other: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15932748

[Guest Guest]

Following the death of Ken russell, one notes that another former celebrity big brother housemate Jackie Stallone is 90 years old today. Can she hang on much longer? Incidentally her ex husband and father of Slyvestor Stalone died recently.

[RIP Wee Jum 1,559]

Following the death of Ken russell, one notes that another former celebrity big brother housemate Jackie Stallone is 90 years old today. Can she hang on much longer? Incidentally her ex husband and father of Slyvestor Stalone died recently.

 

Slyvestor is a much better name thatn Sylvester

[msc 18,476]

http://www.deathlist...ndpost&p=154594

 

So, at the end of last year, after several arguments over time about the DL not picking older folk, I came up with the Old People Deathlist in the 2011 version of this thread.

 

With about a year passed, it -containing the oldest people I could find who might have been noteworthy, minus the famous for existing war vets - has success rate of 13/50.

 

 

1. Miriam Seegar 1907- Jan 2^nd 2011 (Telegraph obit)

2. Ruby Muhammed 1907- 2^nd March 2011

3. Dorothy Young 1907- 20^th March 2011 (Telegraph obit)

4. Wade Mainer 1907-12^th September 2011 (Guardian obit)

5. Alfred Proksch 1908 – 3^rd January 2011

6. Dolores Hope 1909 – 19^th September 2011 (BBC obit)

7. Paulette Dubost 1910 – 21^st September 2011 (Guardian obit)

8. Edmundo Ros 1910 – 21^st October 2011 (Guardian obit)

9. Otakar Vavra 1911 – 15^th September 2011 (Guardian obit)

10. Maurice Goldhaber 1911 – 11^th May 2011*

11. Ernesto Sabato 1911 – 30^th April 2011 (BBC obit)

12. Pierre Dansereau 1911 – 28^th September 2011

13. Otto Von Hapsburg 1912 – 4^th July 2011 (Telegraph obit)

(I just picked the first British obit that showed up on Google, some got several)

 

Note that 4 of those people didn't get British obits up to this point. The most bizarre being Goldhaber, who has been mentioned several times by The Guardian this year, including in two other obits, yet hasn't gotten one of his own. Maybe they don't know he's dead?

 

Despite the decent number of hits, there is no way of predicting which of the 50 will go. Otto VH, a relative youngster on the pool, went whilst Federica Sagor Maas and Johannes Heesters still live on.

 

Take away the four without obits, and you get 9/50 heading into December, which isn't that far off an average Deathlist year. Plus, unlike the Deathlist, you have to second guess the whim of one or two Obit writers - a few above got one obit and one alone to qualify. So whilst picking lots of very very old folk may seem like a key to success, it doesn't seem to bring up much more success than any other path. Crucially, if this team was cut off at 20 for a DDP team, it'd have scored 5 out of 20, with 2 DQ'd for no obit.

 

Well, I found this experiment very interesting. I may well be the only one.

 

List of the Currently Alive (as far as I can tell) from said list:

 

6th July 1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas

5th December 1903 – Johannes Heesters

30th April 1905 – Sergey Nikolsky

18th December 1905 – Irving Kahn

18th January 1907 – Lina Haag (WWII German resistance fighter)

25th February 1907 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis

1st April 1907 – Dr Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji

24th August 1907 – Bruno Giacometti (architect)

23rd November 1907 – Run Run Shaw

12th December 1907 – Roy Douglas

15th December 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer

26th May 1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho (first PM of South Vietnam)

11th December 1908 – Elliot Carter

11th December 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira (film director)

1st February 1909 – George Beverly Shea

22nd April 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986 Nobel Medicine Prize)

19th May 1909 – Nicholas Winton

12th January 1910 – Luise Rainer

25th March 1910 – Magda Olivero (Italian soprano)

29th December 1910 – Ronald Coase (1991 Nobel Economics Prize)

1st January 1911 – Roman Totenberg (violinist)

25th January 1911 – Kurt Maetzig (German director)

28th January 1911 – Johan Van Hulst

9th March 1911 – Ebby Halliday

10th May 1911 – Bel Kaufman

20th June 1911 – Paul Pietsch (German racer)

1st July 1911 – Sergei Sokolov

18th August 1911 – Amelia Boynton Robinson (civil rights activist)

10th October 1911 – Clare Hollingworth (journalist)

3rd February 1912 – Mary Carlisle

1st March 1912 – Boris Chertok (Russian rocket designer)

17th April 1912 – Marta Eggerth

1st October 1912 – Kathleen Ollenrenshaw

1st November 1912 – Gunther Plaut

17th December 1912 – Edward Short

22nd January 1913 – Henry Bauchau

10th February 1913 – Douglas Slocombe