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Three teams safely despatched, one regular and two themes.

 

I was successful with 10% of my selections this year (12.5% if you count the one that died in 1991), so hopeful of a better showing next year.

 

Happy hunting to all participants!

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I'm working on a Low Countries theme team. It's not at all easy to find picks who'll pass the obit requirements.

 

I also need a catchy name.

 

regards,

Hein

 

De(ath) Lage Landen?

 

Dutch Treats?

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Reet, I'm in with TWO theme teams and the annual Carkers Convention main team.

 

Let battle commence, eh?

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Just going in with one team. Couldn't think of a theme team to do

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I'm working on a Low Countries theme team. It's not at all easy to find picks who'll pass the obit requirements.

 

I also need a catchy name.

 

regards,

Hein

 

De(ath) Lage Landen?

 

Dutch Treats?

 

That wouldn't do, my team contains Belgians and a Luxembourger as well.

 

As you may have noticed, I settled for "Minions of Xuleneb", which sounds as outlandish as its members are.

 

regards,

Hein

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I'm in too...

Had a job and a half with my final choice of... Kirk Douglas or Nelson Mandela? Even changed my mind whilse writing the email submission!

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I'm in too...

Had a job and a half with my final choice of... Kirk Douglas or Nelson Mandela? Even changed my mind whilse writing the email submission!

 

Neither made my list on the end, though I was cutting down from my Shadow List of 100 names. (If you are going to score low, might as well do it prepared!)

 

 

Though one of my list did bloody die a few days ago, since the list came in. Thank god for subs!

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Team sent. Former Preston North End chairman Maurice Lindsay was the last man cut from my line-up, so if previous form is anything to go by he'll be dead by March.

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If you hadn't already selected Minions of X I'd suggest "I've Got Friends in Low Places".

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Team sent. My only debate in my Morbid Midlands XX was Rachel Heyhoe-Flint or not - she's out...

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With hours until closing time, Ive still got one theme and my main team to submit. Im kind of nervous about the size this year though. It might cost me some of my uniques.. But other than that worry, DDP 2012 looks like its going to be a party! And I guess I'll reveal the theme team that I already submitted.. its "The Bedsoring '20s". Like "The Roaring '20s" but now theyre old. People born in the 1920s.

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Yup, it's gone with my first ever theme team. Sweated for weeks over this one Just put down the first 20 names I could think of.

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Sent mine (Deadfellas) in about an hour ago.

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Sent in theme #2. Its west coast Americans.

 

Mmmm, maybe I should have done a theme team called "people of the world."

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I'm looking forward to seeing all of your creations - my composition is finished. I'm assuming the deadline is at midnight right MIB? Midnight Feburary 1st..

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I suppose I'll go first...you can tell me which of the following aren't dying, or are already dead:

 

Etta James

Penny Marshall

Winnie Johnson

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Al Megrahi (Joker)

Robin Gibb

Ronnie Biggs

Lord Oaksey

Billy Graham

Vidal Sassoon

Geoffrey Hughes

Dame Lesley Strathie

Dom Mintoff

Bob Dole

Jeremy Thorpe

Robert Mugabe

Prof Robert Edwards

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Clive James

Margaret Thatcher

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Here we go again. Here's my team.

 

The End of the World As We Know It

Abdelbaset Al Megrahi

Ronnie Biggs

Harold Camping

Fidel Castro

Annette Funicello

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Robin Gibb (Joker)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rev. Billy Graham

Geoffrey Hughes

Etta James

Penny Marshall

Russell Means

Isabel Peron

Vidal Sassoon

Helmut Schmidt

Yitzhak Shamir

Ariel Sharon

Margaret Thatcher

Andy Williams

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Tick Tock

 

 

Etta James

Geoffrey Hughes

ZaZa Gabor

Ronnie Biggs

Billy Graham

Doris Day

Lou Kenton

Margaret Thatcher

Nancy Regan

Michael Aspel

Pete Murray

Buzz Aldrin

Tony Martin

Muhammad Ali

Glynis Johns

George Martin

Bert Weedon

Charles K Kao

Quincey Jones

Oscar Niemayer

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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

Ronnie Biggs

Max Bygraves

Zsa Zsa Gabor

James Garner

Robin Gibb

Billy Graham

Stephen Hawking

Geoffrey Hughes

Clive James

Etta James

President Yahya Jammeh (The Gambia)

General Jaruzelski

Jerry Lee Lewis

Nelson Mandela

Penny Marshall

Pres Hosni Mubarak

Robert Mugabe

Ariel Sharon

Margaret Thatcher

 

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2012 DDP team: Etta James (joker), Penny Marshall, Harper Lee, R Coase, A Williams, R Levi-Montalcini, Bernard Lovell, Sir P Worsthorne, J Garner, M Bygraves, V Sassoon, M Noriega, Clive James, G Clerides, R Gibb, Mary Wilson, L Phillips, W Jaruzelski, E Wallach, L Rainer

 

Went a bit safe really.

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Team: The Grey Horde:

  • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
  • Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
  • Besse Cooper
  • Bob Dole
  • Zsa Zsa Gábor
  • Gabriel García Márquez
  • Robin Gibb
  • Roy Glaube
  • Billy Graham
  • Etta James joker.gif
  • Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Michail Kalasjnikov
  • Hamid Karzai
  • Christopher Lee
  • Patrick Moore
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Hiroo Onoda
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Helmut Schmidt
  • Albert Uderzo

 

Theme Team: Minions of Xuleneb

  • Dries van Agt
  • Albert II of Belgium
  • Raymond van Barneveld
  • Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • Corry Brokken
  • Dick Bruna
  • Godfried Cardinal Danneels
  • Mark Eyskens
  • Fabiola of Belgium
  • Jean of Luxembourg
  • Piet de Jong
  • Ruud Lubbers
  • Kees Rijvers
  • Wim Ruska
  • "Toots" Thielemans joker.gif
  • Gerard Tieman
  • Jan Timman
  • Martinus Veltman
  • Geert Wilders
  • Joop Zoetemelk

 

regards,

Hein

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