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14 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

No, it doesn't.  The aim of the Shadow List is to offer a comparable alternative to the Death List.

There's nothing wrong with people making their own personal list, but that's not the same thing.


Quite agree with COMPARABLE.
Concerning the two names that Ulitzer95 highlighted: Ted Luscombe obituary was published in The Times, Francis Jackson obituary in The Guardian. 

Are obituaries in these newspapers DL worthy?

 

And please recognise that the ‘perspective’ that I was referring to was that of Ulitzer95 in making their observations.

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15 minutes ago, Wickerman said:


Quite agree with COMPARABLE.
Concerning the two names that Ulitzer95 highlighted: Ted Luscombe obituary was published in The Times, Francis Jackson obituary in The Guardian. 

Are obituaries in these newspapers DL worthy?


Think you're confused between the DDP and the DL.

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6 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Think you're confused between the DDP and the DL.


Not in the slightest 

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28 minutes ago, Wickerman said:


Quite agree with COMPARABLE.
Concerning the two names that Ulitzer95 highlighted: Ted Luscombe obituary was published in The Times, Francis Jackson obituary in The Guardian. 

Are obituaries in these newspapers DL worthy?

 

And please recognise that the ‘perspective’ that I was referring to was that of Ulitzer95 in making their observations.

 

The point of the Shadow List is to try and pick the sort of names that the Committee might pick.   Admittedly they do go for an occasional anomaly, but not many.  It's not an exact science, but I don't think those two are people I would expect the Committee to pick, regardless of obit status.

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1 minute ago, Toast said:

 

The point of the Shadow List is to try and pick the sort of names that the Committee might pick.   Admittedly they do go for an occasional anomaly, but not many.  It's not an exact science, but I don't think those two are people I would expect the Committee to pick, regardless of obit status.


The point of the Shadow List is to try and pick the sort of names that the Committee might pick.

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I’m not entirely certain that this makes any sense whatsoever. Perhaps someone from ‘The Committee’ might want to clarify this thought. And what constitutes an ‘Anomaly’.

 

If you’re trying to suggest that many followers of DeatLiist should give up creating Shadow lists and simply go away I think you’re getting close to that point.

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9 minutes ago, Wickerman said:


The point of the Shadow List is to try and pick the sort of names that the Committee might pick.

?????????????????
 

I’m not entirely certain that this makes any sense whatsoever. Perhaps someone from ‘The Committee’ might want to clarify this thought. And what constitutes an ‘Anomaly’.

 

If you’re trying to suggest that many followers of DeatLiist should give up creating Shadow lists and simply go away I think you’re getting close to that point.

 

No, of course I'm not suggesting that.  I've already explained that there's a difference between the Shadow List and other personal lists.

A couple of names that I would describe as anomalies are Ruby Muhammed and William Gates Sr.  

By and large the names on the DL are usually those that would be familiar to most British people of a certain age.

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1 hour ago, Toast said:

 

No, of course I'm not suggesting that.  I've already explained that there's a difference between the Shadow List and other personal lists.

A couple of names that I would describe as anomalies are Ruby Muhammed and William Gates Sr.  

By and large the names on the DL are usually those that would be familiar to most British people of a certain age.


Well I suppose that you do have to be of a certain age to recognise Mary Lee and the Roy Fox band

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Debating on DeathList can be mildly amusing, but ultimately meaningless.

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On 10/09/2022 at 12:24, Summer in Transylvania said:

:rip: Gary Burgess

:rip: Igor Bogdanoff

:rip: Harry E. Goldsworthy

:rip: Nehemiah Persoff

:rip: Kane Tanaka

:rip: George Pérez

:rip: Bernard Cribbins OBE

:rip: Marsha Hunt

:rip: Queen Lillibet II

:rip: Loretta Lynn

10/55.

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My personal 2023 Shadowlist, at this point in time

 

Any opinions and suggestions for improvements would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Leslie Phillips 

Bob Barker

Glynis Johns

Rolf Harris 

Henry Kissinger 

Jimmy Carter

Nigel Starmer-Smith 

David Graham

Jacques Delors

Harry Belafonte

Joanne Woodward 

Ted Kaczynski 

Milan Kundera

Pelé

George Alagiah

Tony Bennett

Stanley Baxter

James Watson

June Spencer

Joss Ackland

Sandy Gall

Pope Benedict

Emperor Akihito 

William Russell

Giorgio Napolitano 

Jiang Zemin

Rosalynn Carter

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Barbara Walters

Robert Wagner

Norman Tebbit 

Prunella Scales

Yoko Ono

Françoise Hardy

Topol

Marianne Faithfull

Joan Plowright 

Alberto Fujimori

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 

Cleo Laine

Burt Bacharach 

Douglas Hurd

Pervez Musharraf

Bill Treacher

Eva Marie Saint

Jerry Lee Lewis

James Earl Jones

Ted Turner

John Farnham

Alain Delon

 

Reserves

 

Vanessa Redgrave

Liza Minnelli 

Willie Nelson

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Whoo, 8 massive hits for me with Angela Lansbury.

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On 04/10/2022 at 16:50, Summer in Transylvania said:

:rip: Gary Burgess

:rip: Igor Bogdanoff

:rip: Harry E. Goldsworthy

:rip: Nehemiah Persoff

:rip: Kane Tanaka

:rip: George Pérez

:rip: Bernard Cribbins OBE

:rip: Marsha Hunt

:rip: Queen Lillibet II

:rip: Loretta Lynn

:rip: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE

11/55

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:rip: Sidney Poitier KBE
:rip: Monica Vitti
:rip: Gail Halvorsen
:rip: Tom Parker
:rip: June Brown OBE

:rip: Tom Smith
:rip: Jean-Louis Trintignant
:rip: Frank Williams

:rip: Larry Storch

:rip: Dame Olivia Newton-John

:rip: Mikhail Gorbachev
:rip: Bill Turnbull
:rip:Dame Angela Lansbury


13/50

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:rip: Sidney Poitier KBE
:rip: Monica Vitti
:rip: Gail Halvorsen
:rip: Tom Parker
:rip: June Brown OBE

:rip: Tom Smith
:rip: Jean-Louis Trintignant
:rip: Frank Williams

:rip: Larry Storch

:rip: Dame Olivia Newton-John

:rip: Mikhail Gorbachev
:rip: Bill Turnbull
:rip:Dame Angela Lansbury
:rip:Jimmy Millar


14/50

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18/50 Dead :deathban:  Pierre Soulages

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5/50 hits for me for now

 

Sidney Poiter

June Brown

Mikhail Gorbachev

Queen Elizabeth II

Marsha Hunt

 

Was about to include Jerry Lee Lewis yesterday, but then he was suddenly alive.

Did notice however that I hadn't include Marsha Hunt.

Can't believe how many names I had on last year's list that I didn't include this year who I did not include this year.

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53 minutes ago, Putin said:

Can't believe how many names I had on last year's list that I didn't include this year who I did not include this year.

Just a hunch, but all of them? 

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Jerry Lee Lewis takes me to 9 hits. 

 

Whole lotta raking going on...

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:rip:Sidney Poitier KBE
:rip: Monica Vitti
:rip: Gail Halvorsen
:rip: Tom Parker
:rip: June Brown OBE

:rip: Tom Smith
:rip: Jean-Louis Trintignant
:rip: Frank Williams

:rip: Larry Storch

:rip: Dame Olivia Newton-John

:rip: Mikhail Gorbachev
:rip: Bill Turnbull
:rip:Dame Angela Lansbury
:rip:Jimmy Millar
:rip: Jerry Lee Lewis


15/50

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Leslie Phillips takes me to double figures (10) of fully competitive with the DL hits.

 

None of your barely known foreigners, Scottish footballers or minor historical figures here, baby!

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19/50 Dead :deathban:   Leslie (Sub-Lieutenant) Phillips

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On 11/10/2022 at 20:45, Summer in Transylvania said:

:rip: Gary Burgess

:rip: Igor Bogdanoff

:rip: Harry E. Goldsworthy

:rip: Nehemiah Persoff

:rip: Kane Tanaka

:rip: George Pérez

:rip: Bernard Cribbins OBE

:rip: Marsha Hunt

:rip: Queen Lillibet II

:rip: Loretta Lynn

:rip: Dame Angela Lansbury DBE

:rip: Leslie Phillips CBE

12/55. Same as last year and we still have December. 

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