Summer in Transylvania 2,170 Posted December 29, 2022 On 26/11/2022 at 18:29, Summer in Transylvania said: Gary Burgess Igor Bogdanoff Harry E. Goldsworthy Nehemiah Persoff Kane Tanaka George Pérez Bernard Cribbins OBE Marsha Hunt Queen Lillibet II Loretta Lynn Dame Angela Lansbury DBE Leslie Phillips CBE Doddie Weir OBE Pelé KBE 14/55. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,170 Posted December 29, 2022 Edit: Removed due to double post, please could an admin delete whenever possible. Thank you in advance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wickerman 76 Posted December 29, 2022 21/50 Dead Edson Arantes do Nascimento (PELE) the GOAT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoorSlammer 561 Posted December 29, 2022 12/50 Sidney Poitier Monica Vitti James Lovelock Nichelle Nichols Olivia Newton-John Mikhail Gorbachev Elizabeth II Jean-Luc Godard Angela Lansbury Jerry Lee Lewis Jiang Zemin Pelé Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,295 Posted December 29, 2022 07/01/2022 at 18:02, theoldlady said: For the first part of 2022: The Old Lady: 9 DL: 4 CS: 10 2nd part of the year 2022: The Old Lady: 22 (tied with my score in 2020.) DL: 14 CS: 24 WOW! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonnythegamemaster 40 Posted December 29, 2022 15/50 Igor Bogdanoff Sidney Poitier Leonard Fenton Tom Parker June Brown Jean-Louis Trintignant Nichelle Nichols Olivia Newton-John Bill Turnbull Marsha Hunt Queen Elizabeth II Leslie Phillips Bill Treacher Dame Clare Marx Pelé Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,023 Posted December 29, 2022 Pele takes me to 14 hits here I believe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Putin 423 Posted December 30, 2022 8/50 hits for me for now Sidney Poiter June Brown Mikhail Gorbachev Queen Elizabeth II Marsha Hunt Jerry Lee Lewis Leslie Phillips Pelè Not a strong year for me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,023 Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Putin said: Not a strong year for me Not in any way, Valdimir. I live on the ground floor btw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tracy 2,392 Posted December 31, 2022 Alright, finally feeling gutsy enough to unveil my exciting picks. Surely these fine folk can hang on another day... right? Henry Kissinger Bob Barker Jimmy Carter Rolf Harris Tony Bennett Alan Greenspan Joanne Woodward Gianluca Vialli Harry Belafonte Roberta Flack June Spencer Eva Marie Saint Dick Van Dyke Burt Bacharach Robert Wagner Mel Brooks Milan Kundera Rosalynn Carter Joss Ackland Bob Newhart Tina Turner Sandra Day O'Connor James Earl Jones Mahathir Mohamad Sonny Rollins June Lockhart Ryuichi Sakamoto Ruth Buzzi Glynis Johns Lee Grant James Whale Estelle Parsons Norman Jewison Jean-Marie Le Pen Manmohan Singh Louis Gossett Jr. Ann Blyth Roger Corman Jacques Delors Ted Kaczynski June Squibb Gene Hackman Chaim Topol Toby Keith Frederic Forrest Tim Curry Andy Taylor Ted Turner Constantine II of Greece David Attenborough @msc @John Key This also serves as a submission for the crowdsourced DL/shadowlist competition. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,023 Posted December 31, 2022 It's now Betty White Day in the UK. So, to hell with it, here's my Nifty Fifty for 2023 - subject, of course, to alteration for deaths occurring before the new calendar (Dr Who this year) goes up on the wall. In alphabetical as always, no need for it to be otherwise (and it makes you spot duplicates immediately!). 1. George Alagiah 2. David Attenborough 3. Burt Bacharach 4. Stanley Baxter 5. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 6. Alan Bennett 7. Lyndsey Buckingham 8. Rob Burrow 9. Ruth Buzzi 10. Phil Collins 11. Billy Connolly 12. Tim Curry 13. Shannen Doherty 14. Winnie Ewing 15. Frank Field 16. Roberta Flack 17. Julie Goodyear 18. Rolf Harris 19. Douglas Hurd 20. Jonnie Irwin 21. Tom Jones 22. Denis Law 23. Nigel Lawson 24. Richard Lester 25. Shane MacGowan 26. James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern 27. Imelda Marcos 28. Liza Minnelli 29. Nana Mouskouri 30. Bob Newhart 31. Linda Nolan 32. Yoko Ono 33. Ozzy Osbourne 34. Richard O'Sullivan 35. Michael Parkinson 36. Mary Quant 37. Linda Ronstadt 38. William Russell 39. Ryuichi Sakamoto 40. Prunella Scales 41. Grace Slick 42. Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) 43. Norman Tebbit 44. Tina Turner 45. Dick Van Dyke 46. James Whale 47. John Williams 48. Bruce Willis 49. Bill Wyman 50. Mike Yarwood 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 578 Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) Time to post again with final picks this fine Betty Day: Dick Van Dyke Gene Hackman Harry Belafonte William Daniels William Russell Caren Marsh Doll Eva Marie Saint Glynis Johns June Spencer Prunella Scales Buzz Aldrin Alan Greenspan Josip Manolic Iris Apfel Rosalynn Carter Imelda Marcos Ken Clarke Sir Bobby Charlton Sandy Gall Akihito Hazel McCallion Nigel Lawson Douglas Hurd Michael Heseltine Nicholas F. Brady Norman Tebbit Roy Hattersley Pope Benedict Jean-Marie Le Pen Alexandra Oglivy Sandra Day O'Connor Henry Kissinger Shane MacGowan Tony Bennett Yoko Ono Betty Boothroyd Bob Barker David Attenborough Linda Nolan Edwin Meese Jimmy Carter Eddie Bernice Johnson Elizabeth Dole Jim Inhofe Ted Kaczynski Dick Cheney Hamako Mori Desmond Morris Gianluca Vialli Kabosu (replaced with the Lord Wakeham for the purposes of all actual deathlist-y activities, but I'm putting her on my actual list...) Final score for this year is the TERRIBLE - 7 hits. Edited December 31, 2022 by Dying Probably Fixing cock-up with Pele... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tracy 2,392 Posted December 31, 2022 2 hours ago, tracy said: Surely these fine folk can hang on another day... right? Barbara Walters Well, so much for THAT... Estelle Parsons come on down! 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 473 Posted December 31, 2022 Well, I guess Walter Mirisch just cracked my starting lineup Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,574 Posted December 31, 2022 Sidney Poitier KBE Monica Vitti Gail Halvorsen Tom Parker June Brown OBE Tom Smith Jean-Louis Trintignant Frank Williams Larry Storch Dame Olivia Newton-John Mikhail Gorbachev Bill Turnbull Dame Angela Lansbury Jimmy Millar Jerry Lee Lewis Leslie Phillips Pelé Barbara Walters 18/50 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,170 Posted December 31, 2022 On 29/12/2022 at 19:28, Summer in Transylvania said: Gary Burgess Igor Bogdanoff Harry E. Goldsworthy Nehemiah Persoff Kane Tanaka George Pérez Bernard Cribbins OBE Marsha Hunt Queen Lillibet II Loretta Lynn Dame Angela Lansbury DBE Leslie Phillips CBE Doddie Weir OBE Pelé KBE Pope Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger 15/55 puts me ahead of the official deathlist. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,189 Posted December 31, 2022 My Shadowlist for 2023 Rolf Harris James Whale Gianluca Vialli Joanne Woodward Nigel Starmer-Smith Milan Kundera George Alagiah Harry Belafonte Glynis Johns Roberta Flack Giorgio Napolitano Joss Ackland Ted Kaczynski Andy Taylor Jimmy Carter Tony Bennett Frank Field (UK politician) Sandy Gall June Spencer Stuart Hall Bob Barker James Watson Henry Kissinger Françoise Hardy Jacques Delors Sandra Day O’Connor Douglas Hurd Ethel Kennedy Vera Miles Robert Wagner Sonny Rollins Yoko Ono Bernadette Chirac Michael Caine Chaim Topol Cleo Laine Bobby Charlton Alberto Fujimori Dennis Skinner King Constantine II Linda Nolan Roy Clarke General Pervez Musharraf Jean-Marie Le Pen Eva Marie Saint James Earl Jones Don King Norman Tebbit Joan Plowright Stanley Baxter For my 2022 shadowlist, I made some horrific misses (Cribbins, Lynn, Zemin, Brown, Treacher and erhmm The Queen) but I still got 17/50 (Poitier, Krüger, Fenton, Vitti, Higgins, Bouquet, Pérez, Trintignant, Nichols, Gorbachev, Papas, Lansbury, Lee Lewis, Phillips, Pelé, Walters, Benedict), so I think those misses were worth it in the end, even if the actual DL had a higher celebrity quality hit list with a lower end score. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DoorSlammer 561 Posted December 31, 2022 14/50 Sidney Poitier Monica Vitti James Lovelock Nichelle Nichols Olivia Newton-John Mikhail Gorbachev Queen Elizabeth II Jean-Luc Godard Angela Lansbury Jerry Lee Lewis Jiang Zemin Pelé Barbara Walters Pope Benedict XVI Three hits in the final three days of 2022 puts me at 14/50, therefore equalling both the DL and my Dutch Shadow List. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,023 Posted December 31, 2022 Pope Benedict takes me to 15 hits for 2022, my best ever on the Shadowlist! Now to amend my 2023 Shadowlist... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThereWillBeDeaths7 720 Posted December 31, 2022 My regular shadowlist for 2023: 1. Jimmy Carter 2. Henry Kissinger 3. June Spencer 4. Rolf Harris 5. Bob Barker 6. Glynis Johns 7. Frank Field 8. Nigel Starmer-Smith 9. Alan Greenspan 10. Dick van Dyke 11. Tony Bennett 12. Harry Belafonte 13. Eva Marie Saint 14. William Russell 15. Mel Brooks 16. David Graham 17. Rob Burrow 18. Joanne Woodward 19. Jacques Delors 20. Cleo Laine 21. David Attenborough 22. Rosalynn Carter 23. Gudrun Ure 24. Jean-Marie Le Pen 25. George Alagiah 26. Roberta Flack 27. Stanley Baxter 28. Noam Chomsky 29. Sandy Gall 30. Bobby Charlton 31. James Whale 32. Zhu Rongji 33. Andy Taylor 34. Norman Tebbit 35. Winnie Ewing 36. Milan Kundera 37. Bob Newhart 38. Dennis Skinner 39. Burt Bacharach 40. Linda Nolan 41. Tom Lehrer 42. James Earl Jones 43. Ted Kaczynski 44. Shannen Doherty 45. Thelma Barlow 46. Nigel Lawson 47. Yoko Ono 48. Douglas Hurd 49. Rex Williams 50. Vladimir Putin Subs: 1. Joss Ackland 2. Pope Francis 3. Jean Marsh 4. Willie Nelson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,023 Posted December 31, 2022 11 hours ago, YoungWillz said: It's now Betty White Day in the UK. So, to hell with it, here's my Nifty Fifty for 2023 - subject, of course, to alteration for deaths occurring before the new calendar (Dr Who this year) goes up on the wall. In alphabetical as always, no need for it to be otherwise (and it makes you spot duplicates immediately!). 1. George Alagiah 2. David Attenborough 3. Burt Bacharach 4. Stanley Baxter Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI DNS 5. Alan Bennett 6. Lyndsey Buckingham 7. Rob Burrow 8. Ruth Buzzi 9. Phil Collins 10. Billy Connolly 11. Tim Curry 12. Shannen Doherty 13. Winnie Ewing 14. Frank Field 15. Roberta Flack 16. Julie Goodyear 17. Rolf Harris 18. Douglas Hurd 19. Jonnie Irwin 20. Hanif Kureishi 21. Tom Jones 22. Denis Law 23. Nigel Lawson 24. Richard Lester 25. Shane MacGowan 26. James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern 27. Imelda Marcos 28. Liza Minnelli 29. Nana Mouskouri 30. Bob Newhart 31. Linda Nolan 32. Yoko Ono 33. Ozzy Osbourne 34. Richard O'Sullivan 35. Michael Parkinson 36. Mary Quant 37. Linda Ronstadt 38. William Russell 39. Ryuichi Sakamoto 40. Prunella Scales 41. Grace Slick 42. Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) 43. Norman Tebbit 44. Tina Turner 45. Dick Van Dyke 46. James Whale 47. John Williams 48. Bruce Willis 49. Bill Wyman 50. Mike Yarwood Fuck the Pope Emeritus, replaced him with Hanif Kureishi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,726 Posted December 31, 2022 Presenting my personal 2023 list. (@msc I'd like to submit it for the Crowdsourced List as well) 1. Rolf Harris (93, Pedophile) 2. Henry Kissinger (100, War criminal) 3. Bob Barker (100, Game show host/Animal activist) 4. Jimmy Carter (99, 39th President) 5. June Spencer (104, Peggy Woolley) 6. Roberta Flack (86, Singer) 7. Norman Lear (101, Sitcom producer) 8. Glynis Johns (100, Actress) 9. Tony Bennett (97, Crooner) 10. James Whale (72, Broadcaster) 11. Mel Brooks (97, Film director) 12. Eva Marie Saint (99, Actress) 13. June Lockhart (98, Actress) 14. Joanne Woodward (93, Actress) 15. Harry Belafonte (96, Singer) 16. Gene Shalit (97, Film critic) 17. Noam Chomsky (95, Linguist) 18. Charlie Munger (99, Investor) 19. Jean-Marie Le Pen (95, Holocaust denier) 20. Alan Greenspan (97, Economist) 21. Rosalynn Carter (96, Former First Lady) 22. Leontyne Price (96, Singer) 23. Dick Van Dyke (98, Actor) 24. Sandra Day O'Connor (93, Former SCOTUS member) 25. Ruth Buzzi (87, Actress/comedian) 26. Richard M. Sherman (95, Songwriter) 27. Stanley Baxter (97, Comedic actor) 28. Ethel Kennedy (95, RFK widow) 29. David Attenborough (97, Nature man) 30. Robert Wagner (93, Woodchipper?) 31. Marion Ross (95, Happy Days' Mrs Cunningham) 32. James Watson (95, Casually racist geneticist) 33. Pat Robertson (93, Televangelist) 34. Tom Lehrer (95, Singer/Jell-O shot inventor) 35. Norman Tebbit (92, Politician) 36. Jurgen Habermas (94, Philosopher) 37. Bobby Charlton (86, Boy of 66) 38. James Earl Jones (92, Vader's Voice) 39. Andy Taylor (62, Duran Duran guitarist) 40. Constantine II of Greece (83, Final Greek king) 41. Gene Hackman (93, Actor) 42. Ted Turner (85, CNN Founder/Captain Planet) 43. Don King (92, Boxing promoter) 44. John Astin (93, Gomez Addams) 45. George Soros (93, DA JOO) 46. Ted Kaczynski (81, Unabomber) 47. Paul Hogan (84, Crocodile Dundee) 48. Yoko Ono (90, John Lennon widow) 49. Buzz Aldrin (93, Moonwalker) 50. Vladimir Putin (71, Khuylo) Subs: 1. Clint Eastwood (93, Dirty Harry) 2. William Russell (99, Actor) 3. Warren Buffett (93, Centibillionaire) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,574 Posted December 31, 2022 Sidney Poitier KBE Monica Vitti Gail Halvorsen Tom Parker June Brown OBE Tom Smith Jean-Louis Trintignant Frank Williams Larry Storch Dame Olivia Newton-John Mikhail Gorbachev Bill Turnbull Dame Angela Lansbury Jimmy Millar Jerry Lee Lewis Leslie Phillips Pelé Barbara Walters Pope Benedict XVI 19/50 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
heiheiheihei 104 Posted December 31, 2022 My 2023 list Jimmy Carter (b. 1924, former POTUS) Henry Kissinger (b. 1923, diplomat) Mohammad Hasan Sharq (b. 1925, former prime minister of Afghanistan) Queen Sirikit (b. 1932, thai royal) Rosalynn Carter (b. 1927, former FLOTUS) Marianne Bernadotte (b. 1924, swedish royal) Arnfinn Nesset (b. 1936, serial killer) Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930, astronaut) Bill Cobbs (b. 1934, actor) Dick Van Dyke (b. 1925, actor) Kiran Shah (b. 1956, actor) Maggie Smith (b. 1934, actress) Josef Fritzl (b. 1935, monster) William Anders (b. 1933, astronaut) Bob Barker (b. 1923, the price is right) Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (b. 1923, japanese royal) Richard M. Sherman (b. 1928, songwriter) Abdul Rauf al-Kasm (b. 1932, former prime minister of Syria) King Constantine II (b. 1940, last king of Greece) Edward Schreyer (b. 1935, politician) King Salman (b. 1935, king of Saudi Arabia) Khamtai Siphandone (b. 1925, former president of Laos) Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1935, bulgarian royal) James Earl Jones (b. 1931, Darth Vader voice) David Attenborough (b. 1926, nature man) Tomiichi Murayama (b. 1924, former prime minister of Japan) Katherine, Duchess of Kent (b. 1933, british royal) Princess Bajrakitiyabha (b. 1978, thai royal) Johan Kaggestad (b. 1943, sports coach) Jamshid bin Abdullah (b. 1929, last sultan of Zanzibar) King Juan Carlos I (b. 1938, former king of Spain) Ethel Kennedy (b. 1928, widow of Robert F. Kennedy) Infanta Margarita (b. 1939, spanish royal) Carlos Zurita (b. 1943, spanish royal) Clint Eastwood (b. 1930, actor) Emperor Emeritus Akihito (b. 1933, former emperor of Japan) Kim Jong-un (b. 1984, leader of North Korea) Mohamed Al-Fayed (b. 1929, egyptian businessman) Princess Astrid, mrs Ferner (b. 1932, norwegian royal) Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (b. 1932, former prime minister of Thailand) King Harald V (b. 1937, King of Norway) Paul Biya (b. 1933, President of Cameroon) Prince Edward (b. 1935, british royal) Bob Newhart (b. 1929, actor) Count Ingolf (b. 1940, danish royal) Michael Gambon (b. 1940, actor) Pope Francis (b. 1936, pope) Vladimir Putin (b. 1952, president of Russia) Kesang Choden (b. 1930, bhutanese royal) Volodymyr Zelenskyj (b. 1978, president of Ukraine) Subs: Tarcisio Bertone (b. 1934, Former cardinal secretary of state of the Holy See) Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (b. 1937, Emir of Kuwait) Eduard Prinz von Anhalt (b. 1941, head of the House of Ascania) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tracy 2,392 Posted December 31, 2022 Sheesh, Barbara AND the Pope? Guess I've learned my lesson. I'm not making a 2024 list until 2025. Randomizer declares June Spencer will take his place. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
