So, How's Your 2016 Shortlist Looking?

[Spade_Cooley 9,536]

Been through your Moleskine with a series of coloured markers to differentiate the various types of cancer your possibles have yet? Or are you gonna block off the entirety of December to scour every single football forum in the vain hope you'll catch a former Bradford winger who has just fell into a diabetic coma?

[msc 18,476]

For the first time ever, the proposed joker didn't die in October. This is only because I haven't come up with a provisional joker yet though.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

Not started yet. I'll probably do it on the 29th December.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Planning to play safe this year, given the generally healthy nature of my varied random picks over the year, so probs in better mid-November shape than ever. Though the percentage game of near-certainties isn't exactly grabbing me, so doubtless I'll be tempted by some tabloid curve ball with three friends and a tumour who appears a week before Christmas.

[gcreptile 10,978]

For the first time ever, the proposed joker didn't die in October. This is only because I haven't come up with a provisional joker yet though.

So, you didn't make Carey Lander your joker (as I did). And if I had to guess, my current joker will die in December.

 

I'll submit three teams this year. The main team will be a somewhat boring cancer team whose entries have all already been mentioned on this board (as it currently stands). My B-Team will be a little more eclectic, featuring the odd terrorist, the possible uniques and a few old people, a bit like my main team this year. And my theme team.

[msc 18,476]

On 19/11/2015 at 18:14, gcreptile said:

 

On 19/11/2015 at 17:09, msc said:

For the first time ever, the proposed joker didn't die in October. This is only because I haven't come up with a provisional joker yet though.

So, you didn't make Carey Lander your joker (as I did). And if I had to guess, my current joker will die in December.

 

I'll submit three teams this year. The main team will be a somewhat boring cancer team whose entries have all already been mentioned on this board (as it currently stands). My B-Team will be a little more eclectic, featuring the odd terrorist, the possible uniques and a few old people, a bit like my main team this year. And my theme team.

 

 

No, I didn't. I didn't expect her to see January.

 

I might however put a theme team in alongside the annual Pan Breed attempt. If so, I have their line up all ready, complete with subs should any of them die.

[Spade_Cooley 9,536]

First nominal captain, Brian Lomax, barely made it to November. I have a second pencilled in at the moment who hasn't been discussed around these parts yet, but I make it 50/50 that they see 2016 tbh. Failing that, just gonna lump it on Joey Feek and forget about it.

[Death Impends 7,979]

Have just starting paring my shortlist over the past few days. Think it's roughly 90 names at the moment, obviously more drastic cuts are to follow in the coming weeks. Going off memory I have five locks, and mostly the names I thought would've been dead already by now.

[CaptainChorizo 1,983]

Will probably start making a shortlist in a week or 2 of people I have added in notepad in 2015 and then also check status of people I have picked or was close to picking in the past.

[YoungWillz 21,056]

DDP teams selected provisionally (1 main, 2 theme).

 

Deathrace team submitted to MPFC.

 

Inverse and Shaun's Deadpools: awaiting more information. I believe Shaun is considering new rules for 2016.

 

Hartlepool and Hares: Dunno. I'll have to look at the threads again to work out what is going on.

 

Personal Deathlist: don't think I'll bother - 50 names, no prize? Nah.

[JiroemonKimura 95]

I have preliminary lists for DDP (3 regular), AODeadPool, and DSCDP. Many of my celebrities have terminal illnesses; a few others are simply old and frail. Of course, I'll probably make a few last-minute changes in the final hours of 2015.

[RadGuy 1,614]

I already have my candidates, about 60-70. Now I just need cut a few, and of course make some of them substitutes. I don't think I'll decide who will take which place for another month.

[CarolAnn 926]

I haven't found fhe CarolAnn Dartboard of Doom™.

[time 8,617]

Much like Christmas, I don't even start thinking about it until mid-December.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

I'm too busy with theme team which took a few days to slap together.

I too won't do anything for a main team till mid December.

SC

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Because I publish my work list on 1st Dec I have all my teams lined up and ready to go, with suitable substitutes if they go before the end of the month.

 

This year my DDP teams have failed big time. Best performance had me about 300th

[viGnoS 18]

actually 211 names in my 2016 shortlist, 64 of them are already preselected and spread into 2 DPP list and one shadow list.

28 of these 211 names died through 2015, some where obvious picking like Daniel Fleetwood, some not that obvious like Jonah Lomu, Jules Bianchi, Mohammed Emwazi, Patrice Domingez, Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee, ...

[msc 18,476]

Here are a bunch of people, most of whom have either been cut from my shadow list or, if I am still considering them, they're not exactly secret uniques. I've mentioned why some were on the list (some have been on a considerable while) because I'm nice. Even for those everyone knows, because it makes it look tidier. I haven't mentioned if the reason some of the more obscure names have been dropped is due to them getting better, because I'm not that nice.

 

 

Steven Adler – Drug and booze addled American rocker (with a history of strokes), claims to have gone a year sober in Jan 2015 though.

Bhumibol Adulyadej – Survived a stroke, has heart problems, a brain haemorrhage in 2012. More recently had a blood infection.

Muhammad Ali – Advanced Parkinsons. Reports vary on its severity.

Rene Angelil – Husband of Celine Dion, dying of throat cancer.

Virgie Arthur – Anna Nicole Smith’s mum, allegedly dying from “a rare cancer”.

Shoko Ashara – Japanese cult leader, still on death row but now 60 and execution was postponed in 2012.

Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg – Still frail, 94 now.

John “Total Biscuit” Bain – Inoperable liver cancer.

Ivan Basso – Cyclist with testicular cancer.

Bob Barker - Still keeps quite active. Tripped and suffered minor injuries in Oct 2015. National Enqurier did the “Sad Last Days” thing for him that same month, so that should see him towards his centenary!

Paul Barrere – Guitarist for Little Feat, now has liver cancer.

Martin Bashir – He interviewed Michael Jackson once. That went well. Since 2008, he has had a brain tumour which is currently “under control”.

Tony Beard – BBC radio presenter diagnosed with bladder cancer in April 2015.

Melissa Bell – Soul II Soul singer, kidney failure due to diabetes. Hospital March 2015 due to complications but out within a fortnight.

Bob Bennett – Former Utah Senator, now has pancreatic cancer.

Daisy Berkowitz – Once worked for Marilyn Manson, now has Stage 4 colon cancer.

Chuck Blazer – FIFA executive turned whistleblower turned gravely ill cancer ridden man.

Judy Blume – Writer, Breast cancer.

Tony Booth – TV actor and Father in Law of Tony Blair, now has Alzheimers.

Fabian Bolin – TV “star” with Leukemia

Kate Bornstein – Feminist writer. Lung cancer.

Stanley Bowles – footballer with Dementia.

Ian Brady – British murderer. Has dementia now.

Asa Briggs – Historian, fat, and 94.

Tom Brokaw - TV newsman, multiple myeloma.

Bonnie Brown – singer, with Stage 4 lung cancer.

Adam Busby – Scottish National Liberation Army founder (it exists), who was released from prison in 2014 and in October 2015 was declared medically unfit to face trial due to severe MS.

Big Bull Busick – Pro-wrestler with throat cancer.

Dez Cadena – Throat cancer.

Glen Campbell – Singer with advanced Alzheimers.

Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – Spinal muscular atrophy. Has noticeably gone downhill in the last year.

Vivien Campbell – Once suffered from being in Def Leppard, now suffers from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma which has returned from remission three times so far.

Jimmy Carter – Former President of the USA, now with liver, lung and brain cancer.

Vera Caslavska – Czech Olympic Gold Medallist gymnast at both the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. Seven gold medals in all. Now has Pancreatic cancer

Martin Crowe – cricketer with terminal lymphoma. Given 12 months to live in October 2014.

Johan Cryuff – Legendary footballer, now with lung cancer.

Mark Cznarnecki – M&T Bank President, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2015.

Paul Darrow – Avon of Blake’s 7 fame, suffered an aortic dissection in 2014, and has been in poor health since.

Howard Davies Jr – Boxer with terminal lung cancer given a year to live in July 2015.

Rick Davies – Supertramp founder with Multiple myeloma.

Liz Dawn – Corrie Actress. Emphysema. Survived heart attack in May 2013. Only 1/3^rd of her lung capacity now works. Well enough to make an appearance in Corrie this Christmas.

Michel Delpech – Singer with throat cancer.

Jonathan Demme - Hollywood director who allegedly has cancer.

Christy Dignam – Irish singer, heart problems and amyloidosis.

Jenny Diski – Writer loudly dying of inoperable cancer.

Fats Domino – Overweight, survived Hurricane Katarina a decade ago, and has outlived most of his seemingly healthier peers!

Kirk Douglas – Recovered from that stroke. Is very old though.

James Dresnok – US defector to Korea, said in 2009 to be very ill, but apparently still going.

John Edrich – English cricketer. Incurable lymphoma, but in 2016 he will have outlived his prognosis by nearly a decade. In 2005 he got mistletoe injections as a “cancer cure”.

Peter Esterhazy – Hungarian writer with pancreatic cancer.

Keith Farnham – Former US politician and current jailed child pornographer, seriously ill with bladder cancer.

Mark Farren – Irish footballer with brain tumour.

Joey Feek – Singer now in hospice care due to terminal cervical cancer.

Simon Fitzmaurice – Indy movie maker with Motor Neurone Disease.

Rob Ford – Cancer ridden, drug smoking, ex-mayor of Toronto.

Andy Fordham – Recently returned to darts. “A dart attack waiting to happen” was how one journalist wag referred to the rotund personality. Previous strokes and heart issues.

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Was in a coma in 2002-3, had a stroke in 2005, and her right leg was amputated in 2011. She received the last rites in 2010, and sixty-one people have died on the Deathlist since then.

Jill Gascoine - Writer and actress who now suffers from Alzheimer’s.

Paul Gascoigne – Footballer turned booze hound, probably wont see retirement age but a risky pick this decade.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg – One of the few survivors of pancreatic cancer. Had a stent implanted in 2014.

Rev Billy Graham – Has nearly everything wrong with him, from Parkinsons to alleged cancer.

Kate Granger – Charity fundraiser and doctor with terminal cancer.

Jimmy Greaves – Footballer and TV personality, had severe stroke in 2015 and now requires extensive care.

Dale Griffin – Mott the Hoople drummer diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2006. Still doing interviews in 2013, however.

Sir Peter Hall – Founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, suffering from dementia.

Kristin Hallenga – Cancer charity fundraiser, who has done lots of fundraising for cancer, and terminal breast cancer in particular. No idea what might be up with her...

Thor Hanson – Poker legend dying very slowly of terminal cancer.

Jimmy Hill – TV presenter now with severe dementia.

Derryn Hinch – Had inoperable liver cancer, had a liver transplant.

Aki Hintsa – Mentor of Lewis Hamilton, now with abdominal cancer.

Larry Hogan – Governor of Maryland, with stage 4 lymph node cancer.

Adele Horin – Feminist newspaper columnist, who has aggressive lung cancer.

Clive James - Australian writer/TV personality who at one point had the fastest acting leukaemia in the world, but through stubbornness and drugs, is still hanging in there.

Irving Kanarek – Defending lawyer for Charles Manson. Now 94.

Richie Kara – Drag queen with CJD.

Frank Kelly – Actor best known as Father Jack. Had bowel cancer from 2008 to 2011. Now has skin cancer.

Ray Kennedy – Footballer. Parkinsons since 1983. Need full time care.

Jason Knight – Former ECW wrestler with throat cancer.

Burt Kwouk – Actor, rumoured to be too ill to travel now.

Steve La Tourette – Former US congressman, who has had pancreatic cancer since 2014.

Ian Levine – Music producer and Dr Who superfan who yells a lot and had the world’s least shocking massive stroke in 2014.

Phil Lesh – Grateful Dead musician with bladder cancer.

Lord Littlebrook – Former midget pro-wrestler, now in nursing home with dementia.

Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury – Terminal blood cancer. Expects to be dead by June 2016.

Howard Marks – Former drug smuggler and author, now with inoperable colon cancer.

Gerry Marsden – Pop singer, has a pacemaker now after heart problems, and was in hospital in 2014.

Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies – Leukemia, into remission in 2013. Cocktail of drugs “held back” his back, but it returned in October 2015.

Frank Miller – Comic book artist, alleged on social media to be very ill. Certainly, recent pictures make him look quite suddenly hideous.

Angelo Mosca – Football turned wrestler, now with dementia.

Gerd Muller – World Cup winning German footballer, has had dementia for a decade.

John Noakes – Blue Peter presenter who went missing briefly from his home in Spain this year, and has been diagnosed with dementia.

Gino Odjick – Ice Hockey player, now with AL amyloidosis.

Peter Oosterhuis – Golfer with early stages of Alzheimers.

Philip Pullman – Writer alleged to be in poor health. Had to cancel a Hay festival appearance in 2010, had to cancel a theatre event with Neil Gaiman in 2012 due to ill health.

David Prowse – Darth Vader, has prostate cancer and now denies news reports of dementia.

Lisa Ray – Had multiple myeloma. Had stem cell transplant in 2010.

Sumner Redstone – Viacom chairman in declining health.

Fernando Ricksen – Former Rangers footballer, now suffering from Motor Neurone Disease.

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson – Australian biship, acting as a whistleblower on church sex scandals as he has terminal cancer.

Mark Rolfing – NBC golf announcer with salivary gland cancer.

Randy Romero – Hall of Fame jockey. Kidney damage since 2002, liver damage soon after, hepatitis C, one kidney left since 2008 (which is failing), and as of May 2015, now has stomach cancer.

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf – Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister, known as Comical Ali due to his Iraq War pronouncements. Now alleged to be gravely ill with cancer.

Peter Sallis – Retired due to macular degeneration. Frail and 94.

Prunella Scales – Actress best known as Sybil Fawlty, now suffering from severe Alzheimers.

Vojislav Seselj – Serbian war criminal diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer in December 2013. Released from prison, and immediately started up his political career again. Yeah...

Than Shwe – Burmese politician rumoured to be in ill health for over a decade now.

Sheila Sim – Widow of Richard Attenborough and actress in her own right, in frail health for a number of years and a resident at Denville Hall.

David Smith – Paralympian with spinal cancer who is putting off treatment till he can compete in the 2016 Olympics.

Lynne Stewart – American jailbird civil rights lawyer, who was given a compassionate released for terminal cancer in 2013.

Ian St John – Footballer. Diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2012. Bladder and prostate removed, but cancer has since moved into the bone marrow.

Nobby Stiles – World Cup winning footballer, had a massive stroke in 2010, fought prostate cancer, and now, as of November 2015, needs full time care due to Alzheimers.

Peter Swan – Footbaler who got caught up in a famous betting scandal in 1962. Has had Alzheimer’s since 2005.

Charles Trippy – YouTuber with brain cancer.

Joost Van der Westhuizen – Rugby World Cup winner, diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2011.

Peter Vere-Jones – Actor who was in The Hobbit and now has cancer.

John Wetton – Musician who worked with King Crimson, and now has metastatic cancer.

Sigurd “Satyr” Wongraven – lead singer for black metal band Satyricon. Diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Holly Woodlawn – Aggressive lung and brain cancer.

Joanne Woodward – Oscar winning actress, who now has dementia so badly she can’t remember her late husband (Paul Newman), and is alleged to be going downhill fast.

Malcolm Young – Guitarist with AC/DC, admitted to a care home in September 2014 due to dementia.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Wow msc.

 

That is certainly a comprehensive list.

[msc 18,476]

Wow msc.

 

That is certainly a comprehensive list.

 

It was a thread killing list by the looks of it!

 

I have a long held tradition, however. Note everyone with nasty cancer/other health problems down in a notepad, then look at it in December... then utterly choke, and ignore all of it for half insane hunches. This works as well as you can imagine.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

 

Wow msc.

 

That is certainly a comprehensive list.

 

It was a thread killing list by the looks of it!

 

I have a long held tradition, however. Note everyone with nasty cancer/other health problems down in a notepad, then look at it in December... then utterly choke, and ignore all of it for half insane hunches. This works as well as you can imagine.

I hear ya. I know one thing I learned from 2015: Trust no one in a coma, they can still fuck you over. Apart from Bianchi not a single comatose person (Singh, Abdulsalamov) came through, and frankly no reason to do me like that. "Back at home recuperating" as you see a photo of some wheelchair-bound zygote staring into space. In the words of George Bush 42: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.....won't get fooled again.

SC

PS: not a thread killing list at all. I've made notes both physical and mental about many on that list and maybe 15% I needed to look up. Most I wouldn't include but most are arguably decent picks. What astounded me yesterday after finally looking at y'all teams in DDP, so many simply mirror half or more of the DeathList it makes me wonder if anyone does research. As you saw in Shaun's pool, I had all of FOUR DL folks in my 50 names. FOUR! And I'm doing well tyvm, including 1 DL name. I've thrown together a list of names on some paper and I don't think I have more than 3 DL 50 names for next year. I've found WAY too many people actually knowingly going to cark it. Doesn't everyone else? I got mad respect for this list he's provided, and again I prolly got 15 he didn't mention.

SC

[msc 18,476]

 

 

Wow msc.

 

That is certainly a comprehensive list.

It was a thread killing list by the looks of it!

 

I have a long held tradition, however. Note everyone with nasty cancer/other health problems down in a notepad, then look at it in December... then utterly choke, and ignore all of it for half insane hunches. This works as well as you can imagine.

I hear ya. I know one thing I learned from 2015: Trust no one in a coma, they can still fuck you over. Apart from Bianchi not a single comatose person (Singh, Abdulsalamov) came through, and frankly no reason to do me like that. "Back at home recuperating" as you see a photo of some wheelchair-bound zygote staring into space. In the words of George Bush 42: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.....won't get fooled again.

SC

PS: not a thread killing list at all. I've made notes both physical and mental about many on that list and maybe 15% I needed to look up. Most I wouldn't include but most are arguably decent picks. What astounded me yesterday after finally looking at y'all teams in DDP, so many simply mirror half or more of the DeathList it makes me wonder if anyone does research. As you saw in Shaun's pool, I had all of FOUR DL folks in my 50 names. FOUR! And I'm doing well tyvm, including 1 DL name. I've thrown together a list of names on some paper and I don't think I have more than 3 DL 50 names for next year. I've found WAY too many people actually knowingly going to cark it. Doesn't everyone else? I got mad respect for this list he's provided, and again I prolly got 15 he didn't mention.

SC

 

 

 

While many folk on here are DDP players, probably only about 5% tops of DDP players are on the Deathlist forum. Majority, I believe, are more sort of casual players who pick old people they've still heard of. That's why the Drop Forty tends to have a rather conservative outlook, and few hits.

[msc 18,476]

I've knocked down the shortlist from a scary number (that list from the other week wasn't even a 1/5th of it!) to around 50. Then it'll be a matter of which ones seem most ill on December 30th. And who gets bumped off the list by the post-Christmas celebrity moving into a hospice with end stage pancreatic cancer.

 

There is a person (who I don't expect to be unique but I won't name them anyway just in case), who was the first name on the shortlist this year, as they announced in January they had terminal cancer. Would probably get a BBC obit, and hasn't been mentioned on here at all yet, but I'm unsure how terminal their terminal cancer is. They've not exactly shortened their workload yet!

 

Several survivors from 2015 are getting the ax:

 

Caroline Aherne

Asa Briggs

Seumas Milne (I fell foul of a con trick by a journalist pal - is there no ethics in deadpooling? )

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Peter Sallis

Vojislav Seselj

Peter Sutcliffe

Jacques Villeneuve Sr

Mary Wilson

 

Given previous form, that's the kiss of death to some of the above.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Mine changes daily and dramtically. Everytime someone posts a person who is on death's door here on DL, I move them in and move someone else out. I have approx 14 'sure things' and haven't gotten to the bigger names like on DL or carryovers from my other teams (but I don't see much value in those names).
I am terribly excited to send in and ultimately reveal my DDP Theme Team (#1), it'll be a hoot. I could be more creative with Theme Team #2 but will just reboot my 'Life of Brian' 'Death of Brian' whatever I'm going to name it, and virtually no one beyond Brian Blessed has a chance of carking it in 2016. But it's for fun.

I was actually thinking ​​of starting up a new game here on DL but there are so many already I don't want to water it down even more. But it would be unique....only 5 names, but you send in a new list of 5 names every three months, so you're not stuck with shite picks. A couple small twists to it but that's the gist. Wondered if any interest in another game that is easy to keep track of seeing as only 5 names....?
SirC​

[Sir Creep 7,070]

I've knocked down the shortlist from a scary number (that list from the other week wasn't even a 1/5th of it!) to around 50. Then it'll be a matter of which ones seem most ill on December 30th. And who gets bumped off the list by the post-Christmas celebrity moving into a hospice with end stage pancreatic cancer.

 

There is a person (who I don't expect to be unique but I won't name them anyway just in case), who was the first name on the shortlist this year, as they announced in January they had terminal cancer. Would probably get a BBC obit, and hasn't been mentioned on here at all yet, but I'm unsure how terminal their terminal cancer is. They've not exactly shortened their workload yet!

 

Hmmm, well there was one person who was diagnosed with pancreatic C about Dec 2014, who hasn't been mentioned here and I certainly didn't expose the name. We may be talking same person, maybe not. Only two clues: SHE is an AMERICAN. I used her as an alternative in one DP.

I joined two pools that required 3 alternative names, and of the 6 people I used as alternatives, 4 have died (Molinaro, Mankell, Nimoy, Kerkorian). I need to have better judgement!

SC​​

PS: I scolded many for choosing Aherne in 2015 cuz her condition just didn't point to it. It looked like a 3-year adventure to me, given her prognosis and diagnosis. So this is the first year IMHO to 'think' about her, and 2017 she seems a solid pick. Means she's dead by Sunday. ​