Think You're Better Than The Committee?

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Here's my attempt, put together in about ten minutes last night.

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Clive James
3. Kirk Douglas
4. Lord Carrington
5. Billy Graham
6. Prince Phillip
7. Fidel Castro
8. Sister Wendy Beckett
9. Rabbi Lionel Blue
10. Ronnie Corbett
11. Geoffrey Bayldon
12. Bob Dole
13. Harrison Birtwistle
14. Martin Crowe
15. Robert Hardy
16. Willie Nelson
17. Little Richard
18. Pope Benedict Emeritus
19. Rob Ford
20. Jerry Lee Lewis
21. Stephen Hawking
22. Vera Lynn
23. Stan Lee
24. Ian Brady
25. Peter Maxwell-Davis
26. Denis Norden
27. Robert Mugabe
28. Jenny Diski
29. June Brown
30. Muhammad Ali
31. Eddie Large
32. Jake Lamotta
33. Honor Blackman
34. Nobby Stiles
35. Burt Reynolds
36. Tommy Chong
37. Glen Campbell
38. Howard Marks
39. Herman Wouk
40. Christy Dignam
41. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
42. Norma Waterson
43. Alan Bennett
44. Dez Cadena
45. Baroness Trumpington
46. Dennis Skinner
47. Judith Kerr
48. Diana Athill
49. Stuart Hall
50. David Bellamy

[Weebl 216]

Better late than never!

 

1. Zsa Zsa Gabor
2. Martin Crowe
3. Joao Havelange
4. Olivia de Haviland
5. Bhumibol Adulyadej
6. Alistair Urquhart
7. Vera Lynn
8. Billy Graham
9. Jacque Fresco
10. Howard Marks
11. Raymond Smullyan
12. Javier Perez de Cuellar
13. Prince Philip
14. Fidel Castro
15. Kirk Douglas
16. Oscar Brand
17. Richard Adams
18. Helmut Kohl
19. George Gaynes
20. Herman Wouk
21. Fats Domino
22. Dick Van Dyke
23. Joni Mitchell
24. Gudrun Ure
25. Benedict XVI
26. Pierre Cardin
27. Stan Lee
28. Mikhail Gorbachev
29. Jean-Marie Le Pen
30. Muhammad Ali
31. Burt Kwouk
32. Zhou Youguang
33. Abe Vigoda
34. Chuck Berry
35. Robert Mugabe
36. Hosni Mubarak
37. Nancy Reagan
38. Cliff Michelmore
39. Henry Kissinger
40. Jimmy Carter
41. George Bush Sr.
42. Bob Dole
43. Harper Lee
44. Desmond Morris
45. Piet de Jong
46. I. M. Pei
47. Doris Day
48. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
49. John Wetton
50. Bruce Forsyth

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

I guess I'll send my ideas here,

 

1.) Zsa Zsa Gabor

2.) Betty White

3.) Stan Lee

4.) Hugh Hefner

5.) George A. Romero

6.) Jacob Rothchild

7.) David Rockerfeller

8.) I.M. Pei

9.) Desmond Tutu

10.) Queen Elizabeth

11.) Henry Kissenger

12.) Prince Phillip

13.) Abdullah the Butcher

14.) Dalai Lama

15.) Boutros Boutros Ghali

16.) Richard Chamberlain

17.) Abe Vigoda

18.) Buzz Aldrin

19.) Muhammad Ali

20.) Stephan Hawking

21.) Tim Curry

22.) Jane Goodall

23.) M. Emmet Walsh

24.) Mace Neufeld

25.) Christopher Plummer

26.) Honor Blackman

27.) Rev. Billy Graham

28.) Marion Ross

29.) Donald Trump

30.) Sirhan Sirhan

31.) Charles Manson

32.) Dynamite Kid

33.) "Superstar" Billy Graham

34.) David Letterman

35.) Diana Riggs

36.) Fidel Castro

37.) Kim Jung-Un

38.) George Jung

39.) John Astin

40.) Ian McCulloch

41.) R. Lee Ermey

42.) F. Lee Bailey

43.) George Bush Sr.

44.) Nancy Reagan

45.) Jules Bass

46.) Jimmy Carter

47.) Charlie Sheen

48.) Bob Newhart

49.) Gene Wilder

50.) Woody Allen

 

Just number, so that I didn't actually go over 50, not in any actual particular order.

Which Ian McCulloch do you mean? The scottish actor or the singer?

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

See my status.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

The Committee are amateurs.

I guarantee both 6 hits in 6 weeks as well as more hits than DL or I won't post 2017.

While I posted my list with actual SICK people they'll be running out hackneyed popular names.

SirC

Feb 10 scorecard:

 

SirCreep 5

Amateur Committee 1

[Guest Guest]

I wonder what the age breakdown of the committee is. I guess tha average member is a grumpy white English male in his mid seventies, just like the typical Republican voter from Iowa (save being an Englishman, of course)

[RadGuy 1,614]

 

The Committee are amateurs.

I guarantee both 6 hits in 6 weeks as well as more hits than DL or I won't post 2017.

While I posted my list with actual SICK people they'll be running out hackneyed popular names.

SirC

Feb 10 scorecard:

 

SirCreep 5

Amateur Committee 1

Well ya did stuff your team with a bunch of nobodies. The Deathlist wouldn't add people like Hooker or Feek.

[Weebl 216]

So how did we all do?

 

With 3 days left of 2016, I scored 18/50. The only hit the committee got that I didn't get was Liz Smith. Admittedly, a few of my picks were possibly not UK obitable, but they definitely died.

 

Although it's pretty amazing given people like George Michael and Carrie Fisher have been dying, yet apparently the likes of Peter Sallis and Billy Graham will last the year. Anyway...

 

We should use this thread to post our own personal list of picks for 2017 starting January 1st (not before)!

[RadGuy 1,614]

I got 13/50. Was ahead by 3 but Liz Smith and Richard Adams reduced the deficit to 1.

[Weebl 216]

I got 13/50. Was ahead by 3 but Liz Smith and Richard Adams reduced the deficit to 1.

 

That's not bad - this past week has been quite shockingly fast with the deaths of Rick Parfitt, George Michael and Carrie Fisher making the deaths of poor old 90-somethings Liz Smith and Richard Adams look like non-events in comparison...

[Joey Russ 7,220]

I'm currently at 0/0. Then again, I didn't join until June

[Weebl 216]

 

 

The Committee are amateurs.

I guarantee both 6 hits in 6 weeks as well as more hits than DL or I won't post 2017.

While I posted my list with actual SICK people they'll be running out hackneyed popular names.

SirC

Feb 10 scorecard:

 

SirCreep 5

Amateur Committee 1

Well ya did stuff your team with a bunch of nobodies. The Deathlist wouldn't add people like Hooker or Feek.

 

 

They had Ruby Muhammad in 2007...

[RadGuy 1,614]

I am proud to announce my 2017 attempt:

1) King Michael I of Romania
2) Mario Soares
3) George H. W. Bush
4) Tony Booth
5) Gay Byrne
6) Billy Graham
7) Joe Jackson
8) Oskar Groening
9) Bill Macy
10) Zhou Youguang
11) Queen Sirikit
12) Rose Marie
13) Nanette Fabray
14) Roberta McCain
15) Norman Lloyd
16) Peter Sallis
17) Bob Dole
18) George P. Shultz
19) Pope Benedict XVI
20) Beverly Clearly
21) Joanne Woodward
22) Leslie Phillips
23) Joost van der Westhuizen
24) Ian Brady
25) Virginia McCaskey
26) Sidney Poitier
27) Robert Mugabe
28) Chuck Berry
29) Desmond Tutu
30) Dilip Kumar
31) Kirk Douglas
32) Giorgio Napolitano
33) Glen Campbell
34) Vera Lynn
35) Bill Daily
36) Zbigniew Brzezinski
37) Fats Domino
38) Carl Reiner
39) Mary Tyler Moore
40) Joseph Wapner
41) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
42) Norman Lear
43) Cloris Leachman
44) Buzz Aldrin
45) Clive James
46) Mel Brooks
47) Jimmy Carter
48) Val Kilmer
49) Olivia de Havilland
50) Valerie Harper

[The Unknown Man 584]

Here's my Shadow List for 2017, in no particular order:

 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Bob Barker

Daisy Berkowitz

Tony Booth

Leah Bracknell

George H. W. Bush

Glen Campbell

Lord Peter Carrington

Mary Carlisle

Leslie Caron

Jimmy Carter

Carol Channing

Errol Christie

Doris Day

Olivia de Havilland

Shannen Doherty

Kirk Douglas

Gord Downie

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

June Foray

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Billy Graham

Monty Hall

Valerie Harper

Clive James

Glynis Johns

Helmut Kohl

Jake LaMotta

Jerry Lewis

Vera Lynn

Colin Meads

King Michael of Romania

Mary Tyler Moore

Hosni Mubarak

Robert Mugabe

Yasuhiro Nakasone

Javier Perez de Cuellar

Isabel Peron

Prince Philip

Peter Sallis

Jimmy Snuka

Ian St John

Stefan Karl Stefansson

Nobby Stiles

Lynne Stewart

Joost van der Westhuizen

John Wetton

Herman Wouk

Chuck Yeager

Jiang Zemin

[Deathray 2,940]

My think you're better than the committee team;

 

Keepers

1. Bruce Forsyth
2. Jimmy Carter
3. George H.W Bush
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Clive James
6. Olivia de Haviland
7. Prunella Scales
8. Javier Perez de Cuellar
9. Kirk Douglas
10. Prince Philip
11. James Randi
12. Henry Kissinger
13. Vera Lynn
14. Sandy Gall
15. Fats Domino
16. Glen Campell
17. Stan Lee
18. Jimmy Greaves
19. Gordon Banks
20. Jacques Chirac
21. Murray Walker
22. Robert M Pirsig
23. Jake Lamotta
24. Bob Dole
25. Paul Gascoigne

 

New Blood

 

1. Queen Elizabeth II
2. Gerald Kaufman
3. Pope Benedict Emeritus
4. Sheila Mercier
5. Wille Thorne
6. Ian St John
7. Kenny Sansom
8. David Attenborough
9. William Roache
10. June Brown
11. Michael Fish
12. Chuck Berry
13. Nicholas Parsons
14. Doreen Keogh
15. Michael le Vell
16. Richard O'Sullivan
17. George North
18. Tom Hanks
19. Robert Mugabe
20. Dennis Skinner
21. Tam Dalyell
22. Kofi Annan
23. King Michael of Romania
24. Mikhail Gorbachev
25. Arthur Scargill

 

Subs

1. Lindsay Lohan
2. Sinead O'Connor
3. Rob Kardashian

[Joey Russ 7,220]

Tom Hanks? Did I miss something?

[rockhopper penguin 2,265]

Tom Hanks? Did I miss something?

Only as rhyming slang.

[Predictor 1,018]

Here's my Shadow List for 2017, in no particular order:

 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Bob Barker

Daisy Berkowitz

Tony Booth

Leah Bracknell

George H. W. Bush

Glen Campbell

Lord Peter Carrington

Mary Carlisle

Leslie Caron

Jimmy Carter

Carol Channing

Errol Christie

Doris Day

Olivia de Havilland

Shannen Doherty

Kirk Douglas

Gord Downie

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

June Foray

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Billy Graham

Monty Hall

Valerie Harper

Clive James

Glynis Johns

Helmut Kohl

Jake LaMotta

Jerry Lewis

Vera Lynn

Colin Meads

King Michael of Romania

Mary Tyler Moore

Hosni Mubarak

Robert Mugabe

Yasuhiro Nakasone

Javier Perez de Cuellar

Isabel Peron

Prince Philip

Peter Sallis

Jimmy Snuka

Ian St John

Stefan Karl Stefansson

Nobby Stiles

Lynne Stewart

Joost van der Westhuizen

John Wetton

Herman Wouk

Chuck Yeager

Jiang Zemin

Other than the last name alphabetical, that is...

[Weebl 216]

There seems to be at least 3 different threads serving the same purpose:

 

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8628-think-youre-better-than-the-committee/

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8516-shadow-lists/

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9027-your-2017-list/

 

I will be posting my shadow list for 2017 soon, but am just making some final tweaks at the moment.

[Deathray 2,940]

Shadow lists differ to think you're better than the committee.

 

Think you're better than the committee involves the 25 names cap using names from the previous Deathlist.

Shadowlists involve the 25 names cap using names from your previous shadowlist or the previous deathlist if you haven't got one.

[RadGuy 1,614]

There seems to be at least 3 different threads serving the same purpose:

 

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8628-think-youre-better-than-the-committee/

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8516-shadow-lists/

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/9027-your-2017-list/

 

I will be posting my shadow list for 2017 soon, but am just making some final tweaks at the moment.

Ha! My thread was first!

[Weebl 216]

 

my list -

1 - Petula Clark - singist

2 - Cliff Richard - poser

3 - George Bush - american

4 - president Sadat - Syrian

5 - Hilary Clinton - another american

6 - the king of Tonga

7 - the king of Thailand

8 - Goodluck Jonathan - a Nigerian

9 - Barbara Windsor - a actress

10 - Paul Mcartney - an ex Liverpudlian

11 - Roald Dhal - a B-rate writer

12 - DUKE OF wINDSOR

13 - Neil Kinnock - ex left winger

14 - George Michael

67

 

Utter brilliance. I await the next 14 with baited breath.

 

 

 

He actually got George Michael right!

[Weebl 216]

With 18/50 dead on my list for 2016, and disregarding everything I've said earlier, this is my final version of my own personal list for 2017:

1. Zhou Youguang
2. Michael of Romania
3. Peter Sallis
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Billy Graham

6. Herman Wouk
7. Clare Hollingworth
8. Leah Bracknell
9. Jacque Fresco
10. Olivia de Haviland

11. Vera Lynn
12. Raymond Smullyan
13. Prince Philip
14. Peter Carrington
15. I. M. Pei

16. Javier Perez de Cuellar
17. Fats Domino
18. Jake Lamotta
19. Mario Soares
20. David Rockefeller

21. Pierre Cardin
22. Stan Lee
23. George Bush Sr.
24. Jimmy Carter
25. Robert Mugabe

26. Chuck Berry
27. Hosni Mubarak
28. Ian Brady
29. Henry Kissinger
30. Nicholas Parsons

31. Glen Campbell
32. Timothy Dudley-Smith
33. Doris Day
34. Dick Van Dyke
35. Gudrun Ure

36. Bruce Forsyth
37. Charles Aznavour
38. Tony Bennett
39. Hugh Hefner
40. Benedict XVI

41. Desmond Tutu
42. Gaston Glock
43. Sidney Poitier
44. David Attenborough
45. Jacques Delors

46. Desmond Morris
47. Norman Tebbit
48. John Wetton
49. Rolf Harris
50. Josef Fritzl

This version will be going in my signature. Good luck to everyone!

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

Good luck to you too and what an excellent list.

[Toast 16,137]

 

 

my list -

1 - Petula Clark - singist

2 - Cliff Richard - poser

3 - George Bush - american

4 - president Sadat - Syrian

5 - Hilary Clinton - another american

6 - the king of Tonga

7 - the king of Thailand

8 - Goodluck Jonathan - a Nigerian

9 - Barbara Windsor - a actress

10 - Paul Mcartney - an ex Liverpudlian

11 - Roald Dhal - a B-rate writer

12 - DUKE OF wINDSOR

13 - Neil Kinnock - ex left winger

14 - George Michael

67

 

Utter brilliance. I await the next 14 with baited breath.

 

 

 

He actually got George Michael right!

 

 

He got King Bumboil of Thailand as well