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[Paul Bearer 6,102]

5 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

 

In a twist no one saw coming, Kirk overtook Leah by one vote before proceeding to die the next day.

Or did he? 

[Joey Russ 7,228]

On 20/04/2018 at 11:39, Joey Russ said:

Here are the surviving people by there debut year:

1987 - Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)

1989 - Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (4/28)

1990 - Queen Elizabeth, Peter Alliss, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/25)

1991 - Leo Beenhakker (1/21)

1992 - Shaun Ryder (1/21)

1993 - Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/30)

1994 - Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/24)

1995 - Sean Connery (1/14)

1996 - Mr T (1/14)

1997 - (0/12) Last Survivor was Kirk Douglas 

1998 - (0/14) Last Survivor was General Jaruzelski 

1999 - Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/15)

2000 - Louis Farrakhan (1/13)

2001 - Desmond Tutu, Liza Minelli (2/18)

2002 - (0/18) Last Survivor was Ian Brady

2003 - (0/7) Last Survivor was Harry Morgan

2004 - Pervez Musharraf (1/6)

2005 - Diego Maradona, Hamed Karzai, Olivia de Havilland (3/18)

2006 - Vera Lynn, Abdelaziz Bouteflika (2/18)

2007 - Tim Johnson (1/14)

2008 - Russell Watson, Charles Taylor (2/13)

2009 - Pierre Cardin (1/17)

2010 - John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/14)

2011 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/15)

2012 - Nigel Lawson, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/14)

2013 - Prince Philip (1/18)

2014 - Wilko Johnson, Ed Asner (2/14)

2015 - Leslie Phillips, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (2/12)

2016 - Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (8/16)

2017 - Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Jill Gascoine, Bob Barker, Ian St John, David Prowse, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (8/18)

2018 - Linda Nolan, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, June Brown, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell (8/14)

2019 - Jerry Stiller, Alan Greenspan, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Little Richard, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (13/18)

2020 - Leon Spinks, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Imelda Marcos, Carl Reiner, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean Marie Le Pen, William H Gates, David Attenborough, Peter Suttclife (14/17)

It's an update.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Trying to distract myself from an upcoming dental appointment. If I'm correct, the only episode of Blankety Blank where every panellist is dead is 23 October 1982 - Lynsey De Paul, Fenella Fielding, Clement Freud, John Junkin, Wendy Richard, Ted Rogers

 

 

Episodes of Blankety Blank with only one panelist still alive:

 

9 November 1984 - Keith Barron, Kirsten Cooke, Pat Coombs, John Junkin, Roy Kinnear, Wendy Richard

17 September 1983 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Lynsey de Paul, Ruth Madoc, Nicholas Parsons, Kathy Staff, Freddie Starr

11 September 1982 - Pat Coombs, Jack Douglas, Kenny Everett, Anita Harris, Patrick Moore, Wendy Richard

13 December 1979 - Pat Coombs, Jack Douglas, Judy Geeson, Keith Harris, David Jacobs, Beryl Reid

 

Two names proved hard to track down. Annabel Etkind has deleted all trace of her past as a harpist and light entertainer, and now works in children's nutrition. However, the whereabouts of Lennie Bennett's one-time comedy partner Albert Pontefract seems to be unknown. Anyone got an idea?

 

UPDATE: If this is the same Albert Pontefract (and it matches up with this and Bennett himself living in Lancashire), then he died in January.

[Dying Probably 579]

Of course there's already a topic for it. *sigh*

Statistics I've found that people, knowing my luck, already know:

• The closest we've come to a full knock-out of the top 5 is in 2013, 2016 and 2020, with 4/5 deaths.
• The largest "red rows" (consecutive listings all dying) were in 2017, with the deaths of the bottom 4, Joost van der Westhuisen, Mary Tyler Moore, Errol Christie and Ian Brady, as well as 2-5 dying this year.

[Drewsky1211 4,757]

The oldest debut names for each year:

Spoiler

1987: Andres Segovia, 94 (d. 1987)

1989: Jim Joel, 95 (d. 1992)

1990: George Burns, 94 (d. 1996)

1991: Deng Xiaoping, 87 (d. 1997)

1992: Kitty Godfree, 96 (d. 1992)

1993: Rose Kennedy, 103 (d. 1995)

1994: Hastings Banda, 96 (d. 1997)

1995: Princess Alice of Gloucester, 94 (d. 2004)

1996: Lord Longford, 91 (d. 2001)

1997: Billy Wilder, 91 (d. 2002)

1998: Joan Hickson, 92 (d. 1998)

1999: Max Schmeling, 94 (d. 2005)

2000: Ninette de Valois, 102 (d. 2001)

2001: Estee Lauder, 95 (d. 2004)

2002: W Clement Stone, 100 (d. 2002)

2003: Strom Thurmond, 101 (d. 2003)

2004: Dom Mintoff, 88 (d. 2012)

2005: Brooke Astor, 103 (d. 2007)

2006: Charles Lane, 101 (d. 2007)

2007: Ruby Muhammad, 100 (d. 2011)

2008: Richard Widmark, 94 (d. 2008)

2009: Joao Havelange, 93 (d. 2016)

2010: Erich Priebke, 97 (d. 2013)

2011: Michael Gough, 95 (d. 2011)

2012: PD James, 92 (d. 2014)

2013: Gough Whitlam, 97 (d. 2014)

2014: Luise Rainer, 104 (d. 2014)

2015: Kirk Kerkorian, 98 (d. 2015)

2016: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 94 (d. 2016)

2017: David Rockefeller, 102 (d. 2017)

2018: Barbara Bush, 93 (d. 2018)

2019: Tony Britton, 95 (d. 2019)

2020: Carl Reiner, 98 (d. 2020)

2021: Tom Moore, 101 (d. 2021)

2022: Desmond Morris, 94 (alive)

2023: Norman Lear, 101 (d. 2023)

2024: Glynis Johns, 101 (d. 2024)

 

In contrast, the youngest:

Spoiler

1987: Andrea de Cesaris, 28 (d. 2014)

1989: Frank Bruno, 28 (alive)

1990: Oprah Winfrey, 36 (alive)

1991: Leo Beenhakker, 49 (alive)

1992: Red Rum, 27 (d. 1995) [only non-human on the list (a horse)]

1993: George Lineker, 1 (alive) [only minor on the list]

1994: Holly Johnson, 34 (alive)

1995: Richard Pryor, 55 (d. 2005)

1996: Mr. T, 44 (alive)

1997: Mobutu Sese Seko, 67 (d. 1997)

1998: Anne Haddy, 68 (d. 1999)

1999: Nick Leeson, 32 (alive)

2000: John Diamond, 47 (d. 2001)

2001: Liza Minnelli, 55 (alive)

2002: Osama bin Laden, 45 (d. 2011)

2003: Barry Sheene, 53 (d. 2003)

2004: Pervez Musharraf, 61 (d. 2023)

2005: Diego Maradona, 45 (d. 2020)

2006: Muhammad Ali, 64 (d. 2016)

2007: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, 53 (d. 2015)

2008: Russell Watson, 42 (alive)

2009: Seve Ballesteros, 52 (d. 2011)

2010: Laurent Fignon, 50 (d. 2010)

2011: Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen, 60 (d. 2014)

2012: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, 40 (alive)

2013: Bernie Nolan, 53 (d. 2013)

2014: Joost van der Westhuizen, 43 (d. 2017)

2015: Martin Crowe, 53 (d. 2016)

2016: Paul Gascoigne, 49 (alive)

2017: Leah Bracknell, 53 (d. 2019)

2018: Linda Nolan, 59 (alive)

2019: Shane MacGowan, 62 (d. 2023)

2020: Tom Smith, 49 (d. 2022)

2021: Shannen Doherty, 50 (d. 2024)

2022: Bill Turnbull, 66 (d. 2022)

2023: Andy Taylor, 62 (alive)

2024: Derek Draper, 57 (d. 2024)

 

[The Great Cornholio 902]

Joey's list - updated as of: 23/09/20

 

The surviving people by their debut year:

 

1987 - Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)

1989 - Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (4/28)

1990 - Queen Elizabeth, Peter Alliss, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/25)

1991 - Leo Beenhakker (1/21)

1992 - Shaun Ryder (1/21)

1993 - Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/30)

1994 - Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/24)

1995 - Sean Connery (1/14)

1996 - Mr T (1/14)

1997 - (0/12) Last Survivor was Kirk Douglas 

1998 - (0/14) Last Survivor was General Jaruzelski 

1999 - Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/15)

2000 - Louis Farrakhan (1/13)

2001 - Desmond Tutu, Liza Minelli (2/18)

2002 - (0/18) Last Survivor was Ian Brady

2003 - (0/7) Last Survivor was Harry Morgan

2004 - Pervez Musharraf (1/6)

2005 - Diego Maradona, Hamed Karzai, (2/18)

2006 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/18)

2007 - Tim Johnson (1/14)

2008 - Russell Watson, Charles Taylor (2/13)

2009 - Pierre Cardin (1/17)

2010 - John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/14)

2011 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/15)

2012 - Nigel Lawson, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/14)

2013 - Prince Philip (1/18)

2014 - Wilko Johnson, Ed Asner (2/14)

2015 - Leslie Phillips, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (2/12)

2016 - Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (8/16)

2017 - Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Bob Barker, Ian St John, David Prowse, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (7/18)

2018 - Linda Nolan, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, June Brown, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell (8/14)

2019 - Alan Greenspan, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (11/18)

2020 - Leon Spinks, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough, Peter Suttclife (11/17)

[The Great Cornholio 902]

Just out of interest, what are all of the rank names someone can achieve in DL forum?

 

I know it starts:

 

Spammer - 1 post

Pointless ranter -3 posts

Morbid interest - 5

Hatchet man - 15

Sniper - 75

Shipman - 250

Executioner - 500

Assassin - 750

Post Twunt - 1000

I need to get a life - 1500

I REALLY need to get a life - 2000

I have no life - 2500

Twunt master - 3000

Uber Twunt - 4000

...

 

Is there a maximum rank or does it just keep going?

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

6 minutes ago, Kenny McCormick said:

Just out of interest, what are all of the rank names someone can achieve in DL forum?

 

I know it starts:

 

Spammer - 1 post

Pointless ranter -3 posts

Morbid interest - 5

Hatchet man - 15

Sniper - 75

Shipman - 250

Executioner - 500

Assassin - 750

Post Twunt - 1000

I need to get a life - 1500

I REALLY need to get a life - 2000

I have no life - 2500

Twunt master - 3000

Uber Twunt - 4000

...

 

Is there a maximum rank or does it just keep going?

Keeps going.  If there are any suggestions for other ranks, let us know.  We'll adjust it.   

[Steve 605]

On 06/08/2020 at 10:13, Kenny McCormick said:

Joey's list - updated as of: 06/08/20

 

The surviving people by their debut year:

 

1987 - Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)

1989 - Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (4/28)

1990 - Queen Elizabeth, Peter Alliss, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/25)

1991 - Leo Beenhakker (1/21)

1992 - Shaun Ryder (1/21)

1993 - Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/30)

1994 - Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/24)

1995 - Sean Connery (1/14)

1996 - Mr T (1/14)

1997 - (0/12) Last Survivor was Kirk Douglas 

1998 - (0/14) Last Survivor was General Jaruzelski 

1999 - Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/15)

2000 - Louis Farrakhan (1/13)

2001 - Desmond Tutu, Liza Minelli (2/18)

2002 - (0/18) Last Survivor was Ian Brady

2003 - (0/7) Last Survivor was Harry Morgan

2004 - Pervez Musharraf (1/6)

2005 - Diego Maradona, Hamed Karzai, (2/18)

2006 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/18)

2007 - Tim Johnson (1/14)

2008 - Russell Watson, Charles Taylor (2/13)

2009 - Pierre Cardin (1/17)

2010 - John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/14)

2011 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/15)

2012 - Nigel Lawson, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/14)

2013 - Prince Philip (1/18)

2014 - Wilko Johnson, Ed Asner (2/14)

2015 - Leslie Phillips, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (2/12)

2016 - Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (8/16)

2017 - Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Jill Gascoine, Bob Barker, Ian St John, David Prowse, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (8/18)

2018 - Linda Nolan, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, June Brown, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell (8/14)

2019 - Alan Greenspan, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (11/18)

2020 - Leon Spinks, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean Marie Le Pen, William H Gates, David Attenborough, Peter Suttclife (13/17)

2017 - Jill Gascoine no longer with us to provide a Gentle Touch. She passed away on 28th April 2020

[The Great Cornholio 902]

11 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

Keeps going.  If there are any suggestions for other ranks, let us know.  We'll adjust it.   

So the tag just stays as Uber Twunt when someone moves up past 4,000 posts i take it

[msc 18,479]

51 minutes ago, Kenny McCormick said:

So the tag just stays as Uber Twunt when someone moves up past 4,000 posts i take it

 

It moved to something else at 8000. I forget what but it was the reminder for me to go ask for a custom one instead.

[Bucket Kicker 3]

I've worked up some data about the trends this year, if you'd like to look at another cut or have any questions please let me know.

 

Today is Friday Sept 11 2020,  this is day number 252 this (leap) year. The record deaths per year is 17, to beat this in 2020 DL must reach 18. As of today, there are 12 successes. It has been 48 days since the last death on July 26 (this is the longest span between deaths this year). On July 26, DL had a success on average every 17.25 days. If a death occurs today, the average span will be 19.4 days. At this same rate, DL will reach 17.23 successes. 

 

In other words, we're facing a crisis here and every day we do not have a success we are less and less likely to reach our goal.

 

Below, orange represents the count, gray the trend, and yellow the record to beat. 

 

 

[Joey Russ 7,228]

[TQR 14,402]

Yeah marvellous. If only there were a Statistics thread for this kind of thing.

[The Great Cornholio 902]

3 hours ago, Bucket Kicker said:

I've worked up some data about the trends this year, if you'd like to look at another cut or have any questions please let me know.

 

Today is Friday Sept 11 2020,  this is day number 252 this (leap) year. The record deaths per year is 17, to beat this in 2020 DL must reach 18. As of today, there are 12 successes. It has been 48 days since the last death on July 26 (this is the longest span between deaths this year). On July 26, DL had a success on average every 17.25 days. If a death occurs today, the average span will be 19.4 days. At this same rate, DL will reach 17.23 successes. 

 

In other words, we're facing a crisis here and every day we do not have a success we are less and less likely to reach our goal.

 

Below, orange represents the count, gray the trend, and yellow the record to beat. 

 

 

As for presentation and delivery, you get a 10. As for correctly locating the Statistics thread, you get a 1.

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

50 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:

Yeah marvellous. If only there were a Statistics thread for this kind of thing.

Cheers Quim,. Merged. 

[paddyfool 379]

On 11/09/2020 at 18:56, Bucket Kicker said:

I've worked up some data about the trends this year, if you'd like to look at another cut or have any questions please let me know.

 

Today is Friday Sept 11 2020,  this is day number 252 this (leap) year. The record deaths per year is 17, to beat this in 2020 DL must reach 18. As of today, there are 12 successes. It has been 48 days since the last death on July 26 (this is the longest span between deaths this year). On July 26, DL had a success on average every 17.25 days. If a death occurs today, the average span will be 19.4 days. At this same rate, DL will reach 17.23 successes. 

 

In other words, we're facing a crisis here and every day we do not have a success we are less and less likely to reach our goal.

 

Below, orange represents the count, gray the trend, and yellow the record to beat. 

 

 

 

Indeed. And given the historical average from recent previous years, we'd only expect one death every 25 or 30 days. Otoh, there are plenty of low-hanging fruit yet, none of them are getting any younger, and roughly 34 / 38 of them live in a country that's soon to begin its annual winter mortality rate increase. Never mind the effects of COVID, both direct and indirect (through health service disruption etc). For instance, the overall weekly mortality rate in the USA is currently about 15-20% higher than previous years (based on eyeballing the graph here, although it would help if they had a long term weekly average line as well as the "is this week in excess of what we'd normally expect" line: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm). 

 

Could go either way. 

[msc 18,479]

The problem with trying to chart these things of course as a prediction of future events is that death is never regular in its patterns. I've seen 4 month Deathlist dry spells and 4-5 hits in one month, sometimes in the same year...

[paddyfool 379]

Update to Bucket Kicker's stats: with 104 more days this year, and being 4 deaths short of a record 18, the required rate for a new record would now be a pretty average one death every 26 days.  (The rate so far this year having been one death every 19 days).  Imho, once you factor in winter mortality and the COVID effect, the odds on a new record have shifted to better than even.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

On 23/12/2017 at 22:00, Joey Russ said:

103 - Ruby Muhammad

97 - John Kenneth Galbraith

96 - Jack Jones, Dom Mintoff, Nicholas Parsons

95 - Ernest Borgnine, Benny Carter, Buddy Ebsen, Doris Speed

94 - Doug Ellis, Les Paul, Pete Seeger  

93 - Frankie Laine, Fred Pontin

92 - John Forsythe, Ravi Shankar, Frank Thornton  

91 - Victor Borge, Baroness Castle, Geoffrey Dickens, Tom Finney, Bob Godfrey, Oral Roberts  

90 - Chuck Berry, General Jaruzelski, Jack Klugman, Shaw Taylor, Stanley Unwin, Mary Wesley, Jane Wyman, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

89 - Red Auerbach, Stephane Grappelli, Harper Lee, Bill Maynard, Arthur Miller, Patrick Moore, Elaine Stritch  

88 - Perry Como, Alfredo di Stefano, John Lee Hooker, Kenneth Kendall, Bert Millichip, Robert, M Pirsig, Dame Muriel Spark, King Taufa'ahau Tupou    

87 - Thor Heyerdahl, Helmut Kohl, Malcolm Muggeridge, Jack Palance, Little Richard

86 - Robert Dougall, James Garner, Alec Guinness, Ayatollah Khomeini, Anthony Quinn, Gore Vidal   

85 - Don Ameche, Gay Byrne, Tony Curtis, Arthur Mullard, Fred Perry, Jeremy Thorpe  

84 - Fred Davis, Harlan Ellison, King Fahd, Jimmy Savile  

83 - Jill Gascoine, Ken Kercheval, Jack Kevorkian, Manuel Noriega, Magnus Pyke, Peter West  

82 - George Chisholm, Jack Hargreaves, Yehudi Menuhin, Johnny Morris, Laurence Olivier

81 - Peter Cushing, Bette Davis, Larry Hagman, Wilf Mannion, Lord Len Murray, Prince Rainier, Willie Whitelaw, Norman Willis

80 - Marlon Brando, Basil D'Oliveira, Joe Fagan, Stewart Granger, George Steinbrenner  

79 - Tariq Aziz, Johnny Carson, Lord Goodman, Claire Rayner, Lord Harold Wilson

78 - Denis Compton, Eddie Large, Peter Wright

77 - John Arlott, Bob Paisley, Frank Muir, Beryl Reid, Peter Tork 

76 - Corazon Aquino, Ronnie Barker, Aretha Franklin, Bernard Manning, Jon Pertwee, Boris Yeltsin

75 - Yasser Arafat, Kenneth Connor, Vaclav Havel  

73 - Charles Bukowski

71 - Princess Margaret, Joan Sims

70 - Alexander Dubcek, John Paul Getty Jr

69 - Captain Beefheart, Brian Clough, Julian Critchley, Saddam Hussein, Evel Knievel  

68 - Anne Haddy, Geoffrey Hughes

67 - Hunter S Thompson

66 - Terry Pratchett

63 - Stan Flashman, Leighton Rees

62 - Fergie Frederiksen

61 - Elizabeth Edwards, Alex Higgins, Rowdy Roddy Piper

60 - Anne Kirkbride

55 - Andrea de Cesaris, John Smith

54 - Seve Ballesteros, Osama bin Laden

53 - Jerry Garcia

50 - Marti Caine

30 - Red Rum

It’s an update on missed survivors. The fact that Nicholas Parsons was left off is still super annoying and shameful. 

[The Great Cornholio 902]

43 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

It’s an update on missed survivors. The fact that Nicholas Parsons was left off is still super annoying and shameful. 

Lets just take a moment to appreciate the effort and dedication that has gone into literally going through every single year and listing every single person who has been on the list who has died while off the list.

[Great Uncle Bulgaria 1,290]

9 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

91 - Victor Borge, Baroness Castle, Geoffrey Dickens, Tom Finney, Bob Godfrey, Oral Roberts

Margaret Thatcher's nickname at University?

 

Apologies if this is turns out to be a 29-year old joke which someone on here originated...

[The Great Cornholio 902]

On 12/08/2020 at 22:11, Kenny McCormick said:

Just out of interest, what are all of the rank names someone can achieve in DL forum?

 

I know it starts:

 

Spammer - 1 post

Pointless ranter -3 posts

Morbid interest - 5

Hatchet man - 15

Sniper - 75

Shipman - 250

Executioner - 500

Assassin - 750

Post Twunt - 1000

I need to get a life - 1500

I REALLY need to get a life - 2000

I have no life - 2500

Twunt master - 3000

Uber Twunt - 4000

...

 

Is there a maximum rank or does it just keep going?

Edit: 

 

I missed out Bomber (starts at 150 posts)

 

Also I'm pretty sure the 8000 one is 'zombie'

[The Great Cornholio 902]

On 06/08/2020 at 10:13, Kenny McCormick said:

Joey's list - updated as of: 23/09/20

 

The surviving people by their debut year:

 

1987 - Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)

1989 - Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (4/28)

1990 - Queen Elizabeth, Peter Alliss, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (5/25)

1991 - Leo Beenhakker (1/21)

1992 - Shaun Ryder (1/21)

1993 - Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/30)

1994 - Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/24)

1995 - Sean Connery (1/14)

1996 - Mr T (1/14)

1997 - (0/12) Last Survivor was Kirk Douglas 

1998 - (0/14) Last Survivor was General Jaruzelski 

1999 - Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/15)

2000 - Louis Farrakhan (1/13)

2001 - Desmond Tutu, Liza Minelli (2/18)

2002 - (0/18) Last Survivor was Ian Brady

2003 - (0/7) Last Survivor was Harry Morgan

2004 - Pervez Musharraf (1/6)

2005 - Diego Maradona, Hamed Karzai, (2/18)

2006 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1/18)

2007 - Tim Johnson (1/14)

2008 - Russell Watson, Charles Taylor (2/13)

2009 - Pierre Cardin (1/17)

2010 - John Edrich, Frank Bough, Angela Lansbury (3/14)

2011 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (4/15)

2012 - Nigel Lawson, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/14)

2013 - Prince Philip (1/18)

2014 - Wilko Johnson, Ed Asner (2/14)

2015 - Leslie Phillips, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (2/12)

2016 - Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne (8/16)

2017 - Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Bob Barker, Ian St John, David Prowse, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (7/18)

2018 - Linda Nolan, Stanley Baxter, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mel Brooks, June Brown, Ronnie Wood, Olivia Newton-John, Joni Mitchell (8/14)

2019 - Alan Greenspan, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Sidney Poitier, Cleo Laine, Loretta Lynn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Larry King, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (11/18)

2020 - Leon Spinks, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Alex Trebek, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Tom Smith, Jean Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough, Peter Suttclife (11/17)

Updated.

[Drewsky1211 4,757]

On 22/09/2020 at 04:21, Grim Up North said:

There is one DL record that surprisingly the 2020 cull has not yet beaten - the total years on Death List of those that have died in the year.

 

After 14 deaths including such big hitters as O de H (13 years), Kirk (18 years) and Vera (12 years) you would have thought 2020 would have nailed this over all previous lists.

 

However it currently sits with a total of 72 years of Death List entries for its dead due to a lot of virgin appearances dying (6) balancing the average.

 

2004 with only 12 hits including Ronald Reagan (14 years) and Alistair Cooke (10 years) still currently hangs on to the record with 73 years of Death List entries for its dead. Only Rodney Dangerfield was a virgin appearance of those that died in 2004.

 

There are still 11 first timers surviving on the 2020 list that means it might still take two more deaths to break this record.

 

Here's the full list.

 

Spoiler

89: 2020

73: 2004

70: 2012

62: 2023

59: 2005, 2017

54: 2003

53: 2016

45: 2013, 2018

44: 2006, 2015

41: 2014, 2019, 2021

39: 1997

38: 2008, 2010

36: 2000, 2007

35: 2002, 2022

33: 2001

31: 2009

30: 1999

23: 1998

22: 1996

21: 1995

20: 2011

19: 1994

9: 1992

7: 1993

6: 2024*

4: 1989

3: 1990

1: 1987

0: 1991

?: 1988

Accurate as of July 18, 2024