Ideas And Possibilities For 2018

[Sir Creep 7,013]

24 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Dukes of Hazzard star Tom Wopat has been arrested for indecent assault.

How does that make him any closer to death and one to watch, which is the crux of this thread?

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

I did a DOH and Tom Wopat search but nothing came up so I poseted it here. Involvement with the law enforcement agencies is always a useful indicator for underlying problems. cf Tiger Woods.

 

Alternative answer: He looks like he has been fashioned from pure lard and I couldn't be arsed to look for stars being arrested thread. 

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Norma Miller is the last known surviving member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, the legendary 1930s dance troupe who performed at the Savoy. Now 97, she still keeps an updated Facebook page and even travelled to Italy earlier this year to perform as part of a show to celebrate 103 years since Frankie Manning's birth.

 

Guaranteed Reuters obit I would have assumed.

[runebomme 376]

a man of knowledge who lays on a moving iron seat

 

A young boy who wants to be king but the south of the realm he does not have

 

the man who grew peanuts but then became a king

 

 

[runebomme 376]

each line describes a person for the list I thought it would be obvious

[Joey Russ 7,119]

1 minute ago, runebomme said:

each line describes a person for the list I thought it would be obvious

Sorry, we don't understand riddles.

[msc 17,761]

2 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Sorry, we don't understand riddles.

 

Need more men of knowledge on moving iron seats.

 

 

[Death Impends 7,367]

Stephen Hawking, no clue, and Jimmy Carter?

[runebomme 376]

yes

[msc 17,761]

2 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

Stephen Hawking, no clue, and Jimmy Carter?

 

Oh, Kim jong the current one.

 

I mix up the North Korean leaders.

[runebomme 376]

yes

[Sir Creep 7,013]

So let me get this straight, newbie.
You're listing people who are on the list as possibilities to be put on the list?

I know I know:  yes

[Deadpool 163]

I would like to see the deathlist breaking the record. .. but not only 15... I would like to see 24-26 hits... its that possible? 

[runebomme 376]

ww3?

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

On 05/08/2017 at 01:14, runebomme said:

a man of knowledge who lays on a moving iron seat

 

A young boy who wants to be king but the south of the realm he does not have

 

the man who grew peanuts but then became a king

 

 

Ok here is a cryptic clue to someone on this years list.

 

A mix up during an early kickoff against a Northampton postcode shows love for her measured in Newtons.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Ok here is a cryptic clue to someone on this years list.

 

A mix up during an early kickoff against a Northampton postcode shows love for her measured in Newtons.

please don't feed the troll and hijack a thread.

[runebomme 376]

10 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Ok here is a cryptic clue to someone on this years list.

 

A mix up during an early kickoff against a Northampton postcode shows love for her measured in Newtons.

Vera Lynn?

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

11 hours ago, runebomme said:

Vera Lynn?

Absolutely right.

[GossipGabe 333]

On 2017. 08. 05. at 23:14, Deadpool said:

I would like to see the deathlist breaking the record. .. but not only 15... I would like to see 24-26 hits... its that possible? 

15 would certainly seem possible, many people thought that this year's selection with a fair amount of centenarians (Kirk Douglas, Herman Wouk etc.) and terminal cases (Joost van der Westhuizen, Errol Christie, Leah Bracknell) had the potential to break the record. Now that it is only at 7 in August, that seems a little bit less likely, but a cold Autumn/Winter and a flu epidemic could still boost DL's record chances.

 

On the other hand, I think a success rate as high as 50% would require giving up the current (both written and implicit) selection (inclusion/exclusion) criteria (choosing "fairly ill" or "fairly old" household names [think Ken Kercheval in 2015] over terminal celebs not-well-known in the UK [think Mário Soares]; not dropping very old but healthy people whose death would be regarded as a terrible miss [think HM Elizabeth II] etc.)

[Joey Russ 7,119]

I wonder if 14 is that unbreakable ceiling that deathlist can never break. Or, it could be setting up for a massive year in 2018 with survivors from this year plus household names that are good bets to make the list (i.e. Newton-John, McCain, Wood etc). I'm starting to think that it's the latter...

[Grim Up North 3,565]

17 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I wonder if 14 is that unbreakable ceiling that deathlist can never break. Or, it could be setting up for a massive year in 2018 with survivors from this year plus household names that are good bets to make the list (i.e. Newton-John, McCain, Wood etc). I'm starting to think that it's the latter...

If we got no more hits this year (unlikely) then keeping the 'soon to die' survivors in from this year plus all the 'too big to miss' names might start getting tricky. For me losing some of the 'too big to miss' names would be no bad thing.

 

There will always be plenty of room for the new names.

 

In other words which 18 names would you currently drop for next year. 

 

I'd go for

1) Pierre Cardin

2) Javier Perez de Cuellar

3) Betty White

4) Doug Ellis

5) Honor Blackman

6) David Prowse

7) Sandy Gall

8) Pope Benedict

9) Emperor Akihito

10) Valerie Harper

 

on a first run through then I get a bit stuck looking for another 8.

 

The list needs some more deaths to make it easier to drop names out. 

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

3 hours ago, GossipGabe said:

15 would certainly seem possible, many people thought that this year's selection with a fair amount of centenarians (Kirk Douglas, Herman Wouk etc.) and terminal cases (Joost van der Westhuizen, Errol Christie, Leah Bracknell) had the potential to break the record. Now that it is only at 7 in August, that seems a little bit less likely, but a cold Autumn/Winter and a flu epidemic could still boost DL's record chances.

 

On the other hand, I think a success rate as high as 50% would require giving up the current (both written and implicit) selection (inclusion/exclusion) criteria (choosing "fairly ill" or "fairly old" household names [think Ken Kercheval in 2015] over terminal celebs not-well-known in the UK [think Mário Soares]; not dropping very old but healthy people whose death would be regarded as a terrible miss [think HM Elizabeth II] etc.)

Though we wouldn't want the Deathlist to become like Celebrity Big Brother with most people having no idea who the people on the list were.

[Sean 5,997]

My latest 2018 DL suggestions:

Keep:

1)Kirk Douglas

2)Billy Graham

3)Herman Wouk

4)Jake LaMotta

5)Gord Downie 

6)Leah Bracknell

7)Nobby Stiles

8)King Michael of Romania 

9)George H W Bush

10)Jerry Lewis

11)Prince Philip

12)Tony Booth

13)Jill Gascoine

14)Glen Campbell

15)Olivia de Havilland

16)Vera Lynn

17)Peter Carrington

18)Javier Perez de Cuellar

19)Fats Domino

20)Desmond Tutu

21)Leslie Phillips

22)Denis Norden

23)Stan Lee

24)Pierre Cardin

25)Liz Dawn

 

Bring back:

1)Clive James

2)Murray Walker

3)Charles Aznavour

4)Nicholas Parsons

5)Jimmy Greaves

6)Gordon Banks

7)Stephen Hawking

8)Jacques Chirac

9)James Randi

10)Aretha Franklin

11)Paul Gascoigne 

12)Ray Kennedy

13)Prunella Scales

 

New entries:

1)Linda Nolan

2)Shane MacGowan

3)Kenny Sansom

4)Gerd Muller

5)Martin Peters

6)Ray Wilson

7)Trevor Peacock

8)John McCain

9)Johnny Hallyday

10)Jose Jose

11)Colin Meads

12)Stefan Karl Stefansson

 

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

That list contains a lot of football players and no Bernard Hepton.

[Joey Russ 7,119]

7 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

That list contains a lot of football players and no Bernard Hepton.

No Ronnie Wood either...