Deathrace 2018

[Sean 6,371]

Death Race Form Guide #17

 

Former Hollywood actress and stunner Suzannah Leigh who worked with Elvis and dated a string of Hollywood men from Richard Harris to Steve McQueen was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer 13 months ago but apparently is down to stage 2 thanks to quack medicine.Sounds like she may be reunited with Elvis soon who she described as her soulmate.

 

 

[Death Impends 8,066]

Deathrace Form Guide #18

 

 

Bob Givens

 

Probably the last person alive to work on early Looney Tunes shorts, Givens had a hand in the early design of their most iconic character, Bugs Bunny, having drawn the reference sheet for the wisecracking wabbit's first official short. Now aged 99, it wouldn't be surprising if he says "what's up" to his docs quite often. Will he soon be a stinker?

[Joey Russ 7,282]

Death Race Form Guide #19

Doug Sandom is a name you probably don't immediately recognize, but he is in fact the drummer of The Who that they later decided to replace with the very much loved Keith Moon. Very much an interesting name all around especially since he's a whopping 87 years of age. Will he join his late drumming legend early next year, or will he continue to be alive during my generation on earth?

[DevonDeathTrip 2,366]

 

Sister Wendy Beckett is a must have for any discerning deadpooler.   A consecrated virgin and a hermit, she rises at 1.30 each morning to begin her almighty shift of contemplative prayer, occasionally breaking off to present a TV show about art.    Shockingly never capped by Deathlist.net (notwithstanding the protracted efforts of yours truly),  Sister Wendy could prove to be a Deathrace dark horse if the cold gets in to her badly insulated caravan during the Great Blizzard of January 2018.       

[msc 18,565]

Hello, MPFC. Sorry to be a pest (well, I say that: why change the habit of a lifetime?) but was your rule change on executions etc suggested in January made official?

[Spade_Cooley 9,641]

Death Race Form Guide #21: Frank Busseri

 

 

Morning "Live"? Are you sure? Devoted deadpoolers will know that of the first ever UK singles chart, two artists are still alive (Vera Lynn and Doris Day). However, perhaps less known is that you then need to jump around three months for the first still-surviving male musicians to make the hit parade, in the form of two members of The Four Lads. Why not take a chance on Frank Busseri, 85 and still performing with the band unlike the workshy Bernie Toorish, who left the group in the 1970s.

 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Death Race Form Guide #22

 

 

Olivia Newton John

 

Those fine features are filling out with a steroid swelling as luscious Livvy battles the big C which has returned with enough power to gift her her own thread hereabouts. Said thread's tagline - let's get metaphysical - says it all about where her mid-term future may lie but the doubt revolves mainly around the date; which is where the calculations of Deathracers may be focussed as we head towards the start line.

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace Form Guide #23

 

 

Clarissa Eden

 

97 year old widow of 50's Prime Minister. Widowed 40 years, and so far from her high profile days that there are probably a few people reading these words and groaning that MPFC has chosen to remind the world the highly obitable dowager continues to...well; dowage (whatever that means). Die-hard dead pool teases still die, eventually. Just ask Zsa Zsa...oh sorry, you can't; she's dead. 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace Form Guide #24

 

 

Mary Wilson

 

So, you see all that stuff about Clarissa Eden above; well...on those days Clarissa Eden feels old and lacking in the lustre that once made her a society beauty she doubtless contents herself with the thought that at least - at 97 - she's younger and marginally more tepid in terms of lingering attraction than 101 YEAR OLD Lady Wilson (also a widow of an ex-PM). Published poet and another shoo-in for Q/O purposes.

[Joey Russ 7,282]

Deathrace Form Guide #25

Jonathan Richman was the lead singer of The Modern Lovers, originally a proto-punk band before becoming more child-like with songs such as Ice-Cream Man. Will he potentially meet the Grim Reaper in the early days of 2018?

[CaptainChorizo 2,000]

Deathrace Form Guide #26

 

Estrella Blanca

 

Este caballero de lucha libre profesional, 80 se enciende 15 de enero. Es un verdadero embajador, a diferencia de la perro Alberto Del Rio

 

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

16 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Deathrace Form Guide #25

Jonathan Richman was the lead singer of The Modern Lovers, originally a proto-punk band before becoming more child-like with songs such as Ice-Cream Man. Will he potentially meet the Grim Reaper in the early days of 2018?

 

 

One of the best gigs I ever saw and that first Modern Lovers album is probs in my top ten ever

 

Where's the evidence for this devastating prediction?

[Death Impends 8,066]

Deathrace Form Guide #27

 

 

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman

 

Religious figure. Over 100. A mouthful of a name. In hospital many times in recent years, but shows such a tenacious grip on life that one wonders if he'll outlast the cockroaches. Is he the Jewish alter ego of Sri Sri Sri Shesellsseashellsbytheseashore?

[Spade_Cooley 9,641]

Deathrace form guide #28: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

 

 

Not all iconic African politicos spend their days shitposting on the DL forums. Buthelezi, who for 42 years has been leader of South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party, has today announced his intentions to step down from the post. Does this mean he's about to pop his clogs, or does he just want to spend more time pottering around the garden and watching Foyle's War repeats on ITV2? If you're not a keen fan of Sifrican politics and think you still recognise him, that's because he actually played Cetshwayo (his own great-grandfther) in Zulu.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,380]

Count me in. 

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace form Guide #29

 

 

Leah Bracknell

 

Terminal case with touching faith in all things positive (thinking, therapy etc.) Considered nailed on for 2017 but may be a veritable points avalanche if that prediction falls marginally short. Noted of late to be blogging updates with pictures that look dated. It may be perpetual summer in her mind but could she - metaphorically speaking - make a few Christmasses come at once in dead pooling terms?

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace form Guide # 30

 

 

 

Robert Mugabe

 

Nonagenarian president who's held power in Zimbabwe since 1980 and survived everything from a teaching career to assassination attempts. His political longevity owes a certain amount to the uncanny ability of opponents to suffer catastrophic bad luck and his continued well-being owes a certain amount to his ability to keep eating whilst others in his country - ahem - abstain. Mugabe continues to entertain and amuse those hereabouts with a deft line in pithy posts but as we all know around these parts the one in ultimate charge is still The Grim Reaper.

[Joey Russ 7,282]

Just now, maryportfuncity said:

Deathrace form Guide # 30

 

 

 

Robert Mugabe

 

Nonagenarian president who's held power in Zimbabwe since 1980 and survived everything from a teaching career to assassination attempts. His political longevity owes a certain amount to the uncanny ability of opponents to suffer catastrophic bad luck and his continued well-being owes a certain amount to his ability to keep eating whilst others in his country - ahem - abstain. Mugabe continues to entertain and amuse those hereabouts with a deft line in pithy posts but as we all know around these parts the one in ultimate charge is still The Grim Reaper.

For a moment there I thought Mugabe looked like a lady...

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace Form Guide #31

 

 

Kenny Sansome

 

Rehab notwithstanding the former England footy ace is finally out-performing former team-mate Gazza when it comes to public meltdowns pissed-poor life choices. Kenny's love of a park bench to sleep of the effects has been a regular tabloid payday and dead pool form-studiers dream and - despite a recent clean up - the man has fall off the wagon form stretching back a few years. Always something of a wild card the one thing united his greatest days and greatest falls from grace is his consitent form (footy and dead pools) as something of a solid team player.

[Joey Russ 7,282]

Deathrace Form Guide #32

Devin Lima is a vocalist of electronic group LFO, who originally disbanded after the death of Richard Cronin in 2010. However, they reunited in 2017  before the tragic news came to him that he has stage 4 cancer. Could the Grim Reaper tell him soon that death is good?

[Death Impends 8,066]

Deathrace Form Guide #33

 

 

Morgan Tsvangirai

 

One of the highest-profile nemeses of #30, cancer-stricken Tsvangirai in recent months has nonetheless been keen on taking a page or two from the Mugabe playbook - namely taking out-of-country trips under the guise of "routine check ups". Beating Mugabe in the polls ain't happening, but can Tsvangirai beat him to the grave?

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace form Guide #34

 

 

Johnny Clegg

 

Johnny Who? you may ask when even his website offers the tiny portrait above but dedicated dead pool researching has already revealed this folksinger is beloved of a bunch of die-hards who read the broadsheet press (Q/O status may well take his passing to DDP levels point acceptability). Meanwhile his "Final Journey" tour marking his terminal illness offers the faithful no chance to see him past the end of January (bear in mind Lemmy had dates booked to the end of January and didn't see the previous New Year's Eve).

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace Form Guide #35

 

 

 

Robin Herd

 

Oxbridge alumni with stellar career in race car design (his designs won the Indianapolis 500 for five years in a row in the eighties). Subsequently so rich on selling the highly successful company he headed that he bought his local football club and posed for the kind of characterful photo that likely made former classmates weep uncontrollably when overcome at their own sense of failure when they glanced at the sight of a second hand car in the drive of the semi they'd sweated to afford. Well, according to coded rumours that started months ago on the threads hereabouts, it may be payback time in 2018!

[Toast 16,250]

Ah, I think I picked him last time.

[maryportfuncity 10,708]

Deathrace Form Guide #36

 

 

Peter Wyngarde

 

DDP dispute in the making (since a range of biographies locate his birth year from 1924 to 1933). Either way, the aged thesp has had his fair share of Q/O making highs (like the heart-throb role of stylish detective Jason King that saw the image above become spread and self-satisfy fodder for a generation of British housewives). The wheels - and lust of many women - came off his career in the mid-seventies when tabloid coverage of what the Wikipedia now refers to as "an act of gross indecency" made it clear Wyngarde's tastes might not reciprocate those of his most ardent admirers (who had only months to wait for Martin Shaw to turn them on again - but we digress). Wyngarde himself claims not to know his date of birth and also made clear in an interview damn near a quarter of century ago that problems with alcohol made him amazed he'd lived as long as he had. That comment was years ago and he might at least content himself that public understanding of alcoholism has moved on, so too our tolerence for the urges that drove him to fall foul of the rozzers when in action with a rent boy (in the bogs at Gloucester Bus Station FFS!), but we digress again. As of today I'll out the man for continuing to live and having a life so colourful doubtless the highly memorable Telegraph obit is already written.