Who Should Be On The 2020 Deathlist?

[Sean 6,314]

Leon Spinks is a must have for next year.

[gcreptile 10,964]

58 minutes ago, Sean said:

Leon Spunks is a must have for next year.

Did you know they called him Spunky at school?

[TomTomTelekom 3,727]

Some new suggestions from my side for the 2020 DL :

 

- Lee Kerslake (72, Drummer)      

- Dilip Kumar (97, Actor)

- Eva-Marie Saint (95, Actress)

- Eddie van Halen (64, Musician)

- Carl Reiner (97, Actor)

- Doug Supernow (59, Country)

- Mahatir Mohamad (94, Politician)

- Sinisa Mihajlovic (50, Soccer)

- Frankie Banali (68, Drummer)

- David Gulpili (66, Actor)

- Iris Apfel (98, Fashion Icon)

- Genesis P-Orridge (69, Artist)

- Tom Smith (48, Rugby)

- Agnes Keleti (98, five Olympic gold medals and one of the most successful athletes ever)

- Alex Trebek (79, TV-Host)

- Chris Doleman (58, NFL)

- Peter William Sutcliffe (73, Serial Killer)

- Francisco Morales Bermudez (98, Former Peruvian Dictator)

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,571]

18 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Some new suggestions from my side for the 2020 DL :

 

- Lee Kerslake (72, Drummer)      

- Dilip Kumar (97, Actor)

- Eva-Marie Saint (95, Actress)

- Eddie van Halen (64, Musician)

- Carl Reiner (97, Actor)

- Doug Supernow (59, Country)

- Mahatir Mohamad (94, Politician)

- Sinisa Mihajlovic (50, Soccer)

- Frankie Banali (68, Drummer)

- David Gulpili (66, Actor)

- Iris Apfel (98, Fashion Icon)

- Genesis P-Orridge (69, Artist)

- Tom Smith (48, Rugby)

- Agnes Keleti (98, five Olympic gold medals and one of the most successful athletes ever)

- Alex Trebek (79, TV-Host)

- Chris Doleman (58, NFL)

- Peter William Sutcliffe (73, Serial Killer)

- Francisco Morales Bermudez (98, Former Peruvian Dictator)

 

I would say only a maximum of 8 of those would qualify 

[msc 18,437]

If Doleman makes the list (spoiler alert - he wont) we all know the Cmme have gone for as many "hits" as possible.

 

Anyhow, this is how I imagine most Cmme meetings end:

 

Cmme Boss: "Well the whisky was great... and we have a list of people."

Cmme henchman: "More booze!"

Cmme statto: "Uh oh, this list only has 49 names!"

Cmme Boss: "Oh fucking hell, quick, it's an emergency, anyone seen Sean's latest list of 700 people?"

*checking of Iphones*

Cmme henchman: "Anyone heard of Johnny Clegg?"

Cmme Boss: "Is he alive?"

Henchman: "Yes."

Cmme Boss: "Brilliant, that's 50. More whisky!"

 

[Paul Bearer 6,101]

1 minute ago, msc said:

If Doleman makes the list (spoiler alert - he wont) we all know the Cmme have gone for as many "hits" as possible.

 

Anyhow, this is how I imagine most Cmme meetings end:

 

Cmme Boss: "Well the whisky was great... and we have a list of people."

Cmme henchman: "More booze!"

Cmme statto: "Uh oh, this list only has 49 names!"

Cmme Boss: "Oh fucking hell, quick, it's an emergency, anyone seen Sean's latest list of 700 people?"

*checking of Iphones*

Cmme henchman: "Anyone heard of Johnny Clegg?"

Cmme Boss: "Is he alive?"

Henchman: "Yes."

Cmme Boss: "Brilliant, that's 50. More whisky!"

 

Uncanny. 

[Sean 6,314]

2 minutes ago, msc said:

If Doleman makes the list (spoiler alert - he wont) we all know the Cmme have gone for as many "hits" as possible.

 

Anyhow, this is how I imagine most Cmme meetings end:

 

Cmme Boss: "Well the whisky was great... and we have a list of people."

Cmme henchman: "More booze!"

Cmme statto: "Uh oh, this list only has 49 names!"

Cmme Boss: "Oh fucking hell, quick, it's an emergency, anyone seen Sean's latest list of 700 people?"

*checking of Iphones*

Cmme henchman: "Anyone heard of Johnny Clegg?"

Cmme Boss: "Is he alive?"

Henchman: "Yes."

Cmme Boss: "Brilliant, that's 50. More whisky!"

 

Haha brilliant.

[Weebl 216]

I'm really not on DeathList a lot these days as don't consider it to be a particularly productive use of my time, but here are my thoughts

 

Desmond Morris

On 28/11/2019 at 13:51, ebless said:

My 2020 list

 

Keep

 

Kirk Douglas 

Olivia De Havilland 

Duke of Edinburgh 

Vera Lynn

Jimmy Carter

Pierre Cardin

Bob Dole

Henry Kissinger

Javier Perez De Cuellar 

Bob Barker

Murray Walker

Emperor Akihito

Betty White 

Stirling Moss

Nobby Stiles

Barbara Walters

Honor Blackman

Harry Belafonte 

Jimmy Greaves

Sidney Poitier

Mikhail Gorbachev 

Tony Britton 

Prunella Scales

Little Richard

Larry King

 

New and returning

 

Pope Benedict
Olivia Newton John
Jill Gascoine
Leslie Phillips
Mel Brooks
Sean Connery
Stanley Baxter
Rolf Harris
Ennio Morricone
Tom Baker
Barbara Windsor
Nicholas Parsons
Kenneth Cope
Sandy Gall
John Hume
Terry Jones
Angela Lansbury
David Bellamy
David Prowse
David Attenborough 
Tony Bennett
George Alagiah
Jack Charlton
Desmond Morris
Alex Trebek
 

 

These are all good recommendations, except David Bellamy who is already dead

[Weebl 216]

On 28/11/2019 at 16:41, Book said:

Who should be/could be No.1?

 

I think it's time for a change:

a) not Kirk Douglas for the fourth time in a row

b) it should be a woman at the top!*

 

*The last time a woman sat at the top of the DeathList was in 2015 with Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Before that only 3 other women were No.1s: Queen Mother (1991 and 2000), Doris Speed (1993) and Etta James (2012). Really a bad quote!

 

Only 2 women are eligible imo, Vera Lynn and Olivia de Havilland.

So I say it should be Vera Lynn, if she makes it to 2020.

 

I support making Vera Lynn #1, then Kirk Douglas at #2, Olivia de Haviland at #3 and Prince Philip at #4 provided they all make it that long especially given recent news

[Weebl 216]

On 28/11/2019 at 20:21, Fantomasss said:

-Tony Bennett (1926)

-Leontyne Price (1927)

-Juliette Gréco (1927)

-Gina Lollobrigida (1927)

-Noam Chomsky (1928)

-Gena Rowlands (1930)

-Jasper Johns (1930)

-Robert Wagner (1930)

-Lalo Schifrin (1932)

-Yoko Ono (1933)

 

 

Noam definitely needs to make his debut

 

There has been a general lack of academic/intellectual type people on the main list IMHO except for the really big names

 

And in certain circles Chomsky is a really big name

[Weebl 216]

On 02/12/2019 at 16:15, Grim Up North said:

 

https://www.quora.com/Were-there-any-queens-with-very-large-breasts

 

Far too big - some images in the attached Quora discussion.

 

You learn a new thing every day

[Weebl 216]

On 19/12/2019 at 17:56, dean1991 said:

I think all of the Stones will bow out in the 20s. Starting with Wyman next year.

 

All of them?

 

Wyman and Richards probably, less sure about Jagger and the rest

 

I honestly think there should be a thread about which 60s and 70s rock stars will still be alive in 2030

[Weebl 216]

On 19/12/2019 at 18:40, Steve said:

Boris and his dreadful far right wing cabinet. I might be the perpetrator of his and their great demise. Long live Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party !!!

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk

[dean1991 116]

1 hour ago, Weebl said:

 

All of them?

 

Wyman and Richards probably, less sure about Jagger and the rest

 

I honestly think there should be a thread about which 60s and 70s rock stars will still be alive in 2030

 

Good idea and i would bet the names in that thread would be very slim by 2029

[The Old Crem 3,582]

Possible replacements for the hits this year.

Pele for Gordon Banks (Lots of ill footballers deathlist worthy)

Glynis Johns for Doris Day

Olvia Newton John for Bob Hawke

Beverly Cleary for Herman Wouk

George Alaigiah for John McCririck 

Joni Mitchell for Johnny Clegg

Rhonda Fleming for Valerie Harper.

Albert Fujimori for Robert Mugabe

Queen Elizabeth for Jacques Chriac

Lee Kerslake for Ginger Baker

Barbara Windsor for Leah Bracknell

Terry Jones for  Clive James.

 

 

 

[Weebl 216]

12 hours ago, dean1991 said:

 

Good idea and i would bet the names in that thread would be very slim by 2029

 

I could see Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Bruce Springsteen, and some others from the 70s still being alive in 2030

[Deathrace 1,170]

5 hours ago, Weebl said:

 

I could see Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Bruce Springsteen, and some others from the 70s still being alive in 2030

I'd say Paul McCartney, David Essex and Lulu may still be around in 2030 but pure guesswork that far out. 

[philheybrookbay 439]

I'd think Barbara Windsor is a great shout, she's deteriorating rapidly and I stand to be corrected, it's a lot more media quiet about her the last few months. 

 

 

[The Old Crem 3,582]

7 minutes ago, philheybrookbay said:

I'd think Barbara Windsor is a great shout, she's deteriorating rapidly and I stand to be corrected, it's a lot more media quiet about her the last few months. 

 

 

Her heart problem makes me think she will die before she gets to the final stage of dementia.

[Sean 6,314]

On 14/12/2019 at 18:15, Joey Russ said:

Is Leon Spinks deathlisty? I mean, if Errol Christie made it on...

Leon Spinks is 20 times at least more deathlisty than Errol Christie.Like Toast I know exactly who he is but had no idea who Christie was until he was dying.Spinks is one of the only boxers living who most people will know by name.

[Sean 6,314]

7 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

Her heart problem makes me think she will die before she gets to the final stage of dementia.

I hope so.No fate is worse than end stage dementia.Well MND aside.

[Toast 16,130]

1 hour ago, Sean said:

I hope so.No fate is worse than end stage dementia.Well MND aside.

 

And Huntington's Disease. 

[Sean 6,314]

11 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

And Huntington's Disease. 

Yep that's equally horrific.

[Skinny kiltrunner 553]

39 minutes ago, Sean said:

Yep that's equally horrific.

In many cases even worse. First you lose your physical capacity while your cognition remains reasonable,  and then just to rub it in dementia sets in.

[msc 18,437]

I used to think MND/ALS was the worst but the primary progressive aphasia Terry Jones and a few others have runs it close. Basically, it's dementia that starts up front, so you lose your ability to communicate with and understand the outside world first, but the actual dementia bit where the brain goes is the last bit of the illness.  From what I hear from his friends, his mind is nearly gone now, and he's not expected to live too much longer (PPA has a considerably more dire prognosis than normal dementias). Despite being a huge fan of his, I can't help but feel that's a bit of a relief given this illness.