Be Excellent To Each Other

Technically there's one more day to go, but sod it. I might be dead tomorrow.

So let's give it up for 2008's Kings Of Death Plissken and Curiosity who won 2008 with 2 deaths a piece. Plissken plumped for Humphrey Lyttleton and Arthur C Clarke, who dutifully popped their clogs. Whereas Curiosity chose Sydney Pollack and Charlton Heston, who have since joined the choir invisible. Well done the lads.
*dancing girls doing the can-can*
*flash of knickers*

Ghoulish as it may be, please do join us as we choose the celebrities that we think will begin pushing up some daisies in 2009.

THE RULES:
1! Ye mayest choose 8 (eight) elder statesmen or women, and 2 (two) younger wildcards who seem mosteth likely to YOUR brain to die in the year 2009.
2! Ye may not perpetrate the kills yeself.
3! Ye choices may not be changedeth once madeded.
4! Ye hast until MONDAY 14TH of January to post ye list or ye can reet fuck off like.
5! If a candidate dies BEFORE ye's list is posted, the death shall not count towards ye's score.
6! No funny stuff.

I shall endevour to keep this first post updated with your choices, and to that end please help me out by formatting your posts like what I done down there. It'd also help if you'd alert us to any bucket kicking of said suspects within this thread. Deadheads shall be identified with... *crash of thunder*... red ink of death. So without further ado, here be mine choices.
*score board rotates*


Dimrill
1: Zsa Zsa Gabor
2: Kirk Douglas
3: Norman Wisdom
4: Fidel Castro
5: Jake LaMotta
6: Michael Foot
7: Patrick Moore
8: Peter Sallis
Young n Reckless Wildcards
9: Britney Spears
10: Amy Winehouse

Mr Chris's Death List O' Fun '09
1: Margaret Thatcher
2: The Queen
3: Elizabeth Taylor
4: Brian May
5: Joan Rivers
6: Roger Moore
7: Patrick Swayzee
8: Fidel Castro
Young n Reckless Wildcards
9: Katie Holmes (of THETANS!)
10: Barak Obama

Squirt's Prophetic list of DOOM 2009
1: George H. W. Bush
2: Emperor Akihito of Japan
3: Elizabeth Taylor
4: Peter O'Toole
5: Fidel Castro
6: Barry Humphries ( Dame Edna guy )
7: Tony Benn
8: Carl Reiner
Wildcards!
9: Michael Jackson
10: Lindsay Lohan

Bluce_ree
1. Jade Goody.
2. Morgan Freeman.
3. Joan Colins.
4. Joan Rivers.
5. Patrick Swayze.
6. Bruce Forsyth.
7. Bobby Robson.
8. Margaret Thatcher.
W1. Britney Spears.
W2. Mike Tyson.

Nemmie
1 Keith Richards
2 Norman Wisdom
3 Burt Reynolds
4 Stan Lee
5 Bruce Forsythe
6 Fidel Castro
7 Robert Mugabe
8 Vera Lynn
WC
9 Amy Winehouse
10 Wayne Rooney

myp's myriadic menu of morbidity
1. Sir Bobby Robson
2. Bruce Forsyth
3. Peter Sallis
4. Sir Patrick Moore
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Bernie Ecclestone
7. John Bardon
8. Norman Wisdom
Wildcards
9. Kate Moss
10. John Leslie

Malc
1) George Cole
2) Ronnie Corbett
3) June Brown
4) Bruce Forsyth
5) Tony Benn
6) Geoffrey Howe
7) Emmanuel McDonald Bailey
Dame Vera Lynn
Young Wildcards
9) Kylie Minogue
10) Kieron Dyer

Sinister Thogar Peevish Agent Beadlehand
1; THATCH
2: Patrick Moore
3: Fidel Castro
4: Bruce Forsyth
5: B.B. King
6: Tony Benn
7: Lemmy Kilmister
8: Clint Eastwood
Young'uns:
9: Robbie Williams
10: Tom Cruise

The Timotai Yeti
1: Patrick Swayze
2: Margaret Thatcher
3: Edward Kennedy
4: Jerry Lewis
5: Fidel Castro
6: Mugabe
7: Seve Ballesteros
8: Wendy Richard
Wildcards
9: Lewis Hamilton
10: Michael Jackson

Bobbyaro
Margaret Thatcher
The Queen
Colonel Gaddafi
Kim Yong-Il
Bruce Forsyth
Fidel Castro
Mugabe
Norman Wisdom
W1: Jade Goody
W2: Paris Hilton.

Runcle
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Swayze
Chuck Berry
BB king
Gene Wilder
Sidney Poitier
Wild Un's
Kerry Katona
Jordan

flis
1. Wendy Richard
2. Patrick Swayze
3. Peter O'Toole
4. Fidel Castro
5. Norman Wisdom
6. Ronnie Biggs
7. Michael Foot
8. Elizabeth Taylor
Wildcards
9. Gazza
10. Jade Goody

Ian Osborne
1: Norman Wisdom
2: Nicholas Parsons
3: Ronnie Biggs
4: Christopher Lee
5: Patrick Moore
6: Eric Sykes
7: Jimmy Carter
8: Frank Thornton
Wildcards:
9: Amy Winehouse
10: Patrick Swayze

DBSnappa
1. Max Mosley
2. Ron Moody
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Prince Philip
5. Dickie Attenborough
6. Norman Wisdom
7. Kim Jon Il
8. Jeremy Clarkson
Wildcards
9. Pete Doherty
10. Shia LeBouef

Kern
1. Ariel Sharon
2. Prince Phillip
3. Tony Benn
4. Dick Cheney
5. Colonel Gaddafi
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Ken Dodd
8. Margaret Thatcher
Untimelies:
9. Jack Osbourne
10. Liam Gallagher

Shin
1, Denis Norden (laughter files guy)
2, Wendy Richards (I love her)
3, Michael Aspel
4, Keith Richards
5, Barak Obama
6, Bruce Forsyth
7, Patrick Swayzee
8, Dustin Hoffman
9, Amy Winehouse
10, Mary Kate Olsen

Mr Longines (rus)Symphonette
1. Dolores Hope
2. Norman Wisdom
3. Les Paul
4. Kirk Douglas
5. Ernest Borgnine
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Olivia de Havilland
8. Vera Lynn
WILDCARDS
9. Barack Obama
10. Amy Winehouse

Plissken
Margaret Thatcher
Norman Wisdom
Peter Falk
Patrick Swayzee
Larry Hagman
Prince Philip
Lauren Bacall
Nelson Mandela
Wildcards
Barack Obama
Paul Gascoigne

Zio's Zombie Zelection...
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. Norman Wisdom
3. Peter O' Toole
4. Patrick Swayzee
5. Ernest Borgnine
6. Kim Jong Il
7. Ronnie Biggs
8. Fidel Castro
Wildcards:
9. Amy Winehouse
10. Pete Doherty

Bluecup
1: Kelsey Grammer
2: Jimmy Tarbuck
3: Bhumibol Adulyadej
4: Leslie Phillips
5: Steve Jobs
6: Richard Attenborough
7: Norman Wisdom
8: Patrick Moore
Wildcards
9: Kerry Katona
10: Owen Wilson

Wullie Ooster
1. Thatcher
2. Fidel Castro
3. Bruce Forsyth
4. Keith Richards
5. Patrick Moore
6. Sean Connery
7. Prince Philip
8. Nelson Mandela
Cut down in their prime;
9. Danny McCormack
10. Matt Smith

Curiosity
1 - Bobby Robson
2 - Zsa Zsa Gabor
3 - Oscar Niemeyer
4 - Norman Wisdom
5 - Ariel Sharon
6 - Ronnie Biggs
7 - Fidel Castro
8 - Joao Havelange
CRAZIES!
9 - Pete Doherty
10 - Nas

Getting the Whinehouse in early, eh? Cheater.

Mr Chris's Death List O' Fun '09
1: Margaret Thatcher
2: The Queen
3: Elizabeth Taylor
4: Brian May
5: Joan Rivers
6: Roger Moore
7: Patrick Swayzee
8: Fidel Castro
Young n Reckless Wildcards
9: Katie Holmes (of THETANS!)
10: Barak Obama

Good choices, sir. I'd forgotten about Swayayzee being C-poorly.

Squirt's Prophetic list of DOOM 2009

1: George H. W. Bush
2: Emperor Akihito of Japan
3: Elizabeth Taylor
4: Peter O'Toole
5: Fidel Castro
6: Barry Humphries ( Dame Edna guy )
7: Tony Benn
8: Carl Reiner
Wildcards!
9: Michael Jackson
10: Lindsay Lohan

About half of them are carry-overs from 2008 list.

I'd like to see her fanny first.. Just the once. Just to see if she's a real ginge.

Ooh Peter O'Toole, he's like a skellington already.

It's not like she keeps it to herself. Don't think it's going to reveal much about her natural hair colour though.

my picks

1. Jade Goody.
2. Morgan Freeman.
3. Joan Colins.
4. Joan Rivers.
5. Patrick Swayze.
6. Bruce Forsyth.
7. Bobby Robson.
8. Margaret Thatcher.

W1. Britney Spears.
W2. Mike Tyson.


edited cos one was dead.

Ahem, Denolm's already dead. 16 years ago, in fact.

my boss reckons Cheryl Cole as a wildcard.

how amazing would that be?

1 Keith Richards
2 Norman Wisdom
3 Burt Reynolds
4 Stan Lee
5 Bruce Forsythe
6 Fidel Castro
7 Robert Mugabe
8 Vera Lynn
WC
9 Amy Winehouse
10 Wayne Rooney

Depends how she went. If she suddenly exploded on live TV, very much so.

I spy 1 wildcard in there, who's the other youngster?

Yeah, I just noticed that part and edited accordingly.

I've already got this stored in my phone, as I did this in a moment of boredom on Christmas Day. Here we go!

myp's myriadic menu of morbidity

1. Sir Bobby Robson
2. Bruce Forsyth
3. Peter Sallis
4. Sir Patrick Moore
5. Margaret Thatcher
6. Bernie Ecclestone
7. John Bardon
8. Norman Wisdom
9. Kate Moss
10. John Leslie

1) George Cole
2) Ronnie Corbett
3) June Brown
4) Bruce Forsyth
5) Tony Benn
6) Geoffrey Howe
7) Emmanuel McDonald Bailey
8) Dame Vera Lynn
Young Wildcards
9) Kylie Minogue
10) Kieron Dyer

Malc

I missed you, you big hetero poof.

The Official Agency Position:

1; THATCH
2: Patrick Moore
3: Fidel Castro
4: Bruce Forsyth
5: B.B. King
6: Tony Benn
7: Lemmy Kilmister
8: Clint Eastwood
Young'uns:
9: Robbie Williams
10: Tom Cruise

Patrick Swayze
Margaret Thatcher
Edward Kennedy
Jerry Lewis
Fidel Castro
Mugabe
Seve Ballesteros
Wendy Richard

Lewis Hamilton
Michael Jackson


I had to think hard to get Kirk Douglas out of that list. Bet he goes on January the second... and why is someone picking Lemmy? He's been good to you, you cunts!

Lemmy has really small hands. Going by the concrete casting of them at Stafford uni, that is.

Margaret Thatcher
The Queen
Colonel Gaddafi
Kim Yong-Il
Bruce Forsyth
Fidel Castro
Mugabe
Norman Wisdom
W1: Jade Goody
W2: Paris Hilton.

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Fidel Castro
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Swayze
Chuck Berry
BB king
Gene Wilder
Sidney Poitier

Wild Un's

Kerry Katona
Jordan

1. Wendy Richard
2. Patrick Swayze
3. Peter O'Toole
4. Fidel Castro
5. Norman Wisdom
6. Ronnie Biggs
7. Michael Foot
8. Elizabeth Taylor
Wildcards
9. Gazza
10. Jade Goody

I'm suspecting Michael Foot is holding in there, unwilling to 'let go' until he sees Thatcher put in the ground. As are all my neighbours here in South Wales.

So you're saying that the day after Thatcher pegs it there'll be a mass suicide in South Wales? How odd.

Well, all ten of my targets survived to sing another Auld Lang Syne, so I'll mostly stick to the same list, with a few subtle changes...

1: Norman Wisdom
2: Nicholas Parsons
3: Ronnie Biggs
4: Christopher Lee
5: Patrick Moore
6: Eric Sykes
7: Jimmy Carter
8: Frank Thornton

Wildcards:
9: Amy Winehouse
10: Patrick Swayze

No, we've already got one of those in Bridgend. They were youngsters though, they can't remember Maggie.

1. Max Mosley
2. Ron Moody
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Prince Philip
5. Dickie Attenborough
6. Norman Wisdom
7. Kim Jon Il
8. Jeremy Clarkson
Wildcards

9. Pete Doherty
10. Shia LeBouef

Jeremy Clarkson isn't old!

No but I am sure a lot of people could be convinced to kill him for a very low fee.

I like Clarkson on TG, but he always strikes me as incredibly unfit.

Shin's Super Stylee death list:

1, Denis Norden (laughter files guy)
2, Wendy Richards (I love her)
3, Michael Aspel
4, Keith Richards
5, Barak Obama
6, Bruce Forsyth
7, Patrick Swayzee
8, Dustin Hoffman

9, Amy Winehouse
10, One of the Olsen twins (can I do this as they come as a package?)

Hopefully done RIGHT this time

1: Denis Healey
2: Michael Foot
3: Bernie Madoff
4: Conrad Black
5: Christopher Lee
6: Ernest Borgnine
7: Lester Piggott
8: Keith Harris (Plus Duck and Monkey - do I get 3 points if he dies?)
Young n Reckless Wildcards
9: Karen Matthews
10: Lewis Hamilton

1. Ariel Sharon
2. Prince Phillip
3. Tony Benn
4. Dick Cheney
5. Colonel Gaddafi
6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
7. Ken Dodd
8. Margaret Thatcher

Untimelies:
9. Jack Osbourne
10. Liam Gallagher

Ariel Sharon died last year, mate. They're just using the souls of dead Palestinians to reanimate him - they were running low so starting opening a can of whoop-ass on Gaza so he could make it to the new year.

More fun then a lifeglug, I guess.

Seriosuly, I was wondering persistent vegetative state counts as 'alive' for the purposes of the game: may we have a ruling?

Maybe we can make it more exciting by allowing a couple of Fantasy Football-esque "transfers" half way through, and some sort of mechanism whereby if someone dies, you can replace them, and then if their replacement dies you can "chain" them together for some sort of multiplier bonus.

He's a wildcard, if anything. Hey, if you want three wildcards, go for it.

No. One or not at all. *puts foot down*

Okay....uh....I dunno which one is which like...uh....Mary Kate then?

MEAN!

Barry.

You're going to be so annoyed if Ashley dies.

They're identical twins though - just say it was the other one. Who's going to know? Dimrill?

His body breathes, he's still alive.

I'd kill them both given the chance.

I'm just reading the Wiki on The Soapy Mermaid. Wouldn't it be great if they tried him for war crimes now, and hung the bastard while he was still in his hospital bed? No? Anyone?

Who died last year that would have counted as a wildcard at the start of the year? I can only think of Heath Ledger.

EEEEK!

I somehow read that as Bluce Ree.

that was worse than the time my mobile stopped working and I phoned up and Vodafone said Barclays had declared me dead!

There's quite a few in the Wiki Recent Deaths bit in the last month alone.

Aw, I didn't realise Pinter had carked it. And only last week, too. Shame.

DING DING DING! And they're off!