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Flick ([personal profile] flick) wrote2012-01-02 09:36 am
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Death lists!

You talked me into it, but doing a poll is too much of a pain to enter the names.

Comments screened: you know the drill, ten names each, they have to be listed on either the BBC or CNN website when they go, number of points inversely proportional to the number of people who have them.

Go!
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[identity profile] rose-gialle.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
George Michael is my new entry for 2012, which was not an easy choice.

My remaining selection are repeats from 2011; surely some of them are well over due.

Don Rickles
Doris Day
Ernest Borgnine
Gough Whitlam
Kirk Douglas
Loretta Swit
Mickey Rooney
Peter O'Toole
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Cheers!
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[identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Same list as last year -- ten half-likely candidates all of whom have names starting with S.

Alan Simpson
Alan Sugar
Ariel Sharon
Charlie Stross
David Steel
Eric Sykes
Freddie Starr
Nobby Stiles
Ridley Scott
Rod Stewart
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[personal profile] drplokta 2012-01-02 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ariel Sharon, Oscar Niemeyer, Herbert Lom, Kirk Douglas, Richard Attenborough, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Shamir, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip, Helmut Schmidt

[identity profile] hano.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Prince Philip
The Queen
Here you go:

Margret Thatcher
Dennis Healey
Nelson Mandela
Michael Douglas
Ariel Sharon
George Bush Sr
Fidel Castro
Richard Attenborough

Thanks for doing this again, I might even buy you a drink next time at the Tun...



[identity profile] cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Robert Mugabe
Margaret Thatcher
Kim Jong-un
Hosni Mubarak
Stephen Hawking
Bashar al-Assad
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Pete Doherty
Ozzy Osbourne

[identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Okey doke:

The Hardy Annuals --
Bert Trautmann
Dave Brubeck
Norman Tebbit
Ringo Starr
Ronald Searle
Stan Lee
Sun Myung Moon

The New Bugs --
George Martin
Viktor Korchnoi
William Rees Mogg
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2012-01-02 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
OK!

I nominate:

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
Ariel Sharon
Billy Graham
Fidel Castro
Javier Perez de Cuellar
John Hume
Sir Run Run Shaw
The Rev Sun Myung Moon

all of whom I nominated in 2010, and they disobligingly survived not only 2010 but also 2011; in addition, to replace Michael Foot and Chemical Ali, who are no longer in the running, I nominate:

Sir Bernard Lovell (I had no idea he was still alive)
Yitzhak Shamir (likewise)

I think that's 10?
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Ted Short
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Judi Dench
Fidel Castro
Phil The Greek
Ray Bradbury
Steven Hawking
Vera Lynn
Patrick Moore
Ernest Borgnine

[identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well it looks like I'm being [livejournal.com profile] johnnyeponymous this year -- just read about Ronald Searle. Do you want me to pick a replacement?
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not seeing any indication that he was notably terminally ill, so no, I think you get points for him!
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[identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
And despite my technique for picking names, which makes him approximately 26 times more likely to be picked than someone random, he wasn't on my list.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, arse, sorry: just seen that he actually died in 2011!

In which case, yes, please pick someone else. That does mean that you get points last year, though, taking you into second place!

[identity profile] the-maenad.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, in lieu of Ronald Searle let's plump for... Sid Caesar.

[identity profile] ang-grrr.livejournal.com 2012-01-07 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Death list this year:

Dennis Healey
Tony Benn
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Aretha Franklin
Margaret Thatcher
James Watson
Peter Sallis
Liz Smith (Actress)
Angela Lansbury
Pope Benedict XVI

[identity profile] were-gopher.livejournal.com 2012-01-07 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally turfed the kids off.

Mickey Rooney
Lindsay Lohan
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Courtney Love
Barack Obama
Bashar Al-Assad
Maggie Thatcher
Fidel Castro
Ian Bradey
Ronnie Biggs

[identity profile] darth-tigger.livejournal.com 2012-01-16 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Can I have all the same people as last year please (even though I have no idea now which ones I picked!) plus Boris Johnson. Unless I already have him (I have no idea!) in which case Ken Livingstone.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, you have:
Alan Garner
Fidel Castro
Jude Law
Julie Andrews
Prince Charles
Ranulph Fiennes
Roger Moore
Shane MacGowan
Stephen Sondheim
Boris Johnson
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2012-07-04 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, you get points for Sykes.
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[identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com 2012-07-04 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
Bother.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-07-04 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed.
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[identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com 2012-07-04 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Not wanting to be the sort of person to prod people for journal entries, but I imagine there'll be a some mention of all this in a new top-level post at some point, to make life easier for lazy people who just read top-level posts under the appropriate tag at the end of the year, rather than wading through all the comments.

Also, three four attempts to type the above owing to five pints of beer tonight. Ahem.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-07-06 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, boss!
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-09-05 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I missed that completely, what with the con!

That's you off in the lead, then.
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2012-09-05 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
My cunning plan begins to pay off...
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-09-06 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"See, this is why I don't need to keep track of it: Nicholas emails me before I've got back online!"
"As long as he doesn't email you before they're dead, that's probably ok...."
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2012-09-07 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
You have busted me! I am keeping track - but only of the people on my own list, of course! So if others should pop their clogs I won't notice...

(4 down, 6 to go...)
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2012-09-27 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on Herbert Lom!
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-09-27 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
When I heard it on the radio, I thought someone was bound to have him!
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[personal profile] drplokta 2012-12-06 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Points for me for Niemeyer.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2012-12-07 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup
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