Dead Pool [35]

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Belated congratulations go to Debo who bags amother Dead Pool win by predicting the death of Cliff Michelmore –  TV presenter and producer.

So the slate has been wiped clean and everyone gets to pick a new ‘dead cunt walking’ as we move on to The Dead Pool 35.

A reminder of the rules:

1. Nominate who you think is the next cunt on the way out. You can have up to five choices.
List your nominations in the comments of this post. It’s the current Dead Pool. Candidates listed in the previous thread and reposted by TheEye on this thread will be accepted this time around because TheEye was out on the piss last night and couldn’t be arsed to update the thread after he staggered home.

2. You win if your Cunt dies first.
Then the slate is wiped clean and we start again. Of course, you can always be a cunt and steal someone else’s dead cunt candidate from the last Dead Pool.

3. It helps admin if you nominate one name per line, no numbers in front or comments afterwards. Comment what you like after your five names! A request – not a hard and fast rule – but it speeds up the list making if we can do a straight cut and paste to a spreadsheet.

Any cunt who tries to cheat by nominating the World’s Oldest Man or Woman is a cunt and will be ignored. Anyone who just copies from that DeathList thingy risks being ignored at our discretion. Any anonymous cunt who can’t be bothered to make up a name for themselves will also be ignored. Oh, and the usual “Our Blog Our Rules” thing applies.

185 thoughts on “Dead Pool [35]”

  1. No Johan Cruyff either…? Pretty sure I’ve seen his name on some fairly recent nominations.

    • Believe it or not Fred but I was going to nab him but went for Deadly Doug Ellis instead.

    • Johan Cruyff… What a player he was… His son, Jordi, was a useless, softarsed cunt though….

      • Typically predictable and sycophantic tribute to Cruyff from that cunt, Gary Lineker… Cruyff was a great player, but it’s just like that arselicker Lineker to gush that Cruyff was ‘Europe’s best ever…’

        Europe’s best ever? That, Lineker you cunt, was George Best…
        So bollocks…

        Amusing thought though: all those millions of nu-footie post-Premier League Facebook cunts and Twittermongs frantically searching google and wikipedia to find out who Johan Cruyff actually is (sorry, was)…

    • Sure I’ve seen Corbett’s name on some recent Pools.

      I’d also like to pre-emptively cunt every tabloid which uses the line “And it’s goodnight from him” to report Corbett’s death.

      • “And It’s Goodnight From Him” – The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, Metro, NewDay and even the fucking Guardian have proved me correct. Unimaginative cunts one and all.

    • Some poor sap has just got the job of trimming three foot off their standard casket and making good..

    • Worked with the little tosser a year or two back. Tiny yes but surprisingly deep voice and quite a nice chap (for an actor). Been in poor health for a number orf years. Had him in the pool ages ago but recently unfortunately over looked the little cunt.

      • My family used to live near him and would see him in the shops every now and the.A nice guy by all accounts.

      • I have also heard tales from ex-BBC staff who said that Ronnie Corbett was one of the few stars who actually wasn’t a cunt…

    • @ Historical Allegations – might I suggest Melvyn Hayes as an appropriate swap for Lionel Blair? He’s 81 and apparently not in good health.

      • How gracious of you Fred. You obviously know how to knock a girl off her feet. My pleasure to accept your generous suggestion. Your place or mine?

        Instead of Lionel Blair I will be pleased to have

        Melvyn Hayes

  7. Looks like we missed Denise Robertson as well.Thought of picking her when she said she was ill last month but I figured she had a few months in her.

    • Oh my Merle kicked the bucket? didn’t see that coming I know Gram Parsons was quite fond of him. He was a important part of outlaw country music sub genre

      • Haggard was very important in country music history… Much more so than the overrated Gram Parsons… It annoys me when pillocks in the music press make out that Parsons made the Byrds a better band… This is crap, as the Byrds were at their best with their first classic line-up… It’s also twaddle that Parsons ‘invented’ country-rock… The Byrds themselves did it with Chris Hillman’s ‘Time Between’ long before Parsons… Then there was Mike Nesmith (even The Monkees beat Parsons to it) and even The Beatles had ‘Act Naturally’ as early as 1965…. Not to mention Dillard and (Gene) Clark… I think Gram Parsons wouldn’t be anywhere near as revered as he is today if he hadn’t died young/OD’d and been like a fly around shit with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards…

      • “I think Gram Parsons wouldn’t be anywhere near as revered as he is today if he hadn’t died young/OD’d and been like a fly around shit with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards…”

        LOL those are some harsh words for a dead man Norm and Keith even admited songs like honky tonk women, country honk and wild horses wouldn’t have existed if not for Gram. I mean even Gram didn’t refer to his music as country rock it was always the journalists.
        He was a huge part of country rock’s birth though that can’t be denied. He also was in International Submarine Band which released a country rock LP Safe at Home ’68.
        “It annoys me when pillocks in the music press make out that Parsons made the Byrds a better band… This is crap, as the Byrds were at their best with their first classic line-up” Well I agree mostly my favorite byrds LP will always be ” Notorious byrd brothers(crosby left Jim Gordon”Drums” joined)

        That being said though I actually didn’t mind Sweetheart of the Rodeo it had some great songs and to be fair The byrds went to parsons

      • I also love the Notorious Byrd Brothers album…. And fair points about Parsons and The Stones, but it seems to me that while Keef (it’s no secret that Jagger hated Gram) goes out of his way to praise Parsons and his effect on the Stones, yet Richards also is reluctant to give any sort of credit to Brian Jones and it appears that Keef thinks Gram was more important and significant than Brian, which he wasn’t… It appears that only Wyman and Watts now acknowledge Jones and his influence and contribution…

      • Sweetheart of the rodeo is a hard album to get into mostly due to its county twang. “yet Richards also is reluctant to give any sort of credit to Brian Jones”

        Right again I don’t get why keef is such a hardass about Jones.
        Brian was a huge influence on a majority of stone albums he was always wanting to bring ethnic instruments in. Paint it black was gonna be a Rn’b song before Jone’s Sitar was brought in.

        Its Keefs Ego me thinks he’s always had a hard time giving credit to another member(taylor, jones etc). Wyman asserts that the riff for jumping jack flash was nicked wasn’t given proper credit.
        To add insult to injury he gives Ian stewart more credit in his book which some has interpreted as a snub to Jones because obviously Jones was more important he did alot of talking. He bashes Brian in his book more than any other member if I recall correctly aside from jagger (tiny todger?) lol. Then again Keef was payed a hefty sum to spit into a recording tape. Bill’s book was written more from the heart IMO less jabs taken so to speak.
        Speaking of the byrds I just found byrds vinyl album in my uncles box of old albums

  10. Douglas Wilmer went last weekend, first TV Sherlock Holmes back in the B+W days….

  11. It seems that I must nominate myself as a cunt – I’ve been nominating Colin Vearncombe in the last two Dead Pools when the cunt had already died back in January. Unfortunately this doesn’t mean I have to knock Debo off one of his wins and claim it for myself 😉

    I’ll take Richard Adams as a replacement. After all he did upset us all with those dead bunnies over Easter…

    • Dio I would hate to win by default so please take the glory for yourself and remove one of my winners.

      • You didn`t Debo.Vearncombe died before Dioclese nominated him for the first time.(Yes I am sad and checked back on the previous lists,it is my day off though)!

  12. Anthony Armstrong-Jones
    Lord Carrington
    Marcia Falkender
    Shirley Williams
    David Owen

    • Errrrrrr……
      You’ve already nominated your five:
      Gene Hackman
      Joe Ashton
      Kenneth (Lord) Baker
      Ursula Andress
      Walter Mondale

  13. Anyone have Howard Marks?I have been picking him on and off for months but left him out this time!Sods law I guess!

  15. Howard Marks an all a round cheeky cunt and a welshman to boot , nah I doubt any one had him the cunt should of given up smoking if he wanted to live longer. Mind you everyones getting cancer nowadays smoking or not smoking

  20. Luvvies:

    Michael Frayn
    Claire Tomalin
    Michael Blakemore
    Michael Codron
    James Nederlander

    • Nobody nominated Victoria Wood. Cancer apparently, Shame – she was one of the few so called comedians around these days that was actually funny most of the time…

  23. Crikey we have missed a ton of big names this year:

    David Bowie
    Alan Rickman
    Cecil Parkinson
    Abe Vigoda
    Terry Wogan
    Boutros-Boutros Ghali
    Harper Lee
    George Kennedy
    Patty Duke
    Ronnie Corbett
    Denise Robertson
    Howard Marks
    Doris Roberts
    Victoria Wood
    Prince

    • Interesting that the media has been saying much the same thing recently. An avalanche orf celeb lemmings going over the cliff orf fate. No one can remember a year like it. Praise the Lord that none orf us are celebs although Dioclese might be close………Or is it a conspiracy? If Icke and Spivey drop orf the old mortal coil……

      • Interesting to note how many have come completely out of the blue this year that no one seems to have seen coming including the Death List .Many seem to be quite young and not known to be ill at all. Judging by this current list we have some big names that could well go this year based on age and health/lifestyle. I wonder if we will get past Deadpool 50 this year. Certainly a lot of old cunts still knocking about.Must be a nightmare for News Desks at the momentThey have probably been prepping for the big names in their 80`s and 90`s and are currently having to report on deaths of relatively young celebs with no prior warning.Bet there have been a few brown pants from newsteams this week.Especially with twitter being so quick on the pulse.I remember the days when you only heard some cunt carked it via the TV or Radio.

      • Also I would love to see that cunt Spivey drown after falling through a manhole cover!

      • Lemmy died last year ? Also Rob Ford everyone`s favourite crack smoking mayor, the rofessional celebrity David Gest and Celine Dion`s manager / husband Rene Angelil are other misses.

  24. Veteran British film director Guy Hamilton has shuffled off… Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Battle of Britain plus loads more. At least HE knew how to make a Bond film. (Sam Mendes you cunt…)

    • Battle Of Britain was an ace film… And DIamonds Are Forever had Jill St John… Lovely stuff…

      And Sam Mendes is indeed a cunt…

      • Lewis Gilbert, director of You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker is still around and in his late 90s. I’d have him in me pool but just don’t have the heart. Wish he was still working…

      • When I was a lad I always wondered how a fairy like Barry pulled a classy bird like Yvonne?

  25. Note that Daily Mail fake camp astrologer/swami Jonathan Cainer has croaked. Bet the cunt never saw that coming.

  26. Just as a matter orf interest the world’s oldest person has croaked just short orf 117. Name orf Susannah Mushatt Jones.

    • That leaves only 1 person left from the 1800`s.Will be big news when she conks out.I find these super old people odd as I know people who have had less than half their time on this earth about to croak.I would hate to be 116 though.Imagine outliving so many people and being too old to do anything enjoyable.Nope I want to be 80 odd on a yacht in the Mediterranean sea dressed in a sailors suit on a sun lounger surrounded by Playboy bunnies with a glass of whisky in one hand and a cigar in the other and just die instantly from a heart attack.

      • Sailors suit? You sure.
        Playboy bunnies, whiskey, cigar…..fine with that.
        Suit…….a bit YMCA.

    • If only so Dioclese can caption it “Auf Wiedersehen Pet”. No doubt he is orn his moble to The Grim Reaper in jockoland as we speak.

      • Yeah apparently he has smoked since he was 8 .Definately a name I will consider in future pools if he hangs in there.Shame I have taken up all my picks this round!

      • Made it back to Perth where currently ensconced in Huntingtower in rather nice hotel looking forward to decent soak in the bath and excellent dinner. Bloody luxury after a week in a camper van but I guess if the muck is thick enough it might just drop off and it’ll never match Mrs D’s cooking…

        Stopping near Newcastle tomorrow night then home on Wednesday.

        Have collected a few fresh cunting candidates in Jockland as well as few more for my 93 Men in a Boat series. No shortage of boring fuckers up here!

      • Welch being a total slapper and all her antics can’t have helped the man…

  29. How about Sinead O’ Connor being nominated for the pool?
    Apparently the demented baldy Fenian cunt has ‘gone missing’ in the US….
    Topped herself? Possibly… But don’t be surprised if this is yet another attention seeking stunt…

    That said though, some old and annoyed mates of Prince might have had her sorted out… She should keep her fucking mouth shut…

  30. If I could swap Sinead O`Connor for one of my current noms I definitely would. That would be cheating though sadly.

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