Ideas And Possibilities For 2016

[msc 17,755]

 

 

 

TTT isn't gonna let Phantom have that "dullest suggestions" trophy without a fight.

let me guess, you've not heard of them so they're "dull suggestions"

 

 

Actually the funny thing is, I can admit I got mildly carried away by bashing some people mentioned here because I forgot this is for just general suggestions, not suggestions for the front page of DL. And yes actually I did know he was the director of some old Bond movie..... But that doesn't stop it being dull, and actually I don't think he's at all guaranteed to get a qualifying obit for the DDP either.

 

Why should I have heard of him? I can remember tons of movie "facts", but remembering which generic nobody directed which old Bond film is a pursuit probably too lame even for people who think Richard Osman appearing on Football Focus to give his tips for the weekend's fixtures is a "telly highlight of the year".

 

And anybody could have directed Alfie too, movies like that aren't about the director.........

 

At lot of journalists are massive nerds and if a Doctor Who actor or a Bond director dies it is very easy copy they could write in their sleep. Gilbert will obit big time.

 

 

Besides the 3 Bonds and Alfie, he also directed Carve Her Name With Pride (and wrote), Sink the Bismarck, Educating Rita, and Shirley Valentine. Not so much obit guaranteed as "BBC Breaking News twitter update" guaranteed.

[Phantom 2,467]

 

 

 

 

TTT isn't gonna let Phantom have that "dullest suggestions" trophy without a fight.

let me guess, you've not heard of them so they're "dull suggestions"

 

 

Actually the funny thing is, I can admit I got mildly carried away by bashing some people mentioned here because I forgot this is for just general suggestions, not suggestions for the front page of DL. And yes actually I did know he was the director of some old Bond movie..... But that doesn't stop it being dull, and actually I don't think he's at all guaranteed to get a qualifying obit for the DDP either.

 

Why should I have heard of him? I can remember tons of movie "facts", but remembering which generic nobody directed which old Bond film is a pursuit probably too lame even for people who think Richard Osman appearing on Football Focus to give his tips for the weekend's fixtures is a "telly highlight of the year".

 

And anybody could have directed Alfie too, movies like that aren't about the director.........

 

At lot of journalists are massive nerds and if a Doctor Who actor or a Bond director dies it is very easy copy they could write in their sleep. Gilbert will obit big time.

 

 

Besides the 3 Bonds and Alfie, he also directed Carve Her Name With Pride (and wrote), Sink the Bismarck, Educating Rita, and Shirley Valentine. Not so much obit guaranteed as "BBC Breaking News twitter update" guaranteed.

 

Yes but don't let on to Dr Z about that.

[Dr. Zorders 1,269]

 

 

 

TTT isn't gonna let Phantom have that "dullest suggestions" trophy without a fight.

let me guess, you've not heard of them so they're "dull suggestions"

 

 

Actually the funny thing is, I can admit I got mildly carried away by bashing some people mentioned here because I forgot this is for just general suggestions, not suggestions for the front page of DL. And yes actually I did know he was the director of some old Bond movie..... But that doesn't stop it being dull, and actually I don't think he's at all guaranteed to get a qualifying obit for the DDP either.

 

Why should I have heard of him? I can remember tons of movie "facts", but remembering which generic nobody directed which old Bond film is a pursuit probably too lame even for people who think Richard Osman appearing on Football Focus to give his tips for the weekend's fixtures is a "telly highlight of the year".

 

And anybody could have directed Alfie too, movies like that aren't about the director.........

 

At lot of journalists are massive nerds and if a Doctor Who actor or a Bond director dies it is very easy copy they could write in their sleep. Gilbert will obit big time.

 

In addition to being thickos

 

But yeah I see what you mean.

[Predictor 1,007]

Here's a candidate that's certainly not dull: Sacheen Littlefeather is said to have breast cancer according to a 2013 interview. For those who are too young to remember, she became world-wide known in 1973 for entering the Academy Awards stage when Marlon Brando won for Best Actor. While up there, she said that Marlon refused the award because of the mistreatment of Native Americans by the motion picture industry. It remains one of the most shocking moments in Oscar history.

 

Being born in November 1946, she'll be worth 8 points for most of 2016 but not all of it.

 

http://modernnotion.com/marlon-brando-refused-1973-oscar/

[Ankou 17]

I think Liliane Bettencourt would be a nice pick for next year's death list. She's 92 now and according to specialists suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

[gcreptile 10,221]

Predictor's memories of a french-swedish movie in the Slavs thread made me google french films of the 50s. A very prominent leading lady, Michèle Morgan is 95 years old now. Her only child died 10 years ago. She also once owned the house where the Manson family murders eventually happened:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michèle_Morgan

 

A couple of Ingmar Bergman regulars are also still alive and in their 70s-80s.

[gcreptile 10,221]

The cancer of anesthesiologist Amy Reed, 41, has returned:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/doctor-who-pushed-to-curb-hysterectomy-procedure-says-cancer-has-returned-1425498743

 

Her case is noteworthy because the tool to detect her cancer might have helped spreading it, which "upended the gynecological field". Now that the cancer has returned, the chances of a cure are slim.

[maryportfuncity 10,010]

The cancer of anesthesiologist Amy Reed, 41, has returned:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/doctor-who-pushed-to-curb-hysterectomy-procedure-says-cancer-has-returned-1425498743

 

Her case is noteworthy because the tool to detect her cancer might have helped spreading it, which "upended the gynecological field". Now that the cancer has returned, the chances of a cure are slim.

 

 

Good spot, on this evidence:

 

Dr. Reed said she had been preparing herself for the prospect of metastatic cancer and felt somewhat fortunate that the new tumor was removed completely. She will now undergo radiation. She said she and her husband, cardiothoracic surgeon Hooman Noorchashm, also plan to begin working in the lab to see how she might live with the disease as a chronic illness. Both have doctorate degrees in immunology.

 

I'd say she's going to snag lots of coverage and may well be with us on 1 January next year. Hmmm...deffo Deathrace counting points, if and when. DDP?

[gcreptile 10,221]

 

The cancer of anesthesiologist Amy Reed, 41, has returned:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/doctor-who-pushed-to-curb-hysterectomy-procedure-says-cancer-has-returned-1425498743

 

Her case is noteworthy because the tool to detect her cancer might have helped spreading it, which "upended the gynecological field". Now that the cancer has returned, the chances of a cure are slim.

 

 

Good spot, on this evidence:

 

Dr. Reed said she had been preparing herself for the prospect of metastatic cancer and felt somewhat fortunate that the new tumor was removed completely. She will now undergo radiation. She said she and her husband, cardiothoracic surgeon Hooman Noorchashm, also plan to begin working in the lab to see how she might live with the disease as a chronic illness. Both have doctorate degrees in immunology.

 

I'd say she's going to snag lots of coverage and may well be with us on 1 January next year. Hmmm...deffo Deathrace counting points, if and when. DDP?

 

In terms of obitability in the UK, probably about as high as Lauren Hill. The Wall Street Journal USA will definitely cover her death because they're on the case, but the european edition? There's also the chance that the case might receive more attention until she dies.

Edit: Though I see now that the WSJ Europe is not an acceptable source for the DDP. Which makes it a bit more of a gamble.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

 

 

The cancer of anesthesiologist Amy Reed, 41, has returned:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/doctor-who-pushed-to-curb-hysterectomy-procedure-says-cancer-has-returned-1425498743

 

Her case is noteworthy because the tool to detect her cancer might have helped spreading it, which "upended the gynecological field". Now that the cancer has returned, the chances of a cure are slim.

 

 

Good spot, on this evidence:

 

Dr. Reed said she had been preparing herself for the prospect of metastatic cancer and felt somewhat fortunate that the new tumor was removed completely. She will now undergo radiation. She said she and her husband, cardiothoracic surgeon Hooman Noorchashm, also plan to begin working in the lab to see how she might live with the disease as a chronic illness. Both have doctorate degrees in immunology.

 

I'd say she's going to snag lots of coverage and may well be with us on 1 January next year. Hmmm...deffo Deathrace counting points, if and when. DDP?

In terms of obitability in the UK, probably about as high as Lauren Hill. The Wall Street Journal USA will definitely cover her death because they're on the case, but the european edition? There's also the chance that the case might receive more attention until she dies.

Edit: Though I see now that the WSJ Europe is not an acceptable source for the DDP. Which makes it a bit more of a gamble.

1. Not sure your DDP rules but between The Guardian and Rueters there isn't anyone's death going unnoticed. Aren't they acceptable sources?

 

2. This doctor provides a conundrum. As many DPs say you can't include anyone who is famous simply cuz they're sick (Lauren Hill e.g. Is unacceptable), I think that excludes the learned doctor. Wouldn't have ever heard of her but for her cancer. I know it's nothing to do with the leagues here on DL, just elsewhere.

SC

[GossipGabe 333]

2. This doctor provides a conundrum. As many DPs say you can't include anyone who is famous simply cuz they're sick (Lauren Hill e.g. Is unacceptable), I think that excludes the learned doctor. Wouldn't have ever heard of her but for her cancer. I know it's nothing to do with the leagues here on DL, just elsewhere.

SC

Hi there. If you are not sure of the DDP rules, just check them at http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8431

 

I think they're pretty funny.

"Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a British national newspaper or on the BBC News website.

This does mean that you can't always be sure when picking your team whether each person will be famous enough or not, but that's all part of the game.

"Obituary" simply means an article which mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.

 

Being famous just for being sick and likely to die would disqualify her from the main deathlist, picked by the committee members, but not the DDP or Deathrace.

 

I think it's an interesting case, a bit like Henrietta Lacks, she would make a contribution to science through her illness and eventual death.

[rockhopper penguin 2,264]

Harrison Ford in plane crash. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31759873. Flying in private aircraft is an extremely hazardous preoccupation statistically. If he carries on at his age he could be a good outside bet.

[gcreptile 10,221]

 

2. This doctor provides a conundrum. As many DPs say you can't include anyone who is famous simply cuz they're sick (Lauren Hill e.g. Is unacceptable), I think that excludes the learned doctor. Wouldn't have ever heard of her but for her cancer. I know it's nothing to do with the leagues here on DL, just elsewhere.

SC

Hi there. If you are not sure of the DDP rules, just check them at http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8431

 

I think they're pretty funny.

"Celebrity" means someone who, upon their death, gets a written obituary in a British national newspaper or on the BBC News website.

This does mean that you can't always be sure when picking your team whether each person will be famous enough or not, but that's all part of the game.

"Obituary" simply means an article which mentions the fact that the person has died. It doesn't have to be the conventional biographical write-up.

Being famous just for being sick and likely to die would disqualify her from the main deathlist, picked by the committee members, but not the DDP or Deathrace.

 

I think it's an interesting case, a bit like Henrietta Lacks, she would make a contribution to science through her illness and eventual death.

 

But is Henrietta Lacks REALLY dead?

[Magere Hein 1,397]

But is Henrietta Lacks REALLY dead?

Interesting philosophical question, that.

 

The phenotype who was Henrietta Lacks is dead and likely to remain so in the forseeable future. Her genotype is very much alive. As long as we don't know how to create a phenotype from a HeLa culture, the difference with dead is slim.

[gcreptile 10,221]

 

But is Henrietta Lacks REALLY dead?

Interesting philosophical question, that.

 

The phenotype who was Henrietta Lacks is dead and likely to remain so in the forseeable future. Her genotype is very much alive. As long as we don't know how to create a phenotype from a HeLa culture, the difference with dead is slim.

 

Indeed, maybe there is even a third kind of death, after cardiac death and brain death, it's cell death.

[Cat O'Falk 3,287]

 

 

But is Henrietta Lacks REALLY dead?

Interesting philosophical question, that.

 

The phenotype who was Henrietta Lacks is dead and likely to remain so in the forseeable future. Her genotype is very much alive. As long as we don't know how to create a phenotype from a HeLa culture, the difference with dead is slim.

 

Indeed, maybe there is even a third kind of death, after cardiac death and brain death, it's cell death.

 

With no need to start a new thread

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7248&hl=prison

[gcreptile 10,221]

 

 

 

But is Henrietta Lacks REALLY dead?

Interesting philosophical question, that.

 

The phenotype who was Henrietta Lacks is dead and likely to remain so in the forseeable future. Her genotype is very much alive. As long as we don't know how to create a phenotype from a HeLa culture, the difference with dead is slim.

 

Indeed, maybe there is even a third kind of death, after cardiac death and brain death, it's cell death.

 

With no need to start a new thread

http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7248&hl=prison

 

I wanted to like your post, but it says that I "have reached my quota of positive votes for the day":

[Bibliogryphon 8,644]

 

I may have mentioned this already in the Carry On thread, Norman Hudis who wrote the screenplay for the first 6 Carry On movies (this information is for the benefit of Dr Zorders since he's too lazy/arrogant* to look up any information for himself) is still with us at 93 (he'll be 94 in July)

 

* delete as applicable

Is Hudis ill or are we just naming anyone we think of over 90? No one should be brought up in this thread without a medical condition even if it was something from the past---but it better be good ("Mr Hudis had a heart attack in 2009" would work).

This isn't a 90-something brainstorming thread.

Lastly, YOU are the poster, the onus is on YOU to provide the name and information as to why they are, as the title suggests, a 'possibility', not on me or anyone else to go figure it out. I think we know who the lazy one is here .

SC

 

I didn't want this to pass without comment.

 

This is a discussion board.

 

Someone might post the name of a 90+ celebrity because they have no information at all and want to raise the point with other contributors. This type of discussion would be helpful to the committee so that there picks might actually die during the year in question as opposed to release an album with Lady GaGa and go on tour.

 

If someone has said "I haven't seen Lewis Collins on telly recently" someone might have thought he would be a outside chance for a DDP team.

 

I like open and informed debate, if information is not of use or interest to me I skim over it.

[Phantom 2,467]

 

 

I may have mentioned this already in the Carry On thread, Norman Hudis who wrote the screenplay for the first 6 Carry On movies (this information is for the benefit of Dr Zorders since he's too lazy/arrogant* to look up any information for himself) is still with us at 93 (he'll be 94 in July)

 

* delete as applicable

Is Hudis ill or are we just naming anyone we think of over 90? No one should be brought up in this thread without a medical condition even if it was something from the past---but it better be good ("Mr Hudis had a heart attack in 2009" would work).

This isn't a 90-something brainstorming thread.

Lastly, YOU are the poster, the onus is on YOU to provide the name and information as to why they are, as the title suggests, a 'possibility', not on me or anyone else to go figure it out. I think we know who the lazy one is here .

SC

 

I didn't want this to pass without comment.

 

This is a discussion board.

 

Someone might post the name of a 90+ celebrity because they have no information at all and want to raise the point with other contributors. This type of discussion would be helpful to the committee so that there picks might actually die during the year in question as opposed to release an album with Lady GaGa and go on tour.

 

If someone has said "I haven't seen Lewis Collins on telly recently" someone might have thought he would be a outside chance for a DDP team.

 

I like open and informed debate, if information is not of use or interest to me I skim over it.

 

I can think of a few instances where I've suggested a person quite at random only to have them die within a few months of my post.

The ones I can think of off the top of my head are

Arthur Rankin Jr.

Robert Carrier

Ronnie Hazelhurst.

 

I didn't have any health info, but they had disappeared from public view and I couldn't find info of any new projects they had been working on (if any) at the time.

[maryportfuncity 10,010]

Friend of a friend stuff but...

 

Lady Eva England coming up 105 and in care due to a stroke. Someone in the local pub who knows I do a bit of this dead pooling stuff mentioned her to me and asked if she was "any use" to me. Googled her only to find an old picture of her getting presented with something, no wiki page or owt. Can't really find much about who she is, unless there's another name I should Google. Anyone, like, heard of her?

[Ankou 17]

Friend of a friend stuff but...

 

Lady Eva England coming up 105 and in care due to a stroke. Someone in the local pub who knows I do a bit of this dead pooling stuff mentioned her to me and asked if she was "any use" to me. Googled her only to find an old picture of her getting presented with something, no wiki page or owt. Can't really find much about who she is, unless there's another name I should Google. Anyone, like, heard of her?

Maybe the first porn star? With a name like that there's not much choice for a career

[Spade_Cooley 9,019]

Friend of a friend stuff but...

 

Lady Eva England coming up 105 and in care due to a stroke. Someone in the local pub who knows I do a bit of this dead pooling stuff mentioned her to me and asked if she was "any use" to me. Googled her only to find an old picture of her getting presented with something, no wiki page or owt. Can't really find much about who she is, unless there's another name I should Google. Anyone, like, heard of her?

 

Yeah, this really does bring up fuck all squared on a search. Although, an Eva England was born in 1909 as referenced in this book, but she doesn't seem to be either a) nobility or anything approaching notable.

[maryportfuncity 10,010]

 

Friend of a friend stuff but...

 

Lady Eva England coming up 105 and in care due to a stroke. Someone in the local pub who knows I do a bit of this dead pooling stuff mentioned her to me and asked if she was "any use" to me. Googled her only to find an old picture of her getting presented with something, no wiki page or owt. Can't really find much about who she is, unless there's another name I should Google. Anyone, like, heard of her?

 

Yeah, this really does bring up fuck all squared on a search. Although, an Eva England was born in 1909 as referenced in this book, but she doesn't seem to be either a) nobility or anything approaching notable.

 

 

 

Aye, well, she'll doubtless get some local coverage in the UK, wherever she lives, on the basis of her age if nowt else. So, let's be clear, if she goes in 2016, she'd be Deathrace fodder, feel free to pick her.

[TheBigBB 34]

 

 

Friend of a friend stuff but...

 

Lady Eva England coming up 105 and in care due to a stroke. Someone in the local pub who knows I do a bit of this dead pooling stuff mentioned her to me and asked if she was "any use" to me. Googled her only to find an old picture of her getting presented with something, no wiki page or owt. Can't really find much about who she is, unless there's another name I should Google. Anyone, like, heard of her?

 

Yeah, this really does bring up fuck all squared on a search. Although, an Eva England was born in 1909 as referenced in this book, but she doesn't seem to be either a) nobility or anything approaching notable.

 

 

 

Aye, well, she'll doubtless get some local coverage in the UK, wherever she lives, on the basis of her age if nowt else. So, let's be clear, if she goes in 2016, she'd be Deathrace fodder, feel free to pick her.

 

 

I thought anyone who was only notable for being old was off limits.

[gcreptile 10,221]

Prominent US political blogger Kevin Drum is undergoing stage two chemotherapy for his multiple myeloma (stage 3):

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/03/friday-cat-blogging-6-march-2015

 

Last year, he said that his short-term prognosis is good, but the long-term prognosis might not be:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/friday-cancer-blogging-24-october-2014