h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

**struts onstage wearing slightly dilapidated Dinner Jacket and bow tie**

Good evening, happy New Year and welcome. After the great success of Deathlist 2006, won jointly by Coelacanth, Demon Drawer, GRJ and - ahem - myself, Deathlist 2007 arrives bigger and better than ever.

I would like to introduce my assistant and resident statistician for the new season - Emmily. Curtsey, woman! Curtsey!

Emmily has apparently taken charge of updating the official DL2007 homepage, which can be found at A18413985. I only found this out today when I went to create the page for myself.

We introduce a rules refinement for the 2007 contest:

Rule 1) All entries must be submitted by the end of Saturday 20th January. No deaths before that date will be counted towards your scores.

Rule 2) You may predict a list of 15 names (as if thinking of 10 wasn't hard enough). Number 15 on your list _must_ be a person under the age of 50 on December 31st this year.

Rule 3) A correct prediction earns you 10 Deathlist points

Rule 4) A correct _and unique_ prediction (ie one that no-one else has predicted) will earn you 5 bonus points.

Rule 4 - addendum i) All people on your list must be well-known and in the public eye. 'Celebrities', for want of a better turn of phrase.

Rule 4 - addendum ii) Gamesmanship in the shape of waiting until the entry deadline and posting a completely unique list will be strictly frowned upon. This is supposed to be fun, dammit!

Rule 5) A correct under-50 prediction will earn you double points.

If you're short of ideas, then visit the 'official' Death List site at http://www.deathlist.net/

Good luck, one and all!

B

OK - I'll kick things off with...

1) Ronald Searle
2) Robert Mugabe
3) Kurt Vonnegut
4) Edmund Hillary
5) Ernest Borgnine
6) Olivia de Havilland
7) Michael Foot
8) Norman Wisdom (has anyone ever seen those last two in the same room together?)
9) Frankie Laine
10) Prince Phillip
11) Norman Mailer
12) Lemmy
13) Doris Day
14) Truman Capote
15) Marcus Gronholm

B

*Curtsies* Thank You Sir

Here's my list

1. Jean Alexander
2. Richard Attenborough
3. George Cole
4. Jackie Collins
5. Joan Collins
6. Frederick Forsyth
7. James Garner
8. John Noakes
9. Bill Maynard
10. Peter Sallis
11. Kathy Staff
12. Mollie Sugden
13. Brian Wilde
14. Norman Wisdom
15. Anthea Turner

Emmily

1) Danny La Rue
2) Mikhail Kalashnikov
3) George Kennedy
4) Rod Taylor
5) 'Whispering' Ted Lowe
6) Benoit Mandelbrot
7) Vincent O'Brien
8) Anna Wing
9) Arthur C Clarke
10) Jacques Delors
11) Brian Cant
12) Peter Vaughan
13) Kenneth Kendall
14) Keith Waterhouse
15) Steve Strange

Guru Roghan Josh

Hmm...apparently number 14 on my list has been dead for 22 years. Never mind.

B

Oh...go on then:

1. Charlton Heston
2. David Attenbrough
3. Richard Widmark
4. Elliott Gould
5. Roger Moore
6. David Eddings
7. Keith Richard
8. Ozzy Osborne
9. Queen Elizabeth II
10.Liz Dawn
11.Barbara Windsor
12.Michael Parkinson
13.Steven Seagal
14.Clint Eastwood
15.Robbie Williams

El

Ooh, some hard acts to follow.

Here we go ...

1) Ariel Sharon
2) Fidel Castro
3) Alan Williams MP
4) Norman Wisdom
5) Hugh William Mackay, 14th Lord Reay
6) Michael Foot
7) Shane McGowan (my under 50 choice)
8) Kirk Douglas
9) Burt Kwouk
10) Henry Allingham
11) Ronnie Biggs
12) Evil Knieval
13) James Whitmore
14) Gore Vidal
15) Dominic Chianese

1) Dick Cheyney
2) The Pope (Ratzinger)
3) George Bush (senior)
4) Fidel Castro
5) Donald Rumsfeld
6) Ariel Sharon
7) Jacques Chirac
8) Queen Elizabeth II
9) Alan Greenspan
10)Nicholas Harnoncourt (conductor)
11)Daniel Barenboim (pianist)
12)Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
13)Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
14)George W Bush (the son)
15)Ralf Schumaker (racing driver)

1. Dennis Healey (retired UK politician)
2. Henry Allingham (oldest man in Britain)
3. Fidel Castro (nominal Cuban leader)
4. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (Iraqi politician)
5. Phil Drabble (UK TV presenter)
6. Awad Hamed al-Bandar (Iraqi politician)
7. Osama Bin Laden (guy lost in desert)
8. Ronnie Biggs (UK criminal)
9. Joe Longthorne (UK entertainer)
10. Margaret Thatcher (retired UK politician)
11. Eli Wallach (actor)
12. Patrick Moore (astronomer)
13. Carl Malden (actor)
14. Cyril Smith (retired UK politician)
15. Chris Moyles (radio presenter)

Having to pick an under 50 is tough.

PP

01) David Bellamy
02) Ian Brady
03) Charlton Heston
04) Alex (Hurricane) Higgins
05) Terry Jones
06) Joe Longthorne
07) Vera Lynn
08) Roger Moore
09) Paul O'Grady
10) Prince Philip
11) Margaret Thatcher
12) Jane Tomlinson (in case anyone doesn't know her - A14286053 )
13) Russell Watson
14) Michael Winner
15) Random under-50 year old: Angelina Jolie

Galaxy Babe
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Ok, just for the record, no ill will intended for anyone on my list

1) Larry Hagman
2) Michael Winner
3) Axl Rose
4) David Attenborough
5) Lauren Bacall
6) Ian Paisley (Senior)
7) Dudley Moore
9) Robert de Niro
10) Sean Connery
11) Betty Driver
12) Michael J Fox
13) Terry Wogan
14) Michael Aspel
15) Tracey Emin

thought i'd give this a try

1)Elizabeth Taylor
2)Tony Benn
3)Little Richard
4)Kirk Douglas
5)Margaret Thatcher
6)Jack Charlton
7)Yitzhak Shamir
8)Fidel Castro
9)Luciano Pavarotti
10)Norman Wisdom
11)John Glenn
12)Harold Pinter
13)Clive Dunn
14)Patrick Moore
15)Robert Downey Jr

OK

1: Ronnie Corbett
2: Michael Foot
3: Norman Tebbit
4: Jimmy Carter
5: Malcolm Glazer
6: David Jason
7: Diana Ross
8: Gina Lollobrigida
9: Arnold Schwarzenegger
10: Little Richard
11: Ariel Sharon**
12: Bernard Manning
13: Paul Daniels
14: Kirk Douglas
15: Paul Gascoigne

**He surely can't last _another_ 12 months!

Aren't there rules about not including dead people in the list?

Dudley Moore died in March 2002, Fizzy

Oops - I must have been busy that year

Lucky I had several 'bubbling under', so please replace my #7 with Jean Alexander.

Home page updated to post number 9, I need a break

Mu Beta, Sir, is the intro of the home page ok, or would you like anything else added to it?

Emmily

Looks good.

And if Fizzymouse is allowed substitutions, can I remove Truman Capote and add Jimmy Saville?

B

1. Rev Ian Paisley
2. Jimmy Saville
3. Richard Adams (Watership Down)
4. Bernard Manning
5. Bush Senior
6. Bob Holness
7. Castro (if they admit it...)
8. Peter "Columbo" Falk
9. Mickey Rooney
10. Nancy Reagan
11. Graham "Golloping Gourmet" Kerr
12. Dick Van Dyke
13. Quincey Jones
14. I.M.Pei (architect of the Louvre glass pyramid)
15. Tony Hawk (in bizarre skate boarding accident)

Being forced to watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as I am, means I can't help but wish that Dick van Dyke dies shortly.

B

Funny, the self-same thought just crossed my mind. I'd like to tell him where to stick his "Old Bamboo"