What an exciting end (?) to an otherwise quiet Deadpool game. Before Christmas gleet was in the lead with Augusto Pinochet (b.1915) and Ivor Cutler (b.1923) and littlebun was just behind with Pinochet and Sir Malcolm Arnold (b.1921). I was languishing at the bottom of the heap with no deaths in 2006 at all.

Then on Boxing Day, Gerald Ford died and I was suddenly catapulted out of the zero-pack and into, um, fourth place.

But, they’ve only gone and hanged Saddam, and guess what? I was the only person to have him on my list (and he would have been disallowed next year under the ‘no one on death row’ rule). And, at 69 years old he was the younger than good old Sir Malcolm by a fair margin and hence I’m in the lead with under 48 hours to go.

Now, if someone would pull the plug on Sharon (also disallowed next year, under the ‘no one on life support’ rule) we’d have some half way respectable scores all round (well apart from Howie aka Giroscope).