It’s been a quiet year for the deadpool game, but at last we get the most eagerly anticapted death on anybody’s list – Pinochet is dead. So a point for several people including ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
gleet who maintains his lead.
complacentI’m not sure what to think – the deadpool game is in obvious bad taste; but the ghoulish way the media reported every up and down of George Best’s last few weeks makes me feel somewhat uneasy for doing the same.
As far as the game is concerned this moves Janice and Chris up from one death to two where they join Bethan. Andy, Paul and myself have four deaths each and Jolyon brings up the rear with just one.
Just five weeks to go so time to start thinking about next year’s lists. Will 2006 match 2005 in deadliness?
Simon Wiesenthal has died which brings me up to four deaths and into second place on the youngest-death tie breaker. Who do you think will be next?
Gosh, they’re dropping like flies this year.
William Rehnquist has died, which puts gleet in the lead by means of the youngest-death tie-breaker rule.
Boring Ted Heath anecdote – once upon a time I was having lunch with my family in The Three Lions and we were the only diners there until I looked up and saw a small party approaching across the car park, I commented that the elderly gentleman looked like Ted Heath. It was Ted Heath. Oh how we laughed.
Anyway, he’s dead now.
Which puts Andy into a rather commanding lead in the Deadpool game and brings Bethan up into joint second place.
Sir John Mills has died which in deadpool terms increases Andy’s lead and move me ahead of the field and into a close third place.
Saul Bellow has died which gives Andy a narrow lead in the deadpool (he and Paul have two deaths apeiece, but Bellow was three years younger than Lord Callaghan).
Which makes bugger all difference to the deadpool game as everyone had him on their list.
Lord Callaghan dies aged 92 which is the first Deadpool casuality of the year. Putting gleet into the lead.