Death List

Current Tally – 24 Down – 26 Left Standing

The original concept of the death list was in each year to suggest 50 people “ripe for plucking.” From those that survived, no more than 25 could be transferred to the succeeding year’s list. However after two hugely unsuccessful years, in which my selected geriatrics and terminally afflicted survived month after month, I’ve unilaterally changed the rules of the game.

Now my death list is a last man standing list. Let’s see who can resist the grim reaper’s ministrations for longest. And just to nail my colours to the mast, my money on who that will be is……

Father Jack aka Frank Kelly – all that booze must have had some form of preservative effect.

Momento mori!

Candidate for Death	Age	Occupation
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi		Lockerbie Bomber
Ariel Sharon	85	Ex PM Israel
Basil D’Oliveira		Test case
BB King	87	Blues Legend
Betty Ford		Dispo
Blake Edwards		Pink Panther Film Director
Carol Channing	92	Hello Dolly!
Chapman Pincher	99	Spycatcher
Clifton James	91	Sherriff J.W.Pepper
Dino de Laurentiis		Film Mogul
Dom Mintoff		Ex Malta PM
Eli Wallach	97	The Ugly
Elizabeth Taylor		Wife
Eric Sykes		Sykes
Erich Priebke	99	Waffen SS Hauptsturmführer
Fats Domino	85	Pianist
Frank Kelly	74	Father Jack
Gabriel García Márquez	86	Author
George Cole	88	Minder
Giulio Andreotti		Last week’s Italian PM
Gore Vidal		Polemecist
Guy Hamilton	90	Bond film director
Henry Cecil	70	Horse trainer
Jack Klugman		Quincy
Jeremy Thorpe	84	Animal Lover
Kirk Douglas	96	Sparticus
Liz Dawn	73	Vera Duckworth
Liz Smith	91	Actress
Margaret Thatcher		Iron lady
Michael Foot		Labour leader
Nancy Reagan	91	Former First lady
Nelson Mandela	94	“Terrorist” or “Freedom fighter”
Norman Wisdom		Slap sticker
Olivia De Havilland	96	Gone with the wind?
Patrick Moore		Astronomer
Peter Falk		Columbo
Phyllis Diller		Comedienne
Prince Philip	91	Xenophobe
Ravi Shankar		The sixth Beatle
Ray Bradbury		Author
Rev. Billy Graham	94	God botherer
Richard Attenborough	89	Luvvie
Ronnie Biggs	83	Train robber
Severiano Ballesteros		Seve
Sir Bernard Lovell		Radio Astronomer
Steve Jobs		Nerd
Václav Havel		Poet President
Vo Nguyen Giap	101	NVA General
Yitzhak Shamir		Ex PM Israel
Zsa Zsa Gabor	96	Slapper