Will you gamble on a Pontiff-ex? Dead Pool 2023

[Kevin S]

OK, since there were no takers, I'll set it up again.

Pick five famous people. First come, first served - the same pick can't be shared. A point is scored for any of them who pass away. As a tie breaker, the ages at death are added up and the lower total wins.

As last year, we'll have a week to get the picks in during which any deaths do not score so that the game starts for everyone at the same time.

So please get your five alive by 2359 UTC Friday 6 January. Scoring starts from Saturday 7 January 2023 and ends at 2359 UTC Sunday 31 December 2023.

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[G-Man]

I assume that if any of our picks die in the nonscoring period, we'll be able to get a substitute in

Burt Bacharach
Eve-Marie Saint
Al Green
Franz Beckenbauer
Jimmy Carter

[Sporting]

John Toshack
Bobby Charlton
Geoff Hurst
Ringo Starr
Ex king Juan Carlos

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Dick van Dyke
Bob Newhart
Mel Brooks
Robert Wagner
James Earl Jones

[Antepli Ejderha]

Nigel Farage
Julia Hartley Brewer
Andrew Tate
Donald Trump
Rupert Murdoch

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Tippi Hedren
Eric Idle
Prince Michael of Kent
Terry Yorath
Hunter Davies

[Sporting]

Nigel Farage
Julia Hartley Brewer
Andrew Tate
Donald Trump
Rupert Murdoch

I hope you win.

[Kevin S]

Good point G-Man, and yes, subs can be added for any picks that don't make the starter's pistol.

[Auntie Beryl]

Norman Tebbit
John Selwyn Gummer
Douglas Hurd
Nigel Lawson
Norman Lamont

[longeared]

Bernard Ingham
Glenys Kinnock
Kris Kristofferson
Prunella Scales
Terry Venables

[ad hoc]

Reposting last year's wish list. If someone's already nabbed one of these I'm sure someone will tell me


Donald Trump
Kim Jong Un
Bashar Al Assad
Tayyip Erdoğan
Ion Iliescu

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

ad hoc, Ant's had Trump.

[ad hoc]

OK, let's replace him with Putin

[tee rex]

I like to go with a theme every year, and the Hitchcock survivors have already been snaffled, so let's try ...

Chuck Grassley
Sandra Day O'Connor
Dianne Feinstein
Pat Buchanan
Trent Lott

(edit: didn't know Buchanan was still alive, so he's in for Gramm,

[Sean of the Shed]

Kenneth Baker
Roy Hattersley
Harry Belafonte
Cleo Laine
Pat Boone

[San Bernardhinault]

Henry Kissinger
Dick Cheney
Mohamed al Fayed
Imelda Marcos
Thomas Pynchon

[nmrfox]

Gina Lollobrigida
Jeremy Clarkson
Bernie Taupin
Jim Dale
Chris Rea

[David Agnew]

James Whale (The Radio twat, not the one who died in 1957)
Shannen Doherty
Rhod Gilbert
Nigel Starmer-Smith (was Gianluca Vialli)
Gary Glitter

[1974ddr]

Bill Wyman
Glynis Johns
Mario Zagallo
Henry Blofeld Buddy Guy

[Reality Checkpoint]

Jair Bolsonaro
Alexander Lukashenko
Ali Khomeni
Rodrigo Duterte
Benjamin Netanyahu

I live without hope

[pebblethefish]

Geoff Boycott
Geoff Capes
Jeffrey Archer
Godfrey Bloom
Jon Lithgow

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

James Whale (The Radio twat, not the one who died in 1957)
Shannen Doherty
Rhod Gilbert
Gianluca Vialli
Michael Schumacher

This is either a list because you work in their cardiovascular ward or it's a proper hate list, and I'd love to connect the dots on why

[ursus arctos]

It's all people who have been (or are) recently hospitalised with serious conditions

[elguapo4]

Sofia Loren

Maggie Smith

David Jason

Pete Best

Quincy Jones

[David Agnew]

This is either a list because you work in their cardiovascular ward or it's a proper hate list, and I'd love to connect the dots on why

ursus arctos os is right. Go big or go home.

Talking of which, I've edited out Michael Schumacher, and put in Gary Glitter, who is eligible for release in February.