Deadpool 2008

Yeah, we’re sick. So what?

The 2008 game started on January 1^st 2007 and runs until December 31^st 2008.

Previous Games

• 2007 - Winner: Chris Bell.
• 2006 - Winner: Steve Pugh.
• 2005 - Winner: Paul Stevenson.
• 2004 - Winner: Bethan Gostick.
• 2003 - Winner: Mike Doherty.
• 2002 - Winners: Paul Stevenson and Bethan Gostick.
• 2001 - Winner: Steve Pugh.
• 2000 - Winner: Steve Pugh.
• 1998/1999 - Winner: Olly Betts
• 1997/1998 - Winner: Andrew Brennand
• 1996/1997 - Winner: Andrew Brennand

The Lists

Steve Pugh

1. Michael Foot, 1913, politician and historian
2. Kirk Douglas, 1916, he’s Spartacus
3. Arthur C. Clarke, 1917, author Deceased: 19^th March 2008
4. J.D. Salinger, 1919, another author
5. Prince Philip, 1921, living god of the Yaohnanen tribe
6. Henry Kissinger, 1923, war criminal
7. Charlton Heston, 1924, would a shooting accident be too much? Deceased: 05^th April 2008
8. Fidel Castro, 1926, assuming he's not already dead...
9. Murray Gell-Mann, 1928, nobel prize winner
10. Valentina Tereshkova, 1937, first woman cosmonaut

Paul Stevenson

1. Studs Terkel, 1912, Journalist
2. Mark Felt, 1919, Deep Throat
3. Clive Dunn, 1920, Gretchen Franklin's cousin
4. Margaret Thatcher, 1925, Pinochet’s chum
5. Alfredo di Stéfano, 1926, Real Madrid legend
6. Cyril Smith, 1928, liberally-proportioned ex-MP
7. Ronnie Biggs, 1929, or is he just pretending to be ill?
8. Harold Pinter, 1930, had his last Birthday Party?
9. Bobby Robson, 1933, Ipswich Town Honorary President
10. Louis Farrakhan, 1933, Islamic National

Bethan Gostick

1. Robert McNamara, 1916, middle name “strange”
2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919, Will the City Lights go out?
3. J.D. Salinger, 1919, if he lets us know he’s dead
4. George Miller, 1920
5. Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921 Deceased: 26^th April 2008
6. Lady Thatcher, 1925, if she is indeed human
7. Ken Dodd, 1927
8. Ian Brady, 1938, Old lady
9. Liz Dawn, 1938
10. Amy Winehouse, 1983

Chris Bell

1. David Rockefeller, 1915, Very rich, very old
2. Denis Healey, 1917, Old Labour
3. Billy Graham, 1918, time to meet his maker
4. John Glenn, 1921, It could be one space mission too many
5. Robert Mugabe, 1924, crazed dictator, more from hope than expectation
6. Hugh Hefner, 1926, Viagra overdose?
7. Larry Hagman, 1931, Already on his second liver
8. Alex Higgins, 1949, Snooker player with throat cancer, apparently
9. Shane MacGowan, 1957, Singer with a soon to be non-functioning liver
10. Holly Johnson, 1960, Frankie Goes To AIDS Clinic

Jolyon Lockett

1. Kirk Douglas, 1916, (spartacus) sparked out?
2. Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921, (jazz trumpeter) inspirationally misanthropic, but so old Deceased: 26^th April 2008
3. Peter Sallis, 1921, (actor) the last of the summer wine kull continues
4. Eric Sykes, 1923, (actor) 73% more likely to die this year than Saddam
5. Barbara Bush, 1925, (ex-first lady) too prissy to die?
6. Margaret Thatcher, 1925, (heartless cow) dies of a broken blood pumping analogue?
7. Jimmy Savile, 1926, (marathon man) how long can he keep on running?
8. Ken Russel, 1927, (director) Big Brother didn't kill him, so what will?
9. Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931, (aged russian) retired, bored? lost the will to live?
10. Pervez Musharraf, 1943, Pakistani president

Howard Reed

1. Michael Foot, 1913, 19th century Labour politician
2. Jack Jones, 1913, ex-TUC boss
3. Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921, Radio presenter & jazz musician Deceased: 26^th April 2008
4. Eric Sykes, 1923, comedian
5. Margaret Thatcher, 1925, 80s Tory
6. Geoffrey Howe, 1926, 80s Tory
7. Queen Elizabeth II, 1926, rather dull monarch
8. Ronnie Corbett, 1930, comedian
9. Clint Eastwood, 1930, star of 'The Dead Pool' and other movies
10. Michael Winner, 1935, sometime film director / restaurant critic

Mike Doherty

1. Jack Weil, 1901, credited with the invention of the stylistic necessity, the bolo tie.
2. Arthur Andrews, 1909, an Alabaman Republican Member of U.S. House of Representatives
3. Eric Tindell, 1910, only "Double All Black" to play Tests in both cricket and rugby union for New Zealand
4. Sir Norman Wisdom, 1915, national comedy hero of Albania
5. Eli Wallach, 1915, The Ugly
6. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 1924, president of Zimbabwe - being such a knob has got to take its toll. Then again, I said that 4 years ago.
7. King Bumibol, Rama IX, 1927, king of Thailand and the world's longest-serving current head of state
8. Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak, 1928, President of Egypt since 1981, and an oft-time magnet for suicide bombers
9. Joseph Kittinger, 1928, record holder of highest parachute jump (31,330m); currently a biplane barnstormer!
10. General Than Shwe, 1933, military leader of Burma

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