Deadpool 1998/99

Yeah, we're sick. So what?

The 1998/1999 game started on November 1^st 1998 and ran until October 31^st 1999. The winner was Olly Betts.

The Lists

Steve Pugh

1. The Queen Mother, 1900, royal
2. Dame Barbara Cartland, 1901, author
3. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, actor
4. Anthony Powell, 1905, novelist
5. Sir John Mills, 1908, actor
6. Ronald Reagan, 1911, ex-actor
7. Sir Alec Guinness, 1914, actor
8. Arthur C. Clarke, 1917, author
9. Pope John Paul II, 1920, top catholic
10. Patrick Moore, 1923, astronomer

Paul Stevenson

1. Hans Bethe, 1906, nuclear physicist, nobel laureate
2. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909, actor, statesman
3. Ronald Reagan, 1911, actor, statesman
4. Dame Vera Lynn, 1917, singer, actress
5. Betty Ford, 1918, ex-first lady and detox expert
6. J.D. Salinger, 1919, ex-novelist, recluse
7. Pope John Paul II, 1920, infallable, but not yet inanimate
8. Ivor Cutler, 1923, poet laureate of Scotland
9. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, Drinks Canada Dry
10. Vaclav Havel, 1936, poet, playwright, statesman

Andrew Brennand

1. The Queen Mother, 1900, mother of the queen
2. Dame Barbara Cartland, 1901, all candy floss comes from a culture originally taken from her muff
3. Bob Hope, 1903, won't spring eternal
4. Kirk Douglas, 1916, Spartacus!
5. Pope John Paul II, 1920, he's pope
6. John Glenn, 1921, really old astronaut
7. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, might even die before Nov 1st
8. Vaclav Havel, 1936, as Paul says "one lung and a chain smoker"
9. Slobodan Milosevic, 1941, we all want to see the SAS go to work again
10. Robert Cabana, 1949, astronaut

Michael Doherty

1. Bob Hope, 1903, Some nearly dead geezer. Oh, does jokes.
2. Ronald Reagan, 1911, Friend of monkeys
3. Sir Stanley Matthews, 1915, Used to play footie for Blackpool.
4. Kirk Douglas, 1916, Actor bloke; spawned Whatsit Gecko on us.
5. Nelson Mandela, 1918, President of South Africa.
6. Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 1919, writer and something to do with that newfangled televisual thingy.
7. Sir Peter Ustinov, 1921, Actor, quite good. Except as Poirot.
8. Maggie Thatcher, 1925, Demented? Surely.
9. Shirley Temple, 1928, Somewhere over the rainbow - soon hopefully!
10. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, Travelling Vodka Salesman

Olly Betts

1. Dame Ninette de Valois, 1898, founder of Royal Ballet
2. Baron Alfred Thompson Denning, 1899, Judge, Master of the Rolls 1962-82 Deceased: March 5^th 1999
3. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, Actor and luvvie
4. Sir George Edwards, 1908, aeronautical engineer
5. Sir Ernst Gombrich 1909, historian
6. Sir Alan Hodgkin, 1914, medical academic, nobel prize winner Deceased: December 1998
7. Max Perutz, 1914, biologist
8. The Rev Prof Owen Chadwick, 1916, historian
9. Yehudi Menuhin, 1916, violinist, chairman of the Puffin Club! Deceased: March 12^th 1999
10. Sir Andrew Huxley, 1917, noble prize winner

Chris Bell

1. The Queen Mother, 1900, She's got to go sooner or later
2. General Augusto Pinochet, 1915, If natural causes don't get him, the chair will
3. Spike Milligan, 1918, Comedian who can't remember his own name
4. John Glenn, 1921, It could be one space mission too many
5. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, A popular choice, with good reason
6. Larry Hagman, 1931, Already on his second liver
7. Ian Dury, 1942, Blockhead with cancer
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

Mark Stevenson

1. Dame Barbara Cartland, 1901, wears pink
2. Sir John Gielgud, 1904, luvvie,
3. General Augusto Pinochet, 1915, ex-dictator
4. Sir Harry Secombe, 1921, Welsh
5. Eric Sykes, 1923, comedy writer and performer
6. Fidel Castro, 1927, Cuban president
7. Boris Yeltsin, 1931, Russian piss-artist
8. Paula Yates, 1960, kook
9. Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne, 1967, Geordie piss-artist
10. Leonardo Di Caprio, 1974, baby faced actor

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