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Hello folks, the Hartlepool Deadlypool is open for business. As announced previously, I'm assuming hosting duties in light of Rotten Ali's real life obligations leaving little time for deadpooling. I've decided to open up a new thread, given the degree of clutter in the old thread caused problems such as people not being able to easily find the rules. As a hostly sacrifice, not unlike Rotten Ali in his later years as host, I have entered a theme team in lieu of a more mainstream one. It has been shown to msc for safekeeping and will be revealed, alongside PMed teams, after the deadline. As for the rest of you, PM or posting in this thread are both acceptable means of submission. As someone who is usually a competitive deadpooler, and a strong adherent to dead pool hosting ethics, to remove any doubts I will not read PMed entries until I've submitted entries for all Jan 1-starting pools I partake in. The rules are now detailed in the next post for convenience, the bulk of it unchanged from Notapotato's rules from back when HPDP had a website, but with new or updated rules colored in blue. These changes are largely an enshrining of rules incorporated by Rotten Ali during his time as host, as well as my decision to make obituary requirements less "I know it when I see it" while also certifying an amount of reputed papers from other countries as qualifying (which had been a source of contention for several past deaths in this pool).

Caroll Spinney is 85 today!

Oh, I have no doubt that he made unwanted sexual advances towards young males, however, 99.99% of the accusations are unfounded shite . The probability is that most of the accusations amounted to no more than sexual talk and '' suggestions" about what he wanted to do. It is no longer enough to say " piss off or i'll break your neck" oh no, you have to be offended, violated and emotionally damaged for life which can only be alleviated by lots and lots of financial compensation.

Why should he? He has already been accused by people, without any evidence, and convicted by the masses based on said accusations published in the press and discussed in the media and he hasn't even been to trial yet! This is the modern justice systems ' guilty till proven innocent' bollocks. He may well be a lecherous old perv but a jury should decide that, not the tabloids and speculators.

Eartha Kitt got nothing for christmas on this day 10 years ago, aged 81.

I prefer a new thread for each competition. It makes for less "clutter", not more. The threads for completed competitions just sink to the bottom, out of the way.

Theory in which Jeanne Calment died in 1934 and daughter Yvonne assumed her identity to evade taxes. https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/

First Sweep Up of 2019 Entries: Received and Entered into the Database. @Deathray @YoungWillz @msc @Joey Russ @Phantom of the Midway @Bibliogryphon @FixedBusiness @The Unknown Man @theoldlady Thank you all, have a good Christmas and best of luck to you in all competitions next year If you think you have entered and do not see your name here, I haven't received your entry. Edit: I'll be amending this post for the next few entries. Edit: Scroll down, new list.

Today it looks more like Boring Day than Boxing Day.

Aussie diddles a horse...no that's not news. However, the horse instigated it, and that is. According to the Grafton Daily Examiner, the guy told police that the horse had sniffed his crotch, then made direct eye contact with him and winked. And that’s why, he said, banging the horse was totally consensual. Unconvinced, police charged him with an act of animal cruelty for 1) sexually penetrating the animal and 2) forcing it to perform fellatio. SC

My shadow list for 2019: 1) Clive James 2) Leah Bracknell 3) Herman Wouk 4) IM Pei 5) Olivia de Haviland 6) Vera Lynn 7) Kirk Douglas 8) Olivia Newton-John 9) Tommy Chong 10) Ruth Bader Ginsburg 11) Valerie Harper 12) Nichelle Nichols 13) Dave Prowse 14) Terry Jones (Python) 15) Bill Wyman 16) Beverley Clearly (US author) 17) Larry King 18 Frank Borman (astronaut) 19) Robert Mugabe 20) Chuck Yeager 21) Betty White 22) Henry Kissinger 23) Sidney Poitier 24) Doris Day 25) Franco Zeffirelli 26) Pierre Cardin 27) Carol Channing 28) Jimmy Carter 29) June Whitfield 30) Rolf Harris 31) Mikhail Gorbachev 32) Valery Giscard D'Estaing 33) Walter Mondale 34) Little Richard 35) Tony Bennett 36) Marion Ross (Happy Days) 37) Gina Lollobrigida 38) Imelda Marcos 39) Eva Marie Saint 40) Harry Belafonte 41) Bill Cosby 42) Buzz Aldrin 43) Carl Reiner 44) Jill Gascoigne 45) Javier Perez de Cuellar 46) Leslie Phillips 47) Angela Lansbury 48) Gary Busey 49) Liza Minelli 50) Michael Schumacher

Thank you all for entering! Looking forward for the rest of you

I'd like a shot at this game. Here's my team: Current Score: 189.05 pts 1) Tim Conway (5/14/19) [45 pts] 2) Ruthie Tompson [30 pts] 3) Kirk Douglas [25 pts] 4) Roberta McCain [20 pts] 5) Julie Gibson (10/2/19) [20 pts] 6) Herman Wouk (5/17/19) [25 pts] Don Lusk (died before the start date) 7) Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (4/23/19) [20 pts] 8) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh [30 pts] 9) Leah Bracknell (9/19) [25 pts] 10) Bill Turnbull [30 pts] Subs: 1) Norman Lloyd 2) Katherine Johnson

Tina Turner . 79, cancer in 2016, kidney transplant in 2017. Last seen hiding in Switzerland. I think next year she might just hit her Nutbush city limit.

I am loving that the deadline is still in my timezone. It's tradition, i guess. In the past i never entered because i feared it would be unfair since i would be able to see other peoples unique picks but this is nicely solved through removing the unique pick-bonus. i'll try to get a list finnished in time, but it might not be easy because i am currently abroad. Also thank you again for hosting it, book.

Team sent, @Book. I look forward to seeing how my powers of tele-patheticism do this year!

New thread? Why? Who among us doesn't appreciate the effort of going back .... and back..... to page 47 or summat, to see last year's list, or summat, or back to the first few pages to see the rules or summat. I LOVE doing that. SC

Rules Points are scored according to the following highly complex scoring system: Competitors are awarded points according to the order in which their candidates die. The starting positions are as follows: Candidate 1: 50 points Candidate 2: 45 points Candidate 3: 40 points Candidate 4: 35 points Candidate 5: 30 points Candidate 6: 25 points Candidate 7: 20 points Candidate 8: 15 points Candidate 9: 10 points Candidate 10: 5 points When the first candidate dies, points will be awarded as above, and the remaining potential scores will slide up or down one position. If candidate 1 dies first, the team gets 50 points and the points below all increase by 5, so candidate 2 will get 50 points if he or she is the next to go. If a celebrity departs further down the list before the ones above are gone, the scores above are reduced by 5, causing the highest remaining score on the list to disappear. Those below will increase by 5 as before. This will often cause two celebrities to have the same number of points next to their names, but the order in which they die will still influence subsequent scores. Additionally, the player is allowed up to two substitutes. The substitutes will still count as part of the player's team, but use a fully different scoring system: 25 points if one substitute dies, 50 if the second substitute dies. Bonuses do not apply to substitute hits - this likewise means that subs will not take away a name's unique bonus if only one team has said name in their main ten. If a name on the player's team dies before the pool opens, they will not receive points for the death (barring a minuscule consolation point or two). They will be allowed to put a new name on their main team, either from the subs bench or a new name entirely. If a sub is promoted, they are entitled to name a new sub. The Bonus System: Candidate not picked by any other competitor +2 Candidate under 18 years old -2 25th or less in line to the throne of Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark +2 Been on Celebrity Squares (or Hollywood Squares) +3 Death of candidate in spite of extremely high improbability or unlikeliness of same. +5 US Baseball or Basketball player -3 Former or present UK Prime Minister +3 Drummer +2 Incumbent or recent US president +3 Guilty (in Notapotato's opinion) of crimes against humanity +3 (with Notapotato rarely appearing, host Death Impends will use his own judgement for such cases) Both of the above +6 Has played in a pantomime +2 Has performed Morris dancing +3 Found dead in a Swimming Pool +3 Died in a farming or gardening accident +2 Death worthy of a Darwin Award +2 Murder, Suicide, Lightning +2 Dies on Notapotato's birthday (16th of May) +2 Death by Fire +2 Death by Water +2 Death by Bongo +6 The bonus is calculated according to the following simple formula: Bonus x (score gained from death divided by 5) Multiple bonuses multiply so a bonus of 3 and a bonus of 2 give together a bonus of 6. This makes negative bonuses extremely unattractive. So a bonus of 2 on a score of 40 gives you 2*(40/5)=16 Additionally, there will be a bonus of 50 points for coming in in 13th place in the Hartlepool Deadlypool. Unless there are only 13 or fewer entries. then there won't be. Nothing could be simpler. Oh yes, and there's an extra bonus of unspecified size payable on the first hit of the team which has the most interesting and unusual selection of celebrities. The host also reserves the right to reward further, minuscule bonuses to teams - often less than a point! 1. Dead means dead. No longer living: A bit like William Holden who having just been fished out of Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, died drunk and impoverished a mere 31 years later. Eligible for a death certificate. (A Munchkin is optional but may get a bonus) 2. For the purpose of the game a "celebrity" is someone well-enough known to get their death mentioned in one of the news sources host Death Impends deems qualifying for this pool: Anything that qualifies for the Derby Dead Pool The New York Times The Washington Post Herald Scotland The Scotsman Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian The Sydney Morning Herald Stuff.co.nz Le Monde Le Figaro Der Spiegel Die Zeit El Pais El Mundo Corriere della Sera la Repubblica 3. Only human beings may be submitted as candidates. Animals may take part in the dead pool, but may be ridiculed for doing so, and may not get any points. Unless they are cats with a long history of doing dead pools. Team names which sound like an animal such as "Donkey from Hell" or "Dead as a Parrot" are allowed, I suppose, but may be ridiculed. 3a. Strictly only one team per participant. The submission of teams in the name of domestic animals in an attempt to circumvent this rule is doomed to failure. And ridicule. 4. If a participant dies during the competition, unlike in some dead pools, they don't win the competition automatically. They may, however, get awarded a few extra points by way of consolation. And next year, a bonus will be named after you, perhaps. If you do die during the course of 2019, do drop us a line and let us know where you went wrong so others can avoid making the same mistake. 4a. For legal reasons, we are unable to actively encourage participants to murder or otherwise accelerate the deaths of their chosen celebrities. There is however no penalty in the Hartlepool Deadlypool for doing so. Your Procurator Fiscal or local alternative may see this differently though, so we recommend asking beforehand. 5. Anyone selecting the following types of names will be summarily ridiculed and very likely penalised in an arbitrary and unpleasant way should their candidates actually die or be killed: Famous For Being Ill names. The penalty incurred will be decided upon a name dying and obiting, and is dependent on the host's opinion of the degree of a name's FFBI-ness. A very select few, like Kate Granger to use a past example, I feel have transcended their illness to become a legitimate pick, and will receive no penalty. Those known for longevity are also not considered FFBI and will receive full points. Names who are proactive with their illness, but of a lower profile than the Granger types, will receive a moderate-to-severe penalty. If a name is "famous" solely for reasons such as an "inspiring" deathbed marriage or being in a coma, they will receive no points or perhaps even negative points! Fringes of Fame names are similarly subject to a penalty. I will likewise judge these names on a case by case basis upon death. If a name has some claim to fame independent of their relationship, I will likely be lenient - think Rayya Elias, whose news coverage in her final years was largely about Liz Gilbert's partnership with her, but was a published author in her own right. I will also be lenient with fringey names who have received a reasonable amount of media coverage prior to ill health. But if a Hollywood star makes a tearful post to Instagram about how their sister is terminally ill? If the sister never got much media attention pre-cancer, don't expect to gain a lot should she become a hit. Anyone under sentence of death or highly likely to be sentenced to death at the start of the year, unless they die by means other than execution Anyone missing in action at the time of entry submission, unless said MIA name is discovered to be alive, and dies later in the year 5a. And you won't be getting the extra bonus points for original and unusual picks if you don't come up with something a bit more original or unusual. 6. The deadline is 23:59 GMT on December 31. However, unlike most dead pools, teams may still be submitted post deadline - with the catch that any teams submitted January 1st and beyond are limited to 9 picks (plus two substitutes), and the highest-ranked name on your team starts with a value of 45 points. In fairness to those who entered in a timely manner, I will also forbid late entrants from including any currently unique names on their main team. Names that are entirely unpicked, only on subs benches, or on multiple main teams are fair game for inclusion. Because the subs bench has no impact on a pick's uniqueness, any name is fair game for inclusion on a late team's subs bench. 7. Though only deaths occurring up to December 31, 2019 are able to count as hits, the 2019 HPDP will officially close 23:59 GMT on January 7, 2020, to allow some breathing room for late-year deaths that might take a few days to accrue a proper obit.

R.I.P. I really feel Sorry for `Ifan` lost his girlfriend, 3 band members, his manager, a crew member, lots of his fans, all of the band's instruments and electronic equipment all in one fatal sweep during the tsunami. Terrible. How does one make sense of all this?

Le Duc Anh (Peter Alliss) mid-year Sub: Sam Lloyd Ruth Bader-Ginsburg Bob Barker Stanley Baxter Leah Bracknell Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter Noam Chomsky Sean Connery Tim Conway Bill Cosby Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Kirk Douglas Alberto Fugimori Greg Gilbert John Hume Clive James (Terry Jones) mid-year Sub: Ivan Milat Jose Jose Larry King Dilip Kumar Gina Lollobrigida Loretta Lynn Vera Lynn Ennio Marricone Roberta McCain John McCririck Michael Moore Stirling Moss Robert Mugabe Willie Nelson Olivia Newton-John (Yoko Ono) mid-year Sub: Genesis P-Orridge I.M. Pei 'Little' Richard Penniman Javier Perez de Cuellar Sidney Poitier Pope Benedict XVI David Prowse Chris Rea (Died before start of game: Simon Ricketts ) (Ozzy Osbourne was his replacement) mid-year Sub: Fernando Ricksen Nobby Stiles Jerry Stiller Shivakumara Swamiji Peter Tork Jean Louis Trintignant (Joker) (John Williams - Composer of Star Wars music) mid -year Sub: Randy Romero Herman Wouk (2019: 14/50) Substitutes: 1. NB! Ozzy Osbourne - replaces Simon Ricketts who died befare the start of the game 2. Fernando Ricksen 3. Carol Channing 4. Val Kilmer 5. Prince Phillip

Aye, will let you know about the references once the list is complete.

So, random conversation with someone who fancies herself as an influencer on social media Her - There's a cure for cancer, they just keep it hidden to make money off the cancer drugs Me - You got any, like, evidence of this? Her - Well, the royal family haven't got cancer.

Hey, this is not the Death Wishlist thread!

Can we please wait until New Years Eve to have the next Ideas and Possibilities thread?

Well, there's an open goal! She will survive. GOAAAALLLLLLL!