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Ah, April. As the weather gets warmer, the DDP hits get fewer. But - not to fret - as the Windy City Deadpool is here to save us all from a summer of deadpooling boredom! Basics: Pick a team of 21 people. The higher their rank, the more points they get when they die and obit. Submit it to me via PM or on this thread, by the end of April. Scoring System: 1st pick: 500 points 2nd pick: 450 points 3rd pick: 400 points 4th pick: 350 points 5th pick: 300 points 6th pick: 275 points 7th pick: 250 points 8th pick: 225 points 9th pick: 200 points 10th pick: 180 points 11th pick: 160 points 12th pick: 140 points 13th pick: 120 points 14th pick: 100 points 15th pick: 85 points 16th pick: 70 points 17th pick: 55 points 18th pick: 50 points 19th pick: 45 points 20th pick: 40 points 21st pick: 21 points As you can see the margin slowly decreases from 50 to 25 to 20 to 15 to 5 until the 21st pick. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by whoever has the most unique hits. Bonus Points The Good Die Young Bonus-The Youngest Celeb Picked who dies is a 100 Point Bonus Lucky 7 Bonus- 77 Points Bonus for anyone who dies in the last 7 days of the game April 24-30 Luck Of The Irish Bonus-Anyone who dies March 17 is worth a bonus 50 points Día de Muertos aka Day Of The Dead Bonus-Anyone who dies btwn Oct 31 and Nov 2 is worth 31 points Black History Month Bonus-Any death is February is a 28 Points Bonus Belsnickel Bonus-Anyone who dies on Dec 25th/Christmas Day get's a 25 point bonus Festivus Miracle-Anyone who dies on Dec 23 get's a 23 point bonus Sunday Funday Bonus-Anyone who dies on April 4 gets a bonus of 4.4 points Auld Lang Syne -Anyone who dies on New Year's day get's a whopping 1 point bonus Acceptable Obits: Anything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool, plus The Independent. Plus the following national American news sources: - New York Times - LA Times - CBS News - Fox News -Wall Street Journal Plus the following International news sources: http://www.cbc.ca/ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ http://www.heraldscotland.com/ https://www.univision.com/ * Cancer Mum's/Athlete's Wives(IE Tiffany Youngs) and other Famous For Being Ill Types will not be accepted even if they get a qualifying Obit *Some name's may appear like a gray area(ie Roz Patterson).Notable in her Native Country as a reporter and would easily get a QO with a plane crash or auto accident type death.However if none of her QO obits mention her journalistic career and is just an angle about her being a Cancer Mum then no points will be awarded. Duration: The competition lasts from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022 Get your team in before Big Ben welcomes the month of May. Teams can be sent either through pm or posted in this thread

Lee Aaker, famed when he was 11 as the 50s child star of "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", has died at 77. He passed away alone and unclaimed... and was listed as an "indigent decedent". https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.jioforme.com/lee-aaker-dies-the-adventure-of-the-famous-dog-rin-tin-tin-star-was-77-years-old/341177/amp/ Here with Geraldine Page, John Wayne and Ward Bond in "Hondo" (1953): I really liked this show when I was a little girl... (when I watched the reruns... I'm old... but I'm not Betty White )

No, the fucking thing shouldn't be in anywhere but the bin.

Private Eye.

Welcome (in a few days) to the Club China's best translator of Western poetry, Xu Yuanchong! Yes, another Chinese immortal geezer, we really needed one more.

None of his sister's children but Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Baden is the oldest son of Maximilian, Margrave of Baden and a grandchild of one of Philip's sisters. Maximilian is 87 and probably can't attend due to covid or age-related problems

Thanks, friend.

That would have been the QO https://uk.news.yahoo.com/adventures-rin-tin-tin-star-200412378.html List of the missed, and a missed chance to have the alphabetically first hit ever.

Standards? In this corner of the forum?!! I think you are on the wrong thread! But a slightly more serious point she is famous.A celebrity ? Well not in the strict and commonly understood sense of the word although the meaning gas diluted over the years to be more broad and encompassing. I did hesitate and have a debate in my mind if to post about her but concluded she was more famous than some of the reality tv stars posted on this thread and her media noteworthy nature nudged me towards including her . I would say I included her more because of fame recognition level rather than meeting a definition of celebrity .

Not a 'famous celebrity'. Standards are slipping!

Looks like three German relatives have made the cut. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9471993/Prince-Philips-close-family-Germany-isolating-Ascot-funeral.html Presumably this means some of the older or more distant names suggested (Princess Alexandra, Lady Pamela Hicks) might not be coming?

Several live musicians planning to pay tribute to a dead one - Mayall at 87 is the oldest, a few others (Wyman, for example) close behind. Not grabbing me but someone more motivated could - like - take this one for the team, or summat

You can participate in several pools, just follow the rules and enjoy

@Octopus of Odstock last one from me tonight. This one is a lead... a bit of a wildcard but definitely merits exploring. On Ancestry Family Trees, there's this: Jack Taylor b. 24 Jun 1924 Bradford, Yorkshire, England d. 6 Feb 1997 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (aged 72) Now, this is the only c. 1924 Taylor birth in Bradford I could find in the trees section that was either an exact or approx match. Problem though – Jack, not John. Now on the face of things, this would look like we've nailed him down, but I checked the birth index and the above individual was actually born in 1924 as "Jack Taylor" (rare for those days as Jack was almost always exclusively a nickname, not a birth name). Still worth considering though – did his name get bastardised down the line in League records, books etc somewhere? I can't find any old newspaper clippings about the 46-47 Bradford City team that mentions a Taylor. Is it possible someone put 2 and 2 together and got 5 i.e. saw "Jack" and just assumed he was actually "John"? Now, here's a photo of him (poor quality, sorry) after he emigrated to Canada. If you could pull out an old Bradford City pic of that specific team (again, easier said than done) then you may be able to rule this lead out or verify it that way. I imagine pictures of these guys are pretty scarce?

Agreed. Once it disappears into page 3 it can be deleted.

Him having such a memorable tournament too!

@Octopus of Odstock Another one here. Frederick A. Sharpe b. Jan 1924 Norwich, Norfolk, England m. Emily M. Watts in Apr 1944 Hull, Yorkshire, England d. 2020 Hull, Yorkshire, England (aged 95–96) This time, no mention of being a footballer in the family tree, but likely our guy. Worth contacting Wrexham F.C.? Surely they would have heard something? This could be verified by the GRO (as his middle name will appear there) when they finally bother to put all the 2020 records up! When that will be, I don't know. I last asked them 6 months ago and they said they didn't know when they'd be live! OR... there's the Probates. Now there is a record in there for 2020 for a Frederick Arthur Sharpe, but some reason the probate itself was registered in Liverpool. It has a date of death of 9 Apr 2020. I'm not sure if the probate would hold the age or DOB? But if Hugman's wanted to, they could call the GRO and try and place an order of a 2020 death certificate by phone. I think you can do that even though they're not online at the moment?

@Octopus of Odstock, a rather bland family tree here has this: David D. Gray b. 1923 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland d. 1983 Halifax, Yorkshire, England There's a comment bubble at the side which says "josie66mod Football: David Gray famously played for Bradford City FC in the 1950's." No other info provided but most likely accurate. Here's the problem in verifying it – the GRO Index doesn't have the 1983 records (d'oh!). It starts from 1984... and on FreeBMD, this record doesn't come up either, but that's likely because FreeBMD has incomplete records for the years missing on the GRO. In order to get the full date for Hugman's, they'd be best getting in touch with the registry office responsible for Halifax and request a copy of a certificate. That should hold a middle name, possibly a birth date/place, and will give a full date of death.

Shocked and appalled no-one has noted the death of 1982 World Cup Kuwaiti defensive colossus Jamal Al Qabendi from diabetes https://m.kooora.com/default.aspx?n=1021340

quite close… but nos exactly sorry ! New round opens for the 7th hit of this year, here are the choices : April 12th : Bentrovato April 13th : DCI Frank Burnside April 15th : Sean April 17th : Bibliogryphon April 18th : Klinews April 19th : chilean way April 20th : theoldlady April 21st : Paul Bearer April 23rd : Redrumours April 24th : Book April 30th : Dying Probably May 1st : roaming_comrade May 2nd : Putin May 5th : The Red Death May 7th : DiE humanity May 8th : reaper rose May 9th : The Quim Reaper May 10th : ladyfiona May 12th : Reaper World May 21st : the_engineer May 27th : Fergie86 @arghton and @Sir Creep, both of your dates were already taken, if you want to participate, please take an other one ! Good luck y'all

Shannen Doherty turns 50 today How old does that actually make me? The latest news I found about her was a quarantine in Canada, where she was doing fine, focusing on health.

Actress Natalie Schafer died on this day 30 years ago, aged 90.

Are you saying, Rush Limbaugh gave gay people AIDS? Wow, where did you hear this? I completely missed that article.

I already pointed it out. That's actually his uncle, not his father.

Ah, that reminds me of the time I forwarded on an email from a senior executive at my work, specifically pointing out the amount of "content-free waffle" contained in his address-to-the-troops type of message. I hit send, and half a second later, realised I hadn't filled out the email address of the person I wished to forward it on to. It took approximately one Ohnosecond for it to dawn on me that I'd originally hit REPLY instead of FORWARD before adding my generous insights on the content of his email. I never did get any response, but I've since heard the term "content-free waffle" being used by some of our management team. Come the revolution, I'm gonna be first against the wall. Given that there are over 5,000 employees in the organisation I work for, I'm glad I didn't hit REPLY ALL.