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There’s a lot more to him than Del Boy. He deserves his own thread a fuck side more than a lot of the recent creations.

After conducting an extensive search through the forums, I was surprised to discover that David Jason did not yet have his own thread. Although he doesn't appear to suffer from any known illnesses, I would argue that as one Of Britain's most famous TV actors, the "only Fools and Horses" deserves his own thread. Especially with the recent passing of John Challis, it just appears that his generation is beginning to disappear.

The Berne Institute reporting the death of Romanian-American psychoanalyst Fanita English (wiki) aged 105. A DDP pick.

The first new photos for our first time picks of 2022 are up! You can check the letters A, Y and Z for them. If you would like to try a letter yourself, pm me.

Well, I'm sure it will be a comfort to Her Majesty when the nuke kills her before her Stage IV cancer does...

Hospitalised.

The only reason you liked Diana is because she made things happen in your trousers...possibly even when she was alive too.

Jean-Jacques Savin, a.k.a. french barrel guy, has now died at 75 in another maritime stunt: https://m.dw.com/en/french-adventurer-jean-jacques-savin-dies-during-atlantic-crossing-bid/a-60528113 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Savin

If only there was a thread for Only Fools and Horses...

Post-match analysis of my 2021 "hits": I'm not a great picker – but I'm a pretty good ranker. 1. Larry King, 2 points. There's no such thing as a guaranteed Covid death, right? Even extremely ill people often end up getting a symptomless lucky break. If he'd been a popular pick, I'm not sure I'd have bothered, but nobody else picked him – so, in the spirit of contrarianism, I simply had to. It's quite satisfying to start the game in sole last place and slowly rise up the ranks! Makes me feel like I'm playing against rubberbanding AI opponents. 2. Murray Walker, 6 points. Old guy who died. It happens. 3. Prince Philip, 1 point. I just quite liked the symmetry of him and his ball-and-chain flanking the list from either side. And he wasn't that old, was he? 99 in royal years is like 27 in normal human years. He's basically Kurt Cobain. No wonder all the British internet went greyscale to mourn the tragic death of this young boy. 4. Norman Lloyd, 5 points. I have a sort of rule that anyone who's in the Inverse 50 on age grounds alone must make at least one appearance on my team – even if, statistically speaking, that age is Holy Shit How Can You Possibly Not Be Dead Already years old. 5. Sarah Harding, 4 points. Quite a speedy cancer turnaround – I thought I was pessimistic expecting her death to cancel a Girls Aloud 20th anniversary reunion in 2022, when actually, she's died so far in advance, the rest of them now have enough time to plan a Sarahless reunion without it seeming insensitive. 6. Betty White, 10 points. Well, me and People Magazine both. 36 places above my mother? I'll take it! (The Inverse Dead Pool 2022 – hosted by your reigning runner-up – is now open, if any of you haven't noticed. Team submissions close in 24 hours! Don't miss it!)

Just when you thought it was dead for good, it's back! With the permission of most recent game-runner Clorox and original host Joey Russ, I am going to try and resurrect the Jokers pool. For no other good reason than I am bored, and I have a soft spot for the first pool I ever won. For the newbies, this is a seemingly unloved pool where you get to pick a whole 50 names from the list of 2022 DDP Jokers. Points are allocated according to a scoring system that you only partially get to see. No-one counts the scores for ages. Everyone gets confused or annoyed or both, and at the end of the year, a seemingly random winner is announced. Or not! What could be simpler? In due course, I will edit this to ensure that there is a better intro to the pool. For now, let's get down to business and get the pool launched. POOL RULES TEAM Choose 50 names from the masterlist below. All of these names were selected as "Jokers" in the 2022 Derby Dead Pool. Please also include 3-5 subs with your entry. Nominate five of these names to be your wildcards. If they die and receive a qualifying obituary for DDP, they will score double points. Post your team in this thread or PM me. Entries close at 23.59 on 31st January 2022. That's just over a week, so better get to it sharpish. POINT-SCORING 1 base point for a 'hit' 2 pts for a Drop 40 pick in DDP (reduced from previous years) 3 pts for a unique pick in DDP 3 pts for a solo pick in this pool 3 pts for an unnatural death 2 unlucky pts for a hit on the 13th of any month 2 pts for a DeathList.net alumnus i.e. from 1987-2022 (new) 1 pt for hits at certain spots on your list. Which spots they are, however, are hidden until they are scored. There is also an extensive set of hidden bonuses. These are top-secret. So secret that even I do not know them. Seriously! - I'm still waiting for Clorox to actually send me the rules . It is generally stated that "they will each be revealed when they are struck." However I won it in 2019 without ever finding out what the bonuses were and how I hit them, so that may not actually happen. The bonuses will be the same as they were in 2020, so I cannot be said to have an advantage of knowing the bonuses in advance. I will submit a randomised team before I read the bonuses, so I will be at a disadvantage before we start. All straight-forward - No? Everyone excited to have it back - No? Who cares- lets give it a go. Good luck to all!

Fanita English is your 6th hit here @gcreptile. …. are you cheating?

Oh, I don't think she was that scary.

Ahh I have an appropriate tea towel all ready for that!

Fantastic, let’s have a daily countdown, and maybe a celebratory wank when the anniversary comes.

Some others include Cecil Parkinson, Brian Mawhinney, Lady Tebbit, Paddy Ashdown, David Amess, James Brokenshire, Gillian Clarke (Ken’s wife), F W De Klerk, Cheryl Gillian, Jeremy Haywood, Toby Jessel, Shirley Williams, And a few others on the clock alongside Mahathir like Frank Field, Douglas Hurd, Norman Tebbit and King Constantine.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/marion-brasch-obituary?id=32366102

If a nuke is used the world will end. That won't happen. You are free to your belief though

Here you go: Hollywood Reporter obit.

a lot of nations are very impressed by a king or queens visiting. It does wonders for making deals etc. Especially in asia it works well. Also, a lot of people from their respective nations feel a certain unity in being united through a monarch.

Polish actress Barbara Kwafftowna (Wiki) died at 93, RIP (1928 - 2022) https://film.interia.pl/wiadomosci/news-nie-zyje-barbara-krafftowna,nId,5787263

Wrong thread. No idea who I am referring to here.

Thanks for hosting, good luck everyone! Clint Eastwood Paul Gascoigne David Attenborough Billy Connolly Doddie Weir Yoko Ono Tim Bilton Queen Elizabeth II Joe Exotic Phil Collins Donald Trump Dick Van Dyke Henry Kissinger Harry Belafonte Tom Parker Shannen Doherty Willie Nelson Mel Brooks Jimmy Carter James Whale Eva Marie Saint Tom Smith Milos Zeman Rob Burrow Rupert Murdoch Sub:Bernard Cribbins

Leonor Oyarzún: https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/2022/01/21/a-los-102-anos-fallecio-leonor-oyarzun-viuda-del-expresidente-aylwin/ Yeah, this is ridiculous. I could have won the Deathrace with centenarians, or something.

Interview with a Vampire is now 27 years old, i.e. was made a couple of years before some people on here were born. I imagine for me, it would be like not knowing a middle / late 70s movie. And Generation Z / Zoomers, they don't have the "cultural canon" anymore, I.e. being forced to watch certain movies and series because there's nothing else on TV.