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New picture of Jim Lovell, doesn't look bad but wheelchairbound apparently

Mentioned in this thread previously - Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese newspaper executive, dead aged 98.

Thu 19 Dec 34 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives 24 Pet Shop Boys- Always On My Mind 21 Wham! — Last Christmas +4 21 Isaac Watts — Joy To The World 18 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In the Wall 11 Mykola Leontovych — Carol Of The Bells 09 The Beatles — I Feel Fine -6 05 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me

Thu 19 Dec 28 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992) +4 28 Erasure - Blue Savannah 27 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 26 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 23 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 23 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire 23 Faithless - Insomnia 22 Spin Doctors - Two Princes 22 Suede - Stay Together 22 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much -6 21 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 21 No Doubt - Just a Girl 20 Enigma - Return to Innocence 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 20 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 19 EMF - Unbelievable 17 Suede - Trash 17 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 16 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 15 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman 12 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix)

December 19th 28 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much +4 28 Erasure - Blue Savannah 27 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 26 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 24 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992)  23 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 23 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire 23 Faithless - Insomnia 22 Spin Doctors - Two Princes 22 Suede - Stay Together 21 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 21 No Doubt - Just a Girl 20 Enigma - Return to Innocence 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 20 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 18 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix)  17 Suede - Trash 17 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 16 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 15 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman 15 EMF - Unbelievable 00 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) -6

19-Dec 26 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 24 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992)  24 Erasure - Blue Savannah 24 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much 23 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 23 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire 23 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 23 Faithless - Insomnia 22 Spin Doctors - Two Princes 22 Suede - Stay Together 21 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 21 No Doubt - Just a Girl 21 EMF - Unbelievable 20 Enigma - Return to Innocence 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 20 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 18 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) +4 17 Suede - Trash 17 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 16 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 15 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman -2 12 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) 00 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey - Endless Love -4

R.I.P. Bob "Slim" Dunlap

Slim passed away earlier today I know Slim's daughter. The family are asking for privacy at the moment

How many pools are there for next year. About to start this weekend as will be pretty busy over Christmas and don’t want to miss any.

I am working on a list. I have 10 names so far.

I'm seeing posts online that Slim Dunlap has passed away.

I saw him out and about in the 6th district of Vienna in his prime (around 20 years ago!), and wouldn't have bet my last Sparbuch on him making it to the end of 2024.

I think this might be the last update before the game concludes... The trigger was the belated obit for Rupert Keegan, a popular replacement pick. Keegan had a couple of years in the Formula One but no great successes there. Hence, we had to wait months for the obit, but luckily, the BBC covers a whole lot of ground. Banana picked him, for example, Cpt. Chorizo did not... But Cpt. Chorizo did pick Silvia Pinal, as did Baby Blue. The legendary mexican actress had been plagued by ill health for a while, but still made it to a grand age of 93. Torva Messor scores a classy unique hit with Helen Gallagher - a veteran US actress most successful on Broadway, but also the recipient of three daytime Emmy Awards. chileanway and the_daredevil share the honors of having picked Earl Holliman. Holliman was a bit of an all-around entertainer, which in the 50s and 60s weren't all that rare. Mostly TV acting, but also a bit of singing and some stage productions. He recieved a Golden Globe Award and a star on the Walk of Fame. Also, I might have missed to give the points for June Spencer in the last update? It's done now. Three players await an obit for Antero Laukkanen. I'm afraind these players will be waiting a loooong time. The scoreboard shows a nerve-wrecking situation at the top, where Banana can't quite catch up to Cpt. Chorizo but the next hit will be the 'golden goal', so to say. It won't be "Black Bart" Harris, as both players have him. But otherwise, it's like, the next hit wins: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1368 2 Banana 1354 3 gcreptile 1217 4 wannamaker 1157 5 Book 1126 6 RadGuy 1090 7 msc 1082 8 Funeralopolis 1080 9 Perhaps 1060 10 Summer in Transilvania 961 11 Salmon Mousse 950 12 Mr. Wonderful 923 13 Buffalo Phil 880 14 The Immortal 829 15 Toast 827 16 Liz Lemon 821 17 Torva Messor 811 18 An Fear Beag 786 19 Pedro67 765 20 The Unknown Man 758 21 tracy 745 22 Wormfarmer 729 23 MariNisia 703 24 The old lady 694 25 Baby Blue 692 26 Thatcher 681 27 Etushipushingupdaisies 663 28 Imelda 626 29 Predictor 615 30 Death Impends 607 31 DeathBecomesThem 601 32 Lady Fiona 584 33 Cpt. Hemlock 583 34 Charles De Gaulle 552 35 Caleb H 537 36 TQR 526 37 The Daredevil 525 38 The Old Crem 523 39 ThereWillBeDeaths7 516 40 John Key 504 41 Diego 476 42 arghton 473 43 Sean 469 44 Yorkshire Banker 459 45 Annami 409 46 Bibliogryphon 398 47 Young Willz 352 48 Great Uncle Bulgaria 279 49 chileanway 272 50 Hell 240 51 Sod's Law 202 52 Gooseberry Crumble 59

Fred Lorenzen reportedly dead: https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2024/12/18/fred-lorenzen-nascar-hall-of-famer-dies-at-89/

Just going to mention every player who is playing this pool, that if you wish to join it for next year you have 13 days to message me. So far only myself and @LizLemon are playing. Anyone who has never played before are free to join. @Thatcher, @Gooseberry Crumble, @BabyBlue, @diego, @lilham, @Zsa Zsa's leg, @DeathBecomesThem, @CaptainChorizo, @The Old Crem.

18-Dec 24 Suede - Stay Together 23 Faithless - Insomnia 22 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) 22 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire 22 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 22 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 21 EMF - Unbelievable 20 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992) +4 20 Enigma - Return to Innocence 20 Erasure - Blue Savannah 20 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 20 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) 20 No Doubt - Just a Girl 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 20 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much 20 Spin Doctors - Two Princes 20 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 20 Suede - Trash 20 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 14 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman 14 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) 12 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey- Endless Love -2 12 Billy Joel - The River of Dreams -4

According to the mid-week charts, Last Christmas is in pole position to become UK Christmas No.1 for the second time in a row. The only other times the same song has reached Christmas No.1 twice are Bo Rhap (though the second time was with TATDOOL) and Mary's Boy Child if we're counting that Boney M song as the same song as the one by Harry Belafonte (which is a bit of a stretch).

Originally we had the Lee Evans gambiting, deliberately hyping up someone with a low-grade, treatable cancer in December. Then we did the reverse of that, which was going so gung-ho on a solid pick that people thought you were bluffing. Then it was just buck-shotting the board with a mix of good and bad info in December so nobody could work out what was viable data. The next great dark art of deadpooling is yet to be discovered, though.

I remember someone on here saying something about Alzheimers a while back bur I have never seen anything more than that about his health. He is mentioned a lot I think because not only is he due to turn 95 in March but he was a household name in Britain.He was also very active in public life regularly appearing in public and giving interviews then nearly 10 years ago now he resigned from the House of Lords and has not been heard from since.He was passionately against Brexit and spoke out against the idea before the referendum but to my knowledge never commented after the referendum as by that time he retreated from public life.

Thank you so much @YoungWillz.. I sent my 3 teams in. Hopefully I did well being my first time

I should add the email address is on the current rules page here: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/ddp-rules/ That also gives all you need.

Email your team (or each team) WITH YOUR JOKER AT THE TOP (well that's how I do it). Add three subs to the team. If you need to explain who your pick is, do that underneath your team. For example, Jim Smith would need an explanation, Brian Blessed probably not. I cannot use Excel at all. I've had no problems so far just using the old style. Hope this helps.

What a way to start this thread. Helpful to all those that don't know her...

A mate of mine sent this to me on WhatsApp the other day saying "OMG you'll love this shall we watch it together!?" To which I responded "No. I think the man's a cunt."

Thanks!! The first residual game has ended after almost five years, and I'm glad to have won it. Might even be my first forum game win. Congratulations to @Bibliogryphon as well, who takes 2nd place! Our picks Arnold Yarrow and Loretta Ford were the sole survivors since 8 April 2023.