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Off-topic, but there you go:

I just Googled a photo of him. I agree with Barbara, I don't recognise him either.

I'd love to see this one on the front page of a newspaper!

INVERSE DEAD POOL 2019 As always, with the new year comes another opportunity for you all to reckon which DDP darlings have another 365 days left in their tanks. Though the 2018 Inverse Dead Pool had less deaths among its selectables than 2017 (15 compared to 20), there were still three massive scoreboard-scrambling landmines among them in Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, and Stan Lee. By the year's end, machotrouts emerged the least scathed with 17 points. Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2019, pick a team of 25 names who you think will survive the year. Rank your list in order of least likely to die to least least likely to die. Post your team in this thread. If someone dies and they are listed on your team, then you will receive points according to their position. If your #1 pick dies you'll receive 25 points, whilst if your #25 pick dies you'll receive 1 point. If someone dies and they are not on your list, then you receive no points. In case one of the names available for entry dies before the submission deadline, you are allowed to have one sub. The sub can be anyone from the top 50 or the 51st most popular name, who will be revealed alongside the top 50. The 51st name can not be part of the original 25 if no one dies. In the case of one of your original team dying pre-deadline, the sub goes into 25th place by default, but if the sub was previously the 51st, you are allowed to change the position of the new pick. If the above scenario happens, you are also allowed to name a new sub and I will reveal the 52nd most popular name. Whoever has the lowest score at the end of the year is the winner. NEW: If two or more teams are tied at the end of the year, the tie will first be decided by who has less hits. If they have an equal amount of hits, then whoever among the teams died latest in the year, and thus came closest to being a correct prediction, will decide the winner. If said name was on multiple teams in the tie, whoever had said name lowest will win. If multiple teams had said name in the same position, the second most recently-deceased name will be referred to, and so on, until a winner is found. If, by some alignment of the stars, the tie is of either no hits or of all of the exact same hits in the exact same positions, all teams in the tie share victory. Credit to Toast for inadvertently coming up with a peach of a topic description, and of course, credit to Spade for creating this wonderful game. Credit to Dead Cow for his job as previous host, laying the framework for the Inverse Dead Pool's OP, and the idea for a "dies during entry period" rule. Credit to machotrouts for the suggestion of the latest hits factoring into tiebreakers. Previous Winners 2018 - machotrouts 2017 - drol 2016 - Pedro67 2015 - Death Impends 2014 - Bibliogryphon 2013 - N/A 2012 - Esturian Float 2011 - Garn2 Top 50 George Alagiah John Andretti Bob Barker Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Kathleen Blanco Leah Bracknell June Brown Jimmy Carter Beth Chapman Johnny Clegg Billy Connolly Tim Conway Doris Day Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Kirk Douglas Queen Elizabeth II Andrew Fairlie Pete Frates Paul Gascoigne Jill Gascoine Greg Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jimmy Greaves Valerie Harper Bob Hawke Clive James Terry Jones Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger Vera Lynn John McCririck Andrew McGahan Stirling Moss Robert Mugabe Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Fernando Ricksen Michael Robinson Prunella Scales Nobby Stiles Jean-Louis Trintignant Donald Trump Bill Turnbull Dick Van Dyke Marieke Vervoort Betty White Herman Wouk #51 Angela Lansbury

Ramon and SC face off on the pronunciation of one of this years popular picks.

How do we know she was trapped? Maybe she was the donation.

It's funny, we get 2 or 3 of those a year.

CaptainChorizo and YorkshireBanker had Lessie Brown, 114 year old believed to be the oldest person in the U.S and another one to cross of that ridiculously long picture post in World's Oldest. 7 points each. CaptainChorizo 7 points (1 hit) YorkshireBanker 7 points (1 hit) Phantom of the Midway 1 point (1 hit) Everyone Else 0 points.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/dame-olivia-de-havilland-loses-legal-battle-over-tv-portrayal-37689813.html Dame Olivia loses her bid to take her defamation case to the US Supreme Court but she hopes to live for the day that someone wins their defamation case against Hollywood.

30 participants in the race. I expect it to be a close one, if only because with short teams from a small pool, a lot of teams are fairly similar. Only time will tell, however. Our scores so far, one week out of 52 into the year, assuming I've written my spreadsheet correctly: John Key -7 YoungWillz -13 theoldlady -15 Phantom of the Midway -15 drol -15 Sean -16 alt obits guy -16 Bibliogryphon -16 The Cosgroves -16 Master Tech -16 BlackLivio -16 Zefph -17 Grim Up North -17 The Quim Reaper -17 Sir Creep -17 Banana -17 gcreptile -18 SuperSowder -18 nantonian2013 -19 Joey Russ -19 Squonk -19 Torva Messor -19 Dr_T -19 Book -20 En Passant -21 ebless -22 Great Uncle Bulgaria -22 msc -23 The Old Crem -23 Gooseberry Crumble -24 (EDIT: Totals tweaked after a formula error failed to penalise for Bookie's Favourite) Please feel free to check your total. Currently, with 0 deaths, you should get -1 for each name on your team (doubled to -2 for the joker), -1 again if you picked the "Bookie's favourite", Herman Wouk (doubled to -2 for Grim up North who was the only punter to pick Herman as his joker), and -2 for being more than 5 away from the correct number of deaths unless you are John Key and predicted just 5 deaths (John Key will likely stay in the lead until we have at least 6 deaths and quite possibly more). Let me know if the maths doesn't add up. And don't worry if your score is low now; the lowest scores also have the greatest growth potential. Overall, the following picks featured on at least 20 teams out of the 30 teams: Herman Wouk (27 teams) Johnny Clegg (24 teams) Bob Hawke (23 teams) Kirk Douglas (23 teams) Leah Bracknell (21 teams) Nobby Stiles (21 teams) Bob Dole (20 teams) Stirling Moss (20 teams) The most popular jokers were Bob Hawke and Leah Bracknell (7 teams apiece) The following were unique picks for the team they were chosen on: EDIT: Alan Greenspan Cleo Laine Honor Blackman Hosni Mubarak Jimmy Carter Valery Giscard d'Estaing And the following two individuals featured on no teams, and may thus be dubbed our designated survivors: Dick van Dyke Larry King (If either of them don't see the year out, I'm blaming all of you punters collectively for jinxing them ;-) ) And now we wait for the hits.

Vince is indeed 73 and apparently in above-average health for his years, but has been known to indulge in some "supplements", if you get my drift. Flair is reportedly back on the booze. Lawler was actually clinically dead for 20 minutes some years ago and probably only survived by having a cardiac arrest at an event with paramedics on the premises and having it in Montreal, home to one of the top five coronary care facilities in the world. He's apparently heeded the warning and has taken decent care of himself since. Gut feeling is that Lawler's the last man standing of the three.

No name mentioned in your post so the search facility won't pick it up. Houari Manar, aka Houari El Madani.

I have a suspicion it won't be long till we have another headline like the one below. New York man is reportedly facing multiple charges after his mother was found bleeding from the head in her apartment following an alleged ax attack. Daniel Jusufov, aged 32, was charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The NYPD said upon arrival police discovered a 52-year-old female victim with an injury to her head Cops said the mother was struck “multiple times” with the weapon. Meanwhile, the New York Post reported authorities said yesterday she was found “with an ax in her skull.”

Death (Leppard) for Steve Clark on this day 28 years ago, aged 30.

Nothing like a bit of totty in a tool belt putting up shelves.

Google, mostly! Although obscure is not a requirement. Willz beat Captain Chorizo (a Derby Dead Pool runner up in 2016) last year via Ken Dodd. iirc Sir Creep advanced one round via Rev Billy Graham. So the permanent A-listers can be just as crucial as Tania Dalton (TV presenter) or Marsh Pratley (though he was crucial because he lived).

We're all in league with the devil we really know him on a personal level.

Yeah but the dead is dead approach could see us deadpooling on the back of lurking in the bushes at local care homes and/or chasing ambulances. Feel free to start the Fish in a Barrel/ Dead is Dead pool. I imagine some people-trafficker entering just as he sees the storm warning! TBH I designed summat lively here and we learn as we go. Don't see the q/o logic as convoluted, just different enough to the others to mean Deathrace is copying nowt. If the above is a dig at Deathrace we could - like - cut the number of teams by one.

Diana Rots looking for answers provided by other people? Surely not...

Looks like the committee scored a beauty with this pick Could say they’ve got a real ‘keeper’ on their hands Guess I’m gonna ‘strike’ that one down as a death A real ‘Premier’ pick right there The committee clearly have a ‘goal’ in mind Thank you and goodnight, with love, BBB

I met her once during the early 80s. She was a friend of one of the owners of the nightclub where I worked and she did one night behind the bar. At the end of the night as all the staff gathered for a drink, she sat on a low barstool, adopted a posture which would now be called manspreading and proclaimed "I'm fucking knackered". R.I.P. dear heart.

Only one left from the finest post-match promo in WWE history now:

R.I.P. to all the people who will die this year. Unless you were a jackass.

Henry Kissinger: Real Evil ( millions died because of his policies) Robert Mugabe: natural born killer MRS. Robert Mugabe: Mrs. Natural Born Killer Billy Graham: Exploiter of gullable wankers Charles Taylor: yet another natural born killer Rodney Alcala: the face of evil Kirk Douglas: cunt if he actually did rape Natalie Wood (if not, Sorry) Jerry Lee Lewis: cunt ( what are the odds of having 2 wives dying of heroin overdoses) Ryan O`Neal: cunt (makes a pass at own daughter Tatum, did not recognize her.) Robert Wagner: cunt if he let Natalie Wood drown (if not, Sorry) Yoko Ono: evil step-mother

There’s a vicious chest infection doing the rounds in Devon and Cornwall. It’s knocked me for 6, on antibiotics which I hate and I’m off work now. I know of at least a dozen people off with it, starts as a light cold then heads right for chest after a day. Last night I burned up in bed with the infection and slept with nothing more than a sheet. Dont wish this on my worst enemy