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Hits so far (confirmed): David Stern, Don Larsen, Christopher Beeny, Tom Long, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Infanta Pilar, Edd Byrnes, Pete Dye, Qaboos al Said, Roger Scruton. (10) List of the Missed (confirmed): Derek Acorah, Neil Peart, Buck Henry, Tom Alexander List of the Lost (ie no obit so far): Samantha Last Some others might be hiding down the back of a sofa but if so they will be found eventually. Back of the fag pack scores while we wait for the internal calculator: You Might be a King or a Little Street Sweeper 22 Drol/toast/Reptile/TJS/DDP Tofoa/Poochie/Still Life/Drunkasaskunk logjam on 17 House of Soon to be with the Lord 14 about 30 other teams on points between 6-12

Alright, let's squeeze in the first update of the year here: Hits so far: Tom Long, Sultan Qaboos and Roger Scruton. Samantha Last is awaiting an obit. This is the first update with my new system (doesnt affect you at all), if there are omissions, please tell! Rank Team Points 1 RadGuy 152 2 Book 112 3 drol 108 4 Skinny Kiltrunner 84 4 Torva Messor 84 4 Toast 84 4 msc 84 4 Clorox Bleachman 84 4 Cpt. Chorizo 84 4 Joey Russ 84 4 Death Impends 84 4 DevonDeathTrip 84 13 gcreptile 44 13 The Mad Hatter 44 13 Etushispushingupdaisies 44 13 JiroemonKimura 44 13 The Quim Reaper 44 13 Banana 44 13 Kenny 44 20 John Key 40 20 ThePrematureBurial 40 20 Deadsox 40 23 markb4 0 23 The Unknown Man 0 23 theoldlady 0 23 YoungWillz 0 23 Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 23 Bibliogryphon 0 23 Gooseberry Crumble 0 23 Sean 0 23 Grave Danger 0 23 The Old Crem 0 23 Chilean Way 0 23 Pedro67 0 23 Sir Creep 0

INVERSE DEAD POOL 2020 Another new year arrives, and with that comes another round of reckoning the lingering prowess of the DDP's most popular selections. Of the 16 expiries throughout 2019, drol only selected 3 and notched his second win in the process. Rules From the list of the 50 most popular DDP picks of 2020, pick a team of 25 names who you think will survive the year. Rank your list in order of least likely to die to most 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. 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 2019 - drol 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 Frankie Banali Bob Barker Susan Bayh Pope Benedict XVI June Brown Jimmy Carter Billy Connolly Olivia de Havilland Bob Dole Chris Doleman Kirk Douglas Queen Elizabeth II Paul Gascoigne Jill Gascoine Greg Gilbert Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mikhail Gorbachev Jimmy Greaves David Gulpilil Rolf Harris Terry Jones Lee Kerslake Henry Kissinger Angela Lansbury John Lewis Vera Lynn Stirling Moss Olivia Newton-John Linda Nolan Genesis P-Orridge Prince Philip Leslie Phillips Little Richard Michael Robinson Yoo Sang-Chul Prunella Scales Tom Smith Pat Smullen Leon Spinks Nobby Stiles Alex Trebek Jean-Louis Trintignant Bill Turnbull Dick Van Dyke Gianluca Vialli Doddie Weir Betty White Barbara Windsor #51 Sam Lloyd

1. Olivia Newton-John 2. Dick Van Dyke 3. Bill Turnbull 4. Lee Kerslake 5. Billy Connolly 6. Olivia de Havilland 7. Angela Lansbury 8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 9. Linda Nolan 10. Vera Lynn 11. Kirk Douglas 12. Barbara Windsor 13. Jimmy Carter 14. Little Richard 15. Stirling Moss 16. Bob Dole 17. Mikhail Gorbachev 18. Pope Benedict XVI 19. Alex Trebek 20. Pat Smullen 21. Prunella Scales 22. Rolf Harris 23. Leon Spinks 24. Susan Bayh 25. Bob Barker Sub: Michael Robinson

Dick Van Dyke Olivia Newton-John Bill Turnbull Paul Gascoigne Billy Connolly Queen Elizabeth II Betty White June Brown Prunella Scales Olivia de Havilland Little Richard Jimmy Greaves Angela Lansbury Rolf Harris Barbara Windsor Doddie Weir Ruth Bader Ginsburg Henry Kissinger Jean-Louis Trintignant Stirling Moss Mikhail Gorbachev Bob Dole Linda Nolan Benedict XVI Jimmy Carter Sub: Alex Trebek

I've been watching a lot of Doctor Who reaction Youtube videos recently and the quickest to upload their reaction of tonights episode was Torchwood Boy. He liked the episode but said it was preachy at the end which I agree with. I now need to wait about two weeks for Sesskasays to watch and realise that the boy in the episode was same actor who played Roger in His Dark Materials.

SCRUTONIZING MR ROGER'S DEATH 2/50 12th January 2020 Well known English bigot Sir Roger Scruton has died to give the Crowdsource list a quick follow up success. He began his career intending to study the natural sciences at Cambridge, but instead switched to studying philosophy on the first day of class. He got his conservative ideology he was well known for after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France, believing he was on the other side. Well, he was on the other side of many issues that we all love so much, such as being a racist that go him sacked from a government job in 2019, founding The Salisbury Review in 1982 that called for compulsory repatriation, and believing that gay rights are dangerous for the children. Nonetheless, he was highly respected within the conservative community, and got rewards such as the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit from Vaclav Havel in 1998 for his anti-USSR work. He was also knighted in 2016 for "his services in philosophy, teaching, and public education”. However, many people still see him as a massive cunt. News of a cancer diagnosis was announced in August 2019, and after he looked terrible in December, he became popular on lots of folks list. This was his first appearance on the crowdsource list, jumping all the way to 35th place.

Wow, this was hard... 1. Paul Gascoigne 2. Queen Elizabeth II 3. Rolf Harris 4. Jean-Louis Trintignant 5. Dick van Dyke 6. Betty White 7. June Brown 8. Angela Lansbury 9. Bill Turnbull 10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 18th of September, 16 points 11. Olivia de Havilland 25th of July, 15 points 12. Doddie Weir 13. Billy Connolly 14. Leslie Phillips 15. Stirling Moss 12th of April, 11 points 16. Little Richard 9th of May, 10 points 17. Barbara Windsor 10th of December, 9 points 18. Pat Smullen 15th of September, 8 points 19. Jimmy Greaves 20. Jill Gascoine 28th of April, 6 points 21. Bob Barker 22. Linda Nolan 23. Bob Dole 24. Lee Kerslake 19th of September, 2 points 25. Gianluca Vialli Sub: Olivia Newton-John

Who?

I'm just imagining the scene. They just pull the plug and he immediately flatlines then they're like ''mmm maybe not"

About 10 points on the DDP, by the looks of it.

For an 85 year old woman who hasn't had any "work" done, I think she looks great.

Ouch

Review of the Best Picture nominees this year: The story of a black kid growing up afraid to admit to his friends he loves 1950s radio comedy in Goonlight. An alien's battle to be accepted in the world of advertising is frustrated by a colleague in Ad Rival. Denel Washington attempts to exploit his son's sporting prowess in Fencer. Andrew Garfield doesn't want to fight in World War 2. He wants to do the tapestry for it in Hacksew Ridge. Jeff Bridges has to decide whether to save the land or the sea in the climate change thriller Hill Or High Water. A group of inspirational black women from Glasgow get locked in a toilet and plan their escape in Midden Figures. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone star in a musical based on the music of The Kinks in Lola Land. Dev Patel just wants to dress as a woman and become an international diva in the biopic Dion. The body of a former film star is washed up on the beach near Casey Affleck's home. What does the note signed "Elsa" mean? in Lanchester By The Sea.

I am no lover of musicals but all morning I have been singing to myself snatches of "Oh What a Circus" from Evita - some of Tim Rice's lyrics seem so apt to describe Wednesday. "Demand to be buried like Eva Peron, its quite a sunset and good for the country in a roundabout way we've made the front pages of all the world's papers today" or "Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right" or "What kind of Goddess has lived amongst us? How will we ever get by without her?"

I'd be about as neutral as any you'd find on poor old Maggie. There's a few things worth considering though; how progressive Britain looked by being the first old world power to have a woman running the place, and for such a long time. Apart from the odd spot in the colonies no other country has come close. If it weren't her it would have been someone else. Britian was dying on its arse in the seventies, the reforms brought in under her leadership have been a model for many countries and those who haven't, ie most of Europe, would regret not having made those difficult choices earlier. Manufacturing in the western world, with a few exceptions, is fucked. Having the foresight to realise this twenty years before the rest of the world and change the focus of the economy was either visionary or blind luck. Imagine that sort of social upheaval now, would it be any worse? Probably not, but who ever instigated, or was the figurehead for similiar policies would be equally demonised. I've had a couple of thoughts over the last day or two; firstly, if the status quo remained in Britian how many English plummers would be in Eastern Europe now undercutting the locals? And secondly, the twentieth century's 'greatest' prime minister having to do the same thing; "We shall sack them in the dock yards, we shall sack in them in the mines, we shall lay them off in the factories and in the railways..." Rejoice? Seems a bit harsh doesn't it?

Some people really are just sad obsessive fuck wits. RIP to the greatest peacetime PM this country has ever seen and to a hell of a woman. Reviled and revered for the exact same reason ultimately - because she made decisions which she felt were right for this country, rather than decisions which seemed easy, the latter of which many politicians are well too guilty of.

How very strange. I wonder how many people will be bringing out the bunting when Scargill dies? If ever there was a man who fucked his own members up the arse, it was him, wasnt it. A man on a mission, a man who wanted to take on Thatcher but was too fucking stupid to do it by the book. There was only going to be one winner. Anybody who remembers the 70s, the three day week, power cuts, flying pickets, perpetual strikes and a labour Government owned by the unions wont be pissing on her grave. Sure, there is a multitude of things that i detest her for doing but there are many things im grateful for. Before she came to power we were a fucking joke of a country, skint, inept and dying on our arses. She changed the whole fucking landscape, not all for the better but a damn sight better than it was. Love her or hate her she was a Political giant that made this country relevant on the World stage and thats where we needed to be and still need to be unless you want to be Slovakia or summat. Look at what we have now, a massive bunch of wankers in charge, slightly less massive in the w***er department than the last Government. Its what happens when you have wishy washy Politics.

Yeah because there was never any greed before Thatcher. She invented it right? I'm sure none of the union bosses who made the 70s what they were, were motivated by greed right? And there's no greed in China and everyone is absolutely happy there... Stop trying to ask people to somehow justify everything that has happened as a result of Thatcher did - no-one can do that for any Prime Minister or President. I just hate hipster cunts and I enjoy bashing them at a time like this when they're engaging in their most false posturing of all. Okay? If anything our poor economy and extremely lacklustre public life can be put down to those who are supposed to be our most young and creative, choosing to slum it in victim status, and coasting through life happy to lead a schizophrenic double life of insisting they are happy and fulfilled while ranting about boogeymen like Thatcher and Reagan who have been out of power for 20+ years (and now both of them dead).

I should wade through all this afternoons posts...but my heart isnt in it...Im too upset . Just ....for all those drinking a drink in "celebration"....you should feel blessed to have the cash with which to buy said drinks....Thatcherite economics made you wealthy...NEVER forget that . RIP......The Special One.....

One mans 'milk-snatcher' is another mans 'Iron lady'.... Glad she took on the Argies and humiliated them.... gave the country some pride back regardless of political persuasions.

A promiscuous house elf goes to America to get laid in "Dobbie Does Dallas"

Died 18th March 2008 - no cause as yet.