Deathray
-
Content Count
7,171 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
38
Posts posted by Deathray
-
-
Is it just me who thinks that a million people gathering in one place against terrorism, whilst inviting along dozens of world leaders is an open invitation for a pretty atrocious terrorist organisation to unleash a major attack and undermine the whole event, or am I just too cynical?
-
1
-
-
The addictive nature of old corrie episodes... watching 70 in a couple of weeks can't be good for me.
-
Sam Simon probably fits the bill given his recent tweets? Mebbes someone could send him a tee and a mug?
-
Tony Benn as one of the last major political heavyweights of the 1970s, especially on the hard left and Rik Mayall from a comedy point of view.
I reckon this year will get the Queen, Prince Phil or Bush.
-
Sure I've heard "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" on UK radio before.
Spade, your name betrays an affinity with old school country above and beyond the interest of most people. I'm guessing you and I may be the only people hereabouts to have parted with cash in return for recordings of Spade Cooley, and - by the looks of your post - you've just confirmed that neither of us has done the same for Little Jimmy Dickens. I think on a busier news week his death wouldn't have snagged BBC coverage.
Why the heck would anyone even do that in the first place?
-
It has just been brought to my attention that I AM A MASSIVE TWAT and have written David HOCKING when I actually meant David HOCKNEY - can this be changed or will I be called a cheat?
I made a similar mistake in my DDP theme team...but because themaninblack is a legend, I'm sure he'll fix it.
http://www.davidhocking.org/aboutdavid.html
You entered this guy? Preaching for 50 years, and married since 1962 which makes him at least 70 odd - possibly more. Not too shabby.
-
1
-
-
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30659629
if true some things about this could start making an awful lot of sense
-
1
-
-
It'll be Max's bit of stuff who knows who killed Lucy Beale.
Oooo you might be on to something there, I haven't watched last night's yet
Hopefully not, she'd be useful in the run up to the 30th and it'd be pretty damn unimaginative.
-
Right, here's my teams
2015 Deathray's Kervorkian Clinic (Main Team)
- Sam Simon (Joker)
- Shimon Peres
- Mary Wilson (Harold's wife)
- Clarrissa Eden (Anthony's wife)
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Jake Lamotta
- Terry Pratchett
- Olivia de Havilland
- Stephen Hawking
- George Bush Sr
- Prince Philip
- Rama IX (Thai King)
- Joost van Der Wursthuizien
- Valerie Harper
- Rev Billy Graham
- Tony Booth
- Jaoa Havelange
- Clive James
- Maureen O'Hara
- Lee Kuan Yew
2015 Centenarians (Theme: people over 100)
- Roy Douglas (composer)
- Sir Nicholas Winton
- Bobbie Heinne Miller (tennis player)
- Luise Rainer
- Tyrus Wong (artist)
- Egon Sundberg (footballer)
- Fauja Singh (marathon runner)
- Clare Hollingworth (journalist)
- Roberta McCain (John's mother)
- George Alexander Rowly-Conwy (peer)
- William Frankland (immunologist)
- Buddy Moreno (singer)
- Simone Schaller (athlete)
- Wolfgang Suschitzy (photographer)
- Connie Sawyer (actress)
- Douglas Slocombe (cinematographer)
- Reinhard Hardegen (u-boat commander)
- Mary Carlisle (actress)
- Norman Lloyd (actor)
- Hans Erni (painter and sculptor)
2015 The Cobbles to a Coffin (Theme: actors who've been in corrie)
- Barbara Knox (Rita Tanner)
- Elizabeth Dawn (Vera Duckworth)
- Irene Sutcliffe (Maggie Clegg)
- Doreen Keogh (Concepta Reilly)
- Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden)
- Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop)
- William Roache (Ken Barlow)
- Thelma Barlow (Mavis Riley)
- Timothy West (Eric Babbage)
- Patricia Routledge (Sylvia Snape)
- Andrew Sachs (Ramsay Clegg)
- Tony Booth (Malcolm Wilkinson and Charles Halliday)
- Prunella Scales (Eileen Hughes)
- Bernard Cribbins (Wally Bannister)
- June Whitfield (Blanche's Mate May at Funeral)
- Kenneth Cope (Jed Stone)
- Frank Mills (Billy Williams)
- Gerald Sim (Ted Farrell)
- Peter Baldwin (Derek Wilton)
- James Garbutt (Wilf Gaskell)
- Sam Simon (Joker)
-
Vera Lynn
-
Reserved for 2015 Scoreboard and Obit List
-
So here's the 2015 Masterlist: 16 teams with 234 celebrities picked between yous - lots of sharing going on given the possible 400, I have decided to permit the latecomers because this is my deadpool and things aren't normally done within a month of needing done anyway, what's 24 or so hours. I may be liable to change this policy next year depending on whether I've got up on the right side of bed or not. Where the entrant has not specified a wildcard, there first pick has been assumed to be there wildcard.
The Engineer
1)sam simon wildcard
2)michael schumacher
3)helen fawkes
4)Bhumibol Adelyadej
5)joost van der westhuizen
6)prince Philip
7)zsa zsa gabor
8)bobby the brain heenan
9)caroline aherne
10)olivia de havilland
11)dave benton - us news anchor
12)Tom attwater - cancer fundraiser
13)Martin crowe
14)Glen Campbell
15)misao okawa
16)Ethel lang
17)kate granger
18)billy graham - Evangelist
19)Joanne woodward
20)paul gascoigne
21)ellen albertini dow
22)roberto m livingston
23)mario jorge lobo zagallo
24)fidel castro
25)peter sallisBibliogryphon
1. Jeffrey Segal (Joker)
2. Louis Jourdan
3. John Wakeham
4. Tam Dallyell
5. William Russell
6. Diane Athill
7. Sheila Sim
8. Janet Waldo
9. Jean Barker
10. Vivean Gray
11. Duke of Edinburgh
12. Michael J Fox
13. Murray Walker
14. Doris Day
15. Stephen Hawking
16. Kenny Sansom
17. Kelsey Grammer
18. Mike Nolan
19. Jasper Carrot
20. Joan D Vinge
21. Jenni Murray
22. Sarah Kennedy
23. Annette Badland
24. Janet Fielding
25. Sara PayneShaun of the Dead
1)Zsa Zsa Gabor
2)June Spencer
3)Pamela Cundell
4)Patrick Macnee
5)Anthony Armstrong-Jones
6)Denis Norden
7)Norman Lloyd
8)Helen Fawkes
9)Lindsay Lohan
10)Morissey
11)Brian Sewell
12)Brenda Fricker
13)Viv Nicholson
14)Billy Graham
15)Sam Simon
16)David Rockefeller
17)Herman Wouk
18)Olivia De Havilland
19)Doris Day
20)Julie Goodyear
21)Diana Athill
22)June Brown
23)Liz Dawn
24)Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
25)Diana Sera Carey (Baby Peggy)msc
1. Bhumibol Adelyadej
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Rene Angelil
4. Daisy Berkowitz
5. Tony Booth
6. George Cole
7. Joao Havelange
8. Stuart Kuttner
9. Fernando Ricksen
10. Sheila Sim
11. Stuart Wagstaff
12. Desmond Tutu
13. Former Grand Duke Jean
14. Cliff Mitchelmore
15. Earl Cameron
16. Ron Moody
17. Jim Prior
18. Richie Benaud
19. Georg Ratzinger
20. Albert McQuarrie
21. Sheila Mercier
22. Grace Lee Boggs
23. Norman Kember
24. Geoffrey Bayldon
25. Pierre CardinThe Unknown Man
1. Sam Simon
2. Mary Tyler Moore
3. Tony Booth
4. Bhumibol Adulyadej
5. Caroline Aherne
6. Fidel Castro
7. Valerie Harper
8. Desmond Tutu
9. Muhammad Ali
10. Scott MacIntyre
11. Leonard Nimoy
12. Billy Graham
13. Javier Perez de Cuellar
14. Yasuhiro Nakasone
15. Daisy Berkowitz
16. Glen Campbell
17. Al Molinaro
18. Maureen O'Hara
19. Rob Ford
20. Joao Havelange
21. Zsa Zsa Gabor
22. Isabel Peron
23. Helmut Schmidt
24. Hosni Mubarak
25. Prince PhilipDeath Impends
1. Denton Cooley
2. Danielle Darrieux
3. Maria Teresa de Filippis
4. Piet de Jong
5.Little Jimmy DickensDied January 2
6. Francoise Gilot
7. Gordie Howe
8. Clive James
9. Howard W. Jones (gynecological surgeon)
10. Irving Kahn
11. George Kennedy
12. Edgar Ray Killen
13. Jim Leavelle
14. Marjorie Lord
15. Jerry Maren
16. Gino Odjick (wildcard)
17. Maureen O'Hara
18.Luise RainerDied before the game began, in goes Rev. Billy Graham
19. David Rockefeller
20. Buddy Ryan
21. Peter Sallis
22. Robert H. Schuller
23. Sam Simon
24.Jerry TarkanianDied February 11
25. Lee Kuan YewCaptain Chorizo
1Caroline Aherne-wildcard
2Daisy Berkowitz
3Jules Bianchi
4Richard Bohringer
5Bill Dana
6Danielle Darrieux
7Manoel de Olivera
8Salvatore DiMasi
9John Eggars
10Helen Fawkes
11Francis George
12Ahmad Givens
13Patricia Hitchcock
14Gordie Howe
15Kirk Kerkorian
16Baroness Lockwood
17Bryan Murray
18Bernice Paolozzi
19Tim Price
20Gino Odjick
21Lance Russell
22Robert Schuller
23Sam Simon
24Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25Bryan WeidmeirBook
01. Bill Cosby
02. Bud Spencer
03. Estelle Parsons
04. Fidel Castro
05. Glen Campbell
06. Hans-Dietrich Genscher
07. Helmut Kohl
08. Hugh Hefner
09. Isabel Perón
10. Jean Darling
11. Joseph Jackson
12. Kay Starr
13. Ken Kercheval
14. Kitty Kallen
15. Leif Garrett
16. Mamie van Doren
17. Michael Gorbatschow
18. Oscar Pistorius
19. Paul Gascoigne
20. Rob Ford
21. Sean Connery
22. Sylvia Miles
23. Terry Prachett
24. Ursula K. Le Guin
25. Zsa Zsa Gabor (Joker)Toast
- Diana Athill
- Stanley Baxter
- Sister Wendy Beckett
- King Bhumibol
- Jules Bianchi
- Bart Cummings
- Kirk Douglas
- Helen Fawkes (wildcard)
- Rev. Billy Graham
- Valerie Harper
- Doreen Keogh
- Ethel Lang
- Stephen Lewis (Blakey)
- Sheila Mercier
- Cliff Michelmore
- Maureen O'Hara
- Peter O'Sullevan
- Marguerite Patten
-
Luise RainerNancy Reagan - Peter Sallis
- Sheila Sim
- Sam Simon
- Liz Smith (the actress)
- Jeralean Talley
- Peter Vaughan
Rotten Ali
- Caroline Aherne
- Muhammad Ali
- Daisy Berkowitz
- Colin Bloomfield
- Fidel Castro
- Jenny Diski
- Bob Dole
- Kirk Douglas
- Guy Edwards
- Rob Ford
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Billy Graham
- Valerie Harper
- Joao Havelange
- Stephen Hawking
- Clive James
- Wilko Johnson
- Penny Marshall
- Hosni Mubarak
- Robert Mugabe
- Misao Okawa
- Nancy Reagan (joker)
- Sam Simon
- Robert Schuller
- Lee Kuan Yew
gcreptile
1. Egon Bahr (politician in the 60s/70s)
2. Johanna Quandt (matriarch of BMW)
3. Anneliese Uhlig (actress)
4. Horst Eckel (last (?) living football world champion of 1954)
5. Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (stalward of the dying german liberal party)
6. Elke Sommer (actress)
7. Wolfgang "Wölli" Rohde (drummer of the punk band Die Toten Hosen) [wildcard]
8. Heinrich Windelen (another ancient politician)
9. Guido Westerwelle (relatively young politician with cancer)
10. Ingeburg Herz (another rich german matriarch)
11. Michael Schumacher (racing driver)
12. Hans-Jochen Vogel (another german politician)
13. Benedikt XVI (former pope)
and the non-germans:
14. Shimon Peres (Israeli president)
15. Sheldon Adelson (US casino magnate)
16. Donald Sterling (US sports team owner)
17. Scott Stapp (ex-frontman of Creed)
18. David Rockefeller (US business man)
19. David Prowse (Darth Vader)
20. Ian Holm (UK actor)
21. Harper Lee (US writer)
22. Olivia de Havilland (US actress)
23. Manoel de Oliveira (old director)
24. Alexej Nawalny (russian blogger/activist)
25. Jacques Delors (EU politician/economist)maryportfuncity
- Muhammad Ali ]#
- Diana Athill
- Ian Brady
- Glenn Campbell
- Clarissa Eden
- Rob Ford
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Gazza
- Gaston Glock
- Douglas Gordon Goody
- Billy Graham - the reverend
- Jimmy Hill
- Claire Hollingsworth
- Ian Huntley
- Paul Lamb
- Ethel Lang
- Stephen Lewis - Blakey
- Eric Lubbock - JOKER
- Jerry Maren
- Misao Okawa
- Sam Simon
- Peter Sutcliffe
- Deryk Whibley
- Mary Wilson
- Chris Woodhead
Estuarian Float
1. Bhumibol Adulyadej
2. Caroline Aherne
3. Roger Angell
4. Prince Bernhard of Orange-Nassau
5. Antony Booth
6. Tom Brokaw
7. Richard Chamberlain
8. Olivia de Havilland
9. Ahmad Givens
10. Kate Granger
11. Merle Haggard
12. Abdullah Ibrahim
13. Clive James
14. Tommy Lasorda
15. Stan Lee
16. Jerry MacDonald (Big Brother US)
17. Mary Tyler Moore
18. Morrissey
19. Bryan Murray (hockey)
20. Leonard Nimoy
21. Nancy Reagan
22. Robert Schuller
23. Sam Simon
24. Jerry Stiller
25. TotalBiscuitdeadsox
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Caroline Aherne
- Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
- Muhammad Ali
- Daisy Berkowitz
- Colin Bloomfield
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Ian Brady
- Martin Crowe
- Carmen de Tommaso
- Jean Dore
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Ahmad “Real” Givens
- Rev. Billy Graham
- Dr. Kate Granger
- Kristin Hallenga
- Ethel Lang
- Sakari Momoi
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Bryan Murray
- Gino Odjick
- Misao Okawa
- Sam Simon
- Percy Sledge
- Bryan Wiedmeier
Eesti
1. Sam Simon (Joker)
2. Caroline Aherne
3. Daisy Berkowitz
4. Colin Bloomfield
5. Rob Ford
6. Helen Fawkes
7. Kate Granger
8. Clive James
9. Mary Tyler Moore
10. Zsa Zsa Gabor
11. Billy Graham
12. Muhammad Ali
13. King Bhumibol of Thailand
14. Sir Chris Woodhead
15. Joost van der Westhuizen
16. Desmond Tutu
17. Joao Havelange
18. Lynne Stewart
19. Gordie Howe
20. Fidel Castro
21. Jenny Diski
22. Bryan Murray (ice hockey)
23. Robert Mugabe
24. Jules Bianchi
25. Anthony BoothWhoam
1. Richie Benaud
2. Martin Crowe
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Norman Lloyd
5. Mary Tyler Moore
6. Rev Billy Graham
7. Harper Lee
8. David Rockefeller
9. Herman Wouk
10. Clive James
11. George H.W. Bush
12. Maureen O'Hara
13. General U Than Shwe
14. Helmut Schmidt
15. Sam Simon
16. Sir Nicholas Winton
17. Dr Kate Granger
18. Justin Bieber (Joker)
19. Leonard Nimoy
20. Aretha Franklin
21. Olivia de Havilland
22. Jules Bianchi
23. George Shultz (former U.S. Secretary of State)
24. Zsa Zsa Garbor
25. Nancy Reagan -
32 of the names are over 90... seems little imagination. Shame not to see any soap actors on there
-
1
-
-
Yes but almost certainly next year!
If you need a hand writing bios give me a shout.
-
Deathrace Entry 2015
Caroline Aherne
Muhammad Ali
Colin Bloomfield
Ian Brady
Martin Crowe
Jean Dore
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ahmad "Real"Givens
Rev. Billy Graham
Dr. Kate Granger
Kristin Hallenga
Ethel Lang
Sakari Momoi
Mary Tyler Moore
Bryan Murray
Gino Odjick
Misao Okawa
Sam Simon (Joker)
Percy Sledge
Bryan Wiedmeier
As you have apparently already PMed me a team I'm assuming you've posted this in the wrong thread and am using your PMed version.
Yeah, that bears an uncanny resemblance to a list I was dealing with a few minutes ago.
It's also 5 short of a full compliment, unlike his PM one..
-
4-2 in favour, so Estuarian Float is duly allowed in despite the late entry. Incidentally, Float's team is lacking a joker so I've given that honour to the #1 pick in the line up.
Masterlist now complete with 23 teams.
It's a veritable bestiary of bravado and bad taste, crawling with local heroes and marginal low hangers from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, so may well be a very different competition to the past and to owt else around in 2015.
Since the masterlist is done and dusted, does anyone have a major moan if it goes live today? (late afternoonish).
Should anyone on the list die today and be on a jokerless team I'll allow a day or two for the captain to roll out a suitable sub.
Yes, whilst my teams a joke team and it doesn't really affect me the people who've PMed you have likely done it to avoid giving away obscure picks for other deadpools with the Derby Dead Pool, Hartlepool Dead Pool and Hares Death Pool all still accepting entries it seems only fair to keep them concealed until midnight.
-
Deathrace Entry 2015
Caroline Aherne
Muhammad Ali
Colin Bloomfield
Ian Brady
Martin Crowe
Jean Dore
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ahmad "Real"Givens
Rev. Billy Graham
Dr. Kate Granger
Kristin Hallenga
Ethel Lang
Sakari Momoi
Mary Tyler Moore
Bryan Murray
Gino Odjick
Misao Okawa
Sam Simon (Joker)
Percy Sledge
Bryan Wiedmeier
As you have apparently already PMed me a team I'm assuming you've posted this in the wrong thread and am using your PMed version.
-
I say let 'em in. Deadlines are guidelines not hard limits.
-
Actress Luise Rainer dead at 104 http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-30631088
Oh. Well as one of my least favourite DL picks ever, I suppose that's one way of .........
Sad to hear. May she rest in peace.
Looks like my final result will be 6 hits and 33 points.
Wait. Oh fuck. I'm drawn with you Predictor....... no wait, you win on a tie-break cos of more hits.
Deathray if you have any clean tissues left after you've finished wanking to Rainer's pics, I could use some...
or, alternatively....
COME ON CASTRO DIE NOW
DIE NOW
DIE NOW
She's about 85 years too old for me, Zorders.
-
Lynda Bellingam died a few months ago.
Oh cock.. Updated
-
The fact that soap operas haven't been released in full on DVD (Corrie and Eastenders to be precise), that'd surely be good form-studying ground. Plus the fact that from the 10 or so early episodes of Corrie available on youtube, it just looks better in those days, why can't we have the entire lot to watch at our leisure?
EDIT: So apparently most episodes of corrie from 1976-91 are available on YouTube with an intermittent splattering of episodes prior to, I'll take that.
All the soaps were better in the old days, Eastenders was much better when it started, I've started watching it again in the last few months only because I want Danny Dyer to ruin my flange. I'm off to Youtube to check out some old scenes!
They go through phases (inevitably for programs that going on for that long), EastEnders is in an up phase at the minute. You reckon it'll be Nick who gets offed on Thursday or someone else?
Nothing to do with phases - they were better in earlier times because there were only two episodes a week. For years. Coronation Street was on Mondays & Wednesdays, Eastenders was on Tuesdays & Thursdays, dunno about Emmerdale Farm (as it used to be called) because I never watched it. Then somebody started the rot by adding an extra episode, and so on until they were on nearly every bloody night. Same amount of butter, more slices of bread ...
They still managed to produce some utter shite in the 1960s and 1970s with two episodes a week.
A lot of it is too do with producers and how well they care for the show, Dominic Treadwell-Collins at EastEnders saw exactly what was needed, a shift in focus away from the same old faces; thus the Carter's were born, a mystery - thus Lucy Beale's death and all the interest it'll bring in the New Year, and some good old-fashioned bastard; thus Nick Cotton returned to fake his own death and use his sleazy son Charlie to get to him and Dean rapes Linda. Most importantly relationships seem to have been brought to the fore through the drama, which in essence makes a soap.
Meanwhile over at Corrie Blackburns failed to remove the many deadwood characters, left a load of bonkers relationships plots running, used what could have been a great depression storyline as a basis for turning Steve into some kind off petty theif and created ridiculous love triangles. Not to mention the fucking gym storyline or the bizarre attempts at comedy.
And I slight disagree on number of episodes, the tech we've got to film is far greater these days and as they've become core-output three nights a week their teams will have increased accordingly. Yes, the actors have to work harder and are paid less than the stars of old were, but that's the way the world is. However, 5 episodes a week of corrie is overload but as several generations are now transfixed I can't see ITV pulling some episodes down, especially as they'd probably need a comedy to fill the gap, or sports programme - neither of which they've been very good at.
-
Seen as this thread exists it seems like the most appropriate place for my shadow list:
- Rev Billy Graham
Sam Simon- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Elizabeth Dawn
- Muhammad Ali
- Clive James
- Vera Lynn
- Abe Vigoda
- Christopher Lee
- George Bush Senior
- Dennis Healey
- Olivia de Havilland
- Nancy Reagan
- Jimmy Carter
- Fidel Castro
- Stephen Hawking
- Prince Philip
- Nicholas Winton
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Caroline Ahern
- Valerie Harper
- Clare Hollingworth
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Jimmy Carter
- June Brown
Terry Pratchett- Tony Booth
- Ronnie Corbett
- Ray Reardon
- Roy Mason
- Lemmy Kilminster
- Ozzy Osbourne
Luis Jordain- Geoffrey Howe
- Eileen Derbyshire
- Doreen Keogh
- Lord Carrington
- Mary Carlisle
- Mary Wilson
Ethel Lang- John Nott
- Joan Collins
- Sandy Gall
- Bernard Cribbins
- Rodney Beuwes
- Shimon Peres
Lee Kuan Yew- Doris Day
- Betty White
- Stuart Hall
-
PMed you my teams TMIB.
-
The fact that soap operas haven't been released in full on DVD (Corrie and Eastenders to be precise), that'd surely be good form-studying ground. Plus the fact that from the 10 or so early episodes of Corrie available on youtube, it just looks better in those days, why can't we have the entire lot to watch at our leisure?
EDIT: So apparently most episodes of corrie from 1976-91 are available on YouTube with an intermittent splattering of episodes prior to, I'll take that.
All the soaps were better in the old days, Eastenders was much better when it started, I've started watching it again in the last few months only because I want Danny Dyer to ruin my flange. I'm off to Youtube to check out some old scenes!
They go through phases (inevitably for programs that going on for that long), EastEnders is in an up phase at the minute. You reckon it'll be Nick who gets offed on Thursday or someone else?
Shaun Of The Deads Shadow Deathlist
in DeathList Forum
Posted
You missed out the fact he married Patricia Phoenix.