Deathray
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Submissions are now closed.
We have 11 teams entered in the team so far, the teams make-up won't be revealed until we make it into new year in case special picks are being held for other not yet closed pools and to allow one last opportunity for others to submit late-entry teams (if you've idiotically forgotten the deadline you've got a last chance for the next few hours).
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He needs to hang on until tomorrow or there'll be a lot of disappointed teams.
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The old racist greek nuisance might be a good one for 2015, he's definitely starting to show his age.
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In an interview, today on "Meet the Press", Franklin Graham gives this update on his father.
Of his 95-year-old father, Graham said, “He’s very weak."
“His vitals are good, and he’s eating a little bit," Graham said, "but he’s just extremely weak.”
This has got News Year Eve carker for New Years Day announcement written all over it.
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7 teams in with 23 hours left for submissions.
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I'm in. Classic load of coffin dodgers with an obvious Joker. Plus one theme team, this time I've switched to to a venerable load of old chaps from British sit-com and stand-up acts. Calling the team, Dead Funny, not that they all were, but what the heck!
My other idea was female comedy and could have been called The Funny Fanny Show, but let's not go there...
I urge you to submit that team, you're allowed three after all!
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Assuming there's space why not, although the rules appear to be too complex for me to comprehend.
Wilko Johnson
Bruce Forsyth
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sam Simon
Carla Laemle
Rev. Billy Graham
Valerie Harper
Pope Benedict
Baroness Trumpington
Ray Reardon
Subs: Vic Seixas, Selena Gomez
EDIT: edited 24th April to correct seixas spelling.
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At this rate almost anybody attending the Sochi winter olympics!
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Deathray and Kervorkian's Special Deathrace Waiting Room
1. Wilko Johnson
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Baron Hutchinson of Lullington
4. Ethel Lang
5. Valerie Harper.
6. Dennis Healey
7. Vic Seixas
8. Prince Philip
9. Bruce Forsyth
10. Jimmy Carter
11. George Bush Sr
12. Ian Paisley
13. John Prufomo
14. Christine Keeler
15. Ozzy Osbourne
16. Baroness Trumpington
17. Zsa Zsa Gabor
18. Rev Billy Graham
19. Lord Derek Barber
20. Sam Simon
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Schumacher in a coma, should get onto next years list?
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When do we get the 2014 list, I'm assuming New Years Eve?
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Late bid from risky obit reality star Jen Arnold.
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Just curious, why is it called The Hare's Death Pool?
Because the story of the tortoise and the hare was in my head although I suppose your aiming to be the tortoise among all the hares (that was a lame attempt at covering the fact logically this should be The Tortoises Death Pool).
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To those who haven't explicitly stated a wild card I'm assuming number one is your wild card if this isn't the case let me know.
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The queen will not outlive Charles, a 22 year age gap is just a bit to big to close. Although I think Charles's reign will be one of the shortest in history as he's swiftly followed by a then elderly william. Could be a long time before a monarch reigns as long as old Liz has done.
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The Rules
- All picks must be humans aged over 18 on January 1st 2014.
- Death row prisoners only score if they die of other causes, those still on trial will still score points if executed,
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Celebrities qualify if they achieve an obituary or article about their death in a local, national or even specialist newspaper. or website/magazine/paper. If in doubt cite your death note for approval.
- Entries must be posted by 1600 on December 31st 2013, no exceptions except if a pick dies post-deadline, they may be replaced until 1200 on January 1st 2014 provided the replacement hasn't died between 0000-1200 on January 1st 2014.
- Murdering your chosen "celebrities" is both against the rules and illegal.
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Celebrities are disqualified if they are a celebrity because of their impending death.
- All entries must be posted in this thread or PMed to me, they'll then be posted in this thread as one post.
Just to clarify please:
Does this mean that Wikipedia IS allowed as a source?
Are you able to elaborate (for the purposes of clarification) what is meant by "Celebrities are disqualified if they are a celebrity because of their impending death" I assume that this is there to rule out "my last six months on this planet" bloggers and baby X who is dying of cancer, but what about folk who have been in a coma for years (such as the Jewish Tv Ariel repairman)
Thanks
No Wikipedia doesn't count. It can be edited by anyone and has been used in the past to fake deaths so erm best not to include it. However there's a very high likelihood the verifying article used by wikipedia would count. Your Snooker Weeklys and This Month in Croquet type of magazines/sites count here, and almost anyone of reasonably notability will get an obit somewhere. Obviously your great granny doesn't qualify because she got put in the under the local newspaper's recently deceased lists that would be bonkers, it has to be in the main body of the site or paper. If your great granny happens to be the old person in Madeupshire and get's a arcticle (even just a few paragraphs in the main section) in the Madeupshire Times she'll qualify.
The second part of your query is a bit more difficult and I should have really thought it through more. I think it's best to stick to famous because of their impending death equalling disqualification, long term resistance in the face of probable death raises people's profile enough that they'd be consider "on the fringes of fame". However you need to balance their resistance to illness with whether it's obit-worthy.
Also to clear up another issue right to die campaigners will be accepted because they not famous because of their impending death but the campaigning they've done.
Hope this clears things up, if anyone wants to update their teams in light of this clarification or just want to update for the hell of it you can do so until entries closing at 1600 on the 31st.
- All picks must be humans aged over 18 on January 1st 2014.
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Is he the reason the site was exceeding bandwidth earlier? I has no idea he was so popular. Still, my 4th hit of the year
I think it's more a matter of all the big deaths so far this month using the majority of bandwith limit up and the spike in traffic upon his death pushing it over the edge, I'm sure whoevers paying deathlists bills hopes for a death-free rest of December as you normal have to stump up some cash to keep a site open when that happens or leave it dead for the rest of the month.
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my gran collapsed and died of a heart attack during christmas dinner.put a bit of a dampener on things.first time ive seen death close up.it makes it all look more real.anyway hope the rest of you had a nice christmas
That will teach you for letting off party poppers.
Although what they were thinking off trying to practice anal sex with a 97-year-old relative, god knows.
If this was about a celebrity in these circumstances I'd not feel uncomfortable reading this but is making jokes like this about fellow users families really appropriate?
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He'll live until 99.
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Thank goodness it's all over we can now all concentrate on dead pooling.
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Prince Philip, probably wishful thinking though.
One things for sure we'll find out the next time it becomes impossible to access this site.
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Maybe we should all club together to set up a mainstream newspaper that obits every dead person we can possibly think of?
Well, there are many things wrong with that idea. Firstly, just the idea that I (or anyone else here) would club together with you on anything. And it wouldn't really be a mainstream newspaper if its only purpose was to report all deaths. Then it would just be Death Weekly or whatever. Plus, even if it was somehow mainstream it would probably be disqualified from consideration just because it was deliberately set up to cheat the DDP.
And also, unless you're The Mail, running a newspaper these days is about as economically viable as trying to sell a self-help book in Liverpool called "Getting Over Tragedies".
You're either deliberately being pedantic or missed my joke. Although I'll have to use the self-help book in liverpool line, I'll keep it in my ammo.
FYI I never said it's sole purpose was to report deaths of dead people just that it would obit every person we could think of.
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I live in the US and some of my picks may not have an obit in Britian, what then?
Hey, buddy, I'm sorry dude but look at this way, Jack, you just gotta be sure to pick guys who's famous enough to get obits here, son!!
Ok seriously, that's not as limiting as it sounds. Or even as hard to gauge as it sounds. You just have to play it by ear. Sometimes your NFL players or whatever will be famous enough to get an obit here (I mean, obviously someone like John Madden). And their chances increase if they die in tragic circumstances (which, obviously, happens a lot). But generally they probably won't. And don't, like, expect former state governors or anything like that to get obits as a matter of routine. Strangely a lot of wrestlers will get obits because The Sun covers WWE because there's lots of inbred morons like me who grew up watching WWF and they cater to us. Although I don't watch that boring bullshit any more, a lot of people do. But it's generally best to limit it to musicians and actors and high-level politicians, and really well-known academics/writers/authors because generally we don't give a shit about your sports. And don't forget your criminals obviously, serial killers/rapists who are fairly famous will have a good chance of getting a report here.
Thanks Doc...I think my list will be pretty good. If no one on it shows up in a British Obit then oh well its not like I am out anything is it. I am not running a Theme list so I have a mix of a little of everything.
Side Note Off Topic:
Are all sites like this overseas?
No problem. I'm just trying to annoy TMIB by getting as many people as possible to enter so he has to deal with all the entries, actually.
Also don't forget "special cases" like Harold Camping. Obviously if someone obscure does something particularly entertaining ridicule worthy like predicting the end of the world, of course his death will be reported here because that kind of Ameritrash greatly appeals to Britons' unwarranted sense of superiority. I think in recent years it's got a lot easier for US people to play this game because the Daily Mail will literally report anything. I think I've seen a lot of American sports players or actors deaths covered there that I didn't see anywhere else. But obviously you can't expect every last thing to be reported.
Maybe we should all club together to set up a mainstream newspaper that obits every dead person we can possibly think of?
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Well, I've sent 2 batches so far, covering 120 teams...
Out of interest in terms of number of entries how does this compare to this point last year?
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