drunkasaskunk

I just hope that uk.news.yahoo.com 's sweeper-bot doesn't regurgitate (a polite way of saying COPY & PASTE) a non qualifying obit and turn it into a QO. If so it will illustrate, yet again, why IMHO uk.news.yahoo.com needs to be removed as a QO source UNLESS IT IS AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE written for the site.

And this is exactly why it should be the mainstream media that decides (by publishing the requisite mention of their death) rather than some bloke sitting in his y-fronts eating a box of coco pops without milk. (oops - I forgot I moved the mirror !!!!!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/60508601 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/sports/bibian-mentel-dead.html https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/bibian-mentel-paralympic-snowboarding

Am I missing something here? How can a "pick" be rejected? Surely they get a QUALIFYING obituary or they don't? Let us face it, it isn't you or I that makes someone newsworthy - it is the press / media. I have seen that - for some unknown reason - FRANK CAPRIO - a guy who has his own TV show and that I have heard of in the backwater of England (OK - SCOTLAND!!!!) So why ( and by whom) was he rejected? How the fuck was Tim Bilton, rejected yet replaced with Christoph Daum? What makes one more Pick-worthy (sic) than the other? I have always maintained that the media / Press should be the arbiters. If a headline says "mum-of-three, 26, dies days after ‘Brazilian bum-lift’ surgery in Turkey" then, they are clearly., NOT FAMOUS (otherwise it would say "singer / film director / former NATO President, 26, dies days after ‘Brazilian bum-lift’ surgery in Turkey") Why was Theo Burrell, an expert on a TV programme watched by MILIONS of people rejected but a ( and I quote) "A Jew who posed as Hitler Youth to survive war" was allowed as a scoring pick (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/world/europe/solomon-perel-dead.html) How often does the bloke or blokes that have the power of veto actually win this game? I might start my own game. All you have to do is pick 20 celebs aged under 25 - while I can pick people aged over 100. FUCKING MADNESS.

ah. I get it now. The modern day Vitas Gerulaitis meets Mollie Sugden team

For the benefit of those of us who have no idea what "David Gest's aged-like-milk tour" means, can you elaborate? Thanks

Deathlist has JC as 100 years old. He is only 99

I wonder if any celebs come on here to see if Banana has picked them for this year! Congratulations banana.

Have we ever had a QO for the previous year come in on the 3rd or 4th of January? In Scotland January 2nd is a public holiday, so many of the Scottish on-line news sources will be running with a skeleton (pun intended) staff

I believe he has moved in to the same retirement home as Peter Falk

Qualifying Obituaries. I do not know if I should put this in the DDP 2023 thread, this thread or start a new thread for DDP 2025 as my question concerns the 2025 game. I have a question, if I may. Why do we not allow obituaries from certain sites UNLESS they have been picked up by a search engine, UK YAHOO? Obits from Hollywood Reporter, Reuters.com, Deadline, CBC, Huffpost, Chicago Tribune AND MANY MANY MORE :-) are not allowed UNLESS UK Yahoo picks them up. Here are just 6 that have been used as "death notices" in the 2023 game. I understand that there MAY have been other sources. I have not looked. But I find it strange that the RULES state... "The following news sources are excluded as from 1st January 2016: Huffington Post UK, MSN UK, Scotsman" And yet, for example, Andy Barkan's death uses a Huffington post article, written by a Huff post journalist and published in the Huffington post and it DOES count, simply because a certain search engine picked it up. I understand that someone, somewhere must decide what sources DO or DO NOT constitute a QO. I assume that it was decided that Reuters.com, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, CBC and the Chicago Tribune were not appropriate for the DDP, yet we ARE allowing SOME of them to count. I totally, 100% agree that any news content GENERATED by UK YAHOO should count towards qualification, but when they simply use a "bot" to scour the interweb for stories then these - IN MY OPINION - should not count. I love the DDP because it is UK centric. Is the quest for amassing the most hits in a year clouding out judgement of what should, and what should not constitute a QO? Thanks for reading. What do you think?

Some of them maybe :-)

That is what I thought, but never noticed it mentioned in the rules. As I said before I not am I sure if it SHOULD count. Cheers

Another one from the list of the lost I am not sure if this counts, not am I sure if it SHOULD count. In the comments section is a mention that "Eve Bunting died on October 1 at the age of 94." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12883231/Norma-Barzman-dies-103-Screenwriter-one-living-survivors-Hollywood-blacklist.html#comments

They all count :-)

oops

Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist has died Here is a NYT Obit. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/robert-solow-dead.html Will he get a QO? Probably

I thought it was for Sports people, not drag acts (not that there is anythong (sic) wrong with a drag acts)

Will these guys come off of the list of the lost tonight following the Sports Personality of the year? Carl-Erik Eriksson Swedish bobsledder Basil Van Rooyen South African racing driver Eric Tweedale English-born Australian international rugby union player. Siiri Rantanen Finnish cross-country skier

That is likely, right lads?

Whatever happened to her???

This Pogue will haunt us forever.

He was my dissertation supervisor in 1994 at Strathclyde University. . Whenever I met with him in his office I had to go into the office next door to get a chair as he did not have room for an extra chair due to it being filled with books, journals and magazines. When I brought the chair in I then had to kick a swathe of printed matter aside to create a space to put the chair. Another reason for the clutter was a bike in his office. I am not aware of him ever using it. He lived in Edinburgh and the Uni was in Glasgow.

A unique pick for Jock's Away .

I have seen an UNCONFIRMED REPORT on facebook that he has passed away. https://www.facebook.com/groups/blastsfromtheglasgowpast/permalink/6921320247878163/ A QO to follow perhaps??

And, more apposite, they generally get a QO.