drunkasaskunk

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.

Jean-Marc Bosman

I bent over backwards to avoid picking him.

Apparently the B-SIDE of They're Coming To Take Me Away is the same song, played backwards and attributed to 14th Napoleon.

I have noticed a couple of wrong attributions for a couple of my picks in my THEME TEAM "Jocks Away" The James Harkness that I selected is NOT a Scottish Actor but is a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harkness_(minister) And the Ian McCulloch that I selected is the Actor, famous, to those of a certain age, as the star of the scary-as-fuck-for-the -time Sci Fi drama SURVIVORS, and not the bloke from Echo and the fanny men :-) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567135/bio Of course, we all know that within a fortnight both the actor Harkness and the singer McCulloch will crash into each other on the M60 and be killed. Cheers.