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  3. Posted

    My 2015 Shadow List is "lost in the mists of time", but I do remember some names from it.

    Two survivors, I think, are underrated as deadpool picks and I'd like to bring them up.

     

    1) Sitcom actress Marla Gibbs.

    She's turning 87 this summer and looks frail.

    She's very well-known in the US for her roles in 'The Jeffersons' and '227'. Yes, non-Americans, that means she's a Daily Mail cert (at the very least).

     

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    2) Former Governor of Illinois, George Ryan.

    He recently turned 84.

    He spent several years in jail because, well, duh, he's an Illinois politician!

     

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    If the name George Ryan sounds familiar, it's because his wife, Lura Lynn, died of cancer in 2011 and was a popular deadpool pick that year.

     

    Speaking of which, here's her gem of a DDP description:

     

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    Terminally ill wife of convicted former Governor of Chicago, George Ryan.

    :D

     

    Can't judge though. We Yanks ain't good at British geography either (or any geography, for that matter).

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  5. Posted

    Update #22 for Catherine Nevin, Billy Graham, and Nanette Fabray.

     

    Joey Russ 3240
    Grim Up North 3055

    The Dead Cow 3055

    DeathImpends 3050

    drol 3050
    msc 3000

    Book 2825

    CaptainChorizo 2820

    RadGuy 2755

    Wormfarmer 2565
    Jiroemon Kimura 2550

    The Unknown Man 2180

    Shaun of the Dead 2150

    GraveDanger 2075

    gcreptile 1985

    Davy Jones' Locker 1450
    Deathray 1305
    YoungWillz 1235
    Bibliogryphon 1135
    ImNotHades 650
    Gooseberry Crumble 325

     

    It's getting tighter up at the top of the leaderboard. Anybody's game to win at this point.

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  8. Posted

    On 1/31/2018 at 16:46, Phantom of the Midway said:

    Oh, I don't think she's that bad of a pick either. Criminals generally don't outright lie about their illness, just exaggerate. She could very well actually have brain cancer, even if the deathbed reports from last March were BS.

    Called Nevin here. B)

     

    But for some reason still had her high up in the Inverse... :banghead:

  9. Posted

    1 minute ago, charon said:

    His language leans to this side of the pond on occasion, so to say 'he couldn't keep it up for this long' is tripe, he cannot, hence the mask slips.

    **tho kudos to the Chicago Kid putting 'cuntos' into his remit.

    Well, hey, I've been on these mostly-British forums for a couple years.

    I've adopted a lot of useful new words, like owt/nowt, summat, and yes - cunto.

    Same goes for Joey, probably.

     

    3 minutes ago, charon said:

    "He's a normal teenager just like meeeeeeee"

    But its amusing as fuck seeing dissertation length posts from 'normal' teenagers :D

    Never claimed to be normal. I'm well aware I ain't.

  10. Posted

    Nah, no way Joey's an imposter. He definitely seems like somebody my age. Zorders isn't mentally stable enough to be able to maintain a disguise for 2 years. If Zorders was Joey, we'd be seeing a lot of posts from him about 'sand durkas' and 'the deep state' and what not.

     

    Anyway, several years ago, I used to post a lot on here too. Not as much as Joey, mind, but maybe up to 10 posts a day. Nowadays, I make 3-4 posts a day during the 'busy months' (December-March) and 2-3 posts a week in the quieter months of the year.

     

    If you're reading this Joey, I reduced my post count by thinking if what I'm typing truly matters. Does it contribute anything? Is it helpful? Is it interesting?

     

    Here are some examples of unnecessary posts that you should try to eliminate, imho:

     

    - Clive Dunn emojis/telling people they're posting in the wrong thread/etc. Every once in a while is fine (even I'm tempted on some occasions, like my Charlie Brown augh post from a week ago), but you seem to have to put people in their place about their mistakes each time it happens. Somebody is bound to tell them anyway, so it doesn't have to be you. No need to post about it. Besides, it doesn't really accomplish anything. That post will still stay in the wrong thread, as posts are rarely moved, and never deleted.

     

    - Deadpool analysis. Seemingly every time there is a scoreboard update on a pool, you have to jump in with a post like "ah, I've now fallen from 8th to =13th. But I reckon I can get back to the top 10 by Easter". I get that it's a nice mental note for yourself, but if it's something you type for yourself - you don't really need to post it. Few people are interested in posts like this. And if they are, they're probably top poolers who already know what the scoreboard looks like and are aware of how their competition is doing.

     

    - Many posts in the extracurricular forums. Major event in personal life? Sure, post in the Status Updates thread. Tornado destroyed your school? Sure, post in the Weather thread. Going to a concert? Sure, post in the Gigs thread. Found a funny meme on Facebook? Eh, probably don't post in the Funny Things You Saw Online thread. It's December and you're working on your shortlist? Eh, only make a couple posts in the Shortlist thread, no need for an update each time you find a new name you might pick.

     

    - Making several posts when a deadpooling-relevant name seems to be on the brink of death. People don't really care about your individual reaction "wow, I thought she'd make it a couple more months" or "damn, he was my second sub in the Hare's Pool".

     

    - And finally, posts apologizing for too many posts. You don't need to make posts like "sorry, I just like analyzing" or whatnot. No need to apologize for your posts to us cuntos. :P Also try to avoid taking folk's bait when they accuse you of being Zorders or whatever. And try not to bait them yourself with posts about your anxiety and stuff, there's people on here who'll just make fun of you even more.

     

    Anyway, I don't mean to be an asshole, just trying to help out. You're certainly not the only forum member to make a lot of pointless posts. I make a ton of them too, e.g. I could have avoided the three or so cringeworthy posts I made in the Dead of 2018 thread the other day (you know, the whole Liam Miller - Sir Creep - Charlie Brown debacle). And it's always annoying when Sean makes four posts in a row in the same thread, one of which is just ":pop::skill2::skull:". Sorry, Sean. :P

     

    I get that posting on here might be a way to escape your personal life and anxiety. But I don't think spending so much time on a forum about death really helps. As others have said, therapy is the way to go. If your parents don't support that or whatever, there's always help at school (at least, there is at my school, I don't know what it's like in your area...). Try to focus on bettering your real life. Escaping your problems is unhealthy.

     

    Spent an hour typing this post, so hopefully it was at least somewhat helpful.

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  13. Posted

    Update #7

     

    Hits:

    12 February - Marty Allen (b. 1922) - Torva Messor

    13 February - Prince Henrik (b. 1934) - Book

    14 February - Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1952) - YoungWillz, The Unknown Man, drol, Joey Russ, Book, Grim Up North, gcreptile, Captain Chorizo, Banana, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip, Prophet

     

    Scoreboard:

    gcreptile 542

    Captain Chorizo 515

    drol 460

    Joey Russ 384

    msc 363

    Grim Up North 354

    Sean 348

    DevonDeathTrip 335

    DeathImpends 332

    Book 284

    The Unknown Man 244

    Banana 241

    Prophet 215

    FixedBusiness 213

    Torva Messor 139

    Toast 138

    John Key 93

    YoungWillz 52
    Gooseberry Crumble 35
    Grigori 24
    Bibliogryphon 0
    mr.whit 0
    Wormfarmer 0
     

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  14. Posted

    7 hours ago, Phantom of the Midway said:

    Finally get my first Shadow List success with Prince Henrik.

     

    Never had to wait until February for my first success. Even in my piss poor 6/50 rookie attempt in 2015, I had a hit in January - King Abdullah.

    Tsvangirai's death hurts me in the DDP, but gets me a quick one-two on the Shadow List.

  16. Posted

    Finally get my first Shadow List success with Prince Henrik.

     

    Never had to wait until February for my first success. Even in my piss poor 6/50 rookie attempt in 2015, I had a hit in January - King Abdullah.

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  18. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

    From Dec 7, 2017:
    "I was heartbroken to read this weekend that my friend Bill Crider has entered hospice care." 

    Damn...a pretty big miss for ALL of us in whatever DP he passes muster.  I"m pretty pissed off at myself for the oversight.  OTOH, 'entering hospice' or 'entered hospice' are certainly search terms I run through the matrix, and this didn't pop up.  What gives?

    SC
     

    While I admit I didn't find him (my research was shit in December), he wasn't totally unknown to deadpoolers.

     

    Unique for Heef in the DDP.

    Picked by several of us in the Deathrace (of course, lived too long to score them any points).

    And like half the teams this round of the Cup chose him.

  19. Posted

    Tajima only needs to live about 6 more weeks to "break the top 4" - as in finally join the elite group of 90s supercentenarians who are the four oldest people ever - Calment, Knauss, Hannah, and Meilleur.

     

    I'm still pissed that Violet Brown and Emma Morano died a couple months before breaking the top 4. They seemed in much better shape than Tajima. 

  20. Posted

    Some other List of the Missed-ers are Dan Gurney (2015) and Olive Nicol (2017).

     

    Also technically cancer mum Laura Saull (2017) but I don't think obscure cancer mums were ever really kept track of for the LoM.

  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    What are you sceaming for. You have just virtually guarenteed your place in the next round of the cup and Jose Jose isn't dead yet?

    Was screaming cuz (I thought) SC was posting news that had already been known for a day.

     

    And hey, I'm not counting you out. Most of your team are uniques, I'm not safe at all. Jose seems to be recovering again, according to his family, so he could last till March. 

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  25. Posted

    Just now, Sir Creep said:

    'twas a joke silly.  But I got the response I sought

    I assumed it probably was, but given your previous history of Dunn-inducing posts, I was willing to risk it in order to post that marvelous Charlie Brown 'augh' video.

     

    Here it is again, let's all bask in its glory:

     

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