YoungWillz

Scottish Cup. Darvel 1 - Aberdeen 0 MMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!

I left it to the reader to detect the sarcasm, but either will do.

I think it's important to recognise how laudable the PM has been recently. He's appointed his appointee as Ethics Advisor (a Baronet and CBE) to look into his appointee as Chairman of the Tory Party as regards the tax issue for the Rt Hon Member for Stratford Upon Avon. Of course the matter of his predecessor but one's appointee as Chair of the BBC who was also the PM's former boss at Goldman Sachs, who brokered meetings on behalf of Johnson to arrange loans, is not a matter for him or his appointees however. Not quite sure why the Tory party, which keeps creating the sewage of news about its elected members, keeps seemingly making the shit it produces larger and more solid for its opponents to throw back at it. Sickened by it all.

Top Topham, founding member of and guitarist with The Yardbirds (being replaced by Eric Clapton), reportedly dead:

I see all the credited deaths have been wiped from their bios. Feel for you @gcreptile, won't be a huge job re-doing them at the moment, frustrating I guess, but soon all will be resolved. Good luck!

Talented pianist who won a talent show when I was a boy who has resorted to doing piss poor impressions of Liberace, instead of maximising his talent.

Has Bobby Crush died?!!!!!

I'll submit a team in a wee while. I'm prepared to be surprised, but I'm going to predict right off that 33 of that lot are guaranteed dead by the end of the year. Which makes this harder than Nadhim Zahawi's tax return...

Sal Piro, long time President of the Rocky Horror Fan Club, reportedly dead: https://twitter.com/TRHPSFanClub/status/1617371526264676355 Edit: https://rue-morgue.com/rocky-horror-picture-show-fan-icon-sal-piro-dies/

Ok, last one from me for the night. Mrs Rolf Harris is listed as both Alwen Harris AND Alwen Hughes. Merge required and unique picks cancelled. https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_H.html#harral https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_H.html#hughesa022

Might just be a boob....

I had a really good feeling about him last year. That didn't work...

Shake Rattle Roll Over And Play Dead has two Duane Eddy listings: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/teams.html#DDPTeamshaker Might this be a problem with subs or whatever?

I'm going to suggest that George Dunn https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_D.html#dunn99g021was born 21 September 1922 in Whitstable, Kent, as per this news report? https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/22312961.raf-pilot-saltdean-celebrating-100th-birthday-tomorrow/ Also, that report says he was in the Home Guard during the Battle of Britain, so his bio is a bit off - he does have other wartime records of some note though.

Alan Darby, sometime guitarist and lead singer with British band Fashion, reportedly dead: During his tenure, they reached #69 in the UK charts in February 1984 with Eye Talk and promoted the single on Razzmatazz:

DJ Spinna has a new funky take on one of Flack's hits (if you like classics updated to a "shopping for new pantyhose" number):

Former Middle East editor for the Guardian, Ian Black, dead aged 69: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/22/ian-black-former-guardian-middle-east-editor-dies Not the Ian Black DDP Pick.

There are two Christopher Benjamin entries for the same character actor that may need to be merged. Interestingly, neither is listed as a unique on the respective teams.

Does Ruth Adler Schnee (under A) need to be added to the List of the Lost? Not sure if she has a QO. Died 5 January.

@gcreptile Obviously my theme team of Hits of 36 Years Ago....needs to be updated in the heading for the year 1987, not 1985. @Death Impends, this will also apply for the theme team league. Still looking...

Having a look @Death Impends, first thing that strikes me is the celebrity picks by initial are still listed as being under DDP 2022 in the heading.

Tom Nairn, Scottish political theorist, academic and essayist, reportedly dead aged 90:

Nadhim Zahawi has come clean about his tax evasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64360260 Careless cos he he got caught? Careless that he didn't arrange it to bring it in the scope of tax avoidance? Careless that he couldn't care less about the effect on the Exchequer? For twenty plus years? One man doesn't pay a 4 million pound bill. Just one man. One man part of a Government who says there's not enough money to pay nurses and ambulance drivers a decent wage. Multiply that by all the other tax avoiders/evaders and ask yourself - why am I freezing this winter? Will an ambulance come for me if I have a heart attack or stroke? Why is my food bill up 115%?

Paul La Farge (sometimes Paul LaFarge), US author and essayist, reportedly dead:

Robert Winston - grief over his wife's death has left him wondering whether life is worth continuing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11661129/Professor-Robert-Winston-gives-tragic-account-wifes-moments-999-crew-tried-save-her.html This is a medical academic, people....