YoungWillz

Maybe I should check this out. Honestly, you take a couple of hours off, then it's time for a ciggie.... Anyhow, I'll check it out in about 5 minutes. Hopefully I won't need to add to the avalanche of niggles....

Today or tomorrow, that's amazing! I'm excited. I have little else in my life, apparently...

So a definite List of the Missed for 2021?

I did say last year! Howard Johnson there and on the list of celebs.

A pick for @Phantom in last year's DDP, brass and reed instrumentalist Howard Johnson, reportedly dead: https://www.facebook.com/hojotuba/posts/4131693800191601 Led the Saturday Night Live band for a while. Of more importance to me, appeared on John Lennon's Walls And Bridges and Double Fantasy albums. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/

Och, if only the Committee had gone for famous mother of famous person. Anyway, Eve Branson has died:

My entry DI, thanks for running this again. 01. Paul Gascoigne 02. George Alagiah 03. David Attenborough 04. Gerd Muller 05. Doddie Weir 06. Queen Elizabeth II 07. Prunella Scales 08. Bobby Charlton 09. Murray Walker 10. Yoko Ono 11. Donald Trump 12. Rob Burrow 13. Willie Nelson 14. Greg Gilbert 15. Dick Van Dyke 16. Desmond Tutu 17. June Brown 18. Angela Lansbury 19. Mikhail Gorbachev 20. Henry Kissinger 21. Leslie Phillips 22. Bob Barker 23. Olivia Newton-John 24. Pope Benedict XVI 25. Jean-Louis Trintignant Sub: Bill Turnbull

Think The Old Crem had Hubert Auriol, so an English Language Obit is needed and here it be: https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/01/10/dakar-rally-racing-legend-hubert-auriol-has-died-aged-68/

Hmm. Now, for example, the rules in the Poker Tourney are quite clear and strict in that regard and she would be FFBI for that. The DDP on the other hand have gone down similar to the Hare's Pool route. It's up to the DDP folks to interpret those rules, not for us to declaim a disbar on our own feelings on the matter. FWIW, I think under even the current rules, she qualifies as a pick. Unlikely to be dead within the year, I'd say, so it only matters when she is gone.

Hubert Auriol, picked here and there, three-time winner of the Paris-Dakkar, dead at 68: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://franceracing.fr/dakar/hubert-auriol-est-decede-ce-dimanche-10-janvier-a-lage-de-68-ans/

Look, I don't know or care who Ezra Nawi is, but as he is dead and picked for pools: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/radical-leftist-activist-ezra-nawi-has-died-at-the-age-of-69-654825

Royal Ballet dancer Clementina Bentine (nee Stuart) died 9 December 2020 aged 93: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/246729/bentine Oh, and the widow of the late goon, Michael Bentine.

Bill Nankeville, 1948 and 1952 GB competitor in the 1500m and various relays, seems to have died: Bobby Davro's dad. Pick for @Handrejka on the Shadowlist at least, dunno about the DDP.

Dodgers release statement:

Tommy Lasorda being reported dead just after release from hospital: That's my pitch anyway. Let's see if it's true.

Laid to rest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55589987 My pick for this year, Anna Karen, who replaced Babs on my Comedy Cremations team, gave a tribute. Interesting....

Yeah, and I've noticed the monthly draw was not that kind to you either. I'm probably not going to check that as it's totally random anyway, but somebody must have benefited more than most from that side of things. Might be an indication of when to put your picks in, maybe not. I think that experiment worked this year. At one stage it looked like it might decide the whole damn thing - but you were a clear winner. Who would have imagined a politician aged 104 would just up and die so close to the end? Bloody Labour!

The 2020 Poker Tournament has been tallied and the victor is @Perhaps!

Well, the final reckoning is now due. What a year! Actually a half year but it seemed like a year! Not clear cut by any stretch of the imagination, and a good competition for most. Indeed, it's been my best year pointswise, by luck rather than by design. But the lights have dimmed, the players have left for their 2021 competitions and it falls to me to do the final tally, which is as follows. If you entered last year, your position and points total is shown in brackets after your total for this year. Not strictly comparable, given the introduction of the monthly card roulette table, but hey...Even so, points are relatively down overall on last year. Anyway, the final table looks like this: 1st - Perhaps - 1408 Points 2nd - Sean - 1359 Points (=13th, 710) 3rd - Death Impends - 1244 Points (=5th, 1435) 4th - Joey Russ - 1241 Points (2nd, 1712) 5th - An Fear Beag - 1240 Points 6th - Grim Up North - 1086 Points (3rd, 1485) 7th - msc - 996 Points (=8th, 930) 8th - The Quim Reaper - 986 Points 9th - gcreptile - 958 Points (4th, 1443) 10th - YoungWillz - 872 Points (17th, 613) 11th - DeathByArsenic - 809 Points (21st, 406) =12th - Banana - 808 Points (7th, 1069) =12th - Captain Chorizo - 808 Points (1st, 2000) 14th - theoldlady - 803 Points (18th, 600) 15th - Clorox Bleachman - 678 Points (=5th, 1435) 16th - The Old Crem - 675 Points (10th, 835) 17th - Yorkshire Banker - 620 Points (16th, 674) 18th - Miracle Aligner - 560 Points 19th - Bibliogryphon - 516 Points (24th, 100) 20th - Great Uncle Bulgaria - 512 Points (22nd, 332) 21st - JoeMoneypenny - 498 Points 22nd - markb4 - 482 Points 23rd - Toast - 364 Points (20th, 436) 24th - CalebH - 180 Points 25th - Gooseberry Crumble - 158 Points (23rd, 305) 26th - Guy From Future - 48 Points So it is with some pride I pass the trophy for the 4th Deathlist Poker Tournament to a rookie first time player - PERHAPS. Congratulations to you and well done against the big beasts of the poker tables and indeed deadpooling in general. I have to note big commiserations to Sean, who had his lead snatched away at the death. (Well, it's a bloody dead pool!). And also to inform him that I have lowered the extra security doors, in case he marches upon our beloved casino, shouting "Stop The Steal!" The lead had been held at various points by Grim Up North, Joey Russ, Death Impends and An Fear Beag, but despite the jostling, their team members just couldn't come through. If you have improved on your placing and/or scores, well done, if not, that's the turn of the card, the swish of the Reaper's scythe, and hey, there is always next time. Our Hall of Fame now reads as follows: 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - Death Impends 2019 - Captain Chorizo 2020 - Perhaps. And now it falls to me to hand over the Hall of Shame prize, the hanging of the portrait in the gents. (Next year, it will be the toilet for the physically challenged, as I'm running out of cubicles - must get an extension built!). This is normally awarded to the player who has essentially cut their own throat, whether by the way picks have been made or non-obiting. I have decided that this meaningless award is to be shared this year. There is no getting away from the fact that if a player calls himself Guy From Future, you'd expect them to get at least one main team member dead and obiting, in fact you'd expect a lot of hits. The majority of points came from the monthly draw! Deservedly last, the management will expect better time travelling skills to be reflected in his score IN THE FUTURE. There is also no doubt that msc had three non-obiting hits in their main team. While the Casino appreciates the thrill and danger of the choices of deceased, you have to know you are going to get those obits in. And had they come in, msc would have had a flush, pairs, three of a kind and a full house on top of the standard hit score and would have won the entire game. So it's a joint portrait this year. Hall of Shame 2017 - Joey Russ 2018 - Joey Russ 2019 - Sir Creep 2020 - Guy From Future & msc. And we are done! Let's see if we open up later in 2021, and how long we are open for.....

On the Beeb News Channel, glorying in receiving his second vaccine dose...at Epsom Racecourse! Sounds like he might be a non-runner this year.

Hey Carrie Dann what's your game now, can anybody play? Mail Qobit: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-9120765/Native-American-land-activist-Carrie-Dann-dies-Nevada.html

A son's grief! When he says "last night" obvs means January 6. And it wouldn't be time travel, it would be a "happening," baby!

Jim Haynes, founder of the Edinburgh Traverse Theatre and founder of The International Times, reported dead aged 87 by his son: https://www.facebook.com/500330372/posts/10157702899400373/?d=n

Bleeding out on top of a Trump flag, by the looks of the video. Well, if you are a cult member, be prepared to be sold out by your cult leader. Glass of punch anyone?

If there were majority black faces, the shooting would already have started.... Anyone have a Rep/Senator etc in their DDP? This could be your moment....