YoungWillz

Former Attorney General of the US, Dick Thornburgh dead: https://www.inquirer.com/news/dick-thornburgh-dies-pennsylvania-governor-attorney-general-20201231.html Would that be ANOTHER DDP pick?

Next year it would have, not a DDP Qobit for this year though.

Make of this what you will, but there's a report here that the last surviving member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Eugene Wright, has plucked his last bass string: One for the Singles Thread too @Ulitzer95 if it turns out to be reported true. DDP pick anaw.

Unusual not to have Toby's In Memoriam video for Doctor Who for 2020 up so far? I always enjoy a tear forming on Hogmanay.

Claude Bolling is one for the List of The Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2014/celebs_B.html#bollic Would have got the Guardian treatment. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/31/claude-bolling-obituary

Bibliogryphon had a solo hit with Tommy Docherty. No bonuses alas, leaderboard updated! Any more before going ashore?

Tommy Docherty is dead: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/breaking-tommy-docherty-dead-united-23245340 SCOTLAND!!! RIP.

@Bibliogryphon Tommy Docherty is a hit for me here I believe. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/breaking-tommy-docherty-dead-united-23245340

Oh my goodness. Ronald Atkins has only gorn and died. A hit for Miracle Aligner and Perhaps. Bonuses: Miracle Aligner: Pair 6s - 10 Additional Points. Perhaps: Straight (5, 6, 7 Spades, 8, 9) - 30 Points; Straight (5, 6, 7 Hearts, 8, 9) - 30 Points. Total - 60 Additional Points. And with that @Perhaps takes the lead. Can there be any more twists and turns in this oh so tight race? Leaderboard updated.

Not that I hold out much hope of this ever being scored, but Ronald Atkins was a Joker pick of mine and takes my total to 16 hits. Yay.

Sterling work to you Grim. And just to say many thanks to you, gcreptile and msc for all your hard work in 2020! I'm in awe how you put up with all of us and the tallying!

Happy New Year...! Except for @time who I presume needs a sub for 2021! Prescient? Ok, I have a feeling that 19 out of 20 of my main team for 2021 will die in 2021.

Picked this year (2020) another possible out for a QO.

Indeed. I still feel there's a "straight to BBC" obit about to be announced...had that just before Cardin's death. But they are feelings, nothing more than feelings….

When the moon is in the second house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars....

Due to non-obits, still one short of the 275 hit rate for 2020. Colin Withers, Arnold Wolfendale and I think one other could still come through. Tantalus clutching at low hanging fruit.

Now I know folk will be busy with the final entries, so this is probably a muse rather than a question. I wonder how many picks have been rejected under the new non-FBBI regime? Bound to still be some submitting the usual cases without a care in the world...

Dead So Far: Georg Ratzinger - 1 July Everton Weekes - 1 July Earl Cameron - 3 July Nick Cordero - 5 July Ennio Morricone - 6 July Mark Naley - 6 July - No Obit Johnny Beattie - 9 July Paik Sun-yup - 10 July  Judy Dyble - 12 July Zizi Jeanmaire - 17 July John Lewis - 17 July Lone Dybkjaer - 20 July - No Obit Stuart Wheeler - 23 July David Hagen - 24 July Amala Shankar - 24 July - No Obit John Saxon - 25 July Olivia de Havilland - 25 July Lee Teng-hui - 30 July Sydney Lotterby - 30 July Wilford Brimley - 1 August Bob Ryland - 2 August John Hume - 3 August Sumner Redstone - 11 August Hal Singer - 18 August Frankie Banali - 20 August "Bullet" Bob Armstrong - 27 August Pat Smullen - 15 September Stanley Crouch - 16 September Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 18 September Lee Kerslake - 19 September Michael Lonsdale - 21 September Jackie Stallone - 21 September Tommy DeVito - 21 September Juliette Greco - 23 September Bob Gibson - 2 October Mohammad-Reza Shajarian - 8 October Conchata Ferrell - 12 October Marge Champion - 21 October Bruce Reid - 27 October - No Obit Nobby Stiles - 30 October Mikhail Zhvenetsky - 6 November - No Obit Jeanne Little - 7 November Alex Trebek - 8 November Peter Sutcliffe - 13 November Des O'Connor - 14 November Bhanwarlal Meghwal - 16 November - No Obit Jan Morris - 20 November Diego Maradona - 25 November David Prowse - 28 November Valery Giscard D'Estaing - 2 December Chuck Yeagar - 7 December Barbara Windsor - 10 December Pierre Cardin - 29 December Phyllis McGuire - 29 December Ronald Atkins MP - 30 December Tommy Docherty - 31 December Perhaps: 1408 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Smullen; Gibson; Trebek; D. O'Connor; Prowse; Atkins) (Sub: Kerslake [K Hearts]; Stiles [J Clubs]) (MD: J[2]; A[5]; S[2]; O[5]; N[K]; D[2]) Cards Played: Sean: 1359 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Teng-hui; Brimley; Hume; Banali; Stiles; Little; Trebek' Windsor) (Sub: Weekes [Q Spades]; Ginsburg [7 Diamonds]) (MD: J[4]; A[6]; S[5]; O[K]; N[Q]; D[10]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 1244 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Armstrong; DeVito; Gibson) (Sub: de Havilland [2 Hearts]) (MD: J[8]; A[3]; S[10]; O[10]; N[3]; D[3]) Cards Played: Joey Russ: 1241 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Dyble; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong; Gibson; Trebek) (MD: J[2]; A[A]; S[5]; O[Q]; N[Q]; D[J]) Cards Played: An Fear Beag: 1240 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Teng-hui; Redstone; Banali; Smullen; Gibson; Stiles; Trebek) (Sub: Cordero [5 Diamonds]) (MD: J[J]; A[6]; S[4]; O[A]; N[3]; D[7]) Cards Played: Grim Up North: 1086 Points (Cordero; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Smullen; Kerslake; Stiles; Trebek) (Sub: de Havilland [9 Clubs]) (MD: J[2]; A[8]; S[5]; O[4]; N[J]; D[Q]) Cards Played: msc: 996 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Wheeler; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Singer; Gibson; Trebek) (Sub: Cordero [Q Spades]) (MD: J[K]; A[K]; S[3]; O[4]; N[8]; D[8]) Cards Played: The Quim Reaper: 986 Points (de Havilland; Teng-hui; Hume; Redstone; Banali; Ginsburg; Stiles; Trebek) (Sub: D'Estaing [4 Diamonds]) (MD: J[4]; A[10]; S[4]; O[10]; N[K]; D[6]) Cards Played: gcreptile: 958 Points (Ratzinger; Hagen; Banali; Armstrong; Crouch; Kerslake; Shajarian) (Sub: Cordero [A Diamonds]) (MD: J[J]; A [J]; S[Q]; O[9]; N[6]; D[10]) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 872 Points (Morricone; Jn Lewis; Redstone; Ginsburg; Kerslake; Stiles; Trebek; Windsor) (MD: J[K]; A[9]; S[A]; O[8]; N[6]; D[7]) Cards Played: DeathByArsenic: 809 Points (Jeanmaire; Lonsdale; Greco; Ferrell; Trebek; D'Estaing; Cardin) (MD: J[10]; A[J]; S[3]; O[9]; N[4]; D[2]) Cards Played: Banana: 808 Points (Jn Lewis; Hagen; de Havilland; Teng-hui; Banali; Smullen; Trebek) (Sub: Cordero [J Clubs]) (MD: J[10]; A[10]; S[A]; O[K]; N[9]; D[6]) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 808 Points (Ratzinger; Jn Lewis; Hagen; Teng-hui; Banali; Armstrong)(MD: J[6]; A[9]; S[Q]; O[6]; N[7]; D[3]) Cards Played: theoldlady: 803 Points (Cameron; Jn Lewis; Banali; Stiles; Trebek; Windsor; Cardin) (MD: J[5]; A[4]; S[8]; O[8]; N[3]; D[10]) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 678 Points (Ratzinger; Cordero; Jn Lewis; Banali; Armstrong; Trebek) (Sub: Sutcliffe [8 Diamonds]) (MD: J[A]; A[J]; S[J]; O[6]; N[5]; D[K]) Cards Played: The Old Crem: 675 Points (Cordero; Lewis; de Havilland; Hume; Redstone; Windsor) (Sub: Maradona [2 Spades]) (MD: J[Q]; A[A]; S[8]; O[6]; N[10]; D[K]) Cards Played: Yorkshire Banker: 620 Points (Weekes; Beattie; Teng-hui; Banali; Trebek) (Sub: Cameron [Q Diamonds]) (MD: J[9]; A[2]; S[K]; O [6]; N[Q]; D[J]) Cards Played: Miracle Aligner: 560 Points (de Havilland; Stiles; Trebek; D'Estaing; Atkins) (MD: J[7]; A[2]; S[7]; O[5]; N[10]; D[A]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 516 Points (Weekes; Jeanmaire; Stallone; Docherty) (MD: J[A]; A[K]; S[2]; O[K]; N[5]; D[4]) Cards Played: Great Uncle Bulgaria: 512 Points (Ginsburg; Stallone; Stiles; Windsor) (MD: J[8]; A[3]; S[J];O[A]; N[J]; D[5]) Cards Played: JoeMoneypenny: 498 Points (Weekes; Sun-yup; Ryland; Windsor) (Sub: Cardin [Q Diamonds]) (MD: J[4]; A [Q]; S[K]; O[2]; N[3]; D[2]) Cards Played: markb4: 482 Points (Jn Lewis; Ginsburg; Trebek; Yeagar) (Sub: de Havilland [6 Diamonds]; Champion [9 Hearts]) (MD: J[8]; A[Q]; S[9]; O[J]; N[2]: D[5]) Cards Played: Toast: 364 Points (Lotterby; Lonsdale; Morris) (Sub: Stiles [6 Spades]) (MD: J[K]; A[6]; S[9]; O[2]; N[A]; D[A]) Cards Played: CalebH: 180 Points (Trebek) (Sub: Maradona [K Spades]) (MD: J[Q]; A[10]; S[Q]; O[Q]; N[9]; D[Q]) Cards Played: Gooseberry Crumble: 158 Points (McGuire) (Sub: Saxon [4 Clubs]) (MD: J[3]; A[9]; S[Q]; O[A]; N[Q]; D[4]) Cards Played: Guy From Future: 48 Points (Sub: Maradona [8 Spades]) (MD: J[4]; A[9]; S[K]; O[2]; N[5]; D[7])

The final Card Roulette Table draw! Timestamp: 2020-12-31 12:36:17 UTC

There's a period of grace on this pool for late obits to come through, so still plenty of time. Of course, the staff will have left, the players will be on their way back to their country estates and I shall be in the manager's office poring over the books. Meantime, it's the end of the month. so I believe a little visit to the Card Roulette Table is in order! Come along everyone!

There's a report here of Joey LaMotta's death: But who knows? Might fuck up the Committee picking him though...

Appropriately enough, their first UK hit was No More.

I do not recognise this description of him!

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Wiki American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Detroit, Michigan with accompanying band, Seger has sold more than 75 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling artists of all time, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 Drew Abbott 13 Jan 1947 – Living Chris Campbell no info available Alto Reed 16 May 1948 – Living Robyn Robbins 1951 – Living Bob Seger 06 May 1945 – Living David Teegarden 15 Nov 19?? – Living 30/09/1978 Hollywood Nights #42 03/02/1979 We've Got Tonite #41 Later popularised by Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton Alto Reed dead: https://www.mlive.com/life/2020/12/bob-seger-remembers-longtime-bandmate-alto-reed-he-was-funky-could-scat.html

Now Toni Basil is reporting the death of Adolfo Quinones, aka Shabba Doo: Appeared in Xanadu and the two Breakin' movies. Leaves Toni as the sole Soul Train survivor from the original Lockers. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704044/ Here he is giving it large in Chaka Khan's I Feel For You Music Video: