YoungWillz

Nearly time for Barry Humphries to have his own thread, but while we wait on those 8 years before it is necessary, watching him on the BBC just now and I'd buy his chat show a million times over before Graham Norton. 'Mon, tell me I'm wrong.

She calls herself a work of art. Well we all are, aren't we? Admittedly I'm in the cross over between cubism and brutalism but I'm keeping my ribs. This one sounds amazingly vacuous though. Could she kill herself because she will never be perfect? Totes idiotic I think they say these days...

I liked him when he was drawing pics on the pavement rather than carrying his shopping home.

I thought you had. Provided an entry is in 24 hours before the death, the death still counts, even if it is before the period of entries closes. I'll set a limit now of 16:00 hours GMT on 9th January. After that I'm slamming the door shut and we can allow the poor souls on the Deathlist to consider whether they will oblige. Any more for any more?

Congrats Death Impends! Bet that's not the first time we say that this year as well!

Addendum while I'm locking up. I'm rather proud that this pool has never had a player end up with a zero, every player who has entered has scored every year. Well done!

Formal notification as game runner that Captain Chorizo wins the 2019 Deathlist Poker Tournament.

I have done the paperwork, placed those pictures in the frames and am about to close the Casino doors on 2019. Before we all leave to journey on to the Deathlist Cup however, we have some announcements. I have been unable to find any outstanding obits for the non-obiting personnel on the teams, and I haven't found any new deaths up to and including 31 December 2019 that have since been announced. You may recall that 2018 was a low scoring year. I am pleased to say that all changed in 2019, with record scores being posted. Those of us who may have scored similarly in points to last year find ourselves well down the list. That is not to say that scores could have been higher, had different choices been made. It's all very well to know someone is about to pop their clogs (or in this case, their stirrups!), but the obit requirements will find you out! Overall, play was better and of course, bonuses followed for those lucky ones whose cards were dealt by the unfortunate demise of the relevant team member. So here is the result. If you entered in 2018, your placing (out of 21 entrants from 2018) is in brackets, along with 2018's score. 1st - Captain Chorizo - 2000 Points (2nd, 980 Points) 2nd - Joey Russ - 1712 Points (7th, 647 Points) 3rd - Grim Up North - 1485 Points 4th - gcreptile - 1443 Points (13th, 500 Points) =5th - Clorox Bleachman - 1435 Points (6th, 705 Points) =5th - Death Impends - 1435 Points (1st, 1080 Points) 7th - Banana - 1069 Points =8th - msc - 930 Points (3rd, 840 Points) =8th - Sir Creep - 930 Points (8th, 631 Points) 10th - The Old Crem - 835 Points 11th - Fixed Business - 779 Points (17th, 400 Points) 12th - RadGuy -718 Points (4th, 818 Points) =13th - Sean - 710 Points (14th, 428 Points) =13th - Skinny Kiltrunner - 710 Points (18th, 225 Points) 15th - Torva Messor - 705 Points (11th, 514 Points) 16th - Yorkshire Banker - 674 Points (16th, 404 Points) 17th - YoungWillz - 613 Points (12th, 503 Points) 18th - The Old Lady - 600 Points (=9th, 515 Points) 19th - Jiroemon Kimura - 508 Points 20th - Toast - 436 Points (15th, 413 Points) 21st - Death By Arsenic - 406 Points 22nd - Great Uncle Bulgaria - 332 Points 23rd - Gooseberry Crumble - 305 Points (19th, 205 Points) 24th - Bibliogryphon - 100 Points (=9th, 515 Points) Congratulations to Captain Chorizo, so confident of victory he didn't even convert his Joker for more points. He joins two time previous winner Death Impends in the Cavalcade Hall of Fame. Our two time toilet hanging picture Joey Russ takes the silver. I'm guessing taking folk out of your subs and putting them on your team worked this year? Grim Up North who didn't even enter last year takes the bronze. In a game like this to have so many ties for positions is extraordinary. Special mention for Banana reaching a top ten position in a rookie year, and pat on the back to gcreptile as most improved. Now normally the picture in the casino toilets is decided by the foolishness of misplacing personnel on your subs bench and cutting your own throat. However, what cannot be ignored is the fact that one player had FIVE main team members who did not obit, more than anyone else, and by jingo, if they had it would have been a damn close run thing. So, Sir Creep's picture is placed above cubicle three in the gents, thus relieving Joey (see what I did there?) of an undeserved hat-trick. If you can all join and I'm willing, see you when the Casino 2020 opens later in the year. It's been fun!

Telegraph Obit for Gerald Bowden, former Tory MP for Dulwich and Tessa Jowell's predecessor in that seat: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/07/gerald-bowden-tory-politician-cut-teeth-ilea-mp-dulwich-welcomed/

Awful news, thought of him as my on screen big brother, even though he was old enough to be my dad. Scrolling through, looks reliable. The links to folk and history over time seem to confirm the accuracy.

Nope but then, trust is everything.

1950s era Scotland winger Grant Weatherstone dead at 88: https://www.scottishrugby.org/news/grant-weatherstone

Sad news. Didn't qualify for my team last year or this (phew!) though I see he was picked up by another team last year and get a loss. Also sad if anyone picked him for 2020. For those who want to enjoy his 1978 #17 hit Rama Lama Ding Dong again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsU8frpxJPM

Death Notice for Robert Crause Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, grandson of the creator of the Scouts: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/238469/baden-powell Apparently no heirs, so the title passes to his brother Michael.

TV news coverage. Was covered in the Scottish news, but not the main UK bulletin.

Unless I missed something, BBC's trumpeting of British success at the Golden Globes omitted Brian Cox's win for Succession. Maybe they've accepted the case for indyyrefnow, ha!

Hmm, I forgot to add in paddyfool's tie-break rules. They are now added into the first post on the thread. Game not started, so....oops!

Logged competitors for my title so far as follows: Annami Banana Bibliogryphon Book Buffalo Phil Captain Chorizo chilean way Clorox Bleachman dean1991 DeathClock Deathray Etushispushingupdaisies gcreptile Great Uncle Bulgaria Grim Up North Joey Russ LizLemon msc nantonian2013 Newjack paddyfool RadGuy Sir Creep Skinny Kiltrunner The Old Crem theoldlady The Quim Reaper ThereWillBeDeaths Torva Messor Zefph If you want to enter and your name isn't above, not long now.

Unsure if Tilkowski was picked for 2020, but here's the BBC Obit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51004898

Helen Sharman convinced aliens exist and could even be here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51003374 Probably keeping all of drol's African Despots alive....

West Germany's keeper in the 1966 WC Final Hans Tilkowski reported dead at 84: https://www.time24.news/2020/01/wembley-goalkeeper-hans-tilkowski-is-dead.html Obit guaranteed I'd have thought.

List of the Lost 2019 alumnus Abbey Simon gets his too late QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/01/06/abbey-simon-elegant-idiosyncratic-american-pianist-known-students/

It's all soap opera stuff. I don't mind a "personal journey" story, but this looks like, as I said, an overweening story arc. Convenient when you've run out of invention and ideas about situations, baddies, science, etc etc etc. However, there are important plug points in the history of Who, none more important than the Hand of Omega, Rassilon and the Matrix. If the intention is to mess with some of the finest classic stories and rewrite history, they'd better be careful where they go with this. All that carefully constructed back story (Dicks spinning in his newly acquired grave) gone in a Chibnall revision?

Well, the threads you come across! Corby has made her acting debut as...of all things...a therapist in her half-brother's rap video: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7821689/Schapelle-Corby-makes-acting-debut-sultry-psychiatrist-edgy-rap-video.html I decide not to watch it. I'm assured she's good.

Good to see you again!