YoungWillz

And yet less than six years later...

Sir Ken Dodd is sadly my third hit on this pool. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/mar/12/comedy-legend-sir-ken-dodd-dies-aged-90 What a beautiful day for having my first drink of 2018. I toast your longevity and your comedy.

First hit in the whole of the history of the Cup. Kind of leaves my strike force depleted.

Dedd. Goal! DDP Hit. Other DP hits. Gawd bless ya Sir Ken. RIP.

Ah I Know. It means you have good jeans. Genes. *achieves total coatdom and goes*

Who will be next from that show? Parky? Robert Powell? Richard Stilgoe? Or is it too much to hope that it's professional clothes horse and autocue reader Tess Daly?

While I have no interest in the two sectarian teams in Glasgow, you really have to laugh. The question is asked whether an elbow to the face is a red card. Well, Mr Commentators and Messrs Sports Journos, take an elbow in the face in the street, then ask yourself, was that really an arrestable offence? Tcha!

The death in January of Mary Ruth Kizziar http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bakersfield/obituary.aspx?n=mary-murie-kizziar&pid=187910397 means that the 1938 Tex Ritter movie Song Of The Buckaroo has an entirely dead cast according to IMDB. Here's her IMDB out of interest: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045131/?ref_=tt_cl_t4

Fifth Leaderboard 2018: (*=Joker) 1st: msc - 235 Points [7/25] (*Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Stokes; Miller; Nevin; Lafaye) 2nd: drol - 195 Points [7/25] (Elias; Zarin; Cryne; Alcock; Miller; Tsvangirai; Nevin) 3rd: Captain Chorizo - 177 Points [6/25] (Monson; Elias; Alcock; Kit; L. Gilbert; Goodwin) 4th: The Unknown Man - 157 Points [5/25] (Elias; Cryne; Miller; Tsvangirai; Graham) 5th: Death Impends - 152 Points [4/25] (Killen; Kit; Graham; Dorfles) 6th: Grim Up North - 151 Points [5/25] (Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Miller; Goodwin) 7th: Whoaml - 130 Points [3/25] (Malone; Graham; Bannister) 8th: the_engineer - 127 Points [4/25] (Falkholt; Sawyer; Miller; Graham) =9th: Bibliogryphon - 119 Points [2/25] (*Hauxwell; Bannister) =9th: Phantom of the Midway - 119 Points [3/25] (Smith; Tsvangirai; Fabray) 11th: Fixed Business - 113 Points [3/25] (Monson; Graham; Goodwin) 12th: Toast - 103 Points [3/25] (Elias; Miller; Bannister) 13th: Joey Russ - 102 Points [3/25] (Smith; Olivera; Graham) 14th: NiceGuyEddie - 87 Points [3/25] (Cryne; Olivera; Miller) 15th: The Dead Cow - 79 Points [2/25] (Sawyer; Lafaye) 16th: Wormfarmer - 70 Points [2/25] (Sawyer; Nevin) 17th: FujimoriNoMorey - 59 Points [2/25] (Cryne; Miller) 18th: Sir Creep - 58 Points [3/25] (Elias; Falkholt; Miller) =19th: John Key - 51 Points [1/25] (Graham) =19th: mr whit - 51 Points [1/25] (Graham) =19th: Prophet - 51 Points [1/25] (Graham) =19th: Sean - 51 Points [1/25] (Graham) =19th: Widows Peak - 51 Points [1/25] (Graham) 24th: gcreptile: 41 Points [2/25] (Manikan; Olivera) 25th: Grigori: 31 Points [1/25] (Kit) 26th: Book - 21 Points [1/25] (Le Guin) 27th: Torva Messor - 3 Points [1/25] (Elias) =28th: Deathray - 0 Points [0/25] =28th: Pedro67 - 0 Points [0/25] =28th: YoungWillz - 0 Points [0/25]

Kevin McAllister DEAD: http://people.com/tv/witney-carson-father-in-law-dies-cancer/ DDP pick.

British Medicine Laureate Sir John Sulston has died according to the BBC. Link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43349774 Picked by Hein for the DDP a couple of years ago as a Royal Institute Christmas lecturer. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2016/celebs_S.html#sulsj0

Geoffrey Ellis died in February, but I didn't like to report it as it seemed twitter gossip and I couldn't tie the obit I saw to the man himself. Anyway, the man who was persuaded by Epstein (and who was a childhood friend of his from the 'Pool) to head up NEMS Enterprises now has a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/geoffrey-ellis-obituary-gtnc22d83 Edit: One of the last people known to have seen Epstein alive. The only other one now surviving is Peter Brown. (He called to say he was ok....)...

Fair point...therefore I look forward to winning this one.

No closing date for this? I pick Gerhard Sommer, that should kill the Nazi off.

Wilson Harris is a casualty: http://demerarawaves.com/2018/03/08/guyanese-literary-giant-sir-wilson-harris-dies/

He dead: http://demerarawaves.com/2018/03/08/guyanese-literary-giant-sir-wilson-harris-dies/

Tom Reese has reportedly died aged 89. Probably better known for his role on Ellery Queen. IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716074/

VIA ULITZER: Here's a full list of 50s and 60s DID survivors: Desert Island Discs *snip* 1969 Zena Skinner / b. 1927 *snip* Zena Skinner has died aged 91. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43324236 IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7318737/

DDP QO Obit: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-argentina-rights/argentinas-last-ex-dictator-bignone-dies-at-age-90-idUKKCN1GJ2J9

Homeless people on the rise, folks dying on streets and in hospital corridors, homes being built that are only affordable in certain areas by the prosperous or the foreign, low wage economy, retail and bank closures, job losses.... Maybe the Saudi Prince had second thoughts about being a guest of a country that treats its people like this...

Report of the death of Reynaldo Bignone: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eluniversal.com.mx%2Fmundo%2Fmuere-reynaldo-bignone-el-ultimo-dictador-de-argentina&edit-text

It has now been thirty years.

There's niche....and then there's niche....