Wormfarmer

Wormfarmer's 2021 abdelaziz bouteflika AJ foyt al roker alcee hastings barbara babcock barbara barrie barbara walters bibian mentel bill freehan - joker bill turnbull bob barker bob cousy bob dole chuck wepner david gulpilil dilip kumar ed asner emperor akihito floyd little george alagiah jean louis trintignant jerry lee lewis jim otto joe a. ratzinger john daly john madden larry king leon spinks leslie phillips luis echeverria mary e fairhurst mikhail gorbachev norm coleman olivia newton john pat robertson paul westphal peter max peter schjeldahl prince philip roman reigns rush limbaugh samson burke shannen doherty sonali bendre steve gleason superstar billy graham sylvain sylvain tommy lasorda trey mancini yoo sang-chul subs: pele tina turner yoko ono tommy chong

I particularly get annoyed when I have a reasonable hit in a pool and don't get the QO to score it. Case in point John Starling in the Windy City, or Henry Gray or Randy Romero in several high profile pools. Granted, these may not be household names, but they are certainly accomplished folks and not just quintuplet moms or cancer bloggers. I am pretty disciplined at avoiding those, even when they would be easy points if accepted. This is not a criticism of those pools, just my frustration when a name I feel should score doesn't get respected by the main media. So this type of pool does not rely on the QO, it relies on the tried and true names already commonly accepted in the games. Plus I think it will have the added benefit of being a pool that you can submit a team and forget about it for a while, or you can stay active and improve your chances of winning just a little bit. Here is the idea: I will post a list of 80 selected surviving names taken from 1) the Deathlist over the past two years, 2) the Derby Drop 40 for 2020, and 3) a few of my own liking which did not make either source 1 or 2. Entries will submit a list of 40 of those names, ranked from 40 pts (at the top) down to 1 point at the bottom. So, yes, put your favorites at the top. Bonuses: a daily double will get you +10 points A solo hit will get you +20 points, a duo is worth +10 pts, and a trio is worth +5 pts for each player In addition, any solo, duo or trio can be replaced AT THAT SPOT with a new name from the list of 80. This is where list maintenance helps your chances if you stay alert. Also, a hit at the 13 spot or 19 (in honor of the virus) spots can also be replaced with a new name from the list of 80, every time it hits. So these spots recycle their points and are potentially valuable. So do you use your Top 40 right away, or hold a few sure things back to bring them in as replacements? You decide. The game ends the first time we have a full calendar month without a single hit on an active list. So as long as the scoring remains active, the game keeps going. Technically it could go 80 months, but we know it will be much shorter than that, I am hoping one to two years to wrap it up and crown an inaugural champion. Entries close when the third hit on the list of 80 dies, or when we get 15 entries, so it could be a few days, or a few weeks from now. At that point I will post a master list of entries. You can PM your lists to me, or post them to this thread. The game starts as soon as the first entry is received. I will PM my list to that person in return for safe keeping as well. Hope it sounds fun and good luck to all!! I will post the list of 80 later this afternoon.

While working on my 2020-21 list I noted a missing 4 pt score for Michael Medwin who checked out on Feb 26. That's 3 pts for the alliteration and an extra for a duo, with . . . . damn now I've forgotten who else wisely selected Medwin. Wormfarmer jumps to 22 pts, currently a tie for 18th. I thought I would do better. I started off with a strong list, with 5 of my first 6 names gone. After that, I suffered. Again, I went too obscure and 4 No Obits really hurt, leaving about 18 pts on the slaughterhouse floor. Lack of respect for Randy Romero sure took its toll on this group. Sir Creep, are you hosting Round 4?

Where oh where is my Killer Tim Brooks obit! I need you Superman!!

Score table early on page 1 is updated through Jerry Stiller, who was our last hit over 30 days ago. This drought also triggers the games early demise. I have been distracted to the point of not checking in to the site regularly lately while a family member is going through some health issues and will probably be off for a while anyway, so although this is an unsatisfying early end to my pool, maybe its for the best right now. Hope to be checking in regularly again soon, maybe the obits will pick up by then as well. Peace everyone!

Thank you. Thank you. Last year John Starling failed to obit and left me 300 in the lurch. I was trying to go more safely this year so losing my top name would have been a critical blow. I had found the obit for Willie K in Billboard, but I was afraid it was going to stop there. I appreciate how good you guys are at finding obits.

Willie (or won't he) K. Here I go again, picking these monster celebs that can't earn me credit. 500 points on the line this time. Everyone go out and buy some Hawaiian cds please!

I amended the cutoff to closing until a 15th entry comes in, although things are not exactly buzzing right now. I figure I can manage a little bigger field than this and there isn't too much disadvantage to joining the game in progress, since there are lots of promising scores left in the draft pool. So I will set to work organizing the entries to date, but not close the door to a few more. Hopefully have a table posted by the end of the day. And nice hit (Jill G) for minimum effort.

Tun Tin passes on, giving me 3 for the alliteration, and 3 for the solo. And Michael Medwin is also gone. He was also worth 3 for the alliteration, and 1 for a duo with Bibliogryphon. New total = 24. Ahhh, that's a little better.

I was tasting success when I raked 677 points to finish on the last day but I still can only manage 8th place! Damn, you guys are good. Even throw in 300 for John Starling's No Obit and I only finish 3rd. Damn! Did I say you guys are good?

Anxiously awaiting an updated scorelist. My total has recently. . . . VERY recently taken a nice spike and I am looking for a good finish here. I just jumped 577 points with a last minute Sam Lloyd hit + bonus, plus 100 for the Chris Duncan bonus and my new total should be 2752. I figure it's not going to be enough to stay ahead of the other leaders that get Sam Lloyd points, but it's certainly going to bring me up from my last position posted at #11. Now if I can just earn a final 300 points by finding a John Starling obit I would probably comfortably have this in the bag . . . .

Hey, thanks for tracking that. I had to look it up myself and it turns out you are right, although there were only 14 participants in the game that year. Now that my terror has turned to elation with the moving up one day of Sam Lloyd's passing (may 1 to Apr 30), I squeaked in a decent showing in this year's contest as well. Sam was my 500 point getter - how's that for a finish? And I left him off my list for 2020-21 completely. A true last gasp!

My team just PM'd to the Big Cho'reeze. I enjoy this pool. It's time to show it with a Top 5 finish.

I just put my list on the thread above. Full disclosure: I had submitted it (to Capn Cho via PM) just hours before news broke of John Prine's death, and I had him at the #4 spot. To keep things clean at the start, I have replaced him with Bev Cleary. I know Capn Cho got his list in with John Prine on it in good faith before word broke of his death, and I was leaning toward letting him keep the points, but in fact to keep things clean and follow the letter of the law of most pools, names submitted on the same day as someone dying should be discounted, again, to keep things clean and avoid controversies. Cho - could you please replace John Prine with another name?? With only one more death before closing of the pool, we have a total of 11 entries so far. (I have PM'd Yvonne to get her to redo her list as it does not meet the requirements for entry). I was hoping to get somewhere in the range of 15 to 20 entries, so instead the pool will close at the time of the next death on the list of 80, OR the arrival of the 15th qualifying entry, whichever is LATER. Later lists are really not at much of a disadvantage, except they miss the opportunity for picking the names that are already expired. But with 80 to choose from, there should be plenty of opportunity for a wise chooser to catch up. Finally, scoring is underway, with Stirling Moss providing the points. Again, I will post the entries and a scoring table once the third death happens.

Wormfarmer 40 yoo sang-chul 39 killer tim brooks 38 tom smith 37 frankie banali 36 susan bayh 35 alex trebek 34 lee kerslake 33 david gulpilil 32 george alagiah 31 placido domingo 30 olivia newton-john 29 john r lewis 28 bob barker 27 bob dole 26 jean louis trintignant 25 william h gates 24 dilip kumar 23 leslie phillips 22 luis escheverria 21 barbara walters 20 jill gascoine 19 leon spinks 18 emperor akihito 17 norman lloyd 16 ruthie tompson 15 earl cameron 14 lester piggott 13 prince philip 12 ed asner 11 carl reiner 10 jerry stiller 9 nobby stiles 8 jimmy greaves 7 joanne woodward 6 dick cheney 5 loretta lynn 4 beverly cleary 3 henry kissinger 2 sidney poitier 1 jimmy carter

. . . . so if you win you did it without even trying.

My list just PM'd to Captain Cho!

Good question from an analytic mind. I can do several things in this case. I think I will elaborate on the rule to say: this type of sabotage is legal. Solos, duos and trios are scored as such at the time of the hit. Someone who has success with a solo can play the sabotage game, but at some risk since it is likely that names that are sparsely picked are also probably less likely to hit. So you may be spiting your own face to cut off another players nose. And I am still smarting over that late comeback in the DeathCup!

Game is on - 12 entries received. Bibliogryphon needs a replacement for a duplicate name - George Alagiah. UPDATE: After 4 hits in the first month, things turned ice cold and we have gone over 30 days without a single hit. Soooo. . . Game Over. The format did not produce the long term game that I had imagined. I am surprised that such a list of 76 aged and infirm folk can all survive a month and put an early end to this game. My personal situation has gotten complicated with an illness in the household so I have not been a very active participant on the site and maybe this is for the best for me right now anyway. The hardest nut to swallow is that our Champion is Joey (random) Russ, with 72 points. Not that I don't love the guy, but his entry was just a random generated list. Time should have let the cream of the crop rise to the top, but a couple of lucky high scores right off the bat gave the lead to Joey's box of tea leaves and then the current derth of death conspired to allow him to hang on to it. That's the way the banana drops sometimes, I guess. Nobody scored more than 2 hits, and there were no solos, duos, or even trios. Congrats to Joey, and I am sorry that this did not turn out to be a more exciting contest. 2nd place goes to Chilean Way, with 62, and 3rd goes to Bibliogryphon, at 38 pts. Thanks everyone who played. 30 27 62 2nd Place 24 38 3rd Place 10 wormfarmer captain chorizo Chilean way theoldlady bibliogryphon the old crem 40 yoo sang-chul 40 tom smith 40 prince philip 40 jimmy greaves 40 dilip kumar 40 vera lynn 39 killer tim brooks 39 susan bayh 39 beverly cleary 39 peter tobin 39 beverly cleary 39 jimmy greaves 38 tom smith 38 killer tim brooks 38 earl cameron 38 tom smith 38 willie nelson 38 joanne woodward 37 frankie banali 37 david gulpilil 37 olivia dehavilland 37 placido domingo 37 leon spinks 37 barbara windsor 36 susan bayh 36 alex trebek 36 vera lynn 36 ruthie tompson 36 david gulpilil 36 alex trebek 35 alex trebek 35 yoo sang-chul 35 alex trebek 35 prince philip 35 jimmy greaves 35 olivia newton-john 34 lee kerslake 34 ruthie tompson 34 bill turnbull 34 david gulpilil 34 vera lynn 34 john r lewis 33 david gulpilil 33 frankie banali 33 david gulpilil 33 alex trebek 33 william h gates 33 angela lansbury 32 george alagiah 32 prince philip 32 george shultz 32 june brown 32 bob barker 32 june brown 31 placido domingo 31 jimmy greaves 31 stirling moss 31 dilip kumar 31 cleo laine 31 lee kerslake 30 olivia newton-john 30 vera lynn 30 henry kissinger 30 killer tim brooks 30 bob dole 30 jimmy carter 29 john r lewis 29 mikhail gorbachev 29 clarissa eden 29 larry king 29 desmond tutu 29 prince philip 28 bob barker 28 bob barker 28 luis echeverria 28 leon spinks 28 joanne woodward 28 larry king 27 bob dole 27 luis echeverria 27 george alagiah 27 bob dole 27 luis echeverria 27 george alagiah 26 jean louis trintignant 26 bob dole 26 angela lansbury 26 jimmy carter 26 prince philip 26 loretta lynn 25 william h gates 25 jimmy carter 25 jimmy greaves 25 shane macgowan 25 tom smith 25 ruthie tompson 24 dilip kumar 24 stirling moss 24 nobby stiles 24 stirling moss 24 peter sutcliffe 24 barbara walters 23 leslie phillips 23 john r lewis 23 tom smith 23 susan bayh 23 clarissa eden 23 leon spinks 22 luis escheverria 22 beverly cleary 22 leslie phillips 22 frankie banali 22 jill gascoine 22 desmond tutu 21 barbara walters 21 peter tobin 21 little richard 21 willie nelson 21 leslie phillips 21 nobby stiles 20 jill gascoine 20 june brown 20 willie nelson 20 nobby stiles 20 peter tobin 20 olivia newton-john 19 leon spinks 19 olivia dehavilland 19 leon spinks 19 olivia dehavilland 19 alex trebek 19 tina turner 18 emperor akihito 18 roger angell 18 john r lewis 18 leslie phillips 18 john r lewis 18 bill turnbull 17 norman lloyd 17 lee kerslake 17 tony bennett 17 john r lewis 17 loretta lynn 17 george shultz 16 ruthie tompson 16 david attenborough 16 bob dole 16 ruth bader ginsburg 16 stirling moss 16 tom smith 15 earl cameron 15 george shultz 15 frankie banali 15 yoo sang-chul 15 betty white 15 vanessa redgrave 14 lester piggott 14 dilip kumar 14 william h gates 14 luis escheverria 14 greg gilbert 14 susan bayh 13 prince philip 13 leslie phillips 13 ruthie tompson 13 olivia newton-john 13 olivia newton-john 13 beverly cleary 12 ed asner 12 william h gates 12 lester piggott 12 beverly cleary 12 prunella scales 12 jacques delors 11 carl reiner 11 leon spinks 11 barbara windsor 11 peter sutcliffe 11 barbara windsor 11 mikhail gorbachev 10 jerry stiller 10 barbara walters 10 jerry stiller 10 jacques delors 10 george alagiah 10 betty white 9 nobby stiles 9 clarissa eden 9 murray walker 9 lee kerslake 9 nobby stiles 9 clarissa eden 8 jimmy greaves 8 pierre cardin 8 june brown 8 george alagiah 8 sidney poitier 8 jill gascoine 7 joanne woodward 7 greg gilbert 7 david attenborough 7 mikhail gorbachev 7 barbara walters 7 henry kissinger 6 dick cheney 6 jean louis trintignant 6 ruth bader ginsburg 6 loretta lynn 6 harry belafonte 6 norman lloyd 5 loretta lynn 5 norman lloyd 5 larry king 5 david crosby 5 murray walker 5 yoo sang-chul 4 beverly cleary 4 prunella scales 4 norman lloyd 4 earl cameron 4 tina turner 4 stiling moss 3 henry kissinger 3 little richard 3 jimmy carter 3 murray walker 3 george alagiah 3 murray walker 2 sidney poitier 2 sidney poitier 2 pierre cardin 2 greg gilbert 2 olivia dehavilland 2 little richard 1 jimmy carter 1 jacques delors 1 olivia newton-john 1 barbara walters 1 june brown 1 billy connolly 10 72 CHAMP 16 23 1 0 deadsox joey random yvonne toast annami death by arsenic 40 john r lewis 40 jill gascoine 40 ruthie tompson 40 leslie phillips 40 prince philip 40 ed asner 39 susan bayh 39 norman lloyd 39 alan greenspan 39 alex trebek 39 ruthie tompson 39 henry kissinger 38 frankie banali 38 dick cheney 38 angela lansbury 38 prince philip 38 vera lynn 38 barbara windsor 37 killer tim brooks 37 william h gates 37 barbara walters 37 henry kissinger 37 tom smith 37 jimmy greaves 36 alex trebek 36 mikhail gorbachev 36 norman lloyd 36 joanne woodward 36 alex trebek 36 jacques delor 35 david gulpilil 35 dilip kumar 35 beverly cleary 35 leon spinks 35 norman lloyd 35 ozzy osbourne 34 lee kerslake 34 ozzy osbourne 34 olivia dehavilland 34 nobby stiles 34 peter tobin 34 lee kerslake 33 ruthie tompson 33 killer tim brooks 33 vera lynn 33 ruthie tompson 33 earl cameron 33 leslie phillips 32 yoo sang chul 32 little richard 32 earl cameron 32 larry king 32 frankie banali 32 linda nolan 31 dilip kumar 31 ruthie tompson 31 bob barker 31 earl cameron 31 susan bayh 31 killer tim brooks 30 earl cameron 30 cleo laine 30 bob dole 30 prunella scales 30 david gulpilil 30 imelda marcos 29 george alagiah 29 dick van dyke 29 cleo laine 29 bill turnbull 29 jean louis trintignant 29 bob barker 28 norman lloyd 28 angela lansbury 28 david attenborough 28 bob barker 28 beverly cleary 28 bob dole 27 prince philip 27 joanne woodward 27 desmond tutu 27 vanessa redgrave 27 lee kerslake 27 cleo laine 26 nobby stiles 26 paul gascoigne 26 jimmy carter 26 murray walker 26 jimmy carter 26 david crosby 25 tom smith 25 emperor akihito 25 clarissa eden 25 yoo sang-chul 25 dilip kumar 25 ruthie tompson 24 greg gilbert 24 lee kerslake 24 dick cheney 24 betty white 24 bob dole 24 yoo sang-chul 23 jean louis trintignant 23 luis echeverria 23 june brown 23 jerry stiller 23 pierre cardin 23 vera lynn 22 peter tobin 22 clarissa eden 22 dick van dyke 22 george alagiah 22 joanne woodward 22 tom smith 21 bob dole 21 earl cameron 21 george shultz 21 ozzy osbourne 21 roger angell 21 susan bayh 20 beverly cleary 20 david attenborough 20 ed asner 20 killer tim brooks 20 mikhail gorbachev 20 prince philip 19 jimmy greaves 19 jimmy greaves 19 emperor akihito 19 tony bennett 19 henry kissinger 19 placido domingo 18 ruth bader ginsburg 18 barbara walters 18 harry belafonte 18 luis echeverria 18 george alagiah 18 greg gilbert 17 jimmy carter 17 vanessa redgrave 17 imeld marcos 17 william h gates 17 leon spinks 17 peter sutcliffe 16 joanne woodward 16 leslie phillips 16 jerry stiller 16 peter sutcliffe 16 dick cheney 16 jimmy carter 15 bob barker 15 carl reiner 15 prince philip 15 greg gilbert 15 jimmy greaves 15 dick van dyke 14 vera lynn 14 murray walker 14 jimmy greaves 14 loretta lynn 14 shane macgowan 14 david gulpilil 13 olivia dehavilland 13 george shultz 13 joanne woodward 13 shane macgowan 13 vanessa redgrave 13 alex trebek 12 emperor akihito 12 peter tobin 12 larry king 12 olivia newton-john 12 lester piggott 12 betty white 11 peter sutcliffe 11 ruth bader ginsburg 11 betty white 11 olivia dehavilland 11 imelda marcos 11 george shultz 10 stirling moss 10 pierre cardin 10 luis echeverria 10 tina turner 10 yoo sang-chul 10 emperor akihito 9 luis echeverria 9 larry king 9 leslie phillips 9 dilip kumar 9 bob barker 9 lester piggott 8 dick cheney 8 imelda marcos 8 lester piggot 8 jimmy carter 8 larry king 8 norman lloyd 7 mikhail gorbachev 7 alan greenspan 7 carl reiner 7 roger angell 7 sidney poitier 7 sidney poitier 6 desmond tutu 6 bob barker 6 pierre cardin 6 mikhail gorbachev 6 clarissa eden 6 prunella scales 5 dick van dyke 5 susan bayh 5 mikhail gorbachev 5 jimmy greaves 5 carl reiner 5 cleo laine 4 barbara walters 4 john r lewis 4 murray walker 4 vera lynn 4 cleo laine 4 bill turnbull 3 olivia newton-john 3 jimmy carter 3 henry kissinger 3 cleo laine 3 emperor akihito 3 olivia dehavillan 2 clarissa eden 2 nobby stiles 2 ruth bader ginsburg 2 beverly cleary 2 loretta lynn 2 carl reiner 1 roger angell 1 betty white 1 sidney poitier 1 dick cheney 1 little richard 1 vanessa redgrave

List of 80: names from 2020 and 2019 Deathlist (50) 2020 Derby Drop 40 (14), my picks (16) alan greenspan dilip kumar june brown peter tobin alex trebek earl cameron killer tim brooks pierre cardin angela lansbury ed asner larry king placido domingo barbara walters emperor akihito lee kerslake prince philip barbara windsor frankie banali leon spinks prunella scales betty white george alagiah leslie phillips roger angell beverly cleary george shultz lester piggott ruth bader ginsburg bill turnbull greg gilbert linda nolan ruthie tompson billy connolly henry Belafonte little richard shane macgowan bob barker henry kissinger loretta lynn sidney poitier bob dole imelda marcos luis escheverria stirling moss carl reiner jacques delors mikhail gorbachev susan bayh clarissa eden jean louis trintignant murray walker tina turner cleo laine jerry stiller nobby stiles tom smith david attenborough jill gascoigne norman lloyd tony bennett david crosby jimmy carter olivia deHavilland vanessa redgrave david gulpilil jimmy greaves olivia newton-john vera lynn desmond tutu joanne woodward ozzy osbourne william h gates dick cheney john prine paul gascoigne willie nelson dick van dyke john r lewis peter sutcliffe yoo sang-chul

Thanks for catching that Quim, I was just going through this list and wanted to give a shoutout to theoldlady for that one, since it was a year and a half of effort and she withstood 17 strong players including yourself, Capn Cho, Joey Russ, Clorox, msc, Sir Creep, GUN, Skinny Kiltrunner and many others for that title.

Hey gang, I am back in the game and looking for a new pool to enter and stumbled here - - not too late to get in?? However, I can't seem to find some of the basics like scoring and when it ends, etc. What'd I miss? I see the list of names that the host posted early on page 1, but the entries don't seem to stick to that list for long (plus it is a rather short list to pick from) so I am assuming it is free research to get your names? Sorry coming in late with questions but where is the outline of the rules? Here is my list for fun if I am too late to officially enter: 1. Ruthie Tompson 2. Daisy Loongkoonan 3. Eileen Whelan Ash 4. Renee Simonot 5. Pierre Soulages 6. Viola Smith 7. Roberta McCain 8. Boris Pahor 9. Robert Marchand 10. Beverly Cleary 11. Norman Lloyd 12. Vance Trimble 13. Everett Lee 14. Carl J. Shapiro 15. James Lovelock subs: Earl Cameron, Marsha Hunt

EFFFFFF me . . . . . . I had a decent April team all ready to go. But I probably wouldn't have lasted long anyway as I have a hunch there is some celebrity virus website that I don't know about that everyone else is subscribed to. Nice comeback, Willz. Suppose I should send in my "just in case" team anyway, and then follow along at home to see how I would have fared.

Yes, he's alive. I just saw him kick Rodan's ass in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" last week.

My team just went PM as well. After that big day for supergeezers on Feb 24th (3 on my watchlist), I almost wanted to go with an all supergeezers team. But that probably won't happen again for awhile.