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  1. Posted

    22 hours ago, time said:

    OK,OK I'll enter. 

    This bears a remarkable similarity to last year's list!

     

    Ann Hamilton   (from Morecambe & Wise)
    Ann Haydon-Jones
    Arthur Cox    (Football Manager)
    Billy Mills    (US 10k Olympic winner aka Tamakoce Te'Hila)
    Bob Langley    (Pebble Miller)
    Bobbie Gentry
    Bonnie Bramlett
    Chita Rivera
    Clarence Carter
    Dyan Cannon
    Frank Blunstone    (Ex-Footballer, earliest surviving England International)
    Graham Kerr
    James Cosmo
    Jean-Claude Killy
    Jeanette Charles    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<JOKER/WILDCARD
    Jimmy Melia
    John Gorman
    Kris Kristofferson
    Laurence Fox
    Louis Mellis
    Michael Aspel
    Rita Moreno
    Roger McGough
    Terry Cox (Pentangle)
    Yves Saint-Martin
        
    Subs    
    Edgar Winter  (of the eponymous group)
    Julie Andrews
     

    Thanks for the entry, and good luck.

    I suspect that this will be a really good team in about 5 years time , but you never know, maybe this could be the year!

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  3. Posted

    It looks like we may have had some late, late drama in this game, as Eddie Bernice Johnson got tired of hanging around for Jimmy Carter, and checked out yesterday, 31st December.

     

    Are @gcreptile's hopes of victory Dying? Probably!

     

     

  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

     

    Whilst I've held back the masterlist until tomorrow I did take the liberty of posting a sneak preview in the masterlist post: 

     

    Jimmy Carter – af, ar, ba, bb*, bg, bk*,cc*, ch*, cl, cs*, da*, db, di*, dg, dr*, f6*, gb*, gr, hl,  im, jk*, jm, lf*, ll*, mn*, mp*, mq, ms, n3, t7*,rg, sk, sn*,st, tc, th, ti*, to*, tt*, tu*, we*, wm

     

    What's funny is that he is also the most popular pick in the Hares pool, which rewards a pick sticking around for a bit.

     

    So everyone agrees that he is a goner, but no-one has the first fucking clue when he is going to do it!

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  5. Posted

    A little over 12 hours to go for submissions, so this is your final reminder to submit a team.

     

    A total of 57 teams in, with not much variety! I swear, if any one of Jimmy Carter, Jonnie Irwin, Roberta Flack, Rob Burrow Nigel Starmer-Smith or James Whale die in the next 12 hours, I am going to absolutely lose it. Think Michael Douglas in Falling Down, with possibly a little of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. It will not be pretty.

     

    Still no sign of a team from

    @BuffaloPhil

    @chel

    @chickencobra

    @ImNotHades

    @Joey Russ

    @Pedro67

    @Salmon Mousse

    @Sean

    @time

    and possibly no team from WhenThe, or whatever they have changed their name to.

     

    And of course any new players who want to try their hand at this, you are very welcome. Just chuck in 25 names and a few subs, and you are good to go,

     

     

     

  8. Posted

    On 29/12/2023 at 22:50, tracy said:

    Here's a team that hopefully should make up for the 2023 team being improperly formatted.

     

    Alvin Rakoff
    Bob Newhart
    Clive Revill
    Dabney Coleman
    Dick Button
    Don King
    Dub Jones
    Eva Marie Saint
    George Schlatter
    Glynis Johns
    Ion Iliescu
    James Earl Jones
    Jerry Adler 
    Jim Lovell
    Len Deighton
    Noam Chomsky
    Priscilla Pointer
    Sandy Gall
    Shannen Doherty
    Sonny Rollins
    Stanley Baxter
    Steve McMichael (joker)
    Ted Turner
    Vera Miles
    William Russell

     

    sub

    Nigel Starmer-Smith

     

    Thanks for the entry Tracy, and thanks for the reminder that Don King is still alive. One of those names that I could have sworn died about 10 years ago. 

  9. Posted

    I'm in - PM sent.

     

    I've finished second to @Bananain this pool for the past 2 year. I can't see it happening again with the weak team that I've submitted. However, if it does happen for a 3rd year in a row, I am going to change my user name to "Banana's Bitch", and will only change it back whenever I get knocked out of the cup later in the year. 

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  10. Posted

    43 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

     

    Now submitted. I am excited to see what magical things may occur upon reaching 60 teams! :D

     

    If we reach 60 teams, then Jimmy Carter will grant immortality to all of the other picks in the pool!

     

    However, like the guy in The Green Mile, he will absorb all their suffering into himself, and will croak it before the year is out, making joint winners of the 50 teams that seem to have picked him!

  11. Posted

     

    With just under 3 days to go, we are not up to the grand total of 46 players. With a little luck, and a last minute flurry, we can hopefully hit the magical target of 60 teams. 

    So far, I have not received teams form the following who played last year - a gentle reminder to you all to get your team in before midnight on Sunday.

    @Book

    @BuffaloPhil

    @chel

    @chickencobra

    @Etushispushingupdaisies

    @gcreptile

    @Grim Up North

    @ImNotHades

    @Joey Russ

    @MariNisia

    @Pedro67

    @SalmonMousse

    @Sean

    @time

    @The Old Crem

    @Toast

    @Torva Messor

    @tracy

    @Wormfarmer

    @Young One

     

    r

     
     
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  12. Posted

    9 hours ago, WillyWonka422 said:

    Annabel Goldsmith  

    Ann Firbank
    Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

    Brian Tobin(tennis guy)
    Carmen Munroe
    Chi Chi Rodriguez
    Eileen Kramer
    Esther Rantzen

    Gene Ween
    Hans Hermann   
    Hu Qili
    Johnnny  Irwin
    Ida Vitale(joker)

    James Tolkan

    Imelda Marcos
    Lennart Carleson
    Madonna
     Maggie Kirkpatrick

    Mal Anderson

    Patti Smith
    Rhoda Lewis        
    Ruth Buzzi

    Sinbad
    Tamie Fraser
    William Russell

    sub

    Bob Newhart

    James Earl Jones

    OJ Simpson

    Thanks for the entry Willy and best of luck. One of these years you will be right about Madonna!

  13. Posted

    9 hours ago, Hell said:

    Agnes Keleti

    Charlie Bird

    Daniel J. Evans

    Derek Draper

    Frank Field

    George Ariyoshi

    Glynis Johns

    James Whale

    Jimmy Carter

    Joanne Woodward

    Jonnie Irwin

    Josip Manolic

    June Lockhart

    Larry Pressler

    Nigel Starmer-Smith

    Rob Burrow

    Roberta Flack

    Rudolph A. Marcus

    Simon Cowell (Wildlife)

    Steve McMichael

    Ted Turner

    V. S. Achuthanandan

    Violeta Chamorro

    William Russell

    Zhu Rongji

     

    Subs

    Alan Bergman

    Alan Greenspan

    Francoise Hardy

    Joyce Randolph

    Priscilla Pointer

    Another Joker-less entry- Agnes Kelati takes the spot.

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Imelda said:

    Anne Baker    
    Charlie Bird    
    Danny Wallace    (footballer)
    Derek Draper    
    Douglas Hurd    
    Erik Jensen    
    Frank Field     
    Franz Beckenbaur    
    James Whale    
    Jimmy Carter    
    Jimmy Zoppi    
    John Hemmingway (FO )    
    Jonnie Irwin    
    Julie Walters    
    June Spencer    
    Linda Ronstadt    
    Liza Minelli    
    Louis van Gaal    
    Nigel Starmer-Smith    
    Norman Tebbit    
    Patrick Murray    
    Rob Burrow    
    Song Ping     JOKER
    Steve McMichael    
    Yoko Ono    
        
    Subs    
    Denis Law    
    Françoise Hardy    

     

    Thanks for the entry Imelda, and welcome to the pool.

     

    Best of luck

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  16. Posted

    On 26/12/2023 at 16:26, The Unknown Man said:

    Barbra Streisand

    Bruce Willis

    Desmond Morris

    Dick Van Dyke

    Esther Rantzen

    Francoise Hardy

    Imelda Marcos

    Isabel Peron

    James Earl Jones

    James Whale

    Jimmy Carter

    Joanne Woodward

    Jonnie Irwin

    Larry Pressler

    Linda Nolan

    Mahathir Mohamad

    Nigel Starmer-Smith

    Rob Burrow

    Roberta Flack

    Sam Neill

    Shannen Doherty

    Sonny Rollins

    Steve McMichael

    Toby Keith

    Yoko Ono

     

    Subs:

    Sophia Loren

    Ethel Kennedy

    Glynis Johns

    Randy Jackson

    Ted Turner

    And another one with no Joker.

     

    Barbara Streisand it is so. 

  17. Posted

    5 and a bit days to go, and we have 31 entries in so far. Well ahead of the same time last year- many thanks to everyone who submitted early. 

     

    These are the players I have - let me know if I have missed anyone:

    An Fear Beag
    Arghton
    Baby Blue
    Bibliogryphon
    CalebH
    Captain Hemlock
    CaptainChorizo
    DeathByArsenic
    DeathImpends
    DyingProbably
    Etib80
    Famous6Eva
    Ghost of Christmas Past
    GooseberryCrumble
    GreatUncleBulgaria
    GuyFromFuture
    JoeMoneyPenny
    LadyFiona
    MSC
    RadGuy
    Shamalka Amarasekera
    Thatcher
    The Immortal
    TheKillingTime
    ThereWillBeDeaths7
    Wannamaker
    WEP
    WhoamI
    YorkshireBanker
    Yvonne
    Zsa Zsa's Leg
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  18. Posted

    21 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

    Submitted mine (twice because I realised it was in the format you didn't like).

    Thanks for the entry LF, and thanks for submitting in an easy-to-use format. You even put the names in capital letters, which is more than the rest of the lazy bastards around here managed :angry:

     

    However, I would ask again that players not to put in explanations of their picks, when it is bleedingly obvious who you mean. They all have to be deleted out before I put them into the spreadsheet I use, so it just adds to the time taken to process the entries. 

    You can assume that I am not going to mix up Dennis Skinner, Eve Marie Saint, or Johnnie Irwin with anyone else, so there is no need to tell me who they are. Even if they are obscure, you only need to clarify if it is a common name (e.g. DeathbyArsenic's pick of Luis Ayala above - a google search shows three possible candidates)

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  19. Posted

    23 hours ago, ThereWillBeDeaths7 said:

    Thanks for running this pool again

     

    Alan Greenspan
    Bill Cosby
    Bruce Willis
    Cleo Laine
    Desmond Morris
    Edward, Duke of Kent
    Eric Idle
    Francis (sorted here because "Pope" isn't his first name)
    Harald V, King of Norway
    Jennifer Wexton
    Jim Inhofe
    Joanne Woodward
    Marion Ross
    Michael Caine
    Mitch McConnell
    Nicholas Brady
    Norman Tebbit
    Phil Collins
    Prunella Scales
    Robert Wagner
    Roberta Flack *(Joker)
    Roy Hattersley
    Shannen Doherty
    Tomiichi Murayama
    Vanessa Redgrave

     

    subs
    David Attenborough
    Dick van Dyke
    Tim Curry
    Chuck Grassley
    Dick Cheney

    Thanks for the entry TWBD7

     

    I believe that you may also be a new player in this pool. You are very welcome and best of luck.

     

    (and Pope Francis is fine, although I admire the pedanticism)

     

     

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  20. Posted

    On 24/12/2023 at 12:12, Shamalka Amarasekera said:

    Al Pachino

    Barbara Cochran 

    Barbara Streisand 

    Bob Newhart

    Bruce Willis

    Charlie Sheen 

    Cliff Richard

    Clint Eastwood

    Danny Glover

    Dick Van Dyke

    Dustin Hoffman 

    Engelbert Humprendick 

    Hugh Grant

    Imran Khan

    Jimmy Carter 

    Jim Carey

    Mahinda Rajapaksa 

    Morgan Freeman 

    Phil Collins 

    Pope Francis

    Robert Deniro 

    Rowan Atkinson 

    Shakin Stevens 

    Vladimir Putin 

    Yoko Ono

     

    Subs

    Asha Bosely

    Bill Clinton 

    Frankie Valli 

    Mahathir Mohomad 

    Warren Buffet

     

     

     

    Thanks for the entry Shamalka. Always delighted to have new players on board. 

     

    I am going to assume that "Jim Carey" is supposed to  be Jim Carrey the actor, rather than Jim Carey the second-hand car salesman from Tipperary. Nice man Jim, but not famous enough even for this pool. 

     

    As you have joined the ranks of players who haven't bothered their arses to nominate a Joker, Al Pacino (no h) becomes your Joker by default. 

  21. Posted

    On 23/12/2023 at 06:40, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    Welcome to the forum.  Lots of great pools on here but I especially recommend you partake in @An Fear Beag Hares Deadpool,  the Derby deadpool, @John Key Shadowlist pool and  @gcreptile Death by numbers.

    Enjoy and immerse yourself!

     

     @Sod's Law: I second Gooseberry's recommendation to join the excellent Hares Deadpool :nod:

     

    Easy as anything- with the 10 names you have there, you are already 40% of the way towards a Hares team!

     

     

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  22. Posted

    3 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

    Ann Bannon  (Lesbian pulp fiction author)

    Arthur Scargill

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Bill Vander Zalm (Former Premier of British Columbia)

    Bill Wyman

    Carly Simon

    Dickie Rooks (JOKER) 

    Gene Kranz 

    Ian Paice

    Jimmy Swaggart (American teleevangelist preacher)

    John Kander

    John Savident

    Joyce Clague ( Prominent Aboriginal activist)  

    Joyce Randolph

    Keith Vaz

    Lynda Chalker

    Margaret Court

    Moira Anderson (Scottish singer)

    Paul Biya

    Peter Robinson (Former First minister of Northern Ireland)

    Peter Russell Clarke (Australian celebrity chef)

    Roy Clarke (British sitcom writer)

    Susan Harris (Golden girls creator)

    Toni Braxton

    Tony Drewitt Barlow

     

    SUBS

     

    Bobby Vinton

    Joel Grey

    Deirdre Sanders

    Polly Perkins

    Wendy Williams

     

    Thanks for the entry Gooseberry. 

     

    Always fascinates me to see what picks a player feels the need to clarify. You wouldn't want to have the wrong Bill Vander Zalm or Jimmy Swaggart on your team :lol:

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  23. Posted

    On 20/12/2023 at 23:21, CalebH said:

    Ágnes Keleti

    Amanda Bynes

    Caupolicán Peña

    Christoph Daum

    Dries van Agt

    Elisabeth Waldo

    Heiko Herrlich

    Ion Iliescu

    Jan Englert

    Jenna Jameson

    Jerzy Maksymiuk

    Jose Mujica

    Kay A. Orr

    Laura Cardosa

    Micheline Presle

    Nathalia Timberg

    Nina van Pallandt

    Ottilia Borbáth

    Pete Doherty--UK Rock and Roll Singer

    Rachel Dror

    Ragnar Ulfung

    Sonia Iovan

    Vaniity-Porn Actress

    Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

    Zdeňka Deitchová

     

    subs

    Michael Caine

     Jose Sarney

    Sophia Loren

    Maryse Conde

    Ian McMillan

    Thanks for the entry. All good with the team, except that you also have forgotten to nominate a Joker. FFS people- its not that hard :angry:

     

    Agnes Keleti is your Joker unless you indicate otherwise. 

     

    As we get into Christmas, I am going to have less time to upload teams, so I will not be chasing people for Jokers. You have all been warned!

  24. Posted

    On 20/12/2023 at 01:17, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

    Alan Greenspan

    Bob Newhart

    Frank Caprio - US Judge

    George Mitchell - US Senator

    Jacques Delors

    Jean-Marie Le Pen

    Jim Inhofe - US Senator

    Jim Lovell

    Jimmy Carter (Joker)

    Joanne Woodward

    Joseph DeAngelo - Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist/Night Stalker

    Mahathir Mohamad

    Mahmoud Abbas

    Manmohan Singh

    Mel Brooks

    Noam Chomsky

    Roberta Flack

    Russell M. Nelson - LDS Leader

    Shannen Doherty

    Sonny Rollins

    Toby Keith

    Tomiichi Murayama

    Vanessa Redgrave

    Violeta Chamorro

    Willie Mays

     

    Substitutes

    James Baker (Ex US Secretary of State)

    Yoko Ono

    Jean Chrétien

    Ralph Nader

    Dolores Huerta

     

    Thanks for the entry.

     

    Joseph DeAngelo is disallowed under the "Famous for being a criminal" rule. I am sure he is quite a high profile killer in the US, having no less than 3 nicknames. However my wife is the barometer when it comes to criminal fame, and she has never heard of him, so he is out. James Baker moves up to the main team.

     

    A note to all players. My wife hates all True Crime programmes and books, so the chances of her having heard of a criminal are pretty slim. There is a very high bar to clear for a criminal to be allowed. 

     

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  25. Posted

    Almost 2 weeks to go, and we have already had our first refusal, as Irish post mistress and D-Day delayer Maureen Flavin Sweeney has run her last race. 

     

    Now which muppet decided to pick her ............ oops :facepalm:

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