Rotten Ali

16th Leader Board Gcreptile is due a unique hit on Lloyd Shapley. That's 25 basic points, 10 bonus points. Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies gets a unique hit on surprise-surprise, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. 40 basic points and 16 bonus points. Also not affecting the above "uniqueness" of that hit, Death Impends put SPMD down as a sub and thus gets 25 points, and the lead. 1st - 178 points - Death Impends 2nd - 163.1 points - Captain Chorizo 3rd -140.2 points - gcreptile 4th - 137.2 points - Not SirPeter Maxwell Davies 5th - 136.1 points - Dead Cow 6th - 135.8 points - Uschi 7th - 132.4 points - Maryportfuncity 8th - 126.6 points - The Unknown Man 9th - 120.5 points - Book 10th - 120.1 points - Morbid Kid 11th - 116.4 points - Sir Creep 12th - 113 points - Toast 13th - 92.2 points - Shaun of the Dead 14th - 91 points - Switch 15th - 87.3 points - Hein 16th - 70 points - Time 17th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 18th - 61.3 points - Deathray's Casket 19th - 44 points - LFN 20th - 25.1 points - msc 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - DDT = last - Tick Tock = last - Dr Zorders

15th (revised) Leader Board 1st - 163.1 points - Captain Chorizo 2nd - 153 points - Death Impends 3rd - 136.1 points - Dead Cow 4th - 135.8 points - Uschi 5th - 132.4 points - Maryportfuncity 6th - 126.6 points - The Unknown Man 7th - 120.5 points - Book 8th - 120.1 points - Morbid Kid 9th - 116.4 points - Sir Creep 10th - 113 points - Toast 11th - 105.2 points - gcreptile 12th - 92.2 points - Shaun of the Dead 13th - 91 points - Switch 14th - 87.3 points - Hein 15th - 81.2 points - Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 16th - 70 points - Time 17th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 18th - 61.3 points - Deathray's Casket 19th - 44 points - LFN 20th - 25.1 points - msc 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - DDT = last - Tick Tock = last - Dr Zorders

Sorry. Joey Feek points to Book below... Short of 40.3 points. Also 8 teams are due an extra 0.1 points. Deathray, Shaun of the Dead, Sir Creep, Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Maryport, the Unknown Man, Dead Cow & Captain Chorizo. 14th (revised) Leader Board 1st - 163.1 points - Captain Chorizo 2nd - 153 points - Death Impends 3rd - 136.1 points - Dead Cow 4th - 132.4 points - Maryportfuncity 5th - 126.6 points - The Unknown Man 6th - 120.5 points - Book 7th - 120.1 points - Morbid Kid 8th - 116.4 points - Sir Creep 9th - 113 points - Toast 10th - 100.8 points - Uschi 11th - 92.2 points - Shaun of the Dead 12th - 91 points - Switch 13th - 87.3 points - Hein 14th - 80.2 points - gcreptile 15th - 70 points - Time 16th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 17th - 44 points - LFN 18th - 41 points - Not Sir Peter Maxell Davies 19th - 36.2 points - Deathray's Casket 20th - 25.1 points - msc 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - DDT = last - Tick Tock = last - Dr Zorders

Another production kingpin gone... Sir Ken Adam http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35780260

Do they have floodlights or did they play in the dark? Maybe that's why Rothes did not know how to find the net more.

I was banking that he was a cert' for this year. Thanks for the update. I'll be swapping him out of my Rotten dead pool on that average prognosis report.

You are now 18th. I added the scores into the previous post as an edit while you were asking the question.

Please don't confuse me with having to think of a decent answer to a complicated question. I think I've got the hang of NAP's intention on how he wanted to see it work in the round. If I'm doing anything with the points distribution it will only be a tinkering round the edges to stop such as 5 people all being tied on the same score. Apologies Mary. Anyway, Nancy - No More. 4 teams moving on up. Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies gains 40.2 points, Uschi gets 35 points and Deathray bags 25.1 points. Also scoring with a sub pick is gcreptile, 25 points to you. 15th Leader Board 1st - 163 points - Captain Chorizo 2nd - 153 points - Death Impends 3rd - 136 points - Dead Cow 4th - 135.8 points - Uschi 5th - 132.3 points - Maryportfuncity 6th - 126.5 points - The Unknown Man 7th - 120.1 points - Morbid Kid 8th - 116.3 points - Sir Creep 9th - 113 points - Toast 10th - 105.2 points gcreptile 11th - 92.1 points - Shaun of the Dead 12th - 91 points - Switch 13th - 87.3 points - Hein 14th - 81.1 points - Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 15th - 80.2 points - Book. 16th - 70 points - Time 17th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 18th - 61.2 points Deathray's Casket 19th - 44 points - LFN 20th - 25.1 points - msc 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - DDT = last - Tick Tock = last - Dr Zorders

Voted for Richard Adams for not reason at all.

Big one. That was Aaron Ramsey's fault...

As regards being racially offensive, having been asked to study the work of Kanye West for a publicity display I think I'm now better versed to offer an opinion to the course of the thread of late. The N work has been thrown around far too much without consideration. Within the developed western world the ratio of African descended people are a minority due to the historic nature of the slave trade. They ask each other, and sometimes white skinned people for support and fair treatment. They often get none. A cause of angst that no one should overlook and be blind to. Instead we should all be colour blind to our skin colours. Take people as you find them. Never prejudge people no matter the likely historical background they most probably had. And look to help each other when we can. Also the N word can be fairly used by anyone who understands the inequities and the desire to overcome engrained positions. Not only that but also maybe how the N word is to better spelt as "nigga" (with a lowercase "n" ending in an "a" rather than "er") for common use to remove old context and look to a brighter future together. Black people can use it between themselves and white people who are confident of helping can hope to use it to.

Following the fine tradition of other dead pools I'm able to offer a prize of £5 in amazon vouchers or donate £5 to a good cause on your behalf, the offer also extends to RA for last year giving no prize was provided for the first year - in the name of fairness and all that. Very decent of you. Thanks. Rather than donate £5 to charity, please, when passing street musicians and you have coins in your pocket, chuck at least one coin, every time, keeping a mental note of the running total till that £5 is gone. The returning "thank you" remarks are all yours.

A single team - one name! No theme teams! - wow - I like it.

Rev Billy yet again for me

Bound to be too busy around Christmas for yet another new pool beyond these ideas, but I did like the dust pool idea of a shorter six month long pool. I'm also fond of the sweepstake style of situation where no team has the same duplicated picked name. Like picking horses out of a hat for the grand national. A draft pool where, during the course of a whole month of say June you get only one chance per day to add too, and gradually build to your unique team of thirty. Each day, the time of opening the draft window changes, in a rolling fashion, so that no one nation gets preferential benefit of time zone on a first-come first-served basis. If you found your named member had just been nabbed by a faster fingered poster then you still get the chance to re pick for another person for that position. Thus on the 1st of June the window opens at 1am GMT. 2nd June 2am. Till the 24th of June which would be Midnight. The final six daily draft Windows would be in four hourly mismatches. 25th pick. 25th June 4am. 26th pick. 26th June 8am. 27th pick. 27th June Noon GMT 28th pick. 28th June 4pm 29th pick. 29th June 8pm 30th and final pick 30th June Midnight Late starters or missed picks due to any "away from keyboard" holidays, can back fill their team at any time upto the next appropriate available gateway. All teams would only be able to have one national of any one particular country on their squad. Plus all teams would need to have no one of their 30 with a similar aged team mate. Thus you can't bank on an extra old foggie team. Scoring would be 100 basic points for a death and with a bonus score of a point for each year they were younger than the oldest person alive.

Called micro points. Given out when the going is good to popular picks. If you were the last person to choose said death hit then you get nothing. Earlier choices of that person gain 0.1 points, in order of placement of team entry. Basically it makes the scoring system even more complex. Joey Feek points below... 11 teams score big time points with the death of a now world famous ill blogging country singer almost no one ever heard of before late last year. Well 10 teams get lots and Deathray gets fifteen and a half. Shaun of the Dead gets the most with 46 points. Sir Creep gets 45.3 & Morbid Kid gets 45.1. Not Sir Peter Maxwell Davies gets off the marks with 40.9 points. Maryport pulls down 40.8, with the Unknown Man gaining 40.7 points. Hein with 40.2 ahead of Toast with 40 points. 35.6 points to Dead Cow and 35.4 to Captain Chorizo who now leads after his 4th hit. Largest looser was Uschi who slipped from 3rd place now down to 9th. 14th Leader Board 1st - 163 points - Captain Chorizo 2nd - 153 points - Death Impends 3rd - 136 points - Dead Cow 4th - 132.3 points - Maryportfuncity 5th - 126.5 points - The Unknown Man 6th - 120.1 points - Morbid Kid 7th - 116.3 points - Sir Creep 8th - 113 points - Toast 9th - 100.8 points - Uschi 10th - 92.1 points - Shaun of the Dead 11th - 91 points - Switch 12th - 87.3 points - Hein =13th - 80.2 points - Book. =13th - 80.2 points - gcreptile 15th - 70 points - Time 16th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 17th - 44 points - LFN 18th - 40.9 points - Not Sir Peter Maxell Davies 19th - 36.1 points - Deathray's Casket 20th - 25.1 points - msc 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - DDT = last - Tick Tock = last - Dr Zorders

Thanks Maryport. X-Ray of the pained area show that he's not broken any of it. Still asking me for piggy back rides though. Back to situation in hand. Twelve teams thought that a Crowe in the hand is worth two Bushes in the field. Or something like that. Biggest winner was Shaun of the Dead, getting off the marks, gaining 46.1 points. Maryport has an extra 46 points. Switch gets 45.4 points. Morbid Kid gains 45 points. 6 team bag about 40 points. The Unknown Man gets 40.9pts. Death Impends gains 40.8pts. Uschi gets 40.5pts. Captain Corizo gains 40.3 pts. Book gets 40.2 pts and Hein gets 40.1pts. Dead Cow 30.7 pts and Deathray's Casket only 20.6 pts. 13th Leader Board 1st - 153 points - Death Impends 2nd - 127.6 points - Catain Chorizo 3rd - 100.8 points - Uschi 4th - 100.4 points - Dead Cow 5th - 91.5 points - Maryport 6th - 91 points - Switch 7th - 85.8 points - The Unknown Man. =8th - 80.2 points - Book. =8th - 80.2 points - gcreptile 10th - 75 points - Morbid Kid 11th - 73.0 points - Toast 12th - 71.0 points - Sir Creep 13th - 70 points - Time 14th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 15th - 47.1 points - Hein 16th - 46.1 points - Shaun of the Dead 17th - 44 points - LFN 18th - 40.0 points - Book 19th - 25.1 points - msc 20th - 20.6 points - Deathray's Casket 21st - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - 4 teams.

Points to be added here, later for Martin Crowe, got a medical emergency of our own on the go today with my lad. Looks like a broken metatarsal.

I'm off the mark. Towering actor George Kennedy died on the 28th. I had him as a unique and as a cast member of Hollywood Squares. Thus the bonus score is more than the basic points. 12th Leader Board 1st - 112.2 points - Death Impends 2nd - 87.3 points - Catain Chorizo 3rd - 80.2 points - gcreptile 4th - 73.0 points - Toast 5th - 71.0 points - Sir Creep 6th - 70.3 points - Dead Cow 7th - 70 points - Time 8th - 66 points - Rotten Ali 9th - 60.3 points - Uschi 10th - 45.6 points - Switch 11th - 45.5 points - Maryport 12th - 45.4 points - The Unknown Man 13th - 44 points - LFN 14th - 40.0 points - Book 15th - 30 points - Morbid Kid 16th - 25.1 points - msc 17th - 7 points - Hein 18th - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - 6 teams.

You. Are. A. Star.

Great set of rules. Did wonder if you were waffling on a bit... Then low and behold the prize... Behold, you have found my interest well and truly sparked.

With the death of Douglas Slocombe comes news of two teams who score points. First unit, lights, camera, action: msc with a 25 point sub pick and a micro point. Second unit, filming out of sequence, only 15 points to Captain Chorizo. (It's in the can, with 2nd place) Cut... 11th Leader Board 1st - 112.2 points - Death Impends 2nd - 87.3 points - Catain Chorizo 3rd - 80.2 points - gcreptile 4th - 73.0 points - Toast 5th - 71.0 points - Sir Creep 6th - 70.3 points - Dead Cow 7th - 70 points - Time 8th - 60.3 points - Uschi 9th - 45.6 points - Switch 10th - 45.5 points - Maryport 11th - 45.4 points - The Unknown Man 12th - 44 points - LFN 13th - 40.0 points - Book 14th - 30 points - Morbid Kid 15th - 25.1 points - msc 16th - 7 points - Hein 17th - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - 7 teams.

Time is now off to a flying start too with his headline name. Unique hit on Eric Winkle Brown's sad departure. Beyond knowing if he liked to Morris Dance, I make it that 70 points are all yours. 10th Leader Board 1st - 112.2 points - Death Impends 2nd - 80.2 points - gcreptile 3rd - 73.0 points - Toast 4th - 72.3 points - Captain Chorizo 5th - 71.0 points - Sir Creep 6th - 70.3 points - Dead Cow 7th - 70 points - Time 8th - 60.3 points - Uschi 9th - 45.6 points - Switch 10th - 45.5 points - Maryport 11th - 45.4 points - The Unknown Man 12th - 44 points - LFN 13th - 40.0 points - Book 14th - 30 points - Morbid Kid 15th - 7 points - Hein 16th - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - 8 teams.

And what fucking use, in your 4th post, is this information? Some people... Here, but not all there! P.S. Watching the fly the wall family living in various decades the other night. Flash back on their new 1973 colour TV, I give you Richard Stilgoe. Now 72 years of age. Surprised he is not only Stilgoe alive but also Stilgoe so young.

Hein is off the marks with a few points. The only one to select the ex UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, he gets bonus points. However as Hein placed him at the bottom of his list he more or less looses more than he wins. Also points 15.1 points to Uschi, and 30 points to Morbid Kid for their choice of George Gaynes respective cast members. 9th Leader Board 1st - 112.2 points - Death Impends 2nd - 80.2 points - gcreptile 3rd - 73.0 points - Toast 4th - 72.3 points - Captain Chorizo 5th - 71.0 points - Sir Creep 6th - 70.3 points - Dead Cow 7th - 60.3 points - Uschi 8th - 45.6 points - Switch 9th - 45.5 points - Maryport 10th - 45.4 points - The Unknown Man 11th - 44 points - LFN 12th - 40.0 points - Book 13th - 30 points - Morbid Kid 14th - 7 points - Hein 15th - 0.1 points - YoungWillz = last - 9 teams.