themaninblack

I think we've found our new Dunn!

No...

Wasn't he also in 'Frenzy', Hitchcock's last British film?

Gordon's alive and that's the main thing...

A Trigger's broom band these days though. So are a lot of bands when they've clocked up 30+ years. The Dubliners finally split up recentky and they had none of the original members left!

As you'll all soon see at the weekend (hopefully?), something of a deadpooling arms race has developed and it seems one or two have a had a few long, dark nights of the soul before committing their highly competitive teams in. You better hope it's all worth it. We might get accused of a sort moral hypocrisy over being too prissy over certain picks. This year I've had to exclude a couple of under-aged candidates and an animal (one or two teams not reading the rules). Maybe they should have been in too. What's the line that we draw? Anne Williams is indeed a queasy choice but well within the rules (over 18). Dead pooling is one of the most amoral facets of the internet but in it's moral relativistic way, it's almost immune from criticism...

Got a couple of Dr. Feelgood albums. Good band...

Am I the only one who read the first few words and thought "Geldof!" ? Nah, surely Sir Bob's headline will be Death Aid!

You would also recognise that Belgian cops are shit too?

Whatshername from News At Ten was in my sister's year in the 1980s. Apparently she was a bit of a bully... A an ex-classmate of mine once made the front cover of my local newspaper, but only because he was stabbed to death in Chile...

As DDP host, my most vexing issue is that of Anne Williams. Being a Liverpool supporter makes me especially sensitive to this and I'm going to tread carefully here. May not have a picture and minimal information. Last thing I want is a shit storm from fellow supporters. It's awkward enough having links to the Sun (because it the only source of an obit) but that's the compromised position you can find yourself in. I concur with what Windsor said about the type of picks chosen. As you will find out soon, the new picks reflect a more cut throat aspect to dead pooling. There are less of the oddball celebrity choices with the odd exception in among the theme teams...

Fingers crossed it'll be Saturday. Now the new picks will not have too much details, they will be rolled out over the next few weeks. There's around 1100. 587 teams and about 3280 celebs in total. Just need to iron out a few kinks and we should be good to go, providing the data load goes well and the subsequent generation of pages...

Now there was a proper DG. One that had cojones...

Looks like he'll be joining Lee Brilleaux and Ian Dury in pub rock heaven then...

Unlucky mate, unlucky...

Right folks, it's that time of year again... The rules... and here's an excerpt from the email I'll be sending as to the procedure: Good luck everybody!

Stanley Baxter looked very well on the programme about him last night. Wise to leave him off I think. I don't think he's the "man in his 80s" going doolally in the Priory...

Cue the Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail...n-dies-114.html Well done to those who picked her. That's 3 hits already. Better get shifting with these teams but I've made a lot of progress. Not promising anything but fingers crossed the list will be up fairly soon, possibly this week...

Bill Bixby and Quentin Crisp are the only really notable deaths on my birthday (21st November). Curiously there's never been a DDP hit on that date either...

Also, Gerry "Baker Street" Rafferty died 2 years ago today...

Shocking news at the time. My family met Thin Lizzy on a ferry to Ireland c.1979. I was a bit young at the time, so I don't recall much...

4 teams will be waiting patiently for that obit..

Who is Michael Withacker?

I think we should start again...

Of course there is another singer born in 1959, whose sexual proclivities have long been the source of speculation and has over the years displayed an unhealthy interest in Glam Rock, child murderers and the Royal family...