themaninblack

I'm not sure If I'm misunderstanding how this works as it's my first year but I can't find myself anywhere on that scoreboard despite having two hits Nancy Reagan and Tony Warren?? What's your team name?

While I'm replying, something which has been on my mind, TMIB. The 2009 section refers to "Matthew, tonight i'm going to be badly-torn boy" not coming back to defend his title in 2010. However, he did. He finished 6th. I'd assume this was your predecessor's work, but just thought I'd point it out. During one of the quiet patches of the year, presumably over the summer when people stop dying for a few weeks, we could have an pedants' amnesty for errors on the DDP site without seeming like ungrateful bastards. For instance, the basketball player's name is Dwyane Wade, not Dwayne. Definitely. The database, descriptions, what so-and-so is doing at the mo are overwhelmingly due for an overhaul but when you're flying by the seat of yer pants, you don't don't have the time to do the real work. I'm also (places tin hat on) contemplating discontinuing adding pictures to celebs and only having the ones who have died in the year of competition. First, retrospectively, then ongoing. 800-1000 pics a year? That's just too much. I've updated to 2004 (although I haven't uploaded that year yet) and I intend to continue through the years to the latest one... It's also an issue of space. Most pics are cut and compressed to somewhere between 4-9kb each celeb. That soon builds up year after year...

Re George Kennedy - Dragnet. I think you mean Cool Hand Luke. No that's actually the name of his character in Cool Hand Luke, I've just forgotten to name the film! As with mentioning TLE's 100th hit, I think I'll do a second draft of the index page. This is what happens when you commit yourself to a deadline...

Latest update...

That's kind of upsetting to see...

Yewtree probably have him bugged so no...

Shatner's in great shape. Doesn't look 80+ at all. Landau's looked ancient for 2 decades...

Its complex. In theory you could have a player who has a regular theme team that changes theme but still have the same "history" as it were, although it can be hard to keep up. But in your case, there's no real issue here...

This year's comp has started like a bullet, hasn't it?

I'm liking that "to date" bit Spade, very droll. Carlisle fans drop the same one-liners now and again and we were top flight more recently than you lot. It'll take a meltdown of television incomes and Corbyn's election followed by a set wage for all professional footballers to get either of us back in the top 20, IMHO. Well, you never know. Look at Bournemouth...

At last...

Too late for George this time round... From now on, I aim to update on Mondays, either each week or alternate weeks depending on the hit rate and other issues...

Hmmm. Not sure about this one. bbc.co.uk/programmes is not on the list of acceptable obits from the Beeb...

Nah, he's after the VP slot. A shrewd move, as Trump will be assassinated and the fat man takes power. An obese US President would be extremely apt...

I always thought there was something a bit phony and made up about her. Maybe Russell Brand found out the truth?

I always rather liked his "Bunko Booth" section, where revealed some of the vaudeville tricks and cons...

One of the very few to be the anchor on the BBC's General Election TV coverage (1966 & 1970).

Could be less than 3 months, could be more. I'll go for more - August 7th...

Good work, msc! Although some of these "stats" are bit irrelevant now as we've had so many hits in recent years. NYD/NYE deaths were once rare, now we get them virtually every year. So when the Stats & facts page is finally updated for real (with msc's figures as a guide) then it will be reformatted a tad...

I've got a lot to thank (or maybe curse) Richard O'Sullivan for... If it wasn't for chance watching of the "Man About the House" film in 2005, I would not have been curious as to his current whereabouts. It was a look through Google (or was it Yahoo?) which took me to this thread on this website, without which I wouldn't have discovered the Derby Dead Pool, which I took part in in and eventually run as host. So thanks Dickie for making every Christmas since 2009 that bit busier!

Imagine that...

Put a fiver on the UK winning Eurovision this year...

I'm hardly Bill Gates meself but I get by. There must be an easier, better way of doing it nowadays. Thing is I don't know my php from my elbow so I stick to the old, creaky system. Of course others are helping out with the bios, so thank you to all who are contributing, although there's still a depressingly large amount still to do. and the stats are well overdue for an update and I want to simply the archives a bit more, get rid of a load of junk etc etc... Still, I enjoy the blog writing and puns...AGL the blog is more for my own amusement than anything else. I could just put here's who's dead, here's whose got the points, but what's the fun in that? I was almost going to mention that I've read Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyperreality" and probably only Maryport/Spade/DDT will get the "Dead Raiola" reference. (not that I'm calling them hipsters or anything). God, I'm in a chatty mood tonight!

I went for Vera. Reasons...

The "Guess Whose Not Coming to Dinner" pun has been officially granted to the Derby Dead Pool organisation by the UN...so back off DeathList