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"I'm putting together a team...." [Soundtrack: "The Boys Are Back In Town" starts playing]

It's all going off in Gabon at the moment, so the numerous DDPers who've picked Ali Bongo Ondimba this year may be hearing good news soon. Automatic ban for anyone making an "Ali Bongo the old TV magician" gag.

FYI, everything is in the system, ready to go, and as I predicted it's collapsed at the point of running the VBScript. So the site could be up tomorrow, it could be up after ten days when I've begged everyone I know who has ever operated a PC for assistance.

You've buried the lede there: his colon "spontaneously ruptured". stuart_lubbock.gif

Provisional D40, hidden behind spoilers for those who want to wait for the final reveal.

Only have a provisional Drop 40 at the moment, but... DI seems to be very close to 100% on the money.

Yeah, imagine my joy when Ricketts and Whitfield went in the same hour....

To be honest, when I advertised on Upwork for a programmer to have a look at the site, this is what I was thinking. You enter by going to the site when entries are open, type your team name and 20 picks, a fuzzy search then looks to see if they've been picked before (and because it's fuzzy it knows that Prince Phillip is the same person as Prince Philip) and we're done. However, the cost I was quoted for setting a system like this up was pretty silly (£400 was the usual figure). So, really, what we need is someone on here who knows programming.

Here's a really long shot one: the driver of the taxi Eddie Cochran was in when he died. Name was George Martin (little irony for you there), or George William Thomas Martin if you want the full-lengther. Lived in Bristol (Blackthorn Road at the time) and was apparently also 21, the same age as Cochran. He was definitely alive in 1969 when his taxi license was renewed, but other than that.... Googling does bring up people who are convinced Eddie Cochran faked his own death.

Respect to those who gambled on him. Had a feeling he might get one thanks to the short nature of his previous role.

Yeah, the photos/bios/D.O.B.s aren't really a problem per se, they're just a little time-consuming but they do add to the site's overall glamour. The real problem is, as stated previously, nothing is connected. And we've been using effectively the same system since... 2004? 2005? This is what happens. You email your teams, all 529 of them. There's no uniformity to the teams (some are submitted first name surname, surname first name, in a separate wordfile, in an attachment, numbered, bulletpointed....) These all have to be turned into 500-odd uniform teams formatted the same. Spelling errors abound. Not just issues with people writing Duke of Edinburgh instead of Prince Philip, but actual abominations of mistyping. These all have to be corrected one by one. Then the new teams have to be identified and have new codes created for them (the number you see at the end of the URL when you click a team's name on the DDP). Then the new teams are added to a database, along with the old teams (just the ones that are currently entered, not teams that entered in previous years but not the current one). Oh, these teams also have to have their "years entered" and "highest place" data changed as well. The new celebrities have to have codes generated for them Then they're added to a spreadsheet, along with the existing celebs who were previously picked (again, not the ones picked in previous years who werne't this year). If any letter goes astray throughout this entire process, the database will not work and refuse to generate DDP pages. See how fucked this is?

Radamel Garcia, one-cap Colombian international, dead at 61. Actually got a QO by dint of being Radamel Falcao's dad.

I think the meat and bones of the DDP will have to change. My two-year run was about sorting the front-end out, and I'm confident over the next six months we'll have nailed everything about the CMS and the site's design (still playing around with fonts tbh). One problem is that T-Mib handled everything alone for so long that a lot of the processes are listed only in his head, which is why I'm spooked that as soon as I try and generate the pages for this year we're going to see an utter shitshow. There have been something like 15,000 celebs picked for the DDP in its entire history. Every single one of those is in a database. Do we really need to know that, say, Ronald Magill was born in Hull when he's not been alive for 12 years? No, but the way everything is set up now means that the system cannot be changed. We will have to start from scratch.

Falling off a cliff: unnatural death bonus Being old, falling over, going to hospital as a result, getting a virus there, dying a month later: not an unnatural death. Also, I note Kevin J. McIntyre has received a Reuters US obit, but not a Reuters UK one. Those who picked him will be hoping for a C+P somewhere.

We should have a cheatsheet explaining to newbies what the DDP is, what the DL is and what the other deadpools of note are. Anyone volunteer to write it?

Plan B from Outer Space picked him for sure, can't confirm if anyone else did at the moment because I'm not on my home computer.

Final DDP update of 2018, a full round-up.

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Time for a Jackass alum thread?

2019's first List of the Lost graduate.

P.S.: Your cunt's in the sink.

As soon as this site's up I'm establishing a steering committee for next year's edition, because we need to come up with a better way of processing entries that doesn't send gamerunners insane. Although of mild note: Tyler Trent was only picked on two teams, and was a joker for both. Gene Okerlund was a unique, and again a joker. So 100% of all deaths so far have been captain hits.

Only one left from the finest post-match promo in WWE history now: