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Roger Scruton – ep, ms, nt, pr, rg, rr Me and some others get points for Roger Scruton heading out the door. Obit will be ASAP, his website only just announced it. Well, you wanted fast and furious...

I tried to join in but the site so far is refusing to verify my email. And my patience is limited at the best of times.

About 10 points on the DDP, by the looks of it.

Ah, yes, I do have that down on my prelim front page notes for 2020. Complete with godawful pun! So far I count 9 DDP hits, 1 name looking for an obit (Last), and 4 List of the Missed names (Acorah, Peart, Buck Henry and Tom Alexander). We appear to have had 4 changes of lead already, with House of Soon To Be With the Lord currently top, as far as I am aware.

Keeping an eye on Spade, Chorizo, GU and Maryport there as forum regulars creeping up. 79 for Toast, btw, but another to keep tabs on imo - esp as she has a higher criteria for picking than most teams.

As Reptile, Grim and Spade (he's hours from retirement, just don't show a picture to your colleagues of the sweetheart you are marrying after you leave the force...) work on the website end of things, I have realised that one of my all time favourite DDP teams, name wise, is not in the 2020 DDP. So farewell Hippoposthumous, DDP team 2009-19.

The AAA La Parka has died after failing to recover from injuries sustained in a match last year. He was 56. Not to be confused with the 1990s La Parka who was a cult hero of mine in WCW. He now wrestles as LA Park after losing a copyright battle with Mexican company AAA who handed the original gimmick to the guy who just died.

I've gone for sods law. The big Jeopardy fan's century hit will be later in 2020 with Alex Trebek.

Soon. Patience, the processing bit is nearly over (you should all like go and like all of Grim's posts, he's put a shitload of time and effort into this while balancing a full time job over the Christmas break too). The uploading and hoping the website doesn't die on its arse bit comes next.

Yes, check your PMs, you are Patient Zero... Hopefully, zero of one...

OK, as we are already aware of one persons DDP team disappearing off the face of the Earth and are trying to fix it, below is a list of every team on the database for the 2020 DDP. Can you have a look please, and let us know if your team is missing? It's basically speak now or forever hold your grumpiness... Our Top Story Tonight Leftovers Political Correctness Gone Mad 20 Yutes Yvonne and Gone God, you're annoying YES, I got the Nobel – but NO, I do not care for the climate Surviving the Holocaust does not make immortal! Yvonne's Gone Too A Model Corpse Peanut Farmer & The Gang EtushIsPushingUpDaisies Death Is Intellectual Sports Yay Sports Yvan Eht Nioj Give Us a Y (Chromosome) Gone in the land Down Under Monty Python's Dying Circus ARTHUR'S THEME Trans Girls Hit Squad's Hit List Exu's Exiteers Dey Do Die Don't Dey Doh Spookygal Color Me Abbad The Last Waltz Die Laughing This Knee Ain't What It Used To Be Amazonian Warrior Crypts Suzette Trebek’s Final Jeopardy Season? Next Year Greta Keeling over So It's Come to This: A Pan Breed C-team Judge, Jury, and Jimmycutioner Setting of the Age of Aquarius The House of Extravaganza The National Union of Coffin Polishers Guest 50+ And They All Died Happily Ever After Glasgow Effect Crypt O'Crayolas Sad News FC Tom's Chainsaw Massacre Knocking on Heavens Door Joe pesci's team Apollogies for Still Living Statik Charge Miscreants LL's Pool Jajem They Just Keep Dye-ing! Vicky's heres hoping 20 4 2020 Brown Breads Swimming in the Death Pool All about the Men They is nothing like a dame (and the Women who gives them it) Not going in a Black Cab The Spanners Simply Simon Weird with a Beard Puzlman's Puzzling Picks Haben die Spaten Dying Donkeys Grey Gardens The Retched pong of Brit sit-com Baby Kissers Taking a Big Sleep People who could die 2020 ARSE-IN-HOLE I close my eyes, draw back the curtains Deadpool Surprise the gorge of eternal peril The 6 feet under club The X_X Factor Hydrangea Pop goes the Wurzels Psycho Muppet Bruce Forsyth's Rug Sale at Carpet Rite A Trophy For Atrophy McCririck's Last Hurdle You Had My Curiosity, Now You Have To Die For My Attention Now That's What I Call Emeli Sande's In Memoriam Soylent Green Is You 12 Lords a-leaving, 8 Ladies dying 1982 was the best year for pop #1 Hits It's Grim Up North 2021? – No thank you! I’ll leave before 2020 Exit Draft 20 Crooners Croakin' 20 to 1: Music for the soul 5 Feet and 1 to Go Aardvark's Bupa Listing Abracadaver Ain't It Grand To Be Bloomin' Well Dead All Death Is Consolation ALLITERATIVELY ALIVE NO MORE All Part Of The Show... Right? ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERNS FRONT All these moments will be lost Alternative Observations Amanita virosa American As Apple Pie ...and Its Goodnight From Him And they all died Angela of Death A Pelican In The Wilderness Apricot Crumble Are You Still Dying, Darling? Awarded Oscarites BALDY FOREVER BANGELS Belmont-Cragin Reaper Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop Beyond a Little Peaky Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food Black Penguins of Doom Bladerunner Bleaching the Bottom of the Barrel BLIMEY! Blueberry Crumble Boddies... Manchester's Finest Boom, Boom, Out go the lights Worm Fodder Breathless In Seattle BROWN BANANAS BXBOY422 By Royal Ascent Cancel My Appointments Cancerous Hatred Cancerous Hatred B Aye, they're off the fags alright Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Them Carkers Convention 2020 Captain Hemlock's Twenty Cashier Number 90 Please! CENTAURIANS Charon's Crew Chelski Pensioners C. A. Daver Circling the Drain CLOG POPPERS Coffin Fit The Love Boat Find Me A Hole To Bury My Stiff Comedy Cremations Complications from a fall Compost Corner Corpse, Like The Marines, Except Spelt Differently Crofty's Coffin Crew Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet Gotham Knight Darling Did You Forget To Take A Breath? Dave's Dead, Aye Dead Drunk Day in the Death DDP Tofoa DDP Tofoa Former Picks in the Elderly Nursing Home Dead And Dusted Dead And Dusted 2 Dead And Dusted 1 Dead Continent Dead Ends Deader than a dead thing Dead Is Dead Deadies 7 Dead Last? Dead Right! DEAD LOSS DEAD SPOTTERS Dead Wait Death Nebula 3000 Death Is International Death Stinks Dead Cats Won't Play Fetch Death Can Be Funny Deathlist.net Deathly Steeds Deathray's Kevorkian Clinic death to all but metal and dame Vera Lynn Decaying Orbit-uaries Deceased Hose Decomposing Blubber Departures Board Dial D for Deadpool Dick Smith's OzEDeath List Dinner Reservation for 20 Don't Eat The Figs Down Under the Daisies Droller coaster DROP DEAD CELEBRATION Dr Shipman's waiting room Drunkasaskunk Dr Who's Next Eddie's Parade Of Darkness and Despair eejit Eternity Tours Ethnic Cleansing Every Death You Take Fade To Black Falling Off The Perch Faster Than A Dead Horse Fat kids always win at seesaw Feng Shui Pig Finbarr Returns from the Dead Fireball David Quantick's Showbiz Pals The Forest Lawn Jockeys Francis of Arse-Easy 2020 Predictor's Predictions Funeral Holmes Funeral Furore Deutschland Verabschiedet Sich! Get Busy Dyin Girlfriend in a Coma Bucket Of Blood Gobbing On Life God's Gonna Gettem Going going gone Going Green GOING UNDERGROUND GOLDEN OLDIES! Gone Solo GO ON BE A SPORT - DIE IN 2020 Gooseberry Crumble Grappling with Mortality Grave Danger Gray Panthers Great gig in the sky Gris Gris Grief Encounter Grim McGraw Grobler's Stiff Ones GuardiDeadArmy Guild of Master Reapers GUN Fight at the Not O.K. Corral GUN Fishing Hangman's XX From Here to Eternity Zombie Dance Party Researched to death Heads in a Bag You're Dead Now, so Shut Up! Headstone Hunters Heaven or Hell? Hell to the Chief Here's Who You Could Have Won His and Hearse Hits of 36 years ago and hits today House Of Soon To Be With The Lord I Cannot Believe They're Not Deader I Couldn't Eat Another Bite If He's So Smart, How Come He's Dead? I'm Sorry For Your Trouble I Hear Voices I Hope You Had The Time Of Your Life Ikea Nokia Lego I'll sleep when you're dead in eternum+'s wrinkly dicks And Now His Watch Is Ended In the Hole! I Told You I Was Ill IT'S A COP-OUT 2020 It's A Grim World (After All) I Will Not Die, It's The World That Will End! Jackie Treehorn Jack Ketch Is Not A Weatherman Jane's Antique Wrinklies Jellydead Jimmy Savile's Paedo FunHouse and Grill JoeRam John Key's List Jumptheshark v.11.0 Just fade Away Kardashians Gone Wild Kennedy Driving School KICKING BUCKETS INSTEAD OF BALLS Krypton-Kid They're Loving Angels Instead Lard Bazaar Larry King Dead, Only On CNN Last of The Summer Winos Lastorders Laughter Kills Lead, Follow and Die This Year Let Us Embalm You Lidders Late Lamentables Life Flies By So Fast Lived So Let's Die Living in a Box Lord Football's Usual List of Ill People LORD GRAVEDIGGER Lt. Colonel Kilgore's Ultimate Surf Party Lullabye-bye of Broadway MADE IN DETROIT Madonna's Hand Of Bod Weakend at Bernies Manuel's Stiffs Mercarte The Misers Moldy Oldies M6 Toll(ed) Moribold Krakatoa's Playhour Mortem Omnibus Most Unique Picks 2020 Mr C Mr & Mrs Drummerboy Mr Whit's Wonders Naked Florida Gravediggers Neither There Nor Thereabouts Nicked but not Dead Noah Reason and the Youth in Asia Nobel Loserettes No more expenses No Mr Bond Villain, I Expect You To Die!!! Grief Hijackers NoSoup4U! Not At All Well Not Gone Yet, But Still Forgotten No Weddings And Twenty Funerals Noz4News Obituarynotice Oh Ronnie, Where Art Thou... Old As Dirt Old Lags and Old Slags Old People Smell Of Piss Old People Party of 20 Oliver's Army (of the Dead) Once You Go Black One Century Is Enough, Madam! Only Fools and Corpses Open The Pearly Gates Oscar The Beast Owt To Stop Me Coffin? Pan Breed Partridge As Reaper Passing of the passed P@F deathlist Peace, Drugs, and Death Pearly Gates Pedro's Catacomb Ensemble People I Think Might Die in 2020 United Perfect 10 Permanent kip P@F #metoo Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix Plan B from Outer Space Poisoned Pens Pool Ghoul POPPED THEIR CLOGS Poppin’ Clogs Powder Picks em off Pretty Noose Prophet's Prophecy Fucked n' Dumped Quebec's Predictions Read 'em and Reap Riding the Jesus Train Roasting Bodies In Redcar Rockers who Rolled to the graveyard Ruling The Afterlife Rushing to Tim Horton's for Maple Donuts SAD LAST DAYS Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel The Honey Trap Satan's Hootenanny Say hello to the angels Say Hi To Uncle George Mike Oxard's Showbiz 20 Scrubber Out Seasideessexxile See You In Heaven See You In Hell Shame Thatcher Can't Die Twice - Est. 1937 Shaun of the Dead 69 She's A Goner SHORTER OF BREATH, ONE DAY CLOSER TO DEATH Shot in the Dark Sicilian Actuaries Snorkeling Sid And Marty Coffin Simply Dead SING YOUR LAST SONG FOR ME Sitcom to Heaven Skeleton Crew Slippery Soap Smart Beta List Snort the Ashes Southerners Stiffs SOYLENT DREAMS Sportspeople I Think Might Die In 2020 United Stairway Tom Heaven Stairway To Heaven Stephen Hawking's Football Boots Stiffer Steaks STIFF UPPER LIP Stone Dead Cert Bucket O'Hare Sudden Death BatStarLord of the WhoTrekLock Super Squirrels Sweeney Todd's Nutritional Information Syndication Zombies Taking The Michael Team Cat AIDS Heading Nowhere Tentoesup Terror of the Vervoorts The B-Team The Buckley Mystic The Right To Die The Anfield Iron The Beatles Are Dying in The Wrong Order The Bedsoring '20s The British (D)i(e)sles The Cobbles to a Coffin The Caulkhead Coffin Kickers The Choir Invisibule The Conqueror Worm The Crowdsourced Deathlist The Death Stars Still Life The Deadest Of The Dead Trojan Hearse The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe 2020 The End of the World As We Know It Sovereign-Reaper The Fat Lady's singing... THE FINAL WHISTLE The Good, The Bad and Cliff Richard The Grateful Dead The Living End The Long Awaited Return Of The Blackpool Jury THE OLD ONES ARE THE PESTS the old lady The One's That Won't Go Away The Politicorpses There's A Shiva In The Park The Rotting Corpses of the Undead The Survivors The Sick-bed of Cuchulainn The Skinny Kiltrunner The Star Spangled Coffin The Team With No Name The Walking Dead The Whipping Posts The Worst Acronym Team This Mortal Coil Thomas Jefferson Survives Time's-Up Team Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, DIE TINY and ELLIE's PICK of the DROPS Today's the day the maggots have their picnic TOETAG4U To Kill A Gabor Sister Tomb It May Concern Train Wreck Central Turn Off That Telly and Go to Bed! Two Coins & A Punt Unpersons Unusual Suspects UTC Valar Morghulis Very Ill Turned Very Dead Vive la France... et la mort Waiting for Ugo Waiting for the Hearse Waiver Wire Rookie Roundup Wayne Manor Welcome to heysHELL Well Done if you got these at home Where's My Damn List? Who Turned Out The Lights? Who Goes Before The 5-0 Arrives? @JonesEuro William Hague's Special Friend Windsor the Troll Women's Deaths Matter Too Wormer, He's A Dead Man! Niedermier Dead! Marmalard Dead! Worm farmer Wot The Deuce You Could Have Waited, I've Just Put The Kettle On! You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! You Might Be A King Or A Little Street Sweeper You Must Be Croaking! YOUREOUT ZZ Topped: Heaven, Hell or Houston Gay-tes of Heaven

Yeah, shitloads of points for Maryport to add in the morning.

Mirror QO Quite the cult pick in this years DDP.

Mind Rule 6 in the original DDP? It might come back, with "stars" in place of "giraffes".

Another possibility is John Nord, AKA The Berzerker. He got off a jail sentence for repeat DUIs last year due to being in a very bad way due to ALS.

When the band retired there was talk it was down to Pearts health. Which I assumed was a long runner like arthritis or Parkinsons... Apparently it was brain cancer.

Hah. I think the rules are quite clear on that sort of thing.

Yes its Matthew Waterhouse AKA Adric, usually regarded by everyone who saw the show here as the single worst actor to ever be a BBC TV main show regular. Except Willz who thinks he's brill. Waterhouse once tried to give Oscar nominee, Dambusters and legendary grump Richard Todd acting advice. Somehow he still lives...

Ah, good to see the thread update is for non-fatal reasons. Frazer often shows up on Facebook taking the light hearted piss out of friends on their walls. He's a laugh.

A DDP pick! So keep watching the skies...or QOs.

I've similar issues with Herb Alpert. My mind is also convinced, to the point it surprises me each time I read otherwise, that Duane Eddy is dead. I think my brain merges him into a combo of 1960s/70s deaths I read about as a kid in They Died Too Young series (Eddie Cochran/Gram Parsons/Duane somebody or other - presumably Allman)...

Valerie Singleton is on this weeks House of Games, for those who don't tape game shows to watch when brain dead at midnight. Looking and sounding fab for her age.

With 3 great-grandkids, 1 William and 1 Charles ahead of the rest I'm sure she's more interested in what happened to Gallifrey right now, and if Klopp can win the league title. The Queen being a Dr Who fan has been mentioned before of course, and according to Pele when he got to meet the Queen during the 1966 World Cup, all she would do is go on and on about her love for Liverpool FC.

Cormac McCarthy was the one I thought had to be wrong and went to check, only to find every Cormac reference on site was for the late cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

Tbh she's so obscure she wont be getting points, no matter if shes dead now or if she dies during 2020, so time and stress was better spent elsewhere.