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As formerly seen in the Stats thread, but it's a bit lost in the shuffle here. So here is a thread for quick reference on who won all the various Deathlist forum (and related) deadpools. The Deathlist Forum Deadpool Hall of Fame Hartlepool Deadlypool 2006 – Football Fan 2007 – Football Fan 2008 - Football Fan 2009 – Why Not? (whoever they were) 2010 – MaryportFuncity 2011 – MaryportFunCity 2012 – The Unknown Man 2013 – Bert Trautman 2014 - Estuarian Float 2015 – Captain Chorizo 2016 - Maryportfuncity 2017 – Death Impends 2018 - Dead Cow 2019 - The Old Lady 2020 - Maryportfuncity 2021 - Funeralopolis 2022 - Banana I once led the Hartlepool Deadlypool for 5 whole days – 9th Jan to 14th Jan 2012 – between the deaths of Malam Bacai Sanha and Dame Lesley Strathie. DDP (since forum opened) 2004 – The Deathlist Committee (Grim Reaper/Statto/Welshman/others) 2005 – (Fallen Sparrow) 2006 – Football Fan 2007 – Football Fan 2008 - DDT 2009 – (Tonight Matthew, I’m Going to be Badly-torn Boy) 2010 – Octopus of Odstock 2011 – DDT 2012 – DDT 2013 – Spade Cooley 2014 – Spade Cooley 2015 – Spade Cooley 2016 – Spade Cooley 2017 - Bert 2018 - Dr T 2019 - Death Impends (at long last) 2020 - Reptile 2021 - Salmon Mousse 2022 - Spade Cooley Scavenger Hunt Deadpool I(2016/17) – Rotten Ali II (2018-20) - Roverandout III (2020-1) Banana IV (2021-2) - Roverandout V (2023-) Windy City Deadpool 2016/17 – Death Impends 2017/18 - Death Impends 2018/19 - Death Impends 2019/20 - Clorox 2020/21 - Death Impends 2021/22 - Joey Russ 2022/23 - tbc Hare’s Death Pool 2014 – Rotten Ali 2015 – Toast 2016 – Gcreptile 2017 - Grim Up North 2018 - Death Impends 2019 - John Key 2020 - JiromeonKimura 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Death Impends Deathrace 2009 – Raskolnikov 2010 – N/A due to lack of death 2011 – DDT 2012 – Spade Cooley 2013 – DDT 2014 – Death Impends 2015 – msc 2016 – DDT 2017 – Death Impends 2018 - msc 2019 - Rad 2020 - Rad 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Banana 2023 - Banana Shaun’s Death by Numbers 2015 – Sir Creep 2016 – DDT 2017 - Gcreptile 2018 - Death Impends 2019 - Death Impends 2020 - Death Impends 2021 - Captain Chorizo 2022 - Banana By Election Bingo 2015-2020 Parliament –Rockhopperpenguin, The Engineer, Voice of Young Maryport, Time 2017-2019 Parliament - Boris Johnson Advent Avalanche 2016: Death Impends 2017: Sean 2018: Banana 2019: Reptile 2020: Spade Cooley 2021: Bibliogryphon 2022: Drol The Midsummer Dead Pool 2016: Spade Cooley 2017: Captain Chorizo 2018: The Dead Cow 2019: Clorox 2020: Toast 2021: Perhaps/Chorizo TIE 2022: Drol Inverse Dead Pool 2011 – Garn2 2012 – Estuarian Float 2013 – N/A (didn’t happen due to change of host) 2014 – Bibliogryphon 2015 – Death Impends 2016 – Pedro67 2017 – Drol 2018 - machotrouts 2019 - drol 2020 - TQR 2021 - BabyBlue 2022 - Yorkshire Banker Soapstar 2021 - Toast WTF deadpool 2017 – Imnothades, rockhopperpenguin Half Year Deadpool 2010 – Windsor Kentucky Derby Dead Pool 2014 – Dr Zorders Predict the Paper 2012 – Paul Bearer Easter Deadpool 2017 - Book 2018 - Joey Russ The Deathlist Cup 2017 – deadsox 2018 - DDT 2019 - Spade 2020 - An Fear Beag 2021 - Reptile 2022 - Joey Russ Alt Obits 2017 – Jiroemon Kimura 2018 - AO Guy 2019 - AO Guy 2020 - Joey Russ 2021 - Banana 2022 - Banana Poker Tournament 2017 – Death Impends 2018 - Death Impends 2019 - Captain Chorizo 2020 - Perhaps 2021 - Captain Chorizo Six People Six Months 2021 - Reptile Jokers 2017 – Death Impends 2018 - Torva Messor 2019 - An Fear Beag 2020 - Book DL Prediction Game 2016 – Book 2017 – Book 2018 - John Key 2019 - Vaagheid 2020 - TomTomTelekom 2021 - Vaagheid 2022 - msc 2023 - The Daredevil Doug Stanhope 2021 - JiromeonKimura ABC Deadpool I (2018) - Gcreptile II (2019) - Rad III (2020) - Captain Chorizo IV (2021) - Banana V (2022) - Reptile 5-4-3-2-1 2018 - Gcreptile 2019 - Gcreptile Inverse Death Pools 2018-20 - The Old Lady Deaths of the Silver Screen I (2018-20) - Reptile II (2020-22) - En Passant Twisted DL 2022 - Book End of Days Deadpool 2020 - Joey Russ Electoral Deadpool 2022 - Drol 20/20 2020 - Book 2021 - Annami 2022 - MariNisia Deathlist COrrection Game 2019 - Willz 2020 - Etushi Centenarians Pool 2020 - Drol, Chorizo 2021 - Drol 2022 - Great Uncle Bulgaria Nobel Prize Pool 2021 - WEP Arghtons Deadpool 2020-21 - msc Number of Combined Deadpool Wins 18 - Death Impends 11 - Reptile 9 - Spade Cooley, Banana 8 – DDT, Captain Chorizo 7- drol 6 - Book 5 – Football Fan, Joey Russ, 4 - Maryport, An Fear Beag, msc 3 –, Rad, Toast, Jiroemon Kimura 2- Bert, Rotten Ali, Esturian Float, rockhopperpenguin, John Key, The Dead Cow, The Old Lady, Clorox, Vaagheid, Perhaps, Bibliogryphon, Roverandout 1 – Why Not?, The Unknown Man, Deathlist Cmme, OoO, Raskolnikov, Sir Creep, The Engineer, Voice of Young Maryport, Time, Sean, Garn, Pedro67, ImnotHades, Windsor, Dr Zorders, Paul Bearer, deadsox, Grim Up North, Dr T, machotrouts, Torva Messor, AO Guy,TomTomTelekom, TQR, Etushi, Willz, Funeralopolis, Salmon Mousse, Baby Blue, WEP, Annami, En Passant, Yorkshire Banker, The Daredevil, Great Uncle Bulgaria, MariNisia Will be added to as more deadpools are won (and/or brought to my attention). UPDATED 16th January 2023

It was recorded this year. The first one is up on Iplayer already. To be blunt, by most people at 95 years old standards, she looks great. And she's recorded about 40 minutes of this (over several sessions by looks of it but still). By Patricia Routledge's standards, however, she's clearly declined a fair bit since her Channel 5 interview in 2022. More pauses in sentences, lost weight compared to then, clearly faded slightly as the reminisces went on. Reminded me of several elderly relatives in their twilight. Not at deaths door imo but I'd keep her on the list tbh.

Wouldn't bet on that if they need to drop 21 people!

Tbf the obits for every single name in the current format only continued because Spade said "I bet you can't come up with those puns for five hundred people" and I am a contrary shit.

2/9/2024 35 Madness - Baggy Trousers 33 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 31 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 29 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 28 Aztec Camera — Somewhere In My Heart 28 The Damned - Eloise 27 Tears for Fears - Mad World 26 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 24 Roy Orbison - You Got It 22 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl 22 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 21 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 17 Heart - Alone  16 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 16 The Vapors - Turning Japanese -6 16 Queen - A Kind of Magic 11 New Order - Blue Monday 88  10 Queen - I Want it All +4 08 Yazoo - Don’t Go I do like I Want It All, and A Kind of Magic and numerous other Queen songs I could name if they were up for kill or save!

Do I even want to know?

That would be a sad loss. Director of some forum favourites like episodes of Thriller and Armchair Thriller. However, his and the late David Mittons work on Tugs was revolutionary in TV terms. They invented ways of shooting model work around waterways, stimulating weather effects and pioneered a whole bunch of camera techniques for versimilitude that didn't only get taken up by other kids shows (Thomas benefitted heavily from it) but also Hollywood films and beyond. An important SFX behind the scenes name.

30th August 75 Roy Orbison - You Got It  75 New Order - Blue Monday 88 75 Queen - I Want It All 61 Aztec Camera — Somewhere In My Heart 32 Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don’t Care -6 20 Womack & Womack - Teardrops +4

It's a BBC show from 2018 with a different name. For what it's worth, the other three (Eileen Atkins is the fourth) were concerned about Joan Plowrights health back then!

This means the only one of the five Villanos still alive is the one that nearly died in WCW (IV). Life can be silly like that!

Joining in the lost cause as I like the song. 72 Queen - I Want It All 71 Roy Orbison - You Got It  71 New Order - Blue Monday 88 63 Aztec Camera — Somewhere In My Heart 50 Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don’t Care -6 18 Womack & Womack - Teardrops +4 10 Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car 09 Kim Wilde - You Came

I can answer the why. When I co-ran the DDP we tried to make it as democratic as possible and a whole bunch of players asked for it. The list of qualifying obits was expanded greatly as people who ought to score under the rules (actors, Nobel prize winners) weren't and this got a lot of complaints. (Indeed, you might recall a Carrie Hamilton situation which cost you a third DDP title a number of years ago.) This is why the Radio Times and Economist are there despite never producing a necessary QO. Because one day they feasible might. Anyhow it was a correction to the rather stricter QO rules a predecessor put in place where DDP picks could get BBC obits and not get a qualifying obit. I am unsure as to the success of the Yahoo qo loophole. I am aware it has been claimed to be abused (though imo that's a ffbi issue) and I have no say in future rule changes, thankfully. However if you were to show me a list of DDP hits that only got yahoo obits and there was politicians, actors or scientists on that list then I would stand by it doing exactly what it was intended to do.

Tbf the 110 Club confuses me because from what I can see, this Charlotte lady lived in good health and active until her 104th year when she took ill, only to make a recovery and remain active and lucid until she died in her sleep aged 114. Seems to me like a long healthy happy life where you can enjoy it right up to the moment you pop off peacefully is basically the jackpot.

Listening to a recent interview with Ric Flair. He was asked how he's still alive "with all his health issues" (apparently he forgot who Charlotte was during a recent illness) and he said he hadn't a clue. That makes two of us.

I'd much rather Mujica was exaggerating his health and Fujimori was the one dying for real but yeah, this feels like a matter of months.

tbh I had no idea he made a speech, and am enjoying the ability to go entire weeks without having to check if the government have fucked up my income yet again (like the last lot). More boring politicians, please.

As it was never mentioned on here, am I the only person who missed the news William Shatner announced earlier this year he had recently recovered from Stage IV melanoma? Because I feel like one of you would have mentioned that. Anyhow he seems in decent nick for his age now after immunotherapy.

He's been in remission for about a year? Hah, well that was me fooled for the DDP!

I unironically loved Sid. Easily my favourite person ever to attempt to murder Arn Anderson.

Good find @Ulitzer95 on James Marcus though sad news as he was a good actor.

Puts me fourteen points behind the leader with four months to go but not sure there's enough differential picks left to make the difference.

Good DDP pick though.

Not a death and actually a bit old news now, but this came up in my feed and I knew a number of folk round here would be interested. Willie McLean (not the MIA guy from the 1930s) is 89 nowadays so a possible contender for Octopus's oldest thread before too long. Especially as he was born in Lanarkshire where 89 years for a man is equivalent of 500 years in normal humans. Anyhow, McLean was a journeyman footballer who went on to enjoy several spells as a manager in Scotland, most notably at Motherwell, where he took them to 4th in the Premier League, as big an achievement back then as it would be today. And at the end of last year, someone went and interviewed him and put it on YouTube! Worth a mention also as he's a QO cert (Motherwell plus being Wee Jim's brother), isn't off the radar, and seemingly hasn't been mentioned on this forum before, according to the search engine. (Unless its been avalanched by all the mentions of Don McLean in the Hurt/Heal game.)

It's a cliche to say that buses were run better by the council here but I'm old enough to remember that and they bloody were. The roads and most of the rails are there, they just need the will from those in charge...still waiting for that bit.

Happy birthday Time.