Grim Up North

The longest spell without a death on the DDP is the 22 month period between Jill Ireland dying on 17th May 1990 and Jim Joel dying on 23rd March 1992 that included the zero hits year of 1991.

Nothing on BBC half an hour later - this is Robert Mugabe we're talking about - fake news?

Posted here to not affect the thread order but it must be a strange year when the 2018 Advent Avalanche Dead Pool is the 24th most recent Dead Pool with a post on 3rd December - I thought it had been deleted for a second.

You mean Sapde Coloey?

'for now' and 'the fight is not over' don't sound like clear of cancer statements though.

Telling world leaders about climate change in Katowice Must be in top 5 famous people I don't want to die - in fact as I think about it may be top.

Maybe next year - plenty of choices!

Hi Deathray - I'd love to be on 1783 points - but I'm not - 1143 points I think - better revisit the spreadsheet formulas. Cheers GUN.

I didn't think this one could be right - thought it would be higher - but it's right. (not sure why I've bothered posting this!)

Just finalised my first Theme team for 2019 - excited!

Fucking hell I've spent the whole year researching names and then you produce this list - are you going to do it again next year? In which case I just won't bother!! EDIT: On review only one name from my draft 20 is included above - might trawl list above for a couple of better subs though.

Yep although I'm south of the wall.

Surprised myself by actually knowing the answer to this one between 7:30 and midnight on 30th November 1990 I was at the Christmas party where I used to work. They always had it at the same place every year and so I know where I was and what I was doing. They always had it booked for third last Friday before Xmas and so every so often randomly it was in November. It was the first Christmas party I went to with my now wife of 26 years who I used to work with. I had gone out with her since March and she wore a velvet dress she had made herself and she looked stunning. One of the other office girls asked me what I had done to her to make her lose so much weight (I don't think she had lost that much I think it was the dress) but I suggested it was loads of fantastic sex (in reality I doubt sex with me back then would have burned through very many calories at all). The party finished at 1am on 1st December.

This seems to be a good time to sort out another ruling. At what point does a month end? For example GHWB died on 30th November US time? Do people get November c/f points for him or not? If they don't then is he a December hit or has he died in some twilight zone that does not exist in either month? And if no one picked him for December but he classed as a December hit then do the people who haven't submitted teams move on to a score of 3 (0+3)? Incidentally it is a good time because no one had him in November.

No

Josephine Mandamin

* Gascoine (The campaign continues.........)

RIP. Sad for his family. Rather ironically Kevin Austin became the 20th and final member of my first draft DDP team on Saturday morning at which point according to the Mirror QO he was already dead.

Fuck off

Yeah we've noticed EDIT: Actually on review it's not just you - loads of people can't stop saying Jean Louis Trintignant - it's like a virus.

Yes the published lists for pools already in place I agree with you and are what I meant about all the information we can all use on this site. But for the Calendar Year pools then when people are sending in their entries to the Pool Runner towards end of December there will be a number of new names appearing, carefully discovered through internet searching or a lucky bit of information, that no-one has seen on here before - it's those new names that I'm really wondering about.

I think it's time Ozzy made a return to the list in the number 50 position and stays there until he goes. He was on the first list in 1987 - the only survivor - don't miss him Committee......

General Dead Pool question. Do those of you who run calendar year Dead Pools research new names you receive in entries and use them to your advantage in other Dead Pools including the Derby Dead Pool? Obviously all of us on here entering Dead Pools use the information on here in all sorts of formats plus other knowledge and internet searches but it seems like some pools are a mine of useful information once the teams get published on 01/01 but most of us don't get that information until too late. I know the solution but not sure I have the time

I have never watched this programme but from the article 'Porsha admitted her boyfriend's hotdog empire had helped her put on a few pounds.' did give me a chuckle.

One Day *SPOILER ALERT* Based on a bestselling book that I haven't read - watched it with wife - total shite from beginning to end. She gets killed in a crash towards the end - I think I was supposed to feel sad - it was the only enjoyable part of the film - I gave out a little cheer.