Bibliogryphon

Bob Dole

Whilst I am not volunteering to enter everybody as suggested above I will try my hand at this pool again. Aiming for midtable mediocraty just like last year.## 1. Ackland, Joss 2. Athill, Diana 3. Aldrin, Buzz 4. Alliss, Peter 5. Banks, Gordon 6. Bowen, Jim 7. Bracknell, Leah 8. Byrne, Gay 9. Cameron, Earl 10. Carrington, Peter 11. Darrow, Paul 12. Dodd, Ken 13. Douglas, Kirk 14. Gascoine, Jill 15. Gilbert, Greg 16. Graham, Rev Billy 17. Greaves, Jimmy 18. Higgs, Peter 19. James, Clive 20. Johns, Glynis 21. Jowell, Tessa 22. Kamprad, Ingvar 23. Kelly, Elizabeth 24. Kilmer, Val 25. King, Clive (JOKER) 26. Lynn, Vera 27. MacGowan, Shane 28. Maren, Jerry 29. McNee, David 30. Mitchell, Joni 31. Morricone, Ennio 32. Moss, Stirling 33. O'Sullivan, Richard 34. Pilcher, Rosamunde (JOKER) 35. Poitier, Sidney 36. Ricksen, Fernando 37. Ronstadt, Linda 38. Stefansson, Stefan Karl 39. Stiles, Nobby 40. Tajima, Nabi 41. Tsvangirai, Morgan 42. Tutu, Desmond (JOKER) 43. Ure, Gudrun 44. Vervoort, Marieke 45. Wouk, Herman (JOKER) 46. Zefferelli, Franco (JOKER) 47. Bannister, Roger 48. Bush, George H W 49. Beaton, M C 50. Franklin, Aretha Subs 1. Caballe, Monsterrat 2. De Havilland, Olivia 3. Brown, June 4. Reiner, Carl 5. Eden, Barbara

In the Mirror

Any chance of a leaderboard update?

You can get most of the family but that was the one that I felt (over) stretched the boundaries of taste.

I finally got round to watching Valerian. Total tosh. Some element of style over content but the hero was charmless. Clive Owen was dismal. The plot inconsequential. Cara Delvinge was nice but the truly damning thing about the film was Rihanna was the best thing in it.

You can now get a Princess Diana Pop Vinyl. https://goo.gl/images/jPqKB1 I thought this was wrong on so many levels. I asked Mrs Biblio who she thought would be the most inappropriate person to make a Pop Vinyl of her answer shocked me...... ...Peter Sutcliffe!

I think Torva swiped Carol Channing. This is getting competitive.

Ursula K Le Guin a unique for my theme team and I don't have to worry about my obit.

1920 Fanny Waterman /Michael Anderson 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Al Jaffee 1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker 1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton 1927 Babs Chinnery/Frank Windsor 1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

Damn I could have nicked her back

Now you have nicked Fanny Waterman back off me I was surprised when something appeared in my LinkedIn account today. The University of Leeds will be holding a celebration of the life of Fanny Waterman on 11th March and the great lady will be in attendance and interviewed about her work and legacy. This is one of my favourite Deadpools but having got off to great start I have had some bad luck recently.

I think the error was mine with the spelling so it is understandable.

Bibliogryphon's Bookworm Food has 18 unique picks but if they all go the way of David Fisher the it is all hopeless. Very worried about Kate Wilhelm. My Unusual Suspects team has 13 Uniques including John Barton but I made a mistake I included William McPherson which Spade took to be the US novelist who died in 2017 when it was meant to be William MacPherson the judge who conducted the Lawrence enquiry. So I have Denise Bryer in my team. No complaints just an example of where your similar and obscure names can cause confusion.

According to Wiki Alicia Alonso born 1920 as per my team.

Again for me

Though imagine the humiliation of picking areas of expertise like Doctor Who, House of Lords and cricket and being crushed into the ground by an American poster who had spent 15 minutes on Wiki.

SCAVENGER HUNT BINGO DEADPOOL RULES This is a new game and there is a prize but it may not be to everyone’s liking – You get to run the next game!!!!!! Each player picks five selections in each of five categories (for categories see below). There are three ways to win 1. You get at least one hit in each of the five categories 2. You get all five hits in one category 3. You get three unique hits across the whole game. There is no fixed duration you play until there is a winner. Obits will not be stringent (more akin to Deathrace requirements). However the Game Controller will be checking that picks meet the category criteria at the start of the game. A unique pick is considered unique in category. For example if two categories were Conservative MPs and Contestants on Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars and three players picked Edwina Curry in the first category and the fourth player picked her in the second category. If she eggspired then Player 4 would get a unique bonus. As Game Controller I will not submit a team but when a winner is declared the Game Controller passes to the victor and they get to select the new categories. (However I shudder at Sir C’s picks of College Presidents and Baseball Players) The Categories for the first game are 1.Actors (generic term covering M & F) who have appeared in Doctor Who 2.Current or retired members of the UK House of Lords 3.Participants in the US presidential elections (Presidents, Vice Presidents First and Second Ladies, Challegners and their running mates) 4.International Test Cricketers 5.Artist who have had a UK No. 1 Hit single (either solo or as part of a group) Please PM me your teams to avoid revealing those unique picks. This will also help because I am going to China next week. Starting Date is 01 June 2016.

The reason I didn't enter the first one was because I wanted there to be a real winner. I did not intend it as a precedent and would happily accept a team from RA.

Entered now. I was hoping for a tie against YoungWilz in the first round. I just hope Phantom of the Midway scores a better goal than Lisa Magill to send me packing.

@Rotten Ali I hope you don't mind but if I do not hear from you before the end of the month I will open entries based on those already discussed and the actual start date will be 01st March 2018. I will admin and I hope YW will be looking over my shoulder. I realise people are busy and it was probably a bit mean to expect them to run the pool but the prize is to send everyone scrying into your topics of choice.

1920 Alicia Alonso/Michael Anderson 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Al Jaffee 1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker 1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton 1927 Babs Chinnery/Frank Windsor 1928 Kate Wilhelm/Peter Firmin 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

You don't have a 1926 woman. As well as nicking a couple of my regulars. grrrr. Still pissed about David Fisher.

I am preparing my list. Will post this week.

1. Donald Trump 2. Queen Elizabeth II 3. Dick Van Dyke 4. Angela Lansbury 5. Henry Kissinger 6. Prince Philip 7. Jimmy Carter 8. Paul Gascoigne 9. Olivia Newton-John 10. Stan Lee 11. Betty White 12. Stephen Hawking 13. Little Richard 14. Valerie Harper 15. Prunella Scales 16. Doris Day 17. Terry Jones 18. Val Kilmer 19. Robert Mugabe 20. Aretha Franklin 21. Linda Nolan 22. Jimmy Greaves 23. Pope Benedict XVI 24. Stefan Karl Steffansson 25. Tessa Jowell Sub Olivia de Havilland