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  2. Posted

    5 hours ago, BonScott said:

    Could be an old pic, not taken yesterday or anything, but she looks much healthier than I expected, thought would lose a lot of weight with op, but probably pic taken months ago

    Looking at the photo, I'm not entirely sure that she still has feet.

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  5. Posted

    On 16/04/2017 at 14:51, gcreptile said:

    9/11 first respondent (hey, also a terror victim) and pick of my B-Team Ray Pfeifer now in hospice care:

    http://pix11.com/2017/04/04/dying-firefighter-sick-from-911-illness-fights-last-battle-a-spot-on-fdny-wall-of-honor/

     

    He's the public face of the campaign to give first respondents financial compensation (The Zadroga Act) so I'm fairly certain a QO will come. I should have put him in my main team...

    Joseph Zadroga, the 9/11 activist after whom the Zadroga Act is named, dies in a hospital, being run over by a car in the hotel garage:

    https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/joseph-zadroga-advocated-9-11-193645017.html

  11. Posted

    On 04/03/2024 at 11:15, gcreptile said:

    Also, alright, I'll switch the masterlist format. Might not get around to do it until wednesday or so though.

    Well, the rail strike here in Germany disrupts my plans. My "extended weekend getaway" begins a day earlier, i.e. in an hour.

    Though it does not look like hurry is in this round's plans anyway.

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  15. Posted

    Oh, wow, he has a thread....

    Anyway, I watched Dune II with him in it. He looked very aged, but some of that might be on purpose. I think he's eminently deathlist-y, Oscar winner, meme-y person, on Robert Wagner's boat, SNL's "More Cowbell", Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice".

    Maybe to be considered AFTER Robert Wagner's death.

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  16. Posted

    Dune II - it's solid. I actually like the somewhat added cynical side which was a good play by the film creators considering that the novel (and Lynch movie, and TV miniseries) are so well-known, meaning, simply portraying the plot without any subtext wasn't enough. The scenery and music is impressive, as expected.

    Also, Christopher Walken is pretty deathlisty, isn't he? Think he should be on the list after Robert Wagner's death. He looks very aged in the movie, maybe somewhat on purpose. I thought he was a bit of a weak spot.

  17. Posted

    Looks like Eleanor Collins died on the 3rd.

    The "first lady of Canadian jazz" - not just first in stature, but also quite literally the first one to do so it seems. Her career began in the 40s and peaked with TV shows in the 60s.

    GuyFromFuture wins a prize in the centenarians lottery and leads Spade_Cooley who only has one unique pick to counter.

     

    AltObitsGuy 0-0 theoldlady

    Perhaps 0-0 TheKillingTime

    Spade_Cooley 0-4 GuyFromFuture

    Hell 0-0 Famous6eva

    Grim Up North 0-0 Death By Arsenic

    Cpt. Chorizo 0-0 arghton

    wannamaker 0-0 Wormfarmer

    MariNisia 0-0 JoeMoneypenny

    Banana 0-0 MortalCaso

    Annami*

    deadsox 0-0 CalebH

    msc 0-0 therewillbedeaths7

    DevonDeathTrip 0-0 justonecornetto

    Sir Creep 0-0 diego

    An Fear Beag 0-0 max_bossetti

    Cpt. Hemlock 4-0 Bibliogryphon

     

    Also, alright, I'll switch the masterlist format. Might not get around to do it until wednesday or so though.

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  19. Posted

    Two notes:

    - I'll delete the PMs of the submitted teams in the coming days to make room for more. So any comments about the masterlist need to happen soon.

    -  Anyone else having problems with the formatting? If it's a systematic problem, I'll change it. If it's a singular issue, I won't.

  20. Posted

    I've always liked this 2nd round of the Cup (and the 3rd one) because you have so many teams and so many creative names people have found - I do respect the things some players come up with very much. And I like how people find them..

    But it seems the only super-quick hit this round is not some super-secret cult name but "legendary" Nigerian comedian John Okafor, aka Mr. Ibu. His wikipedia page describes him as "Nigeria's Borat", so, interpret it the way you want. He was ill for quite some time, and late last year, sepsis was added to the list of afflictions. He had to have his leg amputated, and then the same leg some more. And then his children set up a fake gofundme campaign. Usually, the air of fraud deters players from picking such people - but Cpt. Hemlock saw the truth of it all and goes ahead:

     

    AltObitsGuy 0-0 theoldlady

    Perhaps 0-0 TheKillingTime

    Spade_Cooley 0-0 GuyFromFuture

    Hell 0-0 Famous6eva

    Grim Up North 0-0 Death By Arsenic

    Cpt. Chorizo 0-0 arghton

    wannamaker 0-0 Wormfarmer

    MariNisia 0-0 JoeMoneypenny

    Banana 0-0 MortalCaso

    Annami*

    deadsox 0-0 CalebH

    msc 0-0 therewillbedeaths7

    DevonDeathTrip 0-0 justonecornetto

    Sir Creep 0-0 diego

    An Fear Beag 0-0 max_bossetti

    Cpt. Hemlock 4-0 Bibliogryphon

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  24. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Toast said:

    Thanks .... Slightly confused by your comment re Toby Keith:

    "I see that he was picked mostly at slots 41-50 for many teams, so you players were right, he should at least have been picked as a defensive pick."


    There wasn't any significance in the order, was there, or did I miss something?  My picks are in alphabetical order by surname. 

    Not every team was alphabetical though. I have the game in excel and use the search function to look for a name. Excel allows you to go through all the hits for the word you search for, on the same sheet, from the top to the bottom.

    I just saw that Toby Keith was usually one of the final names on these teams.

    Personally, I often fill out the teams in order of certainty - though premature deaths or news can disrupt the order.

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    Time for an update, I hope to have them more than once a month, but life interferes.... I think that things change a little...after March.

    Anyway, let's start with the names mentioned above.

    Toby Keith, 90s mainstream country mega star, picked here by 15 teams. I kind of confused myself there, thinking it was early stage cancer, but now I see that my notes actually say that it was stage III, so it was a 50:50 chance, roughly. I see that he was picked mostly at slots 41-50 for many teams, so you players were right, he should at least have been picked as a defensive pick.

    Dave Myers was picked by 14 teams, many of the teams actually went for the Keith/Myers double. The warning signs here came pretty late in 2023 because the chemo cycles just kept going up in numbers. Myers marks another entry in the long list of cooks with terminal cancer.

    Dries van Agt dies in the act .... of suicide. I did occasionally think about adding DDP-like bonusses here, but then, the pool is already quite the monster to handle. Two teams score, Gooseberry Crumble and CalebH.

    Now Alexej Nawalny, a death as sad as it was inevitable, possibly unnatural, but we will probably never know. Three people score - it just seemed to be in the air. By the way, Alexej Nawalny was the earliest living entry in my personal excel longlist, at no. 7, the "honor" now moves to Charlie Sheen at no. 8.

    Now Charlies Dierkop, a unique hit for The Daredevil. I don't really know much about him, he seems to have been booked and blessed, but never was a real star.

     

    Now, let's go back through the DDP list:

    Iris Apfel is the freshest hit (she wasn't exactly fresh anymore herself)... I kind of confuse her with Baddie Winkle. But Apfel was the one who didn't just wear the stylish clothes she also made them. Two teams score.

    Paul Vachon, the canadian wrestler from the Vachon wrestling family was a hit for three teams. His age is quite remarkable for a wrestler, and the diseases just kept piling up. It was time.

    Next hit, next wrestler, Virgil, actually a unique hit for BabyBlue, well done! He seemed to have the more illustrious career when compared to Vachon, which explains his "Legend" status in the obits. Well, I wouldn't know unfortunately.

    Also dead, the longtime deadpooling staple Stan Bowles. I thought he looked like shit ages ago, but he managed to defy my and our expectations again and again. Three teams didn't lose faith.

    Now Ian McMillan, a star of Scottish football in the 60s. A hit for three teams. It gives me the opportunity to correct his entry in my longlist, I guess you all didn't pick the poet...

    Alexis Buchman. If the DDP doesn't go ahead, I will. The Yahoo QO rule will be altered in the next year. I am not yet exactly sure how, but the super-local specific Yahoo obits will go away.

    And finally, Seiji Ozawa. The japanese conductor had been suffering from Alzheimer's for a while and I personally regret not picking him, but many of you did! He wonder if Ozawa's hair was just his marketing, because you've got to stand out when you do such a perfomative job, and well, this way he did give off an eccentric air that made him very prominent.

     

    And now, I have a feeling that there is surely a hit or two still out there, but I haven't had a look at Wikipedia yet, and need to go out for a bit.

     

    Lady Fiona, your dead name has been subbed with Dick Van Dyke.

     

    The scoreboard shows a lot of upheaval, Funeralopolis moving up similarly to last year, Toast getting a huge boost from the Keith/Myers combo, much like Book one place below her.

    All teams have now scored, which is always nice to see.

    But at the top, Perhaps defends his position. I have dropped 7 places and am the big loser of this update... Cpt. Chorizo is on the attack and has almost caught Perhaps

     

    Rank Team Score
    1 Perhaps 581
    2 Cpt. Chorizo 564
    3 Banana 516
    4 RadGuy 497
    5 Funeralopolis 493
    6 wannamaker 473
    7 Toast 449
    8 Book 437
    9 gcreptile 436
    10 msc 392
    11 Pedro67 376
    12 Baby Blue 375
    13 Mr. Wonderful 372
    14 The Immortal 356
    15 tracy 354
    16 Summer in Transilvania 350
    17 Caleb H 338
    18 Etushipushingupdaisies 325
    19 DeathBecomesThem 315
    20 MariNisia 295
    21 The Unknown Man 293
    22 Salmon Mousse 278
    23 Buffalo Phil 277
    24 The old lady 268
    24 Death Impends 268
    26 Liz Lemon 230
    27 Lady Fiona 224
    28 Thatcher 213
    29 Bibliogryphon 203
    29 An Fear Beag 203
    31 The Old Crem 202
    32 ThereWillBeDeaths7 201
    32 John Key 201
    34 Yorkshire Banker 188
    35 Cpt. Hemlock 187
    36 Imelda 185
    37 Charles De Gaulle 179
    38 The Daredevil 177
    39 TQR 153
    40 Diego 140
    40 Wormfarmer 140
    42 Predictor 134
    43 Sean 128
    44 Annami 99
    45 Sod's Law 76
    46 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73
    46 Young Willz 73
    48 arghton 67
    49 Gooseberry Crumble 31
    50 Torva Messor 29
    51 Hell 23
    51 chileanway 23

     

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