Predictor

Hi, Is there anyway I can have my team completely removed from the DDP website? It wouldn't affect the D40 for the rest of the participants, I think. I would greatly appreciate it. See spoiler for explanation, don't wanna derail the thread.

Relevant quotes from some of Ed Gale's (Chucky the Doll, Howard the Duck) videos. Could be a good pick for the Windy City Deadpool. October 2018: May 2020: January 2021: July 2021:

Eric Lamaze announced his retirement (he was taking a sabbatical before that) from showjumping yesterday due to brain cancer. I know there's a difference between not being fit to play competititve sports and being at death's door, but it is still ominous when you get news like this. At least he still can work as a technical advisor... https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2022/04/01/eric-lamaze-quitting-showjumping/

Mosharraf Hossain update (14 March via Google Translate): https://bn.bdcrictime.com/সংকটাপন্ন-অবস্থায়-আইসিইউ/ Hope he pulls through.

Hahahah, I forgot about that. Those likes really helped me cope with Morbidkid's critique. Almost felt like a pity fuck. On a serious note, I admit that I was meaner towards him during our spats than I should have been. He was just a teenager after all. Dunno if he visits the forum nowadays, but I would like to apologize for that, regardless of who started what argument.

1. Donald Trump 2. Phil Collins 3. Paul Gascoigne 4. Queen Elizabeth 5. Billy Connolly 6. Angela Lansbury 7. Ghislaine Maxwell 8. Shane MacGowan 9. Tim Bilton 10. Clint Eastwood 11. Olivia Newton-John 12. Rupert Murdoch 13. Milos Zeman 14. Mel Brooks 15. Dick Van Dyke 16. Francoise Hardy 17. Bobby Charlton 18. Pope Benedict 19. David Attenborough 20. Harry Belafonte 21. June Brown 22. Yoko Ono 23. Henry Kissinger 24. Tom Smith 25. Joanne Woodward Sub: Shannen Doherty Thanks for running. Any similarity to the other teams posted is purely coincidental.

Well done, GC, DI & GUN. Ten Drop 40 names and five uniques is pretty much the balance that I was going for. What surprised me the most is that Bouquet is a unique. Not even Vive la France has him, so that's 9 fairly easy points for a distinguished actor in poor health. Shocking. Unrelated to my own team, I was under the impression that Natalie Kwadrans was a "regular" snowboarder rather than a paralympic one.

I know this wasn't an actual game but... Since msc and Shaun carried over all 24 survivors from last year, it put me at a 2 points disadvantage. When it comes to newcomers, we all correctly agreed on 5 names: Burgess, Burrow, Charlton, Field & Pele. The only incorrect names we all thought would make it was Attenborough and Poitier (although it's unclear who was msc's 41st choice). After that, the following newcomers were correctly predicted by at least one of us: Bennett: msc & Shaun Bishop: Predictor & Shaun Brown: msc & Shaun Lewis: Predictor & Shaun MacGowan: Predictor Perez: msc & Predictor Steiner: Predictor Zeman: msc & Shaun Shaun: 34 msc: 33 Predictor: 32 Congrats Shaun. My consolation for coming last is that I was the only one to guess MacGowan and Steiner. But then again, the worst prediction, objectively speaking, came from me with Jacques Delors...A basic search of previous DDP years would've told me that he is WAY less popular than I had the impression of.

Well, the forum can save text as draft before you hit reply. It comes up as "Your previous content has been restored" when you return to it.

Rest in peace, Robert Durst. Don't know anything about him, but I reckon he should have been knighted. Edited to add: Whoa, just read about who this man actually was. I completely take back what I said about knighthood. He wasn't British.

I dropped two people from the 2021 Drop 40. Bilton felt to me like one of those "previously unknown turned flavour of the year" picks last year. I figured he isn't a household name for casual players, nor has had a serious recent deterioration in health for serious deadpoolers. I could see him getting on lots of teams, but still ousted by enough newcomers. Rolf Harris is a bit harder to motivate, just my gut feeling. I forgot about Woodward, definitely one of the contenders (and Barbara Walters in the same category of 90+ woman with dementia). Hardy is another good guess. I think Zeman is one of the names that mostly lives in this little deathlist community bubble, but has less staying power outside of it. If he was verifiably at death's door, then I'd be more convinced of his inclusion. No Poitier? He has been in the 20-region in the past few years, and I expect at least 30 teams to pick him this time.

Have always been too much of a coward to go up against the genius deadpoolers of the forum. But since I'm trying all sorts of different pools this year...I'm in.

My prediction: 1. George Alagiah 2. David Attenborough (new) 3. Ady Barkan (new) 4. Bob Barker 5. Harry Belafonte (new) 6. Pope Benedict 7. Russell Bishop (new) 8. Gary Burgess (new) 9. Rob Burrow (new) 10. Jimmy Carter 11. Bobby Charlton (new) 12. Billy Connolly 13. Jacques Delors (new) 14. Shannen Doherty 15. Dick Van Dyke 16. Queen Elizabeth 17. Frank Field (new) 18. Paul Gascoigne (new) 19. Mikhail Gorbachev 20. Henry Kissinger 21. Angela Lansbury 22. Jerry Lee Lewis 23. Shane MacGowan (new) 24. Olivia Newton-John 25. Linda Nolan 26. Yoko Ono 27. Tom Parker 28. Pele (new, will be #1) 29. George Perez (new) 30. Leslie Phillips 31. Sidney Poitier (new) 32. Eva Marie Saint (new) 33. Prunella Scales 34. Tom Smith 35. Susie Steiner (new) 36. Jean-Louis Trintignant (new) 37. Bill Turnbull 38. Frankie Valli (new) 39. Doddie Weir 40. James Whale Contenders: Emperor Akihito, Jana Bennett, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Rolf Harris, Glynis Johns, Willie Nelson, Vicky Phelan, Linda Ronstadt, Donald Trump, Gianluca Vialli & Tom Weiskopf

1922: Annette Warren / Bert I. Gordon 1923: Jessica Blair / Bill Spence 1924: Helen Grayco / Woody Woodbury 1925: Mildred Kornman / Michel Bouquet 1926: Margaret Barton / David Frankham 1927: Jean Lodge / Elliot Silverstein 1928: Jeannie Carson / Rudy Challenger 1929: Isa Barzizza / Don Murray 1930: Pat Suzuki / Frank Price 1931: Angie Dickinson / Mario Zagallo

I hope not. That would ruin my dream of her marrying Harry Kane so that her new name becomes Kane Kane.