Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 18, 2021 @msc Just saw your post on the Derby Dead Pool website about stepping down from the DDP and your excellent replacement @Death Impends A brilliant post full of your characteristic ooomph and flair and your hardwork is appreciated......but don't worry I fully intend to keep you very busy on my Crumble team hits between now and new years eve! Christina Crawford, Bob Falkenburg, Ronnie Knight, Vera Miles, Rosemary Squires, Susan Harris, Pope Benedict, Ron Stander and others watch out!! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 18, 2021 37 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Christina Crawford, Bob Falkenburg, Ronnie Knight, Vera Miles, Rosemary Squires, Susan Harris, Pope Benedict, Ron Stander and others watch out!! Hmmm... my admired Vera Miles... she'll resist for at least two or three more years. Or so I hope. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted August 18, 2021 Characteristic typos too! Must fix those in the morning! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 18, 2021 10 minutes ago, MariNisia said: Hmmm... my admired Vera Miles... she'll resist for at least two or three more years. Or so I hope. Four and a half months to see whos right!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 18, 2021 6 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Four and a half months to see whos right!! Alright, I'll take that bet, my friend. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 19, 2021 Austin Mitchell for the List of the Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_M.html#mitca0 Albert Bandura awaiting his death registered, I'm guessing we're awaiting another death to do a more comprehensive update. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted August 19, 2021 Indeed, sorry, no time! I'm thankful for the watchful eyes nonetheless, and by the way, @YoungWillz: How good are you with excel? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 19, 2021 Just now, gcreptile said: Indeed, sorry, no time! I'm thankful for the watchful eyes nonetheless, and by the way, @YoungWillz: How good are you with excel? It's a mystery to me, excel something about figures, right? Yeah, never understood it, barely get by on wordpad! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,226 Posted August 19, 2021 On 17/08/2021 at 10:10, Joey Russ said: Bob Fass from my counterculture theme team somehow didn’t get a QO… Just bringing this down again since this seemed to have been overlooked Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,982 Posted August 19, 2021 2 names for list of the missed Both last picked in 2019 Bobby Bowden http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_B.html#bowdeb Elgin Baylor http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2019/celebs_B.html#baylorex19 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted August 19, 2021 On 17/08/2021 at 12:37, Spade_Cooley said: Bandura gets an obit through the Yahoo loophole (the same loophole that refuses to cough up a QO for Ezra Nawi): https://uk.news.yahoo.com/albert-bandura-1925-2021-renowned-095354026.html Bandura got an Independent Obit just yesterday, finally. Maybe someone at the Independent reads this forum? I think there were a couple of forum-relevant names, Independent only like Barbara Hammer and Cynthia Heimel. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/albert-bandura-psychology-obituary-death-b1900898.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 19, 2021 Michael Cullen Qobit: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-9910229/NZ-Labour-giant-Michael-Cullen-dies.html Edit: Sigh, looks like I have more work on the Poker Tourney before the dawn.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 20, 2021 20 hours ago, YoungWillz said: Austin Mitchell for the List of the Missed: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_M.html#mitca0 Albert Bandura awaiting his death registered, I'm guessing we're awaiting another death to do a more comprehensive update. Thanks ! I knew I'd picked him previously but thought it was on the death by numbers pool! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 23, 2021 Last year's pick for me, well done to the Team With No Name for sticking with him, Brian Travers QO: https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1480605/Brian-Travers-dead-death-UB40-cause-cancer-age-news-latest-update 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted August 23, 2021 Yeah, that team is a bit "Nicked, but not dead" or "Diana Rots". Still, the tactic to just pick the hot deadpooling shit from the year before, is not the worst... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted August 23, 2021 Just now, gcreptile said: Yeah, that team is a bit "Nicked, but not dead" or "Diana Rots". Still, the tactic to just pick the hot deadpooling shit from the year before, is not the worst... I mean, we all mock Diana Rots teams but then pretty much everyone goes "Hmm, nice unique you've got there, mate" and immediately shortlists them. I may have once nicked DDT's joker the following year, but tbf if someone does keep going on about how great a pick is you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 24, 2021 In case the Scotsman isn't a source, the BBC have come through unsurprisingly with a QO for Elizabeth Blackadder: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58324930 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,087 Posted August 26, 2021 On 25/08/2021 at 05:10, YoungWillz said: In case the Scotsman isn't a source, the BBC have come through unsurprisingly with a QO for Elizabeth Blackadder: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58324930 Oh nice, a unique pick for my theme team The Curse of Late September EDIT: thanks for a most amusing DDP write-up, although I'd like to clarify I didn't "get my timing wrong". The name of the team refers to their date of birth, not when I think they will die. She was born on 24 September. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 891 Posted August 26, 2021 Swedish children's book writer Gunilla Bergström has died at 79: https://www.rundschau-online.de/news/kultur/-mutter--von-willi-wiberg-autorin-gunilla-bergstroem-gestorben-39009004 https://www.svt.se/kultur/forfattaren-gunilla-bergstrom-ar-dod No English obit at all for GONE-illa. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 891 Posted August 26, 2021 On 26/08/2021 at 11:51, WEP said: Swedish children's book writer Gunilla Bergström has died at 79: https://www.rundschau-online.de/news/kultur/-mutter--von-willi-wiberg-autorin-gunilla-bergstroem-gestorben-39009004 https://www.svt.se/kultur/forfattaren-gunilla-bergstrom-ar-dod No English obit at all for GONE-illa. And one more Nordic, this time a Baltic one: Aino Käärik, 102 passed away without scoring or leaving an English obit: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted August 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, WEP said: And one more Scandinavian Aino Käärik, 102 passed away without scoring or leaving an English obit: Oh yes, we really struggled to find a photo of her. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,044 Posted August 29, 2021 I'm sure I'm not missing something but all those Nobel/Smart teams didn't pick Edmond H Fischer for this year - yes, the oldest (formerly) living Laureate. Picked as long ago as 2011 and on and off thereafter: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2011/celebs_F.html#fisce Another for the List of the Missed, @msc. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eesti 151 Posted August 30, 2021 On 26/08/2021 at 16:03, WEP said: And one more Scandinavian Aino Käärik, 102 passed away without scoring or leaving an English obit: I don't know if this is a compliment, but Estonians are not Scandinavians. But we prefer to be Scandinavians, not Baltic (and of course, we are far from slavic). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 891 Posted August 30, 2021 5 hours ago, Eesti said: I don't know if this is a compliment, but Estonians are not Scandinavians. But we prefer to be Scandinavians, not Baltic (and of course, we are far from slavic). As a Scandinavian by heart it is of course a compliment. I did not want to insult anyone, just to connect my post to the previous one. I had been in Tallin years ago and it reminded me on some Swedish citys I visited. The Estonian language is neither Slavic nor Scandinavian, but due to the similarities to Finnish language, it could be more the second one. Sorry for mixing it up. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 742 Posted September 1, 2021 What a difference a year makes. August was my best month in DDP last year. This year, my main team has been at wooden spoon since early March. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
