Gooseberry Crumble 5,356 Posted December 2, 2021 Here is my entry for this year's Deathrace Barbara Walters Freddie Foreman Mohammed Al Fayed Sirikit Thai Queen Mother Dick McTaggart Johnny Johnson (Dambuster) Linda Ronstadt Frank Field Ryan O'Neal Neville Trotter Pele Kenneth Cope Violeta Chamorro Ray Reardon Iris Apfel Betty White Gudrun Ure Roman Polanski Alice Mahon E.O. Wilson Three subs Lloyd Morrisett Doreen Mantle Yoko Ono Cheers for running this @maryportfuncity 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 2, 2021 35 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Here is my entry for this year's Deathrace Barbara Walters Freddie Foreman Mohammed Al Fayed Sirikit Thai Queen Mother Dick McTaggart Johnny Johnson (Dambuster) Linda Ronstadt Frank Field Ryan O'Neal Neville Trotter Pele Kenneth Cope Violeta Chamorro Ray Reardon Iris Apfel Betty White Gudrun Ure Roman Polanski Alice Mahon E.O. Wilson Three subs Lloyd Morrisett Doreen Mantle Yoko Ono Cheers for running this @maryportfuncity So, I'm giving it everything to be decent and fair here. Can I draw the crowd's attention to rule 5 5 - Each team must nominate one member as a joker and the joker scores double points on death. Any team submitted without a clearly nominated joker will be allotted said joker on the basis of the name at the top of the team sheet being so designated. AND... Then give GC a day to nominate a joker. After which it'll be Walters by default. And finally... The next jokerless team will come under rule 5, because my current week of a chilled leave from work is about to come to an end so time will be limited when the next line ups come in. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted December 2, 2021 Yeah, I know a guy who won this thing twice and has a terrible habit of forgetting to add a joker to his team. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, msc said: Yeah, I know a guy who won this thing twice and has a terrible habit of forgetting to add a joker to his team. Yeah, well... if GC adds one on 3 December I don't see anyone crying foul. After which the first name being the default is out in the open in case anyone missed it. You feeling confident re your 2022 dead pools then, msc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted December 2, 2021 12 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: Yeah, well... if GC adds one on 3 December I don't see anyone crying foul. After which the first name being the default is out in the open in case anyone missed it. You feeling confident re your 2022 dead pools then, msc? Wildly out of practice, I wouldn't expect anything of note in 2022 tbh. Although both my Deathrace wins were based on sheer dumb luck, which I always welcome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,356 Posted December 2, 2021 Sorted just messaged you @maryportfuncity Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,234 Posted December 3, 2021 2 hours ago, msc said: Wildly out of practice, I wouldn't expect anything of note in 2022 tbh. Although both my Deathrace wins were based on sheer dumb luck, which I always welcome. Come on, @msc, don't be so modest. You're an excellent player. Your list will be one of the best of this pool. I'm absolutely sure about this. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Predictor 1,018 Posted December 3, 2021 8 hours ago, MariNisia said: Come on, @msc, don't be so modest. You're an excellent player. Your list will be one of the best of this pool. I'm absolutely sure about this. Well, if you spell his username out loud, it almost sounds like "am Messi", who's also humble so...Would be hilarious if Messi was secretly a deathpooler. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 3, 2021 On 06/11/2021 at 23:02, YorkshireBanker said: FW De Klerk -joker Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton June Brown Jeannette Charles June Spencer Sir Anthony Sher Bob Oldis Margaret Stuart Barry Milos Zeman Lynne Reid Banks Sandy Gall Jerry Lee Lewis Cleo Laine Anne Baker Dot Wilkinson Clarissa Eden Terry Medwin Leonor Oyarzun Phyllida Law Agnes Keleti backup Gwyneth Jones Norma Waterson Bob Dole Baroness Sharples Gudrun Ure So, with Anthony Sher taking his final curtain call today - there's THREE non-starters in this team, still a couple of spare subs but... YB clearly has a hotline to the Grim Reaper, or summat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 5, 2021 Dole has been duly subbed - hugely popular pick with those already there. A few updates: 1 - Dying Probably has the second pick on the team sheet as default joker (since the team arrived without a joker and Dole was the original default by being in first place) 2 - Yorkshire Banker named FIVE subs including Dole (who was already in play) and is now down to one serviceable bench-warmer. If you want the inside track on who is likely to die in the next few days, you could do worse than look at YB's line up hereabouts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YorkshireBanker 171 Posted December 5, 2021 Fortune FitzRoy is also dead so I am all out of subs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 6, 2021 11 hours ago, YorkshireBanker said: Fortune FitzRoy is also dead so I am all out of subs Well, you are until you post some more Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Immortal 641 Posted December 6, 2021 50 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: Well, you are until you post some more I'm down to my final sub as well, can I add 2 more? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeathByArsenic 46 Posted December 6, 2021 Julia Riechert Rachid Mekhloufi Alain Delon(joker) Michel Bouquet Alberto Fujimori Stephen Pearcy Tin Oo François Remetter Laura Cardoso Geneviève Page Raul Castro Néstor Combin Yvonne Furneaux Anne Vernon Philippe De Gaulle James Dewey Watson Lucien Muller Françoise Hardy Françoise Gilot Guillermo Rodriguez subs Desmond Tutu James Lovelock Harry Belafonte Iris Apfel Miguel Van Damme Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YorkshireBanker 171 Posted December 7, 2021 On 06/12/2021 at 03:11, maryportfuncity said: Well, you are until you post some more adding the subs Mai Raud Pahn Dick McTaggart Pele Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted December 7, 2021 Patricia Routledge Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter Pele Burt Ward Duke of Kent Roselyn Carter Owen Patterson Ken Hom Ozzy Osbourne Lester Piggott Henry Winkler Peter Tobin Eileen Derbyshire Mary Berry Olivia Newton John Ron Yeats(CAPTAIN) Denis Law Julie Goodyear Stanley Baxter SUBS Leslie Phillips Billy Connolly Petula Clark Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 7, 2021 2 hours ago, YorkshireBanker said: adding the subs Mai Raud Pahn Dick McTaggart Pele They're dead in the next three weeks, then...thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Redrumours said: Patricia Routledge Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter Pele Burt Ward Duke of Kent Roselyn Carter Owen Patterson Ken Hom Ozzy Osbourne Lester Piggott Henry Winkler Peter Tobin Eileen Derbyshire Mary Berry Olivia Newton John Ron Yeats(CAPTAIN) Denis Law Julie Goodyear Stanley Baxter SUBS Leslie Phillips Billy Connolly Petula Clark Ron Yeats is "captain", nice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted December 7, 2021 29 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: Ron Yeats is "captain", nice! Yeah I think he'd appreciate it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,192 Posted December 8, 2021 Deathrace Form Guide #27 Jean-Louis Trintignant This 90-year-old icon of French cinema reportedly lost the will to live back when his daughter died in 2003. Trintignant was then diagnosed with prostate cancer 3-4 years ago but rejected treatment. According to his wife in November 2021, Trintignant is going badly, he is now living with diabetes and not adapting his diet to suit his condition, his eyesight has been deteriorating, he finds it difficult to walk and he still refuses chemotherapy to treat his cancer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,192 Posted December 8, 2021 Deathrace Form Guide #28 Monica Vitti This 90-year-old icon of Italian cinema has reportedly been suffering from Alzheimer’s for over 25 years and as of 2018 was being looked after around the clock by her husband and a caregiver. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Daredevil 1,192 Posted December 8, 2021 Deathrace Form Guide #29 Alain Delon This 86-year-old icon of French cinema (who starred alongside Trintignant in Flic Story and with Vitti in The Eclipse), expressed he was sick of the world and ready to die as long as his dog went with him, back in January 2018. In 2019, he suffered a stroke and following Jean-Paul Belmondo’s death last September, Delon hinted in a statement that he himself won’t be around much longer...... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GuyFromFuture 69 Posted December 17, 2021 On 03/11/2021 at 17:14, GuyFromFuture said: Vicente Fernandez Bob Dole Lucia Hiriart dead Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redrumours 861 Posted December 17, 2021 2 hours ago, GuyFromFuture said: dead Dead loss. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,673 Posted December 22, 2021 Also posted this on the Dead of... thread, simply because things get seen there. Could do with a little help... There's dead pool points - maybe - riding on this (basically, someone's messaged me asking about including Moth Winn on a Deathrace team!) Raynor Winn- best selling author who writes about her terminally ill husband in her autobiographical books - has made Moth Winn famous enough to be obitable and I'm struggling to know if he's alive. A few of the bot-driven barrel scraping online emporia of obits appear to have him dead sometime in the summer of this year, though they can't agree on a month, let alone a date of death. Can't find owt that'd count as a q/o in a standard dead pool and - short of ringing up Raynor and fucking her Christmas over by raising the issue of dead pool points, I'm stumped as to whether Moth counts as a dead pool pick. Anyone know? Here's the lassie herself: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
