msc 18,479 Posted September 8, 2022 24 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: I do hope that all of you who have really obscure picks are prepared for the fact that in the month following the death of the Queen and eighty year old Latvian Folk Dancer (or whatever your really obscure pick is) will not be getting anything like a QO in the British Media You mean we're not going to get a LOCALS MOURN LAIRD, AND ALSO QUEEN headline? 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted September 8, 2022 Is there a memorable photo of the Queen with Ronnie Hellström? 3 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 473 Posted September 9, 2022 9 hours ago, gcreptile said: Is there a memorable photo of the Queen with Ronnie Hellström? Believe her dying words were about how much she admired Diane Berberian 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted September 9, 2022 Queen Elizabeth is a hit here 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Grimace 359 Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) As mentioned in the "Hollywood Possibilities" thread, Henry Silva has died at 95. QO courtesy of the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11221843/Oceans-Eleven-actor-Henry-Silva-dies-age-95.html Edit: Re-reading @gcreptile in the above thread gives a Metro QO; my mistake, didn't realize it is a QO source - it isn't listed on the DDP website on the DDP Rules page Edited September 17, 2022 by Evil Grimace QO sourcing correction 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted September 20, 2022 On 01/01/2022 at 01:59, Death Impends said: Maarten Schmidt. Maarten Schmidt, discoverer of Quasars, dead at 92: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/maarten-schmidt-im-alter-von-92-jahren-verstorben-a-85f04863-d1a2-43b7-8e68-60b13ad8c7a6 Edit: Oh, I finally beat TomTomTelekom to a big academic obit... 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,979 Posted September 20, 2022 On 08/09/2022 at 10:31, msc said: You mean we're not going to get a LOCALS MOURN LAIRD, AND ALSO QUEEN headline? Maybe not, but we did get a Times obit for him: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbff20ae-3600-11ed-838f-27529d647dcb 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted September 20, 2022 30 minutes ago, Death Impends said: Maybe not, but we did get a Times obit for him: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbff20ae-3600-11ed-838f-27529d647dcb Brilliant, my attempts to bring some class and respectability to the DDP work for once! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,979 Posted September 23, 2022 Maarten Schmidt QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/maarten-schmidt-caltech-astronomer-changed-181946095.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted September 27, 2022 The Daily Mail and Mail One reports teams are to merge. Will these reduce the amount of Q/O of non British obscure names they report. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,201 Posted September 27, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/63045408 Ronnie Hellstrom deadline day for realistic obit announced. The Old Crem doubted there would be a SPOTY but it's just a little later than normal. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted October 2, 2022 I think the DDP still looks on track to surpass last years total. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 742 Posted October 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: I think the DDP still looks on track to surpass last years total. We need another enema. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted October 3, 2022 53 minutes ago, Captain Hemlock said: We need another enema. On its way!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,983 Posted October 4, 2022 One for list of the missed http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2012/celebs_N.html#nativk https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/10/04/kitten-natividad-star-russ-meyers-sexploitation-classic-beneath/ Picked in 2012 Kitten Natividad 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,538 Posted October 9, 2022 Squeaky-bum time? Anyone know where I can send George Alagiah some chicken soup? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted October 9, 2022 If we assume that Julia Reichert / Nigel Starmer-Smith cancel each other out, so to say... then yes, just as you predicted, George Alagiah might be the crucial pick. You both have Phelan and Frank Field. Though you do have Don West, too. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,423 Posted October 9, 2022 So considering my 5th place ranking in the DDP, here is the current breakdown of my survivors. Not that I think I have any chance of taking the title! George Alagiah - would be nice for him to score this year, although he’s still presenting the news, albeit quieter on the socials. Rob Burrow - someone that I thought would topple this year. Seems stable and will probably make it to 2023. Bobby Caldwell - family still asking for prayers as of August. Don’t think this is his year. Frank Field - stresses me out that this bloke is still alive when everyone assumed he’d be an early year hit. Besides one comment about him receiving hospice at some point, how ill is he? And is he worth keeping for 2023? Alan Melinek - piano playing tiktoker with pancreatic cancer. Unique pick, would be a nice 10 pointer if he does go. Larry Pressler - another pancan pick. Not impossible that he’ll die this year but he does, wouldn’t reward me with a lot of points either way. Vicky Phelan - dare I say she’s a lock for this year? Not heard a peep from her since August. Was serving Gary Burgess bloat energy in her most recent pictures. Tammy Slaton - Very fat reality ‘star’ who probably has her own gravitational pull. Last health news I heard was that she had a trachea infection and still in a medical facility. Still looks like shit on her TikTok and still active. And then there’s Dan Lacey, who I thought would get a low bar QO due to his odd paintings of A-listers. How wrong that was. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,479 Posted October 9, 2022 3 hours ago, Perhaps said: Frank Field - stresses me out that this bloke is still alive when everyone assumed he’d be an early year hit. Besides one comment about him receiving hospice at some point, how ill is he? And is he worth keeping for 2023? Well, here's my two thoughts. Field has incurable, aggressive Stage IV cancer. Type, I don't know. His colleagues have referred to him as dying. Beyond that, Field was a workaholic. The sort of who did the work of ten for the hell of it. Since Summer 2021, his career in parliament just ended, all speeches, votes, articles and appearances ceased. As a hard working contrarian sod, the only way he'd not continue working when ill is if he was unable to. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evil Grimace 359 Posted October 11, 2022 On 09/10/2022 at 11:07, Spade_Cooley said: Squeaky-bum time? If there was a D40 hit to occur, a quick glance shows that Angela Lansbury was probably the best option. Not until =50th place is she picked by the team 'Tiny and Ellie's Pick of the Drops' on 75 points. So no threat... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prowler0000 8 Posted October 16, 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11320997/Come-Life-singer-Joyce-Sims-dies-aged-63.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,979 Posted October 16, 2022 13 minutes ago, Prowler0000 said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11320997/Come-Life-singer-Joyce-Sims-dies-aged-63.html Never picked in the DDP. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted October 16, 2022 51 minutes ago, Death Impends said: Never picked in the DDP. I considered her for a few nanoseconds but couldn't find any health information or sense of her circumstances at all online,which for someone so relatively young I would need for it to make sense to pick her. So I plumped for Rosie Gaines instead who had considerable health information on her that made her worth considering as a choice. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted October 20, 2022 https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63329262 Qualifying Obituary for Scottish footballer Jimmy Millar. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,654 Posted October 20, 2022 Liz Truss q/o, or summat 1 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
