Derby Dead Pool 2022

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Josephine Tewson QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/19560787/josephine-tewson-dies-keeping-up-appearances/

 

Probably better to come. 5th hit on my comedy theme team. 

 

Edit: @gcreptile, her date of birth is 1931, not 1939 as currently stated on her bio. Yes, I'm doing myself out of points. You're welcome.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

On 01/01/2022 at 10:44, msc said:

 

Nice. Already thinking I should have payed John Ashton more attention tbh!

 

That Comedy team seems held together by sticky back plaster.

 

Also hah, entirely different Sex Pistol from the one I was considering!

Quarter of them gone, before the bad weather. 

[gcreptile 10,964]

4 hits in the past week while I was gone? It's done.

And thanks, I updated Tewson's birthdate. I can do more updates today (Helen Grayco?), then I'm gone for another week.

[Death Impends 7,956]

The Jozef Tomko QO too.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

I may have made it into the top 10 of the Theme Team League....

 

Stanley Baxter's been bed blocking for years...sort it out Liz Truss! 

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Tom Weiskopf causes a) a bit of a bottleneck for 2nd and b) me to go 27 points clear.

[msc 18,437]

I, for one, am stunned by this news. I actually called something correct in the DDP in 2022?

[gcreptile 10,964]

Considering the initial positive developments in Weiskopf's health early in the year, this not necessarily obvious turn of events swings things around - hard to see now an alternative path to winning the DDP now for anyone else.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Tom Weiskopf QO @gcreptile if you have time to squeeze him in to an update today: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11131983/Tom-Weiskopf-major-champion-golf-course-architect-dies.html

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,337]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Tom Weiskopf QO @gcreptile if you have time to squeeze him in to an update today: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-11131983/Tom-Weiskopf-major-champion-golf-course-architect-dies.html

Gosh it has been quiet busy brisk ' business on the DDP  this week.

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

5 hours ago, gcreptile said:

 hard to see now an alternative path to winning the DDP now for anyone else.

 

Of the three teams tied for third, I think Sound of the Underground has the best chance if that's my lot for 2022: it's feasible that Bobby Caldwell, Alan Melinek and Tammy Slaton could all die, and that'd put them top by dint of having more hits than me. However, they don't have Don West, and I've got other coverage in the likes of Pele, Bill Steel and Julie Reichert...

[Toast 16,129]

20 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Of the three teams tied for third, I think Sound of the Underground has the best chance if that's my lot for 2022: it's feasible that Bobby Caldwell, Alan Melinek and Tammy Slaton could all die, and that'd put them top by dint of having more hits than me. However, they don't have Don West, and I've got other coverage in the likes of Pele, Bill Steel and Julie Reichert...

 

Ah, Pele!  I've heard of him. 

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

Random question here, but...

 

Re Fauja Singh who claims to have been born 1 April 1911 and has been picked by four of us on the DDP,  what happens re points if the obits can't agree on his age and all go with the line it remains a mystery? Wikipedia and the list of Britain's oldest people (which ignores him completely) aren't much help and where there is doubt about his age it's a big doubt, i.e. that his age is significantly below what he claims. Clearly, this is a question about the difference between 4 points or a mere 3 (unless he happens to open his front door when one convicted drug dealer is pursuing another one nearby). But still wondering if there's any precedent for such a situation., and thinking to ask whilst he's still breathing.

 

[Death Impends 7,956]

3 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

Random question here, but...

 

Re Fauja Singh who claims to have been born 1 April 1911 and has been picked by four of us on the DDP,  what happens re points if the obits can't agree on his age and all go with the line it remains a mystery? Wikipedia and the list of Britain's oldest people (which ignores him completely) aren't much help and where there is doubt about his age it's a big doubt, i.e. that his age is significantly below what he claims. Clearly, this is a question about the difference between 4 points or a mere 3 (unless he happens to open his front door when one convicted drug dealer is pursuing another one nearby). But still wondering if there's any precedent for such a situation., and thinking to ask whilst he's still breathing.

 

 

We would go with his claimed age. Shivakumara Swami definitely wasn't as old as claimed either, but he was still treated as 111 by the DDP system as there was no hard evidence to the contrary.

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

9 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

We would go with his claimed age. Shivakumara Swami definitely wasn't as old as claimed either, but he was still treated as 111 by the DDP system as there was no hard evidence to the contrary.

 

 

Aye, that makes sense, cheers

[msc 18,437]

The Laird of Balgonie has died (RIP). If anyone sees a nice qualifying obit before me, please let us know. More an eventual broadsheet name than a Daily mail breaking news one.

[WEP 889]

Anne Brokenbrow, Welsh centenarian who was arrested by police at the age of 104 because it was on her buckett-List, has died back in March:

 

http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/deaths.php

Anne

Brokenbrow

F

28 Sep 1914

19 Mar 2022

107

172

Bristol, ENG

 

One for the LoM: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_B.html#brokena020

[Death Impends 7,956]

10 minutes ago, WEP said:

Anne Brokenbrow, Welsh centenarian who was arrested by police at the age of 104 because it was on her buckett-List, has died back in March:

 

http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/deaths.php

Anne

Brokenbrow

F

28 Sep 1914

19 Mar 2022

107

172

Bristol, ENG

 

One for the LoL: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_B.html#brokena020

 

Doesn't pass current fame criteria, mind, and so won't be added to the LotM page.

[Eesti 151]

Bill Turnbull. Hit #11 for me. Still second.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

On 03/07/2022 at 13:24, Book said:

As already mentioned by maryportfuncity in the authors thread, Susie Steiner's date of birth seems to be 29.06.1971 - I read that somewhere, too.

Speaking of which, here are the dates of birth of Jana Bennett (06.11.1955) and Diane Berberian (14.01.1958) as a supplement for the biographies.

No idea where to put this so Diane Berberian has apparently died: 

 

[gcreptile 10,964]

On 01/09/2022 at 21:57, YoungWillz said:

No idea where to put this so Diane Berberian has apparently died: 

 

Not a single "real" obit, it seems.

[YoungWillz 21,026]

6 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Not a single "real" obit, it seems.

Berberian was not only a risky pick, the fact that she was not internationally never mind nationally known, tied in with niche sport probably guarantees her oblivion and no points.

 

Richard Osman would be proud of her being a pointless answer.

[msc 18,437]

11 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Berberian was not only a risky pick, the fact that she was not internationally never mind nationally known, tied in with niche sport probably guarantees her oblivion and no points.

 

Richard Osman would be proud of her being a pointless answer.

 

Yes, imagine picking such an obscure figure. Now, eyes out for that Laird of Balgonie obit. 

[YoungWillz 21,026]

On 21/08/2022 at 13:38, YoungWillz said:

I may have made it into the top 10 of the Theme Team League....

 

Stanley Baxter's been bed blocking for years...sort it out Liz Truss! 

Wrong fucking Queen, Truss!!!

 

She can't get anything right.....

[Bibliogryphon 9,570]

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