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My team of obvious and mediocre picks is in. Thanks to Reptile for running this one again.

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Time is ticking..... you have a few hours left to get your team in.

As I will be away from the keyboard over midnight, you might want to get your team in early, mostly if you want to be sure about immediate disqualifications. After midnight, they will be replaced by your subs.

And remember the rules, if your picks get disqualified in the DDP, they also get disqualified here.,

 

However, we already have a record participation! Great work to all of you.

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Here's my entry, thanks for hosting!
 

1. Frank Field (joker)

2. Jimmy Carter

3. Leslie Phillips

4. 6ix9ine

5. Bernadette Chirac

6. Gary Burgess (75 points)

7. Shannen Doherty

8. Jeanette Lee

9. Susie Steiner

10. Bob Barker

11. Bill Turnbull

12. Miguel van Damme (93 points)

13. Joe Exotic

14. Tim Keller

15. Linda Nolan

16. Khaleda Zia

17. Martti Ahtisaari

18. Henry Kissinger

19. Olivia Newton-John

20. Pope Benedict XVI

21. Rob Burrow

22. Gianluca Vialli

23. Doddie Weir

24. Rosalynn Carter

25. Buzz Aldrin

26. George Alagiah

27. David Crosby

28. Gregory Scarpa jr.

29. Ivan Julian

30. Mette Marit

31. Pelé

32. Peter Tobin

33. Margaret Keane

34. Ozzy Osbourne

35. James Whale

36. Yoko Ono

37. Billy Connolly

38. Willie Nelson

39. Tom Parker (88 points)

40. Liza Minelli

41. Tina Turner

42. Brigitte Bardot

43. Mikhail Gorbachev

44. Glynis Johns

45. Barbara Walters

46. Pat Robertson

47. Siiri Rantanen

48. Astrid Swan (Finnish musician)

49. Loretta Lynn

50. Marilyn Manson

 

subs

1. Iris Apfel

2. Luce Irigaray

3. Joanne Woodward

4. Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia

5. Queen Elizabeth II

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^^ Yes, okay, after all, that's what subs are there for. Betty White will be replaced by the first sub.

Edit: Oh I see. Well, Gina Lollobrigida was your first sub. I'm sorry, I have to go with her, not Barbara Walters.

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9 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

^^ Yes, okay, after all, that's what subs are there for. Betty White will be replaced by the first sub.

Edit: Oh I see. Well, Gina Lollobrigida was your first sub. I'm sorry, I have to go with her, not Barbara Walters.

 

Sorry, I forgot I had already declared subs here. Gina Lollobrigida it is then. 

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Here is my team 

 

Carroll Baker 

Rosemary Squires 

Roland Curram 

Pele 

Raquel Welch 

Lorna Luft 

Mitzi Gaynor 

Michael Barratt  (nationwide presenter)

Judith Chalmers 

Fay Weldon 

Cindy Adams 

Leonard Hayflick 

Paco Rabanne 

Linda Nolan 

King Juan Carlos of Spain 

Ursula Andress 

Peter Hordern  ex tory mp 

David Ogilvy Earl of Airlie 

Smokey Robinson  (joker)

James D Watson 

Billy Backus 

Douglas Hurd 

Winnie Ewing 

Margaret Court 

Zandra Rhodes 

Bernadette Chirac 

Paul Biya President of Cameroon 

Ethel Kennedy 

Jimmy Swaggart  US televangelist 

Lord Wakeham 

Dickie Bird 

James Ivory 

Andrew Russo part of crime family 

Geoffrey Robinson former Labour mp 

Gary Hart 

Shirley Conran 

Richard Chamberlain 

Carol McGiffin 

Frederick Barclay 

Jiang Ziam former President of China 

Gordon Lee ex Everton manager 

Frank O'Farrell 

Tina Turner 

Jilly Cooper 

Jimmy Carter 

William Heseltine  former private secretary to the Queen 

John Searle 

Arthur Scargill 

Mikhail Gorbachev 

Kenneth Anger 

 

Subs 

Edgar Pearce 

Piper Laurie 

Bob Falkenburg 

Art Rupe 

 

@YoungWillz decided to post my death by numbers  team instead as I am worried about accidentally sabotaging my DDP  uniques  some of which I have sat on for months!

 

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The system is now set up, and I hope there's no more premature death.

44 players will be participating. This is a record number, by far, and this will be quite the game.

My personal database now adds 450 new names from all kinds of fields. You've been extremely creative.

 

I can't make out an immediate favourite. It's a ton of ifs and whens. 

 

My team and the masterlist will be revealed in about an hour. I wonder if I can actually fit that whole list into one post...

 

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Wow! This is an unbelievable undertaking. Thanks for doing this and as I thought, I was the only one to select the other Frank Field (98 year old US TV meteorologist)

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My team:

Frank Field

Gary Burgess

Larry Pressler

Rob Burrow

Robert Durst

Tim Keller (pastor)

Mustafa Kayirici - JOKER

Susie Steiner

Sacheen Littlefeather

George Alagiah

Russell Bishop

George Perez (comic book artist)

Dame Clare Marx

Steve Carlson (Slap Shot)

Richard C. Blum

Francoise Hardy

Jeanette Lee

Khaleda Zia

Steve McMichael

Mike Bossy

Tom Smith (rugby)

Milos Zeman

Rose Tremain

Jean Potvin

Shannen Doherty

Tom Weiskopf

Pele

James Whale

Tom Parker

Johnny Ruffo

Crandell Addington

Rowshan Ershad

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Don West (wrestling announcer)

Ady Barkan

Antonio Inoki

Christy Dignam

Igor Bogdanoff

Kerri Parker (model)

Linda Nolan

Jane Marczewski (singer Nightbirde)

Kat Bjelland

Bill Turnbull

Ghislaine Maxwell

Arno (singer)

Carlos Bilardo

Bobby Caldwell

Bill Hayden (aussie pol)

Tim Bilton (chef)

Ted Turner

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Let's get things going with the first scoreboard of the year!

It looks nice. Gary Burgess and Igor Bogdanoff, look who's on top.

 

Rank Team Score
1 Toast 199
1 Cpt. Chorizo 199
3 gcreptile 150
3 CalebH 150
3 Great Uncle Bulgaria 150
3 Death Impends 150
3 Book 150
3 MariNisia 150
3 Joey Russ 150
3 Sean 150
3 An Fear Beag 150
3 msc 150
3 Banana 150
14 Salmon Mousse 124
15 YorkshireBanker 75
15 Guy From Future 75
15 JohnKey 75
15 Predictor 75
15 Torva Messor 75
15 Theoldlady 75
15 drol 75
15 Pedro67 75
15 Wormfarmer 75
15 Annami 75
15 Kenny 75
26 Baby Blue 49
27 The Spinosaurus 0
27 Bibliogryphon 0
27 JoeMoneypenny 0
27 chilean way 0
27 markb4 0
27 Famous6Eva 0
27 The Unknown Man 0
27 Hell 0
27 Captain Hemlock 0
27 Gooseberry Crumble 0
27 Doulton 0
27 YoungWillz 0
27 The old crem 0
27 Buffalo Phil 0
27 The Daredevil 0
27 Liz Lemon 0
27 keltos31 0
27 DevonDeathTrip 0
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Joan Copeland is a hit for me.

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I forgot to copy my entry of 24 December here:

 

 

Ady Barkin JOKER

Alec Baldwin

Anthony Zerbe

Athol Fugard

Burt Bacharach

Brian May

Christina Applegate

Lorna Luft

Chevy Chase

Billy Gray (actor, "Father Knows Best")

Clarence Thomas

Harry Reid

Richard Belzer

Richard Lewis

Seiji Ozawa

Larry Nasser

James Meredith (school desegregationist in USA)

James Whale

Timothy West

Lowell Weicker (US Senator)

Steve Reich

David Hockney

Fernando Botero

Keir Dullea

Michael Dukakis

Clint Eastwood

Joni Mitchell

Gary Glitter

Tom Baker

George Alagiah

Princess Astrid of Norway

Estelle Parsons

Shannen Doherty

Queen Ratna

Tom Parker

Linda Nolan

Jean-Louis Trintignant

J.M.Coetzee

Margaret Atwood

Pele

Prunelle Scales

Stanley Baxter

Walter Abish

Jorie Graham (US Poet)

Ted Kooser (US Poet)

Mitzi Gaynor

Dominic Chianese

Ralph Nader

Claes Oldenberg

Richard Bonynge

 

Subs:

Peter Max

Wole Soyinka

Larry Storch

Loretta Lynn

 

 

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Robert Durst is a hit for a few of us here.

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On 11/01/2022 at 00:35, Gooseberry Crumble said:

Bob Falkenburg a 'hit' for me here once a qualifying obituary  emerges. 

Mea  Culpa just realised Bob Falkenburg was my sub who hadn't moved up into the main team . I got confused with the twisted pool.  Just  realised when I went to the paper copies of my teams to circle Bob Falkenburg in red as a 'hit'  to realise my embarrassing mistake. 

Apologies  @gcreptile :ph34r:

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So, let's move ahead a little, because I have a time slot available right now.

 

First of all, the DDP disqualifications are now mostly done. There were some disqualifications, and as per the rules, it means that they also count here.

Golf player Brian Morris and Martha Sepulveda are out. I'm very sorry, but the three of you who suffer from these disqualifications have provided subs, so Anne Nolan, David Lynch and Bill Turnbull are in for you.

 

In terms of new hits, we could have had more? I see Jana Bennett, Robert Durst, Francis Jackson (unique for DDT!), and Dwayne Hickman (impressive solo hit for The Spinosaurus, well done!). Oh, and Sidney Poitier, of course! And Joan Copeland, a first solo hit for markb4. Well, that's eight hits in 14 days. It's okay, I think.

 

Well, it's the beginning of the year and I still have to acquaint myself with all the names of this game, it's a bit unwieldy, and I dont yet have the DDP as a memory support. So if I missed any hit, let me know.

 

In terms of the scoreboard, Cpt. Chorizo just continues where he stopped... just not missing a beat!

 

Rank Team Score
1 Cpt. Chorizo 255
2 gcreptile 206
2 Death Impends 206
2 MariNisia 206
2 Joey Russ 206
2 An Fear Beag 206
2 msc 206
2 Banana 206
9 Toast 199
10 CalebH 193
10 Book 193
12 Salmon Mousse 167
13 Great Uncle Bulgaria 150
13 Sean 150
15 YorkshireBanker 131
15 Predictor 131
15 Theoldlady 131
18 drol 118
19 DevonDeathTrip 116
20 Baby Blue 105
21 Torva Messor 102
22 Guy From Future 75
22 JohnKey 75
22 Pedro67 75
22 Wormfarmer 75
22 Annami 75
22 Kenny 75
28 markb4 65
29 Buffalo Phil 43
30 The Spinosaurus 34
31 Hell 27
31 YoungWillz 27
31 The old crem 27
31 The Daredevil 27
31 Liz Lemon 27
31 keltos31 27
37 Bibliogryphon 0
37 JoeMoneypenny 0
37 chilean way 0
37 Famous6Eva 0
37 The Unknown Man 0
37 Captain Hemlock 0
37 Gooseberry Crumble 0
37 Doulton 0

 

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2 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Meatloaf is a hit for me here

 

I have him too and also, less regrettably, Russell Bishop.

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