Derby Dead Pool 2023

[Captain Hemlock 641]

Also, no Chris Stone, who would be my vote for Most Surprising List of the Lost. Tom Sizemore would be my vote for Most Surprising List of the Missed.

[Sir Creep 7,013]

Lol ok I don’t pay heaps of attention, but I perused the List of the Lost and found TWO of MY unique theme entries!  I never knew they died.  How in Fekkin Hell did Karl-Erik Eriksson not QO?  He’s participated in more Winter Olympics than anyone!  Smh as usual SirC has no clue what passes the QO test in the UK.  Never have, never will.

So far the head coach of the British Olympic equestrian team, the First Man of Belgium (also a professional footballer), and a guy who was in 6 Olympiads did not get obits.

As for Ruth Adler Schnee, one of those pesky Nazi camp survivors, she was a pioneering woman in textile arts, and got a New York Times obit.  If she was a man who designed a building she would have QO’d, but she’s just a mere woman.  Granted, it’ll always seem silly to me that the NYTimes isn’t used for QO purposes.

 

[YoungWillz 19,106]

Wilf Lunn QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/20/wilf-lunn-madcap-inventor-tricycles-vision-on-deaf/

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

I'm hoping  my list of the lost pick scientist Tom McLeish  gets a mention in one of the broadsheets year  in science review  end of year  type thing.  Clutching at straws in a way but it's a plausible straw to clutch.

[Death Impends 7,373]

Qapik Attagutsiak QO https://uk.news.yahoo.com/remembering-103-old-nunavut-elder-195648893.html

[YoungWillz 19,106]

Takes the DDP to 296 hits I believe, with less than a fortnight to go.

 

Exciting, innit?

[The Old Crem 3,181]

4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Takes the DDP to 296 hits I believe, with less than a fortnight to go.

 

Exciting, innit?

Four hits needed in 11 days. Starting to feel like it might be achieved. 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Takes the DDP to 296 hits I believe, with less than a fortnight to go.

 

Exciting, innit?

An inevitable  last minute orgy of Crumble hits I'm sure will prove fruitful  in reaching exciting and impressive  orgasmic new heights hits wise!

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

Torben Ulrich, Lars Ulrich's father, has died (nme.com)

 

When a qualifying obituary appears Torben Ulrich will be a hit for me in my Blueberry Crumble team and one other player.

 

Torben was one of only two of my 60 picks across three teams that wasnt a unique pick but nevertheless this development so hot of the heels of my above post may well herald a last minute frenzied orgy of Crumble hits this year!

[time 7,971]

Torben Ulrich QO, courtesy of Yahoo.

[YoungWillz 19,106]

15 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Wilf Lunn QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/12/20/wilf-lunn-madcap-inventor-tricycles-vision-on-deaf/

Any reason Wilf Lunn not included in the recent updates?

[gcreptile 10,241]

27 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Any reason Wilf Lunn not included in the recent updates?

Yes

[YoungWillz 19,106]

6 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Yes

Care to share? Help will always be given at Deathlist for those who ask for it. 

[gcreptile 10,241]

9 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Care to share? Help will always be given at Deathlist for those who ask for it. 

He'll be scored eventually, by me or someone else.

[YoungWillz 19,106]

1 minute ago, gcreptile said:

He'll be scored eventually, by me or someone else.

We love you gcreptile, you know that. Your immense hard work is always appreciated.

[drunkasaskunk 164]

23 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

Four hits needed in 11 days. Starting to feel like it might be achieved. 

 

Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist has died

 

Here is a NYT Obit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/robert-solow-dead.html

 

Will he get a QO?

 

Probably

[YoungWillz 19,106]

2 minutes ago, drunkasaskunk said:

 

Robert M. Solow, Groundbreaking Economist and Nobelist has died

 

Here is a NYT Obit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/robert-solow-dead.html

 

Will he get a QO?

 

Probably

Possibly a FT Obit Friday or Saturday, if nothing else before.

[Evil Grimace 317]

7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Possibly a FT Obit Friday or Saturday, if nothing else before.

The FT comes through (paywall) but it mentions his death in the article's title:

Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Solow dies

[Captain Hemlock 641]

Independent has an obit too:

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/robert-solow-nobel-economist-dead-b2468236.html

[Sly Ronnie 618]

It wasn't so Solow to get an obit, eh? Eh?

Please yerselves.

[YoungWillz 19,106]

Solow and Minor takes the DDP to a tantalising 299 hits, with 8 days left of the year.

 

300 will be broken I'm sure.

[gcreptile 10,241]

I'll be away from home until the 27th. But maybe there will still be score updates by someone else. I'll be back to wrap up the year.

 

Is it time to congratulate? Hm, maybe, but lets not jinx it, so I'll wait until I'm back.

[drunkasaskunk 164]

oops

[YoungWillz 19,106]

Mike Nussbaum QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chicago-actor-mike-nussbaum-dies-182000810.html

 

Or if you prefer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12897283/Men-Black-actor-Mike-Nussbaum-dead-99-spending-year-hospice-care.html

 

Hit 300.

[The Old Crem 3,181]

49 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Mike Nussbaum QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chicago-actor-mike-nussbaum-dies-182000810.html

 

Hit 300.

So in the end it wasn’t someone famous but one of the more obscure hits of the year.