Grimgrass 505 Posted April 25, 2023 On 29/01/2023 at 11:31, Grimgrass said: Harry Belafonte Bummer. My second hit here, but both fortunately from the bottom of my list. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machotrouts 807 Posted May 6, 2023 Zero Lives of Ryuichi Sakamoto Yes, I still hadn't done this one yet. Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has died of colon cancer at the age of 71. He will be remembered for his influential electronic music production, his work in the band Yellow Magic Orchestra, his scores for films like The Last Emperor, The Revenant, and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and that one weirdly hot album cover of him holding a lamp in a bathtub. Probably lucky to have lived for another 45 years after that. Now, excuse me while I bring this quote over from the Ryuichi Sakamoto thread to put all the coffee posts in context, because I wasn't sure what you were all on about until I read it: On 01/01/2023 at 01:15, Sir Creep said: Poor choice; it’s the type of pick a novice makes all excitedly upon seeing a headline without anything further. I see well-respected DLers calling this a good pick and I know not what to say other than we shall agree to disagree. I hereby promise to put Sakamoto as my #1 Inverse DP selection, and should he die I will send 5 pounds of coffee to all who leave him off their Inverse teams cuz they knew better than Sir Creep. Well, fortune favours the bold... in games other than the Inverse Dead Pool, which is largely unrewarding for the bold, but thank you @Sir Creep for keeping the game interesting at your own 25-point expense. Unfortunately, coffee enemas are ineffective at treating colon cancer. The biggest leaderboard drop, however, is @msc, whose 14-point hit drops him 41 places after he was among the 11 who didn't bet on Bacharach – which means we have our first distinct top 10 of the year, all on 0 points. But for how long? Until 11 days ago, actually, but I'm catching up. The only other points are the 9-osaurus for @TheSpinosaurus, and 1 for @MariNisia, who actually rises 2 places at Creep and Spino's expense. GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. CaptainChorizo 0 = 1. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 = 1. Perhaps 0 = 1. Summer in Transylvania 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 ▲ 11. Spade_Cooley 1 ▲ 12. diego 2 ▲ 12. Sean 2 ▲ 14. Grimgrass 3 ▲ 14. gcreptile 3 ▲ 16. marinade 4 ▲ 16. BuffaloPhil 4 ▲ 16. Nick 4 ▲ 16. machotrouts 4 ▲ 20. BabyBlue 6 ▲ 21. Captain Hemlock 7 ▲ 21. ThereWillBeDeaths7 7 ▲ 21. Newjack 7 ▲ 24. Joey Russ 9 ▲ 24. Pedro67 9 ▲ 24. MortalCaso 9 ▲ 27. Funeralopolis 10 ▲ 27. Hell 10 ▲ 27. En Passant 10 ▲ 30. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 30. nantonian2013 11 ▲ 30. chilean way 11 ▲ 30. YoungWillz 11 ▲ 30. The Old Crem 11 ▲ 30. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 36. Bibliogryphon 12 ▲ 36. Torva Messor 12 ▲ 38. deadsox 13 ▲ 38. Grim Up North 13 ▲ 38. theoldlady 13 ▲ 38. Wormfarmer 13 ▼ 42. msc +14 14 ▲ 42. Toast 14 ▲ 44. wannamaker 16 ▲ 44. CalebH 16 ▲ 46. TQR 17 ▲ 47. MariNisia +1 21 ▼ 48. TheSpinosaurus +9 25 ▲ 48. machotrouts' mum 25 ▼ 50. Sir Creep +25 40 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,059 Posted May 6, 2023 Win some lose some. It worked for the South Korean footballer dude who was a few months into a PancC diagnosis, but was showing up on a plethora of teams. This makes me 50/50 on Asians in the #1 position. *Not sure that came out right* 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,253 Posted May 6, 2023 Where’s the food bank donation, Creepuccino? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machotrouts 807 Posted May 7, 2023 Okay! I Bereave You 6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot under – Harry Belafonte has died of heart failure at the age of 96. Known in part for his political activism, from the early US civil rights movement of the 1950s, to his 2020s endorsements of young up-and-coming candidate hopefuls like Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders, he is probably most widely remembered as a singer, popularising calypso music with hits like Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Jump in the Line, and Mary's Boy Child, amongst others. Jamaica Farewell? No, he left of his own accord. Time for Mr Tally Man to tally your bananas. Belafonte was this year's 28th most popular Inverse pick – somehow, up from 35th last year, with nearly double the points staked on him – so this has shake, shake, shaken up the leaderboard. @YoungWillz and @theoldlady – who were both still in the top 10 this time last year – plummet to the bottom 4 with their latest 15 and 14 points, respectively. Maybe they'd been working all night and drinking rum when they put together their 2023 teams? Speaking of the top 10, there are now just 8 players left on a score of Day-0, as 10 points go to @Perhaps, and 8 to the suitably Beetlejuicy-sounding username @Summer in Transylvania. Among those less afflicted are @TQR, @msc, and @Grimgrass – all in this thread mourning their 6-, 3-, and 1-point hits, but seeing small rises up the leaderboard in the wake of other players' larger failures. Speaking of failures, @Sir Creep catches a break – not only does he not gain any points, my mum takes back last place, having banked 17 points (but no coffee) on Belafonte. Maybe I should call her Senora Creep? GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. CaptainChorizo 0 = 1. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 ▲ 9. Spade_Cooley 1 ▲ 10. diego 2 ▲ 10. Sean 2 ▲ 12. gcreptile 3 ▲ 13. Grimgrass +1 4 ▲ 13. Nick 4 ▲ 13. machotrouts 4 ▲ 16. BabyBlue 6 ▲ 17. Captain Hemlock 7 ▲ 17. ThereWillBeDeaths7 7 ▼ 19. Summer in Transylvania +9 9 ▼ 19. BuffaloPhil +5 9 ▲ 19. Joey Russ 9 ▼ 22. Perhaps +10 10 ▼ 22. marinade +6 10 ▼ 24. Newjack +4 11 ▲ 24. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 24. chilean way 11 ▲ 24. The Old Crem 11 ▲ 24. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 29. Bibliogryphon 12 ▲ 30. deadsox 13 ▲ 30. Grim Up North 13 ▼ 32. Funeralopolis +4 14 ▲ 32. Toast 14 ▼ 34. MortalCaso +6 15 ▼ 35. Hell +6 16 ▲ 35. wannamaker 16 ▼ 37. Pedro67 +8 17 ▲ 38. msc +4 18 ▼ 39. Torva Messor +9 21 ▲ 39. MariNisia 21 ▼ 41. En Passant +12 22 ▼ 42. nantonian2013 +12 23 ▲ 42. TQR +6 23 ▼ 44. Wormfarmer +12 25 = 44. CalebH +9 25 ▲ 44. TheSpinosaurus 25 ▼ 47. YoungWillz +15 26 ▼ 48. theoldlady +14 27 ▲ 49. Sir Creep 40 ▼ 50. machotrouts' mum +17 42 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,436 Posted May 7, 2023 Coincidentally, "plummet" is one of my favourite words. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,436 Posted May 23, 2023 Rolf Harris was not a pick for me. Did you want him to survive? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 3,957 Posted May 23, 2023 On 23/01/2023 at 11:49, msc said: 4. Rolf Harris 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,413 Posted June 10, 2023 Dodged the bullet this time, who is wounded? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThereWillBeDeaths7 681 Posted June 10, 2023 In a wonderful schizophrenic turn of events, I put Kaczynski on my list for the Inverse as well as on my shadowlist (#43) for the year. Luckily I didn't totally bomb my chances as he's only at #21 here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,436 Posted June 10, 2023 No Kaczynski for me here - phew! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,789 Posted June 10, 2023 Thought I'd have picked him. Didn't. Still clean at nearly the halfway point, but how much longer can it last? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grimgrass 505 Posted June 10, 2023 No Unabomber on my list here, fortunately. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 15,752 Posted June 10, 2023 I had him at unlucky 13th. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,436 Posted July 21, 2023 Tony Bennett is dead. Think we need some updates here @machotrouts, it has been a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,350 Posted July 21, 2023 Hasn't posted since May 8th and hasn't visited since July 4th... do we need to find an interim host? 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,307 Posted July 21, 2023 Well Tony was too far up my list for me to make a realistic challenge for the title now (11 extra points) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 15,752 Posted July 21, 2023 3 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said: Hasn't posted since May 8th and hasn't visited since July 4th... do we need to find an interim host? His updates are always worth the wait though. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,436 Posted July 24, 2023 George Alagiah adds to the back up of scores needing updated. Unless we declare this dead. Edit: Yes. I picked him at #2. Lovely. So knee-ed in the nuts here, more than made up for in my picks in other pools. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,307 Posted July 24, 2023 Fortunately I didn't pick him so partially makes up for my Tony Bennett mistake 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MortalCaso 1,560 Posted July 24, 2023 Do we have any volunteers to take this up? I'd be willing if no one else wants this. I'm just sure someone else a bit more experienced would do better job. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,307 Posted July 25, 2023 On 24/07/2023 at 12:32, MortalCaso said: Do we have any volunteers to take this up? I'd be willing if no one else wants this. I'm just sure someone else a bit more experienced would do better job. At this stage I will take willingness over experience. Those members with experience running games are probably too busy running their own. Give it a go (with respect to MT if he shows up again) there will be plenty of people who will point out when you make a mistake ;-) 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,684 Posted July 25, 2023 Summertime is always slightly quieter. But always good to know new hosts might become available. Always good to spread the burden across several shoulders... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machotrouts 807 Posted August 26, 2023 Let Me Ashes Go Loose, Lou 'The Dreaming' didgeridooist Rolf Harris has wobbled off this mortal coil at the age of 93 – or, as Kate Bush might put it, BANG goes another cancer on the lymph node of the man. He was known as a musician, whose hit 'Stairway to Heaven' was covered by Led Zeppelin, and a TV star, as seen on Rolf's Carking Club, Animal Hospice, and the educational video/cruel taunt 'Kids Can Say No!'. He also famously painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, making him the only hit on 2023's Inverse Dead Pool who was officially commissioned to paint one of the hits on 2022's Inverse Dead Pool. (Ted Kaczynski's prison paintings of Dot Cotton were for his own personal use, and not official commissions.) In his spare time, he posted on the Deathlist forum under the username 'machotrouts', leaving the Inverse Dead Pool without a host upon his death; fortunately, the account has since been taken over by his Alzheimer's-addled wife. Just as my husband Rolf's popularity deteriorated with the public, as he became known for being the only old man ever to have groped teenagers in the 1970s, his popularity in this pool also declined, with last year's news of him being on his deathbed with neck cancer taking him down from #14 in the 2022 points tally to #43 this year. Three players apparently missed that news: @msc, @Wormfarmer, and @BabyBlue. Of course, if you're playing in Australian, you're actually going the right way up the leaderboard, and are doing very well in the Inverse Inverse Dead Pool. GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. CaptainChorizo 0 = 1. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 = 9. Spade_Cooley 1 = 10. diego 2 = 10. Sean 2 = 12. gcreptile 3 = 13. Grimgrass 4 = 13. Nick 4 = 13. machotrouts 4 ▲ 16. Captain Hemlock 7 ▲ 16. ThereWillBeDeaths7 7 ▲ 18. Summer in Transylvania 9 ▲ 18. BuffaloPhil 9 ▲ 18. Joey Russ 9 ▲ 21. Perhaps 10 ▲ 21. marinade 10 ▲ 23. Newjack 11 ▲ 23. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 23. chilean way 11 ▲ 23. The Old Crem 11 ▲ 23. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 28. Bibliogryphon 12 ▲ 29. deadsox 13 ▲ 29. Grim Up North 13 ▲ 31. Funeralopolis 14 ▲ 31. Toast 14 ▼ 33. BabyBlue +9 15 ▲ 33. MortalCaso 15 = 35. Hell 16 = 35. wannamaker 16 = 37. Pedro67 17 ▲ 38. Torva Messor 21 ▲ 38. MariNisia 21 ▲ 40. En Passant 22 ▲ 41. nantonian2013 23 ▲ 41. TQR 23 ▲ 43. CalebH 25 ▲ 43. TheSpinosaurus 25 ▲ 45. YoungWillz 26 ▲ 46. theoldlady 27 ▼ 47. msc +22 40 ▼ 47. Wormfarmer +15 40 ▲ 47. Sir Creep 40 = 50. machotrouts' mum 42 8 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machotrouts 807 Posted August 26, 2023 Dead Carked-It-Ski Mathematician Ted Kaczynski has died by suicide at the age of 81. Another sobering indictment of the male mental health epidemic. Please, men, talk about your feelings. Reach out to someone, by any means you can. Write a letter and mail it if you have to. You might think the most famous Una is Stubbs or From The Saturdays, but in America, it was a Mr Bomber. A professor in the 1960s, he left academia to become a forest-dwelling survivalist recluse – probably pays about as well as teaching – and when this lifestyle became unviable, pivoted to fighting modernity by blowing people up. Okay, boomer! His illustrious career in anarcho-primitivist terrorism peaked with the Washington Post's publication of his 35,000-word manifesto against industrialisation and leftism, the most words spent denouncing the left in a Washington Post issue before Bernie Sanders ran for president. Given Kaczynski's opposition to technology and community, this internet forum must be testament to everything he despised – though, to be fair, most of the people mentioned on here probably feel the same way. 16 of you bet on Teddy – poetically, that's one for every bomb he mailed. His latest victims include @Toast, @chilean way, and @The Old Crem, who all receive 13 points in the post, the latter two falling together to joint 38th. 11 points blasts @Captain Hemlock out of the top 20 and 30; 10 points doubles @marinade's total; and a respective 8 and 7 points put @En Passant and @TheSpinosaurus in the bottom 6. Escaping with minor burns and shrapnel wounds is @machotrouts with 2 points – he's never around these days, so I don't suppose he'll notice – and while @Sir Creep only gets 5 points, it's enough to slide him back under my mother. But it's a Ted Katastrophi for @CaptainChorizo and @Great Uncle Bulgaria – they both leave the Zero Club with 10 and 19 points, respectively. Try not to be radicalised by this. GAINED TOTAL = 1. LizLemon 0 = 1. tracy 0 = 1. Death Impends 0 = 1. Alcalina 0 = 1. Book 0 = 1. Annami 0 ▲ 7. Spade_Cooley 1 ▲ 8. diego 2 ▲ 9. gcreptile 3 ▲ 10. Grimgrass 4 ▲ 10. Nick 4 ▼ 12. Sean +4 6 ▼ 12. machotrouts +2 6 ▲ 14. Summer in Transylvania 9 ▲ 14. BuffaloPhil 9 ▼ 16. CaptainChorizo +10 10 ▲ 16. Joey Russ +1 10 ▲ 16. Perhaps 10 ▼ 19. ThereWillBeDeaths7 +4 11 ▲ 19. Newjack 11 ▲ 19. The Unknown Man 11 ▲ 19. An Fear Beag 11 ▲ 23. deadsox 13 ▲ 23. Grim Up North 13 ▲ 25. Funeralopolis 14 ▲ 26. Bibliogryphon +3 15 ▲ 26. MortalCaso 15 ▲ 28. Hell 16 ▲ 28. wannamaker 16 ▲ 30. Pedro67 17 ▼ 31. Captain Hemlock +11 18 ▼ 32. Great Uncle Bulgaria +19 19 ▼ 33. marinade +10 20 ▲ 34. Torva Messor 21 ▲ 34. MariNisia 21 ▲ 36. nantonian2013 23 ▲ 36. TQR 23 ▼ 38. chilean way +13 24 ▼ 38. The Old Crem +13 24 ▲ 40. CalebH 25 ▼ 41. BabyBlue +11 26 ▲ 41. YoungWillz 26 ▼ 43. Toast +13 27 ▲ 43. theoldlady 27 ▼ 45. En Passant +8 30 ▼ 46. TheSpinosaurus +7 32 = 47. msc 40 = 47. Wormfarmer 40 ▲ 49. machotrouts' mum 42 ▼ 50. Sir Creep +5 45 9 1 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites