An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted July 12 On 09/07/2024 at 20:41, YorkshireBanker said: If he is found out to be the murderer does his team get disqualified? Ah no. That would be very harsh for a first offence. I reckon that forfeiture of the points, and a stern warning as to his future conduct, should suffice. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted July 17 UPDATE TIME! I've done the tedious quarterly google of all of the picks, so here is the half-time scoreboard (with 17 days of additional time for injuries). 3 names which had escaped the scorer attention prior to the last update: 29th April: Mollie Lentaigne - the medical artist gives added points to both @Death Impendsand @Famous6Eva, who I am fairly certain did not murder her. 9th June: Yoshiko Kuga - the Japanese actress got an acceptable obit in Japanese, giving a hit for @MalePoster 10th June: Steele Hall - who @WhoamIkindly alerted me to, after the last update had already been posted. Since then, we have said goodbye to the following: 23rd June: Foolio 29th June D. Srinivas 5th July: Vic Seixas 6th July: Mirta Diaz Balart 7th July: Bengt I Samuelsson 9th July: Jim Inhofe 11th July: Shelly Duvall 13th July: Shannen Doherty Shannen Doherty is the obvious big hitter of this update, with 21 players selecting her, making her the joint 6th most popular pick. Surprisingly however, only one player had her as a Joker, and that player was @John Key who returns to the top of the leaderboard. @BuffaloPhilused Doherty to hit the 1000 points mark and move into second place, just above @Funeralopolisin third. @Grim Up North's pick of Doherty, and @MariNisia's pick of Vic Seixas means that they make up the remainder of the top-5. Down at the bottom, 2 players have decided to join the race. @ThereWillBeDeaths7had a hit with Jim Inhofe, and liked the experience so much that they followed it up with Doherty 4 days later. Meanwhile @Sod's Lawused the forum down time to sneak in a hit with Shelley Duvall. The game starts to get a bit more interesting now as the points get bigger, so keep an eye on your picks and let me know if any of them should fall. Here is the full scoreboard: John Key (1161 points) 9 hits [Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Joe Shannon, Jonnie Irwin, Josip Manolic, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty*, William Russell] Buffalo Phil (1149 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Iris Apfel, Jonnie Irwin, Juan Vincent Perez, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell] Funeralopolis (1018 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell] GrimUpNorth (972 points) 10 hits [Dario G, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin*, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell, Toby Keith] MariNisia (867 points) 8 hits [Alice Munro, Glynis Johns, Gudrun Ure, Jack Burke Jr., Thomas Stafford, Tony Lo Bianco, Vic Seixas, William Russell] Gcreptile (797 points) 10 hits [Corey Williams, Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin, Josip Manolic, Paul Vachon, Simon Cowell, Thomas Stafford, Zhang Lixiong] Hell (794 points) 9 hits [Charlie Bird, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Glynis Johns, Jonnie Irwin, Josip Manolic, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell, William Russell] Toast (783 points) 8 hits [Anouk Aimee, Dave Myers*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Glynis Johns, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Toby Keith] The RadGuy (760 points) 9 hits [Brian Barczyk, Charlie Bird, Francoise Hardy, Franz Beckenbauer, Joe Shannon, Jonnie Irwin*, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] WEP (753 points) 7 hits [Charlie Bird, Dario G, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty] Wannamaker (749 points) 8 hits [Brian Barczyk, Dario G, Franz Beckenbauer, Glynis Johns, Rob Burrow*, Roger Donlan, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] Arghton (710 points) 9 hits [Abdul Taib Mahmud, Beverly Lahaye, Jaako Valtanen, Ma Shitu, Paul Vachon, Solihin GP, Swami Smaranananda, Tin Oo, Zhang Lixiong] Wormfarmer (704 points) 6 hits [Frank Field, Iris Apfel, Josip Manolic, Phillipe De Gaulle, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell] ZZZ - Boring Predictable Team (698 points) 8 hits [Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Glynis Johns, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] Etushispushingupdaisies (669 points) 8 hits [Derek Draper*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell, Toby Keith] Diego (640 points) 6 hits [Alice Munro, Glynis Johns, Janis Paige, Iris Apfel, Josip Manolic, Vic Seixas] JoeMoneypenny (634 points) 4 hits [Alice Munro*, Dario G, Franz Beckenbauer, Shannen Doherty] Nantonian (630 points) 8 hits [Derek Draper, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Jack Burke Jr., Mario Zagallo, Petyer Oosterhuis, Rob Burrow, Stan Bowles] Drol (606 points) 9 hits [D. Srinivas, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Ma Shitu, Mario Zagallo, Manohar Joshi, Toby Keith, Yuri Solomin, Zhang Lixiong] Zsa Zsa’s (588 points) 4 hits [Jim Inhofe, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith, Willie Mays] The Unknown Man (576 points) 5 hits [Francoise Hardy, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] Death Impends (560 points) 4 hits [Gudrun Ure, Janis Paige, Mollie Lentaigne, William Russell] Book (543 points) 6 hits [Iris Apfel, Joyce Randolph, Mario Zagallo, Roger Corman, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Vic Seixas] An Fear Beag (537 points) 7 hits [Charlie Bird, Frank Kitson, Imogen Stuart, Jonnie Irwin, Mike Sadler, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty] The Old Lady (535 points) 6 hits [Derek Draper*, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] Captain Chorizo (529 points) 7 hits [Glynis Johns, Jaime De Arminan, Lynne Reid Banks, Paul Vachon, Philip De Gaulle, Rob Burrow, Roland Bertin] The Immortal (505 points) 5 hits [Bengt I. Samuelsson, Dries Van Agt, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith, Wilson Fittipaldi] Prophet (504 points) 5 hits [Jonnie Irwin, Malachy McCourt, Shannen Doherty, Stan Bowles, William Russell] The Old Crem (495 points) 5 hits [Frank Field, Glynis Johns, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty] TQR (495 points) 5 hits [Frank Field, Glynis Johns, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty] Tracey (487 points) 4 hits [Dabney Coleman, Glynis Johns, Shannen Doherty, William Russell] WhoamI (474 points) 5 hits [Glynis Johns, Joyce Randolph, Roger Corman, Steele Hall, Willie Mays] Death By Arsenic (472 points) 5 hits [Glynis Johns, Maryse Conde, Mirta Diaz Balart, Toby Keith, Parnelli Jones] Msc (454 points) 6 hits [Glynis Johns, Gudrun Ure, Laurie Johnson, Norman Jewison, Roger Corman, William Russell] Yorkshire Banker (438 points) 3 hits [Laurent De Brunhoff, Lynne Reid Banks*, Willy Mays] Lady Fiona (415 points) 4 hits [Jonnie Irwin, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith, William Russell] LizLemon (402 points) 5 hits [Frank Field, Glynis Johns, Iris Apfel, Jonnie Irwin, Shannen Doherty] Salmon Mousse (397 points) 6 hits [Adam Lewis, Dave Myers, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin, Roy Battersby] Famous4Eva (385 points) 3 hits [Foolio, Mollie Lentaigne, Veljko Bulajic] ThereWillBeDeaths7 (384 points) 2 hits [Jim Inhofe, Shannen Doherty] Imelda (378 points) 6 hits [Charlie Bird, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow] MalePoster (352 points) 4 hits [Chita Rivera, Josip Manolic, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Yoshiko Kuga] CharlesDeGaulle (350 points) 3 hits [Francoise Hardy, Janis Paige, Toby Keith] DeathBecomesThem (336 points) 4 hits [Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin, Richard M Sherman, Rob Burrow] Time (335 points) 2 hits [Chita Rivera, Jeanette Charles*] Guy From Future (328 points) 2 hits [Alice Munro*, Eleanor Collins] Pedro69 (325 points) 3 hits [Anouk Aimee, Mike Sadler, Rob Burrow] Willy Wonka422 (298 points) 3 hits [Brian Tobin, Jonnie Irwin, William Russell] Great Uncle Bulgaria (298 points) 3 hits [Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow] Dying Probably (290 points) 3 hits [Frank Field, Josip Manolic, Phillipe De Gaulle] Yvonne (273 points) 2 hits [Bud Anderson, Dabney Coleman] Captain Hemlock (265 points) 3 hits [John Okafor, Toby Keith, Willie Mays] Etib80 (257 points) 4 hits [Franz Beckenbauer, Glynis Johns*, Micheline Presle, Shannen Doherty] GooseberryCrumble (251 points) 3 hits [Dickie Rooks*, John Savident, Joyce Randolph] Ghost of Christmas Past (245 points) 3 hits [Iris Apfel, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow] Torva Messor (242 points) 6 hits [Glynis Johns, Jack Burke Jr., Jonnie Irwin, Joyce Randolph*, Robert M. Young, Roger Corman] Bibliogryphon (204 points) 2 hits [Jeanette Charles, John Savident] Sod’s Law (192 points) 1 hit [Shannen Doherty] Thatcher (171 points) 2 hits [Francoise Hardy, Roy Battersby] YoungOne (168 points) 2 hits [Francoise Hardy, Franz Beckenbauer] Sean (151 points) 3 hits [Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin] BabyBlue (125 points) 1 hit [Cesar Luis Menotti] CalebH (86 points) 2 hits [Dries Van Agt, Micheline Presle] Chel (0 points) 0 hit Shamalka Amarasekera (0 points) 0 hits TheKillingTime (0 points) 0 hits 4 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,251 Posted July 18 Mary Mears was a pick of mine and she died earlier this week. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WhoamI 30 Posted August 5 Ray Lawler - Australian Playwright, Writer, Direct etc died 24 July 2024. Another one for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lawler 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted August 13 Would you believe it - it's been almost a month since the last update - where has that time gone! By the looks of things, there have not been a huge deluge of hits in that time, although there have been a couple of very significant ones. I have been largely off the radar for the past month, so there is a fair chance I have missed a death or two along the way. If you notice any that I've missed, please be a dear and let me know. This is who I have: 5th July: Yvonne Furneaux 14th July: Mary Mears 17th July: Bob Newhart 19th July: Ray Reardon 24th July: Ray Lawler 27th July: Edna O'Brien 6th August: Billy Bean 8th August: Bhuddadeb Bhattacharjee 8th August: Chi-Chi Ridriguez 12th August: Salem Al-Ali Al Sabah Most of the scoring activity seems to have happened around the mid to lower reaches of the leaderboard, with players jockeying for position as we head towards the final 1/3 of the race. Only one of the top 10 managed a hit, and that Billy Bean hit is enough to see @Grim Up Northback on top of the pile. The other big winner was @arghtonwho jokered Salem Al-Ali Al Sabah to climb back up into third. They are a mere 3 points of the second spot, where @John Key now lies. Down at the bottom, @Shamalka Amarasekeragets their first hit of the game in Bob Newhart, leaving only two players, @cheland @TheKillingTimestill lingering in the changing rooms. Here is the top 5, which is everyone over 1000 points. You know by now where the full leaderboard is. GrimUpNorth (1185 points) 11 hits [Billy Bean, Dario G, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin*, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell, Toby Keith] John Key (1161 points) 9 hits [Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Joe Shannon, Jonnie Irwin, Josip Manolic, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty*, William Russell] Arghton (1158 points) 10 hits [Abdul Taib Mahmud, Beverly Lahaye, Jaako Valtanen, Ma Shitu, Paul Vachon, Salem Al-Ali Al Sabah*, Solihin GP, Swami Smaranananda, Tin Oo, Zhang Lixiong] Buffalo Phil (1149 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Iris Apfel, Jonnie Irwin, Juan Vincent Perez, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell] Funeralopolis (1018 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell] 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,774 Posted August 13 A question about James C. Floyd. Now that we found out that he probably died years ago off the radar, does a sub came into play, in my case Dennis Skinner? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted August 13 43 minutes ago, gcreptile said: A question about James C. Floyd. Now that we found out that he probably died years ago off the radar, does a sub came into play, in my case Dennis Skinner? Yes, there are no statue of limitations for subs in this game. It is almost certain that James C. Floyd is dead, so your sub Skinner moves up to your team. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chel 355 Posted August 16 @An Fear Beag Give me late points Condolences 1, 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted August 19 On 16/08/2024 at 20:45, chel said: @An Fear Beag Give me late points Condolences 1, 2 I will forgive your apparent rudeness, as it is likely part of your natural Soviet charm. Dosmukhamed Kshibekov was rejected from your team before the game started, on the grounds that he was a fairly nondescript university professor, with little obvious fame outside of his own academic circles. That was communicated to you before the start, and also mentioned in the summary post I made on January 8th (see page 5). Nothing in those links would suggest to me that I made an unfair decision. So no points for you. Get back to the start line, and wait for a proper hit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,953 Posted August 22 My pick Al Attles is dead https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40941565/al-attles-former-warriors-player-coach-gm-dies-87 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chel 355 Posted September 4 On 8/19/2024 at 4:49 PM, An Fear Beag said: I will forgive your apparent rudeness, as it is likely part of your natural Soviet charm. Dosmukhamed Kshibekov was rejected from your team before the game started, on the grounds that he was a fairly nondescript university professor, with little obvious fame outside of his own academic circles. That was communicated to you before the start, and also mentioned in the summary post I made on January 8th (see page 5). Nothing in those links would suggest to me that I made an unfair decision. So no points for you. Get back to the start line, and wait for a proper hit. Sorry, my bad. __________________________________ Academician, Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer, general designer of over 200 nuclear and diesel-electric submarines Igor Spassky has died. kommersant.ru 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CalebH 42 Posted September 7 Sonia Iovan died friday https://athlonsports.com/olympics/olympic-icon-nadia-comaneci-reacts-romanian-gymnastics-sorrowful-announcement 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted September 8 On 04/09/2024 at 21:48, chel said: Sorry, my bad. __________________________________ Academician, Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer, general designer of over 200 nuclear and diesel-electric submarines Igor Spassky has died. kommersant.ru No worries- I have disallowed so many of your picks that it must be difficult to keep up with them all! Congratulations on your first hit. I will be doing an update shortly, so will see yourself rocketing up the leaderboard. Which is an unsubtle hint to the rest of you to mention any other hits that may have occurred since the last update. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,502 Posted September 8 My pick Alfredo Karam has died at 99. Here's an obituary in Portuguese that says he died on the 6th of September. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,475 Posted September 12 Another quiet month has gone by. Another lap of the track run, with a fairly pedestrian pace for most of it. These are the hits I can see since the last update. If I have missed any of your hits, you only have yourself to blame. Let me know and they will be included in the next update. August 19th: Maria Branyas Morero August 20th: Al Attles August 29th: Christoph Daum September 3rd: Igor Spassky September 3rd: Sonia Iovan September 4th: Luis Ayala September 6th: Alfredo Karam September 9th: James Earl Jones September 10th: Clio Maria Bittoni September 11th: Alberto Fujimori One player has had enough of the slowness and has decided to inject a bit of much needed pace into proceedings. @arghtonhad solo hits (they usually are in Arghtons case!) with Karam and Bittoni to take a commanding lead at the top of the leaderboard. However, as we all know in this pool, leads look progressively less commanding as the year goes on. 1660 points will not be a winning score in this game - do they have enough potential hits to fend off the inevitable late challenges as they arrive? None of the remaining top 10 managed a hit, allowing @RadGuy, @WEP, @tracy, @Etushispushingupdaisies and @diego to rise up into the 6-10 spots, and position themselves nicely for a run in the last quarter. Down at the bottom, @chelmanaged a first hit of the year with probably the least obscure of his unknown scientists. That now leaves @TheKillingTimeas sole competitor yet to make any sort of a stir. Top 10 is as follows; the rest of you will just have to go back to page 1. Arghton (1660 points) 12 hits [Abdul Taib Mahmud, Alfredo Karam, Beverly Lahaye, Clio Maria Bittoni, Jaako Valtanen, Ma Shitu, Paul Vachon, Salem Al-Ali Al Sabah*, Solihin GP, Swami Smaranananda, Tin Oo, Zhang Lixiong] GrimUpNorth (1185 points) 11 hits [Billy Bean, Dario G, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin*, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell, Toby Keith] John Key (1161 points) 9 hits [Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Derek Draper, Frank Field, Joe Shannon, Jonnie Irwin, Josip Manolic, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty*, William Russell] Buffalo Phil (1149 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Iris Apfel, Jonnie Irwin, Juan Vincent Perez, Shannen Doherty, Simon Cowell] Funeralopolis (1018 points) 8 hits [Dario G*, Dave Myers, Derek Draper, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell] RadGuy (1001 points) 10 hits [Brian Barczyk, Charlie Bird, Christoph Daum, Francoise Hardy, Franz Beckenbauer, Joe Shannon, Jonnie Irwin*, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Toby Keith] WEP (994 points) 8 hits [Charlie Bird, Christoph Daum, Dario G, Frank Field, Jason Smith, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty] Tracey (938 points) 6 hits [Bob Newhart, Dabney Coleman, Glynis Johns, James Earl Jones, Shannen Doherty, William Russell] Etushispushingupdaisies (910 points) 8 hits [Derek Draper*, Francoise Hardy, Frank Field, Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell, Toby Keith] Diego (894 points) 7 hits [Alberto Fujimori, Alice Munro, Glynis Johns, Janis Paige, Iris Apfel, Josip Manolic, Vic Seixas] 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,407 Posted Wednesday at 14:38 Barbara Leigh-Hunt is a hit for me here "I must have my part of the conversation " 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,407 Posted yesterday at 12:19 21 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said: Barbara Leigh-Hunt is a hit for me here "I must have my part of the conversation " Guardian QO for Barbara Leigh-Hubt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
