Banana 859 Posted June 30 IN: Sven-Goran Eriksson Rupert Keegan Jane McAlevey Linda Tirado Johnnie Walker OUT: Steve Gaines Sudarshan Maharaj Ida Reams Richard Scolyer Nicole Weider 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,456 Posted June 30 OUT Bridgette Wilson Sampras Eric Idle Janey Godley Mark Steele Rhod Gilbert IN Georg Koch Jane McAlevey Linda Tirado Rupert Keegan Sven Goran Eriksson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pedro67 228 Posted July 1 Out Brazil, Wyman, Lazerenko, Gilbert, Housego. In Joan Bakewell Johnny Walker sven G Ericsson Noam Chomsky Jmmy Carter. Sorry its it’s a bit late Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,437 Posted July 6 Got a hit with Vic Seixas. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Immortal 601 Posted July 8 Well this is an unexpected surprise. Back to back hits for me with Bengt I. Samuelsson (unique pretty sure) and Jane McAlevey (huge replacement name). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 267 Posted July 12 On 28/06/2024 at 12:38, Torva Messor said: My 2024 Death By Numbers Midyear Replacement List IN: Noam Chomsky Shelley Duvall Sven-Göran Eriksson Jane McAlevey Johnnie Walker (BBC Radio 2 DJ) OUT: Imelda Marcos Sam Neill Bob Newhart Edna O'Brien Stu Phillips Shelley Duvall shuffled off this mortal cOyl while the DeathList was in stasis. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Immortal 601 Posted July 12 As did Joe Engle, a hit for me. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 267 Posted July 13 Although Ruth Westheimer was kept in my 'IN' pile, she saw herself out, as an increment for my DBN 2024 hit count. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,435 Posted July 14 Shannen Doherty a hit for me here: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/shannen-doherty-dead-charmed-90210-cancer-b2579529.html I'm probably not alone. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 267 Posted July 14 Unusually destructive week for my list, in which Death did not stop at three. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,683 Posted July 14 Okay.... well I hope I got it right with all the replacements, all the Sven-Göran Erikssons and Johnnie Walkers and Jane McAleveys. Speaking of which.... McAlevey is dead and gets a rare Morningstar Online obit, we love to see them. The American labour activist hung on just long enough to be a popular replacement pick, thus keeping me from getting a nice differential hit. An interesting effect this year that I don't lose that much terrain with the replacement picks because I had some of the names before. Other names for this update are quite the heavy hitters. First of all, Shannen Doherty. She seemed the most notable face of the Beverly Hills 90210 crew to me. But I never watched the show and have to rely on the memories of my sister's youth magazines there. Later, she got another hit role in "Charmed" which wasn't quite the same phenomenon but still quite popular. Afterwards, her career stalled, as she suffered a severe case of "aging in Hollywood". In the final years, the cancer of course didn't help, but she seemed to be doing alright, and didn't have that long final painful period that other long-time breast cancer sufferers have - at least she didn't show it! Here's another breast cancer case where the ominous spreading to the bones announced the final year. Let's move on to Ruth Westheimer. The trained sniper was catapulted into world-wide fame in the early 80s when she first got the chance to have her own radio show, and then even a TV show in which she gave relationship advice as she had previously done for decades in her own sex therapy practice. It was still a time when people were afraid to ask, and when there wasn't more info than you could possibly want on the internet. TorvaMessor receives a unique hit, well done! Vic Seixas is a unique hit for Lady Fiona, also congratulations there! He was a winner of two grand slam titles and the no. 1 US player for quite some time. He was one of VERY few top sportspeople to make the full century. Joe Engle is a hit for tracy and the Immortal. He was a trained pilot and astronaut, first flying experimental airplanes to altitudes that count as "space", and then as part of the first Space Shuttle flights. Then Shelley Duvall, a hit for a couple of teams. Somewhat unfairly, she'll be remembered mostly for being the wife of a bonkers Jack Nicholson in Kubrick's Shining. The same year she starred in the Popeye movie, and then a few months later in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. Afterwards, the big movie roles somewhat dried up. And there were always rumours of some mental instability - sort of a presumed Kubrick effect, who wanted her to be actually scared instead of just acting that way. Somehow one knew that she wouldn't quite make average life expectancy, and it was diabetes that killed her. Now, Jim Inhofe. The Senator from Oklahoma is a unique hit for tracy. He had been retired for two years, but probably could have had the seat until he died, because it was a very safe republican seat in Oklahoma. He was one of the cases where you wondered whether he's dumbing it down for his audience, or whether he is actually a little simple. I assume it's the former, but you can't quite tell. He once brought a snowball into the Senate and thus demonstrated the difference between weather and climate. Apparently, certain jobs require a bit of grandstanding and acting for the base. And also, there was one hit I saw that I had previously forgotten, Queens Park Rangers legend Stan Bowles. The indisputable star of his team had suffered from Alzheimer's for many years and already died back in February. Maybe I mentioned him but forgot to allocate the points? Toast, Book and Sean get some late points. Predictably, I lose the lead after the substitutions, and it's Cpt. Chorizo and his always well-balanced selection of advanced cancer sufferers who takes the lead with the death of Shannen Doherty: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1164 2 gcreptile 1104 2 Banana 1104 4 wannamaker 988 5 RadGuy 975 6 Book 959 6 Funeralopolis 959 8 msc 938 9 Perhaps 875 10 Salmon Mousse 837 11 Summer in Transilvania 818 12 Buffalo Phil 778 13 Toast 746 14 Mr. Wonderful 698 15 The Immortal 677 16 The Unknown Man 636 16 An Fear Beag 636 18 Torva Messor 623 19 MariNisia 604 19 tracy 604 21 Baby Blue 583 22 Death Impends 582 23 Pedro67 571 24 Predictor 559 25 DeathBecomesThem 540 26 Liz Lemon 538 27 Thatcher 525 28 Etushipushingupdaisies 524 29 ThereWillBeDeaths7 516 30 The old lady 515 31 Imelda 511 32 John Key 485 33 The Old Crem 479 34 Cpt. Hemlock 469 34 Sean 469 36 Lady Fiona 466 37 Caleb H 453 38 TQR 430 39 Diego 429 40 Yorkshire Banker 404 41 Bibliogryphon 398 42 Charles De Gaulle 394 43 Wormfarmer 387 44 Annami 359 45 The Daredevil 355 46 Young Willz 292 47 Great Uncle Bulgaria 197 48 arghton 180 49 Hell 160 50 chileanway 158 51 Sod's Law 100 52 Gooseberry Crumble 31 1 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wormfarmer 421 Posted July 15 NFL great Jim Otto died on May 19, leaving an inheritance of 38 points to Wormfarmer. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,435 Posted July 18 Bob Newhart for me and I suspect others here. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/29328446/elf-big-bang-theory-actor-bob-newhart-dead/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 2,177 Posted July 20 Ray Reardon is a hit for me and I suspect for others as well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 1,954 Posted July 31 On 30/06/2024 at 18:24, Summer in Transylvania said: Out: Ismail Haniyeh Well, this is going well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,286 Posted August 5 When rather If scientist Leonard Hayflick gets a qualifying obituary he will be a 'hit' for me in this pool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hayflick 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 267 Posted August 15 Two from my OUT pile bit the dust last month, glad an entry on the remaining list breaks that vexing trend Gena Rowlands with QO from the Daily Heil (I am sure the better-reputation UK sources will come in hours from now, I am impatient), like time, passes on: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13744829/Gena-Rowlands-dead-94-Notebook-Alzheimers.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 3,954 Posted August 17 On 05/08/2024 at 07:10, Gooseberry Crumble said: When rather If scientist Leonard Hayflick gets a qualifying obituary he will be a 'hit' for me in this pool. Leonard Hayflick gets a New York Times obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/science/leonard-hayflick-dead.html Congratulations, @Gooseberry Crumble. I'm really happy for you, friend. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,683 Posted August 18 Weekend time, update time! We'll work our way back, as usual and start with today's giant name Alain Delon. The iconic french actor of the 60s and 70s had been known to be in declining health. He seemed most vocal about it himself, which probably scared people away from picking him, but Thatcher actually gets a unique hit! Wayne Eddy was a replacement pick in this, but he needs a QO, so no points yet. So next we go to Peter Marshall. He was mostly known for his lucky strike in getting the Hollywood Squares hosting job, first as a temporary replacement, then for another 15 years. But he as also occasionally in TV roles and a variety of ..variety programs. Hell and The Unknown Man score. Peter Procter, a British lover of speed competitions would be a unique hit for Summer In Transylvania, but he also needs an obit first. I am more confident though that he'll get something eventually. Gena Rowlands is a hit for three players. The highly decorated actress established a stellar reputation through her appearances in the Independent movie scene of the 60s to 70s, elevating her previous TV career so much that she still got roles far into advanced age, most notably in The Notebook. Her very advanced dementia had been announced just recently. Then we have a couple of curious misses (Mitzi McCall, Chi Chi Rodriguez, etc..) and the next hit seems to be Minnesota hockey coach Mike Sertich. I guess he was regarded highly enough as a coach that he got the Daily Mail obit, and not jsut the yahoo one. He was coach of the year a couple of times for a regional hockey association. So maybe a slightly bigger name than Pete Wilk. 4 players score. As mentioned above, Gooseberry Crumble finally gets another typical unique hit of his with Leonard Hayflick. The US scientist was an expert on human aging and wrote several popular books about it, while also advancing the science. He condemned the typical (and commercial) anti-aging medicine though, probably because he saw a couple of biological limits that can't be circumvented. We see a couple more misses (Ismail Haniyeh, Craig Shakespeare, Michael Sinelnikoff), so let's then catch up with the names mentioned in this thread. Big thanks to Wormfarmer for mentioned Jim Otto, a Hall of Fame football player whose biggest achievement seems to have been to endure injury after injury. He also won the 60s version of the Superbowl once and frequently made all star rosters. The name slipped through amid the tons of American Football players who are too many and die too often to always catch them all. King of the hits in this update is Bob Newhart. A huge TV star with an incredibly long career, loved until high age and active on Xitter while already being considered in deadpooling because of his haggard looks. Commonly thought of being the trigger for an avalanche of DeathList hits, we have to conclude now that it hasn't happened. Tons of players score here with him. Finally Ray Reardon is a hit for TQR and The Old Lady. Snooker seems to have roughly one superstar per decade, curiously much like the Tour De France, where the 90s go to Miguel Indurain, the 70s go to Eddy Merckx, the 60s to Jacques Anquetil, etc... So Ray Reardon was the Snooker champ of the 70s, before Steve Davis was the winner of the 80s, and Stephen Hendry in the 90s. Reardon won 6 world championships and was nicknamed Dracula for his dark looks. He later coached another dominant champion of the sport, Ronnie O'Sullivan. Any more hits (I really should do more than one update per month...)? Ah yes, Ysanne Churchman. A gigantic career as a voice actress on radio, most notably on The Archers. Her career kind of lasted 80 years, but that's counting a few child roles and the later legacy roles. She's a unique hit for Predictor. Next up is Yvonne Furneaux, a unique hit for The Daredevil. Like Gena Rowlands she was another classy actress in classy movies, a favorite of independent directors. Apparently she chose her french name after being born with a more ordinary British name. It gave her some continental artistic credibility, but also closed off more regular and lucrative British roles. Still,her career could have been worse... Well, I hope this is it, if not, do tell. The scoreboard is free from giant upheavals, as the hits were pretty spread out amongst the player, and usually of advanced age and lower score: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1164 2 gcreptile 1151 2 Banana 1151 4 wannamaker 988 5 RadGuy 975 6 Book 959 6 Funeralopolis 959 8 msc 938 9 Perhaps 904 10 Salmon Mousse 884 11 Summer in Transilvania 847 12 Buffalo Phil 778 13 Toast 746 14 Mr. Wonderful 727 15 The Immortal 711 16 The Unknown Man 692 17 An Fear Beag 683 18 Torva Messor 653 19 MariNisia 604 19 tracy 604 21 Thatcher 589 22 Predictor 584 23 Baby Blue 583 24 Death Impends 582 25 Pedro67 571 26 Liz Lemon 568 27 The old lady 547 28 DeathBecomesThem 540 29 Etushipushingupdaisies 524 30 ThereWillBeDeaths7 516 31 Imelda 511 32 John Key 485 33 The Old Crem 479 34 Cpt. Hemlock 469 34 Sean 469 36 Lady Fiona 466 37 Wormfarmer 463 38 TQR 462 39 Caleb H 453 40 Diego 429 41 The Daredevil 412 42 Yorkshire Banker 404 43 Bibliogryphon 398 44 Charles De Gaulle 394 45 Annami 359 46 Young Willz 321 47 arghton 221 48 Hell 215 49 Great Uncle Bulgaria 197 50 chileanway 187 51 Sod's Law 100 52 Gooseberry Crumble 59 Edit: Just checking a few names, looks like arghton has a name waiting for an obit, but Abdul Taib bin Mahmud, a malaysian politician, already died in February and will not receive an obit. Edit2: Well, actually, there was at least one missing hit, Bengt Samuellson, the Swedish medicla scientist and Nobel Prize winner of 1982. He received the Telegraph obit two months after his death and gives The Immortal a unique hit. And a day later, the New York Times also gave him an update. Curious how they seem to be connected in such a way. Edit3: Also... well, turns out that Michael Hardie Boys, a pick by John Key, already died in Dec. 2023, barely before the deadline. Well, he still gets replaced. Sub is Robert Wagner. Edit4: Arghton DOES have a more promising person waiting for an obit, former sheikh of Kuwait Salem Ali-Ali al -Sabah (or something). We'll wait and see.... Edit5: Arghton even has another hit! Already back in January, Taiwanese democracy activist Shih Ming Teh died. I seem to recall that there were health news before. The New York Times mentions a liver tumour. Well, he was frequently imprisoned during his life but Taiwan eventually developed into a more healthier democracy, maybe also because of him. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,286 Posted August 18 13 hours ago, MariNisia said: Leonard Hayflick gets a New York Times obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/science/leonard-hayflick-dead.html Congratulations, @Gooseberry Crumble. I'm really happy for you, friend. Thank you very much! Much appreciated 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,437 Posted August 18 I had Wayne Eddy. Just waiting for an obit. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,683 Posted August 20 "Real" Wayne Eddy obit, but doesn't translate to yahoo: https://kymnradio.net/2024/08/19/wayne-t-eddy-legendary-voice-of-kymn-radio-passes-away-at-83/ 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,437 Posted Monday at 12:27 Like with most people here who replaced him halfway through the game. I have Sven-Göran Eriksson as a hit. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrWonderful 455 Posted Wednesday at 08:37 On 26/08/2024 at 05:27, ladyfiona said: Like with most people here who replaced him halfway through the game. I have Sven-Göran Eriksson as a hit. Same. And yes, I'm sure many will score here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
