msc 18,437 Posted January 16 26 minutes ago, drunkasaskunk said: No uniques in my main team - "Drunkasaskunk" Nine uniques in my "Desert Island Deaths" team (all picks have been the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs) Eleven uniques on my Scottish born "Jocks Away" team It appears my dropping Tommy McGoran from the Oldies team late in December has made him unique for Jocks Away. Nice. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,407 Posted January 16 Happy that Mary Marquis, Scotland's answer to Barbara Walters, is a unique for me. Barbara Walters if she retired before doing 20/20, that is. There are a few other uniques you would think were classy if you didn't know I found them via "hoax" and "false" searchwords. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drunkasaskunk 194 Posted January 16 6 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said: Happy that Mary Marquis, Scotland's answer to Barbara Walters, is a unique for me. Barbara Walters if she retired before doing 20/20, that is. There are a few other uniques you would think were classy if you didn't know I found them via "hoax" and "false" searchwords. I dropped her from last years JOCKS AWAY team 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,045 Posted January 16 José Maria Marin (wiki), former brazilian politician and Fifa corruptor is a solo pick for my main team. Recently hospitalized after having suffered a stroke aged 91. Will probably obit as there is plenty of articles about his jail sentence a few years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,313 Posted January 16 Overall I'm not too surprised with my lists.Got one unique on the main team again as predicted and a fair few in No More Expenses ( had hoped for more) .Got irritatingly close to getting 5 Drop 40 picks on Slippery Soap instead of 3 but managed to get 3 uniques. I also got most of the big calls right for the Drop 40 and think although unlikely to match my personal best of 14th place I will do a lot better than last year. Most surprising unique I got was Judy Loe. Also surprised Ken Livingstone was almost unique.Also surprised Beccy Barr was only picked by myself and 2 others.Julie Goodyear also picked up less traction than I expected.Same with the Duke of Kent who as stated above has been mixed up with the other Prince Edward. Jimmy Carter though! 222 picks.It was never in doubt he would be the top of the Drop 40 but damn. Also sad to see "Cashier Number (insert age) Please " based on 1930 births not reappear after 12 years I think.Always found that list interesting to read every year. Anyway thanks to the hosts as always for the time and dedication they take to run this game. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,313 Posted January 16 14 hours ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said: Just to make note of drop 40 changes DROPS Rhod Gilbert Kate Keltie Vladimir Putin Janey Godley Randy Jackson NEW (inc. re-entries) Esther Rantzen Derek Draper Bruce Willis Michael Tilson Thomas Theo Burrell Noam Chomsky Patrick Murray Toby Keith Denis Law Clint Eastwood Phil Collins Franz Beckenbauer Ozzy Osbourne Bob Newhart Pope Francis I'm very much surprised that Andy Taylor has managed to not just cling on but only drop from 12th to 19th. Yeah I figured Taylor would be on the Drop 40 but much lower.He was the easiest Drop on my main list and the second easiest overall after Kate Keltie for me. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,570 Posted January 16 Seventeen uniques on my Theme team though I suspect the other person who picked Clive Barker will be more annoyed as he was their Joker. Eleven uniques on Unusual Suspects which is lower than I got last year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JQW 281 Posted January 16 My team has the wrong Michael Russell as my joker. I went for this TT racer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/65795090 - and not the Scottish politician. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,437 Posted January 16 14 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Just a quick look through has established if Id kept Elspeth Ballantyne I would have had 60 uniques. I was convinced once I used her name and let the cat out of the bag shed never be unique again! Drat lol! Reminder a while ago you pointed out to me that some of my Oldies/Dr Who team picks are blatantly only go to be hits if I pick them, like Dick Taverne for example. You have a fair few of these yourself! On another note, Lizzy Musi picked by two people, me and some randomer. Kathy Brown is on so few teams that if they weren't contenders I'd be worried. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted January 16 1 minute ago, msc said: Reminder a while ago you pointed out to me that some of my Oldies/Dr Who team picks are blatantly only go to be hits if I pick them, like Dick Taverne for example. You have a fair few of these yourself! On another note, Lizzy Musi picked by two people, me and some randomer. Kathy Brown is on so few teams that if they weren't contenders I'd be worried. Yes I remember and I should have listened to you and took it on board fully! I did sort of try to heed the advice of @YoungWillz about picking some names again and retaining them to avoid them going as misses on list of the lost and your advice that some of my unique picks are extremely unlikely to be picked up by other players. Hence the reinclusion of June Kenton, Alison Halford, Susan Howard etc but I clearly did not go far enough! I just hope the enema doesn't do what it did last year and rub my nose in it by killing of lots of my drops and putting them in the list of the lost hall of fame! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted January 16 Only one unique pick for my main team, but it's a Yahoo obit lock in "hospice". So quite the success. But then it's being "in hospice care" with advanced Parkinson's and Steve McCoy is only in his 60s. So maybe I'm a little overconfident in his passing. I guess we'll see. I am somewhat disappointed that my former Love Boat pick Andrea Gibson is still unique. Now, she's apparently not much closer to dying as she was a year ago, but I expected at least some Diana Rots-ing of her. I am totally stunned that Aussie rugby pick Toni Hunt is unique. Her cancer came back just a week after remission. If I had known, I might have main team-ed her. I'm also stunned that activist Harry Edwards is unique. Completely unexpected. However, I am very proud that classy pick Jan AP Kaczmarek is a unique pick for me. He's in very ill health and a fairly likely hit. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Insane 349 Posted January 16 I can’t find my team do I send it again or do I have to fix some things? (my team name is Peter Falk’s Friends) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wannamaker 1,407 Posted January 16 Noticed that there are duplicate Geoffrey Boycotts & Judy Sheindlins. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted January 16 Well done everyone, looking good. Now this is absolutely my own mistake so if you want to let it stand, but the Fiona Castle I meant was this one (Roy Castle's widow) Fiona Castle - Wikipedia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,385 Posted January 16 8 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said: Wonderful work thanks ! Is it normal that both my main theme (La Faucheuse) and my french theme team (A la vie, à la mort) appeared « first year in DDP » Whereas they were there last year, I just changed the names Yeah, when I changed my team name after the first year it reset to ‘first year’; mine says year 3 rather than 4. In the grand scheme of things it’s minor enough to let it slide, unless you’ve got a good ‘best performance’ stat you want to preserve. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,903 Posted January 16 3 hours ago, Bibliogryphon said: Seventeen uniques on my Theme team though I suspect the other person who picked Clive Barker will be more annoyed as he was their Joker. Eleven uniques on Unusual Suspects which is lower than I got last year. That's me. Sorry. Also sorry to @time as we always seem to scupper each other's uniques, this time with George Innes. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,385 Posted January 16 One unique for Beat The Cost Of Living… … in Indarjit Singh. Surprised I even got that tbh. He’s in his 90s though so not exactly a shitload of points in him. My Daves have 11 and A Chris Goodbye on its second outing has 10 (De Burgh, de Kirchner, Hynde, Lacroix, Luft, Montez, Sarandon, Slade, Stainton and my joker Spedding), which I’m pretty happy with. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 890 Posted January 16 For the LoM: last year's nominee Nick Rescher dead: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2023/celebs_R.html#reschenx19 https://obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/nicholas-rescher-1089273510 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 578 Posted January 16 Looking through my lists for ones that don't have images - should I send them to you when I have em @Death Impends or someone else? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted January 16 Has there been a change in the CMS or likewise involving the number of characters allowed in a description? Noticed Robert Wagner's bio cuts off short and there's definitely another one that I've forgotten already. EDIT: Judith Chalmers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,313 Posted January 16 Eddie Annands description is false.He has glioblastoma not one of the less aggressive terminal brain cancers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Insane 349 Posted January 16 2 hours ago, Insane said: I can’t find my team do I send it again or do I have to fix some things? (my team name is Peter Falk’s Friends) ?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,385 Posted January 16 On 06/12/2023 at 18:54, Grim Up North said: Great stuff. However we (well more correctly the Derby Dead Pool) have a funding issue. Fot the last 4 (?) years I have been taking advantage of my company’s lax credit card controls to allow the website hosting fees to go through my work - it’s about £25/‘month so £300 a year (roughly it varies month to month not sure why). Unfortunately we’re in the middle of a crackdown due to some idiot taking the piss on a grand scale and so I can’t get away with this any more. So I need to stop the payment - question is what happens then? Sorry, your current sponsor, GUN Just out of interest, in case I missed anything, how did this resolve? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustPassingThrough 148 Posted January 16 My main team, Plausible Passings of 2024, looks like it made it in OK, except for my selection of Prince Edward the Duke of Kent, which was filed under Prince Edward, the younger brother of the king. Re-checking my spreadsheet, it looks like I entered the phrases Prince Edward and Duke of Kent in the wrong order vs. the DDP listing, so my apologies for the mistake. (Though the fact that the younger Edward is currently listed on 5x as many teams as the older one suggests mine was not the only lost Duke of Kent pick.) I'm also unable to find my theme team, Six Feet Under the Dome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 578 Posted January 16 Frankly, I'm astounded that Gauger actually made it into the final line-up. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
