Handrejka 1,840 Posted January 1 8 minutes ago, TQR said: My theme teams. Second outing for the Chrisses, with a slight upgrade. It's a debut for the Daves. The better performing team of the two will roll on to next year and face another name. (I accept these aren't as good as that team in 2022 with 20 people called Charles Taylor. That was awesome) A Chris Goodbye Chris Spedding (JOKER) Christina Crawford Chris de Burgh Chris Evert Chris Farlowe Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Chris Haughey Chrissie Hynde Kris Kristofferson Christian Lacroix Christopher Lloyd Christa Luft Chris Montez Chris Rea Chris Sarandon Chris Slade Chris Stainton Chris Steele Chris Tarrant Christopher Walken Everybody's Dead, Dave Dave Myers (JOKER) David Attenborough Dave Boylen Dave Burgess David Carpenter Dave Cousins David Cronenberg Dave Davies David Graham Dave Grusin David Hamilton ("Diddy") David Hope (Baron Hope of Thornes) David Hope (Baron Hope of Craighead) David Jason Dave Lee Travis David H. Murdock Dave Peacock David Van Day Dave Walker David Watson (Footballist, b. 1946) I almost went for a Chris related theme but I have a sibling by that name and I am weirdly superstitious. Just the two theme teams for me. Dey Do Die Don't Dey Doh (Merseysiders) Clive Barker Nigel Rees Stan Boardman Jimmy Tarbuck Lady Fiona Castle Vince Earl Malandra Burrows Peter Christian Billy Butler Tony Scoggo Rita Tushingham Crissy Rock Kenneth Cope David Burke Patricia Routledge Joe Benton Laurie Taylor Tom Baker Cheryl Murray Lynda La Plante Subs Gillian Reynolds Marji Campi Pete Doherty A Bottle of Lucozade and the Warm Blanket (Crown Court TV Series) Caroline Blakiston Norman Bowler Eleanor Bron Nadia Cattouse Tony Caunter Keith Clifford Peter Ellis Jill Freud William Gaunt Malcolm Hebden George Innes Michael Jayston Colin Jeavons Geoff Hinsleff Judy Parfitt Robert Powell Frances White Richard Wilson Arnold Yarrow Vernon Dobtcheff Subs Priscilla Morgan Angela Morant Gwen Taylor 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,098 Posted January 1 My team this year: Fade to Black Jonnie Irwin (JOKER) Eddie Annand Black Bart Charlie Bird Frank Caprio Jimmy Carter Simon Cowell (conservationist) Shannen Doherty Derek Draper Frank Field Dario G Stuart Gray Erik Jensen Steve McMichael Patrick Murray Esther Rantzen Charlotte Raven Joe Shannon Jason Smith James Whale Subs Linda Nolan Cale Yarborough (died Dec. 31, 2023) Rob Burrow 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted January 1 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: Hits of 36 Years Ago (1988) Angry Anderson Petula Clark Abdul Duke Fakir Hazel O’Connor (GOSH Charity) Andrew Ranken (Pogue) Just in general, this feels like it could be your most successful Charts Team to date. 1988 is the first year I have memories of the charts, though it was more Fairground Attraction (whom I have hated ever since)! 58 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: My three delicious crumbles finally served and ready to be tasted and savoured. 58 unique picks out of 60 last year. Can I match or top this? Apricot Crumble Deborah Parry ( pardoned british nurse Convicted of murder in Saudi) Maggie Bell Blueberry Crumble Robin Oakley Enjoy! The usual great teams, Gooseberry, and a few names I have to look up. Parry a blast from the past! Oakley the one I came closest to picking (but didn't) and Bell is of course a legend. My prediction is over 55 uniques by looks of it. Incidentally, you helped shape the Dr Who team. Last place was between keeping Mary Peach or debuting Hannah Gordon, and a few months ago you told me how you thought Peach was a good DDP pick, so she stayed! 37 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: I thought I was the only person who remembered Angry Anderson! Great choice and great memory of Kylies Neighbours wedding! I remember first hearing that song on TOTP. I thought "man, he sounds a bit like Ozzy" then he appeared and I thought "man, he looks NOTHING like Ozzy"! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,211 Posted January 1 22 minutes ago, Handrejka said: I almost went for a Chris related theme but I have a sibling by that name and I am weirdly superstitious. Just the two theme teams for me. Dey Do Die Don't Dey Doh (Merseysiders) Clive Barker Nigel Rees Stan Boardman Jimmy Tarbuck Lady Fiona Castle Vince Earl Malandra Burrows Peter Christian Billy Butler Tony Scoggo Rita Tushingham Crissy Rock Kenneth Cope David Burke Patricia Routledge Joe Benton Laurie Taylor Tom Baker Cheryl Murray Lynda La Plante Subs Gillian Reynolds Marji Campi Pete Doherty A Bottle of Lucozade and the Warm Blanket (Crown Court TV Series) Caroline Blakiston Norman Bowler Eleanor Bron Nadia Cattouse Tony Caunter Keith Clifford Peter Ellis Jill Freud William Gaunt Malcolm Hebden George Innes Michael Jayston Colin Jeavons Geoff Hinsleff Judy Parfitt Robert Powell Frances White Richard Wilson Arnold Yarrow Vernon Dobtcheff Subs Priscilla Morgan Angela Morant Gwen Taylor Love your Merseysider team! Great line up! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 17,762 Posted January 1 Pan Breed 2024 Jonnie Irwin (JOKER) Rob Burrow Jason Smith - councillor Christoph Daum - controversial German football manager Graham Caveney Kathy Brown - singer Steve “Mongo” McMichael Simon Cowell (SOS Wildlife) Charlie Bird Michael Tilson Thomas Jimmy Carter Craig Maxwell - former Welsh Rugby CEO Stuart Gray Brian Barczyk Black Bart - a pro-wrestler on the wrestling fans team, wonders will never cease. Lizzy Musi - an 100% stats based pick George Beattie Erik Jensen - punt pick James Whale PJ Hammond - Sapphire and Steel creator Beattie is my attempt at a @Gooseberry Crumble type pick. He was wrongfully accused (and stitched up by the police) of a brutal murder as a teenager and there has been a decades long campaign to exonerate him. The Scottish Parliament got involved last summer as Beattie himself is now "gravely ill". Hopefully no one else saw that, its my only likely unique! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Going Underground 69 Posted January 1 I was worried about my Maxwell pick but I saw Spade and Pan Breed has picked him too. A bit more confident now. Hersl hopefully is unique, but a QO is dodgy even if he does happen to cark it. Team Name Going Underground Craig Maxwell JOKER Derek Draper Rob Burrow Shannen Doherty James Whale Bruce Willis Steve McMichael Esther Rantzen Jonnie Irwin Simon Cowell Christina Strutt Frank Field Charlie Bird Janey Godley Joe Shannon Dave Myers Jason Smith Stuart Gray Theo Burrell Daniel Hersl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,211 Posted January 1 2 minutes ago, msc said: Just in general, this feels like it could be your most successful Charts Team to date. 1988 is the first year I have memories of the charts, though it was more Fairground Attraction (whom I have hated ever since)! The usual great teams, Gooseberry, and a few names I have to look up. Parry a blast from the past! Oakley the one I came closest to picking (but didn't) and Bell is of course a legend. My prediction is over 55 uniques by looks of it. Incidentally, you helped shape the Dr Who team. Last place was between keeping Mary Peach or debuting Hannah Gordon, and a few months ago you told me how you thought Peach was a good DDP pick, so she stayed! I remember first hearing that song on TOTP. I thought "man, he sounds a bit like Ozzy" then he appeared and I thought "man, he looks NOTHING like Ozzy"! Thanks for your kind compliments! 55 + uniques I'll take that! I took a risk by keeping hold of a few from last year to avoid there being a high total in list of the Missed because as @YoungWillz pointed out I seemed a bit jinxed on that front this year! If the small number of used again names reduce my unique tally so be it. Deadpooling is no fun with no risk taking in my opinion. Pleased to hear I influenced one of your picks. No offence to the lady concerned but I'd love it to be a hit for you! Angry Anderson sang the charted wedding song to Charlene Ramsay and Scott Robinsons nuptials. Oh it takes me back to a world and age when life and Kylie Minogue was much more innocent and tame before she became a saucey madam of the dance floor! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,211 Posted January 1 8 minutes ago, msc said: Pan Breed 2024 Jonnie Irwin (JOKER) Rob Burrow Jason Smith - councillor Christoph Daum - controversial German football manager Graham Caveney Kathy Brown - singer Steve “Mongo” McMichael Simon Cowell (SOS Wildlife) Charlie Bird Michael Tilson Thomas Jimmy Carter Craig Maxwell - former Welsh Rugby CEO Stuart Gray Brian Barczyk Black Bart - a pro-wrestler on the wrestling fans team, wonders will never cease. Lizzy Musi - an 100% stats based pick George Beattie Erik Jensen - punt pick James Whale PJ Hammond - Sapphire and Steel creator Beattie is my attempt at a @Gooseberry Crumble type pick. He was wrongfully accused (and stitched up by the police) of a brutal murder as a teenager and there has been a decades long campaign to exonerate him. The Scottish Parliament got involved last summer as Beattie himself is now "gravely ill". Hopefully no one else saw that, its my only likely unique! Good luck! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 1 3 minutes ago, Going Underground said: I was worried about my Maxwell pick but I saw Spade and Pan Breed has picked him too. A bit more confident now. Hersl hopefully is unique, but a QO is dodgy even if he does happen to cark it. Team Name Going Underground Craig Maxwell JOKER Derek Draper Rob Burrow Shannen Doherty James Whale Bruce Willis Steve McMichael Esther Rantzen Jonnie Irwin Simon Cowell Christina Strutt Frank Field Charlie Bird Janey Godley Joe Shannon Dave Myers Jason Smith Stuart Gray Theo Burrell Daniel Hersl Strutt died in late 2022... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sly Ronnie 616 Posted January 1 Seems to be a trend developing for "B" teams and even "C" teams these days. Hedging bets or FOMO on those juicy potential hits? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,022 Posted January 1 1 minute ago, Sly Ronnie said: Seems to be a trend developing for "B" teams and even "C" teams these days. Hedging bets or FOMO on those juicy potential hits? By the look of gcreptile's teams, they exist to stop me getting any uniques. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 19,098 Posted January 1 15 minutes ago, msc said: Just in general, this feels like it could be your most successful Charts Team to date. 1988 is the first year I have memories of the charts, though it was more Fairground Attraction (whom I have hated ever since)! Well, that has jinxed that then! Ha! With you on Fairground Attraction, bloody everywhere that year, horrid. Had to pick one of the Timelords specifically for you - in fact my team has the most #1 hits ever. Glad my team has brought back memories for Deathlisters! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 466 Posted January 1 2 hours ago, maryportfuncity said: Incidentally, I'm not seeing Yaha Sinwar on the posted teams other than my own. I'm assuming he'll have a smattering of support once the DDP unleashes its full talent pool. Not picked in 2023, but being head of Hamas in Gaza at the moment is unlikely to be good for your long-term health prospects.The Israelis have described him as a "dead man" - despite his current absence from the regular news footage there's no evidence he's already dead. Anyone else posting hereabouts got him in competition? He's the joker on my secondary team Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted January 1 The B-team is always the slightly more interesting team that I secretly like more. Admittedly, this year, there's a lot of overlap with DQSP. Total coincidence. Usually, I share these uniques with Spade on my main team (Michel Delpech, Ezra Nawi, Catherine Wybourne). Well, the B-team is older than many main teams anyway. The C-team this year was my "what if all these bedblockers actually die" team, plus some leftovers. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,847 Posted January 1 17 minutes ago, Sly Ronnie said: Seems to be a trend developing for "B" teams and even "C" teams these days. Hedging bets or FOMO on those juicy potential hits? I tried it once, but as expected there was one good team spread over two average ones. Just sticking to one team now. Haven't bothered with a theme team either. If I think of something interesting enough I might try one again next time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,017 Posted January 1 9 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said: He's the joker on my secondary team Aye, well apologies for knackering any unique pick + violent death combi you have coming on that. There were only two of us last year who had the head of ISIS, the previous year I scored unique pick points for his predecessor. I'm thinking prominent Hamas operatives currently targetted will be better supported in dead pools than ISIS commanders this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Going Underground 69 Posted January 1 27 minutes ago, Death Impends said: Strutt died in late 2022... Ahh for gods sake. I made exactly the same mistake last year. Forgot to remove her from my possibles list. Ah well. Andy Taylor comes. He's an outsider at best Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drunkasaskunk 164 Posted January 1 Qualifying Obituaries. I do not know if I should put this in the DDP 2023 thread, this thread or start a new thread for DDP 2025 as my question concerns the 2025 game. I have a question, if I may. Why do we not allow obituaries from certain sites UNLESS they have been picked up by a search engine, UK YAHOO? Obits from Hollywood Reporter, Reuters.com, Deadline, CBC, Huffpost, Chicago Tribune AND MANY MANY MORE :-) are not allowed UNLESS UK Yahoo picks them up. Here are just 6 that have been used as "death notices" in the 2023 game. I understand that there MAY have been other sources. I have not looked. But I find it strange that the RULES state... "The following news sources are excluded as from 1st January 2016: Huffington Post UK, MSN UK, Scotsman" And yet, for example, Andy Barkan's death uses a Huffington post article, written by a Huff post journalist and published in the Huffington post and it DOES count, simply because a certain search engine picked it up. I understand that someone, somewhere must decide what sources DO or DO NOT constitute a QO. I assume that it was decided that Reuters.com, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, CBC and the Chicago Tribune were not appropriate for the DDP, yet we ARE allowing SOME of them to count. I totally, 100% agree that any news content GENERATED by UK YAHOO should count towards qualification, but when they simply use a "bot" to scour the interweb for stories then these - IN MY OPINION - should not count. I love the DDP because it is UK centric. Is the quest for amassing the most hits in a year clouding out judgement of what should, and what should not constitute a QO? Thanks for reading. What do you think? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 466 Posted January 1 11 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: Aye, well apologies for knackering any unique pick + violent death combi you have coming on that. There were only two of us last year who had the head of ISIS, the previous year I scored unique pick points for his predecessor. I'm thinking prominent Hamas operatives currently targetted will be better supported in dead pools than ISIS commanders this year. Attempted to make a Hamas theme team, at the 11th hour, but fell about 5 names short of a full team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,234 Posted January 1 I think Yahoo has licensing agreements with certain media outlets which is why EVERY Hollywood Reporter/Variety/Chicago etc... name will get picked up, but, no Indian sources, for example. I do agree that there should be some change. I don't mind though that now every Hollywood/TV person gets an obit. I more have a problem when, say, Nebraska state football coaches obit. If I I recall correctly, the UK isn't the Top country of origin for hits anyway, it was always the USA. UK is over-represented though, which is still accepted here. In a way, the DeathList itself is like this, a majority of US names, with the UK being overrepresented. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,373 Posted January 1 In a perfect world I would only let Yahoo count if I personally find them an interesting obit to write 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 542 Posted January 1 As I see others have posted their teams here, I'll pop mine here too! AH THE OL' TEAM Jimmy Carter (JOKER) David Attenborough Dick Cheney Josip Manolic Caren Marsh Doll Jennifer Wexton Hamako Mori Desmond Morris Linda Nolan Yoko Ono Eva Marie Saint Prunella Scales June Spencer Dick Van Dyke Frank Field Ann Russell (TikTok) Iris Apfel Ethel Kennedy Esther Rantzen Denis Law OLD AMERICAN POLITICIANS (OAPs) (THEME: As the title says, it's the elders of America.) Jimmy Carter (JOKER) Jennifer Wexton Glenn Thompson Nicholas F. Brady Dick Cheney Susan Collins Elizabeth Dole Paul Gosar Jim Inhofe Pat Leahy Edwin Meese Nancy Pelosi Richard Shelby Donald Trump Pat Roberts Hal Rogers Pat Saiki Jim Sensenbrenner Daniel J. Evans Alan K. Simpson DYING PROBABLY READS TWITTER (THEME: Literally just the first names I saw on my Twitter page...) Nick Begich (JOKER) Sarah Palin Mary Peltola Georg Gauger (oh, boy, this is a REAL stretch in terms of fame. Failing him, Tim Sheehy would move in) Ed Markey John Fetterman Jeb Bush Hayley Williams Frank LaRose Sherrod Brown Mitch McConnell Donald Trump Nikki Haley Ron DeSantis Taylor Swift Jahana Hayes Joe Biden Lee Zeldin Jacky Rosen Ruben Gallego 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 641 Posted January 1 2 minutes ago, Dying Probably said: DYING PROBABLY READS TWITTER (THEME: Literally just the first names I saw on my Twitter page...) Nick Begich (JOKER) Sarah Palin Mary Peltola You seem to like politicians from Alaska for some reason. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 1,367 Posted January 1 A friend of mine (who I submitted a team for last year) messaged me this morning very disappointed, realising that he'd forgotten to make a team for this year. He wasn't so bothered about not taking part but was miffed that no-one will have chosen former footballer Bennett Steele this year, who is his 'incredibly irritating' next-door neighbour. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dying Probably 542 Posted January 1 5 minutes ago, Captain Hemlock said: You seem to like politicians from Alaska for some reason. Haha, it was one tweet about the 2022 House election. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
