Deathrace 2025

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

13 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

I don't want to have to do this to myself, but I'm also no cheat. I make my score 1093 points, 365 each from Walker and Rüütel, then 363 from Keleti.

 

 

Sorted, either my calculator's possessed or I hit the wrong button, apologies

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

And another in our series of daily Deathlist dishes

 

This hot talent is Amelita Ramos, latterly (29 Dec) she's been lapping up a slice of birthday cake, her 98th to be accurate. Q/o hopes here are realistic given the low-hanging nature of the Deathrace, the Phillippino media operating quite a few English language news sources and generally marking the demise of their first ladies as and when. Granted, our lassie ceased being first lady in 1998, so her continued hold on life has escaped all but one of the current Deathrace entrants. Therefore, I thought I'd share the love a little here and keep this thread lively until we cash in a winner, soonish if the current form of our leaders is anything to go by. 

 

[gcreptile 11,305]

On 01/01/2025 at 11:08, maryportfuncity said:

Oh aye, and...a new feature we'll briefly enjoy until victory is rapidly sealed. Looking at the tonnage of (381) names on the masterlist it might be useful to introduce a few of the - ahem - cult heroes, starting with...Jytte Abildstrøm

 

 

Danish dame of stage and screen, known to, well...Danes mainly from such unforgettable crowd pleasers as Svend, Knud og Valdemar (1970) and Askepot (1973) and known to her social services as someone already in their nineties. Wikipedia says her "active" years stretch from 1956 to "present" though it offers no evidence of any production since 2012. Maybe the clamour for selfies with her has blocked her route to auditions for the last twelve years, who knows?  Oh, and her son is an actor who appeared in Borgen. 

 

 

 

 

Sadly, she's dead now, but needs something obitable.

[drol 12,446]

Ortega and Abildstrom are hits for me when a QO shows up.

[drol 12,446]

Cristobal Ortega QO.

[livingbygrace 532]

It is only the 2nd day of the year, and I feel already I am being left alone in a corner at the party   

 

But in all seriousness Congrats on all the early hits all

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

2 hours ago, drol said:

Cristobal Ortega QO.

 

 

Cheers, Wiki currently has him dead "around" 2 January, so we'll presume 363 points until advised otherwise

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

Close of play 2 Jan - Drol could be sitting on an additional 363 points if any half-reputable English language news source sees fit to mark the passing of Jytte Abildstrøm. On current form I can't see this competition outstaying its welcome!

 

 

 

And, let's have a look at the old scoreboard!

 

Summer in Transylvania - 1093

Drol - 1091

An Fear Beag - 728

Book - 728

RadGuy - 728

Bibliogryphon - 726

 

Hold the post, so this source is in Danish but has a clickable English option: https://underholdning.tv2.dk/kendte/2025-01-02-jytte-abildstroem-er-doed

 

Drol - 1454

Summer in Transylvania - 1093

 

[DevonDeathTrip 2,385]

@maryportfuncity - I see your pick, child murderer Urfan Sharif, is in a bad way after having his throat slashed with a tuna tin lid yesterday.  

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

1 minute ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

@maryportfuncity - I see your pick, child murderer Urfan Sharif, is in a bad way after having his throat slashed with a tuna tin lid yesterday.  

 

Aye, what I don't see is how many other people might be fancying him across a few dead pools, he's in my DDP line up as well, I'm thinking it a reasonable punt on someone in his 40s with a chance of a bonus by way of death. Only count when they count, mind, I had Trump on this year's DDP. If that shooter had thought less like a video game and more like a proper sniper and gone for the boiler plate shot into his large torso...the world would be a different place now. 

 

 

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

A lacklustre day in a dead pool that was postively bubbling a day ago. I'm seeing nowt on the Wikipedia to suggest I need to tweak the scoreboard. Anyone know different?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2025

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

Deadpooling dish of the day

 

Zoya Boguslavskaya - centernarian Russian poet, essayist, playwright, novelist and, erm...critic. A useful guess being that she only lasted to 100 where she lives by ensuring the criticism was directed at the work of other writers and not those in power since the second world war. Either way, @MalePoster has heard of her and reckons her worth a wager in his dead pooling team hereabouts. Like me, he's currently a whopping 1454 off the lead, so the sudden demise of today's dead pooling dish would be welcome. 

 

 

 

[gcreptile 11,305]

Richard B. Hays is dead, in 2025, but yet unclear which day:

https://akma.disseminary.org/2025/01/richard-b-hays-1948-2025/

[gcreptile 11,305]

Actually, on the 3rd according to this:

https://x.com/AndyRowell/status/1875403540715405690

[drol 12,446]

I'm one hit away from winning.

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

20 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Richard B. Hays is dead, in 2025, but yet unclear which day:

https://akma.disseminary.org/2025/01/richard-b-hays-1948-2025/

 

 

That bit of personal communication is the only source cited by Wiki, might even tax our absurdly lenient q/o standards, anyone seen owt more substantial yet?

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

FFS, the world's oldest person dies and lowhangersrus (i.e., this pool) doesn't have her on anyone's team. We don't have a list of the lost tally, maybe we should start

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9830vpp2p0o

[drol 12,446]

5 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

FFS, the world's oldest person dies and lowhangersrus (i.e., this pool) doesn't have her on anyone's team. We don't have a list of the lost tally, maybe we should start

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9830vpp2p0o

She died last year.

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

2 minutes ago, drol said:

She died last year.

 

Aye, but not widely known until this year, and just checking the masterfile of all teams, incl. all subs, she's nowhere. One or two others dead in 2024 made the original masterlist

 

 

 

[drol 12,446]

RE Hays something better will surely show up soon. The guy was quite big in his field.

[drol 12,446]

This should do for Hays.

[gcreptile 11,305]

He'll get WashPost and probably NYT, too, eventually.

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

5 minutes ago, drol said:

This should do for Hays.

 

 

Hell yeah (heh heh - see what I did there!)

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

The current podium, for those still naive enough to think running a dead pool is a shoo-in to being able to smash dead pools in general by hoovering up the choice picks as you compile the masterlist I'd like to point out that Drol is now one hit away from winning whilst I'm one hit away from scoring any fucking points at all! 

 

Drol - 1816

Summer in Transylvania - 1093

gcreptile - 1090

[maryportfuncity 10,757]

Dead pooling dish of the day

 

The entries came so thick and fast that I just logged and listed them. Now I'm looking over the masterlist I'm assuming the Hazel Chinnery on that list entered by @Bibliogryphon is probably Hazel Chinery, i.e., the artiste better known as Teddie Beverley, the last surviving sister from the close vocal harmony trio who were a British entertainment institution for many years. 97 years old and showing no particular interest towards getting involved in dance remixes or other ill-advised updates of the timeless catalogue. Whatever she busies herself with whilst maintaining a low profile, it'll make no odds in the end. Hazel/Teddie remains - as us experienced poolers like to say - obitable as fuck.