Derby Dead Pool 2025

[YoungWillz 21,470]

Just finished reading the write up for 2024.

 

You know, I guess we just don't appreciate how fortunate we are to have such a great bunch running the DDP, and in particular the retention of @Death Impends for another year! All the hard work by our three runners really pays off and for that I am so grateful to you all for doing the do. Glad to know that "you'll be there" for us!

 

I look forward to the new year's lists going up, so we can iron out any issues (there's always some!) and get down to sleeping again while we await news.

 

So just a proper vote of thanks from me, both for putting up with us last year, and for grinding out the points for this year.

 

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,449]

@Banana Just realised  that on Google  for  my Apricot  Crumble  choice Martin Lacey  it shows up Martin Lacey junior aged 47  as the circus master but  for clarification  my choice is his father the senior Martin Lacey , who is a  notable 78 year old retired  circus ringmaster . 

[Thatcher 2,693]

8 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Honestly think we're waiting for a funeral notice now, as nobody in the press seems that interested in clearing up the Tuesday/Wednesday debate.

Article here which explains the reason for the delay. He lived alone with no wife or children, and people could not contact him on New Year’s Day, but he could’ve passed prior to that. As you say, it will be for a funeral notice following an autopsy. That’s if we get the information at all.

[Salmon Mousse 477]

4 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Article here which explains the reason for the delay. He lived alone with no wife or children, and people could not contact him on New Year’s Day, but he could’ve passed prior to that. As you say, it will be for a funeral notice following an autopsy. That’s if we get the information at all.

 

What's the ruling in the event we never get official clarification?

[gcreptile 11,301]

Smells like suicide to me.

He didn't want to bother anyone as his cancer was getting worse.

I mean, isn't there usually a hospitalization period before people die of cancer? Or can it happen just like that?

 

Edit: The alternative is that he died naturally, shortly after posting his final tweet on the 21st.... and he simply wasn't found until New Year's (why no more tweets after that?).

He's a very likely 2024 death, in my opinion. 

[time 8,719]

7 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Just finished reading the write up for 2024.

 

You know, I guess we just don't appreciate how fortunate we are to have such a great bunch running the DDP, and in particular the retention of @Death Impends for another year! All the hard work by our three runners really pays off and for that I am so grateful to you all for doing the do. Glad to know that "you'll be there" for us!

 

I look forward to the new year's lists going up, so we can iron out any issues (there's always some!) and get down to sleeping again while we await news.

 

So just a proper vote of thanks from me, both for putting up with us last year, and for grinding out the points for this year.

 

 

A thank you from me to you (and the others) for pointing out those obits that I don't spot - particularly the more esoteric selections - and for keeping an eye on drops when I've been away!

[Octopus of Odstock 2,239]

5 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Smells like suicide to me.

He didn't want to bother anyone as his cancer was getting worse.

I mean, isn't there usually a hospitalization period before people die of cancer? Or can it happen just like that?

 

Edit: The alternative is that he died naturally, shortly after posting his final tweet on the 21st.... and he simply wasn't found until New Year's (why no more tweets after that?).

He's a very likely 2024 death, in my opinion. 

 

There's a concerned tweet to him on the 31st with no response, which given his normal response on X, is significant.

I suspect he died just around Christmas given he didn't post on social media.

 

[YoungWillz 21,470]

David Lodge QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-14247053/Booker-Prize-shortlisted-author-David-Lodge-dies-age-89.html

[Evil Grimace 369]

My 2025 teams and subs with commentary.

 

I had 8 hits in 2024 (Irwin, Keith, Burrow, Fields, Cowell, Doherty, Newhart, Carter) and decided a refresh was needed, so only retained 6 from 2024 and dropped 6.   

 

Evil Grimace

1 Theo Burrell (joker) - no surprises here; I missed the announcments in 2023 and get to add her for this year

2 Esther Ranzen - carried over from 2024

3 Linda Nolan - carried over from 2024

4 Steve McMichael - carried over from 2024, how he still alive?

5 Noam Chomsky - carried over from 2024, how he still alive?

6 Ian Smith (actor) - age and recent news made me almost not add, but the potential of D40 was too much of a draw

7 Sophie Kinsella - age and diagnosis since 2022

8 Georg Koch - I have the QO concerns that everyone else does, but pan can is a big lock

9 Asma al-Assad - I'll post more in her thread, but this pick is a combination of age and the complications she likely has or will have soon

10 Allan Finnegan - was given 12 months in Feb 2024, but no updates

11 Peter Yarrow - thanks to blog updates the outlook is dire

12 Judy Loe - a bit of a punt, but the frequent updates from Kate helped

13 Michael Tilson Thomas - carried over from 2024, how he still alive?

14 Black Bart (wrestler) - stopping chemo is all I needed to hear

15 Patrick Murray - less updates than I'd like, but it will be two years for the recurrance in spring 2025, plus D40 points

16 James Whale - carried over from 2024, how he still alive? So he can keep complaining?  Almost dropped, but the late Dec ICU visit convinced me

17 Nigel McCrery - not sure what terminal illness it is, but I'll gamble

18 Graham Caveney - age (60, dob is 1964 based on first biography) and his prolonged illness 

19 Johnnie Walker  Tommy Walsh - Homes under the Hammer builder, lung cancer, a bit of a lacklustre sub

20 Mike Rinder - has exhausted 2 drugs, 2 drug cocktails, 2 immunotherapies and had full head radiation by mid-November, then a late November update and no updates since; only a matter of time

 

SUB Tommy Walsh - called up with the death of Johnnie Walker

SUB Frankie Valli - 90 - my perennial sub who just manages never to get called up

SUB Pope Francis - 88 - couldn't bear to add another 80-something, but know he'll be D40

 

Nobel Notables

 

Three hits (Higgs, Munro, Carter) in 2024.  Constant concern about QO for laureates.

 

1 Lech Walesa (joker) - poor health, did not attend the Queen's funeral

2 Mairead Maguire

3 14th Dalai Lama

4 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - 90, had a strike almost three years ago (Jan 2022)

5 Aung San Suu Kyi

6 Mohamed ElBaradei

7 Maria Ressa

8 Wole Soyinka - the death rumors do annoy me, but he's still a valid pick

9 J.M. Coetzee - probably the worst pick, he's known lead a physically active lifestyle

10 Mario Vargas Llosa

11 Bob Dylan

12 Peter Handke

13 Roger Penrose

14 John E Walker

15 Sir James Fraser Stoddart  found out he died 5 hours after I'd submitted, pleased to see he did get a QO (!!)

16 James Watson - honestly thought he'd have debuted on the main DL this year

17 Tu Youyou

18 William C Campbell

19 Amartya Sen - a forum niche pick

20 Angus Deaton

SUB Geoffrey Hinton - called up to replace Stoddart

 

I was lucky as I was struggling to find three subs, but I've learned my lesson, with three laurates (Karplus, Carter, Stoddart) dying on three consecutive days. 

[gcreptile 11,301]

16 minutes ago, Evil Grimace said:

20 Mike Rinder - has exhausted 2 drugs, 2 drug cocktails, 2 immunotherapies and had full head radiation by mid-November, then a late November update and no updates since; only a matter of time

Unfortunately(?), we share that name.

Here's a christmas update:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEAhKk3RmXC/?igsh=dW50dWR1dDRwZHdi

 

The decline in the last month is fast. He might be dead before his 70th birthday.

[maryportfuncity 10,754]

So, asking for a friend, like, anyone else think to pick Urfan Sharif, i.e., the guy that popped out of his prison cell for a slash last night?

[Evil Grimace 369]

22 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Unfortunately(?), we share that name.

Here's a christmas update:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEAhKk3RmXC/?igsh=dW50dWR1dDRwZHdi

 

The decline in the last month is fast. He might be dead before his 70th birthday.

 

In no way did I expect Rinder to be a Unique, although he was in 2024 (!!).  Just the picture with no commentary isn't a good sign.  His early November YouTube videos he has difficulty speaking.  The last update there is 28 November and he does look puffy in the Christmas update photo.

[gcreptile 11,301]

43 minutes ago, Evil Grimace said:

 

In no way did I expect Rinder to be a Unique, although he was in 2024 (!!).  Just the picture with no commentary isn't a good sign.  His early November YouTube videos he has difficulty speaking.  The last update there is 28 November and he does look puffy in the Christmas update photo.

I actually did, ahem.... didn't even check if he was a previous pick, though I should have, as the diagnosis was in 2023.

[gcreptile 11,301]

Mike Rinder QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mike-rinder-leah-remini-scientology-211022691.html