Who's Going To Be Around For A While?

[Zsa Zsa's leg 884]

Leah Bracknell

[Joey Russ 7,228]

Marieke Vervoort

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,346]

3 hours ago, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

Leah Bracknell

Surely not?! 

[Zsa Zsa's leg 884]

Do Muoi and Le Duc Anh

[Sir Creep 7,070]

7 hours ago, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

Do Muoi and Le Duc Anh

That's just fahkin wrong.  

[Mad Hatter2 85]

Joe Jackson

[CaptainChorizo 1,983]

 

Based on how Nancy Olson sounded/looks in this interview earlier in the year, I wouldn't be surprised if the 90 yo Sunset Blvd actress becomes a Centenarian

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Frankie Valli was chosen by not 1 not 2 but FIVE DDP teams in 2018.  Dude is 84 and touring, going strong.  He may drop over one night on stage, but for now he looks like an awful waste of one of 20 precious spots on even a DDP theme team list, short of a team 'People Named Frankie'.
And while we are on the topic, Divine's version of Walk Like A Man is superior in every way.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Assuming this is a thread where we discuss awful picks, bad reasoning, and the like....(if there is a more appropriate thread please move this).... why are so many of you influenced by the DL Committee choices?  I will presume it's just easier (read: you're lazy).
Dick Van Dyke (b. 13 Dec 1925) is soon to be 93, but hasn't had a blemish as far as his health goes.  Yet 45 DDP teams selected him.  What is that, like 8% of all teams submitted?
Charles Van Doren (b. 12 Feb 1926) is two months younger than Van Dyke, and presumably hasn't had many health problems either (none I can find).  Yet is a SOLO pick! 
What the hell?  Both will easily obit, so that isn't a concern.  These gents are about as identical as you can be.  45:1 ??

Why are you people beholden to the DL names?  I don't get it.  Shouldn't there be as much interest, in general, for Van Doren as Van Dyke?  I'm sure I could throw 50 other names into the hopper here as well, but this struck me as I was looking at the letter 'V' picks in 2018 DDP just now, and the two celebs were back-to-back names.
If it is 'I'm going for the D40 bonus' you are creating the monster.  It wouldn't BE a D40 bonus unless you MADE IT one.  SMFH.  

Well all that changes if the Committee puts Van Doren on the list and axes Van Dyke, all the sudden the lemmings will choose Van Doren in droves.  Is that it?
Sir C

[Toast 16,144]

8 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

Assuming this is a thread where we discuss awful picks, bad reasoning, and the like....(if there is a more appropriate thread please move this).... why are so many of you influenced by the DL Committee choices?  I will presume it's just easier (read: you're lazy).
Dick Van Dyke (b. 13 Dec 1925) is soon to be 93, but hasn't had a blemish as far as his health goes.  Yet 45 DDP teams selected him.  What is that, like 8% of all teams submitted?
Charles Van Doren (b. 12 Feb 1926) is two months younger than Van Dyke, and presumably hasn't had many health problems either (none I can find).  Yet is a SOLO pick! 
What the hell?  Both will easily obit, so that isn't a concern.  These gents are about as identical as you can be.  45:1 ??

Why are you people beholden to the DL names?  I don't get it.  Shouldn't there be as much interest, in general, for Van Doren as Van Dyke?  I'm sure I could throw 50 other names into the hopper here as well, but this struck me as I was looking at the letter 'V' picks in 2018 DDP just now, and the two celebs were back-to-back names.
If it is 'I'm going for the D40 bonus' you are creating the monster.  It wouldn't BE a D40 bonus unless you MADE IT one.  SMFH.  

Well all that changes if the Committee puts Van Doren on the list and axes Van Dyke, all the sudden the lemmings will choose Van Doren in droves.  Is that it?
Sir C

 

I suspect that the majority of people who enter the DDP have only a casual interest and don't read this forum, or even the Deathlist.

[Death Impends 7,979]

Yeah DVD is in that tier of super A list 90+ celebs where everyone knows he's both alive and really old hence why likes of him and Doris Day are Drop 40. Van Doren isn't obscure but nowhere near Van Dyke's level and a lot of people who heard the name might assume he's already dead.

[Toast 16,144]

I had to look up Charles Van Doren as I have never heard of him, and I doubt I'm alone in that.  So there's another reason.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

1 hour ago, Toast said:

I had to look up Charles Van Doren as I have never heard of him, and I doubt I'm alone in that.  So there's another reason.

Right....cuz it was only a movie that was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture/Director/Actor/Screenplay.
 

[Toast 16,144]

12 minutes ago, Sir Creep said:

1 hour ago, Toast said:

I had to look up Charles Van Doren as I have never heard of him, and I doubt I'm alone in that.  So there's another reason.

Right....cuz it was only a movie that was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture/Director/Actor/Screenplay.

 

OK, I've heard of the film but haven't seen it.  Vaguely aware that it was based on real events.  Still didn't recognise the name.

[msc 18,476]

Just to be circular and show that widely assumed knowledge is only what you know yerself, I knew vaguely of the scandal thanks to US TV referencing it a lot (Simpsons for example) but not the guys name, or the fact they made an Oscar nominated film about it.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

2 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Right....cuz it was only a movie that was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture/Director/Actor/Screenplay.
 

 

Love that movie

[Jeremy Corbyn 89]

I will be around until I'm 100 mark my word 

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Perhaps it's still optimistic, but it appears Amanda Bynes finally has her act together.

 

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a25310948/amanda-bynes-drugs-break-internet-paper-magazine-interview-reactions/

 

[Banana 859]

9 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Assuming this is a thread where we discuss awful picks, bad reasoning, and the like....(if there is a more appropriate thread please move this).... why are so many of you influenced by the DL Committee choices?  I will presume it's just easier (read: you're lazy).
Dick Van Dyke (b. 13 Dec 1925) is soon to be 93, but hasn't had a blemish as far as his health goes.  Yet 45 DDP teams selected him.  What is that, like 8% of all teams submitted?
Charles Van Doren (b. 12 Feb 1926) is two months younger than Van Dyke, and presumably hasn't had many health problems either (none I can find).  Yet is a SOLO pick! 
What the hell?  Both will easily obit, so that isn't a concern.  These gents are about as identical as you can be.  45:1 ??

Why are you people beholden to the DL names?  I don't get it.  Shouldn't there be as much interest, in general, for Van Doren as Van Dyke?  I'm sure I could throw 50 other names into the hopper here as well, but this struck me as I was looking at the letter 'V' picks in 2018 DDP just now, and the two celebs were back-to-back names.
If it is 'I'm going for the D40 bonus' you are creating the monster.  It wouldn't BE a D40 bonus unless you MADE IT one.  SMFH.  

Well all that changes if the Committee puts Van Doren on the list and axes Van Dyke, all the sudden the lemmings will choose Van Doren in droves.  Is that it?
Sir C

 

Yes, because the people who are picking DVD aren't the people you are complaining about and to.

[ImissMontpellier 73]

Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand, 107, will become a supercentenarian in three years.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

10 minutes ago, ImissMontpellier said:

Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand, 107, will become a supercentenarian in three years.

No he won't.

[Note: I'm preemptively posting this, and will edit before 2021 with the appropriate link when applicable.  I just wanted to be first.]
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[ImissMontpellier 73]

1 hour ago, Sir Creep said:

No he won't.

[Note: I'm preemptively posting this, and will edit before 2021 with the appropriate link when applicable.  I just wanted to be first.]
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Hope you're wrong.

[GuyFromFuture 69]

Liam Hemsworth

Chris Pratt

Florence Pugh

[ThereWillBeDeaths7 741]

Prince George

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

On ‎26‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 19:30, Sir Creep said:

Right....cuz it was only a movie that was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture/Director/Actor/Screenplay.
 

 

 

A serious point on this - quite a few people outlive their own useful fame but do have pre-prepared obits in the major news outlets. I had some dealings a few years ago with the writer Michael Baldwin who's greatest fame ended about 40 years ago (by which point teaching was a more reliable income). He told me about having several drinks with a journalist in the mid-seventies who then took him to a newspaper office and showed him his own obituary. By the time that obituary appeared it's likely many people were wondering who the man was. It is our duty to our fellow dead poolers to keep tabs on such cases.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/19/michael-baldwin