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Team Name: Lard Bazaar

 

Joker (Pick 1): Josh Brookes (Motorcycle racer, born 28/04/83 in Sydney)

Pick 2: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Pick 3: Reverend Billy Graham

Pick 4: Carla Laemmle

Pick 5: Pete Murray (Radio and TV presenter)

Pick 6: Nancy Reagan

Pick 7: Carol Lee Scott (Grotbags)

Pick 8: Joao Havelange

Pick 9: Alwen Harris (Wife of alleged sex case Rolf)

Pick 10: Chris Woodhead (Previous Chief Inspector of Schools)

Pick 11: Jimmy Hill

Pick 12: Stuart Hall

Pick 13: Valerie Harper

Pick 14: Marc Marquez (Motorcycle racer)

Pick 15: Mickey Rooney

Pick 16: Lynda Bellingham

Pick 17: Queen Fabiola of Belgium

Pick 18: Dora Bryan

Pick 19: Sue Townsend (Author)

Pick 20: Sally Farmiloe (Actress/shagged Jeffrey Archer)

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1. Katherine Crowe

2. Steve Evans (Wolverhampton councilman and magician - but really more a famous for terminal illness, who's chummy enough with the BBC that I'm sure he'll get something)

3. Sally Farmiloe

4. George Fernandes (former Defence Minister of India)

5. Rev. Billy Graham

6. Kate Granger

7. Valerie Harper

8. Clive James

9. Wojciech Jaruzelski

10. Wilko Johnson joker.gif

11. Ritchii Kara

12. Casey Kasem

13. Andrew Madoff

14. John McCabe (composer)

15. Wubbo Ockels

16. Mike Porcaro

17. Scott Putesky (aka Daisy Berkowitz)

18. Michael Schumacher

19. Sam Simon

20. Joost van der Westhuizen

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Happy New Year everybody!

 

They're Dead Y'Know!

 

Wilko Johnson (J)

Dennis Davis (Bowie's drummer in the mid-70s)

Major John Freeman

Jack Good (Producer of 6-5 Special & Oh Boy!)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Valerie Harper

Bobby Heenan

Jimmy Hill

Barry Hines

Richard Hoggart

General Wojciech Jaruzelski

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Casey Kasem

Helmut Kohl

Joseph Kony

Bess Meyerson

Olaf Pooley (Actor in Dr Who & Star Trek TNG)

Leslie Randall (Sitcom actor)

Joost van der Westhuizen

Douglas Wilmer

 

Good luck everyone...

Edited by themaninblack

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DDP 2014 Pan Breed

 

Sam Simon (joker),

Sally Farmiloe,

Wilko Johnson,

Casey Kasem,

Valerie Harper,

George Cole,

G Garcia Marquez,

Pat Rice,

Jimmy Hill,

Liz Dawn,

Asa Briggs,

Joost vd Westhuizen,

Chris Woodhead,

Chris Moncrieff,

Tony Benn,

Ryan Buell,

Ian Watkins,

Helen Fawkes,

Albert Reynolds,

Joe McGinniss

 

The defence of that pivotal 188th place starts here.

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Sovereign - Reaper

 

 

1) JOKER Wilko Johnson

2) Joost van der westhuizen

3) George h. w bush senior

4 ) sam simon

5) Valerie harper

6) kate granger

7) Katherine Crowe

8) wojcech Jaruzelski

9) sally farmiloe

10) Clive James

11) Billy Graham

12) Tony Benn

13) zsa zsa gabor

14) vera lynn

15) kirk douglas

16) saif gaddafi

17) Superstar Billy Graham

18) stuart hall

19) Fats domino

20) isabel peron

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The Dead Cows

 

Katherine Crowe (Joker)

Ritchii Kara

Sally Farmiloe

Muhammad Ali

Sam Simon

Jerry Lewis

Tony Benn

Valerie Harper

Fergie Frederiksen

Mike Porcaro

Kate Granger

Sandy Jardine

Clive James

Joost van der Westhuizen

Frank Lucas

Superstar Billy Graham

Liz Dawn

Michael Parkinson

Scott Hall

Wilko Johnson

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They're Dead Y'Know!

 

{snip}

 

Mikhail Kalashnikov

 

{snip}

 

He's dead Y'know.

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Octopus of Odstock

 

Sam Simon (JOKER)

Suchitra Sen

Katherine Crowe

Albert Reynolds

Daisy Berkowitz

Sally Farmiloe

Kristina Fetters

Kai Fu Lee

Joost van der Westhuizen (I don't think he'll die this year, but too big a risk to drop him - if I hadn't dropped Bernie Nolan, then maybe I would've won in 2013)

Barry Hines

Wilko Johnson

Yahya Jammeh

Andrew Madoff

Pat Rice

Mike Porcaro

Andrew Florent

Vojislav Seselj

Rev. Billy Graham

Chris Woodhead

Tito Vilanova

 

I'll be suprised if I end up with any unique hits, most names have cropped up already.

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So here's the defending entry...

 

 

Joker (Pick 1): Steve Evans

Pick 2: Claudio Abbado

Pick 3: Amiri Baraka

Pick 4: Mike Burney

Pick 5: Bobby Eaton

Pick 6: Yosra El-Essawy

Pick 7: Sally Farmiloe

Pick 8: Kristina Fetters

Pick 9: Reverend Billy Graham

Pick 10: Valerie Harper

Pick 11: Clare Hollingworth

Pick 12: Wilko Johnson

Pick 13: Ritchii Kara

Pick 14: Casey Kasem

Pick 15: Marlise Munoz

Pick 16: Paul Revere

Pick 17: Sam Simon

Pick 18: Lynne Stewart

Pick 19: Mel Stottlemyre

Pick 20: Chen Ziming

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They're Dead Y'Know!

 

{snip}

 

Mikhail Kalashnikov

 

{snip}

 

He's dead Y'know.

 

That's what happens when you cut 'n paste the original list sent before Mr AK-47 popped his clogs!

Rev Billy Graham is in his place...

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New year, new name, new regrets...

 

Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet

 

Colin Bloomfield

Katherine Crowe

Sally Farmiloe

Helen Fawkes

Kate Granger

Valerie Harper

Fred Ho

Sandy Jardine

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Wilko Johnson

Ritchii Kara (Joker)

Andrew Madoff

Joe McGinniss

Mike Porcaro

Scott Putesky

Michael Schumacher

Sam Simon

Lynne Stewart

Joost van der Westhuizen

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Team Name: Welshman

Valerie Harper (Rhoda) Joker

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Luise Rainer

Sally Farmiloe

Wilko Johnson

Alice Munro

Helen Fawkes

Carla Laemmle

Scott Mitchell Putesky (Daisy Berkowitz)

Peter Max

I.M.Pei

David Rockerfeller

Liam Cosgrave

Olivia de Havilland

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Joan Plowright

Ryan Buell

Dora Bryan

Valery Giscard D'estaing

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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Sigged all my teams.

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Sigged all my teams.

 

Did you mean to list Joan Fontaine?...

 

Didn't realise she'd died, I'll update.

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M6 Toll(ed) as in the autosig - another bunch of largely West Midland misfits.

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Completely missed Farmiloe, Berkowitz and Madoff. Need to revise my search engine terms...

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Well.. I guess my only hope left of having a unique pick is in Marina Khodorkovskaya. Does anyone have her?

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Looks like Ritchii Kara is the big miss for me this year, there's always one....

 

Much more conservative effort from me this year, research levels not what they were:

 

Sam Simon (J)

Wilko Johnson

Sally Farmiloe

Elie Wiesel

Kate Granger

Katherine Crowe

Rubin Carter

Valerie Harper

Helen Fawkes

Sandy Jardine

Casey Kasem

Scott Putesky

Kate Gross

Clive James

Christy Dignam

Reverend Billy Graham

Albert Reynolds

Robert Schuller

Carman Licciardello (Wouldn't be a DDP season without a hit with no obit)

Mark Evans

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Joker (Pick 1): Kate Granger

Pick 2: Wilko Johnson

Pick 3: Helen Fawkes.

Pick 4: Katherine Crowe

Pick 5: Valarie Harper

Pick 6: Marcia Strassman.

Pick 7: Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Pick 8: Billy Graham (Rev)

Pick 9: Clive James

Pick 10: Liz Dawn

Pick 11: Felix Glenny

Pick 12: Sam Simon

Pick 13: Ryan Buell

Pick 14: Joost Van de Westhuizen

Pick 15: Casey Kasem

Pick 16: Sharon Jones (Dap Tones)

Pick 17: Robin Roberts (Female Broadcaster)

Pick 18: Umarov Dokka

Pick 19: Sandy Jardine

Pick 20: Jack Ramsey (Basketball)

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And mine.

 

No uniques i shouldn't imagine, but a deliberate attempt to mix low hanging fruit with slightly higher pointing, less likely picks. Because that worked out so well for me last year...

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First time deadpoolin'... :)

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Here's mine - I see that my only hope of a unique (Christy Dignam) has been dashed already :)

 

Team Name: Eejit

Joker (Pick 1): Billy Graham

Pick 2: Christy Dignam

Pick 3: Clive James

Pick 4: Fidel Castro

Pick 5: Helen Fawkes

Pick 6: Ian Paisley

Pick 7: Kate Granger

Pick 8: Katherine Crowe

Pick 9: Kirk Douglas

Pick 10: Michael Schumacher

Pick 11: Muhammad Ali

Pick 12: Robert Mugabe

Pick 13: Sally Farmiloe

Pick 14: Sam Simon

Pick 15: Scott Putesky

Pick 16: Tito Vilanova

Pick 17: Valerie Harper

Pick 18: Wilko Johnson

Pick 19: Wojciech Jaruzelski

Pick 20: Zsa Zsa Gabor

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