Deathrace 2015

[Deathray 2,933]

First team is in and ready (thanks Windsor). Meant to mention to any newbies, obviously, if you want to keep your team secret, PM me, they don't get shared until the Masterlist goes live after the closing date.

 

*ahem*

Gimme a break, The sun was blazing when you entered and I was confused about whether it was a late 2014 entry.

 

It's still technically the first entry and as you're the forum pedant I would expect you to be as rigid with being correct in your own posting as you appear to be with others.

 

In all seriousness I wish I'd been that organised with the Hares Death Pool... got some fucking horrid catching up to do. I am hoping to have the update out tonight.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

First team is in and ready (thanks Windsor). Meant to mention to any newbies, obviously, if you want to keep your team secret, PM me, they don't get shared until the Masterlist goes live after the closing date.

 

*ahem*

Gimme a break, The sun was blazing when you entered and I was confused about whether it was a late 2014 entry.

 

It's still technically the first entry and as you're the forum pedant I would expect you to be as rigid with being correct in your own posting as you appear to be with others.

 

In all seriousness I wish I'd been that organised with the Hares Death Pool... got some fucking horrid catching up to do. I am hoping to have the update out tonight.

Q - Who led the peasants revolt? A - Wat Tyler/ Q - Who led the pedants revolt? A - Which Tyler

[msc 17,763]

Q - Who led the peasants revolt? A - Wat Tyler/ Q - Who led the pedants revolt? A - Which Tyler

 

The ardent pedant often falls. Reminds me of when Nerina Pallot seems to have sung, "Safire, Safire, his typo is higher".

 

That joke is dead obscure and not funny, but I'm proud of it.

[Uschi 53]

I would like to enter with the following 20 people:

 

1. Barry Humphries

2. Brooke Ashley

3. Daisy Berkowitz

4. Desmond Tutu

5. Doris Day (Jokerette)

6. Fidel Castro

7. George Bush Senior

8. Günter Grass

9. Ian Watkins

10. Keith Richards

11. Lorraine Warren

12. Olivia de Havilland

13. Prince Philip

14. René Angélil

15. Richard Chamberlain

16. Robert Wagner

17. Sam Simon

18. Stephen Fry

19. Stephen Hawking

20. Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

 

 

Nice Christmas time to all of you!

[The Unknown Man 560]

I will also be entering with my 20 candidates listed below:

 

1. King Bhumibol Adulyadej

2. Caroline Aherne

3. Sam Simon (Wildcard)

4. Leonard Nimoy

5. Mary Tyler Moore

6. Desmond Tutu

7. Fidel Castro

8. Scott MacIntyre

9. Valerie Harper

10. Muhammad Ali

11. Tony Booth

12. Javier Perez de Cuellar

13. Maureen O'Hara

14. Al Molinaro

15. Glen Campbell

16. Zsa Zsa Gabor

17. Rev. Billy Graham

18. Rob Ford

19. Daisy Berkowitz

20. Luise Rainer

 

Subs:

1. Monty Hall

2. Jerry Lewis

3. Yasuhiro Nakasone

[Guest Jorde]

My team

Lupita Tovar-joker

George Bush

George Bush Jr

Borat Sagdiyev

Barbara Bush

Pamela Anderson

The Iron Sheik

Liz Smith

Olivia dehavilland

Ginger Baker

Dennis Healey

Katharyn Adams

Mary Midgeley

Lady Gaga

Demi Moore

Ryan Gosling

Misa Okawa

Ethel Lang

Roy Keane

[Perfect Passing 277]

Here's my twenty: -

 

1 Bruce Forsyth

2 Christopher Lee

3 Dickie Bird

4 Doris Day

4 Ethel Lang

6 Fidel Castro

7 George Bush Snr

8 Henry Kissinger

9 Hugh Hefner

10 Jean Alexander

11 Jimmy Greaves

12 Jimmy Hill

13 Kirk Douglas

14 Luise Rainer (Joker)

15 Marty Wilde

16 Nancy Reagan

17 Robert Mugabe

18 Stephen Hawking

19 Stirling Moss

20 Zsa Zsa Gabor

[the_engineer 1,405]

PM'ed you over my list MPFC . Merry christmas everyone.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

My team

Lupita Tovar-joker

George Bush

George Bush Jr

Borat Sagdiyev

Barbara Bush

Pamela Anderson

The Iron Sheik

Liz Smith

Olivia dehavilland

Ginger Baker

Dennis Healey

Katharyn Adams

Mary Midgeley

Lady Gaga

Demi Moore

Ryan Gosling

Misa Okawa

Ethel Lang

Roy Keane

 

Oi:

 

2 - To enter the Deathrace a contestant must have:

 

i: a team of twenty topplers ("topplers" must be at least 18 years old on 1 Jan 2015; but are otherwise unrestricted).

ii: Deathlist membership (i.e. be at least a pointless ranter and at most a dedicated Cumbrian corpse hound, or summat)

[RIP Wee Jum 1,558]

.I may as well give it a go as well. Don't expect to do very well but Hey Ho

 

1. Fidel Castro

2. George H W Bush

3. Tom Alexander

4. Sammy Cox

5. Tommy Docherty

6. Abe Vigoda

7. Robert Duvall

8. Christopher Lloyd

9. Peter Alliss

10. Jim Yuill McLean (legend)

11. Nigel Farage

12. George Alagiah

13. Robert Mugabe

14. Than Shwe

15. Crown Prince Abdullah

16. Pope Benedict XVI

17. Robert Redford

18. Barbara Windsor

19. Rev. Billy Graham

20. Supertstar Billy Graham

[Book 3,352]

Hello everybody, this is my team for Deathrace 2015:

 

 

01. Muhammad Ali

02. Paul Bocuse

03. Pierre Cardin

04. Fidel Castro

05. Kirk Douglas

06. Zsa Zsa Gabor

07. Billy Graham

08. Joao Havelange

09. Olivia de Havilland

10. Cleo Laine

11. Vera Lynn

12. Luka Rocco Magnotta

13. Henning Mankell

14. Dina Merrill

15. Joan Plowright

16. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

17. Doris Roberts

18. David Rockefeller

19. Helmut Schmidt

20. Sam Simon (Joker)

[Rotten Ali 599]

my first public list...

 

1. Caroline Aherne

2. Muhammad Ali

3. Daisy Berkowitz

4. Colin Bloomfield

5. Fidel Castro

 

6. Jenny Diski

7. Bob Dole

8. Kirk Douglas

9. Guy Edwards

10 Rob Ford

 

11 Zsa Zsa Gabor

12 Billy Graham (Joker)

13 Joao Havelange

14 Stephen Hawking

15 Clive James

 

16 Misao Okawa

17 Nancy Reagan

18 Sam Simon

19 Robert Schuller

20 Lee Kuan Yew

[Toast 14,850]

The usual random assortment from me:


Diana Athill
Stanley Baxter
King Bhumibol
Bart Cummings
Rev. Billy Graham

Doreen Keogh
Ethel Lang
Stephen Lewis (Blakey)
Sheila Mercier
Cliff Michelmore

Maureen O'Hara
Peter O'Sullevan
Marguerite Patten
Luise Rainer Nancy Reagan
Peter Sallis

Sheila Sim
Sam Simon (JOKER)
Liz Smith (the actress)
Jeralean Talley
Peter Vaughan

Edited March 4, 2016 by Toast

[gcreptile 10,241]

Let's see if I can do this right:

 

1. Abdelaziz Bouteflika (joker)

2. Ken Adam

3. Giorgio Napolitano

4. Ingvar Kamprad

5. Don King

6. Sir Nicholas Winton

7. Harry Leslie Smith

8. Barbara Walters

9. Zsazsa Gabor

10. Mary Wilson (PMs wife)

11. Robert Blake

12. Kirk Douglas

13. Imelda Marcos

14. Margot Honecker

15. Jorge Zorreguieta

16. Bruce Glover

17. Hans-Dietrich Genscher

18. Nuon Chea

19. Barbara Walters, duplicate, obviously I can't do this right. Replacement: Ilse Aichinger

20. Ornette Coleman

[time 7,971]

My runners have been PM'd as they're rather similar to my DDP entry.

[Lard Bazaar 3,695]

my first public list...

 

1. Caroline Aherne

2. Muhammad Ali

3. Daisy Berkowitz

4. Colin Bloomfield

5. Fidel Castro

 

6. Jenny Diski

7. Bob Dole

8. Kirk Douglas

9. Guy Edwards

10 Rob Ford

 

11 Zsa Zsa Gabor

12 Billy Graham (Joker)

13 Joao Havelange

14 Stephen Hawking

15 Clive James

 

16 Misao Okawa

17 Nancy Reagan

18 Sam Simon

19 Robert Schuller

20 Lee Kuan Yew

 

Caroline Aherne, damn and bollocks, I forgot about her.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

REET

 

Deadline expired at midnight, so I'll put summat to the vote...

 

ONE team arrived via PM after the deadline. If you've submitted a team I'll leave you to vote on whether we allow the latecomer (who I won't name). I'll count the votes - assuming there are any - no later than 11-00am today. If there are no votes the default position is that rules is rules and the late team are non starters.

[Rotten Ali 599]

<---- one vote for don't allow. Makes your considerations a little easier.

[Book 3,352]

We all have the same time, so: No. Sorry.

[CaptainChorizo 1,906]

I say let em in. There was no late breaking news advantage they gained by being an hour or 2 late.

[Estuarian Float 92]

*In defense of the mystery person's entry, he forgot about time zone difference and was sleeping because he has a very bad cold and is trying real hard to feel better before work tomorrow. So he didn't have the extra time to ponder over his picks. But if its a no he says thats fair...

[Deathray 2,933]

I say let 'em in. Deadlines are guidelines not hard limits.

[time 7,971]

Rules is rules

 

but, your contest, your decision, I won't mind either way (unless said team is full of low-hangers who'll all expire next week).

[msc 17,763]

Precedent suggests they miss out, no?

 

Other than that, I'm afraid I'll fence sit. As time says, its your game, your decision.

[maryportfuncity 10,017]

2-2 and two fence sitters (though I'd say they split down the middle as well), all to play for on the late entry.

 

Re the late entry candidates...haven't looked,it's sitting on a PM so out of sight of all.

 

Incidentally, there's loads of low hangers already entered and a fair few unique picks in the mightiest tonnage of candidates ever seen in this event.

 

Currently 22 teams compiled into the masterlist