Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 1, 2015 Dr Nakamats was one of my final dropped picks: from what I understand he's a bit "eccentric", and had previously claimed he was going to live to 144. The pessimist in me thought that perhaps he was overstating the severity of his cancer so he'd look more impressive if he made the year out. If he's still with us in 2016, I'm picking him next year. Jock Scott is a great pick tbh, guaranteed to go and how the fuck does a Scottish punk poet get to knock up Anna Chancellor? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garn2 34 Posted January 1, 2015 Bit gutted to miss out on a couple of uniques with Dr Nakamats and Jock Scot. Basically a repeat of two years ago with Rubin Carter. Similar search terms or something. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted January 1, 2015 Main Team - Pooil Vaaish 1, Rene Angelil 2. Caroline Aherne 3. Christiana F 4. Mohammed Ali 5. Pat Priest 6.Akinwale Arobieke (aka Purple Aki) 7 William Barrington-Coupe 8. Hywel Bennet 9 Gretel Bergman 10. George Blake 11. Brian Cant 12 Fidel Castro 13 Sugar Pie DeSato 14. Kirk Dougls 15 Rev Billy Graham 16 Clive James 17 Irving Kanarek 18 Tamara Press 19. Clare Torry 20 Christopher Wenner Team 2 - Dial D For Deadpool (Theme Hitchcock Actors) Sean Connery Bernard Cribbens Doris Day Buce Dern Tippi Hedren Katherine Helmond Patricia Hitchcock Martin Landau Harry Landers Barbara Leigh-Hunt Norman Lloyd Jean Marsh Alec Mcowen Vera Mills Kim Novak Nova Pilbeam Eva Marie Saint Michael Subor Rod Taylor Julie Andrews (replacement for Billie Whitelaw) Team 3 - Death Sings our Name (People mentioned in song lyrcs or titles) 1. John Glenn 2. Joe Dallesando 3. Doris Day 4. Dickie Davies 5.Robet De Niro 6. Cint Eastwood 7. Queen Elizabeth II 8 Zizi Jeanmaire 9 Aretha Franklin 10. Fidel Castro 11 Bridgt Bardot 12.Bill Giles 13 David Icke 14 Lester Piggot 15.Eleuterio Sanchez 16. Janette Scott 17 David Steel 18 Brian Wlson 19 Holly Woodlawn 20 Benhard Goetz. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted January 1, 2015 Yep, good luck everyone, salute to Spade and show and tell here: DDP Sam Simon – JOKER Bhumibol Abdulyadej Daisy Berkowitz Tony Booth Ian Brady Liz Dawn Guy Edwards Zsa Zsa Gabor Robert John Godfrey Coleridge Goode Rev Billy Graham Kate Granger Jimmy Hill Paul Lamb Eric Lubbock Shelia Mercier Misao Okawa Rob O’ Neill – shot Osama Bin Laden Bill Speakman VC Mary Tyler Moore …and There was Great Rejoicing (Theme: Not exactly the most popular people you could meet.) 1. Michael Adebolajo - Joker 2. Ian Huntley 3. Ian Brady 4. Rolf Harris 5. Fidel Castro 6. Robert Mugabe 7. Rose West 8. Ian Watkins – Lost Prophet 9. Kim Jong-un 10. Hosni Mubarak 11. Tony Blair 12. Ronald Wotton 13. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi 14. Peter Sutcliffe 15. Dennis Neilson 16. Tariq Aziz 17. Imran Khan (cricketer turned politician) 18. Henry Kissenger 19. George HW Bush 20. Stuart Hall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,533 Posted January 1, 2015 Phantom's Pick 'n' Mix Joker (Pick 1): Lauren Hill Pick 2: Little Jimmy Dickens Pick 3: Sylvia Miles Pick 4: Liz Dawn Pick 5: Joao Havelenge Pick 6: Sam Simon Pick 7: Chris Woodhead Pick 8: Billy Graham Pick 9: Daisy Berkowitz Pick 10: Stephen Lewis Pick 11: Jimmy Perry Pick 12: Peter Sutcliffe Pick 13: Ian Brady Pick 14: Peter Vaughan Pick 15: John Stevenson (Mr Slate from The Flintstones - taking a chance in case he's still alive) Pick 16: Jerry Maren Pick 17: Ian St. John Pick 18: Patricia Hitchcock Pick 19: Robert M. Persig Pick 20: Nancy Reagan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Going Underground 74 Posted January 1, 2015 Team: Going Undergound Joker (Pick 1): Dave Benton (WCIA-TV Anchorman) Pick 2: Jerry Maren Pick 3: Valerie Harper Pick 4: Joost Van Der Westhuizen Pick 5: Sam Simon Pick 6: Denise Marshall (Feminist Campaigner) Pick 7: Jim Ed Brown Pick 8: Ryuichi Sakamoto Pick 9: Jamie Dimon Pick 10: Ion Trewin Pick 11: Leonard Nimoy Pick 12: Tessa James Pick 13: Clive Derby-Lewis Pick 14: Muhammad Ali Pick 15: Lee Kuan Yew Pick 16: Deryck Whibley Pick 17: Kim Fowley Pick 18: Liz Taylor (Phil Taylor’s Mum) Pick 19: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Pick 20: Paul Madeley Theme Team: Wormfood Scrubs. (A joint effort with my mate who plays under the moniker 'Picktons Pork Pies' on the main game.) Basically A load of bad boys doing some serious time. Joker (Pick 1): Myles Bradbury Pick 2: Mark Dixie Pick 3: Mick Philpott Pick 4: Mark Bridger Pick 5: Stuart Hall Pick 6: Michael Adebolajo Pick 7: Michael Adebowale Pick 8: Ian Brady Pick 9: Mario Masuku Pick 10: Rolf Harris Pick 11: Ian Huntley Pick 12: Sidney Cooke Pick 13: OJ Simpson Pick 14: Edmund Kemper Pick 15: Nicodemo Scarfo Snr Pick 16: Peter Sutcliffe Pick 17: Bernard Madoff Pick 18: Carmine Persico Pick 19: Anthony Casso Pick 20: Jared Lee Loughner Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted January 1, 2015 Now the nervous wait from TMIB as to whether he got my team on time or not. Cos emails are fuckin slow sometimes. Bet Jeremy Clarkson plows into the back of an 18-wheeler now that I demoted him from my DDP and just put him into the rest of my 50 name-list. Will post team in my sig when TMIB posts them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Flag 84 Posted January 1, 2015 Billy Graham Little Jimmy Dickens Maria Teresa de Filippis Gordie Howe Bart Starr Valerie Harper Clive James Rene Angelil Chris Woodhead Pat Rice Jacques Villeneuve Sr Sam Simon George Alagiah Clark Datchler Daisy Berkowitz Joost van der Westhuizen Steve Gleason Ryan Buell Ritchii Kara Lauren Hill (joker) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,983 Posted January 1, 2015 Team Name -Heading Nowhere Joker (Pick 1): Sam Simon Pick 2: Lauren Hill (thinking 90% chance she gets daily mail obit but the other 10% of me kept me from putting her as joker) Pick 3: Martin Crowe Pick 4: Jean Dore Pick 5: Bryan Murray Pick 6:Aimee Willett Pick 7: Samantha Beaven Pick 8: Jenny Diski Pick 9: Martin Foran Pick 10:Stuart Scott Pick 11:Helen Fawkes Pick 12:Kate Granger Pick 13:Caroline Aherne Pick 14:Robert Schuller Pick 15:Colin Bloomfield Pick 16:Daisy Berkowitz Pick 17:Peter Sutcliffe Pick 18:Seijun Suzuki Pick 19:Anker Jorgensen Pick 20:Christiane F. Team Name-Little Eadie's Euthanizers Theme of those involved with Documentaries Joker. Caroline Aherne Pick 2 Albert Maysles Pick 3 Verne Gagne Pick 4 Eugene Peyton Deatrick Jr Pick 5 Desmond Tutu Pick 6 Takna Jigme Zangpo Pick 7 Maxon Crumb Pick 8 Danielle Darrieux Pick 9 Alejandro Jodorowsky Pick 10 Abdullah The Butcher Pick 11 Joseph Kony Pick 12 Ushio Shinohara Pick 13 Nokiro Shinohara Pick 14 Ginger Baker Pick 15 Kristen Hallenga Pick 16 Agnes Varda Pick 17 Lina Wertmuller Pick 18 Burt Pugach Pick 19 Whitey Bulger Pick 20 Grace Slick Team Name- Diem Brown Memorial Deathsquad Theme of people involved with Reality TV Pick 1 Ryan Buell Pick 2 Ahmad "Real" Givens Pick 3 Pat Patterson Pick 4 Ozzy Osbourne Pick 5 Rudy Boesch Pick 6 Jackie Stallone Pick 7 Jean Broke-Smith Pick 8 Leif Garrett Pick 9 Daisy de la Hoya Pick 10 Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis Pick 11 George H. Ross Pick 12 Helmut Berger Pick 13 Scott MacIntyre Pick 14 Jenna Jameson Pick 15 Amber Siyavus Pick 16 Diego Maradona Pick 17 Valerie Harper Pick 18 Steven Adler Pick 19 Phil Margera Pick 20 Rikishi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,533 Posted January 1, 2015 Team Name -Heading Nowhere Joker (Pick 1): Sam Simon Pick 2: Lauren Hill (thinking 90% chance she gets daily mail obit but the other 10% of me kept me from putting her as joker) Pick 3: Martin Crowe Pick 4: Jean Dore Pick 5: Bryan Murray Pick 6:Aimee Willett Pick 7: Samantha Beaven Pick 8: Jenny Diski Pick 9: Martin Foran Pick 10:Stuart Scott Pick 11:Helen Fawkes Pick 12:Kate Granger Pick 13:Caroline Aherne Pick 14:Robert Schuller Pick 15:Colin Bloomfield Pick 16:Daisy Berkowitz Pick 17:Peter Sutcliffe Pick 18:Seijun Suzuki Pick 19:Anker Jorgensen Pick 20:Christiane F. Team Name-Little Eadie's Euthanizers Theme of those involved with Documentaries Joker. Caroline Aherne Pick 2 Albert Maysles Pick 3 Verne Gagne Pick 4 Eugene Peyton Deatrick Jr Pick 5 Desmond Tutu Pick 6 Takna Jigme Zangpo Pick 7 Maxon Crumb Pick 8 Danielle Darrieux Pick 9 Alejandro Jodorowsky Pick 10 Abdullah The Butcher Pick 11 Joseph Kony Pick 12 Ushio Shinohara Pick 13 Nokiro Shinohara Pick 14 Ginger Baker Pick 15 Kristen Hallenga Pick 16 Agnes Varda Pick 17 Lina Wertmuller Pick 18 Burt Pugach Pick 19 Whitey Bulger Pick 20 Grace Slick Team Name- Diem Brown Memorial Deathsquad Theme of people involved with Reality TV Pick 1 Ryan Buell Pick 2 Ahmad "Real" Givens Pick 3 Pat Patterson Pick 4 Ozzy Osbourne Pick 5 Rudy Boesch Pick 6 Jackie Stallone Pick 7 Jean Broke-Smith Pick 8 Leif Garrett Pick 9 Daisy de la Hoya Pick 10 Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis Pick 11 George H. Ross Pick 12 Helmut Berger Pick 13 Scott MacIntyre Pick 14 Jenna Jameson Pick 15 Amber Siyavus Pick 16 Diego Maradona Pick 17 Valerie Harper Pick 18 Steven Adler Pick 19 Phil Margera Pick 20 Rikishi I put Lauren Hill as my joker, simply because she'll get 24 points as opposed to 20 if I put Sam Simon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted January 1, 2015 There are some very strong teams this year and I predict carnage on a major scale. Herewith this year's effort. I'm hoping to do better than =16th place in 2014, my worst finish since 2007. The Living End Colin Bloomfield (joker) Lee Kun Hee Sam Simon Francis Cardinal George Martin Crowe Clive James Chuck Blazer Michael Gross (Producer/Cartoonist) Bob Benmosche Leo Scullion Jim Ed Brown Clive Derby-Lewis Christy Dignam Edwin Drummond (Climber/Poet) Ion Trewin Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai (aka Abu Anas al-Libi) Jacques Villeneuve Sr Denise Marshall Frank Van Den Bleeken Lauren Hill (Basketball player) SUB: Percy Sledge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted January 1, 2015 Also my Theme Team: Windsor's OBE All candidates have been appointed to the Order of the British Empire: Clive James CBE - Joker Stephen Hawking CBE Leslie Phillips CBE Murray Walker OBE Henry Sandon MBE Colin Dexter OBE Stuart Archer OBE George Alagiah OBE Andre Previn KBE Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE Ken Dodd OBE Sir Roger Bannister CBE Prince Philip GBE Denis Healey MBE Vera Lynn DBE Rev Billy Graham KBE Liz Dawn MBE Dickie Bird OBE Sir Nicholas Winton MBE Liz Smith MBE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 110 Posted January 1, 2015 Sam Simon (Joker) Muhammad Ali Zsa Zsa Gabor Rev Billy Graham Joost van der Westhuizen Verne Gagne Misao Okawa Vojislav Seselj Jean Dore Mullah Fazlullah Clive James Jerry Maren Kate Granger Donald Nick Clifford Martin Crowe Bhumibol Adulyadej Mike Porcaro Percy Sledge Irving Kahn Manoel De Oliveira Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Vyrdolak Posted January 2, 2015 My personal team, The Vyrdolak Pick 1: Clare Hollingworth, British journalist and first reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of World War II (JOKER) Pick 2: Chuck Williams, American cookbook author and businessman, founder of Williams-Sonoma Pick 3: Richard K. Guy, British mathematician Pick 4: Suzy Delair, French actress and singer Pick 5: Morton Sobell, American espionage figure (the Rosenberg's co-defendant) Pick 6: T. Berry Brazelton, American paediatrician and columnist Pick 7: John Zacherle (or Zacherley), American television horror-film host Pick 8: Paul Rogers, oldest surviving member of Easy Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Inf Regt, 101st Airborne Div Pick 9: Mary Midgley, British moral philosopher Pick 10: Robert L. Hite, American Air Force pilot, member of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Pick 11: Josip Manolić, Croatian politician Pick 12: Madeleine LeBeau, French actress (last surviving cast member of Casablanca -- Yvonne) Pick 13: Sir David R. Cox, British statistician Pick 14: Wendell H. Ford, American politician Pick 15: Robert Clary, actor (Hogan's Heroes, another Lebeau -- a theme team in the making? ) Pick 16: Richard Anderson, actor Pick 17: Lois Maxwell (I'm surprised she hadn't been picked for an 007 theme team before now) Pick 18: Len Deighton (I am the proud owner of his The Action Cookbook) Pick 19: Colin Jeavons, actor Pick 20: Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern In hindsight, picking a centennarian for Joker might not have been a wise move. Hopefully I'll get a Unique bonus for her. All of them were unpicked in last year's DDP, so I hope that a majority of them will get Ghostie icons this year. Sgt. Robert Hite was the only surviving member of Easy Company too ill to attend a 70th reunion this year. Dr. Cox developed the Proportional Hazards regression model bearing his name, so perhaps he should be a consultant for future DPs -- if he survives. Colin Jeavons was Hizzoner in The Island (1980 version with Michael Caine) among other roles over the course of his career. I've been wanting to pick him for years but thought he might already have died unannounced. He apparently had a role back in 2007 though. It's nice to be back (sniff, snerfle)! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,979 Posted January 2, 2015 I'm sorry to say Maxwell wasn't on any 007 theme teams because she died 007 years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Vyrdolak Posted January 2, 2015 Theme team: The Brotherhood of the Worm (clerical types, mostly) Pick 1: Thomas Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Pick 2: Billy Graham Pick 3: Pope Benedict XVI Pick 4: Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko), Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch of Kiev (Schismatic) Pick 5: Anastasios (Yannoulatos), Archbishop of Albania Pick 6: Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Pick 7: Desmond Tutu Pick 8: Ilia II, Catholic Patriarch of Georgia Pick 9: Louis Farrakhan Pick 10: Dali Llama Pick 11: Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Pick 12: Karim Agha Khan, Imam of Nizari Ismailism Pick 13: Harald V of Norway Pick 14: Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens Pick 15: Sawa (Hrycuniak), Polish Orthodox Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland Pick 16: Wiktor Wysoczański, Bishop of the Polish Catholic Church Pick 17: Irenaios Skopelitis, former Patriarch of Jerusalem Pick 18: Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople Pick 19: Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Cyprus Pick 20: Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury King Harald is apparently head of the national church. No truth to the rumor that their Communion meal is lutefisk on a cracker. Welby is a comparative youngster but spent the holidays in hospital with pneumonia. I should have spent more time coming up with a more amusing name. I hope I made up for that with my other theme team, All's Well That Ends Well (cast members of the BBC Shakespeare series of the 1970s-80s). Pick 1: Jeremy Kemp (JOKER) Pick 2: Robert Hardy Pick 3: Warren Mitchell Pick 4: Geoffrey Palmer Pick 5: Joss Ackland Pick 6: John Nettleton Pick 7: Andrew Sachs Pick 8: Claire Bloom Pick 9: Trevor Peacock Pick 10: Virginia McKenna Pick 11: Adrienne Corri Pick 12: Phyllida Law Pick 13: Prunella Scales Pick 14: Anna Quayle Pick 15: David Burke Pick 16: Eileen Atkins Pick 17: Julian Glover Pick 18: David Prowse Pick 19: Julian Curry Pick 20: Kenneth Cranham I omitted some of the higher-profile alumni, John Cleese (Petruchio), Patrick Stewart (Claudius), and Jonathan Pryce (Timon), mostly because they were still fairly active. Kenneth Cranham (b. 1944) on the other hand, always enviably trim and elegant, looked red-faced and bloated in a recent pic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 2, 2015 Clare Hollingworth was actually on the winning team last year... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Vyrdolak Posted January 2, 2015 I'm sorry to say Maxwell wasn't on any 007 theme teams because she died 007 years ago. Crap! And I looked all these names up in the past week... I haven't done that since I picked Aaron Copeland in an alt.tasteless DP. Do I start out with negative points now? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,983 Posted January 2, 2015 My personal team, The Vyrdolak Pick 1: Clare Hollingworth, British journalist and first reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of World War II (JOKER) Pick 2: Chuck Williams, American cookbook author and businessman, founder of Williams-Sonoma Pick 3: Richard K. Guy, British mathematician Pick 4: Suzy Delair, French actress and singer Pick 5: Morton Sobell, American espionage figure (the Rosenberg's co-defendant) Pick 6: T. Berry Brazelton, American paediatrician and columnist Pick 7: John Zacherle (or Zacherley), American television horror-film host Pick 8: Paul Rogers, oldest surviving member of Easy Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Inf Regt, 101st Airborne Div Pick 9: Mary Midgley, British moral philosopher Pick 10: Robert L. Hite, American Air Force pilot, member of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Pick 11: Josip Manolić, Croatian politician Pick 12: Madeleine LeBeau, French actress (last surviving cast member of Casablanca -- Yvonne) Pick 13: Sir David R. Cox, British statistician Pick 14: Wendell H. Ford, American politician Pick 15: Robert Clary, actor (Hogan's Heroes, another Lebeau -- a theme team in the making? ) Pick 16: Richard Anderson, actor Pick 17: Lois Maxwell (I'm surprised she hadn't been picked for an 007 theme team before now) Pick 18: Len Deighton (I am the proud owner of his The Action Cookbook) Pick 19: Colin Jeavons, actor Pick 20: Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern In hindsight, picking a centennarian for Joker might not have been a wise move. Hopefully I'll get a Unique bonus for her. All of them were unpicked in last year's DDP, so I hope that a majority of them will get Ghostie icons this year. There always seem to be like a dozen centenarian theme teams so the odds are probably against you on getting a unique with her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Vyrdolak Posted January 2, 2015 Clare Hollingworth was actually on the winning team last year... So she was. I chose... poorly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Vyrdolak Posted January 2, 2015 Mario Cuomo (fmr New York state gov) just died. http://deathbeeper.com/0163701.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,617 Posted January 2, 2015 Mario Cuomo (fmr New York state gov) just died. http://deathbeeper.com/0163701.html Qualifying obit for those interested. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Captain Obvious Posted January 2, 2015 Now whoever picked him can breath a sigh of relief.I am sure they were worried if a former Governor of the Usa Media Capital would get a BBC Obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thefunkyfaz 51 Posted January 2, 2015 No point in typing them out again, so my teams for 2015 are in my signature below. I don't feel as confident as last year, but who knows - might be a couple of unique picks in there... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,536 Posted January 2, 2015 I'm assuming my three unique picks for the year will be Kris Travis, Catherine Wybourne and Sadhana Shivdasani, unless anyone else can confirm picking them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
