Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted September 19, 2006 If any of you had, have or are having Harry Newcombe in your DP's, don't bother any more. He died earlier this year and even the Guardian did not give him an obit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,533 Posted September 19, 2006 If any of you had, have or are having Harry Newcombe in your DP's, don't bother any more. He died earlier this year and even the Guardian did not give him an obit Not even his wikipedia entry has his death updated, so I guess he died without anyone noticing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted September 19, 2006 If any of you had, have or are having Harry Newcombe in your DP's, don't bother any more. He died earlier this year and even the Guardian did not give him an obit Not even his wikipedia entry has his death updated, so I guess he died without anyone noticing I'll do it now. It does happen. For example,Jesse Carver, who managed loads of top flight football clubs in England & Italy died un-noticed in 2003, and it was only in Jan 2006, it was reported by a journo that met him a long while back & wondered what had happened to him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 42 Posted September 26, 2006 Byron Nelson has died at age 94. BBC obit: Congratulations for the following teams: Deathlist.net Eat My Dust Freddie Starr Ate My Rhino L C And The Sunshine Band Snuff Daddies Sporting Life...Courting Death Swami's House of Soon To Be Wax The Morbid Postman Time, Gentlemen, Please! Time Is NOT On Our Side! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 42 Posted October 9, 2006 Snooker player Paul Hunter has died at age 27 from cancer. BBC obituary Congratulations to following teams selected him, especially to "The Winged Devil Monkeys", who was the only team to select him as their joker. A Kick In The Ghoulies Brown Bread Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom I Smell Dead People Meet Your Maker The Winged Devil Monkeys Whoopass United Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted October 9, 2006 Snooker player Paul Hunter has died at age 27 from cancer. BBC obituary Congratulations to following teams selected him, especially to "The Winged Devil Monkeys", who was the only team to select him as their joker. A Kick In The Ghoulies Brown Bread Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom I Smell Dead People Meet Your Maker The Winged Devil Monkeys Whoopass United We know you're not gloating FF, or at least trying your best not to, but this must take you in to the DDP lead. Congratulations. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 214 Posted October 9, 2006 Snooker player Paul Hunter has died at age 27 from cancer. BBC obituary Congratulations to following teams selected him, especially to "The Winged Devil Monkeys", who was the only team to select him as their joker. A Kick In The Ghoulies Brown Bread Dr Death's Diabolical Dice of Doom I Smell Dead People Meet Your Maker The Winged Devil Monkeys Whoopass United We know you're not gloating FF, or at least trying your best not to, but this must take you in to the DDP lead. Congratulations. No it's still Go Fish in the lead, but not by much. Congrats ff, now for Ross Davidson maybe? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted October 9, 2006 Come on Harold, do yer Beckett then.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted October 10, 2006 In all the Paul Hunter hullaballoo this might be missed:- Joseph Lynch GC has died and here is his obituary from the Times. 5 points for Ready, Steady, Deady which puts them higher up mid-table I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 214 Posted October 10, 2006 In all the Paul Hunter hullaballoo this might be missed:- Joseph Lynch GC has died and here is his obituary from the Times. 5 points for Ready, Steady, Deady which puts them higher up mid-table I think. Congrats to Ready, Steady, Deady on picking this fine fellow of whom I have never heard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 214 Posted October 14, 2006 With Freddy Fender bound to get a UK obit that's the first points to The Anfield Iron, a unique pick for them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted October 15, 2006 With Freddy Fender bound to get a UK obit that's the first points to The Anfield Iron, a unique pick for them. Congrats to The Anfield Iron for a Unique Pick and her/his first points in DDP. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 42 Posted October 15, 2006 With Freddy Fender bound to get a UK obit that's the first points to The Anfield Iron, a unique pick for them. Congrats to The Anfield Iron for a Unique Pick and her/his first points in DDP. Freddy Fender now has a BBC obit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 42 Posted October 17, 2006 Congratulations to the following teams that selected Ross Davidson. BBC obit Already Dead Brown Bread Cap'n Ohtz Condi's Ill-Considered Probabilities (JOKER) Died In A Nasty Accident Dysfunctional Eejit (JOKER) Godot's Waiting List (JOKER) Madonna's Hand of Bod Meet Your Maker (JOKER) MizzJackTheCat Octopus of Odstock R.I.P. It Up And Start Again Rude Kid Slave to the Grave (JOKER) Stab In The Dark The Doffin' Codgers The Douglas Bader Dance Troupe The Living End The Underdogs of Hull City (JOKER) Whoopass United You Can Have Zsa Zsa Over My Dead Body! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted October 17, 2006 Congratulations to the following teams that selected Ross Davidson. BBC obit [...] Meet Your Maker [...] Congrats on taking the lead. May I nominate ff for honorary membership of DLCC? He's singlehandedly outperforming Deathlist.net. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Watch Beatle 41 Posted October 17, 2006 Congratulations to the following teams that selected Ross Davidson. BBC obit [...] Meet Your Maker [...] Congrats on taking the lead. May I nominate ff for honorary membership of DLCC? He's singlehandedly outperforming Deathlist.net. regards, Hein Hopefully taking none of the shine off FF's moment of glory, I reckon half a dozen or more DL members could singlehandedly outperform the DL this year. I mention this 'cause I've hit a bit of a purple patch myself these last few weeks (Brown Bread). I've even started dreaming of a top-ten finish. DWB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted October 17, 2006 Will there be an inquest as to why DL has performed poorly (so far)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Watch Beatle 41 Posted October 17, 2006 Will there be an inquest as to why DL has performed poorly (so far)? Only if you turn up to the DL convention - wherever and whenever that may be. DWB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted October 27, 2006 Ghulam Ishaq Khan, as VSBfH as noted, as has the Guardian, BBC etc, has died. He gets some points for Impaled on the Antlers of Doom but it doesn't change much in the way of the leaderboard. Good choice that, actually. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MizzJacktheCat 0 Posted October 27, 2006 I am astonished that I have finally had a hit on the DDL with Ross Davidson. I thought being on my list was the kiss of life. The fact that it happened whilst I was on my honeymoon makes it even sweeter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady Grendel 139 Posted October 27, 2006 I am astonished that I have finally had a hit on the DDL with Ross Davidson. I thought being on my list was the kiss of life. The fact that it happened whilst I was on my honeymoon makes it even sweeter. Well done, MizzJacktheCat and congratulations on your wedding, I wish you both health and happiness for the future . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MizzJacktheCat 0 Posted October 27, 2006 Well done, MizzJacktheCat and congratulations on your wedding, I wish you both health and happiness for the future . Thank you, Lady Grendel. I hope we both live longer than Ross. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted October 28, 2006 As I've noted here before I've put a list of 68 names to the E Game Gazette web site http://www.egamegazette.net/ well finally after no activity on the site since January they put an Email back to me about it: October 26, 2006 Mr. Xxxxx, (name deleted for little reason) I was just made aware today of your attempt to enter the 2006 Game. My former webmaster did not alert me and he quit updating after that. I have a new webmaster and he just sent me your entry and missive. Let me first say that you had an impressive list. However, entry is not open to the general public. The only way to get into the Game is to be sponsored by a current or former Gamester (as we call ourselves.). If you are interested in trying again in 2007, please answer this email. Maybe we can work something out. In the meantime, I could add you to the mailing list that receives the reports on the hits. Armand DuPont OK so wrote this back: Hi Sacredcowboys / Armand DuPont Thanks for your Email - this clears-up a few questions I've had about the site - however I've never seen the up-dates since January. I would like to be a part of the 2007 game but would, as a winner of the Rotten.com deadpool (6 out of 10 till the 1st Sept 2006) ask that you could at the end of this years game, that you could at least inform me of where I would have finished in relation to those you have "accredited". I believe I have come across one or two of the names in the listings but ask that you yourself could accredit my entry on the fact that you are kind to say that my 2006 list of 68 names already has certain merit. Thanking you in advance Xxxx Xxxxx (Rotten Ali) - as noted on Click here: DEATHLIST Forum entrant under the team name of "STAB in-the DARK" in oh-so many deadpools. OK so far so good They wrote back: Here is the deal. I'll add you to the mailing list for the remainder of the 2006 Game. I'd like you to tell me something about yourself too. Gamesters pay a dues fee of $15.00 a year. Due in January. You will get all that info in the posts I send out at the end of the year. Sometime around Thanksgiving, another Gamester sends out a list of all the hits to date (so the lazy Gamesters can check their lists). There is no monetary prize, we play for style and pride. The $ pays for my internet service and the web page. You sound like a nice person. Wiith a little more info from you I'll let you in the 2007 Game. Pontius/Armand OK so in reply I post them this: In a message dated 27/10/2006 23:07:04 GMT Standard Time, Sacredcowboys writes: I'd like you to tell me something about yourself too. I'm glad you are interested. I'm that sort of person who asks "why do things like this happen to me?" About 20 years ago - half my age now - I had built a collection of about 100 different types of world beer cans. 8 years ago - I'm off to an important meeting. Got all I need, bit late but I know the way. Driving down the first fast road I hear a bump, a scrape, another bump - I look in my mirror and notice the prototype part I need for the meeting bounce down the road behind me and get hit by the car behind me! Today - I'm due to finish a contract job, I've got the leaving cakes in - and due to start a new one on Monday - I'm phoned by the agent to hear that they may not want me till the following Monday! Last year - told by an agent that the Ferrari F1 team have accepted my CV and want me to join them. What a coup? Just a quick interview before I start. "Formality". I get to the airport for the £30 budget flight to Bologna to find out that the Italian air traffic are on strike and my plane is cancelled. I end up paying another carrier £250 for a single ticket. Late in the day I get to an airport 100 miles from the intended one and drive till 3:30am to my hotel - up at 6:30am for the 8am meeting - well I'm not up to giving a good performance and they don't want me!!! By noon I'm spending another £250 to fly back to the UK with my tail between my legs. All the time things like this upset me. Day-in day-out. I've widely travelled - with and without plans. USA east coast, Southern Africa, most of Europe and round to Japan. But I love to ski - take it to the edge - the black run that holds your attention. The chatter of your edges across the cold solid ice. Testing times - can I stay in control? or will I end up crashing uncontrollably like this unfortunate chap? The lunchtime break - what will it be? "SpagBog"? soup of the day? look at that snow come down! Cool, looks good for this afternoon. But where are my tips? Oh dear! snow! - sky! - skis! - snow! - sky! - skis!!! LOL What's my life? Court shaped - 6.1mm wide - 10 grams (3/8ths of an ounce) - 24.3mm in diameter external - 20.5mm internal and it beautifully says "I love you" all the way through. For me its city breaks using my five senses - not beach holidays reading books. Barcelona - walking down the Ramblas, Toyko - the lights in Rapongi - get the top of the Toyko tower and wonder at the sights. Is it better than the top of the Eiffel tower? No. But then was the ESB better still? Back of the room in the UN security council chamber is smaller that I expected. Madrid - tour the palace, the town, the sites and visit an Egyptian Temple. Turn a corner its not Little Italy anymore its China Town and that's a fish smell! Standing by the cascading waters of the Victoria Falls with the one I love. SCREAM - too many noisy Disney rides. The White House looks kind of cute at night but those rats in the park outside need a good shooting. Ride at a cantor through the dusty park land scrub on a horse called Panic and see elephants, giraffe, eagles and buffalo. Watch in astonishment at the launch of the 100th space shuttle. WOW take Paddock Hill bend a bit too quickly in a junior single seater racing car. Hold a baby gator in my hands and stand knee-high in the Everglades. Another hotel room but that's not my dead sock! Don't the houses at the side of the Mumbai runway look very close to the wing tip of our Jumbo? Note how the ISS's lights run speeding across the night time sky. Coast the night away on the Zambezi or evade a police cordon to work on a rush job just the other side of a wall where an IRA bomb is suspected? But receive praise from the boss for a good job well done, that tops most things. Learn with a wife, how to bring up a two year old boy and have his attention and smile - that's the best of them all. "why do things like this happen to me?" Must be because.... like it must say on a can somewhere.... this is real life.... Best Regards Xxxx Again I think thats a nice Email and go and look at the site: And post to them: Hi Pontius Thanks for the web site update. Pleased to note that I've just done a quick tot-up with your up-dated scoreboard and I make it that I would be just about 5th out of your 130 odd gamers on 41 pts. Plus top rookie by a country mile. BR Xxxx Then I get the following: After some consultation we have decided that we think you should keep playing in your current dead pools, but not this one. We will stick to our rules of being sponsored by a current or former Gamester. Sorry. You will not be hearing from us again. SUCKS OR WHAT? Anyone a member of Game Gazette and would like to have me as a fellow "Gamester"? I feel very hard done by and hurt. Look I've opened up to them, and now you lot in turn to register my pain. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 97 Posted October 28, 2006 RA - That site sounds to me like a college fraternity. You pay money to do something with an exclusive crowd that thousands of other people are doing for free and probably having more fun with it. In the end, there's no tangible reward either. Hell, at least with a frat you get sorority girls. Edit: Before any frat boys among you point out the irony of me discussing how much fun I have at parties while posting at 9:00 at night, the party is at 10:00, so don't bother pointing it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted October 28, 2006 Well, what is Death List? It started with students having a laugh... DL should be proud of being the oldest ongoing British deadpool... Leave egames to their Frats and Thanksgiving and Trick-or-Treats and Cookies and all that.... BTW, I wonder what the oldest European deadpool is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
