Best Historic Dl Forum Threads

[Spade_Cooley 9,547]

Minnie Ripperton: goes on TV in 1976 and reveals she's had a mastectomy due to breast cancer, but doesn't tell anyone that it'd already spread to her lymphatic system. Continues touring over the next few years but gets visibly weaker and weaker on stage, to the point in her final TV appearances she clearly has an immobile arm. Dies 1979.

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Deleted cuz angry posting and SirC nicest person here so...

[Joey Russ 7,229]

On 28/01/2018 at 14:35, Spade_Cooley said:

Mae West, Jimmy Durante and Colonel Sanders are all 1980 hits in their late 80s/early 90s who seem deathlisty as well. Maybe Mosley as well actually, although he was only 84.

 

Possible captains in DDP-winning teams for 1980 (under 60, guaranteed obits and had some sort of public cancer battle) Wilhelmina Cooper and...?

Just realized, is the second one Steve McQueen? 

[Joey Russ 7,229]

Just stumbled onto Humphrey Bogart's Wikipedia page, and reading it, surely he'd be a top dead pooling name in 1957, right? His thread certainly would've been a great read, that's for sure. Hears looking at you kid...

[Spade_Cooley 9,547]

Hughie Green with a near 20-year-long thread after vanishing from TV in the late 70s, with occasional bursts of life when it's revealed he's Paula Yates' dad/addicted to barbiturates/attempting to resurrect his career in the Soviet Union/been contacted by intelligence services about being the information minister in a right-wing shadow government.

[ladyfiona 2,606]

Some thread to do with Chernobyl survivors in 1986. Would be interesting given USSR was lying through it's teeth.

 

USSR Radiotherapy?

 

I'm not good with thread titles.

[maryportfuncity 10,660]

So, if we'd started a Jimmy Hoffa thread on early in 1975, that'd be a riot of claims and counter claims of whether to pay out on points in the years that followed. If there'd been a Deathlist in 1973 when Elvis started putting on weight that'd likely have been lively too, especially once the rumours of him being alive really kicked off in 1981.

[msc 18,487]

2 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

So, if we'd started a Jimmy Hoffa thread on early in 1975, that'd be a riot of claims and counter claims of whether to pay out on points in the years that followed. 

 

And you thought Steve Fossett was contentious once!

 

Still one of the best forum taglines ever, that thread, mind you.

 

 

[ladyfiona 2,606]

• Alfred Hitchcock. He died of Kidney Failure in 1980 so there would have been some talk about his health for a bit beforehand.
• Winston Churchill would have had a thread even when he was prime minister for a second time. He was 78 and obese and then had all sorts of issues before he died in 1965.

If I remember from The Crown - A lot of the prime ministers and people in cabinet had health issues in the 50's and 60's. Anthony Eden resigned a few months after the Suez Crisis. He was also addicted to prescription medication due to his stomach issues.

 

A royal family thread would have been interesting - Queen Mary's death, abdication, George VI health status, checking in on the health of the abdicated king (died 1972), Prince Philip's mother (Greece was in turmoil and she lived in a convent there until family moved her to Buckingham Palace until death in late 60's). Oh not forgetting Lord Mountbatten who was assasinated in 1979.

[arghton 6,774]

12 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

• Winston Churchill would have had a thread even when he was prime minister for a second time. He was 78 and obese and then had all sorts of issues before he died in 1965.

Including a fall in the 1920s, several ministrokes and heart problems around the 40s, serious stroke in 1953 and a serious fall in 1962. 

[Spade_Cooley 9,547]

Historical figures who would have been deadpoolers? Recently learned that Michael Bentine fell into a coma as a child after being injected with typhoid, and upon coming out of it developed a "skill" - he could tell when people were going to die in the next six weeks, as when he looked at them they had a skull superimposed over their face. This made his time in the Air Force during WW II particularly unnerving.

[Handrejka 1,904]

4 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Historical figures who would have been deadpoolers? Recently learned that Michael Bentine fell into a coma as a child after being injected with typhoid, and upon coming out of it developed a "skill" - he could tell when people were going to die in the next six weeks, as when he looked at them they had a skull superimposed over their face. This made his time in the Air Force during WW II particularly unnerving.

I remember reading about that somewhere too. I seem to recall he saw the same image over his son's face shortly before he was killed in a plane crash.

 

Didn't Guy de Maupassant play in a sort of proto dead pool?

[msc 18,487]

9 minutes ago, Handrejka said:

I remember reading about that somewhere too. I seem to recall he saw the same image over his son's face shortly before he was killed in a plane crash.

 

Didn't Guy de Maupassant play in a sort of proto dead pool?

 

From the DDP website:

 

1885: In his novel Bel-Ami, the French novelist Guy de Maupassant describes a game known as “Death and the Forty Old Men”. The old men in question are the 40 members of the Académie Française, a committee formed of France’s wisest and most learned people. The game, popular in Parisian society at that time, involved guessing which of them would die next and who would replace him.

[Spade_Cooley 9,547]

19 minutes ago, Handrejka said:

I remember reading about that somewhere too. I seem to recall he saw the same image over his son's face shortly before he was killed in a plane crash.

 

And Airey Neave as well, who he was friends with. Have to imagine Airey Neave had very few other friends who were also members of Wiccan covens.

[Commtech Sio Bibble 2,060]

Maximilien Robespierre would be the reason for the introduction of the "no killing your picks" rule.

 

I can also picture a thread in 1969 betting on whether or not the 3 Apollo 11 astronauts would make it there and back safely.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,220]

8 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Historical figures who would have been deadpoolers? Recently learned that Michael Bentine fell into a coma as a child after being injected with typhoid, and upon coming out of it developed a "skill" - he could tell when people were going to die in the next six weeks, as when he looked at them they had a skull superimposed over their face. This made his time in the Air Force during WW II particularly unnerving.

This begs the obvious, if not stupid question: The last time he looked in a mirror, before his death, did he see a skull superimposed on his own face?

[polar duck 877]

1977 hits: Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Clementine Churchill, Anthony Eden, Joan Crawford, Wernher von Braun, Peter Finch, Zero Mostel, Ethel Waters, Vladimir Nabokov, Felix Gouin, Archibald Hill, Jean Hagen, and Elvis Presley.

[Octopus of Odstock 2,206]

On 10/08/2016 at 11:03, Spade_Cooley said:

 

Not to mention the lead singer of Big Country, the old guy from Three Ninjas and Brian Moore.

 

Ken Tyrrell too, who was known to be very ill on late 2000.

[Sly Ronnie 889]

Imagine a team in the 1963 Derby Dead Pool having John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley in their team. 22nd November would have been a bonanza!