Spade_Cooley 9,592 Posted May 9, 2019 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,071 Posted May 9, 2019 Deleted cuz angry posting and SirC nicest person here so... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,254 Posted July 6, 2019 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,254 Posted March 21, 2020 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... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,592 Posted March 31, 2022 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,637 Posted April 2, 2022 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,671 Posted April 2, 2022 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted April 2, 2022 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,637 Posted April 2, 2022 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,823 Posted April 3, 2022 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,592 Posted February 25, 2023 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. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,905 Posted February 25, 2023 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted February 25, 2023 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,592 Posted February 25, 2023 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 2,083 Posted February 25, 2023 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,222 Posted February 25, 2023 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polar duck 883 Posted February 26, 2023 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,206 Posted February 26, 2023 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sly Ronnie 909 Posted February 28, 2023 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! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites