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Genuine LOL - my only likely unique pick is your bloody joker, Sir Creep!

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As a novice at this, I've sent in two teams but am yet to receive a confirmation (one on the 30th December) NZT. Just checking it's all legit and also making sure I haven't fucked up somewhere along the path.

 

Might send in a third team for larks.

 

I sent my team in just prior to Christmas and got my confirmation New Year's Eve if that's a help. Plus before I got my confirmation he said he had processed 200 teams. Fair play to the guy, I couldn't do his job.

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I picked her as well. Will post mine after sleep.

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Well I've sent mine in. I look forward as always to finding out who is actually completely fine and who managed to evade my search terms. And that leaving off a certain hit for someone worth potentially a few more points is probably a poor idea...

Haha I love that 'completely evaded my search terms' that's how I feel, I wonder how they were located. I still have zero idea how anyone searches gofundme or Twitter etc looking for someone mentioning 'dying' or 'stage 4' or whatever. But it must be possible.

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Sir Creep - Cancel My Appointments

 

Patrick Bowlen

Colin Butts

Rico Constantino

Errol Christie

Rayya Elias (Joker)

Scott Hamilton

Mo Haque

Sasha Lokovic

Tracy McGiffin

Sir Colin Meads

Vincent Mullins

Richard Overton

Nabeel Qureshi

Simon Ricketts

Peter Skellern

Mario Soares

Valeri Spiridinov

John Wetton

Mike IX Williams

Paul Van Zandvliet

 

Sub: PM Patrick John

 

Note: after realizing I totally forgot Glen Campbell I sent an immediate email saying put Campbell in for Wetton, so it sure the ruling. I'll be the only dolt without Glen Campbell otherwise.

 

Good luck everyone!

SC

 

Wetton is a dead cert,assuming Campbell goes and Wetton doesn't make drop 40(most likely) it's only a net 1 point loss.

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Well I've sent mine in. I look forward as always to finding out who is actually completely fine and who managed to evade my search terms. And that leaving off a certain hit for someone worth potentially a few more points is probably a poor idea...

Haha I love that 'completely evaded my search terms' that's how I feel, I wonder how they were located. I still have zero idea how anyone searches gofundme or Twitter etc looking for someone mentioning 'dying' or 'stage 4' or whatever. But it must be possible.

SC

 

​This is how

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As mentioned in chat, I figured Rayya Elias would be the 2017 Bob Benmosche. The lock who evades public mention, but you know will be on a fair few contender's lists.

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As mentioned in chat, I figured Rayya Elias would be the 2017 Bob Benmosche. The lock who evades public mention, but you know will be on a fair few contender's lists.

 

Aye. I was hoping you lot would just forget, being distracted elsewhere. :lol:

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Sir Creep - Cancel My Appointments

 

Patrick Bowlen

Colin Butts

Rico Constantino

Errol Christie

Rayya Elias (Joker)

Scott Hamilton

Mo Haque

Sasha Lokovic

Tracy McGiffin

Sir Colin Meads

Vincent Mullins

Richard Overton

Nabeel Qureshi

Simon Ricketts

Peter Skellern

Mario Soares

Valeri Spiridinov

John Wetton

Mike IX Williams

Paul Van Zandvliet

 

Sub: PM Patrick John

 

Note: after realizing I totally forgot Glen Campbell I sent an immediate email saying put Campbell in for Wetton, so it sure the ruling. I'll be the only dolt without Glen Campbell otherwise.

 

Good luck everyone!

SC

 

Wetton is a dead cert,assuming Campbell goes and Wetton doesn't make drop 40(most likely) it's only a net 1 point loss.

 

Vincent Mullins appears to already be dead: http://www.crawfordacrim.com/obituaries/Vince-Mullins/

 

I wouldn't put all my money on Campbell. Alzheimer's folks are kinda hard to predict. Peter Falk was diagnosed with the disease 8 years ago, and is still lingering on.

 

Wait, Peter who?

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For the second year running, I submitted in a panic at exactly 23:59. Top New Year parties we have round here
#1 Hits
A theme team of people who've had a record peak at #1 in the UK Singles Chart (either solo or as part of a group).
Last year's position is given in brackets, where applicable.
1: (new) Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues)
2: (new) Terry Jacks
3: (6) Peter Sarstedt
4: (2) Vera Lynn
5: (new) Len "Chip" Hawkes (The Tremeloes)
6: (11) Rolf Harris
7: (9) Billy Connolly
8: (3) Peter MacBeth (The Foundations)
9: (new) Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones)
10: (new) Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers)
11: (1) Sinéad O'Connor
12: (new) Vic Damone
13: (new) Kenny Rogers
14: (new) Diana Ross
15: (new) Justin Bieber
16: (new) Barry Gibb (The Bee Gees)
17: (new) Ken Dodd
18: (new) Chuck Berry
19: (new) Doris Day
20: (new) Avicii
Dropped since last year: Mike Elliott (The Foundations) (4), Jane Morgan (5), Melissa Bell (Soul II Soul) (7) (who, by the way, I just realised wasn't even in the group when they had a #1, so wasn't eligible in the first place!), Marcia Barrett (Boney M.) (8), Ke$ha (10), Lena Martell (12), Robert Lee Smith (The Tams) (13), Craig Douglas (14), Charles Aznavour (15), Kenney Jones (Small Faces) (16), Norman Greenbaum (18), Ian McCredie (Middle of the Road) (19), and Judith Durham (The Seekers) (20).
Only person to actually die last year was Kitty Kallen (17), who didn't get a qualifying obit anyway.
Unpersons
A theme team of Big Brother housemates (including Celebrity Big Brother and other spin-offs).
Last year's position is given in brackets, where applicable.
1: (new) Marco Pierre White Jr (BB17)
2: (2) Jackie Stallone (CBB3)
3: (3) Bruce Jones (CBB12)
4: (5) Julie Goodyear (CBB10)
5: (7) Lionel Blair (CBB13)
6: (6) Lauren Harries (CBB12)
7: (new) Janice Dickinson (CBB16)
8: (new) Danniella Westbrook (CBB17)
9: (4) Carol McGiffin (CBB12)
10: (8) Jeremy Jackson (CBB15)
11: (14) Big Ron Atkinson (CBB12)
12: (18) John McCririck (CBB3)
13: (new) Ken Morley (CBB15)
14: (new) Christopher Biggins (CBB18)
15: (new) Liz Jones (CBB13)
16: (new) Carole Vincent (BB8)
17: (16) Gary Busey (CBB14)
18: (new) Tila Tequila (CBB16)
19: (new) Starboy Nathan (Celebrity Hijack)
20: (new) Ivana Trump (CBB7)
Dropped since last year: Rebekah Shelton (1), Dustin Diamond (9), Alicia Douvall (10), Alexander O'Neal (11), Michael Barrymore (12), Paddy Doherty (13), Katie Hopkins (15), Paula Hamilton (17), Germaine Greer (19), and Derek Laud (20).
Nobody on the team died last year. (Pete Burns was #32 in my salvage lot.)

 

Strictly Corpse Dying
A theme team of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars contestants, hosts, judges etc.
Didn't have this one last year and knocked it off in about half an hour due to poor time management. You're welcome
1 (JOKER): Shannen Doherty
2: Bruce Forsyth
3: Valerie Harper
4: Tommy Chong
5: Rob Kardashian
6: Buzz Aldrin
7: Cloris Leachman
8: Sherri Shepherd
9: Jimmy Tarbuck
10: Betsey Johnson
11: Paula Deen
12: Johnny Ball
13: Suzanne Somers
14: Russell Grant
15: Esther Rantzen
16: David Dickinson
17: John Sergeant
18: Ann Widdecombe
19: Anastacia
20: Len Goodman

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Right, here's my lot.

 

Still Life

 

Mao Kobayashi (joker)

Mark Sims

Clive James

Gord Downie

Leah Bracknell

Errol Christie

Paul Van-Zandvliet

Mario Soares

Tony Booth

Alberto Fujimori

Sara Coward

Michael I of Romania

Valery Spiridonov

John Wetton

Peter Skellern

Tracy Mcgiffin

Steve Sumner

Smith Hart

Glen Campbell

Joost van der Westhuizen

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Octopus of Odstock - Well, you never know...

 

He'll be back but not as a contender...

As a potential corpse?

I sincerely hope not.

 

Spade, definitely not. That ship sailed for me a long time ago. TMiB does a far far better job than I could ever have done/do.

 

I've not really got time or inclination to enter a properly researched team but I have entered a theme team.

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For what it's worth, here are my teams:

The Man In Black's "The Pythons are Dying in the Wrong Order..."


Terry Jones (J)
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
Michael Palin
Connie Booth
Neil Innes
David Sherlock
Barry Cryer
Richard Baker
Diddy David Hamilton
(singer) Lulu
Ringo Starr
Gwen Taylor
Chris Langham
Carole Cleveland
Charles McKewon
Kenneth Colley
Patricia Quinn
Simon Jones


The Sunday Supplement's Premature Review of 2017


Kirk Douglas (J)
Bruce Forsyth
Hillary Clinton
Robert Wagner
John Hillerman
Peter Carrington
Norman Tebbit
Bob Dylan
Jack Nicholson
Sean Connery
Sheila Mercier
Clarissa Eden
Freddie Starr
Frank Williams
Mel Brooks
Eileen Derbyshire
Chuck Berry
Prunella Scales
Queen Elizabeth II
Burt Reynolds

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Right, here's my lot.

 

Still Life

 

Mao Kobayashi (joker)

Mark Sims

Clive James

Gord Downie

Leah Bracknell

Errol Christie

Paul-Van Zandvliet

Mario Soares

Tony Booth

Alberto Fujimori

Sara Coward

Michael I of Romania

Valery Spiridonov

John Wetton

Peter Skellern

Tracy Mcgiffin

Steve Sumner

Smith Hart

Glen Campbell

Joost van der Westhuizen

I'm surprised more people didn't go for Valery spiridonov . He will score good points ,will get obit , He is terminally ill and if he survives to the operation good chance he will die during it.

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My teams (order in the email was different)

 

 

The Love Boat

1. Leah Bracknell - joker

2. Errol Christie

3. Mao Kobayashi

4. Joost Van Der Westhuizen

5. Glen Campbell

6. Sara Coward

7. Gord Downie

8. Sharon Laws

9. Connie Johnson

10. Tracy McGiffin

11. Valeri Spiridonov

12. Dmitri Hvorostovsky

13. Rayya Elias

14. Mark Sims

15. Daisy Berkowitz

16. DJ Casper

17. Greg Gilbert

18. Simon Ricketts

19. Stefan Karl Stefansson

20. Catherine Nevin

 

Subs:

1. King Michael of Romania

2. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson

3. Sir Owen Glenn

 

The B-Team

1. Gary De Carlo - joker

2. Steve Hewlett

3. Steve Gleason

4. Nick Boles

5. Kevin Murray

6. Julia "Jupe" Perez

7. Ray Pfeifer

8. John Swinton of Kimmerghane

9. Colin Butts

10. Herbert Kretzmer

11. Colin Meads

12. Steve Sumner

13. Seiji Ozawa

14. Smith Hart

15. Bishop Eddie Long

16. Anthony Booth

17. Paul Van Zandfliet

18. Jimmy Snuka

19. Andrew Fairlie

20. Peter Skellern

 

Sub:

1. Caroline Laws

2. Irene Triplett

3. Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr.

 

Shameless

1. Lisa Magill - joker

2. Aundrea Bannatyne

3. Heidi Loughlin

4. Sophie Sabbage

5. Jay Clark

6. Ben Suisala

7. Bobby Zarin

8. Irfon Williams

9. Cheyann Clark

10. Emma Houlston

11. Jessica (-Jayde) Allen

12. Leanne Hock

13. Juan Pedro Franco

14. Alan Aspin

15. Hannah Lyson

16. Gemma Nuttall

17. Natalie Daniells

18. Laura Saull

19. Kath Osmond

20. Sally Major

 

Sub:

1. Jennie Yoo

2. Colin Baddiel

3. Kris Hallenga

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And the two solutions to my allusions:

 

The person I had inside knowledge of, about his cancer fight going well but who I expected to be picked by quite a few deadpoolers was.... Charles Bradley. But stomach cancer is tricky, we'll see...

 

The person I wasn't sure if he's unique, because his age was a little high and who was a member of a one-hit-wonder group was Gary De Carlo.

I pushed him to my second team. He looks like a DQSP pick, and the 7 base points were too few.

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Pan Breed 2017

 

  1. Gord Downie (joker)
  2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
  3. Alan Aspin
  4. Leah Bracknell
  5. Colin Butts
  6. Errol Christie
  7. Sara Coward
  8. Rayya Elias
  9. Greg Gilbert
  10. Anna Holmlund
  11. Sasha Lakovic
  12. Tracy McGiffin
  13. Catherine Nevin
  14. Simon Ricketts
  15. Dr Mark Sims
  16. Stefan Karl Stefansson
  17. Steve Sumner
  18. Ben Suisala
  19. Joost van der Westhuizen
  20. Paul Van Zandvliet

 

Not expecting much this year, though. 5th in 2016 was a major fluke.

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Octopus of Odstock - Well, you never know...

He'll be back but not as a contender...

As a potential corpse?

I sincerely hope not.

 

Spade, definitely not. That ship sailed for me a long time ago. TMiB does a far far better job than I could ever have done/do.

 

I've not really got time or inclination to enter a properly researched team but I have entered a theme team.

 

 

Sorry Octy, didn't mean to offend, I just remembered that someone had picked you before and wondered if they had again.

 

For what it's worth these are my teams

 

 

Team 1 Protectors, Persuaders and Prisoners in a Suitcase (Deceased)
Theme : ITC actors/producers etc
1.Rodney Bewes
2.Kenneth Cope
3. Peter Wyngard
4.Cyril Frankel
5. Dudley Sutton
6. Sylvia Syms
7. Roy Dotrice
8. Mark Eden
9. Roger Moore
10. Fenella Fielding
11 Jacqueline Pearce
12. George C Cooper
13 Henry Woolf
14.John Fraser
15. Liz Fraser
16. Gerald Harper
17. Peter Sallis
18. Tony Booth
19. Martin Landau
20. Geoffrey Bayldon
Subs, John Savident, Paul Darrow, Alan Curtis
Team 2 Lynch Mob
Theme - People associated with David Lynch
1 Robert Blake
2 Warren Frost
3 Harry Dean Stanton
4 Dean Stockwell
5 Michael Ontkean
6 Michael J Anderson
7 Lara Flynn Boyle
8 Piper Laurie
9 Russ Tamblyn
10 Max von Sydow
11 John Hurt
12 Freddie Jones
13 Sian Philips
14 Richard Beymer
15 Walter Olkewicz
16 Eric DaRe
17 Sheryl Lee
18 Angelo Badalamenti
19 Kenneth Welsh
20 Al Stroebel

 

Team 1 Protectors, Persuaders and Prisoners in a Suitcase (Deceased)
Theme : ITC actors/producers etc
1.Rodney Bewes
2.Kenneth Cope
3. Peter Wyngard
4.Cyril Frankel
5. Dudley Sutton
6. Sylvia Syms
7. Roy Dotrice
8. Mark Eden
9. Roger Moore
10. Fenella Fielding
11 Jacqueline Pearce
12. George C Cooper
13 Henry Woolf
14.John Fraser
15. Liz Fraser
16. Gerald Harper
17. Peter Sallis
18. Tony Booth
19. Martin Landau
20. Geoffrey Bayldon
Team 2 Lynch Mob
Theme - People associated with David Lynch
1 Robert Blake
2 Warren Frost
3 Harry Dean Stanton
4 Dean Stockwell
5 Michael Ontkean
6 Michael J Anderson
7 Lara Flynn Boyle
8 Piper Laurie
9 Russ Tamblyn
10 Max von Sydow
11 John Hurt
12 Freddie Jones
13 Sian Philips
14 Richard Beymer
15 Walter Olkewicz
16 Eric DaRe
17 Sheryl Lee
18 Angelo Badalamenti
19 Kenneth Welsh
20 Al Stroebel

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Pan Breed 2017

 

  1. Gord Downie (joker)
  2. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
  3. Alan Aspin
  4. Leah Bracknell
  5. Colin Butts
  6. Errol Christie
  7. Sara Coward
  8. Rayya Elias
  9. Greg Gilbert
  10. Anna Holmlund
  11. Sasha Lakovic
  12. Tracy McGiffin
  13. Catherine Nevin
  14. Simon Ricketts
  15. Dr Mark Sims
  16. Stefan Karl Stefansson
  17. Steve Sumner
  18. Ben Suisala
  19. Joost van der Westhuizen
  20. Paul Van Zandvliet

 

Not expecting much this year, though. 5th in 2016 was a major fluke.

 

 

My teams (order in the email was different)

 

 

The Love Boat

1. Leah Bracknell - joker

2. Errol Christie

3. Mao Kobayashi

4. Joost Van Der Westhuizen

5. Glen Campbell

6. Sara Coward

7. Gord Downie

8. Sharon Laws

9. Connie Johnson

10. Tracy McGiffin

11. Valeri Spiridonov

12. Dmitri Hvorostovsky

13. Rayya Elias

14. Mark Sims

15. Daisy Berkowitz

16. DJ Casper

17. Greg Gilbert

18. Simon Ricketts

19. Stefan Karl Stefansson

20. Catherine Nevin

 

Wow, I picked Catherine Nevin as well, and she was never (as far as I can tell) mentioned in the forum before. So while none of us will get a unique for her, I guess it is a good sign for me that I managed to select someone whom the really strong teams of Pan Breed & The Love Boat believe will a) die this year and b ) get an acceptable obit.

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So here we go:

 

  1. Sims, Mark (joker)

  2. Bracknell, Leah

  3. Bradley, Charles

  4. Briggs, Paul

  5. Brokenshire, Laurie

  6. Clark, Jay

  7. Christie, Errol

  8. Coward, Sara

  9. Downie, Gord

  10. Elias, Rayya

  11. Gilbert, Greg

  12. Hewlett, Steve

  13. Magill, Lisa

  14. Meads, Colin

  15. Nevin, Catherine

  16. Perham, Michael

  17. Singh, Jagraj

  18. Skellern, Peter

  19. Stefansson, Stefan Karl

  20. Wetton, John

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Michael Perham should have shown up in one of my research tags ("bishop, cancer") so that's a schoolboy error of sorts. Like last year, Spade has 3 people I didn't think were ill enough. In 2016, all three of them subsequently died.

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Reet - my performances hereabouts have been woeful of late

 

Can this bunch bring about change in 2017?

 

 

DDP TEAM

 

 

 

Sara Coward – jk

Colin Baddiel

Tony Booth

Leah Bracknell

Pauline Cafferkey

Glen Campbell

Errol Christie

Shannen Doherty

Gord Downie

Paul Gascoigne

Anne Hamilton-Byrne

Emma Morano

John Noakes

Martin Peters

Brian Reader

Kenny Sansome

Peter Sarstedt

Peter Skellern

Mario Soares

John Wetton

 

 

Subs bench

Nobby Stiles

Terry Jones

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Jagraj Singh - I have him in the Deathrace. A QO will surprise me.

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So here's my official line up (and my joker haven't been mentioned yet):

Suisala, Ben (joker)

Al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr

Aspin, Alan

Booth, Tony

Brady, Ian

Campbell, Glen

Christie, Errol

Coward, Sara

Davies, Rick

Downie, Gord

Gilbert, Greg

Loughlin, Heidi

McGiffin, Tracy

Meads, Colin

Ricketts, Simon

Sims, Mark

Skellern, Peter

Stefansson, Stefan Karl

van der Westhuizen, Joost

Wetton, John

 

 

Before you ask about Brady, it's truly a case of the do you trust the criminal with terminal illness.

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Joker)

Sara Coward

Leah Bracknell

Errol Christie

Rayya Elias

Susanne Cameron-Blackie

Steve Pollard

Greg Gilbert

Collin Meads

Valery Spiridonov

Vincent Lambert

Steve Sumner

Gord Downie

Eddie Long

Steve Hewlett

Les Mutrie

Peter Skellern

John Wetton

Paul Briggs

Clive James

 

Hoping for an eleventh consecutive top twenty finish, but don't think I'm going to be challenging for the podium this year.

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