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11 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I felt like I needed to get some sort of team in. So I thought of this one. 

 

(Someone get the joke minus u,x,y, and z please...)

Previous Deathlist picks I assume.

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9 hours ago, Wormfarmer said:

Thanks for joining, JR.  We'll give you Saif, the Queen, and Mr. T.  What the heck, it's just for fun, yeah?  But if we go for prizes next year I might have to tighten up on the rules as to what constitutes a name.  Even with your holding back, there are some names here I don't think I've seen before. 

I actually wonder if the "Stefansson" of Stefan Karl counts as a last name. Icelandic people don't have family names. Björk's name for example, is Björk Gudmundsdottir, meaning "daughter of Gudmund". They are so few they don't need them (or they wanted to hide that it's all incest).

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49 minutes ago, Wormfarmer said:

I am sure he is a tough bastard and will seek appropriate therapy to shake it all off. 

Nope. Just canceled his entire tour after somebody threw a dildo at him during his last concert. He's also a former prisoner and got jumped at a previous concert. Can't seem to get away from trouble.

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On 07/06/2017 at 11:11, Bibliogryphon said:

Alphabetically by surname 

 

Brian Aldiss

Bob Barker *PROTECTED*

Carol Channing *PROTECTED*

Doris Day *PROTECTED*

Bella Emberg

Fenella Fielding

Gary Glitter 

Robert Hardy

Ray Illingworth

Wilko Johnson

Kenneth Kaunda *PROTECTED*

Don Lusk

Michael Moorcock

Nichelle Nicholls

Yoko Ono

Boris Pahor

Mary Quant

Ray Readon

Sheila Steafel

Barbara Taylor-Bradford

Gudrun Ure

Max Von Sydow

Mary Wilson

Ni Xiong

Mike Yarwood 

Jacob Zuma

Robert Hardy a hit for me.

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Sorry I have been away for awhile.  I recently tripped on an escalator and fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. 

But seriously, current standings, as I know them to be, are as such among our 9 teams:

 

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Sarosy) 13 pts

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet) 7 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray) 4 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes) 3 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl) 2 pts

Young Willz (Cant) 2 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy) 2 pts

Fixed Business and Joey Russ   nothing yet 

 

I apologize to GC Reptile, who somehow I credited with an extra point for Paul Van Zan in an earlier scoring update.  He used Paul under his first name which only scores 1 pt.  Somehow I gave him 2, plus the correctly added 1937 bonus.  Let me know if I have missed any deaths, or if you think I have misscored any hits.  A long way to go . . . .

 

 

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So the guy invents the Pool, throws his list out there, and 'protects' my DDP solo Qureshi?
Nice.  I'm out.
SC

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3 hours ago, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

Lofti A. Zadeh is a hit for me!

That was quick.  Since it is a standings changer, I will do another update:

 

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Sarosy) 13 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh) 8 pts

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet) 7 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes) 3 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl) 2 pts

Young Willz (Cant) 2 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy) 2 pts

Fixed Business and Joey Russ   nothing yet 

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Lotfi Zadeh is alive

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Hmm, forgot to check but in addition to Errol Christie and Paul Van Zandvliet I also scored with Connie Johnson, Colin Meads, John Wraw and Anthony Young.

 

Connie Johnson BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41199388

Colin Meads BBC: http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/40991029

John Wraw Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/08/01/right-reverend-john-wraw-obituary/

Anthony Young Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4645604/MLB-pitcher-lost-record-27-row-dies-51.html

 

Johnson, Wraw and Young were born after 1937.

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I just checked mine, I'm off the mark with Bruce Forsyth. Wouldn't be surprised if he was my only hit, mind you...

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On ‎8‎/‎13‎/‎2017 at 08:53, Wormfarmer said:

That was quick.  Since it is a standings changer, I will do another update:

 

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Sarosy) 13 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh) 8 pts

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet) 7 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes) 3 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl) 2 pts

Young Willz (Cant) 2 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy) 2 pts

Fixed Business and Joey Russ   nothing yet 

I had been waiting to see if the Lofti Zadeh issue would work itself out.  There were conflicting sites that said he was alive and that he had died.  Now I think the consensus is that he is indeed gone, so I won't have to retract the points.  In my experience it is rare that there is a controversy about death, except in extreme coma situations, and even then if the heart is still beating I think you have to say the bugger is hanging in there!  But we gather here today to crown a new leader with quite a spike in points - GC Reptile.  He appears to have put together quite a solid list and has scored an impressive 4 additional hits since my last update.  Also adding to his total in less spectacular fashion is The Unknown Man, and putting his first points on the board is Joey Russ. 

 

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet, Wraw, Young, Johnson, Meads) 22 pts

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Sarosy) 13 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh) 8 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes) 3 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl, Lewis) 3 pts

Young Willz (Cant) 2 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy) 2 pts

Joey Russ  (Forsyth) 2 pts

Fixed Business - nothing yet 

 

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Wouldn't Zoltan Sarosy and Lofti Zadeh not count since they haven't received the required DDP obit, which you mentioned were part of the rules? :old:

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12 hours ago, Wormfarmer said:

I had been waiting to see if the Lofti Zadeh issue would work itself out.  There were conflicting sites that said he was alive and that he had died.  Now I think the consensus is that he is indeed gone, so I won't have to retract the points.  In my experience it is rare that there is a controversy about death, except in extreme coma situations, and even then if the heart is still beating I think you have to say the bugger is hanging in there!  But we gather here today to crown a new leader with quite a spike in points - GC Reptile.  He appears to have put together quite a solid list and has scored an impressive 4 additional hits since my last update.  Also adding to his total in less spectacular fashion is The Unknown Man, and putting his first points on the board is Joey Russ. 

 

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet, Wraw, Young, Johnson, Meads) 22 pts

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Sarosy) 13 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh) 8 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes) 3 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl, Lewis) 3 pts

Young Willz (Cant) 2 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy) 2 pts

Joey Russ  (Forsyth) 2 pts

Fixed Business - nothing yet 

 

What about my points for Brian Aldiss?

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On ‎9‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 11:46, Wormfarmer said:

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet, Wraw, Young, Johnson, Meads, Irwin) 27 pts

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Ahmed, Heenan, Downie) 26 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh, Downie, Heenan) 15 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl, Lewis, Downie, Berkowitz) 11 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes, Downie, Booth) 8 pts

Young Willz (Cant, Hefner) 6 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy, Aldiss) 5 pts

Joey Russ  (Forsyth) 2 pts

Fixed Business - still nothing yet 

 

Other than the frisky discussion about the inaugural rules, the first issue of contention has come up.  When I listed all the sources of obits that would qualify a name as dead, my intention was to say that if an obit appears in any of these sources, then there is no dispute that the person is dead.  That was not so say that other reasonably reliable sources would not also qualify.  However, upon some further research, I see that other pools (like the Derby, which is a huge one), do not allow a score unless the obit appears in the listed sources.  For example, an obit for Nabeel Qureshi (who is on my list) appeared in the Washington Post (a presumably very reliable daily) but was not scored on the Windy City DP because that is not a listed source.  Well, as someone suggested earlier on this thread, F*%# ME.  So, I retract Sarosy from my score, and also withhold scoring of Qureshi, pending obits from the list.  Nice use of my protected names, eh?                                   Scores above are now edited and updated for every hit I am aware of - again, notify me if I have missed someone on your list! 

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I have Jalal Talabani, don't I? (My list is on 2nd page)

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An end of the year update, as we have 3 new hits (King Michael, Malcolm Young and Talabani) that I am aware of, putting Fixed Business on the board at last.

 

GC Reptile (Christie, Van Zandvliet, Wraw, Young, Johnson, Meads, Irwin) 27 pts

Wormfarmer (Christie, Fawkes, Van Zandvliet, Ahmed, Heenan, Downie) 26 pts

Zsa Zsa's Leg (Campbell, Foray, Zadeh, Downie, Heenan) 15 pts

The Unknown Man (Kohl, Lewis, Downie, Berkowitz) 11 pts

Young Willz (Cant, Hefner, M. Young) 11 pts

Shaun of the Dead (Fawkes, Downie, Booth, Michael of Romania) 9 pts

Bibliogryphon (Hardy, Aldiss) 5 pts

Joey Russ  (Forsyth) 2 pts

Fixed Business - (Talabani) 2 pts

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Ahem sorry, I forgot to mention. Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a hit for me.

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