Toast 14,839 Posted January 16, 2018 3 hours ago, Deathray said: the middleoffuckingnowhereistan times 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 17, 2018 Jessica Falkholt now officially dead with a BBC obit, points can be awarded to people who had her (I didn't have her lol) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 18, 2018 Laura Saull has passed away. Name 461 for me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 18, 2018 On 1/4/2018 at 23:40, FixedBusiness said: This is where my January deaths will be: Thomas S Monson, name 244.Rayya Elias, name 534.Asghar Khan, name 691.Jerry Van Dyke, name 653Ray Thomas, name 291 Denise LaSalle, name 1754David Fisher, name 422 (awaiting legit obit? only has doctor who blog obits) Bobby Zarin, name 464 Dan Gurney, name 385 Dolores O'Riordan, name 646 Laura Saull, name 461 Peter Wyngarde, name 543Dorothy Malone, name 267 Jimmy Armfield, name 659 Patrick Cryne, name 491 Dave Holland, name 1601 Connie Sawyer, name 193 Mark E. Smith, name 1139 Ingvar Kamprad, name 108 Hannah Hauxwell, name 82 list brought forward to this page. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 18, 2018 Peter Wyngarde dead, number 543 for me. Guardian, Daily Mail, Sky News, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 20, 2018 Dorothy Malone dead, name 267 for me. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 475 Posted January 20, 2018 On 05/01/2018 at 00:30, CastAway said: Putting my Jan deaths here (obits linked on their names): Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva, no. 738 on my list Rayya Elias, no. 246 on my list Salvador Borrego, no. 97 on my list Marjorie Holt, no. 585 on my list Tom Luken, no. 622 on my list Doug Barnard Jr., no. 506 on my list John V. Tunney, no. 414 on my list Frankie Muse Freeman, no. 154 on my list Jessica Falkholt, no. 1788 on my list Clara Marangoni, no. 116 on my list Anna Campori, no. 219 on my list Marjorie Holt, no. 585 on my list Baroness Olive Nicol, no. 1047 on my list John 'Chick' Webster, no. 1512 on my list Max Labovitch, no. 1518 on my list (not sure if this counts as a proper obit, please let me know if it doesn't) OBIT PENDING Peter Wyngrade, no. 333 on my list Patrick Cryne, no. 250 on my list Connie Sawyer, no. 33 on my list Nicanor Parra, no. 76 on my list Mark E. Smith, no. 273 on my list Neagu Djuvara, no. 144 on my list Bringing list forward to new page, will now continue putting my Jan deaths in this post 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 21, 2018 5 hours ago, CastAway said: Max Labovitch, no. 1518 on my list (not sure if this counts as a proper obit, please let me know if it doesn't) Yeah, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't count. Maybe a CBC or something, but not a small-city one like this. But interesting find, one from my city too Note on this and I'm pretty sure I'm saying something that has been said already but here goes. I think Deathray just relaxed the DDP obit rules so he takes BBC local obits, CBC, stuff like that but the rules still don't go as extreme as an obit from the Butte (Montana) Daily would qualify Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 475 Posted January 21, 2018 2 hours ago, FixedBusiness said: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't count. Maybe a CBC or something, but not a small-city one like this. But interesting find, one from my city too Note on this and I'm pretty sure I'm saying something that has been said already but here goes. I think Deathray just relaxed the DDP obit rules so he takes BBC local obits, CBC, stuff like that but the rules still don't go as extreme as an obit from the Butte (Montana) Daily would qualify I was going to do an ice hockey theme team as is for the DDP, and I managed to find a Facebook list of oldest ex-NHL players, so it helped with both that and this one Some of them are rather obscure as far as playing time in the league goes, but that's why they're here and not in the DDP list Deathray's free to clarify, of course, but given the fact that he was okay with non-English obits, I'm sure proper obits in local papers should be okay as well! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,933 Posted January 21, 2018 17 hours ago, FixedBusiness said: Yeah, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't count. Maybe a CBC or something, but not a small-city one like this. But interesting find, one from my city too Note on this and I'm pretty sure I'm saying something that has been said already but here goes. I think Deathray just relaxed the DDP obit rules so he takes BBC local obits, CBC, stuff like that but the rules still don't go as extreme as an obit from the Butte (Montana) Daily would qualify 14 hours ago, CastAway said: I was going to do an ice hockey theme team as is for the DDP, and I managed to find a Facebook list of oldest ex-NHL players, so it helped with both that and this one Some of them are rather obscure as far as playing time in the league goes, but that's why they're here and not in the DDP list Deathray's free to clarify, of course, but given the fact that he was okay with non-English obits, I'm sure proper obits in local papers should be okay as well! Just to settle this, a newspaper obituary is a newspaper obituary regardless of which newspaper it is in. A condolence request from the family is not a newspaper obituary however. I'll try and settle the obit criteria more thoroughly next year. It feels utterly wrong not to accept an obit in a DW magazine article on grounds of not being a newspaper despite it actually obituarising the person and then accept an non-obituary from the passages pages of a newspaper (I remember even stopping short of accepting this sort of thing for the Hares Death Pool; which has obit rules making this look strict). A discussion about acceptable obits does need to be had though; and I really should have been more on the ball with this so here's a first draft for next years rules: The obituary must be an article in nature (not a memorandum or passages pages family or friend request piece). The article can be from a specialist magazine/newspaper, national newspaper, local newspaper or town newspaper. The article may be from an online source such as a news website, sports pages (football live threads etc). It must not be a social media announcement, a amateur blog post or a forum post and the ilk, The article must contain at a minimum a paragraph and include the person's name, reason for being famous and date of death. That or we use the "fuck it" method and any acknowledgement of death is accepted. Anyway: Castaway: 14 hits ; 18,181 points Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva, 1280 Rayya Elias, 1772 Salvador Borrego, 1921 Marjorie Holt, 1433 Tom Luken, 1396 Doug Barnard Jr., 1512 John V. Tunney, 1604 Frankie Muse Freeman, 1864 Jessica Falkholt, 230 Clara Marangoni, 1902 Anna Campori, 1799 Baroness Olive Nicol, 971 John 'Chick' Webster, 506 Peter Wyngarde, 1685 Max Labovitch, no. 1518 on my list (not sure if this counts as a proper obit, please let me know if it doesn't) it doesn't. FixedBusiness: 12 hits ; 15,799 points Thomas S Monson, 1774Rayya Elias, 1484Asghar Khan, 1327Jerry Van Dyke, 1356Ray Thomas, 1727 Denise LaSalle, 264David Fisher, name 422 (awaiting legit obit? only has doctor who blog obits) Awaiting obit. Bobby Zarin, 1554 Dan Gurney, 1633 Dolores O'Riordan, 1372 Laura Saull, 1557 Dorothy Malone, 1751 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 21, 2018 Ah, okay that makes much more sense, thank you Deathray! And thanks for the calculations. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,933 Posted January 21, 2018 Also @CaptainChorizo you didn't enter this did you? Despite awarding you 769 points last time rounding I appear to have noticed you haven't entered a team. Must've got you confused with @Ulitzer95 ? Current the only valid entries I appear to have are CastAway and FixedBusiness? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,904 Posted January 21, 2018 ya i have not entered a team at all Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,933 Posted January 21, 2018 31 minutes ago, CaptainChorizo said: ya i have not entered a team at all Thanks. Just me be a numpty as usual then! Good Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathray 2,933 Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, FixedBusiness said: Ah, okay that makes much more sense, thank you Deathray! And thanks for the calculations. Well, it's a lot easier with you guys doing so well at tracking your hits. So thanks for that 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 22, 2018 Jimmy Armfield, name 659 Patrick Cryne, name 491 Dave Holland (Judas Priest drummer), name 1601 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 22, 2018 Connie Saywer, name 193 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 24, 2018 Mark E Smith takes a fall, number 1139. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 28, 2018 Haven't had one in a couple days so to put an end to that streak, heres a massive one:Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, dead. name 108 for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted January 31, 2018 Hannah Hauxwell, name 82 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted February 2, 2018 Time to start my names for February: Ann Gillis, name 398 Dennis Edwards, name 1058 Barys Kit, name 537 (hopefully this report works, it's just in a different language :P) Liam Miller, name 411 Craig MacGregor, name 509 Vic Damone, name 226 Marty Allen, name 524 Morgan Tsvangirai, name 493 Jim Downing, name 1155 Prince Henrik, name 899 Dobri Dobrev, name 1222 Nini Theilade, name 270 Catherine Nevin, name 100 Lassie Lou Ahern, 454 Billy Graham, name 3 Nanette Fabray, name 335 Lewis Gilbert, name 85 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted February 10, 2018 Liam Miller, name 411 Craig MacGregor, name 509 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted February 12, 2018 Vic Damone, name 226 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted February 13, 2018 Marty Allen dead, name 524 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FixedBusiness 407 Posted February 15, 2018 Morgan Tsvangirai, name 493 Jim Downing, name 1155 Prince Henrik, name 899 Dobri Dobrev, name 1222 Nini Theilade, name 270 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
