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Has DDP ever gone a whole month without a death I dont mean like ever i mean the last 5 years

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Short answer: No. A quick look tells me that even a gap of two weeks is extremely rare unless you go back to, and further back than 2006.

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Was wondering who will be the rookie of the year, but 10 seconds looking suggests it's likely to be Grim, Grim, or ZZL (The Blight House).

 

10 seconds because I thought Grim had been in the DDP before.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, msc said:

Was wondering who will be the rookie of the year, but 10 seconds looking suggests it's likely to be Grim, Grim, or ZZL (The Blight House).

 

10 seconds because I thought Grim had been in the DDP before.

 

 

 

Leah Bracknell or Marieke Vervoort jokers would possibly change that.

 

Funnily enough I was looking at Scoreboard this morning and I think there hasn't been a hit in top 10 since 25th August so I keep waiting to plummet down the leader board but if no-one dies then I get to stay where I am :D

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On 23/09/2018 at 13:07, drol said:

Basset won a prize in Italy, but I did not understand if he attended the ceremony. Anyway articles say nothing about his illness, but I think he's still holding his own.

 

Could the Living End unique streak dream still live? Gerard Basset now terminally ill...

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On 13/10/2018 at 17:20, Phantom of the Midway said:

So here's a look at their surviving members and likeliness of dying by the end of December, imho.

 

1. Simon Ricketts (Pity Da Foolz) - Had some bad news in the summertime, looks to be on the clock. And of course, he'll die to piss off all those that dropped him this year.
 

So, if you ask me, I'd say the likely winner will be Pity Da Foolz.

 

Still very active on Twitter with only 7 weeks of year left.

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3 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

 

Still very active on Twitter with only 7 weeks of year left.

While that is true, you know that he will be one of those types who will suddenly go off Twitter and die a week later...

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List of the lost addition: Sir Ngatata Love died 23rd October. I had him, but no QO.

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On 12/11/2018 at 15:05, Grim Up North said:

 

Still very active on Twitter with only 7 weeks of year left.

I'm pretty sure Stan Lee was 'active' on Twitter until the day before he died, so...

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9 minutes ago, CastAway said:

I'm pretty sure Stan Lee was 'active' on Twitter until the day before he died, so...

Pretty sure Ricketts is nowhere near as famous as Stan Lee was and therefore Ricketts’s account probably wasn’t run by other people...

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3 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/17/bbc-newsreader-richard-baker-dies-aged-93

 

BBC newsreader Richard Baker passing away is a 'hit' for me in my Blueberry Crumble team 

 

Congratulations on the solo hit. I had him on my theme team list for next year! Such is life, or, you know, death. RIP,  I liked him.

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I've only just twigged that the unique for William Goldman on the DDP is actually my own theme team!  :D [A theme team I admit existed solely to get Steve Ditko on the DDP for the first time and he promptly snuffed it... although Guy Playfair getting one was cool too and Aelwyn Roberts should have but he never got a qualifying obit, only one from the BBC...]

 

Actually got a sort of Reverse DDT streak on the go - 8 unique hits in the past 4 theme teams, but none at all ever for my main DDP team. Funny old world.

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Felt like tallying some rookie rankings (by first time DDP teams)

 

  1. GUN Away - 111
  2. GUN Fishing - 111
  3. The Blight House - 101
  4. Plan B From Outer Space - 98
  5. Zsa Zsa's Funeral Invitations - 94
  6. 20 Hits No Problem - 85
  7. You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! - 84
  8. Alternatively In The News - 76
  9. Banana's Peel Slippers - 75
  10. Prophet's Prophecy - 75
  11. Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed - 69
  12. Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop - 68
  13. Jackie Treehorn - 68
  14. Still More Life - 66
  15. Dumb Some Bitch - 63
  16. Spirited Away - 50
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On 20/11/2018 at 00:00, Banana said:

Felt like tallying some rookie rankings (by first time DDP teams)

 

  1. GUN Away - 111
  2. GUN Fishing - 111
  3. The Blight House - 101
  4. Plan B From Outer Space - 98
  5. Zsa Zsa's Funeral Invitations - 94
  6. 20 Hits No Problem - 85
  7. You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! - 84
  8. Alternatively In The News - 76
  9. Banana's Peel Slippers - 75
  10. Prophet's Prophecy - 75
  11. Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed - 69
  12. Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop - 68
  13. Jackie Treehorn - 68
  14. Still More Life - 66
  15. Dumb Some Bitch - 63
  16. Spirited Away - 50

 

First and second?? Joint first surely! :P:D

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36 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

 

First and second?? Joint first surely! :P:D

Lol yeah I was too lazy to number each so I just used the formatting

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On ‎20‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 00:00, Banana said:

Felt like tallying some rookie rankings (by first time DDP teams)

 

  1. GUN Away - 111
  2. GUN Fishing - 111
  3. The Blight House - 101
  4. Plan B From Outer Space - 98
  5. Zsa Zsa's Funeral Invitations - 94
  6. 20 Hits No Problem - 85
  7. You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! - 84
  8. Alternatively In The News - 76
  9. Banana's Peel Slippers - 75
  10. Prophet's Prophecy - 75
  11. Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed - 69
  12. Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop - 68
  13. Jackie Treehorn - 68
  14. Still More Life - 66
  15. Dumb Some Bitch - 63
  16. Spirited Away - 50

 

So, it's the same person with two teams, right? 

 

Awesome dead pooling either way

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32 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

So, it's the same person with two teams, right? 

 

Awesome dead pooling either way

 

Yeah somewhat controversially two team with 19 common names - fucking chancer!;)

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Pity da Foolz is about to take the lead at the top with 40 days left. Poor DI, is he going to slip up at the last hurdle again?

 

Oh, and some guy from Glasgow moves to within 15 points of the top with the joker still in play - be afraid, folk, comeback's on! Hahaha

 

 

PS RIP Devin Lima and all that.

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Ah well. Unless a Clegg miracle does happen, onto next year for me.

 

ETA I double checked and couldn't even make up the gap with Clegg, unless he does a Sadhana! Hah.

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16 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

 

First and second?? Joint first surely! :P:D

 

Haha - well Devin Lima's totally fucked that up - pretty much the 10 teams beneath me all have Devin Lima including Blight House.

 

Anonymity here I come!

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6 hours ago, Grim Up North said:

 

Haha - well Devin Lima's totally fucked that up - pretty much the 10 teams beneath me all have Devin Lima including Blight House.

 

Anonymity here I come!

 

After thinking I had Lima all year, turns out I was an idiot and decided he was a worse pick than any of my other terrible low-scoring hits. Anyway, I'm also relieved since I didn't have him on any of my long lists for next year after hearing about his surgery.

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So which deaths right now would change the standings? Jose Jose, Fernando Ricksen or Marieke Vervoot (lol) would give BoB the lead.  Tiffany Youngs or late pass obits for Cynthia Heimel or Ian Toothill would do for TJS. Greg Gilbert would give it to To Kill A Gabor Sister.  I think that's it excluding unnatural deaths or Christmas Day carkings?

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