Death Impends 7,974 Posted January 1, 2020 TJS for 2020: Chris Doleman (JOKER) John Andretti Frankie Banali Susan Bayh Jimmy Carter David Gulpilil Lars Hogh Terry Jones John Lewis Genesis P-Orridge Gavin Robertson Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman Yoo Sang-chul Roger Scruton Ronald J. Shurer Pat Smullen Belinda Sykes Alex Trebek Gianluca Vialli Rachel Zoll SUBS: Jana Bennett, Tom Smith, Tim Bilton Now that I seem to have finally won, my primary goal in the DDP is to get a hit with a US President. I talked myself out of Bush Sr for years, and when I finally convinced myself to pick him, he died weeks later and I was kicking myself for days! And so Carter will dutifully be on my team for the rest of his life. It is admittedly good timing that the likely win coincides with Carter showing his first signs of mortality since his cancer battle. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted January 1, 2020 Back for a second year in the Derby Dead Pool. Hoping to improve upon a tie for 16th place in the 2019 edition. Here is my 2020 DDP team: Fade To Black 1. Vicki Eastaugh (British breast cancer sufferer) (joker) 2. 6ix9ine (American rapper) 3. George Alagiah 4. Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot drummer) 5. Jana Bennett (media executive) 6. Miroslava Duma (Russian entrepreneur) 7. Bob Gibson (American baseball player) 8. Nikki Jenkins (British bodybuilder) 9. Lee Kerslake 10. Sam Lloyd (American actor) 11. Lee Noble (British boxer) 12. Genesis P-Orridge 13. Michael Robinson (British footballer) 14. Yoo Sang-chul (South Korean footballer) 15. Luton Shelton (Jamaican footballer) 16. Tom Smith (British rugby player) 17. Pat Smullen (Irish jockey) 18. Bernard Tapie (French businessman) 19. Alex Trebek (Canadian-American game show host) 20. Slick Woods (American model) Substitutes: Greg Gilbert, Barry DuBois, John Andretti Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,556 Posted January 1, 2020 2021? – No thank you! I’ll leave before. 01. Tom Smith (Rugby) (Joker) 02. John Andretti 03. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 04. Frankie Banali 05. Olivia de Havilland 06. Chris Doleman 07. Kirk Douglas 08. David Hagen 09. Vera Lynn 10. Sinisa Mihajlovic 11. Olivia Newton-John 12. Estelle Parsons 13. Genesis P-Orridge 14. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh 15. Qaboos bin Said al Said 16. Pat Smullen 17. Jacqueline “Jackie” Stallone 18. Alex Trebek 19. Gianluca Vialli 20. Betty White Subs: Anne Buydens Douglas Jerry Stiller Sam Lloyd Deutsch (-Land) verabschiedet sich! German Language says Goodbye 01. Pope Benedict XVI (Joker) 02. Hans Albert 03. Helmut Berger 04. Gottfried Böhm 05. Wolfgang Bosbach 06. Egidius Braun 07. Arthur Cohn 08. Horst Eckel 09. Jürgen Habermas 10. Hardy Krüger 11. Armin Mueller-Stahl 12. Gudrun Pausewang 13. Liselotte Pulver 14. Uta Ranke-Heinemann 15. Michael Schumacher 16. Caterina Valente 17. Ingrid van Bergen 18. Hans-Jochen Vogel 19. Ernst-August von Hannover 20. Martin Walser Subs: Janosch Peter Weck Friederike Mayröcker Vive la France... et la mort 01. Jean-Louis Trintignant (Joker) 02. Pierre Cardin 03. Leslie Caron 04. Raymond Cauchetier 05. Bernadette Chirac 06. Suzy Delair 07. Jacques Delors 08. Roland Dumas 09. Francoise Gilot 10. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 11. Jean-Luc Godard 12. Juliette Gréco 13. Zizi Jeanmaire 14. Jean-Marie LePen 15. Michael Lonsdale 16. Micheline Presle 17. Renée Simonot 18. Pierre Soulages 19. Bernard Tapie 20. Albert Uderzo Subs: Anouk Aimée Renaud Séchan Anne Vernon 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Joey Russ said: Here’s my squad, Day In The Death. Did a little more relaxed approach because I felt like I could’ve with this batch: Chris Doleman (joker) John Andretti Frankie Banali.... interesting. You sold on Doleman then? Lots and lots of Brian tumours out there. Well, we all gotta pick someone as Joker. I respect your work...just looking at a few teams outta interest. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2020 Different types of brain cancer, though. Neuromas and low grades are common and easily treatable but sound scary - think Nick Boles as one example. Oligodendrogliomas (yeah of course I googled the name) are the incurable but treatables folk can have for decades like Sarah May Philo. Then you have various forms of astrocytoma, the smallest of which can be treated, but the largest of which is the notorious Glioblastoma, which is cureless and swift. And any astrocytoma can turn into Glio at any time, basically. Doleman has Glioblastoma and has done since early 2018. He is very lucky to have reached this far but his time is running out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted January 1, 2020 Here is To Kill A Gabor Sister 2020. 1. Genesis P-Orridge (JOKER) 2. John Andretti 3. Daniel Arap Moi 4. Frankie Banali 5. Susan Bayh 6. Chris Doleman 7. Maggie Griffin - mom of Kathy Griffin 8. David Gulpilil 9. Lars Hogh 10. Terry Jones 11. Lee Kerslake 12. Michael Robinson 13. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said of Oman 14. Yoo Sang-Chul 15. Roger Scruton 16. Doug Supernaw 17. Bernard Tapie 18. Peter Tobin 19. Alex Trebek 20. Gianluca Vialli I'm not gonna make any dramatic claims like ''this is my last year playing the DDP'' but this very well may be my last semi-competitive entry. I've certainly started to lose interest in deadpooling and I couldn't bring myself to do much research. However, I did pull myself together in the final days of 2019, so I don't think I'll completely embarrass myself with this team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,945 Posted January 1, 2020 Here are my teams. Drollercoaster 1)Tom Smith (Joker) 2)Frankie Banali 3)Lisa Griffiths (only FFBI, but a Daily Mail fav) 4)Chris Doleman 5)Susan Bayh 6)Bob Gibson 7)Greg Gilbert (finally his year, maybe... patience would have paid with José and Vervoort) 8)David Gulpilil 9)Sam Lloyd (I don't think he is cured. We'll see) 10)Sinisa MIhajlovic (don't realy think he'll die this year, but too big to miss) 11)David Hagen 12)Alex Trebek 13)Bernard Tapie 14)Roger Scruton 15)Qaboos of Oman 16)Genesis P-Orridge 17)Tracey Smothers 18)John Andretti 19)Pat Smullen (keep faith) 20)Gianluca Vialli Plan B from Outer Space: 1)Tom Smith (Joker) 2)Tom Long 3)Carel du Plessis 4)Kerri Parker 5)Lee Kerslake 6)Peter Frampton 7)Yoo Sang-chul (on obit grounds) 8)Kay Ivey 9)Leon Spinks 10)Tabare Vazquez 11)Dave Mustaine 12)Eddie Van Halen 13)Ged Stokes (wasted) 14)Chris Doleman 15)Bill Freehan 16)Nobby Stiles 17)Frankie Banali 18)Sam Lloyd 19)Pervez Musharraf 20)Bernard Tapie Complications from a fall (theme) 1)Qaboos of Oman (J) 2)Daniel arap Moi 3)Violeta Chamorro 4)Jiang Zemin 5)Kenneth Kaunda 6)Pervez Musharraf 7)Muhammad Rafiq Tarar 8)Giorgio Napolitano 9)Javier Perez de Cuellar 10)Francisco Morales Bermudez 11)Zhu Rongji 12)Mwai Kibaki 13)Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 14)Milos Jakes 15)Lubomir Strougal 16)Jimmy Carter 17)Hosni Mubarak 18)Abdelaziz Bouteflika 19)Edouard Balladur 20)Tomiichi Murayama Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,322 Posted January 1, 2020 My main team: 1)Pat Smullen (Joker) 2)David Hagen 3)Frankie Banali 4)Tom Smith 5)Nanci Ryder 6)Alex Trebek 7)Leon Spinks 8)David Gulpilil 9)George Alagiah 10) Bill Turnbull 11)Doug Supernaw 12) Roger Scruton 13)Genesis P-Orridge 14)Peter Tobin 15) Sam Lloyd 16)Gianluca Vialli 17) Mark Gastineau 18)Jana Bennett 19) Eddie Van Halen 20) Sophie Sabbage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 1, 2020 4 minutes ago, Sean said: My main team: 1)Pat Smullen (Joker) I hope to F you right about him. Had my doubts as I was hitting ‘send’ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 1, 2020 Everyone piling on Roger Scruton. He was on long list but cut quickly. What am I missing? * off to figure it out* Something fishy. News broke last three days?? EDIT: OK THAT guy. Salman Rushdie Light. He ain’t dying. And won’t be killed. Still don’t see it. Just googled. Feel free to straighten me out, cuz I’m drinking and in the mood to mock 10% of DDP teams all at once. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,226 Posted January 1, 2020 Just now, Sir Creep said: Everyone piling on Roger Scruton. He was on long list but cut quickly. What am I missing? * off to figure it out* maybe QO chances? Something fishy. News broke last three days?? Probably because a) he’s someone very few people will miss and b) he looked extremely frail in those December pictures Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 1, 2020 I don’t espouse to ‘looks frail’ as a basis of anything. I know it’s proven to work a few times. I’ll take me chances. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2020 1 minute ago, Sir Creep said: I don’t espouse to ‘looks frail’ as a basis of anything. I know it’s proven to work a few times. I’ll take me chances. Paraphrasing the shits own article, but before Christmas he announced he'd been given a week to live with Stage IV cancer in July without treatment, and that the treatment since hadn't gone as well to plan as hoped. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,974 Posted January 1, 2020 The annual "looks like shite" picks for the three years prior were Wetton, Mark E. Smith, and McCririck. I omitted all three, who all then promptly died. Not going to repeat that mistake with Scruton. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted January 1, 2020 This year's effort. Hoping to better the 31st place achieved in 2018 and 2019. The Living End Yoo Sang-chul (Joker) Sam Lloyd David Gulpilil Doug Supernaw Gianluca Vialli Frankie Banali Alex Trebek James Church Ruth Bader Ginsberg Belinda Sykes Pat Smullen John Downing Sultan Qaboos of Oman Sally Sheridan Jana Bennett Judy Dyble Michael McKevitt John Lewis John Andretti Lee Noble Sub: Bradley Murdoch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 1, 2020 19 minutes ago, Death Impends said: The annual "looks like shite" picks for the three years prior were Wetton, Mark E. Smith, and McCririck. I omitted all three, who all then promptly died. Not going to repeat that mistake with Scruton. They had medical reasons even if they looked like Johnny Depp 20 years ago. Scruton doesn’t. msc better provide a link, if Twitter I don’t care I’ll never sign up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nantonian2013 50 Posted January 1, 2020 Just now, Sir Creep said: They had medical reasons even if they looked like Johnny Depp 20 years ago. Scruton doesn’t. msc better provide a link, if Twitter I don’t care I’ll never sign up. I'm not msc, but this article might be the one. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/roger-scruton-my-2019/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2020 https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/roger-scruton-my-2019/ Ninja'd! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted January 1, 2020 11 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: They had medical reasons even if they looked like Johnny Depp 20 years ago. Scruton doesn’t. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,974 Posted January 1, 2020 McCririck and Smith were not even publicly known to have cancer until after their deaths, even if it could be reasonably guessed off appearance alone. If anything Scruton has less conjecture involved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,443 Posted January 1, 2020 Of the teams announced so far, a dozen who seem to be ones to watch on paper as contenders (yes Willz, obligatory the DDP isn't won on paper reference here...) Joey and Clorox (who seem to be early favourites), Toast and Book who both look to have their best teams yet, Jireomon, Spade (well, duh?), Eesti, Chorizo, Rad, drol, Reptile and that chap DI. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted January 1, 2020 Hmm, I'm sure most of mine are goners, but not confident they'll all go this year. Glad I haven't stooped to jokering cancer brides. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Etushispushingupdaisies 136 Posted January 1, 2020 My team. EtushIsPushingUpDaisies (terrible name) 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Alex Trebek (JOKER) 3. George Alagiah 4. Frankie Banali 5. John Andretti 6. Lee Kerslake 7. Gianluca Vialli 8. Roger Scruton 9. Bob Gibson 10. Alcee Hastings 11. Tabare Vazquez 12. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 13. Mark Gastineau 14. Tom Smith 15. Doddie Weir 16. Vasily Kulkov 17. Anastasia Zavorotniuk 18. Genesis P-Orridge 19. David Gullpilil 20. Pat Smullen. How much do you think I'll score? I'm so insecure, because it's my first team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted January 1, 2020 23 minutes ago, Etushispushingupdaisies said: My team. EtushIsPushingUpDaisies (terrible name) 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Alex Trebek (JOKER) 3. George Alagiah 4. Frankie Banali 5. John Andretti 6. Lee Kerslake 7. Gianluca Vialli 8. Roger Scruton 9. Bob Gibson 10. Alcee Hastings 11. Tabare Vazquez 12. Ruth Bader Ginsberg 13. Mark Gastineau 14. Tom Smith 15. Doddie Weir 16. Vasily Kulkov 17. Anastasia Zavorotniuk 18. Genesis P-Orridge 19. David Gullpilil 20. Pat Smullen. How much do you think I'll score? I'm so insecure, because it's my first team. for a first team, it's very good. Edit: And good in general. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,970 Posted January 1, 2020 Well, David Stern is the first DDP hit of the year it seems, on my B-team, but for some reason, not on my Deathrace team. GUN is working hard on entering the late submitted teams. Then the scoring process begins. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
