YoungWillz 21,033 Posted September 9, 2020 On 15/07/2020 at 09:50, Bibliogryphon said: If Philip Latham gets an obit. I am going to be even madder about David Fisher not getting one Get mad and get even Biblio! Go get them! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machotrouts 828 Posted September 10, 2020 On 08/09/2020 at 13:13, Spade_Cooley said: Tina Kanarek, who lipsynched Jack White's uncredited vocals in the video for "Danger! High Voltage" by Electric Six, a 2002 #2 single, died in 2006 completely off the radar. I was so disillusioned when I first looked up Electric Six after seeing this video on TV and discovered she wasn't an actual member of the band. A presence. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,584 Posted September 26, 2020 Thought the tabloids would have picked up on this one at least... Edna Moore was the terrifying mother-in-law from Mills Hill, Rochdale, who had 15 minutes of fame after forcing an apology from Simon Cowell when she appeared on The X Factor in 2006, aged 86. Anyway, YouTube comments from randoms led me to believe she had died in 2012 or 2015. Not the case. A relative on there confirms she only died in March 2019. This is backed up in the GRO Index: Moore, Edna / ROCHDALE / b. 1920 / d. Q1 2019. So she was 98–99 at the time of death. RIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted October 8, 2020 Anyone with an interest in modern-day kitsch, specifically "mockbusters", should be aware of Dingo Pictures - the German animation studio whose terrible, badly animated, nonsensical, cheap movies were re-released as shovelware "games" for the PS2 in the early 2000s. An example of their "craft" can be found here: Anyway, after a recent YouTube binge I saw some comments that one of the founders had died and, searching German obituary records, I can confirm. Roswitha Haas died December 8, 2015. Doesn't appear to have been any coverage of this in German media. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted November 17, 2020 Gary Dee Bradford, a child gospel singer born with thalidomide-like handicaps and a regular on lists of the worst ever album covers, died with little notice in 2019. https://usobit.com/obituaries-2019/04/gary-deebradford-1964-2019/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,131 Posted November 17, 2020 9 hours ago, alt obits guy said: Gary Dee Bradford, a child gospel singer born with thalidomide-like handicaps and a regular on lists of the worst ever album covers, died with little notice in 2019. https://usobit.com/obituaries-2019/04/gary-deebradford-1964-2019/ Some of those song titles, though. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted November 17, 2020 8 hours ago, Toast said: Some of those song titles, though. I can find childlike or religious type meanings that probably pass muster for all of them unless one deliberately misconstrues/double-entendre's them, bar one.... That one though is extraordinarily jarring next to that picture. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted November 25, 2020 2019 DDP pick Ursula Maury, a GDR schlager singer, probably died between 2005 and 2015 in Alicante in Spain, according to a german forum poster who wrote to her twice without reply: https://www.memoryradio.de/memoryforum/viewtopic.php?t=6307 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 27, 2020 On 25/11/2020 at 16:02, gcreptile said: 2019 DDP pick Ursula Maury, a GDR schlager singer, probably died between 2005 and 2015 in Alicante in Spain, according to a german forum poster who wrote to her twice without reply: https://www.memoryradio.de/memoryforum/viewtopic.php?t=6307 Given that the content of his second letter ‘why won’t ya write back ya old cunt?’ - a follow-up to his earlier vulgar-laced tirade he sent her that wasn’t exactly endearing a response - I’m not certain we can count this as proof. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 14, 2020 IMDB.com has friend of Sharon Tate, actor Iain Quarrier dead since 2016, and he supposedly died in Kensington. The english Wikipedia page has followed. But it doesn't seem to be a certainty. He's a DDP pick this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 14, 2020 Ancient American football player Jack Smith, DDP pick, died in 2015 at the age of 97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(end) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 14, 2020 US pop art painter Kendall Shaw, also a DDP pick, died on Octobre 18th in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Shaw https://ogdenmuseum.org/looking-at-kendall-shaws-sunship-for-john-coltrane/ (takes a while to read the second link until it says that he died in his home in Brooklyn) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted December 14, 2020 2 hours ago, gcreptile said: IMDB.com has friend of Sharon Tate, actor Iain Quarrier dead since 2016, and he supposedly died in Kensington. The english Wikipedia page has followed. But it doesn't seem to be a certainty. He's a DDP pick this year. He had dementia as of 2015 so I'm inclined to believe he is dead. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,584 Posted December 14, 2020 3 hours ago, gcreptile said: IMDB.com has friend of Sharon Tate, actor Iain Quarrier dead since 2016, and he supposedly died in Kensington. The english Wikipedia page has followed. But it doesn't seem to be a certainty. He's a DDP pick this year. From the GRO: QUARRIER, IAIN 1941 GRO Reference: DOR Q2/2016 in Kensington And Chelsea (239-1A) Entry Number 513984729 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted December 15, 2020 Weird how he was never on the press's radar, even when he was arrested for trying to abduct a five-year-old girl from a supermarket it didn't make it out of local news reporting. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 15, 2020 It seems that DDP pick football player Jack Mansell already died in 2016: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2016/march/jack-mansell-1927--2016/ Picked twice this year. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,584 Posted December 15, 2020 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: It seems that DDP pick football player Jack Mansell already died in 2016: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2016/march/jack-mansell-1927--2016/ Picked twice this year. This is a very odd one. His death wasn't exactly underreported in March 2016. He featured on the Deaths in March 2016 section on Wiki at the time and his page was instantly (and heavily) updated. God knows why they picked him! Confusion over a similarly named player? Maybe @Octopus of Odstock can shed some light? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted December 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said: This is a very odd one. His death wasn't exactly underreported in March 2016. He featured on the Deaths in March 2016 section on Wiki at the time and his page was instantly (and heavily) updated. God knows why they picked him! Confusion over a similarly named player? Maybe @Octopus of Odstock can shed some light? The teams who pick him are both theme teams who entered the same team (with dead picks replaced) each year. They both picked him in 2016 and it wasn't picked up, which means... is the DDP hits record actually one higher than previously thought? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted December 15, 2020 7 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: The teams who pick him are both theme teams who entered the same team (with dead picks replaced) each year. They both picked him in 2016 and it wasn't picked up, which means... is the DDP hits record actually one higher than previously thought? Unless you are prepared to re-open the scores, add in the missed pick and recalculate everybody's position after 4 years, I'd say no. If Joe Bloggs dies on 30 December but the Qobit appears on 10 January, the DDP ain't going to re-open and change, so definitely not after 4 years. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted December 15, 2020 afaik he didn't actually get a QO at the time. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted December 15, 2020 PS My own view is that if you play some quasi-obscure pick and don't even check to see if they died off radar of the host, its your own points. Or lack of. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 15, 2020 39 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: The teams who pick him are both theme teams who entered the same team (with dead picks replaced) each year. They both picked him in 2016 and it wasn't picked up, which means... is the DDP hits record actually one higher than previously thought? Did he receive a QO? I couldn't find it, in the 3 minutes I checked. @ edit: Ooops, msc didn't see it either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,187 Posted December 15, 2020 I'm sure I posted about Mansell here at the time as an ex-Reading boss. Sorry, I'm not on the DDP, otherwise I would have noticed this months ago. EDIT - I didn't, but a cursory look at footballer sites would have soon confirmed his passing. Its certainly not under the radar as Rotherham and Reading both reported it at the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 16, 2020 Current DDP pick Dennis Farnon, popular music arranger, already died in 2019, somewhat off the radar, at least off our radar: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8517056/dennis-farnon-recording-academy-founder-dead-95 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted December 16, 2020 Wasn't there some kind of discussion recently about Olympic swimmer at the 1936 Olympic Games Suse Heinze? Well, Wikipedia has her dead since 2018 and this article gives some more details about this: https://olympstats.com/2020/03/ It's probably true. Another wasted DDP pick, but this time REALLY off the radar. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
