The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2021

[BillyAnchor]

On 17/11/2021 at 19:58, Arabdownunder said:

Young Dolph has been shot

Me neither. 

Thoughts and prayers from the mayor. That should end the violence.

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

Or if I had been forced to get out of my bed to meet that full army kit w****r

Who is chucking it, while she soldiers on at 95.

[paranoid android]

Rock photographer Mick Rock has died at the age of 72. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

58 minutes ago, paranoid android said:

Rock photographer Mick Rock has died at the age of 72. 

That's very negative for his family.

Edited November 19, 2021 by Sergeant Wilson

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Just now, Sergeant Wilson said:

That's very negative for his family.

Gone in a flash.

[Funky Nosejob]

No cause of death yet. Must be a developing story.

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Gone in a flash.

One minute he's in motion, the next, he's stopped!

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, Funky Nosejob said:

No cause of death yet. Must be a developing story.

Might have been Sheer Heart Attack that did it.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Mick puts up the shutters.

[Dan Steele]

Off to his least favourite dark room.

[Enigma]

2 hours ago, Funky Nosejob said:

No cause of death yet. Must be a developing story.

Reports that he died of exposure.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Scotland's least funniest woman goes into hospital.

[lichtgilphead]

You c*nt. Falsely raising hopes that Janette Krankie was on the way out should be a crime.

[Florentine_Pogen]

Scotland's least funniest woman goes into hospital.

Elaine C. Smith on life support.? Ya f*ckin' dancer...........

[Rugster]

14 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

On 19/11/2021 at 13:49, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

Scotland's least funniest woman goes into hospital.

Elaine C. Smith on life support.? Ya f*ckin' dancer...........

She’s fucking brilliant in Two Doors Down to be fair. 

[Arch Stanton]

On 19/11/2021 at 13:49, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

Scotland's least funniest woman goes into hospital.

Janey Godley? Anyone got any leftover fireworks?

[BillyAnchor]

On 19/11/2021 at 04:49, Sergeant Wilson said:

Might have been Sheer Heart Attack that did it.

Big band found 

[Florentine_Pogen]

She’s fucking brilliant in Two Doors Down to be fair. 

Aye..no acting skills required though......

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 47 update

Three deaths this week. Up first is one I missed from last week, former South African president F.W. de Klerk: FW de Klerk obituary | South Africa | The Guardian

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Frederik Willem – FW – de Klerk, who has died aged 85, was the last president of South Africa under apartheid. He was often compared with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, for his work in consigning a bankrupt and reviled regime to oblivion.

When De Klerk succeeded PW Botha in 1989, he oversaw an event no less unexpected than the collapse of Soviet communism was when Gorbachev came to power in 1985. His stunning act of realpolitik in announcing sweeping political reform, including the release of his eventual successor, Nelson Mandela, was the grand gesture that saved his country, and in 1993 they shared the Nobel peace prize. The following year Mandela became the country’s first democratically elected leader.

Fears of uncontrollable bloodshed and civil war had proved unfounded as De Klerk led a skilful, strategic withdrawal by the white, Afrikaans-speaking inventors of apartheid, the National party, in power since 1948. Very few observers of De Klerk’s presidential term expected to see the end of apartheid in their lifetimes. Almost nobody, not even his NP colleagues, appreciated that there was more to this machine politician than affability and adroitness in debate.

Anglophones as well as Afrikaners wanted him to preserve white supremacy, while the black African majority wanted, but could hardly have expected, him to run up a white flag. South Africa got a radical pragmatist with a talent for negotiation who set about the tortuous preparation for an orderly transfer of power. Foreigners made the same mistake about De Klerk as they had about his two predecessors, Botha and John Vorster: because he, too, spoke English like a steamroller he could only be dimwitted. But it was simply not his mother tongue.

The process of ending apartheid in South Africa was well underway when I was born, but it's a testament to how comprehensively things were changed that although articles like this demonstrate how significant it was, it's a concept that I can't imagine existing in the world I live in. Apart from what Israel does to Palestine obviously, but there's not as many people there. 

de Klerk died at 85, so he's worth 40 Base Points. He gets a Deadly Duo bonus for @10menwent2mow and @Salvo Montalbano for an extra 25 and a total of 65 points.

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Second death this week was Celtic player Bertie Auld: Obituary: Bertie Auld, the Lisbon Lion who became an authentic working-class hero | HeraldScotland

I'm not going to quote part of that obituary because the whole thing deserves to be read. I am going to post a picture though:

(this isn't the original picture I was going to post, but the man seems to like his dogs. There's also a picture of him and Rod Stewart in Rangers tops in this gallery: In pictures: Celebrating the life of Celtic legend and Lisbon Lion Bertie Auld after his death aged 83 - Daily Record)

I've posted about footballers of varying levels of success here before. Every time I do I'm always struck by how these people who play for the clubs we support become symbols of everything we want from our teams. When you read about footballers from older generations you're struck by how fine the lines were between supporter and fan back in those days. Men like Bertie Auld really encapsulate that, with an impeccable playing career followed by a life of completely deserved reverence from the Celtic support. 

Auld died at 83, so he's worth 42 Base Points for  @jimbaxters, @Salvo Montalbanoand @tamthebam, with @BillyAnchor and @theportman getting a Captain bonus for a total of 84 points.

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Final death this week is a politician's wife, Clarissa Eden: Clarissa Eden obituary | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Clarissa Eden, the Countess of Avon, who has died aged 101, is remembered for her comment, as the prime minister Anthony Eden’s wife during the 1956 Suez crisis, that she “felt sometimes that the Suez canal was flowing through my drawing room”. It reflected only partly the spirit of a stylish, intellectual woman, who found herself almost unwittingly at the centre of Britain’s political life in the mid-1950s.

Though she was descended from the Churchill dynasty, politics hardly impinged on her early life. The third child and only daughter of Winston Churchill’s younger brother, John Spencer-Churchill, a stockbroker, and Lady Gwendoline Bertie, daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon, Clarissa Churchill, born in London, was more attracted to the liberal and intellectual milieu of her cultured mother, a renowned beauty, than to politics.

Her experience as a foreign secretary’s wife was good training for Eden’s long-awaited elevation on Churchill’s retirement to the premiership in April 1955 – a move welcomed by the Conservative party. Eden, the heir apparent for a decade and deputy since 1951, was increasingly vexed at Churchill’s refusal to go. Clarissa adjusted to living at No 10 Downing Street, though she was shocked at the pace of life at the top. “I’d never seen anyone working like that in my life before – working from dawn to two in the morning – and I just felt this is so awful, this life, that I must tailor my life to his,” she said.

Though this meant sacrificing time with her friends, she derived enjoyment and interest from being at the hub of the nation’s political life. Among global figures, she counted as friends the US secretary of state Dean Acheson, who was “always making terribly funny jokes” and Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India – “a beautiful man” of “great spirituality”.

Clarissa had little taste, however, for political intrigue. During the Suez crisis, which broke in July 1956 after Egypt’s president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalised the Suez Canal company, her role was “to bolster” Eden in the fevered atmosphere of No 10 as he moved towards a resolution to use force against Nasser – a policy that divided parliament, families and friends. Though Clarissa never wavered, she was curious enough to wander (unnoticed) up Whitehall from No 10 to observe for herself the massive antiwar demonstration in Trafalgar Square.

Eden died at 101, so she's worth 14 Base Points. Whatever Cardinal Richelieu is calling himself this week had her as his captain for an extra 14, plus a Solo Shot bonus for a total of 78 points.

As a result of all of these, the standings now look like this:

1. Ned Nederlander 713
2. Savage Henry 429
3. Bishop Briggs 424
4. Fuctifano 420
5. psv_killie 413
6. Indale Winton 332
7. pub car king 301
8. chomp my root 289
9. Arch Stanton 270
10. Aim Here, Cardinal Richelieu, Ludo*1 255
13. Lofarl 243
14. choirbairn 240
15. senorsoupe 236
16. JustOneCornetto 233
17. buddiepaul 223
18. sparky88 221
19. expatowner 217
20. ICTJohnboy 216
21. gkneil 203
22. Sherrif John Bunnell 198
23. Arbroathlegend36-0, Sweaty Morph 196
25. Willie adie 180
26. Bert Raccoon 179
27. jimbaxters 172
28. BillyAnchor, cdhafc1874, lichtgilphead 167
31. doulikefish 163
32. qos_75 162
33. ThomCat 161
34. HI HAT 160
35. Salvo Montalbano 159
36. peasy23, sleazy 156
38. stanton 149
39. The DA 146
40. El Guapo 141
41. theportman 139
42. weejack 138
43. Billy Jean King 128
44. lolls, Mark Connolly 120
46. Curmudgeon 118
47. Arabdownuner, Enigma, speckled tangerine 112
50. thistledo 108
51. Ben Twilly 107
52. Amandajoan 103
53. Bold Rover, D.V.T. 102
55. dee_62 101
56. Empty It 94
57. amnarab 91
58. Lex, The Hologram 89
60. mathematics, tamthebam 86
62. 101,  nessies long lost ghost 84
64. weirdcal 83
65. The_Craig 81
66. Raidernation 77
67. Karpaty Lviv 76
68. Blootoon87, Perkin Flump, Sergeant Wilson 70
71. CountyFan 67
72. LoonsYouthTeam 62
73. TxRover 55
74. Busta Nut, cambozpar, djchapsticks, Duszek 52
78. Bulbasaur, coprolite 51
80. 10menwent2mow, dagane 42
82. Eednud, gingette, GTG_03, Melanius Mullarkey, microdave, mozam76, paulathame, Shotgun, The Master, The Naitch, thisal 26
93. Everyone else 0

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-OTo44wF_W7A4Q0NFnd1sX3qEDdxTLDobvjhhSgnzkg/edit?usp=sharing

Edited November 21, 2021 by Miguel Sanchez

[BillyAnchor]

A late death last December and I subbed in wee Bertie. Had totally forgotten about it.

 

Buzzing here.