The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2021

[Sergeant Wilson]

35 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

You're not allowed to boo if you also didn't notice.

Disqualify him!

[Raidernation]

You're not allowed to boo if you also didn't notice.

That was his nickname, “BOOOO”!

[Miguel Sanchez]

45 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Disqualify him!

You should be in charge of this game. There'd be three people left at the end of the year and you still wouldn't win.

[Rugster]

2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

You should be in charge of this game. There'd be three people left at the end of the year and you still wouldn't win.

Encouraging you think he would last the year. For @Sergeant Wilson anyway. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

49 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

You should be in charge of this game. There'd be three people left at the end of the year and you still wouldn't win.

I'm simply offering constructive advice. I see the post as developmental, suitable for young, ambitious eager beavers like you.

45 minutes ago, Rugster said:

Encouraging you think he would last the year. For @Sergeant Wilson anyway. 

I'll see you out. 40s is the dangerous decade. Get through that and you're laughing.

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/lucia-hiriart-widow-chilean-dictator-augusto-pinchocet-dies-age-99

Pinochet's widow disappears.

[Arabdownunder]

10 hours ago, Raidernation said:

Apparently Abdelaziz Bouteflika died and I didn't get my points?????

 

Fcking BOOO!!!!!! 

Up to you to keep an eye on your team. Its in the rules " If you pick someone obscure or non-British, you may have to find and post a qualifying obituary." You should still get the points if you can find an obit. 

Good tip for young players though. Have a trawl through the internet in December to see if any of your less famous team members have perished unnoticed during the year.

[Raidernation]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58605626

Points please?

[jimbaxters]

1 hour ago, Raidernation said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58605626

Points please?

Points just for choosing someone with such a cracking comb-over. They'll have combed it down and used it as a shroud.

[Oystercatcher]

On 17/12/2021 at 00:56, Arabdownunder said:

Up to you to keep an eye on your team. Its in the rules " If you pick someone obscure or non-British, you may have to find and post a qualifying obituary." You should still get the points if you can find an obit. 

Good tip for young players though. Have a trawl through the internet in December to see if any of your less famous team members have perished unnoticed during the year.

School boy error on my part as I picked someone already dead.

[Arch Stanton]

The Saintees players will be wearing black armbands in their next game.

 

 

[supermik]

23 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

The Saintees players will be wearing black armbands in their next game.

 

 

Combine harvesters in formation behind the hearse.

Cider drinkers only allowed at the wake.

[Florentine_Pogen]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/19/richard-rogers-pompidou-and-millennium-dome-architect-dies-aged-88?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Richard Rogers has left the building..

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/19/richard-rogers-lord-rogers-obituary

Edited December 19, 2021 by Florentine_Pogen

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 51 update

Two deaths this week, both from the past. Up first is the former president of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's longest-serving president dies - BBC News

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika was a dominant figure in Algerian politics for more than six decades.

Most notably, he served as Algeria's longest-serving president from 1999 to 2019.

Born to Algerian parents in Oujda, Morocco on 2 March 1937, Bouteflika became known for his intelligence from a very young age.

In his first year of high school, the Moroccan royal palace even called his parents to congratulate the family on Bouteflika's outstanding academic performance.

When he was 19, Bouteflika joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) - the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), a nationalist movement fighting for Algerian independence from France.

A witty and sharp-tongued aide, Bouteflika so impressed the chief of staff of Algeria's border army, Houari Boumediene, that he was named chief secretary until Algerian independence in 1962. Boumediene later became Algeria's second President, after Ahmed Ben Bella.

When Boumediene and Ben Bella grasped control of Algeria in the summer that year, Bouteflika was named minister of youth and sport - he was only 25 years old.

A year later, in 1963, he became the world's youngest minister of foreign affairs, a record that still stands.

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Bouteflika spent the rest of his days in a medicalised residence in a suburb of Algiers.

He is likely to be laid to rest in the presidents' lot of Algiers' distinguished El Alia cemetery alongside other former Algerian leaders.

Those who will remember him fondly will recall Bouteflika's revolutionary past in the Algerian war for independence and his time as an outrageously skilled diplomat in a newly independent country.

However, many will also point out that he overstayed his time as president and facilitated corruption by surrounding himself with power-hungry oligarchs.

As discussed, what a combover:

Bouteflika was 84 when he died, so he's worth 41 Base Points. He was @Raidernation's captain to double that and a Solo Shot for an extra 50 and a total of 132 points.

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Second death from the start of December was... ahem, Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham: Lord Denham obituary | Register | The Times

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Until his retirement this year at the age of 93, Lord Denham was the longest-serving peer, having sat in the upper house since 1949. Such was his longevity, that he was also the last man alive to have served in Harold Macmillan’s government. He was not one for hogging the debates, though. The last time he spoke in parliament was six years ago, and that was to tell off another peer for droning on too long.

Denham’s long silence in recent years echoed the start of his political career. He waited six years before his maiden speech, in which, perhaps surprisingly, he opposed a ban on heroin. If this might have seemed quite a progressive, even libertarian, position for a Tory peer to hold, he

Quite. Bowyer died at 94, so he's worth 31 Base Points for @Arch Stanton who also gets a Deadly December and a Solo Shot bonus taking him to 112 points.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. Ned Nederlander 713
2. Bishop Briggs 481
3. psv_killie 459
4. Arch Stanton 436
5. Savage Henry 429
6. Fuctifano 420
7. chomp my root 346
8. Indale Winton 332
9. Ludo*1 309
10. pub car king 301
11. sparky88 267
12. Aim Here, Cardinal Richelieu 255
14. Lofarl 243
15. choirbairn 240
16. senorsoupe 236
17. JustOneCornetto 233
18. Arabdownunder 226
19. buddiepaul 223
20. expatowner 217
21. ICTJohnboy 216
22. peasy23 210
23. Raidernation 209
24. 101 206
25. gkneil 203
26. sleazy 202
27. Sherrif John Bunnell 198
28. Arbroathlegend36-0, Sweaty Morph 196
30. D.V.T. 194
31. Willie adie 180
32. Bert Raccoon 179
33. jimbaxters 172
34. BillyAnchor, cdhafc1874, lichtgilphead 167
37. thistledo 165
38. doulikefish 163
39. qos_75 162
40. ThomCat 161
41. HI HAT 160
42. Salvo Montalbano 159
43. speckled tangerine 158
44. stanton 149
45. The DA 146
46. El Guapo 141
47. theportman 139
48. weejack 138
49. weirdcal 137
50. Billy Jean King 128
51. The_Craig 127
52. lolls, Mark Connolly 120
54. Curmudgeon 118
55. Enigma 112
56. TxRover 109
57. 10menwent2mow, Ben Twilly 107
59. Amandajoan 103
60. Bold Rover 102
61. dee_62 101
62. Empty It 94
63. amnarab 91
64. Lex, The Hologram 89
66. mathematics, tamthebam 86
68. nessies long lost ghost 84
69. Karpaty Lviv 76
70. Blootoon87, Perkin Flump, Sergeant Wilson 70
73. CountyFan 67
74. LoonsYouthTeam 62
75. Busta Nut, cambozpar, djchapsticks, Duszek 52
79. Bulbasaur, coprolite 51
81. dagane 42
82. The Master, Eednud, gingette, GTG_03, Melanius Mullarkey, microdave, mozam76, paulathame, Shotgun, The Naitch, thisal 26
93. ZERO POINTERS: @alta-pete, @get_the_subbies_on, @Hamish's Passenger, @HK Hibee, @Mr. Alli, @Miguel Sanchez, @pawpar, @Raven, @ToBeSomeone, @wellinwigan

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

Don't forget, the 2022 thread is up and running. Get your teams in: 

 

[Raidernation]

Top 25 baby!

[Bishop Briggs]

Covid claims Carlos Marin, only 53, of Il Divo - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59722285

RIP

[BigBo10]

Drakeo the Ruler dies after stabbing at LA music festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59720744

Nope me either.

[tamthebam]

13 minutes ago, BigBo10 said:

Drakeo the Ruler dies after stabbing at LA music festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59720744

Nope me either.

Obviously a folding Ruler.

[tamthebam]

 

Tam Harvey of the Humblebums passes away.

[paranoid android]

Terry Uttley, Founding Member Of British Rock Band Smokie, Dies Aged 70.

Terry? Who the f**k is Terry?

Reckon it will be a cremation somehow.