sparky88 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 minute ago, TxRover said: Question, would Aoife Beary have been an acceptable pick under P&B Deadpool Rules? Just wondering if she was enough of a celeb to count, since I’d never heard of her before. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362593/Irish-student-survived-2015-Berkeley-balcony-collapse-dies-age-27.html Surely Daily Mail would count as a qualifying obituary? You might have a problem arguing that she isn't famous for being ill though (not allowed) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 (edited) 13 minutes ago, TxRover said: Question, would Aoife Beary have been an acceptable pick under P&B Deadpool Rules? Just wondering if she was enough of a celeb to count, since I’d never heard of her before. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362593/Irish-student-survived-2015-Berkeley-balcony-collapse-dies-age-27.html I think it's a moot point. She's a non-celebrity whose manner of death is the news story (albeit the story involves an incident from a few years back). There'd be no reason to have picked her in the first place, just as there's no reason to pick a suicide bomber or a school shooting victim before they die in a famous way. Picking random nobodies, like this woman, in the hopes they die in a way that gets a newsworthy sendoff is going to be a much less viable strategy than picking people who'd be guaranteed a qualifying obituary and just worrying about the dying part. Unless you know a potential school shooter, I suppose. Hmmm... Edited January 3, 2022 by Aim Here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 56 minutes ago, Aim Here said: I spotted that and mentioned him, but put my team in too early to benefit from it. It's a VC solo shot for someone, if a proper obit shows up. Edit: Found one - https://bbc-edition.com/international/igor-bogdanoff-died-six-days-after-his-twin-brother-grichka/ This isn't a qualifying obituary. Proper sources reported his brother so I'd imagine one will come out soon enough. 32 minutes ago, TxRover said: Question, would Aoife Beary have been an acceptable pick under P&B Deadpool Rules? Just wondering if she was enough of a celeb to count, since I’d never heard of her before. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362593/Irish-student-survived-2015-Berkeley-balcony-collapse-dies-age-27.html Famous for being ill, imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Just now, Miguel Sanchez said: This isn't a qualifying obituary. Proper sources reported his brother so I'd imagine one will come out soon enough. You're right. I didn't pay that much attention, I just assumed from the 'bbc' in the URL. Certainly he's dead in France, so UK should catch up soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said: This isn't a qualifying obituary. Proper sources reported his brother so I'd imagine one will come out soon enough. Famous for being ill, imo. That’s kinda what I thought, but I was wondering where the line might fall…thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expatowner Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 four solos and 5 duos for my team of singing budgies. Bring it on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Just had a look at the spreadsheet, and some notes. There are 661 unique celebrities picked by 111 contestants, of which 427 were solo shots and 94 duos. Unsurprisingly Queen Lizzy is both the top pick and the highest riser this year, with 42 picks, up from 10 last year. People are no doubt expecting some sort of new widow bounce. Ghislaine Maxwell has increased from 10 to a whopping 22 picks, which is a lot for someone neither ill nor old. Pele has risen up the charts too, after appearing notably frail recently. The highest-picked new entry is the politician Frank Field who chose an assisted dying debate to announce that he was hospice-bound (and an entirely unrelated Frank Field made a debut appearance too, for good measure). On the other side, the consensus seems to be that Toms Parker and Smith are considerably less moribund than they were before; they both had 29 picks last year and dropped 8 and 10 respectively this time around. I count four theme teams this year. [mention=63777]get_the_subbies_on[/mention] went with Hollywood actresses again Miguel has stuck with his batch of writers, with the token 'get me some points THIS year, at least' exception of some ice hockey player with cancer. Writers tend to be a suboptimal choice, because they live forever, as Miguel is no doubt discovering. He should eventually get one of them to score *sometime*. [mention=24212]expatowner[/mention] has a big smattering of sixties and seventies musicians [mention=77094]Ray Patterson[/mention] claimed to be going for a theme, but there's no obvious connection there, other than the team being slightly politician-heavy. There are non-theme teams that are more thematic than this, like@dee_62 going a half-and-half music/fitba effort. If I'm not missing something obscure, then boo! [mention=77689]Curmudgeon[/mention]'s alphabetic list is clearly the best theme of the year. He should get 26 extra bonus points if his picks die in alphabetical order. [mention=31786]Hamish's_Passenger[/mention] only picked 14 players. This year's Great Minds That Think Alike teams are [mention=70409]Indale Winton[/mention] and [mention=54922]Bishop Briggs[/mention] who share 9 picks each between them. Indale Winton has already pulled ahead in the score table, because he made Gary Burgess his captain and Briggsy didn't. Some minds are slightly greater than others, it seems. And there is no team from 2019's runaway winner [mention=65075]alta-pete[/mention]! After his mid-table 2020 finish, he promised to be up with the big boys at the start of 2021, which netted him nul points. This is clearly a warning of the dangers of hubris. Surely this would have been the year to put in a team and go for some kind of redemption arc.Can confirm my team is theme related - UK #1 chart hits 1970. The football players were all members of the England World Cup squad. The squad hit the top of the pops with “Back Home” that year. It’s been the same theme for the last 5 years or so and I’ve only started scoring in 2020 and 2021. No deaths from any of the musical artists yet, all my points have come from the World Cup squad. (3 in 2020 and 1 last year) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 English Darts fans hopes of "Scotland getting battered". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdhafc1874 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 This isn't a qualifying obituary. Proper sources reported his brother so I'd imagine one will come out soon enough. You're right. I didn't pay that much attention, I just assumed from the 'bbc' in the URL. Certainly he's dead in France, so UK should catch up soon.UK has caught up with a qualifying obit in most online versions of our papers. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-igor-bodganoff-dead--25844240.ampMy VC checks out 3 days into the year, the only solo shot on my team & 6 days after his twin.Condolences to their plastic surgeon having lost both of his best customers in one week...and the family obvStill - points please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Patterson Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 I hadn't even looked at the DeathList and somehow managed to pick their Top 3. I actually thought Gorbachev died 2 years ago so didn't pick him (like vividly remember it being reported on the BBC) - peak Mandela effect in action 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 That’s the other Bogdanoff buggered off. Loved his performance in the film mask. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 15 hours ago, Ray Patterson said: I hadn't even looked at the DeathList and somehow managed to pick their Top 3. I actually thought Gorbachev died 2 years ago so didn't pick him (like vividly remember it being reported on the BBC) - peak Mandela effect in action You should try getting sent lists by people. "Is she no deid?" multiple times a day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 On 03/01/2022 at 09:36, Arbroathlegend36-0 said: I noticed 7 picks for chef Tim Bilton. I avoided picking him as seen an article that he had past away a couple of weeks ago. Although I believe this article to be utter nonsense now and he’s still alive. Good luck to the 7 pickers. https://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/tim-bilton-death-cause/amp/ I dropped him from initial list due to that article coupled with lack of wiki page for him. I do believe he is deid mind you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 7 hours ago, weirdcal said: I dropped him from initial list due to that article coupled with lack of wiki page for him. I do believe he is deid mind you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said: Ah bollocks, once again thwarted by a premature celebration of life 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 1 minute ago, weirdcal said: Ah bollocks, once again thwarted by a premature ejaculation FTFY. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 ach f**k I missed this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 US actress Joan Copeland dies aged 99 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59878349 Nah, me neither. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdhafc1874 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 US actress Joan Copeland dies aged 99 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59878349 Nah, me neither.Joan Corpseland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 11 hours ago, Bishop Briggs said: Should be put down just for saying "living my best life." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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