The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2023

[TxRover]

Jimmy Carter continues to deny us points, knocking off another point on Sunday (if he makes it)...

[chomp my root]

8 hours ago, BillyAnchor said:

Not Kissinger but Feinstein is a great next best thing. The world is a much nicer place tonight with that b*****d gone.

I know its the Dead Pool and all that but I still marvel when people are more delighted about politicians in The West coofing it than say child molesters. With the best will in the world, if you don't like politicians in The West we can remove them. 

Unless you had her in your team of course and then fair do's..... 

[Suspect Device]

Frank McDougall reportedly gone.

Another sad one. Great memories of him as player for us. RIP.

[JustOneCornetto]

1 hour ago, Suspect Device said:

Frank McDougall reportedly gone.

Another sad one. Great memories of him as player for us. RIP.

Sad one, he was diagnosed with lung cancer last year but seems he died of heart disease.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 39 update

Three deaths this week. Up first, actor David McCallum: David McCallum obituary: TV favourite from NCIS and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - BBC News

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For a certain generation, David McCallum will always be Illya Kuryakin, the mysterious Soviet agent in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The role turned the actor into a global sex symbol, his public appearances besieged by screaming teenage girls.

He cut his teeth in 1950s British cinema and also found wider fame in the The Great Escape, Colditz and Sapphire & Steel.

Later, he reached a new audience as Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the medical examiner in US TV drama NCIS.

David Keith McCallum was born on 19 Sep 1933 in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. His father David, a violinist, became leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which necessitated a family move to London in 1936. His mother was an accomplished cellist.

The young McCallum won a scholarship to the University College School in north London and took up the oboe with a view to a classical music career.

McCallum was a true renaissance man - in NCIS he learned so much about medical examining he was considered a consultant as well as an actor. Not being a fan of television from the 60s though, I've discovered that he also wrote music, including the background to The Next Episode by Dr. Dre:

Na na na na. McCallum died at 90, so he's worth 35 Base Points for @paulathame, with a Solo Shot taking that to 85 points.

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Second death this week was another actor, Michael Gambon: Michael Gambon graced cinema and made every cameo a star turn | Film | The Guardian

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The word “great” is somewhat promiscuously applied to actors. But it was undoubtedly deserved by Sir Michael Gambon, who has died aged 82 after suffering from pneumonia.

He had weight, presence, authority, vocal power and a chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself from one part to another. He was a natural for heavyweight classic roles such as Lear and – in the days when white actors habitually played the role – Othello. But what was truly remarkable was Gambon’s interpretative skill in the work of the best contemporary dramatists, including Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, David Hare, Caryl Churchill and Simon Gray.

Although he was a fine TV and film actor – and forever identified in the popular imagination with Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter franchise – the stage was his natural territory. It is also no accident that, in his private life, Gambon was an expert on, and assiduous collector of, machine tools and firearms for, as Peter Hall once said: “Fate gave him genius but he uses it as a craftsman.”

Off-stage, he was also a larger-than-life figure and a superb raconteur: a kind of green-room Falstaff. I have fond memories of an evening in a Turin restaurant in March 2006 on the eve of Pinter’s acceptance of the European Theatre prize. Gambon kept the table in a constant roar, not least with his oft-told tale of auditioning for Laurence Olivier as a young actor in 1963 and cheekily choosing to do a speech from Richard III; but the next night Gambon gave an explosive rendering of Pinter’s poem American Football that threatened to blow the roof off the Turin theatre.

I'll always remember him for one thing though:

Strangely, looking at the thumbnails for the videos of his two Top Gear appearances, he looks older in the first one. Either way he died at 82 so he's worth 43 Base Points for @Enigma and @statts1976uk, with a Deadly Duo bonus taking that to 68 points each. 

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Final death this week goes in a bit of a different direction, US Senator Dianne Feinstein: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/dianne-feinstein-senator-dies

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Before entering national politics, Feinstein was the first woman to be mayor of San Francisco. She ran for the position twice before in 1978 the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, like Feinstein a member of the board of supervisors, saw her step into the top job.

Leaving office in 1988, Feinstein ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1990 before winning her Senate seat in 1992. She did so alongside Barbara Boxer, making California the first state to send two women to the Senate. Feinstein became the first woman to be a California senator because she was sworn in first, to complete an unfinished term. Feinstein was also the first Jewish female senator.

Feinstein had compiled a formidable record, notably piloting a federal assault weapons ban in 1994 and, as the first woman to head the influential Senate intelligence committee, investigating CIA torture after 9/11.

“The CIA’s actions are a stain on our values and our history,” Feinstein said, defending the release of a report that revealed CIA use of “coercive interrogation techniques in some cases amounting to torture” on at least 119 detainees.

But she sometimes drew opprobrium from the left. During Republican George W Bush’s presidency she backed the 2002 Iraq war resolution, only to later express regret. Feinstein defended surveillance programmes exposed in 2013 by the National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, a leak she called “an act of treason”.

Feinstein was a serving politician who died at the age of 90, so she's worth 35 Base Points for @Christophe, with a Solo Shot giving him 85 points total.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. JustOneCornetto 405
2. psv_killie 376
3. Michael W 295
4. Arbroathlegend36-0, peasy23 288
6. chomp my root 271
7. Desp 264
8. LoonsYouthTeam 245
9. Karpaty Lviv 241
10. The Naitch 240
11. ThomCat 239
12. The DA, Scorge 235
14. gkneil 234
15. cdhafc1874 229
16. Arabdownunder 228
17. buddiepaul 226
18. Billy Jean King 225
19. Mark Connolly, weirdcal 224
21. Bert Raccoon 222
22. qos_75 221
23. amnarab 219
24. Ned Nederlander 209
25. Miguel Sanchez 199
26. Bully Wee Villa 192
27. Ziggy Sobotka, TxRover 190
29. Ludo*1 188
30. lolls 180
31. Donathan 179
32. Shotgun 170
33. Savage Henry 169
34. D.V.T., microdave, throbber 166
37. HI HAT 162
38. ParsJake 160
39. Enigma 158
40. pub car king, The_Craig 157
42. Aim Here 155
43. DG.Roma 154
44. paulathame 153
45. sophia 148
46. Indale Winton 142
47. Sweaty Morph 140
48. alta-pete 139
49. get_the_subbies_on 138
50. Frosty, HK Hibee, willie adie 134
53. djchapsticks 133
54. Fuctifano, thistledo 125
56. kilMARKnock 116
57. Christophe 114
58. doulikefish,  tamthebam, The Master 111
61. Melanius Mullarkay 110
62. statts1976uk 107
63. Arch Stanton, mozam76 101
65. Lofarl 99
66. Oystercatcher, weemac 97
68. atfccfc, Ray Patterson 96
70. HTG 95
71. Moomintroll 93
72. dagane, pawpar 87
74. German Jag, sparky88 84
76. blackislekillie 74
77. Jimmy Baker 71
78. ICTJohnboy, superwell87 69
80. lichtgilphead 67
81. expatowner 60
82. Priti priti priti Patel, superbigal 58
84. Dunning1874, sleazy 55
86. Empty It, The Hologram 48
88. DeeTillEhDeh 42
89. Oceanlineayr, Salvo Montalbano, Shipa 39
92. mathematics 37
93. 10menwent2mow, dee_62, mizfit, parxyz, scottsdad, senorsoupe, Suspect Device 32
100. choirbairn, Derry Alli, stanton 31
103. BillyAnchor, Lex, PWL 29
106. Everyone else 0

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxCIfczRUmrRrW79tUQ0vJ5KaHZpYENsTKmDqW4X3W4/edit?usp=sharing

[superwell87]

Jake Abraham, best known for his role as one of the two scouse thiefs in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels dies at 56.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66975713

 

 

[Musketeer Gripweed]

I see Franny Lee has gone down in the box. Probably dived again.

[Florentine_Pogen]

11 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

I see Franny Lee has gone down in the box. Probably dived again.

Norman Hunter has waited 3 years for this.

Angel Gabriel will be shitting bricks.

 

[JustOneCornetto]

31 minutes ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

I see Franny Lee has gone down in the box. Probably dived again.

Down the pan, he owned a company making toilet rolls.

Anyway a Solo Shot for @dee_62

[dee_62]

1 hour ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Down the pan, he owned a company making toilet rolls.

Anyway a Solo Shot for @dee_62

Thoughts and condolences…and points.  
 

The musicians from this thematic team - #1 uk hits from 1970 - (excl Rolf H) have all been immortal since first picked in DP2017. It’s only the England World Cup squad from that year that are keeping me in the points!

Edited October 2, 2023 by dee_62

[Venti]

TIL Daniel Craig is Francis Lee

[DeeTillEhDeh]

2 hours ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

I see Franny Lee has gone down in the box. Probably dived again.

F Lee(ing) this life.

[Lurkst]

3 hours ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

I see Franny Lee has gone down in the box. Probably dived again.

VERY INTERESTING!

 

[paulathame]

I had forgotten that I had David McCallum in my list. 

He is definitely a cold (war) spy now 

[BillyAnchor]

Franny Lee isn't dead he merely faked it and has infiltrated a group of triads. Or was that a different Lee?

[Bert Raccoon]

10 hours ago, BillyAnchor said:

Franny Lee isn't dead he merely faked it and has infiltrated a group of triads. Or was that a different Lee?

You're thinking of Rusty Lee

[The DA]

14 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

You're thinking of Rusty Lee

Evident-lee

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

NFL legend Dick Butkus 80, runs out of downs.

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Zen Archer (Raconteur)

[hk blues]

6 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

NFL legend Dick Butkus 80, rums out of downs.

 

'Magnificent Names Archive' thread for this pish

[superbigal]

10 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

NFL legend Dick Butkus 80, rums out of downs.

 

End Zone