The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2023

[Molotov]

13 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Poet, occasional actor and Villa supporter Benjamin Zephaniah, 65.

Good guy! 

 

[Dan Steele]

What's Up, Doc?

Well, Ryan O'Neal's dead, that's what.

[Arch Stanton]

28 minutes ago, Dan Steele said:

What's Up, Doc?

Well, Ryan O'Neal's dead, that's what.

 

[Bully Wee Villa]

Yikes.

https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/o-neal-accidentally-hit-on-daughter-at-1722980.php

[Aim Here]

1 hour ago, Dan Steele said:

What's Up, Doc?

Well, Ryan O'Neal's dead, that's what.

Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's prettiest and most underrated film.

Also I don't want to be greedy, but I want even more points this week. @psv_killie - my team is coming to get you!

[Arch Stanton]

32 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Yikes.

https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/o-neal-accidentally-hit-on-daughter-at-1722980.php

He probably wanted to pape her moon.

[psv_killie]

13 hours ago, Aim Here said:

Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's prettiest and most underrated film.

Also I don't want to be greedy, but I want even more points this week. @psv_killie - my team is coming to get you!

I'm expecting the surviving members of my team to see out the year so I think its more than possible. Nice to be top but pretty certain a few teams will be ahead of me at the end of year.

[Florentine_Pogen]

13 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

He probably wanted to pape plaster her moon.

 

[TxRover]

20 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

He probably wanted to pape her moon.

More likely Coming Soon.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 49 update

Three deaths this week. Up first, politician Glenys Kinnock: Lady Kinnock of Holyhead obituary | Labour | The Guardian

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Glenys Kinnock, the former MEP and minister of state at the Foreign Office, who has died aged 79, was a determined feminist who realised her political ambitions by securing recognition as an international stateswoman, after having spent nearly 30 years as a classroom teacher.

Despite her delight in her second career, Lady Kinnock of Holyhead, as she became in 2009, on taking office in the last year of the then Labour government, was the first to insist that she would greatly have preferred to fulfil her earlier ambition to help achieve the election of a Labour government under the leadership of her husband, Neil Kinnock.

A democratic socialist, she was raised by politically aware parents to regard herself as a citizen of the world. It meant that she was always her own person, knew her mind and never accepted attempts to label her as a woman or a political activist, still less as a wife. She deftly developed her own role as the equal partner in a mutually supportive marriage and became a model for modern leftwing and thoughtful feminism.

This obituary - very detailed and very complimentary - paints the picture of a politician who was both capable and a nice person. What an odd concept.

Kinnock died at 79 so she's worth 46 Base Points for @Aim Here - a Deadly December bonus doubles that, and a Solo Shot adds 50 for a total of 142 points.

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Second death this week is screenwriter Norman Lear: Norman Lear: Sitcom writer and producer dies aged 101 - BBC News

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Sitcom writer and producer Norman Lear has died aged 101, a spokesperson for his family has confirmed.

Lear was best known for his trailblazing sitcoms in the 1970s and 80s, including Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons.

The celebrated US writer was a five-time Emmy Award winner and a member of the Television Academy Hall of Fame.

In a statement, his family said knowing Lear had "been the greatest of gifts".

They added: "Thank you for the moving outpouring of love and support in honour of our wonderful husband, father, and grandfather.

"Norman lived a life of creativity, tenacity, and empathy. He deeply loved our country and spent a lifetime helping to preserve its founding ideals of justice and equality for all."

Lear died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles.

Unquestionably one of the most influential people in American television. And I've never seen any of it.

Lear died at 101 so he's worth 24 Base Points for @Christophe. He gets the Deadly December bonus and a Solo Shot for a total of 98 points.

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Final death this week is actor Ryan O'Neal: Ryan O’Neal, Hollywood actor and star of Love Story, dies aged 82 | Ryan O'Neal | The Guardian

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The younger O’Neal then went on to chronicle some of the television shows and films that launched his father into global superstardom.

“My dad became an international movie star with Love Story at the beginning of the 1970s, a decade he absolutely crushed by starring in movies like What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Barry Lyndon, A Bridge Too Far, The Main Event, and The Driver.
He is a Hollywood legend. Full stop,” he wrote.

The news of O’Neal’s death comes in the wake of two cancer diagnoses. The actor had been diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 2001 and then with prostate cancer in 2012.

O’Neal made his way as an actor by starring in various US television shows in the 1960s. He was a guest actor on shows like The Untouchables, General Electric Theater, Leave It to Beaver and more. He went on to be a regular on NBC’s Empire and later the primetime serial drama Peyton Place. He catapulted to global fame in 1970 upon starring opposite Ali MacGraw in Love Story, a film that nabbed him Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

He's not an actor I'm familiar with, despite his filmography and the praise he's been receiving in articles like this. But then, I saw somewhere he's the man in this video:

Some actors can work for decades and be in hundreds of films and never be as memorable as this.

O'Neal died at 82 so he's worth 43 Base Points for @Aim Here. Deadly December doubles that and a Solo Shot adds 50 for 136 points.

After that, the standings look like this:

1. psv_killie 436
2. Aim Here 433
3. cdhafc1874 422
4. JustOneCornetto 405
5. Arbroathlegend36-0 402
6. gkneil 369
7. Desp 324
8. Karpaty Lviv 300
9. Ned Nederlander 299
10. Miguel Sanchez 297
11. Michael W, Scorge 295
13. Mark Connolly, peasy23 288
15. Bert Raccoon 282
16. chomp my root 271
17. Arabdownunder 267
18. microdave 265
19. sparky88, ThomCat 264
21. weirdcal 263
22. qos_75 260
23. Chris Partlow 254
24. The_Craig 247
25. sophia 246
26. LoonsYouthTeam 245
27. lolls, The Naitch 240
29. Christophe, throbber 237
30. The DA 235
31. Frosty 233
32. Indale Winton 232
33. ICTJohnboy 230
34. Ludo*1 227
35. buddiepaul, HI HAT 226
37. Billy Jean King 225
38. amnarab, TxRover 219
40. pub car king 217
41. thistledo 215
42. mozam76 200
43. alta-pete 199
44. djchapsticks, Enigma 197
46. DG.Roma 193
47. Bully Wee Villa 192
48. kilMARKnock 187
49. Arch Stanton 186
50. Donathan, sleazy, Sweaty Morph 179
53. HK Hibee 173
54. Melanius Mullarkay, Shotgun 170
56. Savage Henry 169
57. dee_62, statts1976uk 167
59. D.V.T. 166
60. Fuctifano 164
61. ParsJake 160
62. willie adie 159
63. Oystercatcher 157
64. HTG 154
65. BillyAnchor, paulathame 153
67. German Jag 148
68. dagane 147
69. alta-pete 139
71. get_the_subbies_on 138
72. blackislekillie 134
73. pawpar 126
74. nessies long lost ghost 124
75. Priti priti priti Patel 122
76. atfccfc, Ray Patterson 121
78. Moomintroll 118
79. doulikefish, tamthebam, The Master 111
82. Dunning1874 105
83. DeeTillEhDeh 101
84. ayrunitedfw, Lofarl, San Starko 99
87. weemac 97
88. lichtgilphead 96
89. mizfit, Suspect Device 92
91. The Hologram 87
92. El Guapo, Lex 85
94. btb, Jimmy Baker, senorsoupe 71
97. choirbairn 70
98. superwell87 69
99. mathematics 62
100. 101, Bazz891, expatowner, invergowrie arab, Les Cabbage 60
105. superbigal 58
106. Empty It 48
107. Duszek, Oceanlineayr, Salvo Montalbano, Shipa 39
111. 10menwent2mow, parxyz, scottsdad 32
114. Derry Alli, stanton 31
116. HibsFan, PWL 29
118. ZERO POINTERS - @Bold Rover, @Curmudgeon, @Eednud, @gingette, @Helpma, @Polarbear, @Raven, @Richey Edwards, @rowsdower, @Sergeant Wilson, @shivute, @thisal

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

[Richey Edwards]

18 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

118. ZERO POINTERS - @Bold Rover, @Curmudgeon, @Eednud, @gingette, @Helpma, @Polarbear, @Raven, @Richey Edwards, @rowsdower, @Sergeant Wilson, @shivute, @thisal

Absolute top lads about to Brechin City this years Dead Pool.

[Miguel Sanchez]

I've just realised I missed a death last month. Astronaut Frank Borman: Frank Borman obituary | Space | The Guardian

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On Christmas Eve 1968, as commander of Apollo 8 – the first manned lunar orbital mission – Frank Borman, who has died aged 95, came out with words that, alongside Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap for mankind”, from Apollo 11 in 1969, and Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell’s “OK, Houston, we’ve had a problem”, from Apollo 13 in 1970, defined an era.

In that moment before the moon programme became mundane, when astronauts were prime time, Apollo 8’s broadcast ended with the crew – Bill Anders, Lovell and Borman – reading the story of Earth’s creation as written in the book of Genesis.

It was Borman’s conclusion, “Good night, good luck, a merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth”, that clinched it. For Gene Kranz, Nasa’s chief of flight control operations in Houston, the phrase was “literally magic. It made you p***kly. You could feel the hair on your arms rising, and the emotion was just unbelievable.”

Something about the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to space has always bugged me. The entire premise. That going into space is boring. I don't care about Space X and that British guy that played David Bowie songs really annoyed me, but seeing the sentence "the moon programme became mundane" is extremely surreal to me. Humans actually walking on the moon. And it's... what? Nothing? And this is in 1970, they barely had colour TV! What else was so interesting that watching humans on the moon became everyday?

Anyway, Borman died at 95 so he's worth 30 Base Points for @stanton, with a Solo Shot giving him a total of 80. The scores have been updated.

[JustOneCornetto]

Willie McCulloch who played for Alloa and Airdrie, also managed Cowdenbeath, has died aged 75

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McCulloch_(footballer,_born_1948)

[Florentine_Pogen]

Shockeroony !!! Cornetto off the medal podium ! 

Edited December 10, 2023 by Florentine_Pogen

[JustOneCornetto]

3 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Shockeroony !!! Cornetto off the medal podium ! 

Still time but starting to lose patience with my big hitters. heads will roll. Oh wait, that''s given me an idea, does anyone know where Chris Dreja lives?

[TxRover]

Anna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell, of ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,’ dead at 29…nice work staying under the radar, only announced the cancer 10 months ago…surprised our professional ghouls missed one.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Shirley Anne Field: Alfie actress dies aged 87 - BBC News

[Bully Wee Villa]

Andre Braugher, Brooklyn 99 star, 61. 

Edited December 13, 2023 by Bully Wee Villa

[The Golden God]

51 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Andre Braugher, Brooklyn 99 star, 61. 

Shock and a half there. Show only ended a couple years ago and hadn’t heard he was ill or anything. 

[peasy23]

2 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said:

Andre Braugher, Brooklyn 99 star, 61. 

Now Andre non Breather.

Actually gutted at this one, he was superb in Brooklyn Nine Nine..