The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2023

[D.V.T.]

2 minutes ago, supermik said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neilson

Weird. Absolutely no one reporting it.

[superwell87]

With nowhere else reporting this, I would guess someone has just edted the wiki page for a laugh. Edit history shows updated on a mobile device.

[GordonD]

38 minutes ago, superwell87 said:

With nowhere else reporting this, I would guess someone has just edted the wiki page for a laugh. Edit history shows updated on a mobile device.

It's now been reverted calling the death report fake news.

[D.V.T.]

Ex Force India boss Bob Fernley sees the chequered flag at 70

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

56 minutes ago, D.V.T. said:

Ex Force India boss Bob Fernley sees the chequered flag at 70

Looking through the Halo.

[JustOneCornetto]

Frank Field, the other one, has died aged 100

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/pioneering-former-wnbc-meteorologist-dr-frank-field-dies-at-100/4471040/?amp=1

Solo hit for @Curmudgeon

 

 

[Aim Here]

2 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said:

Frank Field, the other one, has died aged 100

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/pioneering-former-wnbc-meteorologist-dr-frank-field-dies-at-100/4471040/?amp=1

Solo hit for @Curmudgeon

I'm choked that I didn't pick this guy.

[superwell87]

Former head of the civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake dies at 68

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66080174

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 26 update

Three deaths this week. Up first, former Scotland manager Craig Brown: Craig Brown obituary | Football | The Guardian

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Craig Brown, who has died aged 82, was the most successful manager of Scotland’s football team in recent times. He took the national side to two major tournament finals, including their last appearance on the World Cup stage, in France in 1998.

Brown was as close to a universally well-liked figure as it is possible to be in the competitive world of football. Erudite, witty and unfailingly courteous, he was far removed from the managerial stereotype of his era. However, he also claimed to be “bilingual”, with a tougher vocabulary reserved for the dressing-room.

 

The P&B thread about him is also worth reading:

Universally liked, successful with the national team and won something with Dundee. Is there a rarer combination in football?

Broon died at 82 so he's worth 43 Base Points for @doulikefish and @Willie adie, with a Deadly Duo bonus giving willie 68 and a Captain bonus given the would-be fishmonger 111 points.

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Second death this week was the actor Alan Arkin: Alan Arkin, Oscar winning actor in Little Miss Sunshine, dies aged 89 | Film | The Guardian

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Alan Arkin, the veteran US actor whose multi-decade career spanned the likes of Catch-22, Edward Scissorhands and Little Miss Sunshine (for which he won an Oscar), has died aged 89. His sons confirmed the news in a statement to People magazine, saying: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”

Born in 1934 in New York, Arkin was descended from Jewish immigrants to the US. After a spell with folk act the Tarriers (with whom he had a chart hit with The Banana Boat Song), Arkin made an impact as an actor on Broadway, winning a Tony for the lead role in Enter Laughing in 1963. He then secured his first major film role in war comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar. He followed that up with the villain role in the Audrey Hepburn thriller Wait Until Dark, and the lead in Carson McCullers adaptation The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for which he received another best actor Oscar nomination.

Arkin died at 89 so he's worth 36 Base Points for @ThomCat, with a Solo Shot taking him up to 86 points.

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 Our actual final death this week is one I missed, journalist Ann Leslie: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/27/dame-ann-leslie-obituary

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From the 1960s to the 90s, Ann Leslie, who has died aged 82, was among the last of the great “firemen” – foreign correspondents dispatched by Fleet Street tabloids to cover revolutions, elections and breaking news stories all over the world. Seemingly fearless, she wrote about what she saw and uncovered in an accessible, first-person manner, her prose elegant and thoughtful, and underpinned by research.

The majority of her career, which began in the Manchester office of the Daily Express in 1962, was spent working for the Daily Mail, where she was cherished and promoted as its star special correspondent. She particularly thrived under the 20-year editorship of Sir David English, who gave her the freedom to be herself.

But in order to undertake the tough assignments (where she usually travelled solo), and the long reads she aspired to, Leslie opted to work as a freelance after 1968, striking out from what she saw as a trap of writing show business interviews and columns. She covered the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom, China’s one-child policy and its dying rooms, the starvation and suffering of North Koreans, and conflict in former Yugoslavia. From Azerbaijan in 1998 she filed a 3,000-word report on the environmental disaster of oil-rich Baku.

It seems unfair that I'm only adding someone like this after the update not realising they had died or that someone had picked them. Hmm.

Leslie died at 82 so she's worth 43 Base Points - @sophia also gets a Captain bonus for a total of 93 points.

After all of this, the standings now look like this:

1. JustOneCornetto 405
2. psv_killie 318
3. The Naitch 240
4. gkneil 234
5. Arbroathlegend36-0 230
6. Arabdownunder 228
7. buddiepaul 226
8. qos_75 221
9. peasy23 220
10. Desp 206
11. Miguel Sanchez 199
12. LoonsYouthTeam 187
13. Billy Jean King 167
14. D.V.T., Mark Connolly, microdave, throbber, weirdcal 166
19. chomp my root 161
20. The DA 153
21. Ned Nederlander 151
22. sophia 148
23. Karpaty Lviv 145
24. Sweaty Morph 140
25. alta-pete 139
26. get_the_subbies_on 138
27. Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874, Frosty, HK Hibee 134
31. Ludo*1 133
32. lolls 122
33. Donathan 121
34. Shotgun 112
35. Bert Raccoon, doulikefish, Savage Henry, tamthebam 111
39. Melanius Mullarkay 110
40. Arch Stanton, mozam76 101
42. Lofarl, Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig 99
46. Aim Here, Oystercatcher, weemac 97
49. Ray Patterson 96
50. djchapsticks 94
51. Moomintroll 93
52. dagane, Scorge 87
54. ParsJake, ThomCat 86
56. Indale Winton, sparky88 84
58. blackislekillie, Herc 74
60. ICTJohnboy 69
61. paulathame, Willie adie 68
63. atfccfc, DG.Roma, Fuctifano, HI HAT, lichtgilphead, thistledo 67
69. HTG 66
70. Dunning1874, sleazy 55
72. Empty It, The Hologram 48
74. DeeTillEhDeh, Jimmy Baker 42
76. Oceanlineayr, Salvo Montalbano, Shipa, statts1976uk 39
80. 10menwent2mow, dee_62, Enigma, mizfit, parxyz, scottsdad, senorsoupe, superwell87, Suspect Device 32
89. amnarab, choirbairn, Derry Alli, expatowner, stanton 31
94. BillyAnchor, German Jag, superbigal 29
97. Everyone else 0

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

 

 

Edited July 2, 2023 by Miguel Sanchez

[Miguel Sanchez]

We're at the halfway point and @JustOneCornetto is on course for a record breaking points haul. Can anyone catch him or will we have our first repeat winner in over a decade?

[Moomintroll]

2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

We're at the halfway point and @JustOneCornetto is on course for a record breaking points haul. Can anyone catch him or will we have our first repeat winner in over a decade?

Who knows, but I can safely rule myself out of the running barring a very coincidental plane crash.

[Florentine_Pogen]

3 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

We're at the halfway point and @JustOneCornetto is on course for a record breaking points haul. Can anyone catch him or will we have our first repeat winner in over a decade?

Does no-one have Cornetto in their squad ?

[alta-pete]

1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Does no-one have Cornetto in their squad ?

I think that’s a rule breach…

[JustOneCornetto]

12 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

I think that’s a rule breach…

Haha it better be, I was starting to get worried and looking over my shoulder every minute.

[sophia]

6 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

We're at the halfway point and @JustOneCornetto is on course for a record breaking points haul. Can anyone catch him or will we have our first repeat winner in over a decade?

No Ann Leslie?

[Miguel Sanchez]

13 minutes ago, sophia said:

No Ann Leslie?

Ahem.

[TxRover]

On 02/07/2023 at 07:44, alta-pete said:

I think that’s a rule breach…

Is it a rule breech if the posters name isn’t public knowledge…

Let’s say @JustOneCornetto is actually Angela Gallop, knowledgeable about death and mortally and famous in her own right.

Perhaps @Florentine_Pogen is driving and accidentally runs over Dame Gallop/JustOneCornetto.

@Miguel Sanchez awards points to Florentine_Pogen, who happens to have Dame Gallop on his squad, but is unaware that she is actually also JustOneCornetto, because Miguel Sanchez is also unaware that the two are the same.

Unless an obit says “Also known as JustOneCornetto on P&B”, would it ever be caught..and if it’s caught, is it a violation as it’s all coincidental? We await Miguel’s ruling.

[Sergeant Wilson]

6 minutes ago, TxRover said:

Is it a rule breech if the posters name isn’t public knowledge…

Let’s say @JustOneCornetto is actually Angela Gallop, knowledgeable about death and mortally and famous in her own right.

Perhaps @Florentine_Pogen is driving and accidentally runs over Dame Gallop/JustOneCornetto.

@Miguel Sanchez awards points to Florentine_Pogen, who happens to have Dame Gallop on his squad, but is unaware that she is actually also JustOneCornetto, because Miguel Sanchez is also unaware that the two are the same.

Unless an obit says “Also known as JustOneCornetto on P&B”, would it ever be caught..and if it’s caught, is it a violation as it’s all coincidental? We await Miguel’s ruling.

You've ruined the war, now this!

[TxRover]

1 hour ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

You've ruined the war, now this!

But was that a tank?

[chomp my root]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66093565

No more for this Oliver.