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Week 52 and a Half update Happy year of dying, everyone. Time for some housekeeping. I believe every death has been accounted for, and we have a few clarifications to make: @Curmudgeon picke

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With that it's time for me to finish the thread and thank everyone for playing again. Since I took over the Dead Pool I've only ever wanted to keep it going, to have as many people as possible playing

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I think that's everything. A massive congratulations to long-time player @Aim Here for his maiden Dead Pool win. His total score is much lower than usual, but the standings overall were much closer fo

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22 hours ago, TxRover said:

I must say that I’m now hoping for a no hitter, which would surely be an absolute stunner with a team led by Bob Barker and Jimmy Carter!

Out of interest, I decided to check out the current roster of zero-pointers to find out, on the basis of age, whose team was the least likely to have not scored yet.

You came out on top

Zero-pointer Average age of pick
TxRover 82.80
Bold Rover 82.00
Eednud 81.33
Sergeant Wilson 80.00
HibsFan 79.47
Duszek 77.67
Helpma 77.20
Curmudgeon 75.73
nessies long lost ghost 75.20
101 72.13
rowsdower 71.67
shivute 71.67
btb 71.33
thisal 70.53
Raven 70.00
Les Cabbage 69.53
ayrunitedfw 69.47
El Guapo 68.93
gingette 67.93
mathematics 66.67
SanStarko 66.20
Richey Edwards 65.73
Bazz891 65.67
Polarbear 64.53
invergowrie arab 63.27

 

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Week 32 update

One death this week, actor Doreen Mantle: Doreen Mantle obituary | TV comedy | The Guardian

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Doreen Mantle, who has died aged 97, found fame in her 60s as Mrs Warboys, the hapless, naive best friend of Margaret, the grumpy Victor Meldrew’s longsuffering wife, in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The much-loved programme, created by David Renwick, starred Richard Wilson as Victor and Annette Crosbie as Margaret, and ran for six series between 1990 and 2000.

The character of Mrs Warboys was initially devised for a story in the first episode, in which Renwick needed a guinea pig for the forcibly retired Victor when, looking for ways to fill his time, he tests his conjuror’s rusting guillotine, recovered from the attic after 12 years. Feeling that the scene would not be as funny with Margaret suffering the humiliation, Renwick substituted her friend. “I want to get out – I feel extremely dizzy,” Mrs Warboys says, lying flat on her front, shortly before the blade falls and she survives the ordeal.

Renwick noted in his journal that “a rather conservative-looking” Mantle gave a “weighty, truthful reading” in her audition, adding that she was “amusing in a subtler way than I’d envisaged, like a classy version of Doris Hare”.

Doreen was born in Johannesburg, to English parents, Hilda (nee Greenberg) and Bernard Mantle (variously known as Barrett, Barnett and Ben), who ran a hotel. When she was six weeks old, the family moved to Britain, returning to South Africa four years later, in 1930, shortly after the birth of her brother, Alan.

While taking a social studies degree at the University of Witwatersrand, she acted with its dramatic society and appeared on the South African amateur stage and radio, before becoming a social worker. On a visit to London in 1949, she performed at the Gateway theatre.

Back in South Africa, she married Joshua Smith in 1951 and, not wanting to bring up a family under the apartheid regime, the couple settled in Britain. “I wanted to see new places, to get away from parochial views and to change the world,” Mantle said; she had met Nelson Mandela when he was a young lawyer. She became a volunteer with a legal aid organisation: “I really wanted to make a difference and stop injustice.”

Mantle died at 97 so she's worth 28 Base Points for @Bert Raccoon and @The Master, with a Deadly Duo bonus making that 53 points apiece.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. JustOneCornetto 405
2. psv_killie 376
3. Arbroathlegend36-0 288
4. Desp 264
5. LoonsYouthTeam 245
6. The Naitch 240
7. gkneil 234
8. Arabdownunder 228
9. buddiepaul 226
10. Billy Jean King 225
11. Mark Connolly, weirdcal 224
13. Bert Raccoon 222
14. qos_75 221
15. peasy23 220
16. amnarab 219
17. Ned Nederlander 209
18. Miguel Sanchez 199
19. Ziggy Sobotka 190
20. Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874 192
22. lolls 180
23. Donathan 179
24. Shotgun 170
25. D.V.T., microdave, throbber 166
28. Ludo*1 162
29. chomp my root 161
30. Savage Henry 159
31. Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig 157
34. Aim Here 155
35. DG.Roma 154
36. The DA 153
37. sophia 148
38. Karpaty Lviv, Scorge 145
40. Indale Winton 142
41. Sweaty Morph 140
42. alta-pete 139
43. get_the_subbies_on 138
44. Frosty, HK Hibee 134
46. Fuctifano, HI HAT, thistledo 125
49. kilMARKnock 116
50. ThomCat 115
51. doulikefish,  tamthebam, The Master 111
54. Melanius Mullarkay 110
55. Arch Stanton, mozam76 101
57. Lofarl 99
58. Oystercatcher, pawpar, weemac, willie adie 97
62. atfccfc, Ray Patterson 96
64. HTG 95
65. djchapsticks 94
66. Moomintroll 93
67. Enigma 90
68. dagane 87
69. ParsJake 86
70. sparky88 84
71. blackislekillie 74
72. Jimmy Baker 71
73. ICTJohnboy 69
74. paulathame 68
75. lichtgilphead 67
76. expatowner 60
77. German Jag, Priti priti priti Patel, superbigal 58
80. Dunning1874, sleazy 55
82. Empty It, The Hologram 48
84. DeeTillEhDeh 42
85. Oceanlineayr, Salvo Montalbano, Shipa, statts1976uk 39
89. 10menwent2mow, dee_62, mizfit, parxyz, scottsdad, senorsoupe, superwell87, Suspect Device 32
97. choirbairn, Derry Alli, stanton 31
100. BillyAnchor, Christophe, Lex, PWL 29
104. Everyone else 0

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

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The feds done got Dale Gribble

 

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Johnny Hardwick, who voiced the chain-smoking exterminator Dale Gribble for the entire 13-season run of the Fox animated hit King of the Hill, has died. He was 64.


Officers responding to a call for a welfare check found Hardwick dead in his home in Austin on Tuesday, police said, adding that the case is not being investigated as a homicide and that the cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner’s office.


Hardwick voiced Dale — the conspiracy theorist who lives next door to his best friend, propane accessory salesman Hank Hill (co-creator Mike Judge), and uses pocket sand when necessary — from 1997-2010 and was a writer, story editor and producer on the show as well.


The animators were said to have drawn Dale to look (and smoke) just like Hardwick, and he appeared on more than 250 episodes. He shared an Emmy for outstanding animated program in 1999 and was nominated again in 2001 and ’02.


“It was the dream job of all time, like winning the lottery times 10,” he said in a 2019 interview.


He also had a YouTube channel on which he would perform songs as Dale.


“Johnny Hardwick was an incredibly beloved member of the King of the Hill family, whose tremendous talent, brilliant humor and friendship will be deeply missed by all who were fortunate enough to work with him over the past 25 years,” 20th Television Animation and Hulu said in a statement.


“Our deepest condolences go out to his friends and family as we mourn the loss of one of the animation greats. His voice gave life to one of our most iconic characters, and he will be truly missed.”


Hardwick said he loved working on the show because he didn’t have to put on makeup or memorize lines. “I did it the whole time and was completely anonymous … that’s meant so much to me,” he said.


Hardwick was set to participate in a revival of King of the Hill at Hulu, it was announced in January, with other original actors Kathy Najimy, Stephen Root, Pamela Adlon and Lauren Tom signing on as well.


Sources say he had recorded a couple of new episodes but had not completed his work. It’s unclear what Disney, which owns and produces the show, will do in terms of his character.


Born in Houston in 1958, John Michael Hardwick graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in journalism, worked as a stand-up at clubs like the Velveeta Room in Austin and was the first comic on Jon Stewart’s MTV show. He was offered a sitcom at NBC, but that did not work out.


King of the Hill co-creator Greg Daniels hired Hardwick for a writing job after seeing him perform at The Improv in Los Angeles, and he went to work for him rather than taking another offer to serve as a regular on the MTV series Austin Stories.


Daniel Stern was hired to voice Dale but got into a dispute over money and was replaced by Hardwick in time for the pilot.


“Apparently, he wanted a whole bunch of money and they weren’t willing to negotiate with him, so I ended up getting the part,” he told The Austin Chronicle in 1999. “And, you know, it’s pretty much his loss since we’ve been able to renegotiate since then. I don’t think he had the imagination to see what the show could be.


“I thought that in the pilot [Dale] was written to be pretty dumb — he was mispronouncing things and all kinds of weird stuff. I ended up kind of basing his attitude on if he thought he was Jack Nicholson but he wasn’t, or if he just thought he was the coolest guy around, like Matthew McConaughey’s character in Dazed and Confused. The thing that they did have in Mike’s original pilot was that he was a conspiracy person, which I thought was a great touch.”


Hardwick noted that Daniels gave all the writers on the show Philip K. Howard’s 1995 book The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America. “It’s about the run-in with bureaucracy, and because of those rules, we end up with people in prison who shouldn’t be in prison or just whatever,” he said. “It’s all these crazy things that are happening.”


Hardwick had been working for the past few years on a project called Trailer Metal with King of the Hill colleague Randy Kubaszak and animator-musician Scott St. Louis. Hardwick put his voice on the trailer a few weeks ago, and “it was his very last recording,” Kubaszak told The Hollywood Reporter.


“He was very proud of what we created and was looking forward for the world to see his creation,” he said. “His writing and talent will never be duplicated. He was the most talented writer I ever worked with.”


The creators were “getting ready to go out and pitch,” Kubaszak added.

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