peasy23 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 12 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Glasgow showbiz legend Christian dies aged 80 five days after final show (msn.com) Guaranteed a Christian burial. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 39 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Glasgow showbiz legend Christian dies aged 80 five days after final show (msn.com) His dream is over 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 8 minutes ago, JustOneCornetto said: His dream is over Yet another reason why we're going to win the Euros. Do it for Christian 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 On 01/05/2024 at 10:44, The DA said: Writer Paul Auster at 77. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn3de800ykko Mr. Vertigo is a cracking read. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 1 hour ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Glasgow showbiz legend Christian dies aged 80 five days after final show (msn.com) Now we know what this Saturday's Off the Ball will be concentrating on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 16 hours ago, The DA said: One I missed. C J Sansom (Shardlake books) dead at 71. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/cj-sansom-author-of-the-shardlake-novels-dies-aged-71 I deopped him this year after hearing he was getting better. I have a hunch he was telling porkies. Gave money to the No campaign in 2014 so a tragic loss/one less of them depending on your political bias 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: Now we know what this Saturday's Off the Ball will be concentrating on. Should be postponed as a tribute. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Golfer Peter Oosterhuis aged 75. Get in the hole etc... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) 4 hours ago, tamthebam said: Now we know what this Saturday's Off the Ball will be concentrating on. Sydney Fucking Devine and Tony Cunting Bennett? Edited May 2 by Melanius Mullarkey 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Josh Baker, Worcestershire spinner. Only 20 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 1 hour ago, peasy23 said: Golfer Peter Oosterhuis aged 75. Get in the hole etc... Heard he had been under par for a while. Anyway hole in one for @The DA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 11 hours ago, peasy23 said: Golfer Peter Oosterhuis aged 75. Get in the hole etc... That's rough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 On 01/05/2024 at 20:03, GordonD said: Duane Deady His wife's Deed. She's still alive, that's her name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 On 02/05/2024 at 16:51, peasy23 said: Golfer Peter Oosterhuis aged 75. Get in the hole etc... When I was a nipper I used to call him Peter Poofterhouse. Took several years to understand the resulting hilarity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 Unlucky, everyone who picked Mark Steel: Mark Steel: Comedian 'immensely relieved' to be cancer-free as he praises doctors - BBC News 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 7 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Unlucky, everyone who picked Mark Steel: Mark Steel: Comedian 'immensely relieved' to be cancer-free as he praises doctors - BBC News I did pick him but as I quite like him it's mixed feelings Spoiler b*****d 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 37 minutes ago, tamthebam said: I did pick him but as I quite like him it's mixed feelings Reveal hidden contents b*****d I like him, too. Didn't know he was unwell. Glad he is fine! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarbear Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 20 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Unlucky, everyone who picked Mark Steel: Mark Steel: Comedian 'immensely relieved' to be cancer-free as he praises doctors - BBC News I have him. He owes me a pint for picking him in my team of immortals! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 Week 18 update Two deaths this week. Up first golf man Peter Oosterhuis: Peter Oosterhuis obituary | Golf | The Guardian Quote n the gap during the 1970s between the pre-eminence of Tony Jacklin and the emergence of Nick Faldo, Peter Oosterhuis, who has died aged 75, was Britain’s best and most successful golfer. He was No 1 in Europe for four consecutive years and compiled one of the finest records in the Ryder Cup, winning an unusually high percentage of his matches during an era when the US exercised total dominance. He was also a trailblazer in the States, where he became one of the first Europeans to commit full-time to the tour there, joining in 1975 and staying until 1986. Later he carved out a successful second career as a golf analyst for the American broadcaster CBS. In all, Oosterhuis won 20 tournaments across the world, including the Italian Open (1974) and two French Opens (1973 and 1974). He dominated the newly formed European tour from 1971 to 1974, ending up as leader of the Order of Merit in each of those years. I also enjoyed this closing line: Quote Earlier in his life he had also been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, which had compelled him to keep incredibly detailed logs of every shot he made at every tournament, not to mention every type of bird he saw while playing – roughly 500 over his career, all identified via a copy of National Geographic Complete Birds of the World, which he carried in his golf bag. “There was a time when I could recall every course I’d ever played in fine detail, not just pars for the holes but even yardages,” he said after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. “I wasn’t an encyclopedia, but I was close. Now it just isn’t there.” Have any of the golf punters on here been stuck behind someone with a pair of binoculars ticking off birds in a book? Oosterhuis died at 75 so he's worth 50 Base Points for @The DA, with a Solo Shot giving him a total of 100 points. ========== Second death this week is the writer Paul Auster: Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 | Books | The Guardian Quote Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77. Auster became known for his “highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting,” the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010. His stories often play with themes of coincidence, chance and fate. Many of his protagonists are writers themselves, and his body of work is self-referential, with characters from early novels appearing again in later ones. The author was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947. According to Auster, his writing life began at the age of eight when he missed out on getting an autograph from his baseball hero, Willie Mays, because neither he nor his parents had carried a pencil to the game. From then on, he took a pencil everywhere. “If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it,” he wrote in a 1995 essay. I have read one of Paul Auster's books. The one namechecked in that article's title, the New York Trilogy. It's a collection of three stories, ostensibly detective fiction but also extremely postmodern, with the reader quickly going from wondering what's happened to wondering just about everything else - who is this, where are they, can I trust anything that's being said? I read this book when I was in third year at university. I read it again a few years ago having forgot pretty much everything except the basic premise and I was taken aback at how much it resonated with me. My fourth year at university - and the summer prior to that and effectively a full year after that - was spent having a nervous breakdown about various things. Much of it was caused by the weight of realisation of what the literature I was studying was telling me about the world and my own place in it. While other, more consequential texts followed the New York Trilogy and contributed to this period, upon reflection years later it was easy to see how relatable I found it at the time, even if I couldn't see it at the time. When I read it again I made note of some passages which stood out to me. One of these is going to be the lead quote to next year's thread, but I'll share another here since it fits well with the Dead Pool: Quote These moments came less often now, and for the most part it seemed as though things had begun to change for him. He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life. He did not sleep with the lamp on anymore, and for many months now he had not remembered any of his dreams. Auster died at 77 so he's worth 48 Base Points for, er, me. I get a Solo Shot taking that to 98 points. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. mozam76 402 2. Billy Jean King 380 3. Moomintroll 346 4. psv_killie 335 5. Indale Winton, The DA 328 7. lolls 316 8. Forest_Fifer 297 9. sparky88 291 10. Ned Nederlander 282 11. lichtgilphead 279 12. The_Craig 254 13. pub car king 238 14. JustOneCornetto 225 15. blackislekillie 216 16. The Naitch 213 17. Arch Stanton 207 18. parxyz 206 19. cdhafc1874 204 20. Oystercatcher 198 21. Bully Wee Villa 194 22. weirdcal 191 23. Melanius Mullarkant 176 24. amnarab 169 25. El Guapo, mathematics 164 27. Salvo Montalbano 163 28. TxRover 157 29. alta-pete 156 30. choirbairn, Desp, peasy23 150 33. tamthebam 144 34. Savage Henry 134 35. Arbroathlegend36-0 126 36. Lofarl, qos_75 119 38. Arabdownunder 117 39. buddiepaul, chomp my root, scottsdad, Trogdor 113 43. sleazy, Sweaty Morph 100 45. Miguel Sanchez 98 46. Craig fae the Vale 95 47. ThomCat 94 48. pawpar 90 49. invergowrie arab, Karpaty Lviv, Ray Patterson 78 52. DG.Roma, Mark Connolly, sensorsoupe, Sergeant Wilson, Shotgun 75 57. ICTChris 74 58. D Angelo Barksdale 71 59. Raidernation 60 60. Florentine_Pogen 58 61. Aim Here, Darren 51 63. BillyAnchor, doulikefish 49 65. Enigma, LoonsYouthTeam 44 67. stanton 25 68. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CsroU6IlQNJOesOqCc5gsI7SCw8ywBS-PUzQwLTJe4g/edit?usp=sharing 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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