Many congratulations to crabzilla, winner of the 2019 and 2020 Dead Pools and the first person to retain the title!
Welcome one and all to this year's Dead Pool. All new players welcome. The rules are simple: ten choices, one your Joker (double points). You get 100 points minus your choice's age if they die (e.g. if they are 56, you will get 44 points). Choices made up to January 7th will be active immediately; after that, we return to the usual anti-ambulance-chasing rule of a one-week wait until you get the points.
By default you still have last year's selections, currently in red; these will be changed to black once you confirm/amend your choices.
Runners and riders:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mKVagOsqBHoBeK
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I'll ask the mods to post the 2020 winner in the header (but we'll wait until midnight just in case the Grim Reaper pays some poor sleb a visit).
Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Paul Gascoigne, David Crosby, Shane MacGowan, Ronnie Wood, Harvey Weinstein, Olivia Newton-John , Prince Philip, 6ix9ine (Joker)
Please. Thank you for all the administrivia.
Well, I am often here with my lame quips, so I may as well knock out a list and join in.
Pat Carroll, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamlyn, Michael Gambon (elderly actors).
Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre, DavidBarclay and Frederick Barclay (foul newspapers)
Ozzy Osbourne (as he was on telly the other night)
Ghislaine Maxwell (joker)
Thanks PR
Thanks again for doing this, PR, much appreciated.
I shall go for:
Billy Connolly, Alan Bennett, Linda Nolan, Shannon Doherty, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton, Sarah Harding, Shane MacGowan, Rob Burrow (joker)
You're all very welcome - and it helps me a lot if you all use melpomene's format of name, name, ... (joker) all on one line.
Oh, and welcome to new player darkhorse. The more the merrier.
Thanks, PR:
Please may I have:
Doddie Weir, Billy Connolly, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump Junior, Amy Price, Linda Nolan, Sarah Harding, Alan Bennett, Prunella Scales, Tom Parker (joker)
MontyPeculiar
Tom Parker, Rob Burrow, Tom Smith, Shannen Doherty, Leon Spinks, Sarah Harding, George Alagiah, Olivia Newton John, Bernard Tapie, Rush Limbaugh (joker)
Cheers PR and Happy New Year.
My picks:
Prunella Scales, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Charlton, James Whale, Shannon Doherty, Tom Parker, Olivia Newton John, Linda Nolan, Jimmy Greaves (j)
George Alagiah, Bill Turnbull, Jimmy Greaves, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Parker, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Luc Godard, Colonel Mengistu, Bill Clinton, Dai Davies (J)
My top ten:
Former Emperor Akihito, Lynne Reid Banks, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Greaves, Michael Horovitz, Bernard Ingram, Gordon Jago, Desmond Morris, Bill Tidy, George Alagiah (Joker)
Thanks PR.
Blimey, Desmond Morris is still alive!
He was on my list for about three years in a row. 2021 might be his year!
Thank you as always PR, although I’m not ‘celebrating’ the 2020 season just yet. New picks:
Grace Victory, Derek Draper, Rush Limbaugh, 6ix9ine, Amy Price, Jimmy Greaves, Bill Turnbull, Shannen Doherty, George Alagiah, Tom Parker (J).
Thank you,p PaperRustler.
My choices are:
Joe Jackson (singer), Billy Connolly, Jeff Bridges, Shannen Doherty, Dai Davies, Sarah Harding, Martin Bashir, Tom Smith (rugby player), Tom Parker (Wanted), Frank Williams (joker).
A new team, apart from Joe Jackson.
bossab2, Joe Jackson better cark it. You suggested him to me three years ago.