The Pie & Bovril Dead Pool 2019

[Aim Here]

William Ruckelshaus - the deputy attonrney general fired as part of Nixon's Saturday Night massacre, seems to have been the fifth victim of this Wednesday night massacre.

Edited November 27, 2019 by Aim Here

[Bold Rover]

1 hour ago, peasy23 said:

9 hours ago, Moomintroll said:

Sad about that one, Sailing is a given but I love Arms of Mary.

Tommy Docherty liked more than just the Arms of Mary, cost him his job though.

An even better Sutherland Brothers song, so relevant to this audience:

 

 

[tamthebam]

Clive James on Televison....

[peasy23]

Did Aaron Ramsey score a hat trick or something?

William Ruckelshaus - the deputy attonrney general fired as part of Nixon's Saturday Night massacre, seems to have been the fifth victim of this Wednesday night massacre.

[Eednud]

Pim Verbeek one time Socceroo coach hops it at 63. He coached them at the 2010 World Cup. He played for Sparta Rotterdam and coached a lot of clubs and in a few countries.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/socceroos/former-socceroos-coach-pim-verbeek-dies-from-cancer-aged-63/news-story/2ec26e56f210672d94c8ad459529407c

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

[Sergeant Wilson]

42 minutes ago, Eednud said:

Pim Verbeek one time Socceroo coach hops it at 63. He coached them at the 2010 World Cup. He played for Sparta Rotterdam and coached a lot of clubs and in a few countries.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/socceroos/former-socceroos-coach-pim-verbeek-dies-from-cancer-aged-63/news-story/2ec26e56f210672d94c8ad459529407c

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

He's no good outside the box now.

[welshbairn]

Alas, the Prince of Smuggery is dead. Farewell sweet twat multidimensional intellectual.

RIP Jonathan Miller.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

3 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Alas, the Prince of Smuggery is dead. Farewell sweet twat multidimensional intellectual.

RIP Jonathan Miller.

[Aim Here]

The news is all over someone called Brad Gobright, who was allegedly famous for making a habit of climbing mountains very quickly without any safety gear. I don't think further elaboration is needed.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

27 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

The news is all over someone called Brad Gobright, who was allegedly famous for making a habit of climbing mountains very quickly without any safety gear. I don't think further elaboration is needed.

Brad Gonedown.

[Bold Rover]

39 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

The news is all over someone called Brad Gobright, who was allegedly famous for making a habit of climbing mountains very quickly without any safety gear. I don't think further elaboration is needed.

What's the difference between a goldfish and a climber?

[Bishop Briggs]

3 hours ago, Aim Here said:

The news is all over someone called Brad Gobright, who was allegedly famous for making a habit of climbing mountains very quickly without any safety gear. I don't think further elaboration is needed.

Brad Nobright.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 48 update

One death this week and it's another long-term Dead Pool favourite - Australian broadcaster, Clive James: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13437293

Four decades and more in broadcasting and writing means I could give you a book of what other people have said about him since he died. I could also share what I've learned about him since I started reading this morning, but I don't think I'd be much good at summing up such a rich, varied and long career. So, since it's the Dead Pool, here's a comment on his health:

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A lifetime of smoking and drinking culminated in a diagnosis of emphysema and kidney failure in 2010, and a year later he announced he had leukaemia.

In a 2012 interview, he told BBC radio he was "near the end", saying: "I don't want to cast a gloom, an air of doom, over the programme but I'm a man who is approaching his terminus."

Three years later, in an interview with the Guardian, he spoke of his "embarrassment" at still being alive, saying a new drug had kept the end at bay.

This February, he had a long and ultimately unsuccessful operation to remove a cancer on his cheek, which left him frail and almost blind.

No wonder he was so popular in this game. What I will say, reading about people like James and Gay Byrne a few weeks ago, I feel as if I've missed out on something by being alive in an era with a relative lack of respected, intelligent media figures. With social media, an endless array of satellite and cable channels, individuals aren't as prominent as they were in the last century. While you can argue it's a good thing that people have access to so much information because they're able to see and consider different perspectives on a single issue, anyone reading this right now knows this isn't always a positive. To have intelligent, measured people who respected their craft and audience enough as regular figures in the public consciousness was only a good thing, as we see from the tributes paid in their death. 

James was 80 when he died, meaning he was worth 45 Base Points. He was picked by 16 people - @alta-pete, @Aim Here, @Arabdownunder, @Ben Twilly, @Bishop Briggs, @DBA, @Fuctifano, @Melanius Mullarkey, @microdave, @nessies long lost ghost, @peasy23, @psv_killie, @qos_75, @The Naitch, @weirdcal and @Willie adie.

Mercifully, nobody had him as a Captain or Vice-Captain. As a result, the standings now look like this:

1. alta-pete 760
2. Oooooft 728
3. chomp my root 601
4. sparky88 550
5. Ned Nederlander 545
6. Bishop Briggs 539
7. DBA 514
8. Indale Winton 456
9. The Naitch 455
10. Once A Rover always a Rover 427
11. peasy23 417
12. Mark Connolly 399
13. cdisaaccie 378
14. Arabdownunder 375
=15. The DA, weirdcal 373
17. Savage Henry 371
18. JustOneCornetto 370
19. Fuctifano 369
20. RadgerTheBadger 361
21. gingette 339
22. lichtgilphead 335
23. JamieStevenson 329
24. lolls 323
25. psv_killie 313
26. Lex 309
27. Karpaty 307
28. Melanius Mullarkey 295
29. Miguel Sanchez 294
30. 10menwent2mow 276
31. Sweaty Morph 274
32. Meden89 264
33. qos_75 254
34. HI HAT 240
35. nessies long lost ghost 239
36. Ross. 233
37. Ziggy, gkneil 217
=38. Blootoon87, ICTJohnboy 213
40. Microdave 209
41. Bert Raccoon 206
=42. LoonsYouthTeam, choirbairn  201
44. statts1976uk 190
45. atfccfc 179
46. Willie adie 173
47. Arbroathlegend36-0 165
48. sleazy 164
=49. Musketeer Gripweed, Sloop John B 152
51. Billy Jean King 145
52. Gareth_Glasgow 140
53. cambozpar 139
54. Ben Twilly 138
55. weejack 123
56. thisal 111
57. mathematics 109
=58. wellinwigan, BWAClyde 92
60. Lofarl 84
61. AyrTroopMajor 82
62. The Master 70
63. Bold Rover 69
64. Sergeant Wilson 49
=65.  killiefan27, Henderson to Deliver..., Kilbowie's Finest 46
68. expatowner, Aim Here 45
=69. Eednud, ToBeSomeone 36
71.  pub car king 30
72. MixuFixit 27
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ZERO POINTERS: 50/50 Winner, Consolidate, Dee_62, doulikefish, D.V.T., Flybhoy, JTS98, pawpar, RussellAnderson, Salvo Montalbano, Shotgun, shuggz, Speckled Tangerine, weemac

Since we're now officially into Deadly December, all scoring picks from now until the end of the year will be worth an additional set of Base Points. Since we're in December I've also added all those yet to score to the leaderboard, and changed the leaderboard to reflect tied positions properly. The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NlaNlT-7ZGlQGqszGFfBb49tVzFpWITUAR7BUjApJUc/edit?usp=sharing

[Raidernation]

Writer of the “Banana Boat Song” Irving Burgie dead-o!

[Guest Moomintroll]

Writer of the “Banana Boat Song” Irving Burgie dead-o!

Six foot, seven foot, eight foot down!

[alta-pete]

YAAASSS!!!

[Derek Patterson]

As happens every few years, chat going round that the Queen is a carcass.

 

The rumour seemingly originates from a WhatsApp group so more than likely shengus.

[Bold Rover]

3 minutes ago, Derek Patterson said:

As happens every few years, chat going round that the Queen is a carcass.

 

The rumour seemingly originates from a WhatsApp group so more than likely shengus.

Did Andrew send the message to the wrong group?

[Arch Stanton]

Shelly Morrison, Rosario in Will and Grace, dead at 83.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/02/shelley-morrison-will-and-grace-actor-dies-aged-83

[tamthebam]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50630050

It's a Mariss breakdown as conductor lays down his baton.