The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2020

[Bishop Briggs]

2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

Tomorrow Never Dies, but he did.

His Time Has Gone By.

[Bold Rover]

2 hours ago, speckled tangerine said:

God speed to the perma-miserable middle class b*****d.

Do remember: when we saw him, he was acting. Excellently.

[Sweaty Morph]

21 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:

Geoffrey Palmer butterfly's off to the great theatre in the sky

A bit late to the party, but thank goodness I have finally broken my duck for this year.

Oh, and condolences etc

[JustOneCornetto]

1. 2. 3 and he's gone. Len Barry 60's pop singer at 78 (really should be 45)

[tamthebam]

Jim Radford at 92.

Not well known as he was a Yorkshire folk singer and peace campaigner but having joined the Royal Navy at 15 he is reckoned to have been the youngest participant in the Normandy landings.

[Raidernation]

I still have nul points [emoji23]

[tamthebam]

On 01/11/2020 at 20:58, tamthebam said:

He's FOOC*ed off

Foreign correspondent Robert Fisk at 74 after a stroke 

 

*From Our Own Correspondent 

*Ahem*

[paranoid android]

Donald John Trump's reign as President of the USA - deid. 

[senorsoupe]

10 hours ago, Raidernation said:

I still have nul points

Lol same, in a year with a pandemic I couldn't predict one celebrity to die (as of now)

[peasy23]

I still have nul points [emoji23]

Lol same, in a year with a pandemic I couldn't predict one celebrity to die (as of now)

Look for the positives, you still have 15 chances to bag a Deadly December bonus.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 44 update

One death this week, the actor Geoffrey Palmer: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/06/geoffrey-palmer-obituary

Quote

At first a dour and dignified supporting actor, usually playing figures of authority and moral rectitude, Geoffrey Palmer, who has died aged 93, became a television star in three highly popular series. In each, he punctured his own apparent pomposity with a comedy technique that made him attractive and funny to audiences over several decades.

I first saw him on the West End stage in a small role in a routine courtroom drama, Difference of Opinion, at the Garrick in 1964; he and most of the cast, led by Raymond Huntley and Robert Beattie, were men in suits talking earnestly about nothing much I can remember. Fifty years later, he was virtually a national treasure, the voice of the Audi car commercials and the narrator of the TV talking-heads show Grumpy Old Men. “I am not grumpy,” he said. “I just look this way.”

He used that look – bloodhound face, jowly and still, hooded eyes – and an armoury of slow-burn reactions and minimal gestures accompanied by a voice of mellow fruitiness, to score countless laughs, opposite Leonard Rossiter in David Nobbs’s The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976-79); Wendy Craig in Carla Lane’s Butterflies (1978-83); and, most resoundingly, Judi Dench in Bob Larbey’s As Time Goes By (1992-2005).

As ever with an actor, let's see what I recognise him from. I recognise his face. Going by his imdb I have Tomorrow Never Dies and a single episode of Doctor Who but aside from that, he was before my time. I think the best I can do is the narration from this much missed concept:

 

Palmer died at 93, so he's worth 32 Base Points. He was also a Deadly Duo for @speckled tangerine and @Sweaty Morph for a bonus 25, and a Vice-Captain bonus for speckled tangerine. That's 57 points for plasticine, 73 for overripe citrus fruit. 

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. Bishop Briggs 475
2. JustOneCornetto 464
3. thistledo 361
4. Ned Nederlander 342
5. chomp my root 337
6. Melanius Mullarkey 330
7. pub car king 326
8. Musketeer Gripweed 303
9. Aim Here, peasy23 300
11. alta-pete 287
12. The_Craig 286
13. Savage Henry 266
14. sparky88, speckled tangerine 241
16. Lofarl 236
17. ToBeSomeone 232
18. psv_killie 206
19. paulathame 188
20. dee_62 186
21. sureiknow 184
22. Mark Connolly 183
23. Billy Jean King 179
24. ICTJohnboy 176
25. 50/50 Winner 172
26. lichtgilphead 166
27. Arch Stanton 164
28. Arabdownunder 159
29. Karpaty Lviv 156
30. Meden89 149
31. sleazy 146
32. cdisaaccie 143
33. The DA 141
34. weejack 140
35. Fuctifano 130
36. expatowner 125
37. statts1976uk 123
38. Bold Rover 122
39. weirdcal120
40. The Naitch 111
41. Bobby Skidmarks 110
42. Ben Twilly 107
43. 101, Flybhoy 103
45. CountyFan 98
46. LoonsYouthTeam 96
47. Hamish's Passenger, choirbairn 94
49. Indale Winton 89
50. microdave 84
51. Ludo*1 83
52. sjc 80
53. Sergeant Wilson 71
54. HI HAT 69
55. lolls 67
56. Blootoon87 60
57. 19QOS19, dundeefc1783 58
59. Sweaty Morph 57
60. mathematics 48
61. BillyAnchor, qos_75, RussellAnderson 47
64. doulikefish,  cambozpar, LondonHMFC 44
67. pawpar 40
68. D.V.T. 34
69. gingette, wellinwigan 35
71. Cardinal Richelieu 33
72. Scotty Tunbridge, shuggz, Perkin Flump, The Master 22
76. Everyone else 0 

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V64rLXKhrmZf-6K4D3RyN3cR5Z_i2rh-ztODUB_dQyI/edit?usp=sharing

[Lurkst]

^^^ You've never seen Reggie Perrin? I envy you sir, get them watched!

 

[Bishop Briggs]

16 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

Robert Fisk deid

https://www.ft.com/content/349fe7bc-f889-46e8-980b-93d9a736aebc

You're a week late! 

 

[Bishop Briggs]

2 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

Oh haha I thought it was just the other day. Oh well.

Just apologise to Tamthebam who posted it last Sunday and was a bit miffed by your post. 

[tamthebam]

21 minutes ago, Bishop Briggs said:

Just apologise to Tamthebam who posted it last Sunday and was a bit miffed by your post. 

Not miffed, just slightly bemused by the fact Mixu missed my original post..

I'd better type it dryhorce style next time...

[Lofarl]

Alex Trebek is no longer in jeopardy.

Question: I’ve  has 6 hits this year

Answer: What is dead pool

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Lofarl

[tamthebam]

1 minute ago, MixuFruit said:

I never really read this thread, just post deaths when I see them. Sorry Tam!

By not reading this thread you're missing out on, err, something I think...

[weirdcal]

Answer: Alex trebeck
Question: who has gotten me some points after a long drought

[Arch Stanton]

I'll have Dead Quiz Show Hosts for 500

 

 

[Raidernation]

Definitely Final Jeopardy for Alex, and finally points for me....... I mean RIP etc...