Florentine_Pogen Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, tamthebam said: She's Vertue-ally deid. Beryl Vertue, agent and producer at 90. Yassssss !!!!!! My first-ever points on the Dead Pool and if I'm reading the spreadsheet correctly, it's a solo shot. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/feb/13/beryl-vertue-obituary Edited February 13, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: She's Vertue-ally deid. Beryl Vertue, agent and producer at 90. Beryl in peril. Not vertue-ally. Just deid. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 52 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Yassssss !!!!!! My first-ever points on the Dead Pool and if I'm reading the spreadsheet correctly, it's a solo shot. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/feb/13/beryl-vertue-obituary 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 If there some thing strange, in your neighbourhood. Who you gonna call? Not Ivan Reitman because he’s deid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 11 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: If there some thing strange, in your neighbourhood. Who you gonna call? Not Ivan Reitman because he’s deid. I ain't afraid of no ghost. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 P J O'Rourke at 74. Read one of his books years ago and despite him being a libertarian Republican and me not it was pretty amusing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 15 hours ago, tamthebam said: P J O'Rourke at 74. Read one of his books years ago and despite him being a libertarian Republican and me not it was pretty amusing. Having a Holiday in Hell? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Jack Smethurst at 89, his neighbours loved him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 5 hours ago, JustOneCornetto said: Jack Smethurst at 89, his neighbours loved him. I've got one of his neighbours in my team. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyAnchor Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 14/02/2022 at 00:04, Melanius Mullarkay said: If there some thing strange, in your neighbourhood. Who you gonna call? Not Ivan Reitman because he’s deid. Probably bombed by the Germans at Pearl Harbour 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 Billy McEwan at 70 from Parkinson's. Played in midfield for Hibs in the early 1970s and then managed a few English clubs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 RIP Doug Baillie. Journeyman CH for Rangers but well-liked by the Airdrie-supporting side of my family for his time(s) at Broomfield. Best known as a scribbler for The Sunday Post where 'Doug Bailie Writes...' was a mainstay for decades. "'In what was a hard fought match the ref booked 2 players, Pat Stanton for throwing the ball away & John Greig for throwing Pat Stanton away" was probably his best line - and a cracker. RIP. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 "The first recorded game of football in Scotland took place in 1314 after the Battle of Bannockburn when two teams of Scots kicked the severed head of an Englishman across the battlefield... ...it was a dull game with both defences on top according to the Sunday Post's Doug Baillie, who was there at the time..." from the first "Only an Excuse" 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Joey Beauchamp, Oxford legend, 50. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Queens got covid, could be ab avalanche of points. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Week 8 update One death this week, TV producer Beryl Vertue: Beryl Vertue obituary | Television | The Guardian Quote Beryl Vertue, who has died aged 90, played an important role in the history of British television comedy. She began as an agent for writers such as Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, as well as the performers Tony Hancock and Frankie Howerd, before pioneering the sale of hit UK TV formats to American television. When she turned to producing, her first big sitcom success was Men Behaving Badly (1992-98), which ushered in an era of laddish humour. She read the 1989 novel by Simon Nye, who was working as a translator for Credit Suisse, saw its potential and set him off on a TV career. Martin Clunes starred as Gary, sharing a flat with Dermot (Harry Enfield) – replaced by Neil Morrissey as the womanising Tony after the first series – and Caroline Quentin played Gary’s girlfriend, Dorothy, with Leslie Ash as Deborah, Gary’s neighbour, who is attracted to Tony but put off by his immaturity. Vertue used her persuasive powers with ITV to keep the show going when Enfield left. Then, at the end of the second run, the channel dropped the programme because Thames Television, which commissioned it from Vertue’s independent production company, Hartswood Films, lost its franchise. She simply phoned the BBC, which ran it for a further four series. I also enjoyed this snippet: Quote Outside comedy circles, Vertue sealed a deal for Terry Nation that gave him partial copyright on the Daleks when he introduced them in Doctor Who’s second story shortly after the sci-fi series began in 1963. She also blazed a trail by persuading the BBC to venture into programme-related merchandise, resulting in Daleks memorabilia, a Hancock’s Half Hour board game and Steptoe and Son jigsaws. Vertue died at 90 so she's worth 35 Base Points, plus a Solo Shot for @Florentine_Pogen for a total of 85 points. As a result, the standings look like this: 1. Ned Nederlander 313 2. Arbroathlegend36-0 255 3. JustOneCornetto 228 4. Bishop Briggs 199 5. Indale Winton 183 6. Blootoon87 151 7. chomp my root, sparky88, The_Craig 144 10. Arch Stanton 135 11. cdhafc1874 130 12. gkneil, Savage Henry 104 14. pawpar, Sweaty Morph 95 16. Florentine_Pogen 85 17. Desp, senorsoupe 50 19. Bert Raccoon, speckled tangerine, statts1976uk, ThomCat 39 23. Hamish's Passenger, Moomintroll, The DA 31 26. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mup1IJllKHs0a47J8G6IXUkvShJrV28Iuc-Kkn7RKuo/edit?usp=sharing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 If Liz is going to die I'd appreciate if she does it this week, Gran Turismo 7 comes out a week on Friday and I'll be fucked if I'm spending the following Sunday doing everyone's scores for her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: If Liz is going to die I'd appreciate if she does it this week, Gran Turismo 7 comes out a week on Friday and I'll be fucked if I'm spending the following Sunday doing everyone's scores for her. Give everybody points. It's what she'd want. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) I can't remember if I picked her. I probably thought that old shape shift lizard would live forever. ETA. No, I did not pick her. Edited February 20, 2022 by Richey Edwards 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jan-pieńkowski-obituary/ar-AAU5SKF?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout Children's illustrator Jan Pienkowski. He illustrated Meg and Mog and did a few pop up books which were pretty good when ah were a lad. The pop up Karma Sutra was not one of his though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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