After months of arduous labour on the parts of Notapotato and Magere Hein, The Hartlepool Deadlypool is ready to accept entrants.
A cut above the usual deathpools, the Hartlepool Deadlypool distinguishes its self in that it requires the participants not only to predict the deaths of celebrities, but also the order in which the deaths will occur.
A fiendishly complex scoring system combined with a uniquely arbitrary and unpredictable team of administrators and some opaque and incomprehensible rules should all make for an exciting game in the course of the year.
So get your entries in! Closing date is the 31st of December. Probably.
The Hartlepool Deadlypool
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:16 PM
Notapotato, on Dec 13 2005, 08:11 PM, said:
A cut above the usual deathpools, the Hartlepool Deadlypool distinguishes its self in that it requires the participants not only to predict the deaths of celebrities, but also the order in which the deaths will occur.
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:36 PM
Taking my chances with this question, but what do you have against a certain living wife of a deceased former president?
Not that I plan to use said person in any Dead Pool, just curious.
Not that I plan to use said person in any Dead Pool, just curious.
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:20 PM
There's a lot to do at the end of the year.
I intend to enter the Derby Deadpool for the first time and regale the Deathlist on my top 50 for the year for their consideration. And now this one's got to be in order! My brain will hurt!
I intend to enter the Derby Deadpool for the first time and regale the Deathlist on my top 50 for the year for their consideration. And now this one's got to be in order! My brain will hurt!
Derby Dead Pool showrunner...
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 10:24 PM
Notapotato, on Dec 13 2005, 08:11 PM, said:
After months of arduous labour on the parts of Notapotato and Magere Hein, The Hartlepool Deadlypool is ready to accept entrants.
A cut above the usual deathpools, the Hartlepool Deadlypool distinguishes its self in that it requires the participants not only to predict the deaths of celebrities, but also the order in which the deaths will occur.
A fiendishly complex scoring system combined with a uniquely arbitrary and unpredictable team of administrators and some opaque and incomprehensible rules should all make for an exciting game in the course of the year.
So get your entries in! Closing date is the 31st of December. Probably.
The Hartlepool Deadlypool
A cut above the usual deathpools, the Hartlepool Deadlypool distinguishes its self in that it requires the participants not only to predict the deaths of celebrities, but also the order in which the deaths will occur.
A fiendishly complex scoring system combined with a uniquely arbitrary and unpredictable team of administrators and some opaque and incomprehensible rules should all make for an exciting game in the course of the year.
So get your entries in! Closing date is the 31st of December. Probably.
The Hartlepool Deadlypool
If you don't like my selections,
please feel free to disqualify me, on the grounds that I'm an arse.
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 11:35 PM
I was liking the idea but then I read this:
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Notapotato's word is final
Shadow List 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:49 AM
Great stuff. I shall be entering soonish.
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...." Jacqui Smith - Ex-Home Secretary (and many other misguided fools)
"I fear having to prove I have nothing to hide." Josco
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves".
William Pitt, 1783
Shaw's Principle: "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
"I fear having to prove I have nothing to hide." Josco
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves".
William Pitt, 1783
Shaw's Principle: "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 12:54 PM
Am so excited. Have just submitted Cancer Ward for the HDP, a specialist team that had to have (or have had) cancer to qualify and Liz Taylor didn't even make the team. Sorry Liz, I have at least 10 before you although I might have put you in goal.
Ring down the curtain, the farce is over
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 08:37 PM
Last night I submitted my entry - hay, it took me a few moments to bounce around your rules. Looking forward to the laughs we will have on this one - chears Notapotato(e)
Mine's a lemonade!
DL Shadow List: King Abdullah, Muhammad Ali, Patty Andrews, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Barker, Ronnie Biggs, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ian Brady, George HW Bush, Lord Carrington, Fidel Castro, Henry Cecil, Hugo Chavez, Van Cliburn, Bob Dole, Kirk Douglas, Jean Claude Duvalier, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Billy Graham, Damon Harris, Stephen Hawking, John Hume, Clive James, Yahya Jammeh, General Jaruzelski, Ed Koch, Helmut Kohl, Phil Lesh, Nelson Mandela, Penny Marshall, Teodoro Obiang Nquema Mbasogo, Shih Ming-Teh, Hosni Mubarak, Robert Mugabe, Jim Nabors, John Nkomo, Bernie Nolan, Manuel Noriega,, Jack Pardee, James Prior, Nancy Reagan, Ariel Sharon, Margaret Thatcher, Jeremy Thorpe, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Gough Whitlam, Michael Winner and Jiang Zemin, 10/50
DL Shadow List: King Abdullah, Muhammad Ali, Patty Andrews, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Barker, Ronnie Biggs, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ian Brady, George HW Bush, Lord Carrington, Fidel Castro, Henry Cecil, Hugo Chavez, Van Cliburn, Bob Dole, Kirk Douglas, Jean Claude Duvalier, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Billy Graham, Damon Harris, Stephen Hawking, John Hume, Clive James, Yahya Jammeh, General Jaruzelski, Ed Koch, Helmut Kohl, Phil Lesh, Nelson Mandela, Penny Marshall, Teodoro Obiang Nquema Mbasogo, Shih Ming-Teh, Hosni Mubarak, Robert Mugabe, Jim Nabors, John Nkomo, Bernie Nolan, Manuel Noriega,, Jack Pardee, James Prior, Nancy Reagan, Ariel Sharon, Margaret Thatcher, Jeremy Thorpe, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Gough Whitlam, Michael Winner and Jiang Zemin, 10/50
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:25 PM
Notapotato, on Dec 14 2005, 09:53 PM, said:
Thank you everyone for your entries to the HDP!
Now I have fixed the entry form, would you mind entering your teams again?
Sorry.
Thank You.
Now I have fixed the entry form, would you mind entering your teams again?
Sorry.
Thank You.
Never mind, I'll have another go tomorrow.
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear...." Jacqui Smith - Ex-Home Secretary (and many other misguided fools)
"I fear having to prove I have nothing to hide." Josco
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves".
William Pitt, 1783
Shaw's Principle: "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
"I fear having to prove I have nothing to hide." Josco
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves".
William Pitt, 1783
Shaw's Principle: "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
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Posted 15 December 2005 - 08:51 PM
Banshees Scream, on Dec 14 2005, 09:54 PM, said:
Notapotato - How come LBJ can't be on the list?
Thank you to everyone who has entered. I hope Godot gets out of the Funny Farm in time to resubmit his choices.
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Posted 15 December 2005 - 09:38 PM
How many entries have you had?
I realise it is still early days.
I realise it is still early days.
Shadow List 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
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Posted 15 December 2005 - 09:39 PM
I've just enterd too.
Alternative 50 in no particular order
1.Nelson Mandela 2.Margaret Thatcher 3. Jeremy Thorpe 4. Bill Pertwee 5. John Freeman 6.Guenther Grass 7. Oswald Morris 8. Glynis Johns 9. Zizi Jeanmaire 10. April Ashley
11. Allan Arbus 12. Siegfried Lenz 13. Helmut Kohl 14.Walter Scheel 15.Hywel Bennet 16.Clive James 17. Tamara Press 18.Dave Swarbrick 19. Gretel Bergmann 20. Paul Danquah
21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.Annette Funicello 43.Bob Godfrey 44. Rev Billy Graham 45.Wojiech Jaruzelski 46.Irving Kanarek 47.Hiroo Onoda 48. Reg Pressley 49. Ariel Sharon 50. Duncan Norvelle.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
1.Nelson Mandela 2.
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21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
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Posted 16 December 2005 - 11:24 AM
I'm going to enter as soon as I've thought up a name and a team - so probably just before midnight on 31st December. At least it will give me something to talk to elderly relatives about on New Years Eve - there's nothing like a good discussion about death with old people on the eve of a new year.
In my experience, yes, some guests have the same longing for towels and bedlinen as zombies have for human flesh.
"Turrwets, a very good place to keep a tdonkley" - Lady G.
Who is not made better and wiser by occasional intercourse with the tomb?
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