Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9, first tenure), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), Reptile (2020-23), and Death Impends (2022-2025). Now the Committee of Banana (2023), time (2024), the returning Octopus of Odstock (2026) and the deadpooling equivalent of a gap year temp Marlfox (2026) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
OLD FUCKER DIES, NO ONE SAD Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74, in the region of 50 plus years older than some of his victims. Former grave digger and lorry driver Sutcliffe started off as a bogstandard lassie beater in the 1960s before he graduated to his calling in life […]
Somehow we are seven weeks away from 2021. Where did the year go to? Oh yes, lockdowns and pandemics and Donald Trump… It has been a spectacular year for deadpools and a bumper year for the Grim Reaper, so well done if you are still alive enough to read this. One might even call […]
IT’S… FINAL JEOPARDY! Popular game show host Alex Trebek has died aged 80 after a long battle with the dreaded pancreatic cancer. Trebek was instantly known for his role as the host of the popular American quiz show Jeopardy, in which contestants have to frame their answers in the form of a question. Trebek started […]
Actor John Fraser, who appeared in The Dam Busters, has died aged 89. He was a unique pick for Departures Board. Fraser was best known for his 60s film work, including The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Repulsion, but also appeared in a number of TV shows from Columbo (he played Columbo’s British counterpart, O’Keefe, […]
AS DEATH GOES BY Dependable character actor and sitcom favourite Geoffrey Palmer has sadly died aged 93. Palmer was a British film and TV regular from the 1950s until recently. It was the scale of Palmer’s successful career that you could ask several people what his iconic role was and get several responses. For some, […]
NO MR BOND, WE EXPECT YOU TO DIE Scottish actor Sean Connery has proven the concept of immortality false by dying aged 90. The man voted the Scotland’s Greatest Living Treasure, The Sexiest Man Alive and The World’s Greatest Tax Dodger had been suffering from dementia. Connery had been a bodybuilder, a lifeguard, a coffin […]
POOR LITTLE JEANNE Australian entertainer Jeanne Little has died aged 82 after a long period of ill health. In Australia she was best known for her role on the Mike Walsh Show, for which she won a Gold Logie. She had been suffering from dementia for eleven years, and was picked by six teams, including […]
NOBBLED STILES English World Cup winner Nobby Stiles has died aged 78, after a long period of ill health. Stiles was an early example of the defensive midfielder, the man who carries the team in midfield by supporting the defence and setting up the attack at a moments notice. In over 300 hundred games for […]
WIDE EYED SMOTHERED BOY Back in 2010, Tracy Smothers showed up in TNA Wrestling and looked like shit, victim of many years of personal demons, so whilst it is no surprise he has died aged 58, it is perhaps more of a surprise he lasted this long. Tracy Smothers bounced around the territories in the […]
LIFE DENIAL American businessman Robert E Murray has died aged 80. Not a particularly known name outside Ohio, he was apparently a climate change denialist who, despite making millions off mining, spent millions convincing politicians to try and block safety measures for workers in mines. After the Cranda Canyon Mine collapse killed six miners working […]
