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...
A REAL DEAD RINGER FOR DEATH Actress Shirley Douglas has died, a few days after her 86th birthday. The Canadian actress appeared in films like Dead Ringers and as the Grandma in Barney’s Great Adventure. She was also a prominent civil rights activist and anti-Vietnam War campaigner in the 1960s. Her work with the […]
THIRTY-FATHOM OBIT American TV actor Forrest Compton has become another to die of coronavirus. He was 94. He appeared on TV shows such as Gomer Pyle, 77 Sunset Strip and Hogan’s Heroes. He was also in One Life to Live, which he has now proven, and McBain, which isn’t what you’re thinking it is. He […]
FALLEN COUNT Immunologist William Frankland has died after a very long life, aged 108. He had already cheated death from TB as a Prisoner of War when he began studying under the tutelage of Alexander Fleming. It was during this time Frankland made his early mark on British medical history, organising a placebo test to […]
Ira Einhorn was known as the Unicorn Killer after murdering his girlfriend in 1977 and then going on the run for two decades. He was a unique hit on the DDP for Valar Morghulis.
LITTLE Big funnyman Eddie Large has died after coming into contact with coronavirus. Apparently there are DDP players running sweepstakes on how many picked celebrities will fall to My Corona. I hopefully suggested none, as I write the bloody things, but the numbers are increasing. Nobody picked Adam Schlesinger, though, so you can avoid my […]
ACROPOLIS NOW When the Wikipedia Deaths in 2020 page describes your notoriety as “folk hero”, you know this is going to be a good one. Hitler’s 1000 Year Reich dream died in 1945. Manolis Glezos, a man twice sentenced to death by the regime, has died in 2020 of old age issues. He was […]
JUST THE ONE OF US Who are we going to lean on now, when we’re in trouble? Singer Bill Withers proved that March 30th was not such a lovely day after all, by dying from heart failure aged 81. Withers, who recently bucked the trend by being inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall […]
PHIL 90 Scientist Philip Warren Anderson has died at the venerable age of 96. Physicist Anderson won the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his work in electronic structures and magnets. This work helped create memory devices for computers, including the one that helps store all the witty and wonderful obituaries on the Derby Dead […]
HEADS TOWARDS SHINING LIGHT Composer Penderecki, whose first name is enough to gave a DDP host a panic attack trying to spell, has died after a long period of ill health. A unique pick for regulars Bucket of Blood, who assumedly are regular readers of Slipped Disc. Penderecki’s work was regular used in films, […]
HARROGONE James Ramsden has died aged 96. A former brewer, the former Conservative politician was MP for Harrogate from 1954 to 1974. He served in the governments of Harold MacMillan and Alec Douglas-Home in the War Department, and became the last ever War Secretary in 1963. With the Labour election victory in 1964, the post […]
