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), Octopus of Odstock (again! 2026) and Marlfox (2026) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
ONZE D’MORT Robbie Rensenbrink was one of the finest footballers of his generation, a freescoring assist creating link between the midfield and front pair 40 years before Jurgen Klopp invented the role. A vital cog in the Dutch team that thrilled fans on the way to 2 World Cup finals (1974 and 1978), Rensenbrink is […]
PBS DEADLINE NEWS Journalist Jim Lehrer has died aged 85. Lehrer started off as reporter for the Dallas newspapers, and luckily for him a news story broke in 1963 in Dallas. Nah, can’t think what it was either, something about a rich guy getting shot. JR? Anyhow, in 1972, Lehrer moved to PBS TV broadcasting, […]
HE’S NOT THE GRIM REAPER HE’S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY! The wonderful Terry Jones has sadly died, aged 77, after a long and publicised battle with a particularly nasty form of dementia. Terry Jones was recognisable instantly, possibly worldwide, as one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy team. Performer and writer […]
WHOLE LOTTE DEATH Shin Kyuk-ho, founder of Lotte Corporation, has died aged 98. He founded Lotte in 1948 as a chewing gum manufacturer, but it had grown into becoming one of the worlds largest multinationals. He was 136th on the Forbes rich list at one point, but given a suspended jail sentence in later life […]
SOCIAL DEATHOCRATIC PARTY Former leader of the SDP, Robert Maclennan, has died aged 83. Formed in 1981, the Social Democratic Party aimed to break the mold of British politics, but by 1988 the two party mold had broken the SDP instead, so they looked to a unification with the Liberals. Dr David Owen, leader of […]
THAT’LL BE ALL, BERNARD “Should we pick you on the DDP, Mr Derek?”“What’s that, Basil?”“It’s a dead punt. BOOM BOOM!” Mr Derek Fowlds, friend of Basil the Brush, has sadly died aged 82 after a stint in hospital with heart problems. Indeed, the anthropomorphic toy fox has already been on Twitter, sharing his condolences. What […]
SOUL MAN DOWN Rocky Johnson was regarded as one of the best in ring performers of the 1970s, and in 1983, became one of the first black champions in WWF history when he and Tony Atlas won the Tag Team titles. A trainee boxer who once sparred with Muhammad Ali, Johnson turned to pro-wrestler in […]
AND IN THE DARKNESS BOUND HIM Academic, novelist, and book editor, Christopher Tolkien was the world’s foremost expert on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It was almost as if his dad wrote the books and Christopher himself edited them. Trained at the Dragon School (not actually made up), Christopher became a tutor at New […]
TWO CAN PLAY THAT DEATH When a local Banker played Bobby Brown in the DDP, the system assumed it was the singer. In fact, so sure was it, it corrected the chaps previous DDP team which also had the other Bobby Brown. In fact this is the former football manager who led Scotland to their […]
REALIGNMENT OF THE RADICAL DEAD A fairly popular deadpool pick in recent years, Lord Chalfont (or Alun Gwynne Jones as he was before his peerage in 1964) has died shortly after turning 100 last month. New centenarians of late have no staying power. A World War Two veteran who fought in Burma for three years, […]
