TLW Deadpool 2018

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Jim Bowen has gone now too.

Shite news, that!

 

Loved a bit of Bully.

[deiseach]

Jim Bowen has gone now too.

 

A few years back I was watching an old (obviously) episode of Bullseye. The lad needs a treble 20 with his last dart to win the big prize or walk away with BFH. In it goes and naturally everyone associated with him goes mental. And the happiest man of the lot was Jim, celebrating wildly with all and sundry. It was fantastic to see. RIP.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

A few years back I was watching an old (obviously) episode of Bullseye. The lad needs a treble 20 with his last dart to win the big prize or walk away with BFH. In it goes and naturally everyone associated with him goes mental. And the happiest man of the lot was Jim, celebrating wildly with all and sundry. It was fantastic to see. RIP.

I've watched a few on Challenge and he goes mad when they won the end prize.

 

So much so that he was a bit sinister if they won a car. Grabbing the contestants by the arm, dragging them by the arm and demanding them to "get in....get in."

 

All a bit kidnappy but brought about by genuine happiness for his contestants.

[Trumo]

I hope he gets a burial at sea. Having been taken out there in one of Bully's Star Prize speedboats. Mourners can chill in one of the two-berth caravans while admiring the grandfather clock. Super smashing great. Moooooooooooo!

[Mike D]

[Tony Moanero]

They used to buy back the prizes for cost price if the contestants didn’t want them.

[deiseach]

I hope he gets a burial at sea. Having been taken out there in one of Bully's Star Prize speedboats. Mourners can chill in one of the two-berth caravans while admiring the grandfather clock. Super smashing great. Moooooooooooo!

 

Might be quicker for everyone to swim out there.

[deiseach]

They used to buy back the prizes for cost price if the contestants didn’t want them.

 

[The Woolster]

So, thanks to FG for providing the data, I have done an analysis of the Deadpool picks.

 

This was made slightly more difficult due to misspellings, nicknames and spaces after names meaning the same name wouldn't match, I have got there eventually.

 

This is based on the original picks only, not any additions following a death. There were 230 in total.

 

The 10 most popular:

 

Kirk Douglass - 12 picks

Leah Bracknell - 11 picks

Prince Phillip - 9 picks

Gazza - 7 picks

Jimmy Greaves, Olivia De Havilland, George Bush Snr, Clive James - 6 picks each

Robert Mugabe - 5 picks

Tessa Jowell, Stan Lee, Vera Lynn, Nobby Styles, The Queen, Linda Nolan - 4 picks each

[Grinch]

Can't say I've ever fist pumped over someone dying before....

 

Prince Phillip as a replacement please

 

[The Woolster]

The Single picks:

 

There were 92 picks (40% of total picks) that were chosen by only 1 person, these were the following

 

Burt Young
Brazillian Ronaldo
Angela Lansbury
George Alagiah
Pierre cardin
Bam Margera
Geoffrey Palmer
Gerald Sinstadt
Mike Tyson
Harry Redknapp
Paul Dacre
Barbra Windosr
Prunella Scales
Ian McCulloh
Sandy Gall
Ivor Broadis
Val Kilmar
Jack Maynard
Michael Moore
James Bolam
Murray Walker
James Cordon
Ozzy Osbourne
James Harding
Pete Murray
Jeff Bezos
Prince Charles
Jeremy Hunt
Richard O'Sullivan
Jeremy Vine
FW De Klerk
Jil Gascoine
Sepp Blatter
Desmond Tutu
Tim Curry
Benjamin Netanahu
David Bellamy
Joe Bugner
Michael Douglas
Doris Day
Ed Sheeran
Judi Dench
Montell Williamns
June Brown
Nicholas Parsons
Justin Beiber
Britney Spears
Kanye West
Pamela Anderson
Keith richards
Pete Docherty
Kenny Sampson
Peter Brabeck- Letmathe
Windsor Davies
Pope Benedict
Doug Ellis
Fernando Ricksen
Bib Dylan
Richard Branson
Lamar Odom
Rihanna
Stan Bowles
Robert Wagner
Chris Rea
Buzz Aldrin
Stephen Fry
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Colin Farrell
Shane McGowan
Terri Hatcher
Courtney Stodden
Stefan karl Stefansson
Lech Walsea
Amanda Bynes
Leslie Phillips
Sylvestre Stallone
Alex Fergeson
Terry Jones
Lindsay Lohan
David Attenborough
Lord Peter Carrington
Trevor McDonald
Mark E Smith
Valerie Harper
Mark Zukerberg
William Daniels
Mel Brooks
Michael Caine
Abu Bakr Al-Baghaddi
King Michael of Romania

[The Woolster]

Age Range:

 

Unsurprisingly, almost 90% of the picks were in the 50+ age range

 

50+: 203 picks - 88%

35-49: 20 picks - 9%

U35: 7 picks - 3%

 

The 23 to 49 year olds were as follows:

 

Abu Bakr Al-Baghaddi
Amanda Bynes
Bam Margera
Brazillian Ronaldo
Britney Spears
Colin Farrell
Fernando Ricksen
James Cordon
James Harding
Kanye West
Kim Jong-Un
Lamar Odom
Michael Schumacher
Pete Docherty
Pete Murray
Stefan karl Stefansson

 

And the Under 35s were as follows:

 

Courtney Stodden
Ed Sheeran
Jack Maynard
Justin Beiber
Lindsay Lohan
Mark Zukerberg
Rihanna

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Just realised Mark Zuckerberg is younger than me. I hate him even more now.

[The Woolster]

Why are they famous?:

 

I also looked at what the 'celebrities' were known for. This was not necessarily clear cut, with some of them straddling 'professions', and other questions like whether a footy commentator is known for sport or for TV (I chose TV).

 

The most common profession were actors/actresses, making up 30% of the picks with 69. Nice!

 

Acting: 69 picks - 30%

Sports: 39 - 17%

Politics: 31 - 14%

Music: 24 - 10%

TV: 17 - 7%

Royalty: 15 - 7%

Writer: 13 - 6%

Business: 7 - 3%

Religion: 5 - 2%

Science: 3 - 1%

Journalism: 2 - 1%

 

The 1 pick professions were:

 

Film maker

Fashionista

Youtuber

Astronaught

Terrorist

[Fowlers God]

Profession- Terrorist

[The Woolster]

Gender:

 

77% of the picks were male, 23% female.

[The Woolster]

Profession- Terrorist

 

That's what it says on his business card!

 

 

 

I did put professions in inverted commas when I first mentioned it as it doesn't fit for all of them

[Evelyn Tentions]

I'll replace Stephen Hawkins by conferring immortality on Leslie Phillips.

[Thoth]

Did nobody have Jim Bowen or Ken Dodd?

[Megadrive Man]

https://mashable.com/2018/03/19/keyboard-cat-bento-died/#UsL09C53kuq1

 

Keyboard cat has kitten the dust.

[Jairzinho]

Woolster, I do actually feel slightly bad for skewing your statistics somewhat.

[The Woolster]

All picks are valid picks, whatever the reasoning

 

My main issue was all round bad spelling (including my own as I found out...)! 

[redheart]

One of my in laws works at ITV and today there are strong rumours that Peter Kay has died.

 

Can I pick him in case it turns out to be true ? lol

[VladimirIlyich]

One of my in laws works at ITV and today there are strong rumours that Peter Kay has died.

 

Can I pick him in case it turns out to be true ? lol

Everything I have seen him in post Phoenix Nights has died for me.

[Trumo]

One of my in laws works at ITV and today there are strong rumours that Peter Kay has died.

 

Can I pick him in case it turns out to be true ? lol

 

You mean he's garlic bread?