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Hospitalized with a stroke, though expected to fully recover. Weird how Gooseberry starts all these threads for people with no real health issues then suddenly one of them falls ill... I guess it's like National Enquirer with Michael Jackson's death, when you go through umpteen names, you'll inevitably land on one of them.

Seventh Leaderboard 2017: (*=Joker) 1st: Sir Creep - 443 Points [7/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey) 2nd: JoeyRuss - 430 Points [6/25] (Snuka; *Wetton; Westhuizen; Langhorne; Morano; Pirsig) 3rd: msc - 349 Points [8/25] (Snuka; B. Simpson; McGill; Wetton; Coward; Skellern; Hewlett; Lakovic) 4th: Deathers - 272 Points [4/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano) 5th: Grim Up North - 259 Points [5/25] (Wetton; Westhuizen; Coward; Skellern; Morano) 6th: Death Impends - 251 Points [7/25] (Youguang; Nakamura; Hale; D. Carrington; Corey; Skellern; Rockefeller) 7th: gcreptile - 248 Points [6/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano) 8th: The Dead Cow - 225 Points [5/25] (Sarstedt; D. Carrington; Westhuizen; Skellern; Morano) 9th: Rockhopper penguin - 223 Points [3/25] (Westhuizen; Berry; Dreyfus) 10th: Whoaml - 222 Points [5/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller) 11th: Toast - 213 Points [5/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness) 12th: drol - 204 Points [4/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James) 13th: Bibliogryphon - 195 Points [3/25] (Dalyell; McCowen; *Freeman) 14th: RadGuy - 178 Points [4/25] (Snuka; Tyler-Moore; Westhuizen; Morano) 15th: Captain Chorizo - 156 Points [3/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano) 16th: JiroemonKimura - 123 Points [4/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern) 17th: Pedro67 - 122 Points [2/25] (Skellern; Walcott) 18th: Shaun Of The Dead - 112 Points [3/25] (Hollingworth; Skellern; Kaufman) 19th: Rotten Ali - 54 Points [2/25] (Hurt; Wetton) 20th: Book - 31 Points [2/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore) 21st: The Unknown Man - 30 Points [1/25] (Wetton) 22nd: YoungWillz - 28 Points [1/25] (*Snuka) =23rd: ImNotHades - 0 Points [0/25] =23rd: Widows Peak - 0 Points [0/25]

The Quim Reaper Sinead O'Connor Paris Jackson Kim Jong-un Courtney Love Mr T Updated masterlist.

You're thinking of the last surviving crew member, Werner Franz. However there's still one surviving passenger in Werner Doehner, now 88.

MMMDP Form Guide #31 Jimmy Buffet The guy with the song that some people think was written by Rupert Holmes. Noted for a laid back lifestyle, aged 70 and no apparent health issues. Maryport encourages the other 20 contestants in the MMMDP to take a punt on the likes of Jimmy.

Life is not fair

A monkey to see an ape....good apt pricing...

Ahem, they have to born between 1936 and 1952. Many of your people are actually too old - though it's probably not an advantage. Edit: oh, is this the next game already? Editedit: Ok, I get it now.

That is a good idea.I would be happy to run that game on this thread if there is interest.

Never mind the recurring theme in your post, clearly it's Jerry Maren...

RIP.

This man is just a racist plain and simple, not worth any media attention like

The BBC got such a positive reaction to a news feature on William Frankland that they'll be doing a few more. 105 and still working and publishing academic papers. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/105-year-old-doctor-william-frankland-pow-camp-second-world-war-saddam-hussein-treat-a7660611.html

I predict she might retire after this.

On the 6th May 1992 legendary movie star Marlene Dietrich died aged 90.

4. Vanessa Goodwin 5. Clarke Carlisle

Former president of Mauritania Ely Ould Mohammed Vall has died aged 64 following a heart attack.

Agreed gcreptile, those ones always shock me I want to put one of those in myself however. Diane Sowle, who is 86 (87 in a month), was Mrs Bucket in the 1971 film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, and is one of two actors (outside of child actors)from that movie that are still alive (other one is Rusty Goffe, who is 68, and he was one of the Oompa Loompa's with dwarfism, not exactly sure life expectancy of people with dwarfism). Diane appears to be living a good and healthy life, but who knows? A little article I found about her http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ph-ac-gn-diana-sowle-willy-wonka-chocolate-festival-1205-20151205-story.html

27 people, include 18 members of Il Grande Torino, died in the Superga Air Crash today in 1949. Torino had won Serie A three seasons on the bounce and the disaster wiped out the Italian national squad.

Maybe it's time to open one for Michael Caine, he is on my watchlist ever since I read this.

Is your needle stuck?

Ok, I'll open this up in June for entries, to start July 1. Cheers, guys.

Would there be any interest in a Poker Tournament Dead Pool? Basically the idea is this. You pick 25 names. That's it. Then I would allocate a playing card from Random.org to each of your picks in the order you list them. If your pick dies within the period of the game you gain points, say, 3 for a "famous" pick, 1 for a FFBI pick. Bonuses would be awarded for poker hands as follows: High Card (i.e. an Ace) - 5 Points Pair (Two cards of same value) - 10 Points Two Pair (Two Cards of same value plus two cards of a separate value) - 15 Points Three of a Kind (Three of same value) - 20 Points Straight (5 Cards of any suit forming a sequence e.g. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) - 30 Points Flush (5 Cards of any value of the same suit) - 40 Points Full House (Three cards of the same value, and two of another value) - 80 Points Four of a Kind (Four cards of the same value) - 100 Points Straight Flush including a Royal Flush (Five cards forming a sequence of the same suit) - 150 points. Bonuses would be cumulative. So say early on you gain say, a pair. If you subsequently gain another pair you would get the bonus for the second pair (10 points) plus the bonus for two pair (15 Points). If you made a straight, say 5-6-7-8-9, then hit a sixth death with a 10 allocated, you would gain an additional straight bonus for 6-7-8-9-10. Winner has the most points at the end of the game. DDP Obit rules in force from time to time would apply. No Jokers or Uniques rules. I'm thinking it could be 6 monthly to replace the Deathlist Cup from July to December, but I could make it a yearly one. Sounds complex but it would become apparent as the game went on and maybe I've not thought of potential problems, so any input would be appreciated. Appreciate you are in the lap of the gods with the randomness of the cards drawn, but that would add to the fun, and with 25 names you are getting almost half the pack anyway. Decided to place it here, rather than just open it, in case there's not much interest, after all there's loads of pools already.

So when philosophising about the state of the world (albeit after a bottle) you say 'maybe we should all just kill ourselves now' and you get the response 'you must do what you feel you feel you must do'. Yep I get the message, my place in the hierarchy is just below the fucking cats. Cunt.

No, but the game does start afresh on January 1st, so thoughts do move towards the 2019 team. DDP - 20 names (plus 3 subs in case any die before 1st January), no changes throughout the year, picks need to have a mention as having died on one of about 20 obit sources. From loose memory, the American stars who don't get obits here tend to struggle to get them in the US too, but that's not a fast rule. Deathrace - 20 names, if a pick dies on January 1st its 365 points, January 2nd 364 etc etc. First team to 2019 next year wins. MPFC runs it, and likes a swift fast winner, so will accept nearly any obit known to man, even a mention in passing in the horoscope section of an US newspaper. As reigning champion (somehow), I picked up points from the translation of a French parish newsletter. No changes as the game is expected to end ASAP. Hares Pool - Deathray's YWillz Deathray's game (in which you pick 25 celebs), much like the Deathrace but reverse. So you want to pick lingerers who might snuff it in December 2019. Joker points double for one pick, but sods law can come in here - I got 8 points for Rayya Elias this year! Death by Years - Shauns RadGuy Reptile's game. You pick 50 names, and gain points on death corresponding to the persons year of birth. For example, if you go for Jimmy Carter and he dies, you get 24 points. Or double that,if he's your joker. Hartlepool Deadlypool - Right, so you pick 10 names and 2 subs. You win points based on the position of the person on your list ie if 1st place dies first you get 50 points, and then so on, but if they die out of order, the points won goes down by 5 points each time. There is a staggering number of bonus points which multiply, so people can gain huge points on one pick. The grand master of this is The Dead Cow who got 200+ bonus points on one pick (Vanessa Marquez) in 2018. Sounds complicated but is quite enjoyable and the host does all the maths for you... Inverse Deadpool - Formerly run by Spade, now by Death Impends, it starts in mid-January when the Deathlist 50 and the Drop 40 (most popular picks on 2016's Derby Dead Pool) are known. You pick the 25 people on each you think will definitely not die, and were stupid picks. Then if they die, you lose points. The person with 0, or the closes to a positive score, wins. Deathlist Cup - Runs Feb-June. You get drawn against another competitor and put a team of 11 names. 3 points for a successful hit during a match, 4 if they are unique. Each match takes a single month, only winners advance to the next round. Famous Only for Dying types (ie "tragic last christmas cancer mums") are banned from this deadpool. Poker - Runs July-December. Pick 25 names, YWillz assigns a random poker card to each name, and if they die, you get points and bonuses. Windy City - Runs May to May. 21 names, points attributed per spot on the team. So 1st gets 500 points, 2nd 450 and so on... Alt Obits - Run on the Alt Obits website. Pick 40 names, hope they pass the fame requirement (which is a bit in flux by the hour) and then lose to Alt Obits Guy. Deathlist Correction - Runs Jan to December. You pick the people you think will die on the DL. When they do you gain points. When they dont you lose points. 54321 - Runs Jan to December. Pick 5 people. You gain points (5-4-3-2-1) based on how few others picked them first. Inverse I - Pick 10 names off Wormfarmers list. If any of them die you are out. ABC Deadpool - Runs August to August. Picks based on alphabetical order with bonuses. Updated for January 2020 That's the main ones (the DDP and the forum games) I play anyhow.