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Thirteenth Leaderboard 2017: (*=Joker) 1st: JoeyRuss - 857 Points [9/25] (Snuka; *Wetton; Westhuizen; Langhorne; Morano; Pirsig; Bayldon; Allman; Sallis) 2nd: msc - 826 Points [11/25] (Snuka; B. Simpson; McGill; Wetton; Coward; Skellern; Hewlett; Lakovic; Sallis; Christie; Van-Zandvliet) 3rd: Sir Creep - 768 Points [9/25] (Soares; McGiffin; Wetton; Skellern; Morano; Lakovic; Carey; Christie; Van-Zandvliet) 4th: The Dead Cow - 705 Points [7/25] (Sarstedt; D. Carrington; Westhuizen; Skellern; Morano; Sallis; *Van-Zandvliet) 5th: Death Impends - 585 Points [9/25] (Youguang; Nakamura; Hale; D. Carrington; Corey; Skellern; Rockefeller; Sallis; Hart) 6th: Grim Up North - 581 Points [7/25] (Wetton; Westhuizen; Coward; Skellern; Morano; Christie; Fawkes) 7th: Rotten Ali - 573 Points [5/25] (Hurt; Wetton; Christie; Kohl; Blazer) 8th: Shaun Of The Dead - 572 Points [6/25] (Hollingworth; Skellern; Kaufman; Noakes; Sallis; Christie) 9th: drol - 538 Points [6/25] (Soares; *Snuka; Bossom; Clifton James; Sallis; Hart) 10th: The Unknown Man - 504 Points [4/25] (Wetton; Noakes; Christie; Kohl) 11th: RadGuy/Phantom Of The Midway - 491 Points [6/25] (Snuka; Tyler-Moore; Westhuizen; Morano; Sallis; Christie) 12th: JiroemonKimura - 486 Points [6/25] (*Snuka; Cordero; Mohren; Skellern; Christie; Hofer) 13th: Book - 402 Points [4/25] (Sarstedt; Tyler-Moore; Kohl; Bergmann) 14th: gcreptile - 378 Points [7/25] (Hollingworth; Youguang; Snuka; Mohren; Rockefeller; Morano; Kaiser) 15th: Bibliogryphon - 375 Points [4/25] (Dalyell; McCowen; *Freeman; Norman) 16th: Toast - 365 Points [6/25] (Sims; Westhuizen; Sumner; Coward; McGuinness; Sallis) 17th: ImNotHades - 307 Points [2/25] (Fresco; Sarosy) 18th: Pedro67 - 274 Points [3/25] (Skellern; Walcott; Sallis) 19th: Deathers - 272 Points [4/25] (Westhuizen; Kaufman; Berry; Morano) 20th: Rockhopper penguin - 223 Points [3/25] (Westhuizen; Berry; Dreyfus) 21st: Whoaml - 222 Points [5/25] (Sarstedt; Hale; Westhuizen; Berry; Rockefeller) 22nd: YoungWillz - 157 Points [2/25] (*Snuka; Bayldon) 23rd: Captain Chorizo - 156 Points [3/25] (Hollingworth; Suzuki; Morano) 24th: Widows Peak - 0 Points [0/25]

Why ruin a perfectly good Glaswegian cesspool?

Update #10 for Gretel Bergmann and June Foray. Jagraj Singh and John Wraw join the List of the Lost. msc 1435 The Dead Cow 1235 Captain Chorizo 1210 Jiroemon Kimura 1170 DeathImpends 1150 Joey Russ 1140 Grim Up North 1135 drol 1045 Book 1030 gcreptile 925 RadGuy 830 Shaun of the Dead 675 YoungWillz 550 GraveDanger 515 Bibliogryphon 500 Wormfarmer 465 Deathray 400 The Unknown Man 390 ImNotHades 350 Davy Jones' Locker 100 Gooseberry Crumble 0 Singh and Wraw not getting QOs definitely hurts a lot of people. 530 lost points for both msc and drol! But never underestimate the power of Guardian/Telegraph/Times backlog... P.S. In regards to my recent username change, I'll just keep listing myself as RadGuy on the scoreboard. P.P.S. I'm still on vacation for almost two weeks, but I did have the chance to access a computer and to make this update.

I have to laugh at our german political media and their attempts to analyse the Trump presidency, as if there was a deeper meaning to all of this. Reminds me of when I studied political science and our academics were discussing neoconservatism as some kind of complex ideology. In reality, there's really not much there. Trump is out of his depth. An idiot huckster. He's ruling by the "you win some-you lose some" principle, which is good enough for his company - some real estate business in New York fails, but some golf course in Kazakhstan succeeds. Just keep the money busy.... However, this doesn't work in government. And the people he hires are idiots. And most of the things he does, he does because of some gut instinct.

I never thought more damage could be done to my country then it already has, but here we are, at possibly the lowest point in our countries history since the worldwide Great Depression...

Priebus gone....https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/politics/reince-priebus-white-house-trump.html List of achievements in office: Weekend Golf Racist Travel Ban Anti-LGBT military ruling Firing his "friends".

After the death of Clarence Matthews, formerly oldest living man in the US, the title has now actually gone to Richard Overton.

Lionel Richie is not black, do your homework, I know you think we are all the same and that you can just put us in 1 grouping, but it is so wrong, your post is essentially music apartheid.

No more tomorrows for Tom Snyder 10 years ago, aged 71.

Those WW2 soldiers were a tough bunch. Not many snow-flakes in that group. The damn bank tried to take Clarence´s old house away from him a while back. Luckily a Go-Fund-Me page saved him from being kicked out at the age of 111.

Update after one month during which not much happened. Smith Hart died, Jagraj Singh died and hasn't obited yet. I reduced his obitability to 5%, which decreased the score of DQSP by quite a bit. Sonny West's obitability increased from 5% to 100%. One of the rare cases where the obit appeared by chance. That's why I reduce obitability not to 0%, but to 5%. Such coincidences can always happen... Maybe some other Sikh authority gets killed and obits, and Jagraj Singh gets a mention, or something like that... The biggest change was the previously announced reduction in score for not-terminally ill people (exception: al-Baghdadi - I don't know what to do with him. I actually think I should reduce his obitability, but didn't do it for now). So this is what it looks like now: 1. Thomas Jefferson Survives (179,54) (---) 2. Still Life (177,345) (+2) 3. Golden Slumbers (176,44) (-1) 4. To Kill a Gabor Sister (173,33) (+1) 5. David Quantick's Showbiz Pals (169,74) (-2) 6. The Love Boat (165,28) (---) 7. Poochie Died on the Way Back to his Home Planet (163,55) (---) 8. drollercoaster (162,905) (+1) 9. Deceased Hose (161,15) (-1) 10. Heading Nowhere (157,84) (+4) 11. The Living End (155,39) (+1) 12. Buckets of Blood (154,81) (-2) 13. Dead Ends (154,505) (-2) 14. New Years and Drinks All Night (153,11) (-1) 15. Day in the Death (151,79) (+1) 16. Crossing The Styx (151,46) (-1) 17. The B-Team (150,155) (new) 18. I will not die, it's the world that will end! (149,83) (---) 19. Dead as a Doornail (148,49) (---) 20. I'm sorry for your trouble (146,145) (-3) Still Life overtakes Golden Slumbers because of the latter's pick of Bruce Forsyth, who was picked for general frailty and the fall, and who I actually thought would be dead by now. But he keeps hanging on. Heading Nowhere gains the most places, because he knows that, statistically, the terminally ill people are better picks than the age-based picks. He also has 3 picks whose deaths would gain him at least 5 points each, Georgina Beyer, Pete Frates, and Stefan Karl Stefansson. So there is still some potential to go higher, but with Frates' money woes temporarily over, it might not work out this time. My B-Team is now also in the top 20, even though it had a couple of age based picks. But their score was already very low, so I couldn't reduce them much anymore. Still, I am not sure it makes the Top 20 in the end. It's running out of good picks. Nick Boles, Colin Butts, Steve Gleason and also Kevin Murray are doing too well to die this year, in my opinion. Kevin Murray was another prisoner to fool me. While he has ALS and is terminally ill, it's nowhere near as advanced as previously said. Still, for now I don't reduce the scores of terminally ill people doing well, as they could always take a turn for the worse quite quickly and there is still enough of 2017 left. Bobby Zarin is a good example, he'll die very soon. And if I were to reduce the scores of those B-Team picks, I might as well reduce the scores of other picks who have an increasing chance of surviving the year, Greg Gilbert, Gord Downie, Simon Ricketts, King Michael, Colin Meads.... The next update will probably see the deaths of Connie Johnson, Stefan Karl and Bobby Zarin (not enough to put Shameless into the Top 20). And Leah Bracknell hasn't given us part two of her story yet... I predicted that her decline would be very quickly, once it sets in. I predicted an August/September death. Edit: Just realized why my B-Team is now so high. It's because of Gary DeCarlo's death.

Why you all so racist?

Early betting on Aretha I'd say Stevie will see the rest out (metaphorically speaking, obviously)

George Clinton Al Green Charles Bradley Snoop Dogg 50 cent P Diddy R Kelly Dr Dre Chris Brown Rhianna Beyonce Jay Z Janet Jackson Jackie Jackson Tito Jackson Jermaine Jackson Marlon Jackson Randy Jackson La Toya Jackson Rebbie Jackson Cissy Housten Leontyne Pryce Dave Bartholomew Nile Rodgers

Bring back regional BBC Obits. If the sports pages are fair game then they should be too.

It's alright, I nearly got the chance to see Midnight Oil live but just found out a couple of days ago the show was canceled

Greg Gilbert currently doing ok, a state that might last for a while: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15430742.Greg_Gilbert_cancer_battle_latest___Delays_frontman_talks_candidly_about_living_with_cancer/

C'mon lfn. The chances of Roey being a prepubescent young imperialist shaver, who trawls ITV regional news for obits, is fucking nil. He's from the Shire, 35-55 and either an alt of a mod or a member, or somecunt like Zyklon.

Drowned, and worse than that, too. Mind you, genuinely, one of the first replies on a friends Facebook post about their dad dying was some dumbass going "Sorry to hear that, hope he gets better soon"!

If he drowned a few hours ago his condition is most definitely fucking critical, you bellend.

Sad to say the Scottish artist Evelyn Fleming died last weekend aged 78. A really lovely lady. *and contrary to the obit, it wasn't a collie but a springer spaniel called Birthday, as she was born on Evelyn's. I'll miss our chats. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1286435/elderly-woman-dies-after-falling-down-gorge-in-north-west-sutherland/

Selfie.

Indeed, a teacher at my old school died in his garden. There were two theories: 1: He had a heart attack. 2: He electrocuted himself while cutting the grass. Although theory two is rather humerous, I think I believe the first....

I would just hate to die in a gardening accident. And if they say the best die young then I better be watching my steps.

Ya gotta hate it when your hard core rock'n'roll lifestyle is brought to an abrupt end by a farming/gardening accident. And them'uns died young, too.