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Hello all, After lurking on the DeathList forums since around 2016, I'm coming out of the shadows, now that someone has kindly created an alt.obituaries thread. It's long been the lone deadpool I've played. Don't get your hopes up that I'm the vaunted, but mysterious, Gerard Tierney. I'm not. I'm his shadow, Allen Kirshner, destined to always finish just behind him in the standings. It's good to meet everyone. A brief word about myself. I've had an interest in death notices for many years. When I first came across the alt.obituaries dead pool in 2007, it seemed like a great place to channel that interest. I began playing it in 2008 and have done so ever since. I've regularly kept up with the information posted in the various forums. I'm impressed by the effort everyone puts in. While I may relegate myself to this forum, in terms of posting, I guess we'll have to see. Everyone has been quite open in posting their lists. I'm afraid I won't be so forthright. Sorry folks. However, as a goodwill gesture, I will list the 12 names I submitted for the 2018 AO Deadpool that were rejected and whom I had to replace: 1) Satoru Anzaki, 2) Ray Bitar, 3) Ami Brown, 4) Dean Francis, 5) Vanessa Goodwin, 6) Ian Lariba, 7) Abdelhak Nouri, 8) Carl Perkins (not the Blue Suede Shoes guy), 9) Joe Redner, 10) Will Rogers (not the man who liked everyone he met) 11) Dingko Singh and 12) Marieke Vervoort Finally, a word to whomever had Dennis Stamp in the 2017 Deadpool I know someone who posts to these forums did. Don't hold your breath on a last-minute QO. Two people had him and I'm the other one. I did everything I could to have him count but no dice. Sent in a number of obits, none was deemed good enough. All for now.

Bobby Zarin dead, name 464 for me. Still no obit in site for David Fisher, just some blog posts from Doctor Who fansites. I feel like, if we live in a world where a no-name husband of a star of a shit reality TV show that was popular overseas from them that got famous for being ill has an obit and not a writer of one of their nations most popular shows, we might be fucked.

Some countries are indeed shitholes. US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/04/us-stolen-land-indian-tribes-un US Country Overshoot Day is 14 March. If all of humanity consumed like the people of US, 4.8 Earths would be needed https://www.footprintnetwork.org/ US is the only country where climate change denial is still broadly accepted https://matadornetwork.com/change/united-states-country-climate-change-denial-still-broadly-accepted-heres/ US is the only country where 80 % of the people live in poverty or near poverty https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/poverty-unemployment-rates_n_3666594.html US is the only developed country in the world without national health insurance, aside from Bulgaria, White Russia, and a couple small countries created by the break up of Yugoslavia http://slippedisc.com/2017/09/an-american-musician-grapples-with-lack-of-health-insurance/ US has started 81% of the wars since WWII http://investmentwatchblog.com/america-has-started-81-of-the-wars-since-wwii/ US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons against another country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States US is the only country that has Ku Klux Klan https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-kkk-today/

You completely miss the point. Yes, El Salvador, etc., are horrible places. Even "lefties" like me don't argue that point. The objection is to the idea that someone from El Salvador, etc., is not worthy of coming to the United States simply because s/he is from a country that is - shall we say - a shithole. American mass immigration has not historically been based on what the immigrant can do for the United States but rather what the United States can do for the immigrant. The idea that an immigrant should arrive prepared to raise the GDP by a point is a recent phenomenon. Ironically, most Norwegians wouldn't lower themselves to come to the US, and I don't blame them. They would lose a lot and probably gain a neighbor with an AR-15 pointed out the window warning the local kids off the lawn. As presented by Trump, immigration selection based solely on country of origin is anathema to most Americans as it reeks of racism. Most of us are here because our less-than-Norwegian ancestors emigrated from comparable mid- to late-19th century European shitholes - places that are perfectly acceptable now but that at that time were cesspits of famine, poverty and disease. *cough*mid 19th century great famine*cough* Anything that suggests the exclusion of a group of people based on their race touches a deep well of societal guilt in the US, as it well should. We do not have the greatest track record of treating "the other" very well at all. As an aside, 1/3 of the American population hold passports. We do not travel outside the US as much as many other people do, but we have an incredibly large and diverse country that we would be hard pressed to see in one lifetime. It's hardly necessary to go to the expense and inconvenience of an international trip when you live here and can do most anything domestically. London or Paris or Tokyo or Shanghai or Johannesburg, et al, are many times what it would cost me to go to New York or San Francisco. If there isn't a driving force sending me to any of them I would just go to San Francisco and hang out at Alcatraz and be perfectly happy with no need for a visa or an international flight.

Gary Glitter tried that as an argument in his defence.....

My prediction is that I won't care anymore this year than I have since 1985 - and I faked it then.

Welcome to the forums, nice seeing a podium regular from the AO pop in here. Good luck to you with your efforts.

Thank you Joey Russ. And to you, as well.

One down, ten to go...

First fortnight in it's looking worse than 2016 tbh. I have a feeling we're in for a shedload, even without nuclear holocaust...

Agreed, he did.

Meh, I'm an Ubër prod by birth. Could be English King but would mean sleeping with one of the cunts. Application withheld.....

That tends to happen as people age.

There are some wonderful people out there. See, I'm nice really.

What? I thought Atari died in the 80s.

Your alias detection hardware needs a drastic overhaul imo.....

1 - Paul Bearer. 2 - Death Impends. 3 - King Michael's thread. 4 - Too many to count... 5 - Cassini's plunge into Saturn. 6 - Lord Fellatio Nelson. 7 - If I had to pick, JTrost. 8 - RobertMugabe. Haven't seen him in a while. 9 - Tie between Joey Russ and Sir Creep. 10 - I'll just go on the Cat O Falk bandwagon. 11 - Africa7777. There can be only one Bobby Muggs. 12 - Mad Hatter. 13 - drol. My Random Nominations: 14 - Saddest Hit of the Year: Gord Downie. 15 - Least Missed Hit of the Year: Ian Brady all the way.

If we are doing categories: 1. Death Impends 2. Boudicca 3. Harvey Weinstein 4. Death Impends making the forum great again (I know it’s a group of posts, but I think it should count) 5. Hollywood scandal whoever brought it up 6. Mugabe 7. Morbidkid/Mad Hatter 8. time 9. Myself (I need to think through certain posts) 10. Cat O’Falk 11. Morbidkid/Mad Hatter 12. Same as 11 13. Death Impends...

Oh going off the first page Admin of year - DI Post of the Year - TMIB finally snapping at all the moaning sods in the DDP thread. Shitposter of the Year - the Kid The Farewell Award - CAT! I mean, FFS, I had to sort out my own tech problems this year. Good Riddance Award - it would go to the Kid, but he still posts a dozen times a day or so it seems. Tip of the Year - RadGuy accidentally telling the world about Tracy McGiffin's imminent demise thinking he was talking in Spade code. Crystal Ball - drol on Cosgrave even if it wasn't a 2016 one and doesn't really count as result. Gimmick poster - Bobby M Thread of the Year - Gcreptile's Maths DDP prediction thread. Death of the Year - Harvey Weinstein (give it a few weeks) Joke of the Year - Bee side. Best newcomer - Thatcher (not something I've ever said before in real life tbh) Deadpool - Poker one Best Deathlist pick - Hefner Returnee of the Year - Harrymac if he ever left in the first place. Taking Charon's bump of a daft thread too seriously to make a few crap jokes - guilty as charged.

* Bringing it to the plate Staffer - Death Impends. * Worst explanation of what "coo coo cha coo' means - bladan * best caller in death bingo - spade * most use of VPN to get round ban - roey * still alive whilst everyone he has ever met has died - YW * MIA - Hein/rhp/cof/djl * loves buying shoes grandad - LFN *lover of a gag - torbrex (lardy close second)

The real black darth vadar is getting old, I know racist people like Joey Russ will always insists David Prowse was Darth Vadar, but he is wrong.

Oh, I don't know .....

If heaven is full of insufferable bible bashers give me hell any day!

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints"....Billy Joel.