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fingers crossed

I will just leave this here, because in the case of Bush, one of his final acts as President shows what a gentleman he is in defeat.

I feel bad, soon as I saw it I bolted to here

Hello Everyone, after Phantom of the Midway's year of professional high-quality hosting it is now me who is going to handle this massive deadpool that we all love just BECAUSE it is so big. Here is where you can dump all the rare names you had no use for and then pat yourself on the back for finding them. The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from right now until Dec 31st 2018, 23:59 GMT - preferably alphabetically. You can choose one joker with double points - and you can also submit up to five substitutes in case one of your 50 dies before the end of the submission window. You may also choose new subs before the game starts if they die. The scoring rule is slightly changed to make room for the people of the 21st century. Instead of the last two digits of the year of birth (i.e. 1934 = 34 points), we will now have the scoring rule [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2000 will get 100 points in case of death, instead of the "00" under the old rule. Every other year of birth sees no difference. You may submit the following people: living, not having set a precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on January 1st 2019, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a campaign, a book, a court case, or fundraising that might affect other people. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage in whatever form will convince me. Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2019 GMT you may switch 5 old people for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2019 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2019 or the first seven days of 2020. The qualifying media outlets, i.e. QO rules are as such: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2019 plus The New York Times. Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so two posts below, quickly after this post. I will hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. I will not make use of the mid-year substitution. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. This also means that I might discuss borderline acceptable picks with you on January 1st or 2nd. We will have to talk then. If you're unavailable I might simply replace an unqualifying name with one of your substitutions. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread! Entrants: 1. Your host 2. markb4 3. theoldlady 4. The mad hatter 5. Yorkshire Banker 6. Bibliogryphon 7. YoungWillz 8. The Unknown Man 9. The Quim Reaper 10. The old crem 11. Deathray 12. Banana 13. Skinny Kiltrunner 14. msc 15. drol 16. Gooseberry Crumble 17. Cpt Chorizo 18. Sir Creep 19. Book 20. Clorox Bleachman 21. Joey Russ 22. Prophet 23. John Key 24. GraveDanger 25. Grim Up North 26. Phantom of the Midway 27. Death Impends 28. Fixed Business 29. Pedro67 30. DevonDeathTrip

I count it as November, since he died in The United States.

It would be called 'calling a spade a spade'

Aren't we all?

Found my Xmas prezzie to myself Potential new avatar <gasp>

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson & David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Alliss, Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey & Terry Waite (6/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, George Lineker & Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson & Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson & Sean Connery (2/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson & Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Desmond Tutu, Liza Minnelli & Herman Wouk (3/50) 2002: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: Pervez Musharraf, Kirk Douglas & Robert Mugabe (3/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai, Diego Maradona & Olivia de Havilland (3/50) 2006: Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn & Abdelaziz Bouteflika (3/50) 2007: Tim Johnson, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland, Vera Lynn & Louis Farrakhan (5/50) 2008: Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn, Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai & Charles Taylor (5/50) 2009: Kirk Douglas & Pierre Cardin (2/50) 2010: Kirk Douglas, Herman Wouk, Olivia de Havilland, Peter Tork, John Edrich, Frank Bough & Angela Lansbury (7/50) 2011: Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland, John Edrich, Ali Khamenei, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, Pierre Cardin, Vera Lynn & Michael Douglas (9/50) 2012: Kirk Douglas, Herman Wouk, Olivia de Havilland, Hosni Mubarak, Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Robert Mugabe, Dick Van Dyke, James Randi & Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (10/50) 2013: Clive James, Prince Philip, Hosni Mubarak, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland, Vera Lynn, Bob Dole, Doris Day, Henry Kissinger & Nicholas Parsons (10/50) 2014: Wilko Johnson, Olivia de Havilland, Valerie Harper, Clive James, Prince Philip, Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Javier Perez de Cuellar, James Randi, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett & Ed Asner (12/50) 2015: Herman Wouk, Olivia de Havilland, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Prince Philip, Kirk Douglas, Clive James, Valerie Harper, Leslie Phillips, Ken Kercheval, Bob Dole, Doris Day, Henry Kissinger, Hosni Mubarak, Robert Mugabe, Jake Roberts, Vera Lynn & Eddie Large (17/50) 2016: Olivia de Havilland, Herman Wouk, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Kirk Douglas, Prince Phillip, James Randi, Clive James, Bob Dole, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Vera Lynn, Sandy Gall, Desmond Tutu, Lester Piggott, Murray Walker, Jimmy Greaves, Gordon Banks, Jacques Chirac & Paul Gascoigne (22/50) 2017: Kirk Douglas, Vera Lynn, Prince Phillip, Pierre Cardin, Olivia de Haviland, Herman Wouk, Bob Dole, Leah Bracknell, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Betty White, Nobby Stiles, Queen Elizabeth ll, Paul Gascoine, Bob Barker, Honor Blackman, Ian St. John, David Prowse, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Hosni Mubarak, Desmond Tutu, Emperor Akihito, Gay Byrne & Valerie Harper (27/50) Updated for previous atrocious layout. Seriously, half of the entries had their full names written out, while others just had their surnames.

He cheated in his marriage like a gentleman. He grabbed ass like a gentleman. He was a war criminal gentleman. Now the Gentleman is my 14th hit. good riddance!

Feel kind of meh about his death tbh. Better than your Republican politicians today, but still has done a lot of shitty things. Still, hope his family finds peace. RIP

You chaps are fast! I just saw it on a breaking news alert, too. The old b*stard should have spanked his son more.

I don't let my kids go to nursery , they go to play groups at the local church and they're never out of my sight.Hope this mother learns the lesson of you must look out for your kids as no one else will. Willow ivy is the kind of name and dumb person picks thinking they're being smart.

Immortal general Lê Đức Anh turns 98 today!

This time it is a hit for me: George Bush Sr. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/politics/george-hw-bush-dies.html 1920: Javier Perez de Cuellar + Eileen Bennett 1921: Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg + Jackie Stallone 1922: Pierre Cardin + Janis Paige 1923: Franco Zeffirelli + Pearl Carr 1924: Robert Mugabe + Eva Marie Saint 1925: Michel Piccoli + Arlene Dahl 1926: Mel Brooks + Kaye Ballard 1927: Sidney Poitier + Cleo Laine 1928: Bernard Cribbins + Ethel Kennedy 1929: Ed Asner + Imelda Marcos

I've just realised George Bush is the 4th republican President in a row to die following the deaths of Ford Reagan and Nixon. The last Democrat President to die was Lyndon Johnson in January 1973, so I guess we're overdue one.

He just died. It's all over the news now. Tomorrow you'll hear it all day.

^^ reminds me that Sue MacGregor is still above ground.

Bitch says "Samarlian". Maybe she means Sentilenese? Wha kens, I don't. What I do ken, is she shouldn't put her daughter into care, esp as the 3 year old ANIMAL that attacked her wid be there. Part time mother - crack using benefit hoor.

Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day. And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2018. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes Joey Russ's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and there choice of candidates: Banana - Chris Bradley Phantom of the Midway - Tanya Gendle Clorox Bleachman - Anna Thornton msc - Andrew McGahan Spade_Cooley - Naka Drotske gcreptile - Jean-Louis Trintignant YoungWilz - Andrew Fairlie Captain Chorizo - Simon Ricketts Bibliogryphon - Vera Lynn Sir Creep - Patti Goyette Toast - Nobby Stiles drol - Syed Ashraful Islam Grim Up North - Josephine Mandamin YorkshireBanker - Anne Baker Book - Kane Tanaka Great Uncle Bulgaria - Leslie Phillips Death Impends - Herman Wouk markb4 - Tim Conway theoldlady - Stanley Baxter charon - Kathleen Blanco Skinny kiltrunner - Peter Angelos Deathray - John McCririck JQW - Donald Trump En Passant - Sumner Redstone Joey Russ - Bill Freehan Lets look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 Death Impends 2017 Sean 2018 Banana Good luck everyone.

At 13 now - which is somewhat funny, because in the DL Prediction game I actually have more hits. Only I forced myself to think a little like the committee there and had success with suspected DeathList returnees Bill Maynard and Doug Ellis.

Yep, my 6th hit here.

According to edits in the last week... Hollywood actor Wright King dead at 95. Jazz musician Shep Shepherd dead at 101. Feminist Mildred Persinger dead at 100. Actress and widow of Leonard Rossiter, Gillian Raine dead at 90. Probably all true. And now we wait...