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We really need to think about what kind of world we're going to leave to Jimmy Carter after we all pass on.

Well, Chris Bradley is dead and I miss out on my first deadpool win by a couple seconds. Congrats to Banana!

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Has Bill Clinton morphed into Dick van Dyke?

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.

No Chris Bradley.

Definitely not 25 as it has 1 more X than 27 does...

Was Number 25 or Number 27 Chris Bradley? Just trying to guess....

Based on the footage of the George H Bush funeral, I’d take him off the list for 2019. Maybe substitute him for Rosalynn though.

I'd be quite happy with someone bringing a pillow to the White House now and causing his funeral.

Wimbleon Champ Petra Kvitova and Auschwitz Nazi Guard Irma Grese

As France is tearing itself apart, will we even be the first to leave the EU?

Senator Bob Dole is lifted out of his wheelchair & salutes president George H. W. Bush.

He was married to a member of 90s Eurodance act Mr President, best known for their smash hit "Coco Jambo".

Finally finished my review of 1987. So here's a Top 30 of 1987 as promised. (I've had to rule out some great choons in favour of others just because they hit the same spot on the chart - not easy to do, you may have your own favourites!). Won't be another for a while as I've quite a few years stored for my theme teams. Anyway, enjoy listening to anything you haven't heard before: 1987 #01. It's A Sin - Pet Shop Boys #02. Fairytale Of New York - Pogues/Kirsty MacColl #03. Love In The First Degree - Bananarama #04. Almaz - Randy Crawford #05. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way - Blow Monkeys #06. Labour Of Love - Hue And Cry #07. The Music Of The Night - Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford #08. Funky Town - Pseudo Echo #09. Ever Fallen In Love - Fine Young Cannibals #10. Real Wild Child (Wild One) - Iggy Pop #11. The Right Thing - Simply Red #12. Bridge To Your Heart - Wax #13. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi #14. Land Of Confusion - Genesis #15. Paid In Full - Eric B and Rakim #16. It's Tricky - Run DMC #17. Dreamin' - Status Quo #18. Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction #19. Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds #20. Jack The Groove - Raze #21. The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk3 #22. French Kissin' In The USA - Debbie Harry #23. IOU - Freeez #24. I'd Rather Go Blind - Ruby Turner #25. Beethoven (I Love To Listen To) - Eurythmics #26. Girls Girls Girls - Motley Crue #27. Because Of You - Dexy's Midnight Runners #28. Watching The Wildlife - Frankie Goes To Hollywood #29. The Game - Echo And The Bunnymen (No #29 so I've picked another #28) #30. Victory - Kool And The Gang

A broke university student has been hospitalised after eating nothing but instant noodles for three weeks to save money. Chinese woman Hong Jia first gained attention at the beginning of November, after it was revealed she had begun her bizarre diet to save money for Singles Day - China's version of Black Friday. In a viral video, she said she had saved over $100 with her ramen meals - money she planned to splurge in a massive shopping binge. But her plan went horrifically wrong after her diet led to a serious deterioration of her health. Ms Jia needed to be hospitalised, and ended up spending her savings on medical bills. SC

First post here. Barbara Windsor has to be considered - dementia progressing and now has heart problems. Jimmy and Rosalynn carter should be constants from now on so that the president and First lady streaks continue. Queen Elizabeth should return so that the her death is not missed by the list because it would be the biggest UK death since the formation of the death list. Agree Shelia Mercer should be added as well. Doris Day should stay on the list as well June Brown maybe dropped as she looks in decent health and is still working and Paul Gasgoine is too unpredictable for the death list unless announced as suffering from liver failure or similar.

The smart money would be on her ability to enter a state of lucid dreaming whilst apparently awake. I think I'm right in saying she had at least one of her kids in the car when that meeting with the researchers took place - so likely not on the sauce.

Immortal general Lê Đức Anh turns 98 today!

Gazza is found with a fishing rod up his ass after he drinks himself to death on Christmas day

As a teenage Canadian male, it's probably going to be one of the big names like Stan Lee or Dolores O'Riordan (actually, funnily enough, Dolores did have a home for a time in Canada). I can't think of any huge Canadian name that passed this year off the top of my head like last year we had 2 massive ones (Downie and John Dunsworth). Stephen Hawking is also a really good bet in my opinion, but I'm basing this all off of cultural phenomenons; Hawking was alluded to in SO many television shows, movies, you name it. There's just my two cents on this topic .

Nah. Cunts deserve to be dragged through history. * see Hitler, Thatcher, Mandela, Pol Pot, Stalin etc etc. And Bush was an utter cunt.

Actress Judy McBurney , maybe best known for playing Pixie Mason on Prisoner Cell Block H has died aged 70. Quite sad, it was a ridiculous character but she always seemed so full of life. https://startsat60.com/news/celebrity/prisoner-star-judy-mcburney-dies-aged-70-following-cancer-battle