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MMMDP Form Guide #6 Olivia Newton John Summer dyin' had me a blast Summer dyin' happened so fast The clue is in the lyrics folks!

Clearly because if you had the patients they would be in the waiting room.

It is weird, Twitter is full of people doing the "Oh I adored him as a teenager/child/whatever," when I'm sure 99.9% of the world's population used to schedule 1990s viewings of Whose Line around whether or not it was a majority American panel and Stiles & Mochrie were there to drag matters up. Thread can also be used for Mike McShane, who I'm stunned is still alive.

Announces rescheduled gigs, already confident he'll make 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48093869

And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the MMMDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the MMMDP 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 who remains alive at midnight on May 31st and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit – see rule 9 below – upon death. The only exception to this rule are persons residing on death row with an execution falling within June 2019 (feel free to risk a death rower due to take the final walk from 1 July). 3 - Entries open at 9-00am BST on 31st May and close at midnight on 31 May. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the MMMDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 – The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 BST hrs on 1 June 2019. 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 21 players (twenty who are obliged to post entries on the MMMDP thread and Maryport who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavour). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 21 players to compete for a death within 21 days thereby giving us a victory by midsummer’s day at the latest. If you’re snoozin’ you’re losing. 6a – Because he has forced his own entry Maryport guarantees to respect the first 20 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 MMMDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations 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 MPFC'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 MMMDP. In honour 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 MMMDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a MMMDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the MMMDP 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 MMMDP and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of MMMDP 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 MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the MMMDP 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 MMMDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into MMMDPs. 13 – In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 31 May 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 June 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. 14 - A prize will be awarded as follows: i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcoholic drinks (pints, wine or spirits) will be supplied by MPFC along with much hearty congratulations and back-slapping. ii: A carefully chosen and appropriate prize will be posted to the winner (such as the DVD copy of the original Death Race movie supplied to the 2009 Deathrace). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with six of the seven existing winnings of the Deathrace). This course of action is highly encouraged and is known to show dead poolers as something other than the sicko scum many ranters believe us to be. AND FINALLY... On completion of MMMDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectactors offer well-deserved congratulations to the skilful 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.

After the death of Billy McNeill last week, Stevie Chalmers joined him today. Thought i'd create a thread for them. Remaining survivors John Clarke Bobby Lennox Bertie Auld Jim Craig Willie Wallace.

Oft-discussed around these parts, there's a big Guardian interview with the scourge of early 90s British comedy here. What we learn that's new: he's no longer doing cocaine, he is still drinking heavily ("I need that half bottle of vodka"), his leg is covered in lesions from "some kind of cirrhosis", he's no longer taking psychiatric medication, he's returning to the stage for the Edinburgh Fringe, he has absolutely no money and he was nonced by a priest as a kid. Oh, and "he just hopes he makes it to his 60th". Which is in November.

@Boudicca fae you mo ghráidh

TMZ reporting he had a heart attack resulting in a cardiac arrest on Thursday.Said to be recovering.

John Sessions stand up was terrible but he was so good as Dr Prunesquallor in the BBC adaptation of Gormanghast I was blown away. Good Omens is the Amazon Prime/BBC adaptation of the Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett comic novel about the Apocalypse. It has David Tennant and Michael Sheèn as a demon and angel who team up because it will threaten the life on earth they are actually enjoying.

I adore Josie Lawrence I was fortunate enough to see her in an RSC production of The Taming if the Shrew. She is in the cast of the new Good Omens series.

Tom Petty is very proud of him right now.

MMMDP Form Guide #2 John McCririck Plenty of smoke surrounds his current ill-health but who gets to fire first and fill in a post hereabouts to claim the cooling carcass if this one falls at the first in the June stakes?

MMMDP Form Guide #1 Kathleen Blanco Looks like the palliative procedures for this titan of US public service. Q/o nailed-on by the low hanging standards of this fun fest of fatality so she's hot hot hot property providing she palliates (is that even a word) into position to play on 1 June!

1. Bob Hawke 2. Kathleen Blanco 3. Leah Bracknell 4. Shelia Mercer 5. Olivia Newton John 6. Olivia De Haviland 7. Vera Lynn 8. Loretta Lynn 9. Glynis Johns 10. John Hume 11. Sandra Day O’Connor 12. Gerd Muller 13. Barbara Windsor 14. Bill Treacher 15. Diana Serra Cary 16. Rosalynn Carter 17. Clarissa Eden 18. Larry King 19. Pope Benedict 20. Roberta McCain 21. Roberta Flack Backup. 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Prince Philip 3. Queen Elizabeth 4. Jimmy Carter 5. Ruth Bader Gingsburg

Leonard Fenton is 93 today!

was it this one https://careersmart.org.uk/occupations/undertakers-mortuary-and-crematorium-assistants

: after Sirs. we could all pitch in bits like that, going to be a long thread. May want to start up TQM’s Cover Letter thread, would be hilarious frankly SC

Flying in a southerly direction into Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport (bottom centre), you fly over Bay View (centre). Looking out of the window you see ...

Former tobacco salesman turned chainsmoker Simon Neale now has inoperable lung cancer and sues his company for giving him free poison: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48050476

The Old Crem and I scored a duet with Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. I for one thank the Deathlist. My 2019 alt.obituaries list is not at all competitive this year -- I don't care, as long as I get more hits than my friend in an on-running bet -- but Deathlist.net's regulars have signifcantly contributed to my top ten performances in another dead pool.

Well I pity da fool that gets knocked out in Round 2. Well done Torva! Best of luck to you and everyone else in Round 3.

Well she was just barely four, Left ajar was the door, And when the parents looked, they found she wasn't there Was she abducted by another? Wooo K and G are each a millionaire. (To the tune of I Saw Her Standing There)

John Singleton will die today as his family decided to put him off life support.

Forty years ago today my Mum died at the age of 46.