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Might as well put this here: Glad to see the Cup has its fans. It's the type of deadpool I wanted to join in for years, and hosting (apart from all the complaints!) was fun. However, all good things must come to an end. Being brief, the hat-trick of doom - weans, ailing relatives and a real life work avalanche in the next 18 months - make hosting the Cup in 2020 highly unrealistic. So consider this 4 months warning to see if anyone else wants to run the 2020 Cup. If so, great. If not, it was fun.

I'm enjoying the hell out of running a DP that goes 13 days (and counting) without a hit. Easy peasy.

Okay, what I'll be doing is having several segments of updates over the next few days. More eventful months will have their own update while slower ones will be combined ie the final third of the year had 7 hits so I'll probably have all those months in one update. After I'm done with the scoreboards, I will wait another week before making the final scores official, to give people the time to correct me on any missed bonuses. After the week is up I will give the 13th place and most interesting team bonuses and officially consider the 2018 HPDP complete. JANUARY Rotten Ali did have one scoreboard for January which contained consolation points for Rose Marie, Erica Garner, and Carmen Franco, plus the actual sub hit of Thomas S. Monson for gcreptile. Following that... Rayya Elias expayyaed on January 4 and was one of the most popular picks in the pool, with 10 teams going for her: Sean, The Unknown Man, the_engineer, and Uschi get 45 points. CaptainChorizo 40. deadsox, msc, and Sir Creep 35. and Prophet and RadGuy get 30. France Gall died on January 7 and is a unique for Dead Cow, and she was perched atop of his team, giving him a hefty 50 base points and 20 bonus points for 70 total. Another unique hit comes on January 17, this one towards Sir Creep's way with the sad death of Jessica Falkholt. Note that she doesn't qualify for any unexpected death bonus as her car crash was before 2018 commenced, so it's just the unique bonus for her. Creep gets 35 base points and 14 unique points for 49 total. Naomi Parker Fraley can do it! And by "it", I mean give me 25 riveting sub points following her January 20 demise. Two of the hallmarks of deadpooling are somewhat notable terminal cancer sufferers and somewhat notable centenarians. We had one of each die on January 21 in this pool. The cancer pick was Barnsley owner Patrick Cryne, whose 8 pickers were as follows: drol gets 50 points. Sean and I 45. RadGuy 40. CaptainChorizo and Pedro67 35. maryportfuncity 20. and Prophet 15. Whereas the centenarian was little old lady character actress Connie Sawyer whose death at 105 gives 25 points to Book and 10 to LFN. Three days later, RadGuy had a unique with Mark E. Smith. 35 base points and 14 unique points gives him 49 in all and helps him Hit the North of the scoreboard. Once again, we have a cancer sufferer and an oldie go on the same day on January 29. CaptainChorizo pushed Paul Alcock into his team, becoming the third team of this update to get a 49-point total unique hit. time also gets a unique hit with the world's oldest man Francisco Nunez Olivera, who nets him 63 points. Scoreboard for up to the end of January: 1. CaptainChorizo 124 2. RadGuy 120.3 3. Sean 92.4 4. Sir Creep 84 5. Death Impends 71.1 6. The Dead Cow 71 7. time 63.5 8. drol 51.1 9. Prophet 46.1 =10. The Unknown Man 45 =10. the_engineer 45 =10. Uschi 45 =13. deadsox 35 =13. msc 35 =13. Pedro67 35 16. gcreptile 26 17. Book 25 18. maryportfuncity 20 19. Lord Fellatio Nelson 10 =20. Everyone else 0

I have entered all 30 public known 2018 teams into my Excel file, along with the names who weren't picked this year. Will research the applicable bonuses over the next few days and then I can start the actual scoreboard.

The King of Rock died on this day 42 years ago (aged 42)... as well as the Queen of Soul last year (aged 76).

1931-45, formed due to The Great Depression, wound up dealing with WW2. Although that led to an election where Labour splitting into 3 parties, with the National Government Labour keeping the top jobs, the main party getting gubbed, and the ILP led by Glasgow firebrand Jimmy Maxton. There after, MacDonald (Labour) remained PM, but was replaced under the National Government as PM by Baldwin (Tory) without an election. (Although there was one later in the year which saw a mass swing to the non-NG Labour party, ,which promptly joined the government anyway...)

I reckon you should award yourself a bonus for sorting this out.

Took a trip through Nicholas' IMDB, just to see whether I could narrow down a cinema release film where he was the last survivor. Thanks to the longevity of folk like Gudrun Ure, Leslie Phillips, Bernard Cribbins, Michael Craig and others, and also the seemingly endless screed of untraceable minor role actors who stopped acting years ago or only appeared in one film...I could not find one. I mean even Frazer Hines played an urchin in one!

The two i knew who would come through.

1931 Whilst the same Prime Minister, MacDonald re-installed himself in a unity government composed almost entirely of opposition MPs and his remaining National Labour supporters, so technically a new Prime Minister from an opposition party even if the same Prime Minister in name as he went from Labour Party to National Labour and headed up a unity government. So there's clear precedent. Election then held. 1935 National Government complexion changed and Baldwin became Prime Minister before calling an election anyway. We'd probably head straight for an election after the unity movement, but as the unity government's sole purpose is to prevent No Deal, so what?

This is the team i submitted but I don't think I got any hits 1. Bob Barker 2. Sheila Steafal 3. Eileen Derbyshire 4. Tom Lehrer 5. Patricia Routledge 6. Sheila Mercier 7. Stanley Baxter 8. Ray Davies 9. Honor Blackman 10. Lionel Blair  Subs: Petula Clarke Ken Dodd.

I tried the same for Kirk Douglas. Was shocked at how many of his co-stars are still about, even if 75-80% are gone.

I assume me, because whatever the late penalty is, it'll be more than the zero everyone else gets. Whether that means a new team for everyone else I don't know

Cheers. Subs count as hits in this game, just with a different scoring system (25 for one sub hit, 50 for a second sub hit, no bonuses) so you will get points for Ken Dodd in due time.

If we start to post intelligently the forum will die on its aRse.

Elizabethon Fire Chief.... what's his uniform, doublet and firehose?

Perhaps better if.... Why didn't Smurfette expect Papa Smurf to ejaculate on her face. Cause it came out of the blue! By the way did you hear about the porno actress who wouldn't let her co-stars cum on her face. Eventually after many arguments she just took it on the chin.

Google translate had a tough time with this one. At least I hope it made a mistake.... Beijing Qin Hanzhang Wine Sales Co., Ltd. said that the death of Qin Hanzhang is Chinese food.

He will on my Made In Detroit theme team

First intelligent post of the lot.

Nobody has ever hit the Daily Treble. I'm aware of two close calls. One was about a decade ago and involved three deaths that happened on the same day, EDT. However, because deaths are determined by local time, one of them was deemed to have occurred on the subsequent day. The second was me, in 2016. On the afternoon of March 2 (EST) the deaths of both Martin Crowe & Sarah Tait came over the wire. Given both died in Oceania, the official death date was March 3rd. Joey Feek was in a coma by that time. She had 24 hours to go on March 3rd but ended up surviving until the morning/early afternoon of March 4th.

I once acted for a guy who was setting up a company to import cheap goods and sell them on internet. He'd been out to Fukuoka and met them and everything and happily had sent over his GBP50k payment in advance. I made a joke that if the k had been a v I'd have been a bit worried because he would have sent £50k to Fukuova. He duly was fucked over and the joke became less funny.

To be fair - Maidenhead is a shoo-in for a pig in a suit so long as it's sporting a Tory rosette.

Yes, I read that some days ago. Doctors said she was "much better" and "out of danger", whilw her daughter simply said she wasn't well. Now you know who was right. Coincidentally Indian composer Khayyam was in a nearby hospital with lung infection, and his wife Jagjit Kaur, a noted singer, was hospitalized too (she is expected to be discharged by Monday). Though Khayyam was said to be "on the road to recovery" it seems it has now taken a turn for the worse; mind, he has been in a semicomatose state for weeks.

Alf Smith, joint title-holder of the UK's oldest man with Bob Weighton, has died at 111.