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As you were the last one to post, consider yourself ba............. Oh, wait.

To be fair so can @Mysteriousmummy if Demi Lovato, Charlie Sheen, Miriam Margoyles, Roy Wood and Vanessa Redgrave die after the 10th September and whole host of people don't die for the rest of the year. That's the beauty of the game. We've got a while until anyone's completely unable to win.

I have heard of him because Homer Simpson sings Two Tickets to Paradise in one of the early Simpsons! And that was repeated on Channel 4 within the last week. But if both of those things hadn't happened, I wouldn't have. Apparently he sold millions in the US and Canada, but nowt here. Anyhow, the combo of Stage IV cancer and heart issues make him a good 2020 pick for teams who wish to do so, and the Daily Mail/Guardian (and maybe the Beeb themselves) will certainly cover him. It's not a great song, but it does stick in your head like an unwanted gift.

Never heard of him. Don't think he had any UK hits.

That's why it's my favourite. Lovato has just turned 27 so it's pretty much a given she's on her last legs

Arun Jaitley Dead.

Arun Jaitley's health has deteriorated...

The son of former NFL lineman Barry Bennett is accused of shooting Bennett and his wife multiple times, killing them, then driving out of state and boarding a flight to Mexico, according to criminal charges filed Friday. Authorities issued an arrest warrant and were searching for Dylan Bennett, 22, who is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, without premeditation, in connection with the deaths of his parents, Barry and Carol Bennett. Their bodies were found Wednesday in their home near Long Prairie, MN. Authorities believe the Bennetts were killed Monday. The complaint said Carol Bennett, who would've been 64 on Thursday, was shot multiple times in the back and torso. Barry Bennett, 63, was shot multiple times in the torso and head. Dylan Bennett's car was found at the home, with an empty box for a 9mm handgun and a box for ammunition inside. Carol Bennett's car was missing. According to the criminal complaint, Barry Bennett told the Todd County Sheriff's Office in December that Dylan had expressed thoughts about killing his parents while he was in a mental health treatment facility. SC

Sorry, was that an offensive line?

No, just a precursor.

Could I make an appeal for points for Grace Catherine Jones (died 7th June). She is on my list as Catherine Grace Jones, which might be because I submitted my team with the surnames first, or might simply be because I made a balls of it and got her name mixed up. Either way, that’s who I intended (honestly!).

It should be a bannable offense to post in this thread from now until her death.

"Interests: Music Politics Community Service" @DeathClock your profile says you are interested in community service. After reading this take, you would serve the DL community well by sending a letter to one of the site Admins asking that your profile be deleted.

Give it a day or two, maybe no adjustments necessary to Charles (praying to Christ this happens)

I used to have one of his bikes. (a lame gag based on ddp thread and not knowing who all these people are)

80 today valerie

Go out and smash it. Like OH MY GOD.

JUNE It always is rough for a HPDP team when they lose their last pick first, especially if said pick comes with a bonus that ends up being marginal. In this case, Wormfarmer placed ALS-afflicted NFL player Dwight Clark in his 5-point slot, who died June 4 and predeceased everyone else on his team. He picks up 5 base points and 2 unique points, for a colossal game-changing 7 points. Sing little birdie, sing your (swan) song for Teddy Johnson, who died on June 6. Though best known for being half of a husband-and-wife singing duo with Pearl Carr, his Guardian obit also helpfully notes that he was a drummer earlier in his career. He also performed in pantomimes. Lord Fellatio Nelson and Uschi thus each get 30 base points and 24 bonus points, for 54 in total. There always is sadness when a forum regular loses their "mascot", which happened twice in the 2018 HPDP but only one is mentioned in this update. On the same day as Johnson's death, msc bid farewell to his mascot Lady Mary Wilson. He gets 20 base points and 8 unique bonus points, for 28 in all. WWII U-boat commander Reinhard Hardegen sank on June 9. Note that, despite fighting for the Nazis, he himself was a good man who often rescued the sailors from the ships he sunk and was no fan of Hitler. So no crimes against humanity bonus here. So the only bonus maryport gets for his hit is the unique one, with 15 base points and 6 bonus points making for a total of 21. More misfortune comes Wormfarmer's way with his selection of Big Van Vader. It's Vader's time on June 18, meaning he gets yet another 7 point total from a unique hit. The day after, Toast royally receives 25 sub points from Princess Elisabeth of Denmark. On June 21, old Johnny Hubbard went to the cupboard to get Reptile a score. A 40-point base, uniqueness in place, he got 56 points more. Scoreboard for up to the end of June, with the podium placements remaining the same while Uschi extends his lead: 1. Uschi 210 2. RadGuy 155.3 3. CaptainChorizo 149 4. Sean 137.4 5. FixedBusiness 125 6. Death Impends 116.1 7. maryportfuncity 116 8. deadsox 115 9. time 112.5 10. The Unknown Man 105 11. msc 103 12. Prophet 101.1 13. Pedro67 100 14. gcreptile 92 15. Rotten Ali 87 16. Sir Creep 84 17. the_engineer 80 18. The Dead Cow 71 19. Lord Fellatio Nelson 64 =20. Book 60 =20. Toast 60 22. drol 51.1 23. Bibliogryphon 25 24. Exu 20 25. Wormfarmer 14 =26. Everyone else 0

MARCH On March 3, Roger Bannister's run came to an end, but died quicker than I would've liked as he only gets me 15 base points and 6 unique points for 21 total. the_engineer had him on his subs bench (note that due to their lack of bonuses, subs do not remove uniqueness from a pick that is only on one main team) and gets 25. On the same day as Bannister's death, we saw a Tasmanian deviled. Vanessa Goodwin was a good one for 3 teams, with 35 points going to deadsox and RadGuy and 30 to Uschi. On March 11, Ken Dodd doddered on no more, giving Bibliogryphon his first points with the 25-point sub hit. The points for Stephen Hawking are no longer theoretical, with him dying on March 14 and both Exu (who is now on the board) and Prophet getting 20 points for wheeling him into their teams. APRIL April last year had a smattering of notable passings, but only two are relevant to here, and both are unique hits who you might've thought were on more teams. Former US First Lady, literacy advocate, and chairwoman of the Simpsons Fan Club Barbara Bush died on April 17. Only Toast picked her, getting on the board with 25 base points and 10 more for uniqueness, giving her 35 in total. On April 21, the ever-so-dangerous World's Oldest Person title passed its baton once more with the death of Nabi Tajima. Despite looking out of it for years, she managed to hang on long enough to become the third oldest person ever and the oldest to set foot into this century. time gets 35 base points and 14 bonus for 49. MAY We've seen the oldest man and oldest woman score in the 2018 HPDP, now it's the oldest Briton's turn with heavens to Bessie Camm on May 11. She got 45 points for Pedro and 10 for maryport. I expected to have to give the lowdown on how a dozen teams benefit from Tessa Jowell's May 12 death, but she was surprisingly only on 5. 35 points for deadsox, 30 for Sean, and 20 for msc, Pedro, and The Unknown Man. Boy of '66 Ray Wilson was 86ed on May 15, making FixedBusiness gain 50 points and becoming the first team to hit both of his subs. In the clearing lies Dean Francis, whose knockout on May 25 proved heavyweight for maryport (40 points), featherweight for msc (20) and bantamweight for gcreptile (10). Scoreboard for up to the end of May, with Goodwin's death making it a tight race at the top as both Uschi and Rad inch past the Captain: 1. Uschi 156 2. RadGuy 155.3 3. CaptainChorizo 149 4. Sean 137.4 5. FixedBusiness 125 6. Death Impends 116.1 7. deadsox 115 8. time 112.5 9. The Unknown Man 105 10. Prophet 101.1 11. Pedro67 100 12. maryportfuncity 95 13. Rotten Ali 87 14. Sir Creep 84 15. the_engineer 80 16. msc 75 17. The Dead Cow 71 18. Book 60 19. drol 51.1 20. gcreptile 36 21. Toast 35 22. Bibliogryphon 25 23. Exu 20 24. Lord Fellatio Nelson 10 =25. Everyone else 0

FEBRUARY Liam Miller went landfiller on February 9, scoring 10 points for deadsox and the_engineer and 25 sub points for The Unknown Man and FixedBusiness. We now see four hits happening across four days. On February 12, frizzy-haired comedian Marty Allen went "goodbye dere" and gave Rotten Ali his first points on his Hollywood Squares theme team. 25 base points plus 30 bonus points (unique and Squares) give him 55 total. Prince Henrik of Denmark died the day after, bestowing 25 sub points upon Uschi. Another subs bench departure occurred the following day, with a certain forum poster's nemesis Morgan Tsvangirai dying and benefiting maryportfuncity with 25 points. The day after, silent film child actress Lassie Lou Ahern had gone to the dogs. Uschi quickly followed up his previous Prince Henrik hit with 40 base points and 16 unique points for the Our Ganger, for a total of 56. Seemingly eternal deadpooling bedblocker Rev Billy Graham finally met his boss on February 21, and 6 teams were rewarded for their patience: FixedBusiness gets 50 points. Book and Prophet 35. Sean and The Unknown Man 15. And CaptainChorizo lands his first sub for 25. And the following day, Hollywood Squares regular Nanette Fabray decayed. She was picked by Rotten Ali and I (who had been steadfastly picking her in the HPDP since 2013). Ali receives 20 base and 12 Squares points for 32, and I receive 15 base and 9 Squares points for 24. Note that while some of the Caesar's Hour skits she did were described as pantomime, as far as I can tell the pantomime bonus is meant for those who have performed live pantomime shows rather than skits on TV (Ali in the past had rejected the pantomime bonus for Pat Harrington Jr, who was a similar case), so I'm withholding a panto bonus for her as it stands. Scoreboard for up to the end of February, which sees Chorizo extend his lead, Uschi shoot to second, and Ali and FixedBusiness debut: 1. CaptainChorizo 149 2. Uschi 126 3. RadGuy 120.3 4. Sean 107.4 5. Death Impends 95.1 6. Rotten Ali 87 7. The Unknown Man 85 8. Sir Creep 84 9. Prophet 81.1 10. FixedBusiness 75 11. The Dead Cow 71 12. time 63.5 13. Book 60 14. the_engineer 55 15. drol 51.1 =16. deadsox 45 =16. maryportfuncity 45 =18. msc 35 =18. Pedro67 35 20. gcreptile 26 21. Lord Fellatio Nelson 10 =22. Everyone else 0

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

Rescued this wee chap out the front of the house yesterday, gave him some kitten food and moved him to the bottom of the garden so he's well away from the road.

I always have a heart attack when I see someone post on this thread.Please hang on in there Ruth !

Eddie Money, who had a string of hits in the 70's and 80's and who is featured in a reality show with his family (wasn't sure if I should've posted here or in the Reality TV thread) was apparently diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer late last year, according to TMZ. It looks like the normal life expectancy for such a diagnosis is 6 months, so he's already outlived that. I'm sure he's getting the best care imaginable, but if he makes it to 2020, he seems like a great pick in pools next year. (I'll post in the 2020 suggestion thread as well.) https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/24/eddie-money-diagnosed-stage-4-esophageal-cancer/