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So today is Daylight Savings Time in the USA (95% of it), and we all fall back an hour. Let's celebrate this ridiculous patronage to the cycle of the sun-and-moon with a quick and dirty deadpool! For this year, DST: Begins 3 November 2019 Ends 8 March 2020 Rules couldn't be simpler. I want 4 names (representing the slightly more than four months of DST) that you personally have already used in any deadpool this year [PRIOR TO AUGUST 1] (including DDP or alt obits, which are off-site / also includes any SUBS you listed anywhere). A deadpool means a deadpool, not one of our fun games like guessing which oldest world leader will die (I'm posting this now, cuz there's always someone....) That's it. Winning: First to clear the board wins. Game ends on 8 March 2020 though. So most hits wins. Tie-breakers: 1. Designate a Joker. If your joker dies first in time before anyone you are tied with, you win. 2. If two or more teams somehow have miraculously had Jokers die on the same day, we will look at the 2nd person to die, first in time wins. And so on. If no Jokers are involved we look to first person who died, first in time wins, and so on. 3, QO: Let's say that the name is subject to the deadpool from which you extracted it, obviously using the least restrictive should they be found in more than one. To that end, if you would be so kind as to say the name of the DP you found the name from, save us all some time. Much thanks. *For example: President Jimmy Carter (Death By Numbers) Koppish? I see no reason to PM, seeing as there are only 24 or so hours to get this rolling. So just post when you want. If you PM me though, I will post for you after I make a lovely compiled list. It being the weekend, let's give everyone till 11:59pm GMT, 3 Nov 2019. So really launching on 4 Nov for the sake of argument. Next year we will have our act together. Hopefully we have a dozen or so entries. Sir Creep Daylight Savings Deadpool (3 Nov 19 -to- 8 Mar 20) JOKER Banana Henry Gray (3) Angie Douthit (3) Chris Doleman (4) Nobuhiko Obayashi Bibliogryphon Eric Carle John Andretti (5) Kirk Douglas (6) William McPherson Book Genesis P-Orridge Anne Buydens Douglas Sam Lloyd Jean-Louis Trintignant Boudicca Lee Kerslake Nobby Stiles Sam Lloyd Steve McDonald Captain Chorizo David Gulpilil Susan Bayh Johan Rehbogen Rosita Quintana Clorox Bleachman Genesis P-Orridge Angie Douthit (3) Alex Trebek Micah Bowie Death Impends Susan Bayh Richard Zoll Genesis P-Orridge Beverly Cleary drol Lee Kerslake Harry Reid Michael Robinson Pat Smullen FixedBusiness Nobby Stiles Bob Dole George Alagiah Lee Kerslake gcreptile David Gulpilil Jacci Woodcock Paul Volcker (2) Jean-Louis Trintignant Great Uncle Bulgaria Roberta McCain Beverly Cleary Stirling Moss Jean-Louis Trintignant JiroemonKimura Genesis P-Orridge Alcee Hastings Alex Trebek Lee Kerslake Joey Russ Genesis P-Orridge Susan Bayh Ed Genson Clive James (1) markb4 Alex Trebek Ruthie Tompson Roberta McCain Katherine Jackson msc Chris Doleman (3) Dr. Bruce Reid Alex Trebek Steve Blackmore Sean John Andretti Nobby Stiles Denis Goldberg Noel Conway Sir Creep Angie Douthit (1) Bill Freehan Kane Tanaka William Frankland Skinny kiltrunner Thuy Truong (QO?) Stacy Battle Sepp Blatter Dilip Kumar theoldlady Stirling Moss Nobby Stiles Sam Lloyd Bob Dole Toast Vera Lynn Ian Holm Alex Trebek Trevor Peacock Torva Messor Lee Kerslake Sam Lloyd Alex Trebek Norman Lloyd The Unknown Man George Alagiah Gina Loloabridgida Alex Trebek Javier Perez de Cuellar (7) ** Rather than dates I am simply designating order of death, so 1st (1), 2nd (2) and so on. So we can see at quick glance who wins any tie-breaker. Jokers will have their own separate numbering system as they trump everything else. IOW if your Joker dies first, you own the tie-breaker against everyone. SC

Ouch. This is the point where I am glad I'm not an egg-chase fan. Commiserations to those who are...QR and others (not the Scots presumably, be celebrating there) GZ to pedro. TYVM for work to PB.

Mother of John McCain, Roberta is stile alive, aged 107. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_McCain

A German guy called Helmut approaches a lady of the night in London . "I vish to buy sex viz you." "Okay," says the girl, "I charge £50 an hour." "Ist goot, but I must varn you, I am a little kinky." "No problem," she replies cautiously, "I can do a little kinky for an extra £10." Helmut agrees So off they go the girl's flat, where the German produces four large bedsprings and a duck caller. "I vant zat you tie zese springs to each of your hans und knees." The girl finds this odd, but complies, fastening the springs as requested. "Now you vill get down on your hans und knees." This she duly does, balancing precariously on the springs. "You vill please to blow zis kwacker as I make love to you." She thinks this even odder, but figures it's harmless (and the guy is paying). But the sex is fantastic: honking away on the duck caller, she is bounced all over the room by the energetic German. The climax is the most sensational she has ever experienced, and it is several minutes before she has enough breath to say, "That was totally amazing! What do you call that position?" "Zat," replies the German, "is ze Four-sprung Duck Technique."

Bloody hell. Not only are we heading to that time of year again, but we are also on our 5th year of doing this list. Time really does fly by fast. Anyways, welcome again to the Crowdsource List, which our goal is to try to outdo our friends on the deathlist committee. A total of 14 hits as of now. Will 2020 do better than 2019? Time will tell. Anyways, let's go onto the rules... THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Joey Russ, during the time period of 22nd November to the 31st December 2019. The list must have a minimum of 20 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Please send them by either PM or the Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2020. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and less Dewayne "Monsanto Man" Johnson, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2019 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier dead line is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrites from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2019 survivors will be used: Kirk Douglas, Jean Louis-Trintignant, Vera Lynn, Nobby Stiles, Clive James, Olivia Newton-John, Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Dilip Kumar, Bob Dole, Pope Benedict, Bob Barker, George Alagiah, Leslie Phillips, Jimmy Carter, Glynis Johns, Stirling Moss, Jill Gascoine, Sidney Poitier, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Mikhail Gorbachev, Violet Chamorro, Bill Turnbull, Terry Jones, Lee Kerslake, Loretta Lynn, John Hume, Roberta McCain, Gina Lollabrigida, Betty White, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Andretti, Rosalynn Carter, Pierre Cardin, Sheila Mercier, Beverly Cleary Some names there I don’t think anyone expected to be in contention for 2020, but there’s still time in 2019 yet. 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2019 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. Anyhow, enjoy. Or not.

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 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 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 their choice of candidates: Banana - Jean Pagé Sean - Genesis P-orridge Drol - Ajoy Roy Quim Reaper - Henry Gray Oldlady - Larry King Maryportfuncity - Nobby Stiles CaptainChorizo - David Gulpilil Bibliogryphon - Vera Lynn gcreptile - Karl Kiefer Death Impends - Ed Battle msc - DJ Richard Mills Great Uncle Bulgaria - Stirling Moss Toast - Jimmy Greaves Gooseberry Crumble - Leslie Phillips The Old Crem - Prince Philip Chilean way - Javier Pérez de Cuellar Book - Frankie Banali DeathByArsenic - Juliette Greco JiroemonKimura - Ron Boswell markb4 - Ruthie Thompson dean1991 - Peter Higgs Torva Messor - John Franzese Sr Skinny Kiltrunner - Susan Bayh Clorox Bleachman - Everton Weekes Joey Russ - Willie Nelson Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016  Death Impends  2017 Sean 2018 Banana Good luck everyone.

I thought this was going to be a "down-and-out ex-soap actor" story, but IMDB shows he's still pretty busy.

John Andretti Joker DL Poker Nobby Stiles DDP Denis Goldberg DDP Noel Conway DDP

Judith Magre Johnny Wheeler Juliette Greco Sumner Redstone Grace Slick Michael Lonsdale John Andretti Beverly Cleary Jean-Luc Godard Michele Piccoli

Form Guide #7 -- Kane Tanaka Take it from the world's oldest living person at present: "We are all just one heartbeat away from showing up on Deathlist dot net." And she should know. When Advent Avalanche 2019 launches, Ms. Tanaka will have experienced 3,683,404,800 heartbeats. Will she live to see 3,683,404,801 ??

Just wanted to say at first quick glance the lady on the right looked to be giving a 'thumbs down'. SC

Defensive tactical blunder on my part,only picked Katherine Johnson because she was in a high spot on the 2 teams last time they were eligable to use her. Really though multiple people of extreme age on all 3 teams so this competition could go any way.

No offense, but having never heard of this person I am innocent of malfeasance, but YOU, gcreptile....if YOU knew of him and didn't use him in ABC deadpool, well....

But his friends call him Jim. You don't tug on superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger And you don't mess around with Abu Ibrahim Hashimi al-Quraishi.

Jean Heywood reportedly died back in September: So was already DEAD when The Watcher posted about her longevity.

England by 16. Thanks Mr Bearer or taking the time to do this. Been fun.

How long did it take you to realise that?

How the hell am i in bronze place!

I second CC. Nice one PB, thanks for catering for the non-footballists!

I would just like to say a big thanks to Paul Bearer for running this competition despite missing a few rounds it has been a pleasurable experience. England for the win.

New Zealand by 23. Good calls to Biblio, Charlottes, SC and Pedro. Brucie bonus of 25 to QR. Well predicted. Pedro 286 En Passant 235 Redrumours 186 Biblio 175 Quim Reaper 173 Charlottes Controller 161 MSC 139 Paul Bearer 125 The Engineer 86  Sir Creep 46 Kinnock 1 DDT 1 Phew, I hope I got the scores right. A few late entries to the game, welcome aboard. Last game tomorrow. I'll update the final table when I get in from work.

Much like the forum, broadsheets love their centenarians... Telegraph gibs an obit to Julie Gibson, with markb4 picking up 20 base points and 8 bonus points for uniqueness.

Scuze my manners Sir Creep!

I have your team recorded as follows in my database. Give me a minute to check your posts in thread and see if there are any differences. ETA I do not see anything done erroneously at a glance. It seems you had the scores of each name off by a point, plus missed McCririck.

Stop jinxing it