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Have a small and tired update: Two people score with the late Julie Gibson obit. DDT gets two unique hits with al-Baghdadi and Edwin Bramall. Two more people had Gay Byrne. And I had previously missed to give drol points for Leah Bracknell, and Cpt. Chorizo for José José. I had updated the score in the meantime without posting here... so I am not 100% sure, but 99% sure that Ivan Milat is also a new hit, pushing Banana onto the podium, plus another hit for drol (and a couple others). Rank Team name Points 1 Death Impends 1439 2 Clorox Bleachman 1425 3 Banana 1277 3 Joey Russ 1277 5 Phantom of the Midway 1249 6 GCReptile 1229 7 Cpt Chorizo 1216 8 Grim Up North 1191 9 Skinny Kiltrunner 1088 10 Devon Death Trip 1084 11 drol 1067 12 msc 969 13 Sir Creep 911 14 Book 815 15 John Key 712 16 The Unknown Man 640 17 The Quim Reaper 601 18 Prophet 566 19 YoungWillz 542 20 Grave Danger 532 21 Yorkshire Banker 450 22 theoldlady 430 23 The mad hatter 405 24 Fixed Business 401 25 The old crem 334 26 Deathray 314 27 Pedro 67 295 28 markb4 293 29 Gooseberry Crumble 279 30 Bibliogryphon 260

I hope President Carter lives to be the first president to live to 100 although these recent health developments have me worried. I remember President Ford was pretty active and coherent in his eighties but suffered a few minor health issues that escalated and made him live his last years in decline. In the event I would be interested to know who would be speaking at Carter's funeral service. Because lets remember - he was in the world of Washington for four years almost forty years ago. The most powerful man in the world at the time but many of his contemporaries in politics are either also approaching their end (and I doubt there are more active 95 year olds out there) or they have passed on. Vice President Mondale will probably speak if he outlives him. I know for a fact he has a long friendship with Vice President Biden who spoke brilliantly at John McCain's funeral last year. But perhaps Biden's 2020 campaign will prevent him from speaking should Carter pass away before the election. because the spotlight would be on him rather than celebrating the life of Jimmy Carter.

2020= about time Super Gran is one of the 50 names on Deathlist.net

In July I made a list of famous hospitalized people. I think only 3 on 7 (Gigi Simoni, Everton Weekes, Balbir Singh) are still going. I think it is time for a new list: 1)Lata Mangeshkar (1929): on life support with pneumonia and heart failure. Family insists she is recovering and her life is not in danger. Hospital says she will be discharged in a few days. Usual Indian scheme. 2)Daniel arap Moi (1924): Hospitalized for the third time in a month. Was on life support two weeks ago and reportedly wanted to be left at home to die. Obviously according to the family he has gone for the usual "routine check up". 3)Jimmy Carter (1924): suffered fall and cerebral hemorrhage. Now hospitalized for indefinite time, but rapidly getting better according to close people. 4)Balbir Singh (1924): again in hospital, for the third time in a year. He spent two weeks on life support last year and is suffering from congestive heart failure. No hints at a possible death from family, though. 5)Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (1936): Peruvian crook/president, hospitalized for cardiac arrhythmia in ICU. The Fujimori way, all along.

Technically of course, she's quite correct, at least in the case of the cash.

A Monroe (Louisiana of course) woman was arrested recently after a police body search found both methamphetamine and a substantial amount of cash hidden in her vagina. Foxnews.com reports that 23-year-old Ashley Beth Rolland "was accused...of stealing $5,000 from the apartment of a man she'd been staying with for about a week. During a search of Rolland by a female sheriff's deputy, over six thousand dollars in cash and and a plastic bag containing approximately a gram of the illegal drug was discovered. According to the Sheriff's Office report, Rolland denied to deputies that the cash and meth were hers. SC

Things are so confused even John Curtice is saying "dunno m8"

What is important is that he didn't plan to eat the body. Moral standards of the human race are still high!

In the standings (24 pts) yes. I had also updated the Nov table, but for the life of me, it somehow didn't get saved. So I just did it again and also included Joey Russ's new hit for 5. All should be well through Nov 13th.

John Sitton's dressing room rant takes some beating. Love the bit at the end when he's inviting the players to have a fight with him. https://youtu.be/nYDIMWpcKqI

Uh oh...

Obituary for Andrea Newman, author who adapted some of her novels for television: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/11/13/andrea-newman-creator-racy-novels-tv-dramas-tangled-married/ Probably best known for Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628006/

The brother of tory candidate for London mayor Shaun Bailey has passed away suddenly he has revealed on Twitter.

Ian Cullen has reportedly died aged 75. One of the dwindling cast of The Aztecs, but in everything from When the Boat Comes In to Dalziel and Pascoe to Family flipping Affairs.

Marvin the Robot from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has died.Or at least the actor who did his voice, Stephen Moore, has anyway https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/13/stephen-moore-obituary

81 today!