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Akihito turns 86 today

Charles gives an update.

Everyone can play. Just make a list of 50 names you think are deathlist worthy, and you’re good. Oh, and if you want to submit it as a crowdsource list entry, you can do that as well.

Just a quick thread. Might delete it in a couple of days. If you're brave enough to tell the world, which party did you vote for? I'll start. (Don't hate me) S.N.P.

A good player I got to watch.... Former Detroit Lions safety Jimmy "Spiderman" Allen has passed away. Lions teammate Larry Lee revealed the sad news on social media on Saturday morning. Allen was 67. The safety spent four seasons in Detroit, from 1978-1981 after spending his first four seasons in Pittsburgh. In those four Lions seasons he picked off 24 passes, including a career-high nine in his final year. Allen earned his moniker for his sticky hands while playing behind the famed Silver Rush defensive line. Oh and most important of all: He was the lead singer on the Lions’ 1980 recording of Another One Bites the Dust, the team’s theme song adopted from Queen. SC

I appreciate that you consider me influential. That's very nice of you!

Very 'Christmas Present' Lynn

Could be nothing...or....something? Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, stepped down from Facebook’s board at the end of October. Desmond-Hellmann wrote in her resignation letter: “Unfortunately, increasing demands from my CEO role, my extended family, and my own health make it no longer possible for me to commit the necessary time and energy required to properly serve Facebook and its shareholders.” Course she's still CEO of the Gates Foundation, so can't be too bad. But being diligent deadpoolers we note these things for future reference. SC

I think there'll be no more deaths this year. The next year could be a bloodbath, since it's a leap year.

Just submitted my two teams, main and B team. It's going to be another really interesting year with lots of great picks. Good luck!

Teams sent. The usual fair but a few tweaks. Deathray's Kervorkian Clinic - rather than the usual fair of minor celebrities i've went full out for a team that could rival shameless (i'm not sure if msc has shoved shameless in this year with running it, if not a spiritual successor perhaps). Either nobody obits or I'm genuinely dissapointed if it does well and never try this trick again. Yes, it can only be a protest against the obit rules, can't it? Well typing fire and fury on here has never worked*..... Cobbles to a Coffin - corrie actors, very little thought. Shot in the Dark - if Cobbles is very little thought this is absolutely no thought - first 25 names (inc subs) that came into my head - Wilfrid Zaha features prominently - make your own conclusions. *please don't take this the wrong way guys, I'm grateful for all those who run the DDP - i've made my little stament precisely because i enjoy playing the game and want to continue enjoying it and many happy returns and a merry christmas to you all......

Day 356 observation. Who put Sheila Mercier and June Spencer on a 1920s theme team?

Then again there does seem to be a propensity for deaths around the christmas period. I'll stick with Bob Dole. He can't last forever in his condition !

Shadow List: Not bad. 15 is two better than last year, the year before, and the official DL this year. I genuinely thought I'd have about 20. But I'll accept this performance. It's a PB, so not too shabby. B+ Deathrace: Never reached 2019, leave alone being vaguely in the running. Turd. F Advent Avalanche: Cunt's still alive. Bollocks. E- Deathlist Cup: Debut year, and I was a quarter finalist; I'll fucking take that! B+ Inverse (off of Wormfarmer): Cunted it with Carol Channing early doors. I was like third last or something. E Inverse (off of Death Impends): Showed some promise. I mean, I'm not going to win the thing, but I'm the healthy end of the leaderboard. Currently 4th, I think? I might as well get something out of my picks not snuffing, I suppose. A- Death by Numbers: I picked names like a numpty, and I've spent most of the year the numpty-end of the leaderboard. Picked up a bit, but still absolutely nowhere. Worst thing is I haven't even drafted a list for next year yet. Best get a shifty on. D- Five4Three2One Mk.II: I think I was a bit better at the old format, but it's still not the biggest disaster known to man. But 30 points equates to an average of one top-scoring death every two months over the year, and, when put like that, it doesn't exactly sound that impressive. C Oldest State Leaders: Fucking Hau Pei-tsun. F Deaths of the Silver Screen: I GOT A HIT! Anna Quayle, may she rest in peace. Unfortunately, I also have Dick Van Dyke in my team, which means I'm probably not in the running unless round 1 goes on until 2034. B Windy City: An improvement on the last time I did it, but it's still a work-in-progress job. I'm not embarrassed like last year, at least. B- DeathList Correctlist: So I'm now at the correct number of hits! Unfortunately, 7 of those hits weren't on my guess list. Poor form, I suppose, but I'm not last. C- So overall, I'm still bollocks at this game. But it's about the taking part, etc. etc.

Martin Peters scores for Sean and me.

They make a mention of him walking into the hospital - so if it's prepeing people for his demise it's not doing a very good job.

Bit early for the 2021 shortlist to start dying, even by DDP standards.

Today she becomes the first ever cast member of a best picture winning film to live to see its 80th anniversary. Thrilling tidbit for you.

I also voted tactically, Zanu PF.

94 today. Happy Birthday Mr. van Dyke!

You have my list. A revised version of my Shadow List to remove those names that are my own personal picks and not likely to get committee support

Just for fun and to shut those who subtlety accuse me of nicking Hare's Picks every year up (only a handful of these would qualify for the Hare's anyway and there on my Hare's team, already sent to YW) and for the laugh here's my team with names and easily identifying information redacted. Feel free to add them to your team if you work them out. Edit = apparently No 18 died a few days ago - it was Ron Hogg.

Roy Richardson, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen from Ohio, died in early December at age 90. https://fox8.com/2019/12/06/local-tuskegee-airmen-dies-peacefully-at-90/

FWIW, this is the sixth year in a row where the DL's oldest debutant has died, following Luise Rainer, Kirk Kerkorian, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, David Rockefeller, and Barbara Bush.