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Despite all the spam, spam, spam, spammity spam of his declining health in recent months, 10 teams expected Terry Jones's death as much as they did the Spanish Inquisition. And now for a scoreboard completely different... =1. An Fear Bag 0 =1. Annami 0 =1. Bibliogryphon 0 =1. BuffaloPhil 0 =1. CaptainChorizo 0 =1. Clorox Bleachman 0 =1. Death Impends 0 =1. drol 0 =1. Etushispushingupdaisies 0 =1. gcreptile 0 =1. Grim Up North 0 =1. Joey Russ 0 =1. LizLemon 0 =1. Mercarte 0 =1. msc 0 =1. Neobrakeon 0 =1. Newjack 0 =1. Pedro67 0 =1. Spade_Cooley 0 =1. The Dead Cow 0 =1. The Old Crem 0 =1. The Quim Reaper 0 =1. The Unknown Man 0 =1. Toast 0 =1. Torva Messor 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 =27. grobler 6 =27. machotrouts 6 29. deadsox 7 30. Philip 9 =31. Book 10 =31. paddyfool 10 =31. theoldlady 10 34. Sir Creep 13 35. Skinny kiltrunner 16 36. Great Uncle Bulgaria 17

A DEAD PARROT 3/50 21st January 2020 Beloved Monty Python member Terry Jones has bereft of life and rests in peace in order to bring the crowdsource list its third score. By far his biggest success was with his work with Monty Python, which taught people that stuff like silly walks and fish slapping were fun things to do. It was no wonder then that with sketches like those they were able to be arguably Britain's finest comedians, something that allowed them to make it worldwide. Terry was less of a performer than the other five and made most of his impact behind the scenes. However, he still performed some really big roles during Monty Python. Among them included the upper-class man in "Nudge Nudge" who kept getting asked about his sex life, the explosive Mr. Creosote in the Meaning of Life, Brian's mother in the Life of Brian, and the waitress in the "Spam" sketch, which now produces the term for the infamous junk mail we all love. He co-directed Holy Grail with Terry Gilliam and he was the sole director of the other two Python films Life of Brian and Meaning of Life. The former of the two films really had a fascinating story, which lead to former Beatle George Harrison to pay for production. Outside of the Python realm, he was a renowned medieval historian and he teamed up once again with Michael Palin to write Ripping Yarns. Sadly, he had an aggressive form of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia, which ultimately lead to his death at 77. This was his second appearance, jumping all the way to the 20th spot. In other news, I just found a book on the Spanish Inquisition. I wasn't expecting to see the Spanish Inquisition while writing this obituary...

Christmas Eve 2019 brought a special gift to the world when a rare baby black rhino was born at 5:40 a.m. at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo. SC (Edit: photos added, I dig the ‘tusks growing here soon’ spots)

Impressive 3 - 1 lead at the end of January. Scruton and Sultan of Oman definitely feel likely the could have been on the proper list tbh.

Oh yes thanks ! btw, Olivia is probably the person on the list i want the least to die. Tbh i think it will be heartbreaking to see her go...

Unfortunately news of his death were completely overshadowed by the death of Tunisian PM Hédi Baccouche, who died the same day.

Yep-I've seen this with a few people on the list on previous years where the celebrity says they are "cancer free" and then end up becoming a hit before the year has ended.

Even weirder if you recall Serbia in 1995. Who goes "daily bombs going off and an active warzone, that's my dream retirement..."?

Good catch. Previous post to be updated shortly.

Terry Jones is a Messiah for five teams who all anticipated he'd eat a wafer-thin mint this year. Looks to carry a panto bonus as well. EDIT: Also a rare utilization of the Morris dancing bonus. YorkshireBanker 40 + 48 = 88. Toast 35 + 42 = 77. RadGuy 20 + 24 = 44. Mad Hatter 10 + 12 = 22. And maryport hits his first sub for 25 points.

You're welcome everyone

For all the excitement over Terry Jones, it's worth noting Wikipedia has no deaths listed for today as of 18:33 GMT

I thought arap was something you wear that round your neck and the rest of you..... RIP Kenny Everett

Terry Jones didn't have Alzheimer's. I've said on here before, people need to stop using the term "Alzheimer's" indiscriminately. There are other types of dementia.

I never watched Heartbeat, although I was frequently in a room where others were watching it. My main impression was that a lot of old 60s hits were played for no apparent reason. They never seemed to be thoughtfully matched to whatever was going on in the story.

On a more serious note, I don’t think they can truly cure all of cancer, mainly because it’s more of a human reaction inside your body. I think what’s much more likely to happen (and what probably will eventually happen) is that they’re able to find a way to stabilize the cancer and allow patients to live longer (and higher quality) lives. It means that, yes, it will be harder for dead poolers to come up with a list of 20. But I think we’re already kind of seeing a shift into more long term cases before they are dead pooling hits. So while it’ll certainly change dead pooling dynamics, I don’t think it’ll be as detrimental as people make it out to be.

She's now in the Top 10 of oldest ever serving state leaders in history (93 years, 274 days) after surpassing Robert Mugabe yesterday.

01. 6ix9ine 02. George Alagiah 03. John Andretti 30.01.2020 04. Daniel arap Moi (Wildcard) 04.02.2020 05. Frankie Banali 20.08.2020 06. Bob Barker 07. Susan Bayh 08. Benedict XVI. 09. Jimmy Carter 10. Olivia de Havilland 25.07.2020 11. Bob Dole 12. Chris Doleman 28.01.2020 13. Kirk Douglas 05.02.2020 14. Hugh Downs 01.07.2020 15. Rhonda Fleming 14.10.2020 16. William Frankland 02.04.2020 17. Jill Gascoine 28.04.2020 18. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 18.09.2020 19. Mikhail Gorbachev 20. Henry Gray 17.02.2020 21. David Gulpilil 22. David Hagen 24.07.2020 23. John Hume 03.08.2020 24. Glynis Johns 25. Katherine Johnson 24.02.2020 26. Terry Jones 21.01.2020 27. Elizabeth Kelly 28. Lee Kerslake 19.09.2020 29. Henry Kissinger 30. John Lewis 17.07.2020 31. Sam Lloyd 30.04.2020 32. Loretta Lynn 33. Vera Lynn 18.06.2020 34. Richard O'Sullivan 35. Javier Perez de Cuellar 04.03.2020 36. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh (Wildcard) 37. Leslie Phillips 38. Genesis P-Orridge (Wildcard) 14.03.2020 39. Michael Robinson 28.04.2020 40. Felicitas von Salm-Horstmar 41. Yoo Sang-Chul 42. Tom Smith (Wildcard) 43. Pat Smullen 15.09.2020 44. Jackie Stallone 21.09.2020 45. Nobby Stiles 30.10.2020 46. Kane Tanaka 47. Jean-Louis Trintignant 48. Peter Tobin (Wildcard) 49. Alex Trebek 08.11.2020 50. Tabare Vazquez 06.12.2020 Subs: Willie Nelson Marge Champion Buzz Aldrin Amy Price Olivia Newton-John 28/50

ALAGIAH, GEORGE al-ZAWAHIRI, AYMAN ANDRE, SOEUR ANDRETTI, JOHN ARAP MOI, DANIEL BANALI, FRANKIE BARKER, BOB BAYH, SUSAN BENNETT, JANA BILTON, TIM BROOK, PETER BURKE JR., JACK CARTER, JIMMY de HAVILLAND, OLIVIA DOLE, BOB DOLEMAN, CHRIS DOUGLAS, KIRK - WC GASCOINE, JILL GILBERT, GREG GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL GREAVES, JIMMY GULPILIL, DAVID HAGEN, DAVID JONES, TERRY - WC KERSLAKE, LEE KISSINGER, HENRY LEWIS, JOHN LYNN, LORETTA LYNN, VERA NELSON, WILLIE NEWTON-JOHN, OLIVIA PEREZ de CUELLAR, JAVIER PHILLIPS, LESLIE POPE BENEDICT XVI P-ORRIDGE, GENESIS PRINCE PHILIP - WC RICHARD, HENRI SISSON, GEMMA SMITH, TOM - WC SMULLEN, PAT STILES, NOBBY SUTCLIFFE, PETER TANAKA, KANE TOBIN, PETER TREBEK, ALEX - WC TRINTIGNANT, JEAN-LOUIS TURNBULL, BILL WALKER, MURRAY WINDSOR, BARBARA YOO SANG-CHUL Subs: GRAY, HENRY MARCOS, IMELDA FRANKLAND, WILLIAM CAMERON, EARL HUME, JOHN

1. Prince Philip WILDCARD 2. Kirk Douglass 3. Alex Trebek WILDCARD 4. Lee Kerslake 5. George Alagiah 6. Bob Dole 7. Tom Smith WILDCARD 8. John Andretti 9. Genesis P-Orridge 10. John Lewis WILDCARD 11. David Gulpilil WILDCARD 12. Chris Doleman 13. Stirling Moss 14. Jean-Louis Trintignant 15. Daniel arap Moi 16. Susan Bayh 17. Eric Carle 18. Dewayne Lee Johnson 19. Imelda Marco's 20. Willie Nelson 21. Olivia Newton John 22. Kerri Parker 23. Harry Reid 24. Henri Richard 25. Michael Robinson 26. Yoo Sang-Chul 27. Pat Smullen 28. Peter Sutcliffe 29. Kane Tanaka 30. Peter Tobin 31. Chitetsu Watanabe 32. Sheldon Adelson 33. Jay Allen 34. Burt Bacarach 35. Bob Barker 36. Honor Blackman 37. Bernard Cribbins 38. Olivia de Havilland 39. Terri Garr 40. Henry Gray 41. Hank Aaron 42. Katherine Johnson 43. Henry Kissinger 44. Tommy Lasorda 45. Boris Pahor 46. Nobby Stiles 47. Murray Walker 48. Eileen Whelan 49. Jimmy Greaves 50. Vera Lynn Subs Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

SCRUTONIZING MR ROGER'S DEATH 2/50 12th January 2020 Well known English bigot Sir Roger Scruton has died to give the Crowdsource list a quick follow up success. He began his career intending to study the natural sciences at Cambridge, but instead switched to studying philosophy on the first day of class. He got his conservative ideology he was well known for after witnessing the May 1968 student protests in France, believing he was on the other side. Well, he was on the other side of many issues that we all love so much, such as being a racist that go him sacked from a government job in 2019, founding The Salisbury Review in 1982 that called for compulsory repatriation, and believing that gay rights are dangerous for the children. Nonetheless, he was highly respected within the conservative community, and got rewards such as the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit from Vaclav Havel in 1998 for his anti-USSR work. He was also knighted in 2016 for "his services in philosophy, teaching, and public education”. However, many people still see him as a massive cunt. News of a cancer diagnosis was announced in August 2019, and after he looked terrible in December, he became popular on lots of folks list. This was his first appearance on the crowdsource list, jumping all the way to 35th place.

OH MAN, OFF WITH A BANG 1/50 10th January 2020 Questions of whether the crowdsource list will have to wait super long like last year for a first hit has been answered, as Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said has died to give the crowdsource list it's first score. After completing his education in England, he was placed under house arrest by his father in 1966. During that time, he studied Islam and the overall history of his country, which was then known as Muscat and Oman. On July 23rd, 1970, he was able to successfully lead the 1970 Omani coup d'état against his father, with the goal of ending of ending his country's isolation from the rest of the world as well as using it's oil revenue for modernization and development. Muscat and Oman became known as Oman, and he ruled the country for nearly 50 years. He lead the country as an absolute monarchy, and like most countries with an absolute monarchy, had it's fair share of flaws. However, he did help to make Oman a better place in other regards, such as abolishing slavery in the country, modernizing oil revenue, and helping to build hospitals and schools within the country. He previously had a cancer battle in announced in 2014, but when it was reported that he might only have weeks left, the folk pushed him on through, being one of two major last week comebacks to work successfully. He died at 79 from cancer, sneaking onto the 43rd spot, and setting the stage on what might be a stronger year than last year...

The phrase "cancer free" has come back so many times to bite so many people that I really wonder why people still use it.