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Norman Lloyd's death break the record of Beverly Cleary with 19 picks: @Bibliogryphon, @drol, @Joey Russ, @Perhaps, @Johnnas, @CaptainChorizo, @ThereWillBeDeaths7, @deadsox, @Book, @Kenny, @Dying Probably, @arghton, @theoldlady, @The Daredevil, @Lynchian, @The Old Crem, @Annami, @Yvonne and @MariNisia CONGRATULATIONS ALL!!!

21 entrants (20 quickest off the mark plus your host and - ahem - master, Maryportfuncity). Competition opens on 1 June with the aim of getting a winner by midsummer's day. This is Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2021 (That’ll be MMMDP to you lot!) Abdulaziz final public duty - presiding as master over the Masterlist! MMMDP 2021 1. Terry Lubbock (Sean) 2. Azam Khan. (Drol) 3. David Battie (Theoldlady) 4. Imelda Marcos (Bibliogryphon) 5. Dr. Georgina Morgan (gcreptile) 6. Bunny Matthews (Captain Chorizo) 7. Henry ‘Nacho’ Laun (perhaps) 8. Vic Elford (Quim Reaper) 9. MC Ren (Spade Cooley) 10. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Joey Russ) 11. Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton (Yorkshire Banker) 12. Mary Quant (Toast) 13. Susie Steiner (msc) 14. David Gulpilil (Death Impends) 15. Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chilean Way) 16. Martti Ahtisaari (arghton) 17. Philipp Mickenbecke (Banana) 18. Donald Zec (Yvonne) 19. Jack Arends (Grim up North) 20. Jimmy Greaves (Great Uncle Bulgaria) 21. Abdulaziz Bouteflika (Maryportfuncity)

I knew I'd got Norman Lloyd somewhere.

Non of yer half-baked shite here, proper rules forged over years of intense competition and sound dead pool management, or summat 21 entrants (20 quickest off the mark plus your host and - ahem – master, Maryportfuncity). Competition opens on 1 June with the aim of getting a winner by midsummer's day. Maryport’s Midsummer Madness Dead Pool 2021 (That’ll be MMMDP to you lot!) And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the MMMDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the MMMDP 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 who remains alive at midnight on May 31st and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit – see rule 9 below – upon death. The only exception to this rule are persons residing on death row with an execution falling within June 2021 (feel free to risk a death rower due to take the final walk from 1 July). 3 - Entries open at 9-00am BST on 31st May and close at midnight on 31 May. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the MMMDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 – The competition is deemed to be open at 00-00-01 (i.e. the first second of the day) BST hrs on 1 June 2021. 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. 5a – In the event that all 21 selections remain breathing as of midnight on 21 June competition ceases anyway and the selections are deemed to have won. It is likely – but not mandatory – in these circumstances that DL posters who have not entered will heap mockery and abuse on the 21 entrants who have failed to select a stiff despite the highly permissive policy of entrants and qualifying obits of MMMDP. 6 – Entry is limited to 21 players (twenty who are obliged to post entries on the MMMDP thread and Maryport who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavour). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 21 players to compete for a death within 21 days thereby giving us a victory by midsummer’s day at the latest. If you’re snoozin’ you’re losing. 6a – Because he has forced his own entry Maryport guarantees to respect the first 20 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 MMMDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations 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 MPFC'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 MMMDP. In honour 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 MMMDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a MMMDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the MMMDP the initial victory will be voided. RHME assisted victory is only available during competition, and in the event that competition is ended 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. With this in mind rule 10a has been drawn up. Given the lengthy build-up and rapid victories of past years the least we should get from the one-day period is some entertaining banter on the thread if some desperate entrant is busily digging on little visited websites for confirmation of death of a “well known” breeder of gerbils or the like! 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 MMMDP and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of MMMDP 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 MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the MMMDP 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 MMMDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into MMMDPs. 13 – In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 31 May 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 June 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. 14 - A prize will be awarded as follows: i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcoholic drinks (pints, wine or spirits) will be supplied by MPFC along with much hearty congratulations and back-slapping. ii: A carefully chosen and appropriate prize will be posted to the winner (such as the DVD copy of the original Death Race movie supplied to the 2009 Deathrace). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with all but one of the previous winnings of the Deathrace). This course of action is highly encouraged and is known to show dead poolers as something other than the sicko scum many ranters believe us to be. AND FINALLY... On completion of MMMDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectactors offer well-deserved congratulations to the skilful 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.

Norman Lloyd was picked in many pools, so it seems, also here by Annami, Bibliogryphon, Dying Probably and The Quim Reaper, but not by the Committee.

This obituary also mention his daughter, character actress Josie Lloyd, having died last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/norman-lloyd-dead/2021/05/11/0041ec7c-402f-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

Trevor Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, Lib Dem member of the House of Lords, has died. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/09/lord-smith-of-clifton-obituary Was at one point, their Northern Ireland spokesperson in the Lords.

Norman Lloyd has died. Assuming that he really has died, and is not just the figment of the imagination of some kid with a snow globe, here are the points for the Hollywood Squares participant. 40 + 24 = 64 points for Funeralopolis. 30 + 18 = 48 for Dying Probably, markb4, and the_engineer. 25 sub points for Annami and chilean way. And it is this Lloyd-propelled haul that sees a new leader in our latest scoreboard as Funeralopolis overtakes previous leader Book who had narrowly inched past Perhaps after the death of Anne Buydens. An excitingly close game but plenty of months to go... 1. Funeralopolis 229 2. Book 215 3. Perhaps 214 4. Eesti 185 5. Dying Probably 183.19 6. CaptainChorizo 175.32 7. markb4 171 8. Pedro67 165.19 9. An Fear Beag 160 10. maryportfuncity 156 11. msc 155.32 12. Sean 145 =13. Annami 140 =13. En Passant 140 15. gcreptile 135.32 16. drol 122 17. Death Impends 119 18. LizLemon 115 19. chilean way 110 20. Great Uncle Bulgaria 105.19 21. Torva Messor 105 22. The Daredevil 104 23. The Quim Reaper 100 24. Lynchian 90 25. Charles De Gaulle 87 26. theoldlady 85 27. the_engineer 73 =28. Exu 65 =28. The Old Crem 65 30. JoeMoneypenny 60 31. DeathByArsenic 56 32. YoungWillz 50.19 33. GuyFromFuture 50 =34. Joey Russ 45 =34. time 45 =34. YorkshireBanker 45 37. DevonDeathTrip 35 38. The Unknown Man 20 39. Bibliogryphon 3.9 =40. BabyBlue 0 =40. CalebH 0 =40. sheldondinkleberg 0 =40. Toast 0

@markb4 defeats @YorkshireBanker with Norman Lloyd. Congratulations.

Norman Lloyd is a hit for a few of us here.

'Notting Hill' star Tony Armatrading has died at the age of 59. The actor – the younger brother of singer Joan Armatrading – passed away on Monday (10.05.21) after a battle with cancer and his friend Tim Bentinck broke the news on social media. Tim wrote on Twitter: "Very sad news. My dearest friend Tony Armatrading died of cancer an hour ago. Tony began his career in theatre and originally worked behind the scenes as a member of the stage crew at the Birmingham Rep. He later made the move to acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He played roles in two notable Hollywood films during the 1990s – as a customs officer in the 1997 flick 'The Saint' and then in Notting Hill as a security guard who allows Will Thacker (Hugh Grant) onto a film set in order to win back Hollywood actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts). SC

Marty Staff, a larger-than-life figure who worked for some of the industry’s biggest names during his 30-year-plus career, has died at the age of 70. Staff was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in December and passed away Tuesday at his farm in Bucks County, Pa. Staff held leadership positions at Bloomingdale’s, Polo Ralph Lauren Corp, Calvin Klein, GFT USA Corp., and Hugo Boss as president and chief executive officer. SC

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/retired-journalist-celebrates-60-years-of-marriage-with-actress/ This article is from January. She doesn't seem ill.

He's not dead, but Disney have given in and are paying Alan Dean Foster his royalties.

Always such a shame when a full life isn't lived. RIP Norman

*crosses Norman Lloyd off the list of Star Trek alumni*

Norman Lloyd's grand age meant the vast majority of the Inverse participants anticipated him heading Elsewhere this year, but he proves to be a Saboteur for the seven teams who bet otherwise. =1. Banana 0 =1. Book 0 =1. Sir Creep 0 =4. An Fear Beag 2 =4. LizLemon 2 =4. Pedro67 2 =4. Spade_Cooley 2 =8. deadsox 3 =8. Perhaps 3 =10. Annami 4 =10. Great Uncle Bulgaria 4 12. The Quim Reaper 6 13. Sideik 7 =14. JoeMoneypenny 8 =14. Bibliogryphon 8 =14. BuffaloPhil 8 =14. Charles De Gaulle 8 =14. gcreptile 8 19. The Old Crem 10 20. drol 11 =21. Grim Up North 13 =21. Joey Russ 13 =21. ThereWillBeDeaths7 13 =21. Toast 13 25. machotrouts 14 26. BabyBlue 15 27. Newjack 16 =28. Funeralopolis 17 =28. YoungWillz 17 =30. YorkshireBanker 18 =30. CaptainChorizo 18 32. Death Impends 20 33. maryportfuncity 21 34. En Passant 22 35. machotrouts' mum 24 36. Salmon Mousse 26 37. chilean way 30 =38. theoldlady 32 =38. msc 32 40. GuyFromFuture 39 41. The Unknown Man 42

U.S. politician Lester Wolff has supposedly died aged 103. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true given this was him last month.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/9edafd37-b61d-436a-a3d1-dc640f8be468 Hemmi Jaara, a Finnish 96-year old WWII veteran has died. An active man in many WWII veteran associations, Jaara was also known for his rare love story: Jaara met his future wife, Eila, in an "senior meeting" in 2016. After talking to each other they found out they were both born on the same day, Seventh of November 1924. They got married the same year and were married until Eila Jaara's death on the 1st of July 2020.

Can't she be lumped in with her gf Betty Boothroyd, or did they hit the skids? I'm not au fait with the OAP rug-munchers scene, I'm afraid.

Karl Günther von Hase is an unique hit for @Book CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dave Mason, songwriter and musician who first found fame with Traffic. is 75 today. As is Graham Gouldman, of 10cc and so is Scottish hippy/folkie Donovan

Yes, Ligachyov is a hit for @gcreptile and @Salmon Mousse Scoreboard Updated CONGRATULATIONS!!!

IKEA is shite dorm room furniture, so I hope you’re not so crass as to own any. Sorry for the aside: This is a brilliant video for anyone who has worked retail, IKEA or otherwise. SC

If Bill Gates father was included on the list, so could definitly Lloyd be on the list