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I knew he was old but 700 club?!

And here with the draw for Round 3 of the tournament are Mark Lanegan and Olive from On The Buses: Winner of Bibliogryphon vs Annami v winner of CaptainChorizo vs TQR Winner of maryportfuncity vs Famous6Eva v winner of BabyBlue vs Predictor Winner of Grim Up North vs Salmon Mousse v winner of Sideik vs alt obits guy Winner of YorkshireBanker vs An Fear Baeg v winner of  DevonDeathTrip vs CalebH Winner of deadsox vs Joey Russ v winner of  Pop_Zeus vs Perhaps Winner of DeathByArsenic vs Captain Hemlock v winner of HDS vs The Old Crem Winner of gcreptile vs SpadeCooley v winner of  MariNisia vs msc Winner of Banana vs Masterffull v winner of Book vs Sir Cunto

six feet under was the only one to buzz in for Bamber Gascoigne, getting on the board with his starter for 25 (sub points). La Veneno actress Isabel Torres gives venomous bite to Banana's offense, with 40 base points plus 16 points boosting his effort by 56. Beryl Vertue was the most picked hit of this update, on two teams. Still a unique scorer though, for only YorkshireBanker had her on his main team and gains 10 base points plus 4 bonus for 14 total. Toast relegated her to her subs, obtaining 50 points and becoming the first player this year to score with both subs. Gail Halvorsen sweetens things up for Famous6Eva, dropping 28 points (20 base + 8 bonus) their way. Quite a few teams attaining their first points this update, and another is JoeMoneypenny with Chor Yuen providing 10 base points and 4 bonus points for 14 overall. Catherine Wybourne logging out seems to be vindicating DevonDeathTrip's habit (hehe) of picking eclectic religious characters for the HPDP. The second faller of his main ten, her base 45 points are complemented by 18 bonus points for a 63-point haul. And here comes the latest scoreboard. Banana sneaks into second, but there continues to be considerable gap between Book and the chasing pack. And illustrating the beauty of the HPDP, we have a team without Gary Burgess on the cusp of the top 5. Imagine that happening in the DDP! 1. Book 290 2. Banana 180.81 3. Salmon Mousse 176 4. gcreptile 172.81 5. msc 160 6. DevonDeathTrip 158 7. CaptainChorizo 117 8. Pedro67 113 9. maryportfuncity 112 10. Kenny 99 11. Annami 94 12. Toast 91 13. markb4 80.99 14. drol 75 15. Perhaps 65 16. Torva Messor 64 17. MariNisia 58 18. theoldlady 50.82 19. An Fear Beag 45.81 20. Great Uncle Bulgaria 45 21. John Key 32.99 22. Famous6Eva 28 23. six feet blunder 25 =24. JoeMoneypenny 14 =24. YorkshireBanker 14 =26. Hell 0.99 =26. The Old Crem 0.99 =28. Everyone else 0

He's come out of retirement to make some unhinged Russian war ramblings.

Charles Csuri, digital art pioneer, being reported dead:

Also, nice that we can now all talk openly about CW McCall being in hospice.

An uninspiring team sets out for me of 4 DDP picks, 5 ailing sports folk, 1 Drol name and another name I nabbed off here. Like Grim I also dropped Sanchez late on. Nigel Starmer-Smith seems the most obvious danger as a 4 pointer who could go any time. My conclusion is that MariNisia has a good team with the potential to really do a number on my mediocre efforts. Anyhow, lets see the draw for the next round... Oh good lord...

Wormfarmer fails to submit a team on time, so An Fear Baeg gets a chance for a Cinderella run. This is how the Round 2 ties line up: DeathByArsenic (DBA) Alma Rosa Aguirre, Claire Maurier, Erni Mangold, James D. Watson, Jean Louis-Trintignant, Marita Camacho Quirós, Michel Bouquet, Philippe de Gaulle, Princess Mikasa, Tin Oo, Vicky Phelan (c) vs Captain Hemlock (CAP) Frank Field (c), Violeta Chamorro, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nichelle Nichols, Pele, George Perez, Vito Perillo, Lexi Reed, Susie Steiner, Polina Strelets, Vladimir Zhirinovsky BabyBlue (BBL) Alexandre do Nascimento, Cilly Dartell, Clare Marx, Frank Howell, George Perez (c), Guido Gorgatti, Irene Papas, Jorge Spedaletti, Pau Riba, Sienna Grace, Violeta Chamorro vs Predictor (PRE) George Alagiah, Bob Barker, Charlie Bird, Vic Elford, Frank Field (c), Philippe de Gaulle, Deborah James, Jean Marsh, George Perez, Vicky Phelan, Susie Steiner Banana (BAN) C. W. McCall (c), George DeLeone, Diego Elizondo, Frank Field, Wayne Hart, Pele, Rod Marsh, George Perez, Vicky Phelan, Leonel Sanchez, John Toschack vs Masterffull (MAS) Francoise Hardy, Jimmy Carter, rosslyn carter, Mark girouard (c), Olivia newton john, Alan arkin, Loretta lynn, Frank field, Vanessa redgrave, Nichelle nichols, Shannon doherty HDS (HDS) C.W. McCall (c), Frank Field, George Peréz, Pelé, Jorge Spedaletti, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Madeline Cain, Leonel Sanchez vs  The Old Crem (TOC) John Toshack (c), George Perez, Pele, Clive Palmer, C.W McCall, Vicky Phelan, Asif Ali Zardari, Frank Field, Rajesh, Clare Marx, Kane Tanaka YorkshireBanker (YOR) Arthur Bell, Dagny Carlsson, Dick McTaggart, George Perez, Frank Field (c), Jorge Spedaletti, Margaret Stuart Barry, Radovan Radaković, Vicky Phelan, Wendy Playfair, Willie Mays vs An Fear Baeg (AFB) Frank Field, George Perez (c), Vicky Phelan, John Toshack, Rod Marsh, Leonel Sanchez, Jorge Spedaletti, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeff Burkett, Madeline Cain, Lucille Randon maryportfuncity (MFC) Ethel Caterham , Vicky Phelan, Vitali Klitschko, Bob Barker, Frank Field, Susie Steiner, Dame Clare Marx, Jorge Spedaletti, Kane Tanaka, Vic Elford, Joyce Reynolds vs Famous6Eva (F6E) George Perez (c), Ingrid Arvidsson, James Earl Jones, Jan Englert, Josef Abrhám, Jerzy Hoffman, Miroslav "Ciro" Blazevic, Stephen Lewis, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Wladimir Klitschko Pop_Zeus (POP) Agnes Keleti (c), Arnold Yarrow, Bobby Rush, Boris Pahor, Caren Marsh-Doll, Colette Maze, Frank Field, Frank Williams, Henry Kissinger, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ronald R. Van Stockum vs Perhaps (PER) Jayanta Mahapatra, George Perez, Frank Field, John Toshack, Amy Pieters, Susie Steiner, Rod Marsh, C. W. McCall (c), Leonel Sánchez, Jorge Spedaletti, Shalom Cohen gcreptile (GCR) George Perez (c), John Toshack, Silas Alexander, Frank Field, CW McCall, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Dave Gaunce, Vicky Phelan, Tin Oo, Leonel Sanchez, Luang Pho Yai vs SpadeCooley (SPA) Nigel Taylor (c), George Perez, Frank Field, C.W. McCall, Vicky Phelan, Maurice Norman, Jayanta Mahapatra, Baxter Black, Rod Marsh, John Toshack, Traci Braxton MariNisia (MAR) Bill Steel, Dick Vitale, George Pérez, John Toshack (c), Kane Tanaka, Leonel Sánchez, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Pelé, Sandro Munari, Vic Elford, Vladímir Vólfovich Zhirinovski vs msc (MSC) Vic Elford (c), John Toshack, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Rod Marsh, Jorge Spedaletti, Giuseppe Furino, Jayanta Mahaptra, Frank Field, James Jones, Maurice Norman Book (BOO) George Pérez (c), Ankhal, C.W. McCall, Frank Field, John Toshack, Leonel Sánchez, Luang Pho Yai,  Rod Marsh, Susie Steiner, Vicky Phelan, Volodymyr Zelenskyy vs Sir Cunto (SIR) Tim Aldridge (c), Diego Elizondo, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Jack Jabbour, Oleksander Lokota, Rod Marsh, Don O'Leary, George Perez, Amy Pieters, John Toshack, Volodymyr Zelensky Grim Up North (GUN) Vicky Phelan, Susie Steiner, Frank Field, Jorge Spedaletti, Nirmala Uppuganti, Rod Marsh, John Toshack, George Perez, C W McCall (c), Greg Mears, Madeline Cain vs Salmon Mousse (SAL) C.W. McCall (c), George Perez, John Toshack, Leonel Sanchez, Cezary Kucharski, Jorge Spedaletti, Madeline Cain, Ankhal, Amy Pieters, Pele, Tevin Obiga Bibliogryphon (BBL) Leslie Phillips (c), Kane Taneka, Kat Bjelland, William Russell, Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Glynis Johns, Margaret Stuart Barry, Katherine, Duchess of Kent, Frank Field, Boris Pahor vs Annami (ANN) Leonel Sánchez, Rodney Marsh (c), Frank Field, George Pérez, C. W. McCall, Susie Steiner, Lam Morrison, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kane Tanaka, Ankhal, Bob Barker CaptainChorizo (CCH) Bobby Caldwell, C. W. McCall, George Perez (c), Julia Reichert, Leonel Sánchez, Luis Echeverria, John Toshack, Susie Steiner, Vic Elford, Vicky Phelan, VS Achuthanandan vs TQR (TQR) C.W. McCall (c), Frank Field, Brian Morris, Rod Marsh, Vic Elford, Julia Reichert, George Pérez, Vicky Phelan, Jorge Spedaletti, Ma Shitu, V.S. Achuthanandan Sideik (SID) George Perez (c), C.W. McCall, Luang Pho Yai, Rodney Marsh, Frank Field, Vic Elford, Melvin Hulse, Natty Wailer, Leonel Sanchez, Julia Reichert, John Toshack vs alt obits guy (AOG) Clive Palmer, Frank Field, George Perez, Howard 'Pepper' Martin (C), Jean-Pierre Pernaut, John Toshack, Jorge Spedaletti, Marnie Schulenburg, Tom Parker, Vibhu Raghave, Vladimir Zhirinovsky deadsox (SOX) C. W. McCall (c), Susie Steiner, Kane Tanaka, Lucile Randon, Juan Vincente Perez Mora, George Perez, Frank Field, Nasser Abu Hmeid, Jack Thomas, James C. Floyd, Colette Maze vs Joey Russ (JRU) C W McCall (c), George Perez, Madeline Cain, John Toshack, Leonel Sánchez, Vicky Phelan, Rod Marsh, Julia Reichert, Jorge Spedalitti, Ankhal, Vic Elford DevonDeathTrip (DDT) Frank Field, Rod Marsh, Heather McLean, George Perez, Greg Mears, Les Jenkins, C.W McCall, Irene Papas, Bernadette Mayer, Vladimir 'Zev' Zelenko (c), Volodymyr Zelenskyy vs CalebH (CAL) David Graham, Earl Of Elgin, Elizabeth Kelly, George Perez, Ion Cernea, Jose Mujica, Kris Kristofferson, Larry Holley, Marga Minco, Mihai Sora (c), Zdenka Dietchova

French philosopher Marcel Conche dead at 99, 2 months before his centennial. I red several books of him during my studies, he was a true genius… RIP… +1 for my french list which means 6/50 already !

@TQR Job done! Joan Collins avatar uploaded. Enjoy your victory!

@TQR Be warned I am in Alexis mode for the rest of the month..... Some much deserved bitchslap Alexis responses to warn you not to let your victory go to your head!

Congrats Predictor. Upside, I can now ignore this thread for the next several months....

Cheers! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a husband to meet up with, a plane to catch and a home to get back to. What are your plans? Then again, who gives a damn…

Former president of the University of Nebraska system, Ronald Roskens, has died. Roskens was UNO chancellor from 1972-77, then was NU System president from 1977-89. Roskens, who was 89-years old, also served as Administrator of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, during the President George H. W. Bush administration SC

He's not in the GRO Index up until Dec 2020, but I can go one better than that. He's still alive and based in Bournemouth as of 2022 (as per 192 People). I wasn't too familiar with 192 when I did the 60s/70s entries. I've updated the entry for Our Kid with a note at the bottom clarifying that Rowan is alive (though I never marked him as deceased anyway as I strongly suspected the comments online declaring him dead were from a hoaxer).

January is Sidney Poitier for sure. February isn’t so clear cut. I would say narrowly, Monica Vitti.

I’d like to put in a shout for Gary Brooker. Maybe not such a big name but, in terms of global reach, he was the voice of one of the few records to sell over 10 million copies worldwide.

Disappointing - as TQR shafted you I was hoping for this one.

Richard Gordon Guindon, 86, died the evening of Feb. 27 in Northport, Michigan, after a long illness. Guindon’s six-decade career began at the university’s Minnesota Daily, where he penned a cartoon that was described as “social commentary a la Jules Feiffer with a bite.” In New York, he was a regular contributor to The Nation, Playboy, Esquire, Down Beat, and one of his favorite gigs, as an underground cartoonist for Paul Krassner’s The Realist. That led to syndication at the Minneapolis Tribune and later brought him to Detroit in the early 1980s. Guindon retired from the Detroit Free Press in 2005. SC

Danny Ongais, former Formula 1 and Indianapolis 500 driver, has died, aged 79: The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is deeply saddened to report that Ezekiel “Danny” Ongais passed away Feb. 26, 2022 in Anaheim Hills, California from congestive heart complications. He was 79. A masterful road racer, open wheel racer, motorcycle rider and drag racer, "Danny On-The-Gas" aka "The Flyin' Hawaiian" was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2000. One of the greatest crew chiefs of his era said that Ongais was, quite simply, "the most talented driver I ever worked with." Rest In Speed, Danny

Sheila Benson (Wiki) reported dead at 91 American journalists and principal film critic for the Los Angeles Time from 1981 to 1991 and for MSN's Microsoft Cinemania

Some have speculated he's dying and on steroids. MPFC has a good post about it on the previous page .

American actress, singer, and model Jane Russell died on this day 11 years ago, aged 89. American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions George Kennedy died on this day 6 years ago, aged 91.

If you know how to do a tiny bit of research then you would know that he’s already 94 and that all star cast performed at his birthday celebration last year you muppet.

Thirteen years ago Renaldo Obie Benson died aged 69 from lung cancer and DDT started deathlisting here. Abdul "Duke" Fakir remains the only surviving original member of The Four Tops to this day.