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Time for the latest round in the most one sided "rivalry" in Cup history. Reptile vs msc I 2017 Msc (Bracknell, Coward, Christie, Elias, Nevin, Lennart Johansson, Bamber Gascoigne, Akihito, Former Pope Benny, Vera Lynn, Desmond Carrington) Vs Reptile (Nevin, Coward, Angelo Bissessarsingh, Shteinman, Portenski, Ken Ryan, Christie, Murray, Karunanindhi, Chase Simmons, Pope Benny) 1st Feb, 1.33am – Bernie Portenski died. 2-0 Reptile 1st Feb, 8.15pm – Desmond Carrington died, 2-2. 2nd Feb – World famous Trinidad and Tobago historian Angelo Bissessarsingh died. 5-2 Reptile. 13th Feb – Archers star Sara Coward died, 7-4 Reptile. What Went Wrong? Ken Ryan died in January off radar after the sub cut off date and it didn't even matter. I missed out even on same basic DDP names who went in February, such as Steve Sumner, Gerald Kaufman, Peter Skellern and Steve Hewlett. Result – Half assed public hosting team narrowly loses to Reptile leaving a lot of powder in reserve. What happened next? Reptile lost 16-2 in the Quarterfinals to Death Impends, which was a surprise result even then. Reptile vs msc II 2019 Reptile (Crouch*, Hammer, Pedroza, Dones, Parrikar, Harris, Porridge, Clayton, Starling, Capon, Isachsen) Vs msc (Ricksen, Cardenal, Clayton, Capon*, Pratley, Anderson, Porridge, Reid, Pedroza, WT Johnson, Lewis) 1st March – Both teams had Pedroza, 3-3. 12th March – Caroline Isachsen died. Unique pick for Reptile. 7-3. 16th March – Barbara Hammer died. 3 points for Reptile. Groans from Glasgow. 10-3 17th March – Manohar Parrikar, my first sub, died. 3 points for Reptile. 13-3. 17th March – Edmund Capon, msc’s joker died. Reptile also had him. 16-9 28th March – Both sides had poor old Billy Clayton. 19-12. What went wrong? missed some good picks like Rob Restuccia and Luke Perry due to his team needing to go in early. I also forgot Barbara Hammer, which caused a massive forum contretemps over how could I have heard of this secret name multiple people had picked on the DDP. Dropping Bernie Torme also proved a bad decision. Bishop Quinn was my third sub to die, and it also KO’d Heef, who vanished off the forum! Result – MsC Hammered (quote, @Bibliogryphon ) What happened next? Reptile brushed Pedro aside in the last sixteen, before losing to a sensational performance from Banana in the Quarterfinals. Reptile vs msc III 2021 Reptile (Saranya*, Gulpilil, Igglesden, Axel Kahn, Rick Laird, Lubbock, Sakti Mishra, Gary Moore, Sandra Richardson, Steiner, Digital Nun) Vs msc (MakSim*, Dole, Sasha Johnson, Rick Laird, Lubbock, Andre Rademan, Raissouni, Sadat, Saranya, Steiner, Digital Nun) 5th July – Rick Laird died. 3-3 in the final. 6th July – Axel Khan died. 7-3 Reptile 9th July – Jehan Sadat died. 7-7 14th July – Andre Rademan died. 11-7 msc 15th July – Gary W Moore died. 11-11, Reptile lead the tie on younger average age difference. What went wrong? I dropped Mick Bates after 2 months, and he promptly died. Orlando Drummond was another drop, and Anvar Iqbal and Carlos Reuteman never made the final eleven. Any one of these four would have won the whole thing. Result – A draw. But still a loss. What happened next – This was the final, so Reptile won the Cup! Reptile v msc IV 2022 Reptile (Perez*, Zahra, McCall, Scarborough, Field, Catoir, Thomas, Hossain, Taylor, Phelan, Zhirinovsky) Vs msc (Qureshi*, Kojo-Kum, Apple Watts, McCall, D James, Field, Perez, M Cain, Maurice Norman, Steiner, Zhirinovsky) The end zone? Both teams have George Perez, but he’s Reptile’s joker. Zhirinovsky/McCall/Field are on both sides, so irrelevant. Both sides left out one of popular DDP picks Susie Steiner and Vicky Phelan, and that may come back to haunt someone. I went for broke with Maurice Norman (he’s not dead, Sir Creep, it was a premature death announcement), Apple Watts (her actual injuries don’t sound that bad but the posts about her are surprisingly grim). But I think we’ll know the layout of this tie within the first 5 days, as my joker will either be dead by then, or recovering. Expected result? What do you think? All of Reptile’s hitherto unknown to me names are literally shitting end stage cancer. What to do next? Yell at Google for not telling me about a critically ill cricketer when that’s one of the things I specifically had a look for!

I can't believe I took Tom Parker off my list I thought he was in remission and was doing well Tom Parker Theoldlady 3+1 wannamaker 3+1 The Old Crem 1+1 Salmon Mousse 1+1 Book 6+1 Death Duke 1+1 TQR 3+1 jonnythegamemaster 3+1 Nick 3+1 Book 7/50 The Daredevil 4/50 gcreptile 4/50 theoldlady 4/50 jonnythegamemaster 4/50 Nick 4/50 TQR 4/50 wannamaker 4/50 John Key 3/50 Main Deathlist 2/50 MariNisia 2/50 Annami 2/50 markb4 2/50 _floydylan_ 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50  Bibliogryphon 2/50 The Old Crem 2/50 Death Duke 2/50 Salmon Mousse 2/50 earl 1/50 Hell 1/50 dimreaper 1/50 Pop_Zeus 1/50 arghton 1/50 Gooseberry Crumble 1/50 DieHardGiantsFan 0/50 six feet blunder 0/50 Doulton 0/50 Dying Probably 0/50 Redrumours 0/50 Miranda lass 0/50

Kane Tanaka is now only a week away from Knauss' age...

March-Update March was as boring and dry as February, Zzzzzzz... We do have two hits with Vic Elford and Tom Parker and with TQR having both! So Congratulations, Player of the Month, haha!! Hits so far: 01. Gary Burgess (13.11.1975 – 01.01.2022): Doulton, Joes Russ 02. Sidney Poitier (20.02.1927 – 06.01.2022): 14:22, Annami, Bibliogryphon, Book, Buffalo Phil, chilean way, DL 2022, Doulton, Etushispushingupdaisies, gcreptile, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Joey Russ, Lafaucheuse, msc, Predictor, RoverAndOut, The Daredevil, The Old Crem, theoldlady, ThereWillBeDeaths7, TomTomTelekom, TQR, YoungWillz 03. Robert Durst (12.04.1943 – 10.01.2022): DL 2022, Doulton 04. Hardy Krüger (12.04.1928 – 19.01.2022): The Daredevil 05. Russell Bishop (09.02.1966 – 20.01.2022): Book 06. Barry Cryer (23.03.1935 – 25.01.2022): Bibliogryphon 07. Leonard Fenton (29.04.1926 – 29.01.2022): The Daredevil, TQR 08. Monica Vitti (03.11.1930 – 02.02.2022): 14:22, Buffalo Phil, The Daredevil 09. Shirley Hughes (16.07.1927 – 25.02.2022): Bibliogryphon 10. Vic Elford (10.06.1935 – 13.03.2022): Joey Russ, Predictor, theoldlady, TQR 11. Tom Parker (04.08.1988 – 30.03.2022): Bibliogryphon, The Old Crem, TQR Standings: 4: Bibliogryphon: Sidney Poitier, Barry Cryer, Shirley Hughes, Tom Parker, 4: The Daredevil: Sidney Poitier, Hardy Krüger, Leonard Fenton, Monica Vitti, 4: TQR: Sidney Poitier, Leonard Fenton, Vic Elford, Tom Parker, 3: Doulton: Gary Burgess, Sidney Poitier, Robert Durst, 3: Joey Russ: Gary Burgess, Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, 2: 14:22: Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, 2: Book: Sidney Poitier, Russell Bishop, 2: Buffalo Phil: Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, 2: DL 2022: Sidney Poitier, Robert Durst, 2: Predictor: Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, 2: The Old Crem: Sidney Poitier, Tom Parker, 2: theoldlady: Sidney Poitier, Vic Elford, 1: Annami: Sidney Poitier, 1: chilean way: Sidney Poitier, 1: Etushispushingupdaisies: Sidney Poitier, 1: gcreptile: Sidney Poitier, 1: Great Uncle Bulgaria: Sidney Poitier, 1: Lafaucheuse: Sidney Poitier, 1: msc: Sidney Poitier, 1: RoverAndOut: Sidney Poitier, 1: ThereWillBeDeaths7: Sidney Poitier, 1: TomTomTelekom: Sidney Poitier, 1: YoungWillz: Sidney Poitier, 0: WEP Please tell me if I missed a hit, especially one of the lesser known or more obscure picks...

Fauja Singh is an age faker, he couldn't produce a birth certificate to prove his age and someone said that he'd have been born in/around 1928. I have no idea if that's date is true, but apparently people in the village he's from (Beas Pind) know that he isn't the age he claims to be. Also, Stanislaw Kowalski deserves more attention. He's an actual supercentenarian, oldest notable person, fifth-oldest living man, sixth-oldest notable person ever, second-oldest notable man ever (after Alphaeus Philemon Cole) and the oldest man + third-oldest person in his country ever.

"The White Death" Simo Häyhä, legendary Finnish sniper who killed around 500 men during the 1939-1940 Winter War died on this day 20 years ago on the 1st of April 2002, aged 96.

Good luck going forward I will be back next year probably with many of the same players who will still be alive

Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard gets a NYT obituary and gives @MariNisia a first hit but it is a unique so now only two hits from victory

Czech writer Milan Kundera is 93 today British Sikh marathon runner Fauja Singh is 111/94 today

Pierre ‘Father Abraham’ Kartner, of Smurf fame, 86. I guess he did a Dunn by playing older than he was, but I still thought he’d be long gone. And yes, I was singing the Smurf song, in case you were wondering.

Richard Howard reported dead, aged 92. Scavenger Hunt pick for @MariNisia

Its twelve yeras since actor John Forsythe died aged 92. As well as his portrayal of Blake Carrington in Dynasty, opposite Joan Collins, he's best remembered as the eponymous Charlie from Charlie's Angels; never seen, his voice was heard at the opening of every episode.

Miguel Van Damme Book 7+1 Book 8/50 The Daredevil 4/50 gcreptile 4/50 theoldlady 4/50 jonnythegamemaster 4/50 Nick 4/50 TQR 4/50 wannamaker 4/50 John Key 3/50 Main Deathlist 2/50 MariNisia 2/50 Annami 2/50 markb4 2/50 _floydylan_ 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50  Bibliogryphon 2/50 The Old Crem 2/50 Death Duke 2/50 Salmon Mousse 2/50 earl 1/50 Hell 1/50 dimreaper 1/50 Pop_Zeus 1/50 arghton 1/50 Gooseberry Crumble 1/50 DieHardGiantsFan 0/50 six feet blunder 0/50 Doulton 0/50 Dying Probably 0/50 Redrumours 0/50 Miranda lass 0/50

Have been some health rumours about him in recent years but nothing substantial. Can't remember the last time I've seen him on tv and while that's a good thing music-wise, it could be something age or health related.

Academy Award nominee Ali MacGraw is 83 today

American biographer Nancy Milford (Wiki) dead at 84, three days after her birthday She was best known for her book Zelda about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald Her most recent book is Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which was published in 2001. She had been working on a biography of Rose Kennedy, however she has since decided to halt her progress

The full-round roster: Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra PER, GCR Abul Maal Abdul Muhith PER* Alan Dean Foster JRU Alexander Kojo-Kum SAL, MSC, SIR, ANN, PER, DDT Allan Dorans TOC Amy Pieters SAL Apple Watts AOG*, MSC, ANN, PER, CAP Arno AOG Aysel Tugluk AOG Baxter Black MFC Bernadette Mayer DDT Bobby Caldwell TQR Boris Pahor YOR* C. W. McCall JRU*, MFC, GCR, SAL*, AOG, TQR, MSC, BAN, PER, DDT, CAP, SIR Carl Kabat SAL Chris Georgiou BAN Clare Marx MFC, BBL, TOC, ANN Dan 'Mac' Chandler III AOG Deborah James TQR, MSC, TOC, DDT Dick Brewer SIR*, BAN Dick Groat YOR Don O'Leary SIR Ella Scarborough GCR, JRU, ANN Ethel Caterham MFC, YOR Fethullah Gulen DDT Franca Pilla BBL Frank Field CAP, MFC, GCR, AOG, TQR, MSC, TOC, ANN, BAN, DDT George Perez CAP, MFC, GCR*, SAL, AOG, BBL*, TQR*, MSC, YOR, SIR, JRU, TOC, BAN*, PER, DDT*, ANN Gigi D'Agostino YOR Greg Mears DDT Irene Papas BBL, DDT Jayanta Mahapatra TQR Jerry Lee Lewis CAP John Catoir GCR, SAL Jools Topp DDT Jorge Spedaletti MFC, SAL, AOG, TQR, PER Juan Vicente Perez Mora BBL Kate Hendricks Thomas GCR, SAL, JRU, BAN Kathryn Bevis TQR, BAN Kato Lubwama BAN Khaleda Zia TOC Lalu Prasad Yadav ANN Linda Nolan TOC Lloyd Clark Fletcher AOG Madeline Cain SAL, MSC Mark Pilgrim AOG Maurice Norman TQR, MSC Melvin Hulse SIR Mosharraf Hossain GCR Mr Ibu CAP Nadia Cattouse YOR Nichelle Nichols CAP Nigel Starmer-Smith YOR Nigel Taylor MFC*, GCR, SIR, JRU, ANN* Pablo Luna SIR Pedro Ferrandiz BBL Pele CAP, TOC R Everett Pannier JRU Rayfield Wright SAL, SIR Rubina Qureshi MSC*, BAN, PER Sergei Shoigu TOC Seyyed Abdollah Fateminia BAN Steve McMichael JRU Susie Steiner MFC, BBL, TQR, MSC, YOR, TOC, PER, ANN Terry Medwin YOR Tommy Davis JRU Traian Băsescu BBL Vicky Phelan MFC, GCR, BBL, TQR, SIR, JRU, TOC, ANN, BAN, PER Violetta Chamorro CAP Vito Perillo CAP Vladimir Zelenko DDT Vladimir Zhirinovsky CAP*, GCR, SAL, AOG, BBL, MSC, ANN, PER, JRU, MFC Vladislav Yershov SIR Wang Gungwu YOR Willie Mays YOR

Actually @Annami you’re welcome to this one

Shirley Burkovich, who was a Rockford Peach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died. She was 89. https://www.mystateline.com/sports/local-sports/former-rockford-peach-shirley-burkovich-has-died/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=socialflow

I Only know him from Celebrity Big Brother, extremely annoying on that show

Tomb Carker Tom Parker, one fifth of now-4-piece boy band The Wanted, and the youngest of this thread's 50 eligible picks, has died of brain cancer at the age of 33. While Derby Dead Pool players may be saying "I'm glad you came" to the reaper, this is a most unwanted surprise for the majority of Inverse Dead Pool players, with 26 of you now asking yourselves: how do you get up from an all time low? And, will the 22 players now tied in joint 1st place stay gold forever? And, was he on the organ donor list for anyone with a heart vacancy? And, who knew The Wanted had any lyrics to riff on that aren't just some variant of "whoa oh oh"? Despite being at the wrong end of the 12-to-18-month prognosis for glioblastoma, Parker was a more popular Inverse pick this year than last – which I can't blame you for, given that he was seen performing on ITV with the group in December, and was booked for reunion tour dates this very month. Even more tragically, the thought of bands who debuted in the 2010s already being on reunion tours has doubtless made several of you reading this post suddenly die of old age. They said this day wouldn't come, we refused to run, we've only just begun, you'll find us looking at the inaugural Inverse Dead Pool leaderboard of 2022. Oh-oh-oh-oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh oh oh. GAINED TOTAL =1. YoungWillz - 0 =1. wannamaker - 0 =1. Predictor - 0 =1. Death Impends - 0 =1. Sean - 0 =1. chilean way - 0 =1. BuffaloPhil - 0 =1. Nick - 0 =1. msc - 0 =1. drol - 0 =1. YorkshireBanker - 0 =1. The Unknown Man - 0 =1. Perhaps - 0 =1. Philip - 0 =1. theoldlady - 0 =1. MortalCaso - 0 =1. Spade_Cooley - 0 =1. Grim Up North - 0 =1. Sideik - 0 =1. Pedro67's wife - 0 =1. machotrouts - 0 =1. CastAway - 0 =23. LizLemon +1 1 =23. Funeralopolis +1 1 =25. MariNisia +2 2 =25. Annami +2 2 =25. The Old Crem +2 2 =25. Pedro67 +2 2 =29. BabyBlue +4 4 =29. Newjack +4 4 31. Sir Creep +6 6 =32. Joey Russ +7 7 =32. TQR +7 7 =34. CaptainChorizo +8 8 =34. Banana +8 8 =36. Doulton +9 9 =36. Toast +9 9 =38. ThereWillBeDeaths7 +10 10 =38. Book +10 10 =38. deadsox +10 10 =41. Bibliogryphon +11 11 =41. An Fear Beag +11 11 =41. gcreptile +11 11 44. GuyFromFuture +12 12 45. Neobrakeon +14 14 46. Hell +15 15 47. Great Uncle Bulgaria +18 18 48. machotrouts' mum +22 22

But, mate, really, don't worry about this James Whale... you're not alone, I thought of something like that. I'm still trying to figure out who the hell he is.

Juan Vicente Perez Mora has been validated as the world's oldest living man. Also seems to be the first validated Venezuelan supercentenarian.

Video of Colette Maze, French pianist of 107. Has quite a reputation in France. Looks and sound AMAZING for her age, she’s so touching and down to earth ! Can « dance » a little, still plays 4 hours a day of piano, could definitely reach 110 I think