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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.

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

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

I think she's "interesting" in that it seems to me that her 500k followers are exclusively because of her cancer story? In the DDP, we allow social media people when they have more than 500k followers, because it makes them "influencers". And yet, I would also disqualify Jessica Hiatt, because I think she "only" has cancer. Anyway, interesting from a gamerunning point. I think she'll die in 2 weeks.

I also score with Miguel Van Damme, thank you!

I listen to NPR and I’ve never heard of her, which tells me NPRs been around an eternity, which is a very long time (she was 91 after all)

Administrative error, was disallowed for every team that picked her (about five I think) but I accidentally rolled back to a previous spreadsheet for Annami. Corrected. Full team line-ups are coming, probably during my coffee break this morning.

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

So, I made it then. The next 30 days of competition relies on this "talent" Councillor Nigel Taylor - Capt Vicky Phelan Ethel Caterham C W McCall Frank Field Susie Steiner Baxter Black Jorge Spedaletti George Perez Dame Clare Marx Vladimir Zhirovsky Subs Kane Tanaka Joyce Reynolds Bob Barker I'm imagining the three alliterative picks starting with Frank Field as some kind of dynamic midfield, or summat

Surprisingly, I wish exactly the same for your team. I'm looking forward to our match

In my dream last night I scrowlled down the wikipedia "list of recent deaths" and read that German writer Martin Walser has died just one week after his 95th birthday. 'Yeah, next hit for my theme team and for the D-A-CH-list', I thought, but it was just a dream. Maybe wishful thinking.

Patrick Demarchelier, a celebrated, self-taught French fashion and portrait photographer, has died. He was 78. https://www.vogue.com/article/patrick-demarchelier-fashion-and-portrait-photographer-has-died?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=vogue&utm_social-type=earned

Swedish journalist-turned-TV-star Sven Melander has died of cancer at 74: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/y4j4nr/sven-melander-dod-cancer

American trumpeter Herb Alpert is 87 today American actor William Daniels is 95 today

We can all debate whether this is a Christmas thread.

Tom Parker is a hit for me

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