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I have updated the table with hits I'm aware of through today. Is there interest in doing this another year? I have been in a funk about the apparent loss of Doug Stanhope's Celebrity DP site. I put a lot of work in there but it seems to be kaput. Anyone heard if it will return?? Coincidentally, with it went my master list of research and recordkeeping for my last 12 years or so of deadpooling. So I am trying to pick myself up out of the doldrums of deathpooling and reconstruct my tables. I will host this one again if there are still a dozen or more of you who find it a worthy challenge, just post a "like" if you are in. Or for those of you who oppose that method of expressing support, an added statement of participation works too, although I have never understood what the opposition to likes is about . . . . .

Could be a hoax as I'm not finding any confirmation but Han Meilin (wiki), Chinese artist noted for creating the Fuwa dolls (wiki) who where the mascots of the 2008 Bejing Olympics, has reportedly died at 85.

Dick Schofield aka Ducky Schofield, a winner of the World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960 reportedly dead aged 87: https://eu.sj-r.com/story/sports/mlb/2022/07/12/dick-ducky-schofield-obit-1960-world-series-champion-pirates-dies/10039129002/ And you know what I'm going to say - a Scavvy Hunt miss.

I've outlived all members of my family except the alcoholic who smoked for fifty years. My husband and I ate the same foods together for half our lives. He's in an urn, and he didn't have the cancer running amok in his family as I do, but it killed him anyway. I take Vitamin D3 to reduce my risk of getting the cancers that killed my family members. I practise Qigong. The planet's getting hotter and wilder and I have no desire to be an insect-crunching octogenarian swept out to sea or caught in a forest fire. I moved out of the United States as being gunned down in a supermarket or coffee shop, as a friend of mine was, is not, ahem, my cup of tea. I'm about choosing the way I go, not postponing my departure.

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I will play if you host. Thanks

Pope John III died on this day 1448 years ago, aged 54. Born with the name Catelinus, John was elected to the papacy in 561 after the death of Pope Pelagius I. Four years into his papacy, Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great died. His successor, Justin II, stopped paying tributes to the empire's neighbors, causing a war to break out between the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires. Rome, and therefore John, were left vulnerable to attacks as Justin focused on fighting the Sassanids- beginning in 568, the Lombards began to invade Italy, and besieged Rome several times (they failed to capture it). John went to Naples to retrieve the general Narses for help- Narses was disliked due to over-taxation, and his hatred shed onto John for bringing him back. This hatred was so immense that John now had to perform his papal duties just outside the city limits. John died after a thirteen-year reign and was succeeded by Pope Benedict I.

Sir Patrick Stewart, a British screen and stage icon and an extremely talented actor who deserves to be in the same category as the greats, is 82 today.

A hoax according to his official twitter account

The one and only american actor Harrison Ford celebrates turning 80 today.

I bathe in the blood of virgins

Sir Creep's April pick Pakistani singer Rubina Qureshi has died: https://www.app.com.pk/domestic/legendary-sindhi-singer-rubina-qureshi-passes-away/ No news for the current game though.

Yeah, I always liked the pool. It forces you to make it work when it comes to certain letters, and the timing is nice, especially if the Poker Pool is gone.

Nowt. I don't smoke but do zero exercise and I'm pretty much an alcoholic. I will be 50 on my next birthday and almost certainly entering into the final third of my life. I've seen a few relatives who have got into their 80s and early 90s and trust me it looked really shite.

Now identifies as giraffe.

Meanwhile the BBC proves that it's not only Diane Abbott who is piss poor at counting. Errr surely that's five? 'Suella Braverman reaches 20 backers Suella Braverman says she's "got the numbers" to make the leadership race ballot. The Attorney General shared that she'd made up the 20 MPs needed at a Southend City event held in Parliament this afternoon. This makes Braverman the fourth candidate thought to have got over the line, with Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat understood to have also reached the threshold.'

Heh, I wouldnt mind a shared win either, but yes, sudden death is probably fairer than the coin toss. I do think though, that my joker is a worse than Joey's. Apparently, Mike Davis' wife said that there wasn't any "immediate" danger, so he might just not be somebody for this month. Still, Joey's joker might decide not to go for the dignitas date after all, and then we're left with our differentials. They're kind of a bad bunch, I guess. Mine are okay, but might all just slip into the next month/s. Joey's differentials are not the best (IMHO) except for Don West, who might decide the game, and that's after all, all that's needed.

New photo of Steve McMichael has surfaced. https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/friend-of-steve-mcmichael-shares-heartbreaking-photo-of-the-nfl-legend-ex-wcw-star More interestingly, they want to make accomodations for him to allow him to travel to Nashville to see Ric Flair's final fight.

Barry Sinclair, Test cricketer, hit for six: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/former-new-zealand-captain-barry-sinclair-dies-aged-85-1324065

On this day in 1997 Welsh footballer Ivor Allchurch died in Swansea aged 67. During his career in football he played for Swansea Town for two stints, Newcastle United, Cardiff City and for Wales his national football team for an impressive 16 years from 1950-1966. There is a lifesize statue of Allchurch outside Swansea towns (now Swansea City) Liberty Stadium.

On this day in 2003 british author Winston Graham, the creative mind behind the Poldark series of novels set in Cornwall, died aged 95.

On this day in 2019 british horse racing pundit, television presenter, journalist and provocateur John McCricrick died aged 79.

You must have a crystal ball or a magic mirror.

American Army General and Frederick James Kriesen Jr. died at 97 years: https://www.ausa.org/news/former-vice-chief-gen-frederick-kroesen-dies

Canadian actress Shirley Douglas who had roles in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation and the film Lolita died at 86 years: https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-activist-shirley-douglas-daughter-of-medicare-s-tommy-douglas-dies-1.4883465?fbclid=IwAR34klQWLupE24_sOMmCTEjPgKd0QakLyOGeILkisypZdT5JZzhgl_12LAA