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Where the fuck has 2022 gone to? Apparently it's the 1st November already, so time to set in motion another Crowdsourced Deathlist. The 2022 version looks set to finish ahead of the official Deathlist (though they lacked the help of Gary Burgess). 2022 has seen a massive clear out of many long term Crowdsourced favourites, from Mr Tibbs to the Queen (and never mind Olivia Newton-John, some of you liked Her Maj too), so let's see how a new crop of fresh names does. Will the 2023 edition be able to top our current list? We will see, but for the time being let's go over the rules, shall we? THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to msc, during the time period of 1st November to the 31st December 2022. The list must have a minimum of 12 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Yes, this means we are open now, as I'll just forget to officially open it otherwise. For more evidence, note I actually opened this on the same day as the Deathrace thread after aiming to for half a decade and forgetting, so that's my ration of time keeping used for another decade... Please send them by either PM or via Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. This is true even if you only send in 12 names, or 13 names, or 49 names. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2023. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 4b) Anyone who wishes to avoid a Betty White Meltdown and just says "oh put my subs in at the number of the person who died" gets 5 post likes from diego. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Jean Claude, less Miguel Van Damme, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2022 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier deadline is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. I am keeping Joey's earlier cut off time for simplicity. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the longheld notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 9b. If you do wish to send your DDP unique hopefuls, I won't complain! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrities from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2022 survivors will be used: Pele, Jimmy Carter, Frank Field, Leslie Phillips, Pope Benedict XVI, George Alagiah, Bob Barker, Glynis Johns, Henry Kissinger, James Whale, Linda Nolan, Harry Belafonte, Joanne Woodward, Shannen Doherty, Tony Bennett, Milos Zeman, Rosalynn Carter, Yoko Ono, James Watson, Barbara Walters, Norman Tebbit, Francoise Hardy, Bobby Charlton, Dick van Dyke, Norman Lear, Jiang Zemin, Douglas Hurd, Jake the Snake, Jacques Delors, Jean Marsh and David Graham. As usual, this is something for me to worry about, not you. 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2022 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. 12) The Deathray Rule. If Deathers is reading this, he is more than welcome to find some way to get his usual 50 points for that bloody weatherman in! Anyhow, enjoy. Or not. Pope's never die, only the actors who play them... (It's a Simpsons gag.)

It's fast, it's furious it's f***in' good fun. Teams of 20 topplers posted on this thread or PM'd to MPFC will be collected into a masterlist to provide a carnival of carnage, the counting of which goes live in the first second of 2023. Points aplenty pour into the scoreboard until someone snags the stupendous total of 2023, at which point the event that used to be the fastest deadpool in common useage (until MPFC started something faster!) slams on the brakes and the lucky winner is duly given metaphorical back-slaps and allowed to claim a prize worth about a tenner (though tradition thus far dictates this turns into a charitable donation). Closing date for entries is midnight on 30 December 2022. Currently MC'ing the whole operation is an experienced MC with a fondness for fatality who gamely stepped in when our shortest serving PM crumbled under minimal pressure. In it to win it this year are... An Fear Beag - af Arghton - ar BabyBlue - bb Banana - ba Bibliogryphon - bg Book - bk Caleb H - ch Captain Chorizo - cc Captain Hemlock - ck Deadsox - ds DeathByArsenic - da DeathBecomesThem - db Death Impends - di Diego - dg Drol - dr Dying Probably - dp Etushispushingupdaisies - et Famous6Eva - f6 GCReptile - gr Gooseberry Crumble - gc Great Uncle Bulgaria - gb GuyFromFuture - gf Hell - hl JoeMoneypenny - jm JoeyRuss - jr John Key - jk TheKillingTime - kt Ladyfiona - lf LizLemon - ll MarinNisia - mn Maryportfuncity - mp msc - ms nantonian2013 - na Nolito95 - n5 The Old Crem - tc Pedro67 - p6 RadGuy - rg Steve - st Summer in Transilvania - su John "요한" Sulu - js theoldlady - to ThereWillBeDeaths 7 - tw TheSpinosaurus - ts Toast - tt TQR - tq WEP - wp WTAF!? - wt YorkshireBanker - yb Top talent aplenty in our list of previous champions: 2009 - Raskolnikov 2010 - Nobody, I mean f***in' nobody, reached the winning points total 2011 - DDT 2012 - Spade Cooley 2013 - DDT 2014 - Death Impends 2015 - MSC 2016 - DDT 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - MSC 2019 - Phantom of the Midway 2020 - RadGuy 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Banana 2023 - Banana

Twitter reporting that rapper Takeoff was shot and killed last night over a dice game.

Perfect 2023 list : Keep : DVD Kissinger Barker Greenspan Starmer Smith Carter Bennett Belafonte Mel Brooks Attenborough Leslie Philips Rosalyn Carter Sandy Gall Unabomber Le Pen Cleo Laine Jacques Delors Denis Law Prunella Scales Bucharach Stanley Baxter Chomsky Pelé Kundera McGowan Bring Back : Louis Farrakhan Liza Minnelli Ali Khameney Nigel Lawson Jake Roberts Pope Benedict XVI Barbara Walters Willie Nelson Imelda Marcos Joanne Woodward Raul Castro Bob Newhart New : Bernadette Chirac Robert Solow Francoise Hardy Jiang Zemin Giorgio Napolitano Rolf Harris Pope Francis Frank Field Duke of Kent Frank Gehry Michael Caine Constantin II Maggie Smith (I didn't go for famous suggestions such as Glynis Johns, Iris Apfel or Eva Marie Saint because I believe they're not interested in them but rather took names that I guess deserve their inclusion and are indeed in the committee taste)

Well, no one guess the 28th of October right… new round opened (sorry for the delay). Entries : 29th of October : Redrumours (happy birthday) 30th of October : Hell 31st of October : Mortal Caso 1st of November : Chilean Way 2nd of November : theoldlady 3rd of November : Putin 5th of November : sumner in Transylvania 6th of November : etib80 8th of November : Planetist 9th of November : Insane 11th of November : Diego 14th of November : Khthonia 29th of November : bibliogryphon 25th of December : Dying Probably 2023 track points : • Khtonia - 2 points: Jean Luc Godard and Angela Lansburry • Mortal Caso - 2 points : Robert Durst and June Brown • Toast - 1 point : Bill Turnbull • Hell - 1 point : Queen Elizabeth II • Wannamaker - 1 point : Loretta Lynn

Deathrace Form Guide #2 Linda Nolan Celebrity from a singing sisterhood more famous hereabouts as a perennial potential points bonanza, currently sitting third on the most picked personages on the 2022 Derby Dead Pool with 116 teams hoping for a late harvest. If she sees 2023, we'll doubtless see her in the masterlist.

The tonnage of talent, the mass of imminent mortality, the deluge of the due to decease, the plethora of potential pushing daisies it'll be.... The Masterlist! Aga Khan IV - ar Emperor Akihito – wt Sheik Salem Al Ali Al-Sabah Of Kuwait – ar, bb Omar Al Bashir - dg George Alagiah – ck, db, dr, gr, jk, hl, na, rg, tc, to, tw, wp, wt Buzz Aldrin – wt Harriet Andersson – f6 Kenneth Anger - gc Ray Anthony – di Iris Apfel – bg, dp, ll Paul – Bonehead – Arthurs - ck Ingrid Arvidsson – f6 John Ashton - jr Ronnie Atkins - hl Qapik Attagutsiak - gf David Attenborough – lf Christopher Awdrey – st Shimon Baadani - dr Burt Bacherach – bb, ll Princess Bajrakitiyabha - ba, bk, cc, dr, gr, jr, mp, ms, tq, tt* Tom Baker – lf Tulsidas Balaram – af, dr, gr, rg, tq Lynn Reid Banks – yb Brigitte Bardot - dg Bob Barker – af, bg, ck, db, di, gb, ll, p6, tw Thelma Barlow - st Margaret Stuart Barry – f6 Margaret Barton - yb Martin Bashir – lf* Shirley Bassey – n5 Ken Bates - st Hazel Beard – f6 Harry Belafonte – dp, ll, tt, wt Maggie Bell - gc Vera Belmont - yb Pope Benedict – af*, ba, bb, bk*, cc, db, dg, di*, dp, dr*, ds*, gr, hl*, jk*, jr, lf, ll*, mn*, mp*, ms*, na, p6, rg, su*, to*, tc*, tq*, tt, tw, wp, yb* Tony Bennett – ck, ds, jk, tt Solange Berry – ch Roland Bertin – ch, da Kathryn Be8vis – mp Bhuddadeb Bhattacharjee -da Carlos Bilardo – ch Tim Bilton - to Paul Biya – wt Kat Bjelland – ms, to Miroslav Blazevic – ch Ronald Blythe - mp Jiřina Bohdalová – ch, kt Ugo Mifsud Bonnici – ar, f6 Boogie2988 – f6 Scotty Bowman – gf Greg Bretz - rg Clive Brittain - na Hugo Broch – lf Mel Brooks – n5 Carolyn Bryant Donham – bk, ms, tq Lindsey Buckingham – st James Buckley - dp Jack Burke Jr. - na Rob Burrow – af, bg, bk, et, gb, hl, na, p6, su, tc, to, ts, wp Dick Button - ll Ruth Buzzi – bb, ck, db, gf*,ll, mn, st, su, tw, wp Amanda Bynes – yb Dick Caine - ba Bobby Caldwell – da Bill Campbell – jr* John Cannan - et Jimmy Carter – ck, dg, di, dp, ds, gc, ll, p6, ts, tw Rosalynn Carter – bg, dp, ll, tw Dennis Carvalho – ba, cc, dr, gr Ethel Caterham - mp Nadia Cattouse – yb Graham Caveney - ms Dick Celeste – ar Peter Cellier - st Soňa Červená – ch Bibhash Chakraborty – af, dr, jr Richard Chamberlain - gc Violeta Chamorro – bb, dg, to Edna Child - jm Teddie Chinnery – bg Muazzez İlmiye Çığ - gf Pauline Clayden - gf Barbara Clegg – bg Marthe Cohn – ch Maryse Condé - kt Constantine II of Greece – dg, kt, p6, ts Biagio Conte - gr Sidney Cooke – ar, jm Eugenia Cooney – lf Joan Ganz Cooney – ts Pat Cooper – ck Roger Corman – st Fred Cornforth - ba Simon Cowell (conservationist) – bk, ms, rg John Cruickshank – di, ds Derry Crum - ba Tim Curry – p6 Takamiyama Daigoro – ar Jim Dale – n5 Tsung Dao-Lee – jm Dickie Davies - gc William B Davis – st N. C. Debbarma – af, cc*, jr, rg, su Clémence DesRochers – gf Henry Dickerson – ba, ms Gautam Dhingra - ba Billy Dib - ms Celine Dion - ck Raif Dizdarević – ch Shannen Doherty – hl, tc, wt Caren Marsh Doll – db, dp Carolyn Bryant Donham – kt, jr Derek Draper – hl, to, ts, wp Dick Duff – gf Sir Patrick Duffy - gf Dick Van Dyke – dp, lf, n5 Clint Eastwood – db, n5 Lily Ebert - ch Luis Echeverria – bg Jango Edwards – bk, cc, dr, jr, rg, wp Biren Sing Engti - gr Jan Englert – ch Rowshan Ershad - jk Winnie Ewing – da, gc, jm, na, ts, tt Joe Exotic – na, to Francoise Fabian - da Emilio Fede – bb Benjamin Ferencz - ds Frank Field – bg, ck, et, gb, hl, jk, ll, mp, ms, p6, RG, st, tc, to, tq, ts, tt, tw, wp Roberta Flack – da, dg, di, f6, hl, su, tc, tq, wp Jane Fonda - ck Giorgio Forattini – bb Natalie Fornasier – af, ba, bk, gr *, jr, mp, rg Frederick Forrest - ll Bas de Gaay Fortman – ch, su Connie Francis - gf Pope Francis – lf Alberto Fujimori – ts Ed Fury - gc Marie-France Garaud – jm Luis Garavito – kt Andres Garcia – rg, su Larry Garza – cc, f6, gr, jr, tq Mohamed El Ghaoui - ba Johnny Gilbert - di Rhod Gilbert – dr, et, hl, jk, jr, na, su, tc, to, tq, wp Francoise Gilot – bb, p6 Gary Glitter – ar Janey Godley – et, tc Friedrich Grade - mp David Graham – bk, da, yb Michael Gravelle – f6 Jeremiah Green – et, hl, na Shecky Greene – n5 Alan Greenspan - st Delfina Guzmán – ch King Harald V - af Francoise Hardy - da Rolf Harris – af, ba, bb*, bg, bk, ch, ck, da, db, dg, di, dr, et, f6, gb*, gr, hl, jr, lf, ll, mn, mp, na, p6*, rg, st, su, tc, to, tq, ts, tt, tw, wp, yb John Hemingway – mp Bessie Hendricks - ds Avery Henry - wp Encarna Hernandez – jm Michael Heseltine – gb Peter Higgs - bg Jean Hindmarsh - gb Georgia Holt – bg Teh Hong Piow – jm – DNS DUE TO DEATH Khandaker Mahbub Hossain - af Horst-Dieter Hottges – ts Elena Huelva – ba, gr Wang Huo – jm Douglas Hurd – ar, gb Jim Inhofe - dp Michael Ironside - gf Jonnie Irwin – ba, bk, cc, da, ds, et*, gb, hl, jk, kt*, ms, p6, su, tc, to, ts, wp, yb Willie Ito - gf James Ivory – bg Jean-Pierre Jabouille - ts Katherine Jackson – bg, tq Randy Jackson – hl, jk, p6, tc, tt, tw Wanda Jackson – kt Al Jaffee – di Sister Jean - ds Esther Jenner – kt Norman Jewison - wt Glynis Johns – dp, ds, ll, ts, tw Gywneth Jones - yb James Earl Jones – ts, wt Emlain Kabua – ar Ted Kaczynski – db, dp, jk, na, su, tq Estanislao Esteban Kalic – dg Pauline Kana - jk Chris Katton - gf Chief Keef – f6 Agnes Keleti – af, bg Tim Keller - wp Katie Keltie – hl, mn, na, tc, tt, wp Ethel Kennedy - gc Duke of Kent – lf Ali Khameini- ds Himanshi Khurana - mn Val Kilmer – st Toby Keith – et Elizabeth Kelly - gf Tereza Kesovija - da Don King – bb Joe Kinnear - bk Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa – bb, jm – DNS DUE TO DEATH Henry Kissinger – dp, ds, jm, ll, n5, p6, wt George Kooymans – et, tw Kris Kristofferson – p6 Milan Kundera – cc, db, f6*, mn, tt Rusty Kuntz – yb Janice Laking - gf Helene Langevin-Joliot – da Piper Laurie - gc Phyllida Law - yb Ray Lawler – bg Nigel Lawson – gb, gc, st George Lazonby – n5 Norman Lear – di, st, tw Jeanette Lee - db Philomena Lee – kt Tom Lehrer - gb Jean-Marie Le Pen – da*, dg, f6, to, tq David J. Linden- jk Tim Lobinger – ba, gr, jr, wp June Lockhart – bg, na Gina Lollobrigida – n5*, Shane MacGowan – ar, dg, dp, lf, mn Khandaker Mahbub – ba, dr, gr Jayanta Mahapatra - jm James Mackay – bg Josip Manolic – dg, dp, tq, tt Doreen Mantle – tt Imelda Marcos - dp Dave Marsh – gb Jean Marsh – st, tt Amelita Martinez-Ramos – kt Tony Marshall - bk Jamila Massey – kt Claire Maurier - da Elaine May – wt Kenneth McAlpine – di, mp Hazel McCallion – dp*, gf, su, yb Theodore McCarrick – tw Virginia Halas McCaskey – ds, lf Malachy McCourt – ck, kt, mn, rg, su, tq, wt Frank McGarvey – ba, bk, et, f6, ms, rg, tc Edie McClurg – ck Billy McCullough - gc Steve McMichael – bk, cc, ch, ck*, db, di, dr, et, hl, jm*, ll, mn, ms, rg, tc, wp Terry Medwin – yb Amazonino Mendes - dr Pierre Menes- na Karl Merkatz – da – DNS DUE TO DEATH Rokusaburo Michiba – jm Empress Michiko – wt Vera Miles – n5 Marga Minco – kt Liza Minnelli – jk, tt Walter Mirisch – wt Giorgia Moll – da Juan Vicente Perez Mora - ds Jose Mujica – bb Cynthia Mulligan – na Alice Munro - bb Durai Murugan - af Tomiichi Murayama - mn Rupert Murdoch - gb Pete Murray - gb Pervez Musharraf – cc, db, ds, mp, ts Giorgio Napolitano – dg, mn, ts, tw Alexandre do Nascimento – bb Willie Nelson – kt Bob Newhart – ck Whitey von Nieda – cc, dr Jack Nicholson - st Linda Nolan – db, dp, et, gb, hl, jk, lf, mn, p6, tc, to Sam Nujoma – ar Laura Nutt8all - mp Henry Nwosu - ar Sandra Day O’Connor – ll, ts Ryan O’Neal - jk Sadaharu Oh – jm Janet Oke – kt Rubén Olivares – kt Yoko Ono – bb, mn, n5 Tin Oo – jm Abel Pacheco - gc Janis Paige – wt Daniel N. Paul - ba Sharad Pawar – ar*, da Pele – bg, ck*, db, dg*, di, et*, f6, gb*, gf, hl*, ll*, mp*, na, st, to*, ts, tw, wp*, yb – DNS FFS! Caupolicán Peña – ch Valerie Perrine – db, mn, yb Bob Pettit - ck Vicky Phelan – bb, jm*, ts – DNS DUE TO DEATH Florin Piersic – ch Leonard Pietraszak – bb Mark Pilgrim - gr Franca Pilla - bb Song Ping – ar, cc, ds, jm, mp Hugues Claude Pissarro – ar Wendy Playfair - gc Eve Plumb – gf Roman Polanski - gc Wanda Polatawska – cc, di, rg Anita Pointer - gc Iggy Pop – ar John Prescott - gc Larry Pressler – ll, rg Vladimir Putin – dg, lf, to Marita Camacho Quiros – di Lucile Randon – bk, di, ds, f6, n5, p6, to, tq Siiri Rantanen - cc Jamie Raskin - na Queen Ratna of Nepal – kt Ray Reardon – p6 Vanessa Redgrave – jk, lf, ll, n5, tw Line Renaud – da John Rhodes – dg Jake Roberts - tc Gavin Robertson – to Linda Ronstadt – ck, p6 Zhu Rongji – jm Basil van Rooyen – f6 Ned Rorem – lf Jane Rossington - gc Patricia Routledge – ar, bg, ch, jm, lf, p6 Johnny Ruffo – bb, mn, ms, tc, ts* William Russell - tt Eve Marie Saint – dg*, dp, p6, ts, tw Ruichi Sakomoto – et, gr, hl, ll, su, tc Jose Sarney - yb Kaikala Satyanarayana – ar, lf - DNS DUE TO DEATH Prunella Scales – lf, n5 Norman Scarth – ar Liliana Segre - gb Carmen Sevilla – wt Vic Seixas – dg Mutulu Shakur – ba, bk, gr, jr, ms, rg Amit Sharma - af Costas Simitis - gc Kim Simmonds – ck – DNS DUE TO DEATH Fauja Singh - mp Khamtai Siphandone – su, wt*, yb Ski Mask the Slump God – f6 Félix Sienra – dg Princess Sirindhorn- af Tammy Slaton – f6 Sen Sōshitsu XV - ar Kim Soo-yong – jm George Soros - st June Spencer – bb, bg, di, dp, gb, lf, mn, mp, ts June Squibb – f6 Rosemary Squires – gc Thomas Patten Stafford - mn Nigel Starmer-Smith – af, bk, da, db, di, et, gb, mp, ms, na, to, tq, ts, tt Bill Steel - cc Stella Stevens – ll, tt Mark Stokes – af, ms, rg - DNS DUE TO DEATH (CONTROVERSIAL MIND, SEE POST 1 JAN, LATE ON, PILE IN IF YOU DISAGREE!) Chris Stone – jr, ms Mike Summerbee – kt Try Sutrisno - dr Inga Swenson - gf Miiko Taka – wt Fusa Tatsumi – cc, dr Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) – ck, et, gf, hl, jk, lf, na, st, ts, tw, wp Otis Taylor - ds Teresa Taylor/Nervosa – ba, bk, cc, et, gr, jr, mp, ms, wp Patrick Tambay – mp – DNS DUE TO DEATH Norman Tebbit – db, et, gb, gc*, su, tq Colin Thackery – gb Ada Thompson - mp Michael Tilson Thomas – bb, jr, wt Nathalia Timberg – f6 Chaim Topol – db, su, tw Bill Treacher – bg. lf – DNS DUE TO DEATH Tina Turner – ck, st* Gudrun Ure – mn, yb Jorge Molina Vaidivieso - kt Brenda Vaccaro – jm Brenka Veselinovic - da Gianlucca Vialli – af, ba*, bb, bk, cc, ch, db*, dg, di, dr, et, gf, gr, hl, jm, jr, mn, mp, ms, na*, rg*,su, tc, to, tq, tt, tw* John Wakeham – gb Norma O. Walker - gf Barbara Walters – bg, ll, rg, ts – DNS DUE TO DEATH Julie Walters - jk Jim Ward - ms James Watson – bg*, tt Wei Wei - dg Lowell Weicker – ch* Sandra Weir – bb, yb – DNS DUE TO DEATH Don West – bk, da, di, dr, jm, mn, rg – DNS DUE TO DEATH Kanye West – da Charles "Chas" Wetherbee - gr James Whale – af, bk, db, di, dp, dr, ds, et, hl, jk, jr, ms, na, rg, st, su, tc, to, tq, tw, wp, wt, yb Harry Whittington - su Dot Wilkinson - yb Richard Williams – kt Wendy Williams – ck Barry Windham - cc Steve Wochy - ds Joanna Woodward – db, ll, mn, tt, wt Nikos Xanthopoulos – af, cc, dr, gr Lalu Prasad Yadav - af Arnold Yarrow – di Lu Yuanjiu - dr Bat Ye'or (Conspiracy theorist) - ar Yang You – jm Asif Ali Zardari - ds Anastasia Zavorotnyuk - jk Volodymyr Zelenskyy – p6 Milos Zeman - tq Khaleda Zia - jk Jutta Zilliacus - ch

This'll be the list of the lost, then, ably presided over by a literary great who never found the plot when it came to Finnegan's Wake 31 Dec: Pope Benedict – af*, ba, bb, bk*, cc, db, dg, di*, dp, dr*, ds*, gr, hl*, jk*, jr, lf, ll*, mn*, mp*, ms*, na, p6, rg, su*, to*, tc*, tq*, tt, tw, wp, yb* - 365 pts 31 Dec: Khandaker Mahbub – af, ba, dr, gr - 365 31 Dec: Anita Pointer - gc - 365 31 Dec: Jeremiah Green – et, hl, na - 365 1 Jan: N. C. Debbarma – af, cc*, jr, rg, su - 364 1 Jan: Frank McGarvey – ba, bk, et, f6, ms, rg, tc - 364 3 Jan: Elena Huelva – ba, gr - 362 3 Jan: Bessie Hendricks - ds - 362 6 Jan: Gianlucca Vialli – af, ba*, bb, bk, cc, ch, db*, dg, di, dr, et, gf, gr, hl, jm, jr, mn, mp, ms, na*, rg*,su, tc, to, tq, tt, tw* 359 And, let's have a look at the old scoreboard! Banana - 2174 An Fear Beag - 1818 RadGuy - 1811 Drol - 1454 Hell - 1454 Book - 1453 msc - 1453 SummerinTransilvania - 1453 The Old Crem - 1453 Captain Chorizo - 1452 gcreptile - 1451 Nantionian2013 - 1448 Deadsox - 1092 Death Impends - 1089 MariNisia - 1089 Maryportfuncity - 1089 TheOldLady - 1089 TQR - 1089 Ethushispushingupdaisies - 1088 JoeyRuss - 1088 DeathBecomesThem - 1083 ThereWillBeDeaths7 - 1083 John Key - 730 Liz Lemon - 730 YorksshireBanker - 730 BabyBlue - 724 Diego - 724 Toast - 724 Dying Probably - 365 Gooseberry Crumble - 365 LadyFiona - 365 Pedro67 - 365 WEP - 365 Famous6Eva - 364 CalebH - 359 GuyFromFuture - 359 JoeMoneypenny - 359

Former Green Party candidate for Brighton Pavilion and former MEP for the South East area Keith Taylor, reportedly dead aged 69: https://twitter.com/Green_Elects/status/1587233758540959744?cxt=HHwWgMC8lbSs_oYsAAAA

Benedict will die before Francis and Francis will never reach Benedict's old age.

It was meant to happen at some point so here is the Benedict vs. Francis poll : between Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) and Jorge Mario Bergoglio (current Pope Francis), who will be the last one standing ? Even if I can see Benedict going first due to his age and frailness, can Francis recent health scares surprise us all and kill him before his predecessor ? Let your voice be heard. Having two popes alive at the same time is a historical situation : it only happened during the Avignon Papacy even though the legitimacy and title of Avignon's popes is still questioned. The only pope who stepped down before Benedict was Pope Gregory XII in 1315 but even back then, they waited for him to die in 1317 to elect a new pope. There was never two popes living at once. Could this brief summary (and Francis' frailness) be consistent enough to prove to the committee the need to have them both on the list for next year ? We'll see.

Deathrace Form Guide #1 Shane MacGowan Let's celebrate the opening of the 2023 event with a word-for-word re-run of the first candidate on the 2022 form guide. Yer man Shane was then described as..."Perennial pisshead, die-hard drug hoover and all round self-abuse champion with a pedigree stretching back to the start of this site, and before that. Previously a permanent tease for dead poolers of all descriptions but as a few of his ilk have shown, none of these hard livers fond of liver damage are immortal. George Best was 59 (and he took exercise with his plethora of pop), Oliver Reed was 61, Shane turns 64 on Christmas Day." So, he's 65 when the 2023 event starts, then!

Parliamentary veteran Frank fielded queiries about the rules a year ago, and duly disappeared in anticipation of immenent death - but, he's back again this year! Deathrace 2023 - Those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the Deathrace is to be the first contestant to reach 2023 points. 2 - To enter the Deathrace a contestant must have: i: a team of twenty topplers and a minimum of two subs ("topplers" must be at least 18 years old on 1 Jan 2023; but are otherwise unrestricted). ii: Deathlist membership (i.e. be at least a pointless ranter and at most a dedicated Cumbrian corpse hound, or summat) 2a: A player may enter as many team members facing execution as s/he wants but said picks will only count for deathrace points if they die by means other than state execution - murder, suicide, ill health etc. 3 - Entries close promptly at midnight on 30 December 2022 and entry can be made either by sending a team of twenty to MPFC via PM hereabouts and/or by posting a team of twenty on the Deathrace 2023 thread. 3a: Once a team has entered in the manner described above the line-up can’t be changed for any other reason than the death of a team member before the start of the competition. In the event of a team being short of members because of more deaths than available subs MPFC will negotiate last minute changes with the team manager. 4 - Players score points every time a team member dies and accrues an obit (see point 9 below) and the score for each death is calculated as one point for each complete calendar day remaining in 2023 after the death of the team member; so a death on 1 January earns 364 pts, a death on 2 January earns 363 pts etc. 5 - Each team must nominate one member as a joker and the joker scores double points on death. Any team submitted without a clearly nominated joker will be allotted said joker on the basis of the name at the top of the team sheet being so designated. 6 - The winner is the first player to reach or exceed 2023 pts. 7 - In the event that a death or deaths on a specific day push more than one player beyond a winning score the player with the highest overall score will be deemed to be the winner. 8 - In the event that two or more players tie for victory a Deathrace play off will ensue with all potential winners continuing to compete until such time as one potential winner scores more points than any other potential winner (such points continuing to be accrued as per the scoring system described in point 4 above). 9 - An "obit" in the context of the Deathrace 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 - To qualify for entry purposes team members must be alive at 00-01 hrs on 1 January 2023 or qualify for the Raymond Hewlitt Memorial Exemption (RHME) (see point 11). 11 - In honour of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive on 1 January and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded 365 points in the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the Deathrace all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifyiing RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME points and these points are still in play at the time a winner is declared the points will not subsequently be voided and may - therefore - count towards a championship. All disputes relating to RHME will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace thread by venting their fury). 11a - Similarly to pt 11 above, if an obited death occurs during play of the Deathrace and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of Deathrace 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. Traditionally a period of around a day is allowed after a proven winning score has been attained before formal declaration of a winner to allow for the contingencies covered by rule 11a. All disputes relating to rule 11a will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace 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 teams, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the Deathrace and banned for life from subsequent entry into Deathraces. 13 - The prize will be awarded as follows: i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcholic 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 Deathrace movie supplied to the 2009 champion). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with all but one 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... A masterlist of entries will be posted after the closing date. MPFC will undertake to update the scoreboard at least once every seven days - typically much more frequently than that. On completion of Deathrace activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful 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.

Chief Mbazulike Amaechi aka. "The Boy is Good", Nigerian independence activist, Minister of Aviation 1963-1966, dead at 93 following illness and surgery that didn't work. Meanwhile, family fighting for Gaositwe Chiepe's assets. African politicians born in the 1920s: Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, 101: the former UNESCO boss was doing great on his birthday but at 101 you can decline quite quickly.. Gaositwe Chiepe, 100: Seems very ill and declined a lot during the last year. Grace Onyango, 98: Kenyan ancient politician and first woman to be a Mayor in Kenya. Described as "ailing" four years ago, looked like an ALS patient in October 2022 at the launch of the "Mama Grace Onyango Foundation for Digital Health in Africa". Driss Guiga, 98: Obese Tunisian politician, looked frail years ago and rumored dead but bounced back and looked quite great in February 2022. Not seen since as far as I know. Duncan Ndegwa, 97: Another Kenyan ancient politician, looked fine when he launched his new book early this year. Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 97: Ex-President of Tanzania, rumored to suffer from dementia but seems to be doing fine. Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder, 97: Moroccan Berber politician. Said to be suffering from a serious chronic disease but was well enough to make an appearance a few months ago and didn't look very frail. Gertrude Shope, 97: South African activist and politician. Wheelchairbound in 2019. Abdoulaye Wade, 96: Ex-President of Senegal, frequently abroad for treatment but still looks fine. Fanny Friedman, 96?: Former Eswatini health minister. Not 100% sure if still alive. Ali Haroun, 95: Algerian politician. Lazhar Karoui Chebbi, 95: Former Justice Minister of Tunisia. Mengesha Seyoum, 94: Ethiopian royal who served in politican positions when Haile Selassie was still alive. Michael Dingake, 94: Botswana anti-apartheid activist, writer and politician. Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 94: Zulu leader discussed here. Sadek Hadjeres, 94: Algerian communist. Martin Aliker, 94: Obese Ugandan politician, community leader, advisor to the President etc. Once feared by Idi Amin, crème de la crème cunt who mistreats his bodyguards and drivers. Jacques Masangu, 93: Congolese diplomat. Moody Awori, 93: Ancient ex-VP of Kenya. Ebenezer Moses Debrah, 94 and Samuel Odoi-Sykes, 93: Ghana's own ancients. Rhoda Kalema, 93: Uganda's mother of parliament. Anna 'Matlelima Hlalele, 93: Lesotho ancient. Ahmed Boulaleh Barreh, 93: Djibouti's old Minister of Defence. Turns out to have died already in 2010. Mohammed Bedjaoui, 93: Algerian politician, lawyer. Sam Nujoma, 93: Ex-Pres of Namibia. Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, 93: As far as I know the last Sultan to rule a country, dying years ago. Mohammed Fayek, 93: Nasser & Sadar-era Egyptian minister A ton of them still living. I wonder how many will be in a year or two. More: Joseph Lagu, 93/91: South Sudan ancient. 1930: Ahmed Osman, former Prime Minister of Morocco Bulcha Demeksa, Ethiopian Oromo federalist. Mabandla Dlamini, former Swaziland Prime Minister Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny and Maria Nyerere, widows of founding despots. 1931: Cleopa Msuya, former Kenyan VP and PM. Sylvester Ugoh, Nigerian biafra politico. Frédéric Guirma, Burkina Faso politico. Pié Masumbuko, Ancient Burundi prime minister. Jonas Mukamba Kadiata Nzemba, DR Congo former governor and diamond company head. Ebun Oyagbola, Nigeria's first female govt minister. Aminu Dantata, Nigerian politician. Widowed 2023. Ali Ben Salem, Tunisian activist.

Associated Press science writer Randolph E. Schmid has died at 78. Watch his face in all its glory: https://www.hotsr.com/news/2022/nov/01/schmid-ap-science-writer-with-light-touch-dies/

Yeah, ok man. 41 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears of a Clown 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 33 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile +4 33 Slade - Coz I Luv You -6 31 T. Rex - Get it on  17 Freda Payne - Band of Gold 11 Dave Edmunds - I Hear you Knocking 

41 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears of a Clown 40 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 39 Slade - Coz I Luv You +4 31 T. Rex - Get it on  29 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile  17 Freda Payne - Band of Gold -6 11 Dave Edmunds - I Hear you Knocking I’m now stepping away from this until I’m back in the UK. Don’t fuck it up, gang!

Barbara Bosson, the solid American film and television actress probably remembered for her role as Fay Furillo, Captain Furillo's estranged wife, in the 1980s television series "Hill Street Blues" from 1981 to 1986, is 83 today. Gary Player, the great South African professional golfer, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, who won a total of 165 tournaments, including three Masters, three British Opens, and one U.S. Open, is 87 today.

Two American actors who had their major success on television celebrate their birthdays today. American actor Penn Badgley, best known for his role of Dan Humphrey in hit US teen drama Gossip Girl in the early 2000s, celebrates his 36th birthday today. American actor Robert Foxworth , probably best known for playing Chase Gioberti in 1980s glossy primetime US soap Falcon Crest, celebrates his 81st birthday today.

Still Jive Bunny for me.

Former Falkirk and Dundee player Sammy Wilson reportedly dead, condoled by Coleraine: https://colerainefc.com/club-condolences/

Word going around is Johnie Cooks has been in an ICU for several weeks with heart problems. Ten year NFL career, #2 overall pick in the 1982 NFL draft, won a Super Bowl while playing in New York. He could garner an obit for any pools that include American sources. Probably inconsequential. No link, unfortunately.

Benedict His health history is very long: stroke in 1991, fall in 1992, pacemaker implantation in the 1990s, mild stroke in 2005, bypass operation in 2006, rumored close to death in 2017, severe facial infection in 2020, high bp, arthritis and rumored to suffer from parkinson's disease. Already as a cardinal he tried to resign from the positions he held three times due to health problems. He's 95. Francis has had some lung problems since his 20s, intestinal surgery a year ago and now has a lot of trouble walking. While I think a lung infection could kill or severely weaken him I don't think it's necessarily his year next year but I wouldn't mind seeing him on the list next year

Here's a spooky tale for Halloween. Peter Stumpp, known as the "Werewolf of Bedburg", died on this day 433 years ago, aged 54. According to his confession, Stumpp claimed that he began practicing black magic since he was 12, and that Satan had given him a magical belt that allowed him to transform into a wolf-like creature when he wore it. Another thing the Devil gave him was a succubus that he had sex with- presumably when he was older. Things got dark beginning in 1564. Stumpp consumed the flesh of sheep and goats, and eventually, he craved human flesh. Stumpp would allegedly kill and eat 14 children- including his own son, whose brain he devoured (zombie werewolf?). Stumpp also killed two pregnant woman, and tore out and ate the fetuses inside. Stumpp was also accused of having incestual relations with his daughter, who would be sentenced to death alongside him. On October 31, 1589, Stumpp was tied to a wheel, flayed with burning pincers, had his limbs mangled, beheaded, and then burned. His head was placed on a pole with the torture wheel and a decoration of a wolf as a warning to other potential werewolves. Stumpp was either just a child murderer whose story was sensationalized over time, or he really was the Albert Fish/Jeffrey Dahmer of his day.

1) 115 Years, 3 Days 2) March 8th 2027