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Wally Campo dead at 99.

Surely if you want to search for Crosby's death, you'd use Bing.

Spiderman's Aunt, actually

Inquest into his death reveals that Leslie Jordan died from “cardiac dysfunction” and was dead before his car crashed. Now, I’m no doctor but if they’re certain that he was dead before crashing then it sounds like his aorta may have ruptured, in which case he likely died instantly (Hollywood style if you like) so he wouldn’t have even known he was a goner. At least he didn’t suffer in any way.

Richard Nixon, Kurt Cobain, Jackie Kennedy, John Candy, Bill Hicks and Kim Il-sung from 1994 Jerry Garcia, Selena, Dean Martin and of course the assassination of Yitzah Rabin from 1995 Francois Mitterand, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly and Marcello Mastroianni from 1996 Deng Xiaoping, Jacques Cousteau, Robert Mitchum and Jimmy Stewart from 1997 (up until late August), with the last two less than two months before Diana.

One thing I have observed over the not even three weeks that 2023 has been thus far comprised of is the sudden rise in notable deaths, or at least deaths of people I have heard of/common death pool picks. While I cannot be sure about the main list, which still sits at zero out of fifty deaths, 2023 could be a kind of enema as Gooseberry Crumble has been predicting for the last while and a half. In the last 19 days, Frank McGarvey, Gianluca Vialli, Adam Rich, Lisa Marie Presley, King Constantine II of Greece, George Pell, Jeff Beck, Robbie Knievel, Lucile Randon, David Crosby, Fay Weldon, David Sutherland, Ronald Blythe, Gina Lollobrigda, Carole Cook, Tatjana Patitz, etc. have all passed away. The ones named there total 16. In 19 days. 2023 has so far proven itself to be a major killer of celebrities, some expected, some shocking. I cannot predict the future, so I'm not going to prophecise the next 11 and a bit months, but it seems that Dead Pooling could be in for a record-breaking year.

Maybe. He wasn’t really a controversial drop through. He didn’t seem very unwell. Where does this rank on quickest death after being dropped? 19 days can’t have been beaten many times if at all. Could it be the quickest ever?

2023 is going to be the year when every DL drop dies.

INVERSE DEAD POOL 2023   Welcome to the 12th edition of the Inverse Dead Pool, the nice dead pool where you don't want your picks to die. How to play The game starts when I post a list of this year's 50 most popular Derby Dead Pool picks. From this list of 50, you must pick 25 people who you think will SURVIVE the year. The premise is to AVOID picking people who will die. Rank your picks – from least likely to die to most likely to die. You receive points according to their position on your team – 25 points if your #1 pick dies, 24 points if your #2 pick dies, and so on, down to 1 point if your #25 pick dies, and 0 points if anyone you haven't picked dies. You do NOT want points. The winner is the player with the fewest points at the end of the year (Dec 31, 23.59 GMT). You may also appoint a substitute, or substitutes, in case any picks die before the submission deadline (or in case you accidentally include a name twice). If that happens, everyone in a lower position on your team moves up a place, and your top substitute is drafted in at #25. Once you have a team ready, post it in this thread. If an eligible pick dies during the submission period, then the 51st top DDP pick becomes eligible; if another dies, then the 52nd becomes eligible, etc. You may amend your team after posting it, as long as it's before the submission deadline (you might want to do this if, for example, the 51st name becomes eligible and you want to include them). If you do, make sure to post again in this thread to clarify what you've changed. Tie break details If two or more players are tied for victory at the end of the year, the winner is whoever had the fewest points most recently (i.e. whoever had the most recent pick to die, or whoever ranked that pick higher if all tied players picked them, or whoever had the second most recent pick to die if those are the same, etc). If all tied players have the exact same hits in the exact same positions (or if they achieve a heretofore-unachieved perfect score of 0), the tie is not broken – all tied players share victory. Congratulations to our previous winners... 2022 YorkshireBanker 27 points 2021 BabyBlue 25 points 2020 The Quim Reaper 34 points 2019 drol 10 points 2018 machotrouts 17 points 2017 drol 25 points 2016 Pedro67 21 points 2015 Death Impends 15 points 2014 Bibliogryphon 10 points 2013 N/A 2012 Esturian Float 4 points 2011 Garn2 15 points Thank you to our previous hosts... 2018-2021 Death Impends 2014-2017 The Dead Cow 2011-2012 Spade_Cooley Links to previous Inverse Dead Pools... 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2012-2016, 2011

Pretty easy to cobble together though I was stunned to learn a person who is ‘just a guy’ and not particularly ancient to DL is on the Committee. To that end I’d like to hear the criteria other than being male.

Arguably there’s no such thing. He was tweeting yesterday and had announced last year that he wanted to go on the road again. I think it’s more likely that he had a sudden medical turn ie heart attack or stroke.

Some sources have been suggesting Crosby’s cause of death was (long) COVID. I’m now really regretting omitting Willie Nelson from my 2023 shadowlist. Nearly a decade older than Crosby, Nelson was gravely ill with COVID last year about the same time as Crosby, and Nelson has experienced emphysema and so many other health issues over his 90 years. I really should have put Nelson on, I don’t blame myself so much for missing Crosby.

Surely we're not going to have to wheel this one out

So 19 days in to the competition, we must have round about 19 hits so far ! ! ! !

I said it once and I’ll say it again big miss by the committee

Rosemarry Harris She is the actress who played Spiderman's Granny in the Tobey Mcguire Spidey flicks of the 00's

On this day 13 years ago in 2010, Scottish Rugby Union commentator , journalist and former rugby player Bill McLaren died aged 86. He came to be known as the voice of rugby. He was part of a group of sports commentators who post war made a transition from working on BBC Radio to BBC television in the early days of the medium. Murray Walker, Dan Maskell and Peter Alliss were also in this group. Bill had two daughters, one of whom he outlived by 10 years and two famous son in laws, Scottish rugby player Alan Lawson and racing commentator Derek Thompson.

Beano artist David Sutherland OBE reported dead.

I think for me it must have been Elvis. My eldest sister had just started work and she said some of the women in her office were in tears at the news.

Thoughts with you and your loved ones. Hold them close.

Kate Moss is 49 today and Lin-Manuel Miranda is 43

This space for statistics. 14 January - First round of game stats and player picks Number of entries: 30 Average number of picks: ~17 Range of picks: 12 to 22 Number of players with joker: 30 Joker Distribution: Henry Kissinger 1 Bob Barker 1 Nigel Starmer-Smith 2 Tony Bennett 1 Norman Tebbit 1 Joanne Woodward 2 Joss Ackland 1 Rolf Harris 11 Ryuichi Sakamoto 9 Shane MacGowan 1 30 Top 5 picks: Nigel Starmer-Smith (28), Rolf Harris (28), Jimmy Carter (27), Ryuichi Sakamoto (26), Sonny Rollins (25) Bookies favourite: Rolf Harris with 28 picks, jokered 11 times (Host decision based on number of jokers; Nigel Starmer-Smith with 28 picks, jokered twice) Unique picks: Alan Alda (Chilean way), Ali Khamenei (Chilean way), Bob Newhart (Bibliogryphon), Hal Linden (WinterCake), Tina Turner (The Old Crem) Not Selected: Desmond Morris, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Michael Parkinson Designated survivor(s): TBD Update: 20 February Full list of picks and joker distributions. A shorter Joker only picks table can be found above. Pink = unique picks, Green = (potential) designated survivor(s) # picks # jokers Dick van Dyke 5 0 Henry Kissinger 25 1 Bob Barker 21 1 Alan Greenspan 6 0 Nigel Starmer-Smith 28 2 Jimmy Carter 27 0 Tony Bennett 11 1 Dick Cheney 2 0 Harry Belafonte 13 0 Mel Brooks 5 0 Jacques Delors 18 0 Sir Bobby Charlton 13 0 Robert Wagner 7 0 Norman Tebbit 15 1 Rosalynn Carter 11 0 Sandy Gall 4 0 Joanne Woodward 24 2 Ethel Kennedy 4 0 Desmond Morris 0 0 Stanley Baxter 10 0 Joss Ackland 10 1 Jean-Marie Le Pen 13 0 Milan Kundera 16 0 Cleo Laine 4 0 Alan Alda 1 0 Prunella Scales 2 0 Yoko Ono 12 0 Norman Lear 13 0 Burt Bacharach 7 0 Marianne Faithfull 3 0 Angie Dickinson 0 0 Robert Duvall 0 0 Imelda Marcos 5 0 Pervez Musharraf 16 0 Ali Khamenei 1 0 Pete Murray 9 0 Bob Newhart 1 0 Rolf Harris 28 11 Ryuichi Sakamoto 26 9 Willy Nelson 2 0 Dennis Skinner 11 0 Nigel Lawson 10 0 Michael Parkinson 0 0 Sonny Rollins 25 0 Mohamed Al-Fayed 7 0 Hal Linden 1 0 Linda Nolan 13 0 Tina Turner 1 0 Andy Taylor 24 0 Shane MacGowan 9 1 Totals 519 30 I swore I added this list format of ranking by number of picks with jokers listed, but the above is the ranking as they appear on the DL. Will also be updated for hits too. Hit Number # picks # jokers Nigel Starmer-Smith 28 2 6 Rolf Harris 28 11 Jimmy Carter 27 0 3 Ryuichi Sakamoto 26 9 16 Henry Kissinger 25 1 Sonny Rollins 25 0 Joanne Woodward 24 2 Andy Taylor 24 0 11 Bob Barker 21 1 19 Jacques Delors 18 0 8 Milan Kundera 16 0 1 Pervez Musharraf 16 0 Norman Tebbit 15 1 5 Harry Belafonte 13 0 13 Sir Bobby Charlton 13 0 Jean-Marie Le Pen 13 0 18 Norman Lear 13 0 Linda Nolan 13 0 Yoko Ono 12 0 9 Tony Bennett 11 1 14 Rosalynn Carter 11 0 Dennis Skinner 11 0 Stanley Baxter 10 0 15 Joss Ackland 10 1 4 Nigel Lawson 10 0 Pete Murray 9 0 17 Shane MacGowan 9 1 Robert Wagner 7 0 2 Burt Bacharach 7 0 12 Mohamed Al-Fayed 7 0 Alan Greenspan 6 0 Dick van Dyke 5 0 Mel Brooks 5 0 Imelda Marcos 5 0 Sandy Gall 4 0 Ethel Kennedy 4 0 Cleo Laine 4 0 Marianne Faithfull 3 0 Dick Cheney 2 0 Prunella Scales 2 0 Willy Nelson 2 0 Alan Alda 1 0 Ali Khamenei 1 0 Bob Newhart 1 0 Hal Linden 1 0 7 Tina Turner 1 0 Desmond Morris 0 0 Angie Dickinson 0 0 Robert Duvall 0 0 10 Michael Parkinson 0 0 Totals 519 30

I dont believe that he will ever make it into the official DL. Although I honestly see no difference between him and other DL-worthy asian leaders like Bhumibol, Akihito, etc.

Congratulations on your 96th BIrthday, Javier

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