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I had him last year! My primary reason for dropping him this year was that I'm very bad at DDP.

Ah, April. As the weather gets warmer, the DDP hits get fewer. But - not to fret - as the Windy City Deadpool is here to save us all from a summer of deadpooling boredom! Basics: Pick a team of 21 people. The higher their rank, the more points they get when they die and obit. Submit it to me via PM or on this thread, by the end of April. Scoring System: 1st pick: 500 points 2nd pick: 450 points 3rd pick: 400 points 4th pick: 350 points 5th pick: 300 points 6th pick: 275 points 7th pick: 250 points 8th pick: 225 points 9th pick: 200 points 10th pick: 180 points 11th pick: 160 points 12th pick: 140 points 13th pick: 120 points 14th pick: 100 points 15th pick: 85 points 16th pick: 70 points 17th pick: 55 points 18th pick: 50 points 19th pick: 45 points 20th pick: 40 points 21st pick: 21 points As you can see the margin slowly decreases from 50 to 25 to 20 to 15 to 5 until the 21st pick. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by whoever has the most unique hits. Bonus Points Scrapping the old bonus system,I am gonna borrow from the now defunct Doug Stanhope Deadpool and every month will have unique scoring bonus for qualifying notables Each Month's Theme gives the oppurtunity for a 50 Point Bonus May-Memorial Day(Any notables who served in any countries military at some point) June-Pride Month(Any LGBTQ notables) July-Hemingway to Hell(In honor of Ernest Hemingway who's death and birth was in this month,any writers or journalist notables get bonus points) August-Summer in Europe(Any current or former head of state's from a EU Country) September- Sporting Sportsballers(Ie Athletes/coaches,commentators,owners ie notables associated with sport) October- Spooktober(People generally considered evil.IE Murderer's,War criminals/Kissinger,Paedo's,rapists etc) November-Neighborly Neighborino's (Since the Windy City (ie Chicago) is in the Usa,bonus points to any notable deaths of Russian's,Mexican's,Canadian etc ie anyone from a country that border's some part of the Usa) December- Santa's Choice(Bonus this month go to any religious leaders or someone who has played Santa Claus,Mrs. Claus,Rudolph or an Elf in tv or film) January-Joint Jumpin January(Ie musicians,songswriter,music producers ,music journalist ie associated with music) February-Black History Month(Ie any black celebs/notables) March-Oscar Month(Since the Oscar's are typically in March this a film themed month.Anyone who has been nominated for an Oscar/Bafta film award,or Directed a film in competition at Cannes,Berlin,Sundance.Venice etc or any other major festival qualifies for this bonus) April-Wrestmania Month(Ie Wrestlers or anyone associated with wrestling) The only 2 bonsuses to return are Youngest Hit Bonus-100 Points Hit in last 7 days -77 points Acceptable Obits: Anything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool, plus The Independent. Plus the following national American news sources: - New York Times - LA Times - CBS News - Chicago Tribune -Wall Street Journal Plus the following International news sources: http://www.cbc.ca/ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ http://www.heraldscotland.com/ https://www.univision.com/ * Cancer Mum's/Athlete's Wives(IE Tiffany Youngs) and other Famous For Being Ill Types will not be accepted even if they get a qualifying Obit *Some name's may appear like a gray area(ie Roz Patterson).Notable in her Native Country as a reporter and would easily get a QO with a plane crash or auto accident type death.However if none of her QO obits mention her journalistic career and is just an angle about her being a Cancer Mum then no points will be awarded. *Relatives of the famous (Since there was a bit of confusion last year even if the relative of a famous person has some type of professional credit,unless their obit specifically mention them in a professional role that reasonably a person obits from it will be a non QO obit . For example if Tom Cruise Nephew/Brother/Dad etc. Bob Cruise was a Gaffer,Best Boy,Photgrapher/Hairdresser/Caterer or had a Vanity Producers Credit on a Mission Impossible Behind The Scenes Doc on IMDb that still not a high enough bar even if they get a DailyMail copypasta .Those specific behind the scenes industry occupations never are noted unless they are related to someone famous. However if a Bob Cruise has professional acting/writing etc credits where they may land an Obit even if they were related to nobody famous then they are acceptable. Any questions just ask Duration: The competition lasts from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024 Get your team in before Big Ben welcomes the month of May. Teams can be sent either through pm or posted in this thread 

Frank Field MP = 500 + 77 for last 7 days = 577 Virginia Halas McCaskey Jimmy Carter June Spencer Linda Nolan Christy Dignam = 275 Princess Bajrakitiyabha Patrick Murray David Attenborough Andy Taylor Billy Graham (wrestler) = 160 Steve McMichael Simon Cowell (wildlife presenter) James Carter Cathcart Rolf Harris = 85 Anita Cornwell = 70 Vincent Ball Rosalyn Carter =50 Pope Francis Stanley Baxter Bruce Willis Subs Rupert Murdoch Vanessa Redgrave Shannen Doherty Maggie Smith Morgan Freeman Michael Parkinson Total so far: 1217 Score above doesn't include any bonus points. I'm keeping tally for my own sanity.

Stanley Tam, founder of Ohio's U.S. Plastic Corp, dead at 107. (Seems quite obscure, but he's still a centenarians DP pick.)

It's 19 years since the death of Canadian actor Bruce Boa. He was well known as a 'go to' actor whenever a Canadian/American character was required in British TV programmes. After a brief career in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders, he embarked on a trip through Europe, beginning his acting career in the UK in 1956, settling permanently in the 1960s. Amongst his many films are Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket and The Empire Strikes Back. TV roles included appearances in Ace of Wands, Dempsey and Makepeace and The Avengers, but he's best known as the obnoxious American guest demanding a Waldorf salad in Fawlty Towers. He died from cancer, aged 73.

Arnold Yarrow is 103 today.

The Arnold Palmer of Curling, canadian Matt Baldwin, dies at 96: https://www.curling.ca/blog/2023/04/16/curling-legend-passes-away/

It is probably about time that I started updating this pool, as there have been three fairly rapid hits, after a long fallow period. We can't have people complaining that this pool doesn't get enough attention! We will do the hits one by one for clarity, so first up we have a very popular selection: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO +2 Base Point +2 Drop 40 +2 Deathlist Alumnus +2 (Hidden Bonus No. 6: "+2 if the picks Wikipedia page has a “Personal Life” section (it has to be those exact two words" ) -2 (Hidden Bonus No. 10: "-2 if the pick has written an autobiography. -3 if they have written more than 1") -2 (Hidden Bonus No. 11: "-1 for every time a pick has remarried") +4 TOTAL POINTS Hits for: Book (Bonus +1 Position 26 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) (Breaks run of hits in order) BuffaloPhil (Bonus +1 Position 26 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Captain Chorizo (Bonus +1 Position 22 on list) (Breaks run of hits in order) Captain Hemlock (Bonus +1 Position 26 on list) Funeralopolis (Bonus +1 Position 24 on list) (Breaks run of hits in order) Gcreptile (Bonus +1 Picture posted) (Bonus +1 Hits in order) (Wildcard) Great Uncle Bulgaria (Bonus +1 Position 27 on list) LizLemon (Bonus +1 Position 24 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) MSC (Bonus +1 Position 27 on list) Perhaps (Bonus +1 Picture posted) The Old Crem The Old Lady (Bonus +1 Position 23 on list) (Bonus +2 Picture posted) The Unknown Man Toast (Bonus +1 Position 26 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Torva Messor TQR (Bonus +1 Position 24 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) ThereWillBeDeaths7 (Bonus +1 Position 26 on list) Wannamaker (Bonus +1 Picture posted) (Wildcard) There is a change at the top of the leaderboard, as @gcreptile sneaks into the lead, knocking @Bookdown into second place, with @theoldladyholding onto third. @wannamaker keeps in touch with the leaders, thans to a Sakamoto wildcard. Down at the bottom, 6 players have still to register a hit, with the battle between @Pedro67and his missus yet to take off. GCREPTILE +36 2 Hits' BOOK +33 2 Hits THE OLD LADY +29 2 Hits WANNAMAKER +25 2 Hits CAPTAIN CHORIZO +14 2 Hits FUNERALOPOLIS +14 2 Hits AN FEAR BEAG +13 1 Hit THEREWILLBEDEATHS7 +10 1 Hit LIZ LEMON +8 1 Hit THE UNKNOWN MAN +7 1 Hit BUFFALO PHIL +6 1 Hit MSC +6 1 Hit THE OLD CREM +6 1 Hit TOAST +6 1 Hit GREAT UNCLE BULGARIA +5 1 Hit TORVA MESSOR +4 1 Hit TQR +4 1 Hit PERHAPS +3 1 Hit CAPTAIN HEMLOCK +3 1 Hit PEDRO67 +1 0 Hits BIBLIOGRYPHON +1 0 Hits GOOSEBERRY CRUMBLE 0 0 Hits MARINISIA 0 0 Hits MRS PEDRO 0 0 Hits TRACY -2 0 Hits

1st Perhaps-2,810 2nd place-GunUpNorth -2,755 3rd--theoldlady-2,701 4th-gcreptile -2,580 5th-JoeyRuss-2,531 6th- Book-2,452 7th- Drol-2,380 8th-Banana-2,290 9th-Annami-2,210 10th-- Msc-2,175 11th MortalCaso-2,053 12th-Hell-2,041 Tied 13tth-JohnJohn-2,035 Tied 13th-CaptainChorizo-2,035 15th-CaptainHemlock-1,910 16th-- SalmonMousse-1,851 17th-wannamaker-1,721 18th-BuffaloPhil-1,667 19th TheUnknownMan -1,650 20th-Marinisia-1,620 21st-ChileanWay-1,556 22nd-TheSpinosaurus  -1,550 23rd-Grimgrass-1,402 24th-Funeraloplis -1,395 25th--arghton-1,357 26th-Doulton-1,270 27th-wormfarmer-1,260 28th-markb4-1,241 29th-GreatUncleBulgaria 1,216 30th-toast-1,010 31st-Bibliogryphon -810 32nd- LadyFiona-739 33rd-Commtechsiobibble-552 34th-Famous6Eva-400 35th-JoeMoneyPenny-230 36th-GooseberryCrumble-225 37th-YorkshireBanker-40 Hits This Update King Constantine II-arghton,grimgrass Carole Cook-markb4 Ronald Blythe-Marinisia,,spinosaurus, Betty Boothroyd-ladyfiona + Feb Bonus Points Bobby Caldwell-wormfarmer,joeyruss Benjamin Ferencz-MortalCaso Al Jafee-Doulton,markb4 Buschwhacker Butch-CaptainChorizo Mary Quant-toast Also included is Bernald Kalb points that I missed for Doulton in the last update Hits this game May Ric Parnell George Perez Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Boris Pahor June Jay Hopler Billy Kametz Jean Louis Trintignant Deborah James July Susana Dosamantes Susie Steiner John Gwynne Paul Dear Luis Echeverria Larry Storch Bernard Cribbins Paul Sorvino Lukas Lundin Jason DiTullio Nichelle Nichols August Carl Kabat Robyn Griggs Jospephine Tewson Tom Weiskopf Mikhail Gorbachev Bill Turnbill September Marsha Hunt Queen Elizabeth II Irene Papas Mark Souder October Sacheen Littlefeather Peter Tobin Robbie Coltrane Charley Trippi Tony Brown Jerry Lee Lewis November Leslie Phillips Vicky Phelan Maurice Norman Clara Marx Doddie Weir December Julia Reichert Sinisa Mihajlovic Alice Mahon Pele Don West Pepe Benedict January Gianluca Vialli Bernard Kalb King Constantine II Carole Cook Ronald Blythe February Betty Bothroyd Jim Broyhill March Bobby Caldwell April Benjamin Ferencz Al Jafee Butch Miller Mary Quant Let me know if I missed any names or made a scoring error With 2 weeks left it's still anyone's game,multiple players are 1 or 2 hit's from ovetaking the leader.

Died on 6/Feb Justa Araújo,whose birth she claims to have been on 10/Aug/1908,but not enough documents were obtained to prove this date,she would be the oldest person in Argentina if she got enough documents,it is believed that the oldest person in the country is Isabel Barletta born on 12/Sep/1911 in Buenos Aires Facebook

Died in La Paz Carlo Pietro de Leonardis,the oldest living person known in Bolivia since /3/Sep/22,he was born in Sabbio Chiese, Lombardy Italy on 2/Jan/1915,we still have no information of who is the oldest person living in Bolivia.Died on Apr 6 Facebook

Burt Bacharach number 17 on the green list Ryuichi Sakamoto number 17 on the red list

The Dominican Republic lost its oldest resident,it is not known her name,only the initials,A.R.M was born on 30/nov/1913 and died apparently on 1/mar/2023,was the oldest person in the country since 20/nov/2022,the oldest known new inhabitant of the country is now Francisco Reynoso, born May 8, 1914 Estephany Reynoso409 (@lanena0502) | TikTok

Ioanna Proiou-Dimitriadou,was oldest known Greek person since 6/Aug/2021,she was born 2/Jul/1911,died in Raches, Icaria on 5/Apr,same place she was born,now oldest known person in Greece it would be Panagioula Stefanidaki, born 15/oct/1914, in Kalymnos,she lives in Corfu,she was also the oldest known person from the Balkans,who is now the Romanian Ilie Ciocan born 28/may/1913 in Galicia, County of Vâlcea and currently lives in the village of Bratia din Vale, municipality of Galicea Ioanna was known as the "Queen of Loom Weaving" Ioanna Proiou: A "Rainha da Tecelagem do Tear" de Ikaria morre aos 112 anos (greekcitytimes.com)

Franz Wilander was the oldest man in Austria since 14/Jun/20,was 109 years and 70 born in 21/jan/1914 days old when he died on 1/apr/23,was born and died in Lower Austria,now the oldest man in the country is Josef Peer,born in,he is 105 years and 63 days,lives in Tyrol,was born on 31/jan/1918 "Faça bem, Franz": o homem mais velho da Áustria morre aos 109 anos | kurier.at

Prince Hitachi hospitalised again .

In addition, only one of their spouses is still alive: Princess Joan of Luxembourg (1935); widow of Prince Charles of Luxembourg and daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon.

With David Crosby's death, Sabbath's original line up must be the most WTF 60s band to still have a full breathing quartet? I'm aware Ronnie Dio and Geoff Nichols are no more, but they weren't part of the classic line up.

This is straying towards theme team territory…

Harry Belafonte is 95.

Reminds me of the priest whose church was being threatened by a flood. As the waters rose, one of his parishioners with a small boat floated past the church and called for the priest to get into the boat and save himself. "No" said the priest, "l'll be fine. The Lord will provide for me." A while later, as the flood waters rose to the second floor of the church, other parishioners came by in another boat and pleaded with the priest to get into the boat and save himself. "No," replied the priest. "I place my faith in the Lord." Later still, the waters rose up the church steeple and, as the priest hung on tightly so that he wasn't washed away, another boat came by. But still the priest refused to get into the boat. Eventually, the flood waters covered the church, and the priest was swept away and drowned. When he got to heaven, Saint Peter met the priest at the pearly gates. The priest approached Saint Peter perplexed and even a little angry. "I had faith in the Lord," he said, "why didn't he assist me in my hour of need?" "Well," said Saint Peter, "We did send three boats, you know."

An American, Larry Genius*, died of drinking chloroquine phosphate (fish tank cleaner) last month after confusing it for hydroxychloroquine - a drug previously touted by Trump as a potential cure to treat Covid-19. His wife, Wanda, said "I was in the pantry and I saw it sitting on the back shelf and I said 'hey isn't that stuff they were talking about on tv'." *actually his name was Gary Lenius, but my version sounds more appropriate https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/man-dies-drinking-cleaner-thought-21924827

American country musician “Mother” Maybelle Carter, member of the historic Carter family and mother of June Carter (the wife of Johnny Cash), died on October 23, 1978 at the age of 69.

Botswana's oldest woman dies aged 130. Presumably, the Guinness Book of Records reach doesn't extend to Botswana.

That's 2 world wars for you... That and the stress of being married to women!