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Cross-posting news of the death of Jim McManus, who played Aberforth Dumbledore (credited as Barman) in The Order of the Phoenix.

Was listening an interview today with the Deputy Editor of the Economist who interviewed Kissinger last month for eight hours. He said that Kissinger had mentioned that he is planning to write two more books - one on Artificial Intelligence - which apparently he's very concerned about. Whatever your thoughts on the man's ethics (and they are somewhat dubious) that's remarkable for someone who's now 100.

I wonder if he writes (improvises?) his own tweets, most of which run along the lines of “Happy Birthday [insert jazz legend who’s long dead]”

Kissinger's son recently wrote an article about his longevity.

Don't speak shite. He's not that notable at all.

Still two hours left in the US (where he presumably is)

Every year his head slowly sinks further into his torso, maybe he's preparing for a role as Mike Kawalski in a live action Monsters Inc?

The oldest person in Cuba died, but was not recognized, it was Emilia Tejeda Tejeda who claimed to have been born on 29/jun/1908, died in Niquero, in Granma, on 21/may The person believed to be the oldest in Cuba is Concepcion Alarcon Vega, born on 8/Dec/1909 and lives in Oriente https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2023-05-22-u1-e207888-s27061-fallece-anciana-longeva-cuba-casi-115-anos

Sometimes this is a major blessing - elsewhere on DL there was a recent discussion that boxer Joe Bugner thinks he's 38 and his missus Marlene (who is dead) has just gone out to the shops.

Giving she'd had a kidney transplant at 78 and was already a cancer survivor, I think that's enough to qualify.

a DDP Miss Last picked in 2022 https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_L.html#leathep022

https://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.php?id=171435 RIP former WWF Women's Tag Team Champion, Peggy Lee Leather

His wife already placed in custody But only for "failure to assist a person in danger", apparently. More details in Le Parisien Interested to learn that his mother was Nico

A few A-lister singers that deserves more consideration : - Smokey Robinson (b. 1940) : nearly-fatal Covid which led to a 11 days hospitalization in 2022 - Paolo Conte (b. 1937) : still gave concerts last year but a heavy smoker and doesn't look the picture of health anymore 1 - Johnny Tillotson (b. 1939) : not seen in a long time and stopped giving interview in his youtube channel over two years ago - Frankie Valli (b. 1934) : pneumonia in 2021, surgery in 2023, but still performing at 88. - Mina (b. 1940) : italian icon, quit performing back in 1978 after a near-fatal broncho-pneumonia. Has released several albums since but hasn't been seen in public for a while - Herb Alpert (b. 1935) : old, couldn't find much about him but a well-known and successful trumpeter anyway - Bobby Vinton (b. 1935) : serious case of shingle in 2015, which forced him to retire, hasn't been seen in ages - Clarence Carter (b. 1936) : doesn't look great in this photo from a year ago - Johnny Matthis (b. 1935) : former alcoholic and drug addict, his home has been crushed by storm in january 2023 - Cissy Houston (b. 1933) : old and so frail in her recent apparitions - Judy Collins (b. 1939) : suffers from bulimia since mid-70's, still gives concerts - Caterina Valente (b. 1931) : old french-italian singer - Sly Stone (b. 1940) : frail as shown in this picture from 2015 I'm leaving aside famous picks like Shirley Bassey, Julie Andrews, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand etc…

Broadcasting "legend" John Roland of New York's Channel 5 dead at 81: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12062657/amp/Broadcasting-legend-John-Roland-anchored-New-Yorks-Channel-5-news-cast-dies-aged-81.html Covered 9/11 and such.

Heinrich Reuss is now on hunger and thirst strike and wants "to leave life this way": https://www.spiegel.de/politik/reichsbuerger-terrorgruppe-ex-soldat-in-haft-im-hunger-und-durststreik-a-66af7f0a-af46-4479-bd39-2185ad93c3bb

I think this is the only thread that actually fills me with terror when I click on it to see the latest.

Well here’s a tip. Read the fucking rules before deciding whether to enter a fucking pool. Don’t want to read them? Then don’t enter pools. It’s not that hard

So now there’s under ten minutes left to go, and I am still waiting on two teams who seem to have gone completely MIA, and frankly I doubt either of them will submit at this point. This is not the first time that someone did not submit their team on time if it still holds up, but it would be the first time it happened in round 1. This is really unacceptable from the two non submitters, and I’m not just saying this just because I’m the host. I have now sent four messages to both of the remaining members who have yet to send in a team, and they did not even respond to the messages I sent. So they will get disqualified if they don’t send in a team very quickly. Beyond that though, this sort of thing is really much more stressful in round 1. In the past when a team did not submit on time, there is usually a loser of some kind who gets brought into their place to replace the non submitted team, but because this is the first round, I can’t do that. So two teams now get a bye in round 1, and while it may be good for them to relax a bit, they also had to go through the pain of getting together a team, only for nothing to happen with them. Which means they wasted time to get something together. Beyond that, not only is it disrespectful to those two competitors, but had the two members not say they were competing only to go MIA, then two different members could’ve gotten a bye this time. Instead, because of their irresponsibility, the two members who would’ve gotten a bye had they not said their in were forced into this round that could’ve completely not happened. So four different people are affected by this one way or another and this is really disrespectful to all four of them. Now sometimes IRL stuff does happen, and it could prevent you from submitting a team. I understand that things do come back, but if this happens in the future you need to be honest with the host that you are unable to submit something on time so that they can prepare for the next round ahead of time without last minute stress. Needless to say, neither of these individuals will appear on a bye list for the 2022 cup and will be forced to compete in round 1 if they decide to enter. In fact, I am pretty tempted to bar both of them from competing in the cup again, but since banning hasn’t happened in the past with non submitters I won’t do that. I just want to make it very clear that not communicating with the host may not only affect the stress of their work but it could also affect other competitors as well as this time shows.

Well, there’s under 72 hours to enter into the cup, and here is all the teams that have entered in so far: Annami vs dvsp84 Baby Blue vs CalebH Djemba Djemba vs JoeMoneyPenny BuffaloPhil vs nantonian2013 The Old Crem vs YorkshireBanker Markb4 vs Charles De Gaulle GreatUncleBulgaria vs Gooseberry Crumble ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs GuyFromFuture Perhaps vs xXConmanXx Yes, there will be at least one match that will happen, and a few others with byes currently if their opponents don’t show. But there’s still time yet if you are one of those last minute submitters...

I suggest that for the finals only, the 3rd tiebreaker be sudden death. The first player from either team to die ends it. In the case of earlier rounds, you need a winner at the end of the month but not for the finals. It would be a shame to see a coin flip decide the champion.

I think the committee should get full kudos for this one. Not one who was featuring heavily in DDP teams and Shadow Lists so it is a good pick when it is a hit.

Holding his own normally means hanging on in there.The fact that it says very special friends and close family are visiting also sounds like saying goodbye/Bedside vigil to me.