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Hello There and Welcome, or Welcome Back to those returning, to the second round of the Crazy Eight Dead Pool! This pool is a lot like the Midsummer and Advent pools in that every entrant may choose only one pick, but the winner will be he/she/they who predicts the Eighth death, not the first, so folks with only 24/48 hours to live may not be the best choice here. Credit for this pool's creation goes to GuyFromFuture, I am merely the host, this round in a more official capacity than last time. The Official Rules: 1. Entrants will have 24 hours to submit an entry. 1 entry per person. 2. Entries open on 14th June 2023 at 00:00 BST. First come, first served. 3. No two players can pick the same person. 4a. Banned picks include death row inmates, FFBI, people under the age of 18, and all of the usual no-go areas. Death row inmates, FFBI, people under the age of 18, etc. are eligible to enter as a participant, however. 4b. I am aware that some pools class supercentenarians as FFBI, because they are famous solely due to their age, but this is not the case in this pool, and so they are perfectly eligible to be picked. 5. The QO standards remain fairly low, as long as they are definitely dead, and an obituary, as opposed to a death notice or a social media post, has been published, the hit will be counted. The only exception to this rule is, like last time, legacy.com remains a non-QO source. 6. For legal reasons, killing your or others' picks to speed up the pace of the game or to win is not advised. 7. Hit placement is determined by date of death, as opposed to date of death announcement. However, in the instance that two entries die on the day of the eighth death, whichever death is reported first shall be counted first. 8. In the case that a specific date of death cannot be determined, the date said death is announced shall take its place. As this is my first time running a pool, if any of the more experienced members have any suggestions for additions/amendments to the rules, please feel free to say so. The same goes for any questions, should they be prompted. Hall of Fame: 2022-2023: MortalCaso (Ted Kaczynski).

Thanks for hosting, Summer. My candidate is Penelope Lively.

14/Jun/2023 59 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 52 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 44 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World +2 43 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 35 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 32 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 30 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash +2 29 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 25 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 23 Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air 21 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 21 Tommy Roe – Dizzy 19 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 18 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 16 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) 14 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 12 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 11 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 09 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 07 Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days 03 The Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back -6

Tim Allen is 70 today. Chris Evans is 42 today.

Johnny Gilbert

Wed 14 Jun 59 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown – Fire 52 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising 43 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine 42 Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World 35 Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 32 Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525 29 Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites 28 The Rolling Stones – Jumpin´ Jack Flash +4 25 The Love Affair – Everlasting Love 23 Thunderclap Newman — Something In The Air 21 Manfred Mann – Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) 21 Tommy Roe — Dizzy 19 Bobbie Gentry – I´ll Never Fall In Love Again 19 The Beach Boys – Do It Again 18 Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony, Mony 16 Peter Sarstedt — Where Do You Go To My Lovely 14 Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 12 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 11 Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Legend Of Xanadu 09 Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T´aime... Moi Non Plus 09 The Beatles & Billy Preston – Get Back -6 07 Mary Hopkin — Those Were The Days

Elon in not having an original idea shocker

Princess Eugenie has given birth to her second child, a son.

So weirdly, I was just saying that over a smoothie and a couple of slices of healthy toast to Mrs MPFC - I get that Schofield is scathing on himself but his misdeeds aren't a patch on Bojo's, apart from owt else Jennifer Arcuri's advancement in London was way less boundaried than Schofield starting a relationship once his other half had got a job. Oddly, he could learn summat from Bojo's tactic of moving on and grabbing opportunities on offer. Nowt wrong here that couldn't be sorted by getting over it, (metaphorically) growing a pair and redefining yourself (summat like Jamie Vardy's missus who's got more offers after being beaten in court than she had before).

Eamonn Holmes will be milking this development for ages.

He is appearing in public again.

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are expecting their third child together. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/boris-johnsons-wife-carrie-announces-she-is-pregnant-with-third-child-12884631

It's notable that the statements from the Muslim organizations are along the lines of - no person deserves to be attacked like that, rather than any positive comments or even any comments at all about Rushdie himself. They're scared of being next.

Fucking hell

Thank you for your kind words! Just busy starting to draw up some dynamic long lists for next years various deadpools for people who might get the enemas attention .. So who knows I might be too busy to post on this important thread quite so much!

Thank you for deciphering her blog. I tried and failed to get something meaningful out of it lately - hadn't seen the latest entry though. She is only buying time, the cancer is in her bones. But yes, I agree that it's progressing faster than expected. But then I was sure she'll die this year - the obit is the question. BBC or Guardian.

Fox News Channel's Brenda Buttner has died following a battle with cancer. She was 55. SC

More info moves him into top 100.... Made to head medicine balls during training Doesn't know what day it is, 24hr care required.....

Cook sees this as 'personal' as Palmer was the only person who made a death threat to Cook( and Cook has had umpteen) that was taken seriously. That's not true. Several years ago, I saw Roger Cook (who used to live a few miles down the road from me) driving in his gas guzzling 4x4 AGAINST the arrows in our local Tesco car park. I made a death threat and an offensive hand signal to him. Maybe he will make a documentary about me next. Aside from that, my dad also sold him a car many years ago. Said he was a right cunt. So he lived in Wiltshire???? All makes sense now.....

On January 17th in previous years Raymond Bonham Carter, leading British banker grandson of UK Liberal Prime Minister Asquith and father of award winning actress Helena Bonham Carter died aged 84 (2004) Olav V The hugely popular domestically King of Norway from 1957-1991 died aged 87 (1991) French painter Horace Vernet known for his realistic paintings of battles, portraits and orientalist Arab subjects. His speciality was paintings of French soldiers, died aged 73 (1863)

If you've ever had to do an IQ test then you can blame Sir Francis Galton, who died this day 105 years ago aged 88.

American actor Richard Crenna died on January 17 2003. Key quote: "Guilt or innocence, that's not my job. It's my duty to pick up scum-sucking punks like yourself who are accused of a crime. A jury of twelve really stupid people who are easily swayed by rich, fat-cat, slimy lawyers, who'll do anything but tell the truth, will sit in judgment of you. It's as American as a burrito."

On this day January 16th in previous years American actress and singer Carole Lombard died in a plane crash along with military personnel and her mother travelling with her (1942) American businessman Glen Bell of "Taco Bell" fame died. (2010) Arthur Darby British rugby union player who played in the national team in the 1900 Olympics died. (1960)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll World famous Author Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) died on this day in 1898