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Rise and shine, happy dead-poolers - it's your Sunday morning update! Just what you need to start off The Lords Day - a update on people he didn't care enough about to save. And it's another popular one, George Alagiah, selected by all but 4 teams. Only @Gooseberry Crumble (naturally), @Great Uncle Bulgaria, Mrs @Pedro67 (has she really never heard of Alagiah and @tracy (fair enough - he wasn't born in the 1920s ) failed to pick the ex-newsreader. For someone who was a very public figure and who received numerous awards, pictures of this were surprisingly hard to come by, with only 3 players scoring a picture bonus. GEORGE ALAGIAH +2 Base Point +2 Drop 40 +2 (Hidden Bonus No. 6: "+2 if picks Wikipedia page has a "Personal Life" Section") +3 (Hidden Bonus No. 8: "+3 if they were born in a country that does not now exist") -3 (Hidden Bonus No. 10: "-2 if the pick has written an autobiography. -3 if they have written more than 1") +6 TOTAL POINTS Hits for: An Fear Beag (Bonus +1 Position 23 on list) Bibliogryphon Book (Bonus +2 Picture posted) BuffaloPhil (Wildcard) Captain Chorizo Captain Hemlock (Wildcard) Funeralopolis (Bonus +1 Position 24 on list) Gcreptile (Bonus +1 Position 24 on list) (Bonus +1 Picture posted) (Wildcard) LizLemon (Bonus +1 Position 21 on list) Marinisia (Breaks run of hits in order) MSC Pedro Perhaps (Wildcard) The Old Crem The Old Lady (Bonus +1 Position 14 on list) The Unknown Man Toast Torva Messor (Bonus +1 Position 22 on list) TQR ThereWillBeDeaths7 (Bonus +1 Position 12 on list) Wannamaker (Bonus +1 Picture posted) A few players fell foul of the "Consecutive hits born in the same decade" penalty. Yours truly and @BuffaloPhil followed up their Mutulu Shakur (born 1950) hit with Alagiah (born 1955) @Perhapsand @The Old Cremlast had a hit with Gordon McQueen (born 1952) @gcreptile stretches out the lead again to 19 points, with @Bookand @Captain Hemlock battling it out for second place. Can the long time leader possibly be caught? GCREPTILE +93 8 Hits BOOK +74 8 hits CAPTAIN HEMLOCK +73 6 Hits THEREWILLBEDEATHS7 +62 9 Hits WANNAMAKER +59 7 Hits AN FEAR BEAG +59 6 Hits THE OLD LADY +59 5 Hits BIBLIOGRYPHON +56 6 Hits GREAT UNCLE BULGARIA +49 6 Hits FUNERALOPOLIS +48 6 Hits BUFFALO PHIL +45 6 Hits CAPTAIN CHORIZO +43 7 Hits PERHAPS +41 6 Hits TORVA MESSOR +41 5 Hits TOAST +39 6 Hits TQR +39 5 Hits THE UNKNOWN MAN +37 6 Hits LIZ LEMON +33 4 Hits MSC +32 6 Hits MARINISIA +30 3 Hits PEDRO67 +22 3 Hits THE OLD CREM +20 4 Hits TRACY +14 4 Hits MRS PEDRO +10 2 Hits GOOSEBERRY CRUMBLE +4 1 Hit

And I'm back from my trip to Finland! Enjoyed the time with my girlfriend's family a lot, we stayed for some time at her family's summer cottage and the rest of it in Tampere where most of her direct family lives. Also got to meet some newest members of the family as her cousins are beginning to get children. Weather was fine as well; some more wind than usual for the area and some cloudy days, but also multiple sunny days. All in all I love what I've seen from the country since I've started visiting it some years ago: lots of nature, large cities that don't feel crowded but have a lot to offer (Helsinki, Tampere) and kind people. Lastly, I'm learning Finnish on Duolingo since a year or two, definitely not fluent yet but learning a lot of new words and can now reasonably follow an average conversation between Finnish people. Kiitos hienoista viikoista, Suomi!

Previous post: Following post: Ultravox — Vienna: 47 + 4 = 51 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai... 30 (after @ladyfiona's post) Corrected list (with my points): 13/Aug/2023 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 51 Ultravox — Vienna 49 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 44 Lipps Inc — Funkytown +2 41 Diana Ross — Upside Down +2 34 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 30 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 18 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away -2 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 10 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -3 08 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy -1

Mrs OSP had shown that to me yesterday, one of the comments was " do they mean she looks like how Marilyn Monroe looks now?"

Dutch politician Harrij Notenboom (Wiki) dead at 96

And so we move on to the man with one suit, Tony Bennett. Only picked by 8 players in this pool, he was more popular in the DDP, giving him a bonus for being Drop 40, and also popular with The Committee, giving him the DL Alumnus bonus. Sadly for his backers in this pool, he was also quite fond both of himself, giving us a -3 point "bonus" for multiple autobiographies, and of wives for which he gets -2 for his 2 remarriages. The upshot is a measly 3 points on offer. TONY BENNETT +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") -3 (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: "-1for each time a pick has remarried") +3 TOTAL POINTS Hits for: Book (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Liz Lemon (Bonus +1 Picture posted) Mrs Pedro (Bonus +1 Hits in order) The Unknown Man Toast (Bonus +1 Picture posted) TQR (Bonus +2 Picture posted) Tracey (Wildcard) ThereWillBeDeaths7 The only person to have Bennett as a wildcard was @tracy for only their fourth hit of the game. The first three were Ben Ferencz, Al Jaffee and Milan Kundera and do you know what those four have in common? Yep, they were all born in the 1920's, meaning a 4 point deduction, doubled for the wildcard! Its like deja-vu, all over again. The result is a score of -2 for their Tony Bennett hit @ThereWillBeDeaths7follows up their Kundera deduction with a Bennett hit, giving them a -3 "bonus" and a score of 0 for the hit @Book, @The Unknown Manand @Toastalso followed up their Kundera hit with a Bennett one, giving all three a -2 "bonus" for hits born in the same decade. Mrs @Pedro67 gets her second hit of the game, but remains in second from last position, gazing upwards at @Pedro67, but with @Gooseberry Crumbleperched beneath her. The net result of all of this work is that there is bugger-all change in the leaderboard, with Book edging closer to our long-time leader @gcreptile GCREPTILE +77 7 Hits BOOK +66 7 Hits CAPTAIN HEMLOCK +61 5 Hits THEREWILLBEDEATHS7 +55 8 Hits AN FEAR BEAG +54 5 Hits WANNAMAKER +52 6 Hits THE OLD LADY +52 4 Hits BIBLIOGRYPHON +50 5 Hits GREAT UNCLE BULGARIA +49 6 Hits CAPTAIN CHORIZO +37 6 Hits BUFFALO PHIL +37 5 Hits FUNERALOPOLIS +34 5 Hits TORVA MESSOR +34 4 Hits PERHAPS +33 5 Hits TOAST +33 5 Hits TQR +33 4 Hits THE UNKNOWN MAN +31 5 Hits MSC +26 5 Hits LIZ LEMON +26 3 Hits MARINISIA +24 2 Hits THE OLD CREM +17 3 Hits TRACY +14 4 Hits PEDRO67 +16 2 Hits MRS PEDRO +10 2 Hits GOOSEBERRY CRUMBLE +4 1 Hit

Another oldest Slovene actress, Vika Gril (Wiki/IMDb) dead at 99

Is it Halloween already?!?

13th August 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 55 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 47 Ultravox — Vienna +2 38 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 35 Diana Ross — Upside Down 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 30 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai +2 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 20 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 15 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 13 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -6 07 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O.

Not sure where to put this (as not really League, I guess - English footy remains a mystery to me in large part). Anyhow, goalkeeper Sid Negus, who was Fakenham Town's oldest living player, has died aged 96: Article from 2 years ago to get his position and age: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/features/history-nostalgia/54007/fakenham-towns-berkshire-connection-with-binfield-and-ascot-united/

The Thai armed forces honoured Her Majesty Queen Sirikit the Queen Mother with a 21-gun salute on the occasion of her 91st birthday on Saturday. Despite being shot 21 times, the Queen is stable and improving in hospital.

Helen Smart (nee Helen Don-Duncan), Team GB swimmer who represented the country in the 200m backstroke at the 2000 Olympics, reportedly dead aged 42: Won medals in the same event at the World and European Championships and for England at the Commonwealth Games. British champion. Became a head teacher: https://www.parklandsprimary.org.uk/teamgb-swimmer-helen-smart/

Sun 13 Aug 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 53 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 51 Ultravox — Vienna 44 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 41 Diana Ross — Upside Down 34 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 34 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') +4 29 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 28 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai -2 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 19 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 06 Altered Images — Happy Birthday -4 *Has good long look at self* Yep, I’m good.

Only killed it cause it was there for the taking There a lot of terrible songs on this list needing killed off

august 12 56 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 53 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 45 Ultravox — Vienna 38 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 33 Diana Ross — Upside Down 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 28 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 26 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 19 Altered Images — Happy Birthday +4 17 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music -6 15 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 07 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O. The goobers voting down Altered Images over most of that list need to have a good long look at themselves.

George Soros is 93 today.

Fully recovered, both he and his wife (who's only 97) have gone voting and both walk without aid: Edit: I'd make a joke about him becoming the Prime Minister again in four years, but I think the old bigot might just die any day from sudden heart problems.

august 12th at 245pm 53 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 53 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 45 Ultravox — Vienna 38 Lipps Inc — Funkytown 35 Diana Ross — Upside Down 34 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It +4 32 Whispers — And The Beat Goes On 30 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 28 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 26 Paul McCartney — Coming Up 26 Randy Crawford — One Day I’ll Fly Away 25 Adam And The Ants — Ant Music 15 Liquid Gold — Dance Yourself Dizzy 15 Altered Images — Happy Birthday 07 Ottawan — D.I.S.C.O. 02 Stevie Wonder — Happy Birthday -6

Thank you very much, @TQR, you're very kind. I thought it'd be, like, ironic... the day of my birthday... negative points to two songs titled "Happy Birthday". It was tempting.

By "really sick" he meant that Jimmy just pulled off an incredible skateboard trick.

@Commtech Sio Bibble Thank you for efficiently crediting all the Michela Murgia entries so soon and updating the scoreboard. Another URL reporting Murgia's Morte https://www.corriere.it/cultura/23_agosto_10/morta-michela-murgia-1d404ff2-3487-11ee-aa95-d76d2964c992.shtml

I’m such an ass. I completely forgot to consider the Scrabble letter values when choosing my word. Oops rookie mistake

Dumbfounded is 11 letters, not 10. Seems to be an issue as one of the letters is missing from the list. What say you?

Galileo Galilei died on this day whilst under house arrest, 375 years ago.

God that's not you. You don't exist. It said so in the letters page of today's Sunday Telegraph of all places.