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RULES: The competition will start 1 SEPTEMBER 2023 (all lists must be in by 11:59pm (GMT) Aug 31) and scoring will end Aug 31, 2024. Submit a list of 26 people. The first name OR last name of the first person must begin with an A. Second person with a B. You get the idea. No joker. Please use this format A - Alvin Chipmunk B - Harry Belafonte C - Carol Channing etc . . . . . Obit sources include those used by the great Windy City Deadpool, which uses the sources of the Derby Dead Pool, plus The NY Times, LA Times, CBS News, Fox News and MSN. Also acceptable: CNN, ABC, NBC, the Associate Press (AP), Rolling Stone and Time. Due to the large number of names possible, and because the more tenacious of you can find the folk on the very fringes of celebrity, please police your own obits and notify via post on this thread. Of course if it's the likes of the Queen or the Pope, just give me time to post it, no need to bring it to my attention.  SCORING: A hit using the first name (all letters except as below) - 1 point A hit using the last name (all letters except as below) - 2 points A hit with the first name . . . (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 2 points A hit with the last name . . . (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 3 points A hit with the first OR last name . . . (Q, X, Z) - 4 points A hit with an alliterative name scores the points for both first and last names as specified above (so an alliterative at the A spot would be worth 5 points, the B spot would be worth 3 points, the Q spot would be worth 8 points) NAMES: General titles such as Queen/Pope/Prince, etc. are NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE for scoring at that letter. Single names submitted (Cher, Madonna, Pele) will be treated as first names. I prefer to see real names used (e.g. Richard Penniman instead of Little Richard). No animals, due to the ease of earning the WS bonus. BONUSES: Whippersnapper Bonus (WS): dies at age 75 or younger = 2 points (if there is substantial ambiguity or birth year is unknown, no bonus will be awarded) Solos = 3 points Duos = 1 point Vowel Movement Bonus (VMB): hit all five vowels (A, E, I, O, U) = 5 points /hit any four vowels + the letter Y = 3 points NOTE: Due to confusion with this bonus, a few players added names with all 5 vowels in them, in the hopes of scoring the bonus with that one hit, and then also scoring it again with a second hit, etc. If I had meant that, I would have said something like, "hit a name with all 5 vowels in it and score an extra 5 points". But the damage is done, so I will award a 5 point bonus to a team which scores such a hit ONE TIME per team. This has already been done by two teams, so they will get their 5 points now and be done, regardless of how many additional such hits they may get this year. Sorry to those who understood the bonus correctly, I sincerely hope the game does not come down to this being a deciding factor for first place. Late Bloomer Bonus (LBB): If a single player is left without a hit, that player will automatically earn 20 points! This is a backdoor way for someone to potentially go from the cellar right into the thick of things. 20 points is not likely to win the game, but it is certainly a nice place to work for the come from behind win while also having a full list of 26 names left to score. Scoring Example: if someone gets a solo hit with 71 year old Zadora Zephyr, the score would be 8 + 2 (WS) + 3 (solo) = 13 TIES: Will be broken by the date the final score is reached. That is, if three folks end up with 48 points, the person that got to 48 on the earliest date will be the winner.  This was a pivotal rule last year! SUBS: Please check your list at the start of the game to make sure all names are still alive. I will allow a sub for that letter, but it can't be someone who is new to the DP radar since the game started. That means no one who is diagnosed with cancer/has an accident after your original submission. Enjoy!

Andrei Nikolayev (wiki) dead at 85.

Lawrence "Larry" Kirby, young survivor of the "Battle of Iwo Jima", and then author of the respective book that became that famous movie, dead at 99: https://www.eagletribune.com/news/larry-kirby-author-and-survivor-of-the-battle-of-iwo-jima-dies-at-99/article_7b6aeac4-009a-5ac2-95ed-07fd31aadadd.html

I think she knows the location of the Doomsday Weapon

15th August 78 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 64 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 60 Ultravox — Vienna 49 Diana Ross — Upside Down 35 Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster (Jammin) -6 35 Lipps Inc - Funky Town +4 17 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It

Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi greatly improving and to be moved to a rehab hospital soon. It's also revealed in the article he (age 94) had a tracheotomy last month and that tracheotomy is connected to a ventilator. However because nothing makes sense anymore, he's able to write and doctors are optimistic about his recovery. Interestingly he's a protégé of the late Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik who also underwent a tracheotomy...some weeks before dying at 99.

15/8/2023 78 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 64 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 60 Ultravox — Vienna 47 Diana Ross — Upside Down 39 Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster (Jammin) -6 37 Lipps Inc - Funky Town +4 17 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It

Times death notice for Bryan Cassidy (wiki), 89, British Conservative MEP (1984–1999).

Not sure where else I can post this so I'm doing it here. Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz, known for his contributions in the Apollo 13 mission and for his legendary quote "Failure Is Not An Option" turns 90 in a few days, and he's not in the best of health from what I know of and is needing mobility aids such as a walker.

Death can't come soon enough the damage that old cunt has done is enormous

Emperor Honorius died on this day 1600 years ago, aged 38. - Honorius was declared his father Theodosius I's successor in 386, and became emperor upon his father's death in 395 (then aged 10). He and his older brother Arcadius divided the Roman Empire amongst themselves- Honorius ruled the western part, while Arcadius ruled the east. - After an invasion from the Visigoths in 401, Honorius moved the capital from Mediolanum (Milan) to Ravenna, which would remain its capital until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476. - Another major Visigoth siege occurred during Honorius' reign in 410, where their king, Alaric, would ransack Rome. Many Romans saw this event as punishment for abandoning Roman polytheism in favor of Christianity, prompting Augustine of Hippo to write The City of God in response (published in 426, three years after Honorius died). - Honorius ended the practice of gladiatorial games in 404, likely due to the death of Saint Telemachus (a monk who tried to stop a gladiator fight and was promptly stoned to death by an angry audience). - After Honorius died without an heir, his advisor Castinus elevated a civil servant named Joannes to emperorhood.

You are illiterate and should not be engaged in any form of politics whatsoever.

Une part de notre enfance qui s’en va : Michel Manini, réalisateur de la série « Bonne nuit les petits » est décédé à l’âge de 86 ans. La série de peluches indémodables diffusée le soir…triste !

This sounds like a good idea to me @Spade_Cooley! Maybe a few more defined rules this time though... Congratulations @Summer in Transylvania.

My friend and I went for a walk along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and found our selves in Shipley so we then decided to visit the grave of Bryan Mosley as I knew he was buried there. Mosley was obviously best well known for his role as Alf Roberts on Coronation Street, who was killed off 6 years before I was born but my lack of social life has allowed me to watch him on Classic Corrie reruns and as a Doctor Who fan I'll also give an honourable mention to his role as Malpha in the brilliant Daleks' Master Plan.

August 14 73 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 56 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 55 Ultravox — Vienna 46 Diana Ross — Upside Down +4 43 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') 36 Lipps Inc — Funkytown -6 24 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 19 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai 16 Paul McCartney — Coming Up

august 14 73 Kim Wilde — Kids In America 56 Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 55 Ultravox — Vienna 43 Stevie Wonder — Masterblaster (Jammin') -1 42 Diana Ross — Upside Down -1 42 Lipps Inc — Funkytown -3 24 Hot Chocolate — No Doubt About It 19 Ennio Morricone — Chi Mai+4 16 Paul McCartney — Coming Up -1

Charged with conspiracy to commit forgery by Georgia state prosecutors (who are WOKE LEFTY FAKE NEWS LEFTY BIDEN LEFT LOSERS. SAD.)

I don't know if there is a reason. The question "Why?" is a little overrated, maybe... But then why did the universe decide to create life and consciousness? Some people will say, it's just chemicals and proteins, etc.... And eventually, you wonder why the universe exists at all. The lazy answer is that if it wouldn't exist, nobody would be asking the question. Maybe there is no why, maybe it's just "it is because it must be". An axiom.

Robin Symes. Criminal antiques dealer. Internationally known. 84 years of age. Very secretive for obvious reasons. Will warrant a quality obituary.

Ok I see why but you can hide my signature if it annoys you as @Toast told you ! ....Redit : now, I hid my signature for you !

Hariette Garellick, one month older than her, is still alive in Beverly Hills, CA at 96. She played a costumer in Crisis

You're right, Cassez is still alive, but Herrand was the last one standing from the original group. Cassez joined the group in 1971, long after the band was formed. I spend too much time here, I forgot how to read french excusez moi !

Well yes but how are the obits working out? Not so well. Lakovic is killing me -- this year's Tony Adamowicz. Sonovabitch. SC

According to his Facebook page, Blowfly dead: https://www.facebook.com/BlowflyOfficial/photos/a.10150534388938990.377265.6072703989/10153426898243990/?type=3&fref=nf