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Happy 99th birthday

Against all odds, James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Junior, King of the Immortals and 39th President of the United States of America, turns 99 today .

Oof, sorry about the wait. Bloody life getting in the way of a good ole KoS. A-Ha’s song, is the best number TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…of the 1980s, according to a discerning bunch of internet deadpoolers who probably could’ve guessed that’d be the result right from the off. That final three was mighty, mighty close, and let’s face it pretty much all of our final 25 was mighty impressive. This is how it all stacked up in the end… GRAND FINAL 1st: A-Ha — Take On Me 2nd: Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World 3rd: Eurythmics — Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 4th: The Bangles — Manic Monday 5th: Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield — What Have I Done To Deserve This 6th: Prince — 1999 / Little Red Corvette 7th: Queen — Radio Ga Ga 8th: Duran Duran — Save A Prayer 9th: INXS — Need You Tonight 10th: Alice Cooper — Poison 11th: Ultravox — Vienna 12th: Kim Wilde — Kids In America 13th: Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight 14th: Duran Duran — A View To A Kill 15th: Erasure — Sometimes 16th: The Stranglers — Golden Brown 17th: Diana Ross — Upside Down 18th: Kim Wilde — You Keep Me Hanging On 19th: David Bowie — Modern Love 20th: Eddy Grant — Electric Avenue 21st: Lipps Inc — Funky Town 22nd: Salt-N-Pepa — Push It / Tramp 23rd: Simply Red — Holding Back The Years 24th: Technotronic ft. Felly — Pump Up The Jam 25th: Terence Trent D’arby — Sign Your Name …and this is how we did it: Kills: theoldlady - 5 Wee Jum - 3 Drewsky - 3 Diego - 2 Paul Bearer - 2 LadyFiona - 2 Time - 1 Death Impends - 1 Root Inspector - 1 BuffaloPhil - 1 lilham - 1 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 1 Sir Creep - 1 Assists: Toast - 4 Drewsky - 3 TQR - 3 RoverAndOut - 2 DoltonMoney - 2 justonecornetto - 2 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 2 Bibliogryphon - 1 Death Impends - 1 Wee Jum - 1 theoldlady - 1 Sir Creep - 1 Diego - 1 Which means, after 7 weeks of listening, arguing, laughing, chopping, changing and bullshitting (thanks Diego), this is the final scoreboard: Kills: 1st: theoldlady - 44 2nd: Paul Bearer - 19 3rd: LadyFiona - 11 4th: Wee Jum - 10 =5th: RoverAndOut - 9 =5th: Drewsky - 9 7th: DoltonMoney - 8 =8th: Death Impends - 6 =8th: BuffaloPhil - 6 =8th: lilham - 6 =11th: Wannamaker - 5 =11th: MariNisia - 5 =11th: Root Inspector - 5 =11th: Sir Creep - 5 =15th: Diego - 3 =15th: Great Uncle Bulgaria - 3 =17th: Yorkshire Banker - 2 =17th: TQR - 2 =17th: Toast - 2 =20th: Imelda - 1 =20th: Bibliogryphon - 1 =20th: Joey Russ - 1 =20th: justonecornetto - 1 =20th: Book - 1 =20th: Time - 1 Assists: 1st: Toast - 22 2nd: Wee Jum - 16 3rd: Drewsky - 12 =4th: MariNisia - 11 =4th: lilham - 11 =4th: RoverAndOut - 11 =4th: Great Uncle Bulgaria - 11 8th: Diego - 9 9th: TQR - 8 =10th: Death Impends - 7 =10th: justonecornetto - 7 12th: Bibliogryphon - 6 =13th: Ladyfiona - 5 =13th: Wannamaker - 5 =15th: Root Inspector - 4 =15th: Imelda - 4 =15th: Book - 4 =15th: theoldlady - 4 19th: DoltonMoney - 3 =20th: Time - 2 =20th: BuffaloPhil - 2 =20th: Sir Creep - 2 It’s clear that this is an anger management therapy exercise from our ferocious friend theoldlady, with her racking up well over double the kills of her closest competitor Paul Bearer. And thank goodness too; these games would probably last a couple of years without her She largely has the good work of Toast to thank for that, who tops the assists scoreboard. So, as Morten Harket cries with unbridled joy as his band is honoured with this prestigious accolade, let’s play this shiz out with him singing an acoustic version of the song dressed as a big twat: Right, ceremony over, get over yourselves. We’ve got another decade to see to…

Polish "legend" Colonel Otton Hulacki dies at 101: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-66972276

Much like our ‘Dunn’ emoji, we could do with a ‘Sulu’.

What’s important for us to remember is not all 99 year olds make it to 100.

Another list occupant birthday today... Sandy Gall is 96.

dead edit: the article says he will be giving "four people the gift of life by donating his kidneys, liver, and lungs" rip warrior

Hello again, and fuck me, it’s the EIGHTH edition of Deathlist’s own underground warehouse rave, Kill or Save! We are exploring the top end of the UK music charts, from the 60s right through to the 00s and, now we’ve sorted out all the chart-toppers, we’re having a look at the unlucky but often still wicked singles that juuuust missed out. The 80s saw an incredibly tense finale. It could not have been a closer fight between the final three, but in the end, A-Ha’s Take On Me won out, to take a title that’ll surely place it firmly in the history books: The Best UK No.2 According To Deathlist Dot Net. Anyway, without wishing to be a buzzkill, the 80s is dead to us now (well, until the No.3s). Our focus now turns to whittling 196 tunes down to 1, and decide the best chart runner-up of the 1990s. I cannot tell you how psyched I am to be back here in my favourite decade, though I’m sure a few of the older KoSsers round here can and very much will heartily disagree. Fancy reliving all the action? See below for links to all Kill or Save games to date: 50s No.1s; 60s No.1s; 70s No.1s; 80s No.1s; 90s No.1s; 00s No.1s; 10s No.1s 50s No.2s; 60s No.2s; 70s No.2s; 80s No.2s; 90s No.2s (you are here); 00s No.2s; 10s No.2s 70s No.3s; 80s No.3s; 90s No.3s (IN PLAY!) Christmas Special 2023; Christmas Special 2024 KoS HoF Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife The Rolling Stones — Paint It, Black Donna Summer — I Feel Love Nena — 99 Red Balloons Madonna — Vogue Gorillaz — Dare Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know Dean Martin — Volare Barry Ryan — Eloise Queen — Somebody To Love A-Ha — Take On Me The Cardigans — Lovefool Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor Bastille — Pompeii David Bowie — Life On Mars? Tears For Fears — Mad World The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives A quick reminder of how it works: - Each song starts with 20 points (whether it deserves it or not). - You can only vote once a day. To avoid any time zone confusion, please put a date at the top of your scoring post (e.g. “Sun 1 Oct”, “01-10-2023”, whatever, as long as it’s clear and doesn’t just say “today” or some shit.) - Once a day, you can award 4 points to and subtract 6 from the songs of your choosing in the current round. You can split your daily +4 and -6 between as many songs as you like, it’s down to you. - Make sure you copy and paste the most recent voter’s scoreboard when you take your turn to score. For your own ease, ‘paste as plain text’ to get rid of the previous poster’s formatting. - Just to make it clear for everyone, please mark your scores after the song title and adjust the song’s points total as you go. Ideally make your scores bold too. As an example: 24 Absolute Tune — Slaps +4 20 Ignore — Lift Music 20 Bland — Drowning In Beige 19 The Cleveland Steamers — Dog Egg -1 16 Ear Piss — Left To Die 15 Shite — Hateful Bilge -5 Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, so I’d just like to shout out to all of our careful and attentive players who are shit hot on any potential errors that may arise. This here is serious business don’t you know, so thank you for keeping things in order. See, below, the complete 196-strong list of UK No.2 songs from the 1990s: As ever, we will start with 5 group stages, beginning with the No.2 hits of 1990/91, followed by a grand final consisting of the 25 songs that have qualified, where we will ultimately decide what the undisputed best No.2 single of the 1990s is, and the artist(s) of said song will cry with unbridled joy and retire happy. As we have one group with a significant number more songs than the rest, the number of Grand Final qualifiers from each group will be as follows: 1990/91: 34 songs - the last 4 songs will make the final 1992/93: 36 songs - the last 5 songs will make the final 1994/95: 36 songs - the last 5 songs will make the final 1996/97: 39 songs - the last 5 songs will make the final 1998/99: 51 songs - the last 6 songs will make the final As ever, it’s not the aim of the game to kill as many songs as you can; this is an opinion poll, not a bloodbath. Nevertheless, I’ll be counting the kills and assists (the one to knock a song’s score down to 6 or lower, i.e. elimination distance) as we go, and posting the scoreboard at the end of every round so we can see who has come second to theoldlady. So just dole out our points based on your actual opinions, alright? Anyway…LET’S GET READYYYYYY TO RHUMBLEEEEEEEE *ahem* Kill or Save.

Finally finished Stephen King's IT after, I don't know how many months, 3-4? Guess it can only get better from here on forward, in the sense that there is one fewer brick to go through (and I have read his Dark Tower series and The Stand, so I've managed to get through three of pop culture's thickest bricks, so to say). Well, I think the quality of the book didn't warrant the length. It's not the 10-out-of-ten that quite a few fans say it is, IMO. The Stand also flowed much, much better. The story itself consists of many, many good parts though, but I think the whole book is a little less than the sum of its parts.

It is common for those that are dying to miraculously recover on the day of their death.

Jake Abraham reportedly dead: First time I saw him was in a sitcom called Help! iirc. RIP.

I prefer Pah-Pah-Pah-Pah-Pah-Pah-Poker Face (Mumumumuh) to Rah Rah Ah Ah Ahh, Roma Roma Ma Ga Ga Ooh La La.

1/Oct/2023 29 Luciano Pavarotti — Nessun Dorma +1 25 Alannah Myles — Black Velvet +1 25 Deee-Lite — Groove Is In The Heart 24 Adventures Of Stevie V — Dirty Cash 22 B-52's — Love Shack 21 Bobby Vinton — Blue Velvet +1 21 Status Quo — The Anniversary Waltz Part 1 +1 21 DNA Ft. Suzanne Vega — Tom's Diner 21 KLF — Last Train To Trancentral 21 Crystal Waters — Gypsy Woman 20 Technotronic Ft. Ya Kid K — Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) 20 Various Artists — The Brits 1990 20 Kylie Minogue — Better The Devil You Know 20 New Kids On The Block — Step By Step 20 Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 — Mona 20 Deacon Blue — Four Bacharach And David Songs EP 20 Kim Appleby — Don't Worry 20 Seal — Crazy 20 Nomad — (I Wanna Give You) Devotion 20 Madonna — Crazy For You (Remix) 20 James — Sit Down 20 Amy Grant — Baby Baby 20 Heavy D And The Boyz — Now That We Found Love 20 Extreme — More Than Words 20 Salt-N-Pepa — Let's Talk About Sex 20 2 Unlimited — Get Ready For This 20 Diana Ross — When You Tell Me That You Love Me 15 Madonna — Justify My Love 15 Paula Abdul & Wild Pair — Opposites Attract 14 Londonbeat — I’ve Been Thinking About You 14 Madonna — Hanky Panky 14 Scorpions — Wind Of Change 14 Gazza & Lindisfarne — Fog On The Tyne (Revisited) 06 Right Said Fred — I’m Too Sexy -6

That picture is edited, here's the original: He still looks like a railroad worker who died of typhus in 1935, but his chin hasn't melted.

01/10/2023 41 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 32 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 30 Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 27 Britney Spears - Toxic +4 25 Nelly Furtado - Maneater 21 Eminem ft. Dido - Stan 17 Gorillaz — Dare 00 Lady Gaga— Poker Face -6 Thank you @Clorox Bleachman

Fuck me I love this (P.S. Join the 90s KoS!)

One stop shop if I post a link to the Wiki page K2-18b is an exoplanet causing a bit of excitement since the James Webb Space Telescope detected what may be evidence of a biosignature (crudely, it's looking possible that gases in the planet's atmosphere are a giveaway it sustains some kind of life). The planet is well over twice the size of Earth and covered entirely in water, or summat like it, so we're likely talking simple life partial to floating around and imbibing nutrients, anything more would be a real bonus. As an aside here, most experts on astro-biology (yeah, I know - how can you be an expert when we've yet to prove there's anything alive other than on Earth) consider life in "water" a much more likely discovery than other kinds of life. Basic science behind the thinking being that water exists in a narrow range of temperatures and regulates the temperature on a planet whereas planets lacking water vary greatly in temperature, atmosphere etc and can experience huge variabilities during a circuit of their sun, or a rotation on their axis. So, for example, however much Elon Musk gets revved up about moving to Mars he's looking at a planet prone to temperatures of minus 100 degrees with an atmospheric pressure about one percent of what he enjoys on this planet. Crudely, way less attractive for a human than the South Pole or summit of Everest. So if Seth Shostak's bet (see post above) is going to cash in soon it could be watching this Wiki page that explains why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-18b

Oh, give me a break.

The best present to Jimmy would be Khamtai Siphandone and Tomiichi Murayama dying tonight so he wakes up tomorrow as the world's oldest living state leader. Please, someone start a GoFundMe.

Well, we have a winner. It took on every other UK #2 of the '80s, came for our love (and got it), and wasn't gone in the 34 days since its first vote. GG everyone!

I bet Shane can do a brilliant Father Jack impression.

Here we go again, another "insider" who was one remove from those who really know starts revving up about the need for the US to reveal that it's got crashed spacecraft previously the property of real aliens. Not losing much sleep myself, but - as always - I'd love to be wrong. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/whistleblower-ufo-alien-tech-spacecraft?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR3e_JBjtbfNOynbo6Zb3JhxyPEXZXM32i458cQ-b26OKXnh-nCnYF7NrX4