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Didn't expect you to be the one to confirm that Toast! Nice of you to drop in on our little game.

Good luck, bitch! Congratulations, @Yvonne! 1923 V. S. Achuthanandan / Judith Hemmendinger 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Maria Riva 1925 Bobby Shantz / Phyllis Dalton 1926 Philip Springer / Irene Camber 1927 Jerry Schatzberg / Rosemary Harris 1928 James "Jim" A. Lovell / Cynthia Ozick 1929 Bob Newhart / Patricia Routledge 1930 Armin Mueller-Stahl / Lynn Hamilton 1931 Willie Mays / Carroll Baker 1932 Manmohan Singh / Phyllida Law

Yes my very fist point in how many years?  1923   Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat / Jack Burke jr 1924 Jane Morgan /  Roger Guillemin 1925 Lucine Amara / Leo Esaki  1926  Rowena Jackson / Stanley Baxter  1927 Genevieve Page  / Frank Sedgman  1928 Yvonne Furneaux / Joss Ackland    1929 Lady Pamela Hicks / Stuart Hall 1930 Sara Jane Moore  / Robert Wagner  1931 Claire Bloom / Robert Duvall  1932 Shirley Conran / Dennis Skinner

Hello Joey asked me to open this up so doing it before I forget. Same rules as always. The host only needs to do three things and this is one of them so fingers crossed I don't screw up hah. Joey's bit copied: Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules:  25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day.  And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN.  2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2023. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and the host who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing.  6a Because he has forced his own entry msc guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 6b - hot selections? No idea why people are picking Karen Gillan tbh... 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes mscs decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competitionand in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite MSc half assed efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of mss and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 - Death Impends  2017 - Sean 2018 - Banana 2019 - gcreptile 2020 - Spade_Cooley 2021 - Bibliogryphon 2022 - drol  Good luck everyone. 

Joni Mitchell is 80 today

Deathrace Form Guide #7 Sigurður Hjartarson World-renowned educator, inventor, museum curator and phallus collector Sigurður Hjartarson (if you've ever watched "The Final Member", or you are or ever have been into for example those Ripley's Believe It or Not books or "Weird Facts" Facebook/YouTube/Instagram accounts, you might've heard the name before) is somewhere in his eighties and has been retired for around a decade now. I can't name any self-proclaimed phallologist who's made it to such a great old age, you might want to erect him on your Deathrace team...

Report of the death of Pandora, the "tour guide" in Steven Arnold's Luminous Procuress, counter culture film so beloved of Dali and Warhol: More about the movie here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/08/enigmatic-transgressive-gleefully-queer-the-1970s-cult-film-youve-never-seen

Note, I am planning on to mostly retire from dead pooling at least for the time being (I’ll submit the gag Hartlepool team I usually do and my 60s counterculture theme team but those are the only things that I plan on entering). Which means I won’t be opening a thread for the advent Avalanche this year. Fortunately this is an extremely easy pool to run so I’m sure someone can open one up to continue the tradition

So, just for a laugh - like - someone starts a campaign to put Here in my Heart by Al Martino at #1 this Christmas. That was the first ever UK #1 That'll teach those uppity Beatles

Bievenido died on November 5, now the oldest person living in Puerto Rico is Ana Luisa Garcia born on August 22, 1913 in Cidra and living in San Juan, the oldest man in the country is Silverio Perez Rosado born on 20 June 1914, and the oldest person born in the country is Juana Cordero, born on May 19, 1913 and lives in the USA He was also the oldest known Caribbean man, a position now occupied by Francisco Reynoso (DOM), born on 8 May 1914 in Palmarito, where he still lives Bienvenido Díaz Guilfú, quien... - Conociendo a Porto Rico | LinkedIn

Holocaust survivor and memoirist Margot Friedländer turns 102.

died https://www.instagram.com/p/CzOr3PXxeMC/?img_index=1 She was born in Kingston in 20 FEB 1912 and died in Vancouver, Canada, and was the oldest known person born in Jamaica, her sustainer is Merah Smith born in Kingston on 9 Nov 1912 and living in Croydon, Greater London, England

Ady Barkan is a hit for me in the Time category - I believe that is my fourth hit in four different categories, meaning I just need a Corrie actor (Thelma Barlow, Philip Lowrie, Anne Cunningham, Kenneth Farrington or William Russell) to win.

Walter Davis reportedly dead aged 69. Played for the Phoenix Suns from 1977-1988, then the Denver Nuggets from 1988-1991. A six time NBA All-Star, he was also on the Gold Medal winning USA Team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

She had a tough night and would like you to send pictures of your pets: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/celebs/janey-godley-tough-night-after-27944326 ..slim pickings today...

100-year old deceased man has a nasty surprise left. After he died the house he left was emptied. Someone threw some trash in a fire not knowing what it was. Turned out to be about 20 kilos of explosives. I guess the man had a hobby of collecting WW2 ordnance.

Though filing paperwork to run for re-election doesn't necessarily mean he really will run for re-election. Members of Congress often do this as a formality to keep fundraising for their party, so if they do end up retiring, the money can be transferred. Dianne Feinstein also filed paperwork for re-election before her retirement was announced, and her staff absolutely scrambled to clarify to the press that this didn't actually mean she was running again, since this was around the time that the public reporting about her decline was really starting to pick up.

I have no problem with the Deathlist concept or any other deathpool types. They are grown adults have lived a life we are not inflicting any injury or disease on them and the ones who are younger to a point are normally there throught there own doing (drug use, drinking etc) But, i think its a bit.. sick.. to be honest to be putting children on any of them. I know none appear on Deathlist, but i saw Kirsty Howard had been picked for the DDP. I dont know Kirsty. Or have any particular favouritism of her, but childrens death isnt something to be joked or gambled on, and shouldnt be took as anything but serious and horrible. Does anybody agree?

John Savident - I thought he had died I say, I say I thought he had died.

After Dos Santos's death less than a month before her 117th birthday, only the top 2 is still standing.

That would land him squarely in that 95 range. Sir C right as rain.

This was announced back in March (see link) , but to be fair to you, maybe this resurfaced again after Mike Bailey's diagnosis https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/gordan-cowans-aston-villa-sid-17890941.amp

Kinda ironic, the original Kit Carson's dad died, when a tree hit him.

I’m gobsmacked every time I hear/remember Stanley Baxter is still alive

Ah, one down...