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Also worth noting the march isn't taking place until midday, which is an hour after the 11am silence and the main events of the day. It's your typical Tory culture war, big on bombast, low on facts.

It's fast, it's furious it's f***in' good fun. Teams of 20 topplers posted on this thread or PM'd to MPFC will be collected into a masterlist to provide a carnival of carnage, the counting of which goes live in the first second of 2024. Points aplenty pour into the scoreboard until someone snags the stupendous total of 2024, at which point the event that used to be the fastest deadpool in common useage (until MPFC started something faster!) slams on the brakes and the lucky winner is duly given metaphorical back-slaps and allowed to claim a prize worth about a tenner (though tradition thus far dictates this turns into a charitable donation). Closing date for entries is midnight on 30 December 2023. Currently MC'ing the whole operation is an experienced public servant with a book to promote and an address book full of press contacts who didn't want to know when it came to printing extracts. We told her this would help, she told us Boris will be back in Number 10. The 49 teams in it to win it this year are... An Fear Beag - af Arghton - ar BabyBlue - bb Banana - ba Bibliogryphon - bg Book - bk CalebH - cl Captain Chorizo - cc Commtech Sio Bibble - cs Deadsox - dx DeathByArsenic - da DeathBecomesThem - db Death Impends - di Diego - dg Drol - dr Etushispushingupdaisies - ed Famous6Eva - f6 gcreptile - gr Gooseberry Crumble - gc Great Uncle Bulgaria - gb GuyFromFuture - gf Hell - hl Captain Hemlock - ch Imelda - im The Immortal - ti John Key - jk TheKilling Time - kt Ladyfiona - lf LizLemon - ll MariNisia - mn Marshqld - mq Maryportfuncity - mp JoeMoneypenny - jm msc - ms Nantonian2013 - n3 RadGuy - rg Sean - sn Sideik - sk Summer in Transylvania - st Thatcher - th The Old Crem - tc theoldlady - to ThereWillBeDeaths7 0 t7 The Unknown Man - tu Toast - tt Wannamaker - wm WEP - we WillyWonka442 Yorkshire Banker - yb  Top talent aplenty in our list of previous champions: 2009 - Raskolnikov 2010 - Nobody, I mean f***in' nobody, reached the winning points total 2011 - DDT 2012 - Spade Cooley 2013 - DDT 2014 - Death Impends 2015 - MSC 2016 - DDT 2017 - Death Impends 2018 - MSC 2019 - Phantom of the Midway 2020 - RadGuy 2021 - An Fear Beag 2022 - Banana 2023 - Banana 2024 - Banana (provisional)

Where the fuck has 2022 2023 gone to? Apparently it's the 1st November 5th November already, so time to set in motion another Crowdsourced Deathlist. The 2022 3 version looks set to finish ahead level with the official Deathlist (though they lacked the help of Gary Burgess actually all the 2023 TCD picks were vaguely sensible). Hey, no one is ever going to know that was copy and pasted from last years thread. Job done. 2023's list saw a number of familiar faces exit, pursued by a bear, from George Alagiah to Rolf Harris, Topol to the Unabomber. So let's see how the class of 2024 do. Will the 2024 edition be able to top our current list? We will see, but for the time being let's go over the rules, shall we? THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to msc, during the time period of 5th November to the 31st December 2023. The list must have a minimum of 12 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Yes, this means we are open now, as I'll just forget to officially open it otherwise. This has happened on multiple occasions... Please send them by either PM or via Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. This is true even if you only send in 12 names, or 13 names, or 49 names. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2024. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 4b) Anyone who wishes to avoid a Pope Benny the Fuckwit Meltdown and just says "oh put my subs in at the number of the person who died" gets 10 post likes from diego. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Buffy Sainte-Marie, less Chickadee, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2023 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier deadline is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. I am keeping Joey's earlier cut off time for simplicity because did you see what that bloody ex-Pope did? Chaos everywhere. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 9b. If you do wish to send your DDP unique hopefuls, I won't complain! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrities from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2023 survivors will be used: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Joanne Woodward, Glynis Johns, Roberta Flack, James Whale, Frank Field, Rosalynn Carter, Jonnie Irwin, Linda Nolan, Eva Marie Saint, June Spencer, Dick van Dyke, Ruth Buzzi, Nigel Starmer Smith, Andy Taylor, Mel Brooks, Yoko Ono, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jean Marie le Pen, Rob Burrow, Shannen Doherty, Norman Tebbit, Jacques Delors, David Attenborough, Noam Chomsky, Marianne Faithfull, Sonny Rollins, Stanley Baxter, Randy Jackson, Norman Lear, James Earl Jones, Francoise Hardy, James Watson, Vera Miles, the Duke of Kent and David Graham. As usual, this is something for me to worry about, not you. ie: 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2023 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. 12) The Deathray Rule. If Deathers is reading this, he is more than welcome to find some way to get his usual 50 points for that bloody weatherman in! If that bloody weatherman doesn't get his formerly traditional 50 from a mystery person (ie, not you, TQR) then this rule will be retired in 12 months time. Anyhow, enjoy. Or not. Will Esther still be telling us That's Life in 2024?

10/11/23 47 Natalie Imbruglia — Torn 46 Underworld — Born Slippy 45 The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony 43 Blur — Song 2 33 The Cardigans — Lovefool 32 Sash! ft. Rodriguez — Ecuador +4 32 Supergrass — Richard III 31 The Bluetones — Slight Return 28 Gala — Freed From Desire 26 Manic Street Preachers— A Design For Life -6 22 Robert Miles — Children  22 Kula Shaker — Hush 20 Dario G — Sunchyme 17 Chumbawamba — Tubthumping

Deepest sympathy’s. That’s a good innings.

Here goes. Right sod Luis Garavito was picked by bastards theme team TheKillingTime. With an impeccable resume qualifying him for Crimes Against Humanity points, this boost TKT by 22 points (10 base + 12 bonus). Interestingly, I see that another of their picks, Franklin Delano Floyd, died in January, which previously was completely unmentioned on the forum. Just as well as he only got Florida press and no QOs as far as I can see. Only GuyFromFuture took a stab at The Hustler/Carrie star Piper Laurie for this game, sinking in the 8-ball into the subs bench for a 25 point value. I thought Bobby Charlton would be a pick for maybe 3-4 teams. But actually he only made as part of Joey's DL survivors gimmick team. Thus Joey now shoots up by 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). John "요한" Sulu likewise breaks Oleg with a unique hit in the form of figure skater Oleg Protopopov. Mr. Sulu skates up the scoreboard by 42 points (30 base + 12 bonus). And so only four teams, all hovering outside the top thirty, gain in the latest scoreboard, though I doubt Reptile is complaining about the dearth of action: 1. gcreptile 567.95 2. Perhaps 442.95 3. An Fear Beag 422.95 4. Pedro67 420 5. Banana 411 6. CaptainChorizo 396 7. MariNisia 385 8. markb4 377.95 9. maryportfuncity 343 10. RadGuy 333.7 11. John Key 326.95 12. Thatcher 325 13. msc 318.77 14. wannamaker 316.95 15. Hell 308 16. LizLemon 307.7 17. Sean 302.82 18. DeathBecomesThem 293.77 19. Great Uncle Bulgaria 286.77 20. ThereWillBeDeaths7 282.82 21. YoungWillz 273 =22. Funeralopolis 271.95 =22. TheDumbReaper 271.95 24. Charles De Gaulle 262.77 25. Toast 251.95 26. Murdoc 247.82 27. theoldlady 244 28. chilean way 243.82 29. diego 227.82 30. drol 222.77 31. Lord Fellatio Nelson 207 32. nantonian2013 202.27 33. The Old Crem 198.95 =34. DeathByArsenic 189 =34. John "요한" Sulu 189 36. Young One 186 37. The Unknown Man 175.82 38. Book 174 39. Joey Russ 172.82 40. justonecornetto 139.95 41. WEP 133 42. Famous6Eva 120 43. BuffaloPhil 114.95 44. Clarence 111.77 45. BabyBlue 95.95 46. Etushispushingupdaisies 91.4 47. Gooseberry Crumble 86 48. YorkshireBanker 61.77 =49. time 56 =49. Torva Messor 56 51. JoeMoneypenny 50 52. TheKillingTime 47 53. GuyFromFuture 46.82 54. CalebH 25.82 =55. arghton 0 =55. Death Impends 0 =55. DevonDeathTrip 0

9/Nov/2023 47 Natalie Imbruglia — Torn 45 Underworld — Born Slippy 42 Blur — Song 2 41 The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony 34 Kula Shaker — Hush +4 33 Manic Street Preachers — A Design For Life 32 Sash! ft. Rodriguez — Ecuador 30 The Bluetones — Slight Return 30 Supergrass — Richard III 30 The Cardigans — Lovefool 28 Gala — Freed From Desire 26 Robert Miles — Children -1 24 Chumbawamba — Tubthumping -1 23 Dario G — Sunchyme 13 Sash! — Encore Une Fois 00 Toni Braxton — Un-Break My Heart -4

Maggie Rae, widow of Lord Alan Haworth, reportedly dead on holiday, like her hubby: https://alastaircampbell.org/2023/11/maggie-rae-an-obituary/

8/Nov/2023 45 Natalie Imbruglia — Torn 44 Underworld — Born Slippy 39 The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony 39 Blur — Song 2 38 Sash! ft. Rodriguez — Ecuador 38 The Cardigans — Lovefool 33 Robert Miles — Children 32 Kula Shaker — Hush +4 30 Manic Street Preachers — A Design For Life -2 27 The Bluetones — Slight Return 26 Dario G — Sunchyme 26 Supergrass — Richard III 25 Gala — Freed From Desire 22 Chumbawamba — Tubthumping -2 21 Mark Snow — The X-Files 13 Toni Braxton — Un-Break My Heart -1 12 Sash! — Encore Une Fois -1

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

Maybe he's read this thread and is trying to get rid of the curse. https://www.facebook.com/100063578951034/posts/pfbid0VNwK9BPvKRaVrghBqqUaiD55uuTjp4f6LWmfYh2GdZrPXN1PforDyg7zo8LQ2c8zl/

Charles Duke now the last surviving crew member of Apollo 16. He is also the youngest surviving crew member of all of the Apollo missions at 88 years old, Mattingly was 87. Really shows they are part of a dying breed: there are nine crew members left, aged 88-95. (Apollo missions 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17 have one surviving member; infamous mission Apollo 13 has two living crew members while Apollo 8 has all three of them still living. Apollo 12 and 14 have died out in 2018 and 2016)

I think this information will be of interest beyond this game

I'm thinking he won't be jobless for long.

Was a squad member for their matches against Honduras in June 1969 which contributed to triggering the Football/100 Hours War.

Not sure how I missed Ian Dawes' departure from Tranmere last month, given Neil Harris's and Mark Hughes's sackings this month both made headlines, but the Tranmere board lost patience after 7 losses in their last 8 matches and showed the former caretaker manager the door on September 11th. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-dawes-sacked-tranmere-rovers-27687368 Doesn't sound like he got a great deal of help in the summer, but since he went they've won 2 and drawn 1 of their next 5 games so it's maybe worked, although they're still 22nd out of 24. Anyway, in these here parts, this is good news for @Great Uncle Bulgaria and @Bibliogryphon who both had him in their teams! This takes GUB up to 5 hits, 1 behind Sly Ronnie and Biblio moves up to 4! Then, today, Birmingham have fulfilled a weekend rumour by dispensing with the services of John Eustace. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67053921 This is despite Birmingham being 6th in the Championship table and winning their past 2 matches. The fact their new owners are American and Wayne Rooney left DC United this weekend is purely coincidental, I'm sure. Hopefully they get what they deserve, just as the previous ownership group did, when they sacked Gary Rowett while in the play offs, appointed a big name in Gianfranco Zola and he proceeded to win 2 games in 24 as they barely stayed up on the final day of the season (although they should, by rights have gone down - play off certainties Huddersfield played a severely weakened side and lost to Birmingham in April, having smashed all comers for months - those 3 points kept Birmingham up and sent Blackburn down, not that I'm bitter about the blatant fixing 6 years on...) Anyway, back to the game at hand and @ladyfiona was, perhaps surprisingly, the only one to choose Eustace and so gets her 4th hit too! Scores on the doors: Sly Ronnie - 6 Great Uncle Bulgaria - 5 Wannamaker, Bibliogryphon, Lady Fiona - 4 Rover and Out, MariNisia, Commtech Sio Bibble, Diego - 2 Maryportfuncity, Buffalo Phil - 1 5 players now at 20% completion, 2 of those at 25%+ completion!

On the Buddy theme, Buddy Holly's widow is 91 later this year.

I did mention she was off on sick when she died, but it wasn't a permanent arrangement. She was still on the regular cast and expected to return until she died, like how Jennie McAlpine (Fiz) is on maternity leave at the moment

Death Notice for Indian (British Empire) born British actress Helen Lindsay (later Helen Pickford), aged 93: https://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/funeral-notices/15-03-2023-helen-jane-pickford/ Couple of roles in the early Avengers, Upstairs Downstairs, The Pallisers, When The Boat Comes In, and a Poirot appearance in The Mystery Of The Blue Train among many many others.

It's not deadpool,but I won the predictions of the results of the fifa world cup matches

Number of Combined Deadpool Wins 17 - Death Impends 10 - Reptile 8 – DDT, Spade Cooley, Captain Chorizo 5 – Football Fan, Book, drol, Joey Russ, Banana 4 - Maryport, An Fear Beag, msc 3 –, Rad, Toast, Jiroemon Kimura 2- Bert, Rotten Ali, Esturian Float, rockhopperpenguin, John Key, The Dead Cow, The Old Lady, Clorox, Vaagheid, Perhaps, Bibliogryphon 1 – Why Not?, The Unknown Man, Deathlist Cmme, OoO, Raskolnikov, Sir Creep, The Engineer, Voice of Young Maryport, Time, Sean, Garn, Pedro67, ImnotHades, Windsor, Dr Zorders, Paul Bearer, deadsox, Grim Up North, Dr T, machotrouts, Torva Messor, AO Guy,TomTomTelekom, Roverandout, TQR, Etushi, Willz, Funeralopolis, Salmon Mousse, Baby Blue, WEP, Annami So @gcreptile has moved into double figures. The good @CaptainChorizo jumps level with DDT and Spade and has a strangle hold on the spot of Most Successful Deathlister Never to Win the DDP! Big jumps in turn for @Book, @drol, @Joey Russ and @Banana as they each move to 5 wins a piece. Drol's recent success have come with centenarians. Teams to watch for future DDP success. @An Fear Beag also leaps up to four, as does some chap called msc. Never heard of him. @Funeralopolis, @Salmon Mousse, @BabyBlue, @WEP and @Annami all join the HOF. Congrates. That's as many new pools I could find winners announced for since the last update that kept.

Alex Apolinario, a Brazilian player for FC Alverca, has died. He was 24. Apolinario suffered an apparent cardiorespiratory arrest during the 27th minute of the game. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/football/alex-apolinario-dies-fc-alverca-spt-intl/index.html

He was indeed Away from football a really nice guy

Obit.