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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.

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?

Yes, that's what I thought. Protest march is on Saturday, main remembrance event on Sunday. More fear and antagonism being deliberately stirred up.

9/11/23 21:25 hrs 47 Natalie Imbruglia — Torn 45 The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony 43 Blur — Song 2 42 Underworld — Born Slippy 33 The Cardigans — Lovefool 32 Manic Street Preachers— A Design For Life +4 32 Supergrass — Richard III 31 The Bluetones — Slight Return 28 Gala — Freed From Desire 28 Sash! ft. Rodriguez — Ecuador 23 Chumbawamba — Tubthumping 22 Robert Miles — Children  22 Kula Shaker — Hush -6 20 Dario G — Sunchyme

Congratulations, @ladyfiona! 1923 V. S. Achuthanandan / Virginia Halas McCaskey 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Ella Jenkins 1925 Marv Levy / Phyllis Dalton 1926 Philip Springer / Irene Camber 1927 Lee Montague / 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

Got a hunch about Jimmy Carter,he looks frail

Spanish Politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca has been shot in Madrid.

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

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, Oxford's loss is Bristol City's gain, as after 8 months at the Kassam Stadium (is it still called that?) Liam Manning has decided to take the opportunity to jump up to Championship level, leaving Oxford 2nd in League One after 15 games. For once in this game, success for a manager is success for a gameplayer, as Diego picked Manning to leave, and so earns his 3rd hit of the game. Updated scoreboard: Sly Ronnie - 9 Wannamaker - 6 Great Uncle Bulgaria, Bibliogryphon, Lady Fiona, Rover and Out - 5 Buffalo Phil, Diego - 3 MariNisia, Commtech Sio Bibble, Maryportfuncity - 2

@Bibliogryphon... about David Ferry, is this enough? https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/david-ferry/

Very famous german show host Hans Meiser died at 77 years: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/tv-urgestein-hans-meiser-ist-tot-er-wurde-77-jahre-alt-85993360.bild.html

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

Did you go up to her and give her a big whiff?

While I'm here, marking your cards for a few recent developments in the top 2 tiers that would have a significant impact given multiple picks: Andoni Iraola (Bournemouth) will now face the boss he replaced Gary O'Neill (now at Wolves) having not won a game since he replaced him in the summer. The pressure is surely mounting. Watford swung from one extreme to the other this week, as their appalling start to the season saw them offer Valerien Ismael a new contract rather than the usual marching orders at this time of the year. Since then, they've lost again and then drawn this weekend, to sit 20th in the table, sitting 2 points above the drop zone. Given Watford's history, don't expect a new contract to stop them pulling the trigger before Christmas if things don't improve soon. Gareth Ainsworth (QPR) oversaw a 0-4 defeat to Blackburn at the weekend, which was roundly booed by the home support. They have now won 1 of 20 home games in a year, and have taken just 2 points from their last 6 games and dropped into the bottom 3 on Saturday. Half expected the axe to fall over the weekend, but he's hanging on for now....

Thomas K. Delahanty, the police officer who was shot during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan is most likely still alive at the age of either 87 or 88. There's not been any confirmation of him being alive since 2016 and he's also known to be a quite reclusive so dying under the radar isn't something I would rule out, although I doubt that would happen because his death will definitely get some news coverage in the American press.

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

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

I'm listed twice as having won once. I'd like to combine my separate successes and ascend to the league of two-time champions, if I may.

Obit.

Whoa. Stakes just got raised by a snowflake two in the morning self publicising bitch. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45978790 Streets in the weeg need slave names. Lolololololol.

You should've taken me up on that offer of hangin' with my very cool gang and watching Swindon Town take on Carlisle United yesterday. Mebbe we'd have got you out into the winter sunshine and off the pop for 90 minutes. Oh aye, and driving home I heard an interview with the sprightly 81 year old Al Martino, who is still alive, obviously.