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As I have alluded to before I have worked in care.I worked in a care home for 5 years and left less than 2 months ago.We had a lady who had lived with us for 23 years.She used to get up at 5:30 am then complain about it but woe betide you if you altered her schedule.Heard this evening she died last night aged 98 and given the fact she lost a lung to TB as a child had a horrendous spinal condition from birth and had a pre existing heart condition her longevity was a miracle.She had a tongue as sharp as they come albeit vicious at times and used to take up all my time on my 12 hour nightshifts more often than not.Saw her more than all but the closest of family for 5 years.Dementia cruelly took away so much but her spirit towards the end but that indomitable spirit was never broken.She was the Queen mother of our care home.Her kindness and empathy meant she always made you feel like family but she had the difficult maddening stubbornness meaning that she was fundamentally flawed which made her feel even more like family. She used to hand me sweets and offer me all her food for the week and got offended when I always inevitably declined.Another carer stole from her before I started and she stated " why didn't she just ask I would have given her the clothes off my back if she needed would have handed her my purse..but she stole off me" . A woman who walked until she was 92 who as a small child was told she would never walk.A complex lady who was an integral part of my life and less consequentially livelihood for 5 years.This one hits hard and all of us who knew her are feeling it.Hoping she is with her twin sister .her husband and many jack Russells in the sky right now. ♥️

I think this article was produced with this thread in mind. (Most annoying words - The most annoying is

I may be misquoted. I would love this tae finish top 5, but I’m realistic and accept at some point it’ll be sent packing. My goal is tae delay that as long as possible, hopefully top 10. Seems lucky to make top 15.

November 22 Fifteenth hit: Joss Ackland A belated update, but well worth the wait. While there has been discussion on the order of hits, Ackland vs Rosalynn Carter, (thanks to @tracy for researching this; it could be essential in the event of a tie), as stated above, I'm using the order they're listed on the DL front page. As this game is additive, the order of operations doesn't matter.  A middle of the road pick with just exactly a third of punters with the correct call. Considerable leap frogging in this update, with one player scoring +8 for marking their joker and matching the hits exactly. Congrats to @Bibliogryphon! This has been a hit for 10 punters (9 hits, 1 joker). Sparse number of Third hit bonuses, although @Book becomes only the second player to reach the 3x bonus, having successfully called 9 hits. Total hits: 10 Teams with hit: 9 Punters:Joltin Joe, The Daredevil, chilean way, ThereWillBeDeaths7, wannamaker, Etushispushingupdaisies, tracy, Book, Newjack In the strategy post I commented that it was rare that a player had two of the 'middle road' picks. Well @tracy has been the only one to chalk up the two recent hits of Rosalynn Carter and Ackland. Teams with joker: 1 Punters: Bibliogryphon The last joker to be cashed in was Barker; with this hit that is 23/30 jokers cleared. Third hit bonus First round (3 hits): N/A Second round (6 hits): chilean way Third round (9 hits): Book Within 5 predicted hits: chilean way, Summer in Transylvania (20 predicted hits) Within 1 predicted hit: theoldlady, gcreptile, wannamaker, LizLemon, Newjack (16 predicted hits) Exact hit match: Joltin Joe, YoungWillz, Bibliogryphon, Sean (15 predicted hits) Return of pentalies for those with low hit predictions. Being out by 2 hits (-2 points): Great Uncle Bulgaria, diego (13 predicted hits) This removes the +2 for being within one hit of the current total. Joltin Joe and Bibliogryphon are tie for 1st place with positive scores! A crowded 2nd place with 4 players - note @DoorSlammer's rank thanks to many correct hits. As the number of hits increases the higher guessing players are dominating the field. Will that continue? Only 39 more days to find out. Updated Score Ackland Joker Hit Third Hit Bonus Within 5 hits (20 predicted) Within 1 hit (16 predicted) Exact match (15 predicted) Joltin Joe 2 1 4 Bibliogryphon 2 4 4 DoorSlammer -3 gcreptile -3 2 wannamaker -3 1 2 Sean -3 4 YoungWillz -4 4 diego -5 -2 Grimgrass -5 Book -5 1 1 LizLemon -5 2 Etushispushingupdaisies -6 1 Newjack -6 1 2 Great Uncle Bulgaria -7 -2 Annami -7 Summer in Transylvania -7 2 Joey Russ -8 -4 Torva Messor -8 TQR -8 tracy -8 1 Funeralopolis -9 theoldlady -10 2 Dying Probably -11 The Old Crem -12 The Duke of Deadinburgh -12 Hell -12 WinterCake -12 ThereWillBeDeaths7 -12 1 The Daredevil -14 1 chilean way -14 1 1 2

She had a Death List type sense of humour.Her room was next to the so called cursed room where 7 men died in 5 years and she informed the man who moved in there of that fact when he moved in.

Juan Vicente Perez Mora surpassed the age of Tomás Pinales Figuereo (his age is pending validation by LAS). https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/tomas-pinales-figuereo/

György Kurtág is one too. The Guardian published an interview with him in August where he says his "greatest desire is to lay next to Márta" (his wife, who died in 2019). He's still quite sharp but now 97 years old, completely wheelchairbound and I recall he's battled some ailments during the last five years.

Going home to die

Done! 22/Nov/2023 44 Fatboy Slim — Right Here, Right Now 41 Madonna — Beautiful Stranger +2 40 Madonna — Ray Of Light +2 39 Stardust — Music Sounds Better With You 37 DJ Jurgen Presents Alice DeeJay — Better Off Alone 35 Natalie Imbruglia — Big Mistake 33 Artful Dodger ft. Craig David — Re-Rewind 31 Blur — Tender 30 Spice Girls — Stop 30 Jay-Z — Hard Knock Life 28 Terrorvision — Tequila 28 Phats & Small — Turn Around 25 Tin Tin Out ft. Emma Bunton — What I Am 25 Eminem — My Name Is -3 24 Ann Lee — 2 Times 24 The Corrs — Runaway 22 Shaft — (Mucho Mambo) Sway 21 Pras Michel ft. Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya — Ghetto Superstar 20 Busta Rhymes — Turn It Up / Fire It Up 20 T-Spoon — Sex On The Beach 20 Brandy ft. Mase — Top Of The World 20 The Wiseguys — Ooh La La 19 Whitney Houston — My Love Is Your Love 19 Brandy & Monica — The Boy Is Mine 16 The Offspring — Why Don't You Get A Job? -1 14 Sash! ft. Tina Cousins — Mysterious Times 14 Another Level ft. Ghostface Killah — I Want You For Myself 11 Five — Everybody Get Up -1 10 911 — More Than A Woman -1 08 Backstreet Boys — All I Have To Give

Italian actress and Miss Italia 1977 Anna Kanakis (Wiki) dead at 61

Otis Randall is now the oldest man born in the USA (Francis was born in Lebanon), he was born on 28 June 1913 in Melrose, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, California

I envision roughly 9 returnees (Attenborough, Akihito, Chomsky, Whale, R. Castro, Law, Redgrave, Farrakhan, Doherty). About time Michael Schumacher gets a debut on the DL, same for Leontyne Price, Michael York and Joan Plowright. Brian Blessed would also be an understandable addition, given his wife's recent death. Some surprisingly effective 2024 wildcards may be John Prescott, Michael Moriarty, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump (if he goes next year, won't be natural death though) and Jeremy Clarkson.

Apparently dead.

A little late here, but I can't say if I'm surprised or not. She looked very frail and unaware when she returned, but on her last day, she looked better. She seemed like she wouldn't go down without a fight. She was a great senator but she really should've retired after 2018.

Last appearance, hours before her death. Looked surprisingly well here

Daily Mail

NBC have it so confirmed: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dianne-feinstein-rcna18010

I'd be up for a DL Con anywhere in the UK. I heard @Sir Creep is willing to pay for around 240 cups of coffee.

Michael Gambon for me and a few others.

New top 10 after the recent deaths (Valentine Ligny, Yoshi Baba, Cecile Klein, Thelma Sutcliffe, Antonia Da Santa Cruz).

That's in the one I would put in the ironic deaths thread She ain't dead. The tyke should have aimed better. Didn't realize she had survived. We need something like a "Only in America" thread. Although seeing discussions about this online last night, people in the U.S. were saying it seems incredulous, and that all you have to do is add that it happened in Florida or Texas suddenly it because totally plausible.

Are relatively new members invited too? I'm always up for a pint or twelve.

Not really praying as I was informed in another post that there is no God. Might wish for correct use of apostophies though.