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I know I said I was retiring from dead pooling but I decided to send in an entry anyways cause why not. Definitely nowhere as well researched as my past teams but I couldn’t really resist. Oh and the counterculture theme is back as per usual

Gaston Glock dead at 94.

Dehors Delors

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: George Lineker (1/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (2/50) 2013: (0/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke (1/50)  2015: Jake Roberts (1/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (5/50) 2017: Jimmy Carter, Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (3/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (10/50) 2019: Jimmy Carter, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales (7/50)  2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Jimmy Carter, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Attenborough (11/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Jimmy Carter, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Dick Cheney, Bob Newhart, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shannen Doherty (19/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, Jean-Marie Le Pen, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Jacques Delors, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt (21/50) Updated for Jacques Delors.

Ladies, gentlemen and in between… Here is the second edition of the annual In Memoriam Award Before the 20th of January (12pm english Time), whoever wants can vote by PM for the person who deserves to win in each category below explained. I will then sum up all the votes and come with a winner for each category and two "honorable mentions". A candidate can be nominated and win in several categories. Results will be post on this thread in the last days of January 2024. Without further ado, here are the categories : The biggest female death : the most groundbreaking death of the year, the one which you think was the most influential, the most important, the most… the biggest. The biggest male death : read above… but with a man The most shocking one : the death that you didn't expect, that made you feel like "omg what ?" The saddest one : that one death that, when you heard of, you suddenfly had a speck of durst in your eyes. The best received one : the one that you laughed at, that you acclaimed The most awaited one : the one that wasn't a shock, that was long overdue, that made you feel like "at last, finally !". Immortals and lingerer candidates mostly in here. The biggest survivor : the celeb that you're the most surprised to see have survived the year The biggest miss : the one that the committee should have picked… but didn't The most promising one : the prominent celeb that you think is the most promising to be a hit for your personal list or the official one in 2024 Entries open from now on, enjoy

My first thought when I heard the news.

BBC just sent it as Breaking News notification

Tom Smothers dead at 86.

I think it may be time to start thinking about Brian Wilson. After 20+ years of endless tours, he had a very quiet 2023 and made his only public appearance of the year seated at “Grammy Salutes the Beach Boys” in April. He’s had surgery in the past for a hereditary back problem and having watched him be helped walk to his piano when I saw him live in 2016, I expect he uses a wheelchair now. Some fans found it hard to watch his last tour in 2022 - see this clip of Brian performing “God Only Knows” then. Now, all of this doesn’t mean he’s about to die but he is 81, I think it’s unlikely we will see him tour again and he has had more than his fair share of health issues over the past 60 years.

The bane of Southern Europe during the Financial Crisis (but also the legal architect of German Reunification). I read an interview with him, about 2 months ago, he complained that nobody is calling his phone anymore. I guess he sort of died of either boredom or feeling useless. Edit: They've added now that he died after a long, heavy illness. If he had cancer, it was a secret.

Wolfgang Schäuble, German lawyer, politician and statesman whose political career has spanned for more than five decades, has died at 81. He was the target of an assassination attempt in 1990, was left paralysed from the attack and has used a wheelchair ever since. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wolfgang-schaeuble-ist-tot-a-33e8129f-b41d-4b5d-9a10-fd8aedbbe08d

27/Dec/2023 38 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 37 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion +2 29 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 26 Andy Williams — Can’t Get Used To Losing You 22 Mr. Acker Bilk ft. The Leon Young String Chorale — Stranger On The Shore 19 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me 17 Bruce Channel — Hey! Baby +2 16 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 13 The Beatles — Please Please Me -6 12 The Searchers — Sugar And Spice 11 Jet Harris & Tony Meehan — Scarlett O'Hara

I've entered my annual team but to my great shock, for the first time ever in a decade, NO REJECTIONS. I've clearly gone full casual player!

Gustave Eiffel died on this day 100 years ago, aged 91. - Eiffel had studied both chemistry and engineering in his youth, and his first construction job came in 1857, for a railway bridge. - He would continue to work in the train industry, overseeing the construction of steam engines used to help complete the Suez Canal, as well as several viaducts in his native France. - One of Eiffel's first building commissions came in 1868 when the Peruvian government asked him to redesign the St. Mark's Cathedral after the original was destroyed in an earthquake. - In 1881, Auguste Bartholdi contacted Eiffel to help with the construction of the Statue of Liberty- Eiffel was responsible for designing its internal structure: - The Eiffel Tower was not his idea- one of his friends, Maurice Koechlin made the original sketch in 1884; Eiffel initially disliked the idea of building it until another architect, Stephen Sauvestre, added decorative supports to it. The building permit was signed in 1887, and it was the tallest man-made structure in the world between 1889 and 1930. - Eiffel was also involved in designing the locks for France's preliminary idea of the Panama Canal; however the company went under in 1888, and would be accused of misappropriating funds. Eiffel was found guilty in 1893, but successfully appealed and avoided jail time. - In later years, Eiffel studied meteorology and aerodynamics, constructing wind tunnels and weather stations. - Eiffel died while listening to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

If his podcasts are anything to go by, the man seems to still be in good condition. I recently listened to one where he and Mike acted out a scene from M*A*S*H written by chatGPT, and I swear to God he sounded the same as he did decades ago.

So I just stumbled over a YouTuber called "The Liver King". He's selling a raw meat + steroids diet and gets closer to a massive heart attack with each video. His breathing is very heavy, his face has aged dramatically.

that was sooo sure ! I expected a final hit and I didn't why but I thought of him several time recently

Henry Moore (wiki) turned 100 in November as per this Facebook post. AFAIK, only the second Church of England bishop to become a centenarian, after John Cavell (wiki, 1916–2017). If Moore lives for just another few months he'll become the oldest ever.

Happy Birthday to Timothée Chalamet ! The American-French rising star in Hollywood is 28.

Rotimi Akeredolu reportedly dead: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/654371-breaking-governor-rotimi-akeredolu-is-dead.html

I highly recommend his podcast. He has a very soothing + informing way of going about it.

I'd like to see: Warren Buffett Betty DeGeneres Barbara Eden Chuck Grassley Mitch McConnell Joe Biden June Lockheart David Attenborough Gene Hackman Janis Paige Sophia Loren (she had a fall recently) Iris Apfel June Spencer June Squibb Michelle Presle Ray Anthony Eva Marie Saint (oldest Oscar winner ever) Bonnie Bartlett Noam Chomsky Tippi Hedren Peter Marshall Buzz Aldrin John Astin Caren Marsh Doll (like the last Wizard of Oz person left) And I think someone like Willie Nelson could come off the list for next year if you're wondering who to cut. And getting some of the aging US political dinosaurs will be important. Gonna be some big hit opportunities next year! Been watching for years from the sidelines!

I already consider Chomsky a stupid ommission. As for James Whale. If one of them die this year, they would have been a miss. Like Kaczyinski. The other 3 were not misses for me. Sandra Day O Connor was also a miss : should and could have been on the list several times considering her age, fame and illness. Comparable to Nichelle Nichols back in 2022.