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The teams, celebs, and Drop 40 pages have all been posted, and you can now access them from the front page. @time is still working on updating for deceased celebs. As @gcreptile has said he's been brill so far. Not sure when I'll start posting obits, not all of them have been written yet. Been busy with the new celeb bios. time, @Banana, and I, plus Reptile in his outgoing capacity and like last year @Whitehouse in a guest capacity, have taken care of all the bios, and once again the 5-person crew has made it a lot more feasible.

YOUR ELIGIBLE PICKS ARE HERE: Jimmy Carter Jonnie Irwin Esther Rantzen James Whale Shannen Doherty Rob Burrow Linda Nolan Frank Field Dick van Dyke Steve McMichael Bruce Willis Nigel Starmer-Smith Yoko Ono (Wildlife) Simon Cowell Prunella Scales David Attenborough Roberta Flack Andy Taylor Michael Tilson Thomas Mel Brooks Billy Connolly Theo Burrell Noam Chomsky Joanne Woodward Toby Keith Patrick Murray Clint Eastwood Denis Law Buzz Aldrin Eva Marie Saint Willie Nelson Phil Collins Tim Bilton Ozzy Osbourne Stanley Baxter Pope Francis Bob Newhart Janey Godley Rupert Murdoch June Spencer Cleo Laine Paul Spencer William Shatner Donald Trump Michael J. Fox Erik Jensen Dave Myers Robert Wagner Frank Caprio Joe Biden Dennis Skinner (NB: Joe Biden and Dennis Skinner are the joint 50th most popular DDP pick of the year. Even though I'm sure we've all had recurring fantasies about the two of them being doused in oil and wrestling it out, I'm not tie-breaking them – you simply have 51 names to pick from.) Submissions are open. Select and rank 25 of the above names to survive 2024, and post your teams in this thread. The deadline to submit a team is Tuesday, January 23, 23.59 (GMT) – a little over a week from now.

Well, my first attempt has been semi-successful. The "Who's Dead' list and Scoreboard are (I think) correct but for some reason, the team and celeb updates haven't uploaded correctly. I'll revisit in the morning, its bedtime now!

These pet longevity records are jokes. I've never heard how Creme Puff, the "world's oldest ever cat" was validated by GWR. Same owner had another cat that was allegedly 26 in 1996 and at death 33 (in 1998) after the owner claimed he miscalculated the age of the cat. GWR validated the cat as 33 or 34 years old. The fifth-oldest GWR-verified cat gave birth at "30". I've seen many elderly cats and dogs (ages 15-22) and the cases you see in the news rarely even look, act or seem old.

Oh fuck off. I claim mine to be superior as the title quote is correct and I've more uniques.

Oh aye, and... been through both my teams and sent in photos of everyone currently lacking such on the DDP site As always, incredible effort - I salute your dedication to running this Rolls Royce of dead pooling!

Imagine getting triggered over a such a small thing that has literally nothing to do with you, you must live a super boring existence if thats your big complaint in life.

Arrrgh Delighted but oh so near so far too!! 59 Unique picks!!! Just one of sealing the deal of a complete set! Lorraine Gary, actress from the JAWS film franchise was my undoing!! But having said that 59 out of 60 is excellent and it is one up on last year when I got 58 unique picks! Best of luck everybody! Just a quick look through has established if Id kept Elspeth Ballantyne I would have had 60 uniques. I was convinced once I used her name and let the cat out of the bag shed never be unique again! Drat lol!

Heh, well, Grim Up North left the committee over a year ago for Banana. I am leaving the committee now (except, maybe, for some last questions for the transition). I will hand over the score updates and all matters of database-related issues to our veteran forum member time. From what I've seen so far, he will be an excellent successor. The DDP will be lucky to have him. He has already updated a few scores last month and is currently setting up the 2024 game. Best of luck!

It should be a matter of days til we're up and running. As usual, here's a list of 2024 names that were rejected under our FFBI rules. Selma Wilde - Apparently, a German supercentenarian. There's not even any mention of her on the 110 Club. The 110 Club FFS. Janet Gibbs - A centenarian, that's about it. Edwin Rayner - Old chap on YouTube who sings... to an audience of 1,000 followers. Jay Tenison - Terminally ill army veteran who got to fire a tank one final time. Gabriel Yeung Ka-piu - Terminal cancer patient who made the news for donating a lot of money to the Children's Cancer Foundation of Hong Kong. Clare Sacco - Cancer TikToker with nowhere near enough followers. Martin Butler - A food reviewer on YouTube who doesn't pass the follower quota. Gareth Morgan - As above. Emilio Betancourt - Cancer Tiktoker. Does have a sufficient amount of followers, but it was a following accrued entirely off his cancer. George Smith (x2) - There is a theme team of George Smiths. Lucky us. Two of them - George Smith of the Canadian Parks & Wildlife Society, and George Smith the centenarian schools engineer - were so obscure even by this team's barrel scraping standards that they were DQed. Ruth langsford mother joan langsford - I warned you she wouldn't count, and one of you didn't listen. David Marsh - Previously rejected in 2022. "He's a 60s musician I never heard of" might have been my greatest putdown of a no-name, and with him now dead I'm not going to get the chance to use it again... Jonathan Mills - Too low level a cricketer who never would've gotten attention without the cancer. Bruce Murray - The closest decision, while his camera assistant work is no doubt one of the many important cogs to Home and Away his public notability was very much embellished by the press. Phillip Mark Mehrtens - New Zealand pilot being held hostage by Indonesian insurgents. Terrorist hostages have been banned in the DDP since 2015, years before the more robust FFBI rules were set up.

Stop it, guys! Don't you understand? Jimmy is pitting us against each other.

In continuing the trend of selling all the moments/feels (thanks @drol - this description is perfect) and a true joker performance @maryportfuncity (~50 teams jokered him of 166 for the 2024 DDP), yet another article with a health update with nothing of value. Jonnie Irwin urged 'keep fighting' as he issues fresh terminal cancer update Here's the 'I'm not clicking on that link' summary: - link of an interview he did with a carer who's helped him who also has a book - the article itself is just a collection of comments from people who listened to the interview

Elton John has the EGOT now: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/16/emmys-2024-elton-john-egot-win-grammy-oscar-tony He couldn't attend the Emmy ceremony because of a knee operation.

At the Emmys last night, presenting an award with Taraji P. Henson. She looks fantastic. Glamorous and elegant, just as you might expect.

My cat is getting fairly high up in age now (he's not quite that level, but he's nearer to 20 than 10). He's always been very agile and healthy, but even he is starting to show his age a little. You just don't get to a really extreme age without there being some signs of it. Also, if he ever even got remotely close to being the oldest in the world, I'd be seeking recognition for it. I wouldn't wait several years, like the owners of Bobi apparently did (if he had been 31, he would have been the oldest known dog in the world for a long time beforehand) - there's simply too much risk that death would occur before recognition.

Confirmed dead on Instagram

My apologies .I mistakenly thought you had left this year as I recalled seeing a post were you asked for a replacement.I clearly misunderstood.Thank you to you too for your dedication and passionate work and efforts.You have been and are fantastic.

16/Jan/2024 36 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well +1 34 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 31 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto +1 29 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town -2 28 Tom Jones — Delilah +1 27 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 27 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup 25 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 24 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 22 Barry Ryan — Eloise +1 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 21 The Casuals — Jesamine 20 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 20 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember 16 Dean Martin — Gentle On My Mind 16 O.C. Smith — Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp 12 Herman’s Hermits — My Sentimental Friend 11 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do -2 08 Leapy Lee — Little Arrows 08 Robin Gibb — Saved By The Bell -2 06 The Tremeloes — (Call Me) Number One

My nan's cat lived to 23. She had a healthy, trouble-free life but for the last two years she was a sack of meat with patches of fur stuck on her. She wasn't in pain but she was stone deaf, blind in one eye, no teeth and had two functioning legs on a good day. These ones who turn up aged thirtysomething looking pristine are so obviously bollocks it's incredible that GWR give them the time of day.

Damn good job, cmme members present and outgoing. Damn good bloody good damn good job.

It was pretty obvious that the claim was nonsense to anyone who did even surface-level inspection. It was supposedly double the life expectancy for the breed, had no real signs of extreme age, was morbidly obese, and "pictures from when it was young" were clearly of a different dog. GWR has always been extremely inaccurate for longevity - both human and animal. It's a joke organisation that cares only about profit and publicity, not factual accuracy. The GRG is rather similar (though they swap profit for ego). Appropriately, it's the GRG that supplies GWR with their human data.

Doc, Arrow and Mango arguing (there all fucking acting like children)

Luis Torras dead at 111: https://www.farodevigo.es/sociedad/2024/01/15/muere-111-anos-pintor-vigues-96936895.html

Every time I see this thread updated I'm rushing to see if it's McMichael