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I'll accept @Lafaucheuse as I hadn't definitively declared submissions closed with a post that says "submissions are definitely now closed", but submissions are definitely now closed. Here's our complete list of Inverse Dead Pool 2024 candidates, ranked by the total number of points we've all banked on them, with a second column for how many teams they're on (out of a total 57). I've colour-coded the 51 names – the top slightly-less-than-half in green, and the bottom slightly-more-than-half in red. TOTAL POINTS # OF TEAMS 1 Joe Biden 1237 54 2 Donald Trump 1171 53 3 Michael J. Fox 1067 56 4 Andy Taylor 992 55 5 Billy Connolly 906 56 6 Clint Eastwood 898 53 7 William Shatner 880 53 8 Ozzy Osbourne 873 53 9 Buzz Aldrin 801 56 10 Janey Godley 793 48 11 Phil Collins 745 49 12 Bruce Willis 707 50 13 Dick van Dyke 671 51 14 Robert Wagner 597 47 15 Prunella Scales 534 51 16 Pope Francis 524 47 16 Rupert Murdoch 524 48 18 David Attenborough 467 47 19 Willie Nelson 452 43 20 Mel Brooks 417 38 21 Tim Bilton 376 35 22 Toby Keith 345 27 23 Yoko Ono 257 27 24 Dave Myers 233 26 25 Erik Jensen 220 21 26 Shannen Doherty 201 23 27 Linda Nolan 183 25 28 Paul Spencer 147 17 29 Cleo Laine 141 23 30 Denis Law 121 18 31 Dennis Skinner 110 18 32 Bob Newhart 107 17 33 Patrick Murray 101 14 34 Roberta Flack 90 12 35 Eva Marie Saint 82 22 36 Theo Burrell 77 8 37 Stanley Baxter 70 14 38 Frank Caprio 68 7 39 Frank Field 44 6 40 June Spencer 40 6 41 Esther Rantzen 39 8 42 James Whale 37 12 43 Michael Tilson Thomas 36 5 44 Rob Burrow 35 8 45 Joanne Woodward 29 4 46 Nigel Starmer-Smith 28 4 47 (Wildlife) Simon Cowell 27 6 48 Jonnie Irwin 16 1 49 Noam Chomsky 8 2 50 Jimmy Carter 1 1 51 Steve McMichael 0 0 Stop the count! Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in the 2024 popular vote. A reassuring show of faith in American democracy that we don't all think the two presumptive main party candidates will be literally dead by election day. Michael J. Fox has a healthy debut at #3, and Andy Taylor at #4 must be one of the biggest rises in Inverse Dead Pool history (I'm not checking) – he was #35 last year. Also, Billy Connolly at #5 was picked by literally every player other than my mum, and she only didn't pick him because she doesn't find him funny. Not a single one of us picked Steve McMichael this year – he's the Inverse Dead Pool's first unanimous snub since Rush Limbaugh in 2021. On the bright side, the last place celebrity in 2023 was James Whale (who is now #42) and 2022 was Frank Field (now #38), so – congratulations Mr McMichael, looks like it's all uphill from here. Also near the bottom is DDP #1 Jimmy Carter with exactly 1 point, donated by @JoeMoneypenny; Noam Chomsky has 4 points apiece from @Bentrovato and @Annami; and all 16 of Jonnie Irwin's points came from my mum – she didn't know who he was, but when I told her, she said "oh, I like A Place in the Sun. He can live".

Now, now. Don't go confusing Republicans by listing facts. They only seem to believe the lies they hear coming from the former reality tv star whose main claim to fame was telling contestants "You're fired". They want entertainment, not actual accomplishments. The masses want bread and circuses.

This year sucks so much with deaths that Elahi Bux Soomro has come back to life.

This means Don Vicente is the last obstacle between Fauja Singh and the World's Oldest Living Man title. New oldest man in US is Otis Randall, an African American who is also the last American man born in 1913. Clayton Flowers is moving closer to the American top 10 (now at #12). Don't know how is it possible, but in December he looked the best he has looked like in years.

Our local neighbourhood watch isn't looking too healthy, just saying

So in that short list of 5 recommendations I made for the main list of immortals, I now have 2 dead so far this year (3 total as Garcia died last year) while Drol's main list of 50 something immortals has had... 1 hit with Zagallo. No wonder he's going crazy.

*lunch cancer, so not all that serious.

SAG AFTRA Special Magazine 2024, announced the death of American character actor Richard McKenzie (Wiki), last December 2023 at the age of 93. He was known for his guest role as Fred Bunker, younger brother of Archie Bunker on the hit CBS-TV sitcom series All in the Family. Other television roles includes: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Matlock, Highway to Heaven, The Colbys, Quincy M.E., The Jeffersons, Hawaii-Five O etc. Edit: @MortalCaso he was mentioned also on What's on the Telly thread!

Shouldn’t be too close to death then as ppl near the end days of cancer battles are knocked out all the time. Stinks of clickbait. Next week’s exciting episode in the Mail: “Linda Nolan visits hero Jonnie in hospital and offers advice”.

In hospital, hasn't slept for six nights

As it's yet to change since I wrote it, the sniff test wasn't intended to get rid of local councillors, oldest people or anyone WEP picks ever. It was the shameless teenage mum picks and random car crash victims on life support we couldn't get people to stop picking. I believe I said pick your local Detroit representative just don't expect a qo... Words I should have listened to! Mind you yahoo etc got brought in because of someone getting grumpy about a borusa lack of obit. And other reasons. And instead the press continue to totally ignore old writers and actors. Beyond fucked up with it tbh.

Sorted, The Immortal surges from 13th to 11th place!

26/1/24 06:43 hrs 29 The Troggs — Wild Thing 28 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 27 Petula Clark — Downtown 25 The Kinks — All of the day and all of the night -6 26 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 24 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 24 The Who — My Generation 24 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 23 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 22 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 22 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 20 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 19 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 15 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 11 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday +4 08 The Drifters — Save The Last Dance For Me

His career was notable enough on its own that he would have managed a newswire QO even if his name wasn't Harry Connick, although I doubt he would have been picked in the DDP.

I mulled over picking him for TJS for maybe three minutes. But he was such an "in it to win it" name and it did not look right having him flanked by Alexander Butterfield and Clarence "Frogman" Henry. I look forward to the 2025 DDP when I pick the 60s girl group singer who announces stage 1 fingernail cancer while ignoring the 3 NFLers in hospice with pancan.

It was hard to avoid him in the usual google searches. You cant fault anyone who picked him (which includes me, ahem). But if he doesn't obit, its a boost for all those teams who didn't quite go for all the obvious point grabs. Day in the Death might be one of those teams, maybe also the B-team. But the year has barely started. There might even be a one-sentence mention in an article about his successor, or something similar.

Not saying whether he should be allowed as a pick so much as the folk who picked him. I think @msc has it right. Take a deep breath through your nostrils and say “do I feel good about this or is it a chance for a points grab?”. Winning is for winners as I’ve always said. Playing the game with a full heart is much more rewarding! Ha!

I mean he stepped down when it was announced he had cancer, that's probably why they picked it up in the first place. We've seen councilors get obits before so it's nothing new. Maybe they original writer was off sick today or something idk :/

Shinji Aoba sentenced to death.

Just wanted to point out. Last Saturday marked the 43rd anniversary of Carter leaving office.

Says sexual pleasure is 'a gift from God.'

I'd be surprised if the Faithfull win it after tonight's episode. I can see Harry and Andrew getting to the final quite easily. The only person suspicious of either of them is Jaz but I don't think anyone will listen, I think Ross would be the perfect scapegoat to get rid of at the roundtable, after Jasmine he would be who I'd see most people turning on. The only risk is that Ross is Diane's son (obviously they don't know that) and he makes it his mission to take Harry down. I'm pretty sure either way Andrew makes it to the final it's just whether Harry or Ross do.

Camilla or his valet?