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BBC step up with Jason Smith q/o 22 DDPers cut down on laundering underwear! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c191endrkdko Oh aye, and...death confirmed as earlier this month so the provisional date and points on the Deathrace stay where they are until anything definite emerges.

As pure an FFBI as there ever will be. Hell, the town I grew up in has 5 thousand more people in it than this guy's ward and I certainly wouldn't consider anyone on the 4-person council who oversees it anywhere near famous.

Bruno Segre dead for real at 105.

Bit harsh on the stay-at-home cancer mums much beloved of the Daily Mail in December, innit? Are you saying their sterling efforts to avoid paid employment or public service count for nothing?

The Queen is dead ... long live the King Singers

Interesting that if everyone in his ward followed him on social media, he still wouldn’t qualify as a pick as an internet celebrity! But I remain neutral!

CPAP machine inventor and Respironics (company was sold to Royal Philips for $5.1 billion in 2008) founder Gerald E. McGinnis dead at 89.

Was just.coming to post this. If you check X, he died on the day the Chronicle first reported it.

JD Salinger died on this day 14 years ago, aged 91. - When he was young, Salinger dated Oona O'Neill- they broke up once Oona started seeing Charlie Chaplin. - Salinger began writing short stories for The New Yorker in 1941. One of these was titled "Slight Rebellion off Madison", about a teenager named Holden Caulfield. This went unpublished for five years due to Holden being described as having 'pre-war jitters', and Pearl Harbor occurring the month it was supposed to be published. - Salinger was drafted into World War II, and fought in both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. During this time, he met Ernest Hemingway (then a war correspondent in Paris), and the two authors became friends. - In 1948, Salinger published "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", the first of his short stories of the Glass family. He would write a total of eight of these stories for The New Yorker up until 1965. - Caulfield's magnum opus was 1951's The Catcher in the Rye, starring his previous Holden Caulfield character- this soon became an icon of 1950s teenage rebellion counterculture: kill John Lennon and/or Ronald Reagan - Salinger retired in 1965 after the Glass family story "Hapworth 16, 1924", and became known for his reclusiveness over the following decades. Virtually all pictures of him taken during his later years were candid shots: - Salinger debuted on the DeathList in 2006, and made a total of four appearances (every year after except 2009). He was the first hit of the 2010 list.

Twitter/X reporting he has resigned from all roles with TKO and WWE following allegations of sexual assault and human trafficking.

IQ tests only measure one type of intelligence, and not really the type that matters.

There was a theory that Trump deliberately acted up in court precisely to ensure the Jury threw the book at him. Having listened to his lawyer just now that might not be so far fetched. They are ramping up the narrative that this is Biden and the Democrats rigging the system against Trump, when the reality is that Trump is just a massive cunt who was found guilty.

I have produced a different graph today which is on a slightly different basis There are only four lines on this one so I hope it is easier to read There is the current record holding year 2020 The current year 2024 The average date that each numbered death (Up to 13) has occurred across the past 10 years The line that would deliver us a new record breaking year on a pro-rata basis (One death every 17 days)

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".

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.

1/27/2024 27 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows +2 25 The Who — My Generation 25 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 23 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul  23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 22 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance -3 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 22 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 22 Petula Clark — Downtown +2 21 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 20 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto -3 20 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 19 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 17 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 12 The Troggs — Wild Thing Downvoting is getting tough... and will only get tougher

27/01/24 6:50am 25 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 25 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance  25 The Who — My Generation 25 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night +2 23 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul  23 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 22 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 21 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 20 Petula Clark — Downtown +2 20 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 19 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 17 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well -6 11 The Troggs — Wild Thing

Thanks, significant in a small way because it takes a point off Sideik and puts two teams into a tie for the lead. If their joint picks keep dying we might go into the first Deathrace head to head tiebreak. I mean, obviously the fourth round of the FA Cup couldn't compete with that nail-biter! I'll tweak the leaderboard later on after watching Maidstone humble the Tractor Boys

I don't begrudge him the win, he's played a good game and deserved it. And, actually, this was the perfect outcome in the end. Harry didn't get off scot-free, Jaz proved himself to be the smartest Faithful and did all he could to win the money, Mollie didn't deserve the money and spectacularly proved it with her final decision, Andrew didn't go down without a fight and it proved to be incredible drama once again. Brilliant show. But, fuck me, Mollie! That was legendarily dim. But it was worth it for tweets like this :

"Catcher in the Rye" publisher Marc Jaffee died on New Year's Eve. He was 102 years old.

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”.

Despite being very frail Fusa Tatsumi actually managed to become world's 2nd oldest person and remain in this position for almost a year outliving various other SCs. Now it is 2024 and the oldest person is still non-Japanese. I think that Tomiko Itooka could possibly outlive both Morera and Ceccarelli and become world's oldest person in the future. In any case, top Japanese SCs have been hit hard during the last year, but this was somewhat predictable due to their frailness, now only the 2 most physically strong are still living (Tomiko Itooka, Okagi Hayashi) and the one who formerly appeared strong (Masa Matsumoto). Kame Uema remains a mystery despite her claimed age is around 114.5 now.

La Bouche was also a project. That singer died when a Swiss airliner crashed she was sitting in.

Computer scientist David L. Mills (wiki) reportedly dead at 85 on Wiki.

Singer/actress Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid, The Color Purple) had a baby: https://people.com/halle-bailey-welcomes-first-baby-with-boyfriend-ddg-8407563 The rumor was her son was born in November, but she doesn't specify yet. Father of the child is youtube rapper, DDG. They spent the whole year denying the pregnancy, while posting videos of her obviously pregnant, in order to get DDG youtube views. Both of her films are potential Oscar nominees.