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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?

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 This went unpublished for five years due to Holden being described as having 'pre-war jitters', and Pearl Harbor occurring the month it was supposed to be published.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.

Surely Vince McMahon deserves his own thread. Easily the most recognizable wrestling personality around today and also one of the few billionaires that the average person can name. Will be a sure bet for a place on the list in a few years

It was never in doubt that this modern heavyweight of local council would get a deserved BBC obit.

Sun 28 Jan 00:00 NZDT 25 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 25 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance  25 The Who — My Generation 23 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well +4 23 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 -4 22 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 21 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 20 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 19 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 18 Petula Clark — Downtown 11 The Troggs — Wild Thing

Discharged . Drama king of the clickbait.

Sister Karma was on holiday in the Netherlands. Lately it's a fad to turn up the pressure in drug related arguments to bomb someone's house with fireworks, most notably in Rotterdam and The Hague. This week someone would be a victim in The Hague but the sorry asshole who was trying to bomb the front door made a booboo. It's not sure what exactly happened but the explosive went off premature and the guy was severely hurt, lost both of his hands and a day later he kicked the bucket.

Jay Leno’s wife Mavis has Alzheimer’s

I thought I recognised it…the “marzipan dildo” line is one of Iannucci’s.

27/Jan/2024 27 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well +2 27 The Who — My Generation 27 The Troggs — Wild Thing 25 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 24 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows 24 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 23 Barry Ryan — Eloise 23 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 22 Los Bravos — Black Is Black +2 22 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 22 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 22 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset -3 22 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night -3 19 Petula Clark — Downtown 17 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Roger Donlon The Immortal 4+1 Max_bossetti 4+1 gcreptile 3+1 Scoreboard CaptainChorizo 5/50 Max_bossetti 5/50 The Immortal 5/50 gcreptile 4/50 Main Deathlist 3/50 jonnythegamemaster 3/50 Steve 3/50 Thatcher 3/50 Imelda 3/50 Prophet 3/50 BuffaloPhil 3/50 Nick 3/50 markb4 3/50 ladyfiona 2/50 Death Duke 2/50 six feet blunder 2/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 2/50 MariNisia 2/50 Philip 2/50 The Daredevil 2/50 Grimgrass 2/50 Wannamaker 2/50 dimreaper 2/50 The Old Crem 2/50 Perhaps 2/50 DeathBecomesThem 2/50 Book 2/50 MrShadrak 2/50 Sean 2/50 livingbygrace 2/50 Torva Messor 2/50 polar duck 2/50 St3ve 2/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 2/50 LWCZ 1/50 LizLemon 1/50 Bibliogryphon 1/50 Brad252 1/50 Earl 1/50 Hell 1/50 TQR 1/50 Morrisey 1/50 Joltin Joe 1/50 Diego 1/50 Khthonia 1/50 John Key 1/50 theoldlady 1/50 Windsor 1/50 Chalres De Gaulle 1/50 Salmon Mousse 1/50 Superstar 1/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 0/50 Pop_Zeus 0/50 Trome 0/50 Gooseberry Crumble 0/50 Charles De Gaulle 0/50 Redrumours 0/50 Arghton 0/50 Kissofdeath 0/50 Johnnas 0/50 Heiheiheihei 0/50 Tomtomtelekom 0/50 Nasquacker 0/50

Well....Mollie's going down in TV history. What an incredible display of braindead thinking.

Did this get posted yesterday?

If only there were Darwin awards for ships..... Russian anti-mine ship explodes after hitting Russian mine. No word on casualties though....