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Yes, she's out of hospital now so crisis over, thanks.

Ok, on DL next year.

All pales next to LFN, who remembers this hip and upcoming playwright called Aristophanes

February 2024 is an interesting month for those who will turn 100. Many names mentioned quite often and few immortals or candidate immortals between them. 1)Omchery N N Pillai (1 February): who the fuck he is, but at least another Indian centenarian after they were cullen. 2)Vojo Stanic (3 Feb): chainsmonker Montenegro painter once suggested as an immortal. 3)Khamtai Siphandone (8 Feb): Laotian decomposing tyrant, certified Immortal and one of the biggest "How the fuck still alive?" out there 4)Charles Coste (8 Feb): French prominent cyclist who has already been the subject of a deth hoax. 5)Wu Chengzhang (8 Feb): Chinese survivor of 1948 Olympic games, seems to be a good shot at immortality 6)Woody Woodbury (9 Feb): American comedian, WW2 veteran 7)JP Enrile (14 Feb): Here he is! Certified immortal and widely believed to be by the vast majority of Filipinos 8)The Earl of Elgin (17 Feb): Oldest peer, very overweight, why still alive? 9)Zheng Tuobin (24 Feb): Chinese minister with outrageous retirement benefit. Good shot at immortality once again.

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2023/24 ends today. Here is the result of the third year of the Nobel Prize themed Death Pool: Third place: @Hell, receiving 10.169 points. Second place goes to @ladyfiona, who earned 12.269 points. Winner is @theoldlady with 13.757 points, including the oldest hit (John Goodeenough) and the youngest (Louise Glück). Congratulations! Thanks to all participants for joining this game!

Incredibly the second time a vaguely notable Ivan Ivanov died who wasn't on that team

Tbh, I remember before many many celebs and so-called celebs were famous! And even so, the ones I remember from my youth are mostly still breathing. My lack of dead pooling success can only be put down to my continuing astonishment that they still take oxygen!

1/Feb/2024 34 Barry Ryan — Eloise 33 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows -6 32 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 31 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 28 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ +4

She has been on oxygen for years, what do they expect?

Michel Jazy mort reportedly: Only place he is mentioned, no idea what all the above means sur ma phone, ha!

Yeah like young Clorox wasn't alive in George Harrison's lifetime. I remember Taggart dying. Willz remembers before Mark McManus was famous. Paul Bearer remembers before he was born. Time is relative.

Yeah, when I joined the forum in my early teens I was the youngest here. Now I'm older than half the active userbase. Passage of time is something

Winner 2022/23: wannamaker Winner 2023/24: Theoldlady

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2024/25 starts now. Good luck to all participants!

A toast to her speedy recovery!

Ban the cunt.

Kitty Jeffery was Ireland's oldest known person alive since 6 Sep 2023 and died on 17 Jan 2024,born in Glenville, Cork,she died in Wilton, Cork,now Ireland's oldest known person is Phyllis Furness,born 23 May 1915 Death Notice of KITTY JEFFERY (née Clancy) (Midleton, Cork) | rip.ie Ireland’s oldest person dies at the age of 109 (irishexaminer.com)

Someone posted in Startiger that a somewhat obscure German footballer Klaus Scheinig who played for Hertha BSC from 1963-65, died 1½ years ago according to his wife

Crossposting from French speaking Deathlist : French Michel Jazy, silver medalist in 1500 meters at the 1960 Games, has died aged 87. He hold 9 world records and was European Champion. He was very big and popular in France, truly a huge loss for French sport.

Some banging cocktails at Ferg's Bar in Queenstown. KawaKawa Sour KawaKawa Liqueur (looked this up; it's from the pepper family, but basically a botanical vodka would do fine), dry gin, honey, grapefruit juice, lemon, egg white, peppercorns Tomillo Ilegal Mezcal, Chartreuse, Benedictine, lemon juice, grapefruit juice, thyme Peach Perfect Vodka, sake, peach liqueur, elderflower, peach puree, bitters, prosecco Orange Passion Blood orange gin, Chinola, Grand Marnier, lemon juice, orange bitters, sherbet rim (oooh) And teetotal OH had... Mos-no Mule Seedlip 94 spice, ginger beer, lime juice, mint Pineapple Spritz (x3) Blended pineapple, brown sugar, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, soda, lemonade

Rev. Violet Mark, DL Cup final pick in 2018 and Welsh missionary died back in November at 85. (She did receive an India Times obituary at the time, but her death was, if I can trust the forum search function, never mentioned on the DL Forums)

Augustus II of Poland died on this day 291 years ago, aged 62. - Augustus was German, and the son of the elector of Saxony. He succeeded his older brother John George IV in that position, as Frederick Augustus I, in 1694. - In 1697, Augustus became the king of Poland following the death of John III- he was elected into the monarchy, and had to convert to Catholicism (as he was a Lutheran). He waged war on Sweden (ruled by his cousin Charles XII), only for them to invade Saxony in 1706 and oust him from the throne, replacing him with king Stanislaw I. - Sweden's king would be exiled after being defeated by the Russians in battle in 1709, and Peter the Great would help restore Augustus to the throne. Poland effectively became a client state to Russia during this time, with Peter making demands that made the Polish nobility favor him, and threatened Augustus with military invasion if the goals he set for him were not met. - In his spare time, Augustus was a patron of the arts, particularly of statues and ornate architecture. He also had an affinity for porcelain items, whether it be plates, vases, or figurines. - Augustus' epithet is "the Strong", obviously due to his strength. He was reportedly able to break horseshoes with his bare hands, and held and participated a competition where live animals were slingshot into the air- over 600 foxes and 500 rabbits were killed that day. - Augustus also sired many illegitimate children- reportedly almost 400. He had only one legitimate child- his son and successor Augustus III. - Augustus lost his strength in later years, as he developed and died from type 2 diabetes.

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.

https://www.20minutes.fr/sport/football/4072297-20240124-jean-petit-ancien-international-legende-monaco-mort-74-ans Jean Petit dead at 74. Appeared over 400 times for AS Monaco,played on the 78 team who won Ligue 1. Also had 12 caps for France

Teams for 2024/2025: It is planned to update this list weekly or bi-weekly - please be patient Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Points arghton George E. Smith Yuan Tseh Lee Peter C. Doherty Svetlana Alexejevitsch Rigoberta Menchú Bengt Holmström 2.529 Book J. I. Friedman Walter Gilbert William C. Campbell Peter Handke Muhammad Yunus Jean Tirole diego Klaus Hasselmann Martin Karplus Werner Arber J.M.G. Le Clezio Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Edmund S. Phelps 1.226 Evil Grimace Giorgio Parisi Jean-Marie Lehn David Baltimore Bob Dylan Mohamad ElBaradei Angus Deaton Funeralopolis Carlo Rubbia Alan Jay Heeger Eric R. Kandel John M. Coetzee Jimmy Carter William F. Sharpe Hell David M. Lee Hideki Shirakawa Satoshi Omura Orhan Pamuk José Ramos-Horta Peter Diamond ladyfiona Francois Englert Roald Hoffman Hamilton O. Smith Abdulrezak Gurnah Mairead Corrigan Finn E. Kydland 6.452 la culhida Rainer Weiss Richard R. Schrock Harold Varmus Annie Ernaux Shirin Ebadi George A. Akerlof MariNisia R. Woodrow Wilson John C. Polanyi Mario R. Capecci Wole Soyinka Óscar Arias Sánchez Vernon L. Smith 3.249 MortalCaso Leo Esaki Akira Suzuki Torsten N. Wiesel Mario Vargas Llosa HRH, 14. Dalai Lama Robert J. Auman Thatcher Ivar Giaever Gerhard Ertl John B. Gurdon Patrick Modiano Carlos Belo Robert B. Wilson The Old Cream N N E. J. Corey James D. Watson Gao Xingjian Lech Walesa Amartya Kumar Sen 1.429 theoldlady Chen Ning Yang Rudolph A. Marcus Michael Bishop Mo Yan Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Eugene F. Fama 9.239 Toast Roger Penrose Dudley Hershbach Tu Youyou Elfriede Jelinek Aung San Suu Kyi Daniel L. MacFadden WEP Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Johann Deisenhuber Harvey Alter Herta Müller Narges Mohammadi William Nordhaus Hits 2024/25: 2024-02-21: Roger Guillemin, Physiology or Medicine 1977, 100 (2.410 points/theoldlady) 2024-03-08: Herbert Kroemer, Physics 2000 (1.722 points/lady fiona) 2024-03-27: Daniel Kahneman, Economic Sciences 2002 (4.720 points/lady fiona) 2024-04-08: Peter W. Higgs, Physics 2013 (1.820 points/MariNisia) 2024-05-13: Alice Munro, Literature 2013 (6.829 points/theoldlady) 2024-07-07: Bengt I. Samuelsson, Medicine 1982 (2.529 points/arghton) 2024-08-04: Tsung Dao Lee, Physics 1957, 98 (1.226 points/diego) 2024-10-18: Andrew Schally, Physilology or Medicine 1977, 97 (2.429 points/MariNisia) 2024-10-23: Leon N Cooper, Physics 1972, 94 (1.429 points/The Old Cream)