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Did some people pick Norman Tebbit then?

Mark Gustafson, winner for co-directing Pinocchio, being mourned by his co-winner Guillermo del Toro on the x.

Here's the BBC link, attendees include Blair, Elton John and Starmer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68179439 For all the debate among some about whether or not Draper should have been on the 2024 list, he's certainly had no trouble meeting the criteria given the tonne of media reporting on his death and aftermath.

Pearl Berg deceased https://globalsupercentenarianforum.com/index.php/community/deaths110-2024/pearl-berg-usa-1909-2024/

Current TOP 10 1) Maria Branyas Morera 116:335 2) Edie Ceccarelli 115:362 3) Tomiko Itooka 115:255 4) Inah Canabarro Lucas 115:239 5) Juan Vicente Perez Mora114:251 6) Elizabeth Francis 114:192 7) Ethel Caterham 114:165 8) Okagi Hayashi 114:153 9) Masa Matsumoto 114:065 10) Charlotte Kretschmann 114:061 Charlotte Kretchmann entered the Top 10 after Pearl Berg's death. She is the Oldest Person Living in Germany ever. In great condition, celebrated her 114th in a restaurant. Now all the validated remaining people from the 1900s are in the Top 10.

Sad, but a good long life and nicely timed not to interfere with Bruce's upcoming tour. Back in 2013 I had the pleasure of seeing Bruce ignore all the girlies perched on their boyfriends' shoulders hoping to be pulled on stage to dance with him. Instead he disappeared into the wings and came back with his Mom on his arm and they danced together. One of the highlights of the show for me. Rest well, Adele, and thank you for buying your son that guitar.

Mabel Mah was born in Victoria, British Columbia on July 4, 1910 and was the oldest person in Canada as of January 6, 2023,she died in 30 January. Her successor is Helen Doan, born on September 18, 1911 in Temiskaming Mine, Ontario and living in Toronto, Ontario. Mabel Mah, a pessoa viva mais velha do Canadá, morre aos 113 anos - LongeviQuest

@theoldlady... Congratulations on your victory! @WEP... Thanks for this pool. You're an excellent and very patient host.

livingbygrace vs Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble vs Famous6eva GuyFromFuture vs Liz Lemon 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 1 Sven-Goran Eriksson (Joker) 1 Anthony Kennedy 1 Mike Martin joker 1 Mike Martin(joker) 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 2 Ethel Kennedy 2 Jimmy Carter 2 Betty Webb (joker) 2 Bernardo Ruiz 2 Alice Munro 2 Joanne Woodward 3 Jack Hanna 3 Jim Lovell 3 David Winnick 3 Brigitte Auber 3 Eleanor Collins 3 Steve McMichael 4 Frank Caprio 4 Ralph Puckett 4 Duane Eddy 4 Du Daozheng 4 Jamal Yunos 4 Ruth Buzzi 5 Tom Brokaw 5 Noam Chomsky 5 Earl of Elgin 5 Gaositwe Chiepe 5 Jimmy Carter 5 Ethel Kennedy 6 Bess Meisler 6 Charlie Bird 6 Fred Rumsey 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Richard Rohmer 6 Noam Chomsky 7 Pricilla Pointer 7 Jonnie Irwin 7 Grace Slick 7 Jirna Bodhalova 7 Selim Hoss 7 Roberta Flack 8 Bob Newhart 8 Wilson Fittipaldi 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Kurt Hamrin 8 Silvia Pinal 8 Mike Martin 9 Peter Marshall 9 Seiji Ozawa 9 June Spencer 9 Lizzy Musi 9 Sonja de Lennart 9 Yoko Ono 10 Patricia Routledge 10 Daniel J. Evans 10 Maria Riva 10 Mollie Lentaigne 10 Thea Musgrave 10 Frank Field 11 Ruth Westheimer 11 Erik Jensen 11 Phil Donahue 11 Selma van de Perre 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Dick Button Dying Probably vs max bossetti Wormfarmer vs Thatcher Yorkshire Banker vs DeathByArsenic 1 Caren Marsh Doll - joker 1 Cat Janice (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter - joker 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter(joker) 1 Jimmy Carter-Joker 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Sean Wallace 2 ethel caterham 2 Steve McMichael 2 Antonia Fraser 2 Alexander Mitta 3 Ethel Kennedy 3 Jamal Yunos 3 marita camacho quiros 3 Sophia Loren 3 Charlotte Raven 3 David Graham 4 Eva Marie Saint 4 Jimmy Carter 4 lloyd geering 4 Noam Chomsky 4 Dick Taverne 4 Geneviève Callerot 5 Frank Field 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 cat janice 5 Peter Angelos 5 Jane McAlevey 5 Madeleine Riffaud 6 Hamako Mori 6 Mike Martin 6 james whale 6 Kathy Brown 6 Joseph Fritzl 6 Philippe de Gaulle 7 Ian Sinclair (politician) 7 Wayne Eddy 7 jonnie irwin 7 Theodore McCarrick 7 Lynne Reid Banks 7 Princess Mikasa 8 Jean-Marie Le Pen 8 Tep Vong 8 paul ignatius 8 Emilio Fede 8 Mike Martin 8 Seiji Ozawa 9 Jimmy Carter 9 Steve McCoy 9 josep manolic 9 Frank Caprio 9 Phyllida Law 9 Tep Vong 10 June Spencer 10 Lorenzo Olarte 10 shannen doherty 10 Michael Tilson Thomas 10 Waris Hussein 10 Wilson Fittipaldi 11 Sven-Göran Eriksson 11 Bobby Hehir 11 esther rantzen 11 Denis Law 11 Willie Mays 11 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat GreatUncleBulgaria vs Mortal Caso theoldlady vs BabyBlue CalebH vs Bibliogryphon 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter *Joker* 1 David Graham 1 Jimmy Carter Joker 1 Jimmy Carter-joker 1 Agnes Keleti 2 Terry Jon Martin 2 Mike Martin 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Brenda Milner 2 Ángeles Flórez Peón 2 Roberta Flack 3 Joe Brown (UK singer) 3 Sven-Göran Eriksson 3 Jimmy Carter JOKER 3 César Luis Menotti 3 Biljana Plavšić 3 Frank Field 4 Jean Marie Le Pen 4 Noam Chomsky 4 Joe Bugner 4 Craig Maxwell 4 Craig Maxwell 4 William Russell 5 Tony Thorpe 5 Thomas P. Stafford 5 John Ashton 5 Eleonora Giorgi 5 Ion Iliescu 5 Linda Nolan 6 Dennis Skinner 6 Frank Caprio 6 Joseph Fritzl 6 Ivan Krasko 6 Irene Camber 6 Jonnie Irwin (joker) 7 Esther Rantzen 7 Jamal Yunos 7 Nigel Starmer-Smith 7 Johnny Mathis 7 Micheline Lannoy 7 Esther Rantzen 8 Nigel Starmer-Smith 8 Richard Scolyer 8 Noam Chomsky 8 Jose Sarney 8 Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 8 June Spencer 9 Maria Branyas Morero 9 Jim Lovell 9 Rob Burrow 9 Luis Pascual Dri 9 Rob Burrow 9 Sven-Goran Eriksson 10 Ethel Caterham 10 Wilson Fittipaldi 10 Sonny Rollins 10 Peggy Parnass 10 Seiji Ozawa 10 Nigel Starmer-Smith 11 Frank Field 11 Antero Laukkanen 11 Thomas Stafford 11 Sven-Olof Sallstrom 11 Wayne Eddy 11 John Woodvine The Immortal vs justonecornetto 1 Sean Bean 1 Colin McDonald 2 Rowan Atkinson 2 Paul Di'Anno 3 Charles Bean (economist) 3 Dario G 4 Gene "Bean" Baxter 4 Paul Sturrock 5 Beans (rapper) 5 Paul Willson 6 Frank Field 6 Barbara Babcock 7 Frank Caprio (joker) 7 Barbara Barrie (JOKER) 8 Frank Sedgman 8 Barbara Leigh-Hunt 9 Frankie Avalon 9 Barbara Rush 10 Francois Cheng 10 John Cruickshank 11 Frank Murkowski 11 John Tinniswood

Batuli Lamichhane, perennially frail Nepalese longevity claimant finally dead at the claimed age of 121.

That's a massive opportunity missed.

Judith Viorst, author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, is 93.

Love my free bus pass, sad to be losing it in 3 weeks. I imagine this is what it feels like to hold a fat stack of cash: I see that Ian Murray has used the "free bus pass but no bus" analogy a few times to mean different things. He argues that buses can no longer run if all the tax money is used up by those scrounging youths. I've defrauded the taxpayer to the tune of £1,205.65 (it's in my tight Jock nature to track every penny), though I'm an outlier. [I have also worked and paid in for 5 years, the tax dodger thing is a joke] The average young person is not using the buses often enough for it to cause a dent in the budget. The Glasgow buses are a disconnected mess of different private companies, who charge you separate fares out of greed and have no interest in co-operating with each other. But what do you know, having a free bus pass means I can use them all with the same card. It's great. The publicly-owned Lothian Buses network seems to be a good model. I'd like to see a card that works on all public transport services. That would involve Susan Aitken and Glasgow City Council not being a bunch of wet wipes, though. If you want the UK to split apart, this is a great idea. I say go for it! See what happens.

Nineteenth hit: Jacques Delors The now completed 2023 DL has podium standing as the second most successful, it is time to have the final ranks for DL CL 2023 to be added to the Hall of Fame. But first, the last entry for the 2023 season. Delors was the top choice of the 'middle of the road' pack with 18 punters with the correct call, no jokers. @DoorSlammer has scored +5 for their hit plus matching the exact prediction they made. @Funeralopolis has scored +6 for exact prediction, correct hit and 3x bonus. This has secured them the two highest podium places respectively. Total hits: 18 Teams with hit: 18 Punters: Joltin Joe, gcreptile, ThereWillBeDeaths7, wannamaker, Funeralopolis, Etushispushingupdaisies, tracy, Summer in Transylvania, DoorSlammer, Book, The Duke of Deadinburgh, Bibliogryphon, Newjack, Grimgrass, Torva Messor, The Old Crem, Sean, Hell Teams with joker: 0 Punters: N/A Third hit bonus First round (3 hits): N/A Second round (6 hits): N/A Third round (9 hits): Joltin Joe, gcreptile, Funeralopolis, Bibliogryphon, Torva Messor, The Old Crem Fourth round (12 hits): N/A Within 5 predicted hits: N/A; highest predicted hits was 22! Within 1 predicted hit: chilean way, Summer in Transylvania (20 predicted hits) Exact hit match: Funeralopolis, DoorSlammer, WinterCake, Annami (19 predicted hits) Return of pentalies for those with low hit predictions. Exact hit loss (-4): TQR, Book, Torva Messor (18 predicted hits) Being out by 2 hits (-2 points): Etushispushingupdaisies, tracy, The Duke of Deadinburgh (17 predicted hits) Being out by 5 hits (-2 points): Great Uncle Bulgaria, diego (13 predicted hits) Well, it is all over. DoomSlammer has a clear first place rank with an abundance of correct hits (13/19) and now exact on called hits (19 predicted). Funeralopolis has a clear second place thanks to an impressive +6 finish on this last hit. Third place is crowded with six punters on a final score of -1. Updated Score Delors Third Hit Bonus Out by 5 hits (13 predicted) Within 1 hit (20 predicted) Exact match (19 predicted) DoorSlammer 6 1 4 Funeralopolis 1 1 1 4 tracy -1 1 -2 wannamaker -1 1 Joltin Joe -1 1 1 Bibliogryphon -1 1 1 Annami -1 4 Summer in Transylvania -1 1 2 Torva Messor -2 1 1 -4 Etushispushingupdaisies -2 1 -2 gcreptile -2 1 1 WinterCake -2 4 Grimgrass -3 1 TQR -4 -4 diego -4 -2 Book -5 1 -4 LizLemon -5 Newjack -5 1 Dying Probably -6 Joey Russ -6 Hell -6 1 ThereWillBeDeaths7 -6 1 The Old Crem -6 1 1 Sean -7 1 chilean way -7 2 Great Uncle Bulgaria -8 -2 The Duke of Deadinburgh -8 1 -2 YoungWillz -8 theoldlady -12 The Daredevil -12

Catherina van der Linden is an unique hit for @Great Uncle Bulgaria https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/tributes/notice/death-notices/van-der-linden-catherina-adriana-toos/6169331/?nk=f83d16780052c46aa8e09dc00653ddfe-1706886937 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Congrats to @DoorSlammer for winning the 2023 DL CL! HoF to be updated. Many thanks to those who entered. I enjoyed running it and look forward to the 2024 season (and my apology for the delay!).

Amelia Earhart plane may have been found in pacific !

It's absolutely dire over on the Deaths in 2024 page atm. Editors clearly bored AF so they're creating new pages for total nobodies. Just a random example from the last week: Grace Boadu, Ghanian herbal medical practitioner. Wiki really needs to tighten up their grasp on article creation. They're in excess of 2 million biographies now. In the last 6 months I've been going through the 1920–1934 births and I've found 1000s of ppl who have died off radar but haven't had their pages updated in years, sometimes over a decade. The whole Wiki project is becoming unmanageable now due to it being so bloated with biographies of nobodies.

I don't find him interesting at all so can't see why he'd be rated as good entertainment value. What I will say is he seems like a genuinely nice bloke. Always well mannered, even when he's invited on to talk about contentious political issues he never loses his temper and is always very respectful and courteous.

Rightly afraid. It’s terrifying. The wide spread of misinformation borne entirely out of spite that gets about via Facebook or GBeebies or the Mail or weird, ruddy-faced Uncle Nigel. This spite, insularity and misinformation has got us exactly where we are today, and may well result in the breakup of a union that can, should and often actually does work for everyone (again).

Congrats @theoldlady

This one?

I think I'll have to work on the formatting, but will not do so today. OF COURSE, the first hit of the game is a basketball hockey baseball coach. Former Florida State coach Mike Martin dies of complications of Lewy body dementia at 79. He did us all a favor lasting just barely into the month of February after entering hospice two weeks ago. He kicks off the season with a bang, scoring for multiple people, including a couple of joker bonus points. livingbygrace 0-0 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-6 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 0-0 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-3 max bossetti Wormfarmer 0-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-0 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-3 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue

Adele Springsteen dead at 98.