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Barbara Rush dead at 97.

Correct list: April Fools Day 36 Gwen Stefani ft. Akon — The Sweet Escape 33 Manic Street Preachers — Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 30 Corinne Bailey Rae — Put Your Records On 30 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie 27 Plain White T’s — Hey There Delilah 26 Rihanna — SOS 26 Kate Nash — Foundations 25 Arctic Monkeys — Brianstorm 25 Christina Aguilera — Ain’t No Other Man 25 The Killers — When You Were Young 24 Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dani California 24 The White Stripes — Icky Thump 24 Mark Ronson ft. Daniel Merriweather — Stop Me  24 Embrace — Nature’s Law 24 Fall Out Boy — This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race 23 Mary J. Blige & U2 — One 22 Booty Luv — Boogie 2Nite 22 Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand — Let Me Think About It 21 T2 ft. Jodie Aysha — Heartbroken 20 U2 & Green Day — The Saints Are Coming 20 Avril Lavigne — Girlfriend 20 Mutya Buena — Real Girl 20 Maroon 5 — Makes Me Wonder 18 Bodyrox ft. Luciana — Yeah Yeah 17 Infernal — From Paris To Berlin 17 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone — Ridin’  17 Cascada — Everytime We Touch  16 Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes

Masterlist - Round 3: Perhaps vs theoldlady 1 Steve McMichael 1 Cesar Luis Menotti 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Craig Maxwell 3 Susana Baca 3 Esther Rantzen 4 Frank Caprio (joker) 4 Frank Caprio 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 Jamal Yunos 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Jimmy Carter (JOKER) 7 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 7 Michael Tilson Thomas 8 Joe Flaherty 8 Nigel Starmer Smith 9 Princess Mikasa 9 Paul Spencer (aka Dario G) 10 Braulio Musso 10 Steve (Mongo) McMichael 11 David Irving 11 Sven Goran Eriksson Sub: Sub: 1 Emily Willis 1 Noam Chomsky 2 Kaiti Grey 2 Sonny Rollins 3 Chuvit Kamolvisit 3 James Whale GuyFromFuture vs Hell 1 Brenda Milner 1 Paul Harrell (Joker) 2 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 2 Sean Wallace 3 Du Daozheng 3 Steve McCoy 4 Dylan Willows 4 Jamal Yunos 5 Emily Willis 5 Wayne Eddy 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Terry Jon Martin 7 Joe Flaherty 7 Dylan Willows 8 Michelle Harrison 8 Joe Flaherty 9 Kaiti Grey (greek singer) 9 Jimmy Carter 10 Richard Rohmer 10 Susana Baca 11 Wayne Eddy (joker) 11 Sujata Azim Sub: Sub: 1 Sujata Azim 1 David Irving 2 Steve McMichael 2 Sven-Göran Eriksson 3 Silvia Pinal 3 David Elmore Smith DeathByArsenic vs arghton 1 Wayne Eddy (joker) 1 Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah (JOKER) 2 Alain Delon 2 Manolis Mavrommatis 3 Antero Laukkanen 3 Jimmy Carter 4 Brenda Milner 4 Yaakov Moshe Hillel 5 Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin 5 Chalong Pakdeevijit 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Rena Venieri 7 Joe Flaherty 7 Pravrajika Anandaprana 8 Juhani Palmu 8 Julián Muñoz 9 Madeleine Riffaud 9 Jayapataka Swami 10 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa 10 Esther Rantzen 11 Zoya Boguslavskaya 11 Nelson Acosta Sub: Sub: 1 Andrea Marshall 1 Frank Field 2 Rick Black Bart Harris 2 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa 3 Simon Cowell (SOS) 3 Guy Warren wannamaker vs MariNisia 1 Jeannie Oakes (Joker) 1 Frank Caprio 2 Julián Muñoz 2 Jan A. P. Kaczmarek 3 Jimmy Carter 3 Jimmy Carter (joker) 4 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 4 Joanne Woodward 5 Jamal Yunos 5 Joe Flaherty 6 Craig Cobane 6 Richard "Black Bart" Harris 7 Ted Toleman 7 Sean Wallace 8 Tony Ogola (Football Coach) 8 Stefano Cherchi 9 Chuwit Kamolvisit 9 Steve "Mongo" McMichael 10 Wayne Eddy (KYMN) 10 Terry Jon Martin 11 Terry Jon Martin 11 Wayne Eddy Sub: Sub: 1 Esther Rantzen 1 Dylan Willows 2 Arundhati Nair 2 Jamal Yunos 3 3 Noam Chomsky Banana vs Annami 1 Eddie Sutton (JOKER) 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 2 Willie Sublett 2 Steve ”Mongo” McMichael 3 Tony Ogola 3 Frank Caprio 4 Arundhati Nair 4 Antero Laukkanen 5 Nawab Malik 5 Esther Rantzen 6 Abdul Nasser Mahdani 6 Joe Flaherty 7 Kevin Farkas, football player & coach 7 Sven-Göran Eriksson 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Steve McCoy 9 Corey Williams 9 Wayne Eddy 10 Esther Rantzen 10 Noam Chomsky 11 Sven-Goran Eriksson 11 Shannen Doherty Sub: Sub: 1 Vitus Huonder 1 Kaiti Grey 2 Dylan Willows 2 Joanne Woodward 3 3 Rob Burrow CalebH vs msc 1 Ayla Halit Kazım 1 Frank Caprio (joker) 2 Casey Luna (Us Politician) 2 Braulio Musso 3 Gaetano Starrabba 3 Arnold Yarrow 4 Ioana Bulca 4 Ted Toleman 5 Jimmy Carter --joker 5 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 6 Juhani Palmu 6 Jimmy Carter 7 Marthe Cohn 7 Nelson Acosta 8 Mirtha Legrand 8 David Irving 9 Paul Harrell 9 Michael Tilson Thomas 10 Susana Baca 10 Esther Rantzen 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Sean Wallace Sub: Sub: 1 Ion Iliescu 1 Dimitris Kokotas 2 Kaiti Grey 2 Simon Cowell SOS 3 Agnes Keleti 3 Pete Murray DevonDeathTrip vs SirCreep 1 Martin Jones (Rugby) 1 Frank Caprio 2 Paul Harrell (joker) 2 Jimmy Carter 3 Frank Caprio 3 Gordon ‘Sid’ Cowans 4 Jimmy Carter 4 Wayne Eddy 5 Katherine Jackson 5 Paul Harrell (**JOKER**) 6 Wayne Eddy 6 David Irving 7 Jerry O’Donnell (PA announcer) 7 Robert Mailman 8 Romeo Santos 8 Terry Jon Martin 9 Joe Flaherty 9 Steve McCoy 10 Yahya Sinwar 10 Steve McMichael 11 David Irving 11 Rena Venieri Sub: Sub: 1 1 2 2 3 3 max_bossetti vs Cpt. Hemlock 1 Julián Muñoz (pol) (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 2 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 2 Bruce Thompson 3 Dimitris Kokotas 3 Daniel Barenboim 4 Dr Pranabjyoti Deka 4 Frank Field 5 Joe Flaherty 5 Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier 6 Frank Caprio 6 Joanne Woodward 7 Jamal Yunos 7 Joe Flaherty 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Noam Chomsky 9 Vitus Huonder 9 Steve McMichael 10 Paul Harrell 10 Violeta Chamorro 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Vito Perillo Sub: Sub: 1 Steve McCoy 1 James Whale 2 Steve McMichael 2 Shannen Doherty 3 Craig Cobane 3 Pedro Pablo Kuczinski

It looks to me like Barbara Rush's QO came about an hour too late. Strangely, justonecornetto suffered from the month of march arriving a few hours late (Paul Vachon's leap year death) and ending an hour too soon. So it actually was an extremely close match-up. Another curiosity of the round: Perhaps scored 0 points but his subs 1 and 2 died. He was saved by the luck of the coins. Spade_Cooley lost to the kind of random old people hit he had previously warned of, of them being more dangerous than the teams with the typical assortment of hospice people that are often shared among players anyway. All remaining players have submitted a team, by the way. Masterlist will be up in a few hours.

MASTERLIST Currently hospitalised: Faustao Nelson Acosta (ICU) Jayapataka Swami (ICU) Yuriko, Pricess Mikasa Susana Baca Pratibha Patil Permanently hospitalised or hospice care: Du Daozheng Zhang Lixiong Yang You Jimmy Carter Discharged: Khaleda Zia (after one day in ICU) Milos Zeman Steve McMichael DEAD ( this to remain presumably empty): Zhang Lixiong

Graeme Pollock hospitalised after stroke. Stable and not in danger, but he has suffered from colon cancer, Parkinson's disease and multiple strokes.

97 today... is he the oldest person still doing the conventions circuit? Picture of him from 90sCon a few weeks ago:

As someone who was actually on Countdown, I favour nine-letter words. Things like imperious, execrable, and repulsive. Criminals also works as a descriptor of that length.

Fort William Football Club Dead ( in name only) Having completed our fixtures for the season we are excited to share some news and announce changes at the club. The club has come a long way in the last two years working hard to imbed itself in the local community of Lochaber, but, as the club grows we look to forge ahead with building the clubs following and presence throughout the world. Having been lucky to have two documentaries documenting the club as it fought to stay in the HFL, we are proud to announce that the third in the trilogy has been given the green light. The new documentary will follow the club in the 2024/25 season as we seek to improve the club from top to bottom. This starts with the club rebranding - following meetings with the SFA and NCFL as of next season the club will be known as Ben Nevis FC. We are proud to have such a fantastic following and we are proud to be Ben Nevis FC.

@BibliogryphonYou copied my list before I could add @Clorox Bleachman numbers in (we had posted at the exact same time). My numbers should be fixed now.

César Luis Menotti hospitalised with severe anemia due to thrombophlebitis. "In delicate condition"

I commented on this last year but Annette Crosbie of One Foot in the Grave fame hasn't been active since the pandemic and wasn't looking so good in her last credit (Ricky Gervais's Afterlife), she's very deathlisty name in my opinion and having just turned 90 would be a better pick than the still active Patricia Routledge.

American actress and singer Perry Blackwell (IMDb), known for her role in Pillow Talk, reported dead Hmm I guess she was born between 1921/1922 RIP

In the latest issue of the document, published on 25 November 2023, three are living : Jones-Rickards, Pinder and Kellman. But this article, published on 14 November 2023 says there are two survivors : Pinder and Kellman. One sure thing : Jeremiah Neymour died in January 2023 a few days after his 100th birthday. The article also says there are two WW2 Bahamians Veterans left as well.

Exactly. That’s why it’d suit them.

Congrats @MariNisia  1924 - Russel M. Nelson/Gwen Moffat 1925 - András Biró /Eugenia Apostol 1926 - Arnaldo Pomodoro /Jill Gladwell 1927 - Emilio Lledó Íñigo/Jeanette Charles 1928 - Martin Cooper/Baddie Winkle 1929 - Frank O. Gehry/Yayoi Kusama 1930 - Federico García Moliner /Maria Pezzano Orlandi 1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel/Vivian Pickles 1932 - François Englert /Ellen Burstyn 1933 - Akihito/Penelope Lively

The Killers are to music what 'Prosecco O'Clock' signs are to kitchens.

Iraqi-born Israeli author Sami Michael (wiki) dead at 97. Mentioned by @arghton before.

Has improved and will be discharged in the next few hours.

Emily Willis has woken up from an almost 2 month long coma and is reportedly in a vegetative state.

Shirley Jones pictured celebrating her 90th birthday today with her sons. The Jack Cassidy genetics showing through very strongly!

First time I've thought this: he has to go on my list next year if he makes it. He's looking VERY gaunt now. In those pics of him coming out of the convenience store, look at his right arm below the elbow. It's like skeletal. And the discoloration not only on his hands/wrists/arms but his face too. I suppose it's good that he can still stand on his own, albeit with the cane and his wife's assistance coming down those steps at the restaurant, but he does not look like a healthy person here, not even at his age. But I know, he's 94. He's alive and that's better than the alternative, I suppose, as long as he's not suffering.