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2/9 37 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 37 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 35 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +2 33 Perry Como — Magic Moments 30 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You 30 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 29 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 29 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer 23 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 20 Russ Conway — Roulette 18 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 18 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore +2 15 Elvis Presley — A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight 14 Connie Francis — Who’s Sorry Now -1 12 Vic Damone — On The Street Where You Live 12 Craig Douglas — Only Sixteen 06 Jane Morgan — The Day The Rains Came 00 Lord Rockingham’s XI — Hoots Mon -5

Linda Deutsch dead

Fourteen of the remaining 19 are on my regular playlist and at least two of the others should be. This is a fantastic selection of songs so as we progress the downvoting will be by small margins

Update: Died May 26, 2004 in Viña del Mar as per his death certificate.

WTF do I know, I'd have had money on Simmo to come out of the blocks with a winning team given the budget he's had and the faith of the new owners. Three defeats in four league games, I've personally witnessed seven goals hit the back of our net and I was spared live updates this weekend because of the shit wifi at the paranormal conference I attended, when my messages caught up in Costa it was people telling me the sacking was imminent, more than that, the clearout includes two who might - in less ambitious times - have been contenders for the caretaker role. So Carlisle want someone who can turn that shopping spree into play off contention, then: https://www.carlisleunited.co.uk/news/club-statement-31-august-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawFBw8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaBPzmtPriPZ0IkYMTQw10CuC1MEu2ZmyIAcINN-za8w5hKJaBumX7Cxkg_aem_9SkIIvYDb5PxyStOLtgJXg

How the fuck one could think a former secretary of Commonwealth would not receive a QO by the British press?

No. The Nolan Sisters will not be opening for Oasis: https://www.geo.tv/latest/562080-linda-nolan-clears-up-oasis-2025-reunion-tour-rumours-amid-cancer-battle

Report post Posted August 14, 2023 (edited) RULES: The competition will start 10 SEPTEMBER 2024 (all lists must be posted or sent in to me by 11:59pm (GMT) Sep 9) and scoring will end Aug 31, 2025. Submit a list of 26 people. The first name OR last name of the first person must begin with an A. Second person with a B. You get the idea. No joker. Please use this format A - Alan Arkin B - Harry Belafonte C - Clark Gable etc . . . . . Obit sources include those used by the Windy City Deadpool (Derby Dead Pool, plus for North America The NY Times, LA Times, CBS News, Fox News and MSN). Also acceptable: CNN, ABC, NBC, Rolling Stone and Time. Due to the large number of names possible, and because the more tenacious of you can find the folk on the very fringes of celebrity, please police your own obits and notify via post on this thread. NEW: This will be a self scoring pool. I will maintain a hits list and standings table and be responsible for double checking lists that are in contention for victory toward the end of the game. You do not have to update your score after every hit, but every few months would be nice to keep the standings somewhat accurate and interesting. SCORING: A hit using the first name (letters except as below) - 1 point A hit using the last name (letters except as below) - 2 points A hit with the first name at (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 2 points A hit with the last name at (A, E, I, O, U, Y) - 3 points A hit with the first OR last name at (Q, X, Z) - 4 points A hit with an alliterative name scores the points for both first and last names as specified above (so an alliterative at the A spot would be worth 5 points, the B spot would be worth 3 points, the Q spot would be worth 8 points) NAMES: General titles such as Queen/Pope/Prince, etc. are NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE for scoring at that letter. Single names submitted (Cher, Madonna, Pele) will be treated as first names. I prefer to see real names used (e.g. Richard Penniman instead of Little Richard). No animals, due to the ease of earning the WS bonus. BONUSES: Whippersnapper Bonus (WS): dies at age 75 or younger = 2 points (if there is substantial ambiguity or birth year is unknown, no bonus will be awarded) NEW: No solo or duo bonuses will be awarded this year to make self scoring simpler. Solos = 3 points Duos = 1 point Vowel Movement Bonus (VMB): hit your names at all five vowel spots (A, E, I, O, U) = 5 points OR hit any four of your vowels + your name at the letter Y = 3 points NOTE: Do not try to score this bonus with a single hit by picking a name with all five vowels in it. That ship has sailed! You must hit 5 names at all the vowel spots (or Y) to get the bonus! Late Bloomer Bonus (LBB): If a single player is left without a hit, that player will automatically earn 20 points! This is a backdoor way for someone to potentially go from the cellar right into the thick of things. 20 points is not likely to win the game, but it is certainly a nice place to work for the come from behind win while also having a full list of 26 names left to score. Scoring Example: if someone gets a hit with 71 year old Zadora Zephyr, the score would be 8 + 2 (WS) = 10 pts TIES: Will be broken by the date the final score is reached. That is, if three folks end up with 48 points, the person that got to 48 on the earliest date will be the winner.  This was a pivotal rule one year! SUBS: Please check your list at the start of the game to make sure all names are still alive. I will allow a sub for that letter, but it can't be someone who is new to the DP radar since the game started. That means no one who is diagnosed with cancer/has an accident after your original submission. Enjoy!

Howard Ziehm, co-director of Flesh Gordon, reportedly dead:

2/9/24 35 Madness - Baggy Trousers 30 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 29 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time +4 28 Aztec Camera — Somewhere In My Heart 28 The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian 27 The Damned - Eloise 26 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 24 Roy Orbison - You Got It 23 Tears for Fears - Mad World 23 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 22 Eurythmics - Who's That Girl 22 The Vapors - Turning Japanese 21 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 19 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 19 Queen - A Kind of Magic 18 Queen - I Want It All 17 Heart - Alone  11 New Order - Blue Monday 88 08 Yazoo - Don’t Go -1 00 Michael Jackson - Bad -5

Kong Sam Oi dead. https://eacnews.asia/home/details/31928

2/9/24 06:47 hrs 37 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 37 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife +4 33 Perry Como — Magic Moments 33 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 30 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You 30 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 29 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 29 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer 23 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 20 Russ Conway — Roulette 18 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 16 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 15 Elvis Presley — A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight 15 Connie Francis — Who’s Sorry Now  12 Vic Damone — On The Street Where You Live 12 Craig Douglas — Only Sixteen 06 Jane Morgan — The Day The Rains Came -6 05 Lord Rockingham’s XI — Hoots Mon

Keanu Reeves is 60.

2/Sep/2024 33 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 33 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 33 Perry Como — Magic Moments 33 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 31 Jerry Keller — Here Comes Summer 30 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 29 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 26 Shirley Bassey — As I Love You 25 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Emile Ford — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 21 Connie Francis — Who’s Sorry Now 21 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Elvis Presley — One Night / I Got Stung 20 Russ Conway — Roulette 18 Marvin Rainwater — Whole Lotta Woman 18 Buddy Holly — It Doesn’t Matter Anymore 15 Elvis Presley — A Fool Such As I / I Need Your Love Tonight 15 Vic Damone — On The Street Where You Live 12 Craig Douglas — Only Sixteen 12 Jane Morgan — The Day The Rains Came 11 Lord Rockingham’s XI — Hoots Mon 00 Adam Faith — What Do You Want? -6

Croatian Budimir Lonçar, former Foreign Affairs Minister for Yugoslavia (1987-1991), has died aged 100. Evoked by @arghton in the topic Ideas for 2024.

Roger O’Donnell of The Cure was diagnosed with cancer, though prognosis seems good at the moment

It's a "Sonny" day for two deadpoolers. Shridath Ramphal QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/01/sir-shridath-ramphal-sonny-commonwealth-secretary-general/

That would be a sad loss. Director of some forum favourites like episodes of Thriller and Armchair Thriller. However, his and the late David Mittons work on Tugs was revolutionary in TV terms. They invented ways of shooting model work around waterways, stimulating weather effects and pioneered a whole bunch of camera techniques for versimilitude that didn't only get taken up by other kids shows (Thomas benefitted heavily from it) but also Hollywood films and beyond. An important SFX behind the scenes name.

Warren Buffett is 94. A little clip from a show where one of the VAs parodied him:

Her list of clients as an acting coach is extensive and impressive. Never knew that Todd's mother was probably more successful than he's been!

Death notice for ancient former cricketer John Stenton (wiki), aged 99.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/science/leonard-hayflick-dead.html Leonard Hayflick now has an obituary in the New York Times.

This thread really shouldn’t exist. Off topic clickbait being plastered by Crem and a few others is its only function.

Ismail Kadare dead at 88 Sad day for my nation

Gerald is cancer-free now: https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/clarkson-s-farm-star-gerald-cooper-shares-cancer-update-b1166444.html