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Queen Elizabeth II died on this day 2 years ago, aged 96. Going to do something a bit different today... I'm going to take you back down memory lane by recapping her final week as recorded by the forum (time zones are EST). September 1, 2022: Joke made about the queen dying before Boris Johnson can turn his duties over to incoming PM Liz Truss. September 2, 2022: Confirmation that she would no longer attend the Braemar Highland Games (scheduled for the following day). September 3, 2022: Speculation made that she may stay at Balmoral Castle permanently- which she did. Somehow leads to a semantics argument on the spelling of 'toerag'. September 6, 2022: Meets with Liz Truss to confirm her as PM. Everyone instantly notices the odd coloration of her hands (in her last picture): September 7, 2022: Cancels a privy meeting due to exhaustion. Makes her final written statement issuing condolences for the victims of the mass stabbing in Saskachewan. Nobody seems to think she's imminently on the way out. September 8, 2022: - 7:35 AM: TQR makes the announcement about Buckingham Palace's statement about her health. TV coverage begins with the palace's official announcement. - 7:44 AM: Repost from then-Twitter noting that Nadhim Zahawi "urgently" briefing Liz Truss. - 7:51 AM: Announcement that Prince William is heading to Balmoral. People finally begin to recognize her incoming demise and post sweepstake dates. - 8:48 AM: Announcement that Princess Anne, Prince Edward and the Archbishop of Canterbury are heading to Balmoral. - 11:10 AM: Queen Elizabeth II's recorded time of death. - 11:31 AM: First death rumor posted by Sean 20 minutes after it actually happened (still not announced). - 11:47 AM: Announcement that ITV to suspend normal programming indefinitely at 5 PM BST. - 1:30 PM: Thatcher (obviously) breaks the official announcement of her death. The forum's loading times slow to a crawl due to all the incoming user traffic, but are mostly back to normal within a few hours.

8/Sep/2024 46 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 36 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 32 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 31 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock +1 30 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 26 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette +1 23 Paul Anka — Diana +1 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes +1 23 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 22 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 20 Frankie Laine — I Believe 14 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat 12 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 00 Mantovani & His Orchestra — The Song From Moulin Rouge -6

Accurate, we must have missed a count here but the dead log confirms we have tracked you as having 8 hits with Derek draper, Jonnie Irwin, Toby keith, Frank field, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell, Shannon Doherty, and Ray Reardon. Scoreboard fix theoldlady 7+1 Scoreboard gcreptile 20/50 BuffaloPhil 16/50 Book 16/50 Max_bossetti 15/50 The Immortal 15/50 CaptainChorizo 15/50 Prophet 15/50 Wannamaker 14/50 MariNisia 13/50 six feet blunder 12/50 Philip 12/20 Sean 11/50 Torva Messor 11/50 jonnythegamemaster 11/50 Steve 11/50 Thatcher 11/50 Markb4 11/50 John Key 10/50 Ladyfiona 10/50 Diego 10/50 Death Duke 10/50 Salmon Mousse 10/50 St3ve 10/50 Nick 10/50 polar duck 10/50 MrShadrak 10/50 DeathBecomesThem 9/50 Imelda 8/50 dimreaper 8/50 Joltin Joe 8/50 Charles De Gaulle 8/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 8/50 Superstar 8/50 Heiheiheihei 8/50 Bibliogryphon 8/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 8/50 LWCZ 8/50 theoldlady 8/50 The Old Crem 7/50 Windsor 7/50 Perhaps 7/50 The Daredevil 7/50 TQR 7/50 LizLemon 7/50 livingbygrace 7/50 Grimgrass 6/50 Brad252 6/50 Hell 6/50 Morrisey 4/50 Johnnas 4/50 Arghton 4/50 Main Deathlist 4/50 Pop_Zeus 4/50 Earl 4/50 Redrumours 3/50 Khthonia 3/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 3/50 Tomtomtelekom 3/50 Gooseberry Crumble 2/50 Trome 3/50 Kissofdeath 1/50 Nasquacker 1/50

Herbie Flowers goes to List of the Missed, having last been selected last year

Innovation Idiot He comes on here, probably after some beer, with a stupid idea and verbal diarrhoea, alliterative names and stupid games why don’t you fuck off you stupid prick

Sun 8 Sep 44 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 40 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons 34 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 32 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 31 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 30 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Paul Anka — Diana 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 21 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 17 Frankie Laine — I Believe 17 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 09 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 08 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat -6

08.09.2024 40 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover +4 40 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons -6 34 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 32 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 31 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 30 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 28 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Paul Anka — Diana 23 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 21 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 17 Frankie Laine — I Believe 17 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 14 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat 09 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes

She was just plain ‘Yoko’ till she started singing.

That's still significantly better than we had assumed or been told previously. It was previously noted that he was either almost nonverbal or completely nonverbal...

Sun 8 Sep 46 Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons +4 36 Bobby Darin — Dream Lover 32 Bobby Darin — Mack The Knife 30 Bill Haley & His Comets — Rock Around The Clock 30 Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock 29 Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls Of Fire 25 The Everly Brothers — All I Have To Do Is Dream / Claudette 23 Elvis Presley — All Shook Up 23 Connie Francis — Stupid Cupid / Carolina Moon 22 Rosemary Clooney & The Mellomen — Mambo Italiano 22 Paul Anka — Diana 22 The Platters — Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 20 Guy Mitchell — Singing The Blues 20 The Teenagers ft. Frankie Lymon — Why Do Fools Fall In Love 20 Frankie Laine — I Believe 14 Alma Cogan — Dreamboat 12 Perry Como & The Ramblers — Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes 06 Mantovani & His Orchestra — The Song From Moulin Rouge 00 The Crickets — That’ll Be The Day -6

I'm glad you're here again, @John Key. You're the only reason I'm playing this pool. I really missed you. Thanks for your effort and your notable work, friend.

polarduck and dimreaper are legends for keeping this tournament updated. I'm going to go and update the scoreboard / dead log immediately on the front page since I couldn't find any more names to add I usually disappear randomly in the middle of the year based on how busy I am, but am usually most active at the beginning and end. Their help has stopped people from wondering and posting if this tournament is dead or inactive @Trome Things to keep in mind about any person you choose: Are they likely to obit in a major newspaper? Are they a well known celebrity? √ Do they have a Wikipedia page in any language (that clearly wasn't made just for Deathlisting) √ I would say they are a well known celebrity and have a wikipedia page in. I can definitely see the confusion, this site is often very British orientated. I tried to make the criteria here more vague to allow for a more global competition. Walter Kliche Trome 2+1 Scoreboard gcreptile 20/50 BuffaloPhil 16/50 Book 16/50 Max_bossetti 15/50 The Immortal 15/50 CaptainChorizo 15/50 Prophet 15/50 Wannamaker 14/50 MariNisia 13/50 six feet blunder 12/50 Philip 12/20 Sean 11/50 Torva Messor 11/50 jonnythegamemaster 11/50 Steve 11/50 Thatcher 11/50 Markb4 11/50 John Key 10/50 Ladyfiona 10/50 Diego 10/50 Death Duke 10/50 Salmon Mousse 10/50 St3ve 10/50 Nick 10/50 polar duck 10/50 MrShadrak 10/50 DeathBecomesThem 9/50 Imelda 8/50 dimreaper 8/50 Joltin Joe 8/50 Charles De Gaulle 8/50 ThereWillBeDeaths7 8/50 Superstar 8/50 Heiheiheihei 8/50 Bibliogryphon 8/50 Etushispushingupdaisies 8/50 LWCZ 8/50 The Old Crem 7/50 Windsor 7/50 theoldlady 7/50 Perhaps 7/50 The Daredevil 7/50 TQR 7/50 LizLemon 7/50 livingbygrace 7/50 Grimgrass 6/50 Brad252 6/50 Hell 6/50 Morrisey 4/50 Johnnas 4/50 Arghton 4/50 Main Deathlist 4/50 Pop_Zeus 4/50 Earl 4/50 Redrumours 3/50 Khthonia 3/50 Zsa Zsa's leg 3/50 Tomtomtelekom 3/50 Gooseberry Crumble 2/50 Trome 3/50 Kissofdeath 1/50 Nasquacker 1/50

Nicole Kidman's mother has died .

Sonia Iovan died friday https://athlonsports.com/olympics/olympic-icon-nadia-comaneci-reacts-romanian-gymnastics-sorrowful-announcement

Nikocado Avocado’s lost weight.

This has probably been the driest year for celebrity ambulance chasing since I became somewhat invested in it as a teen in the mid-2000s. Sure, there's been a handful of expected ill dudes peacing out (Keith, Field, Burrow, Irwin, Doherty), but their field of replacements who are obviously circling the drain is pretty skimpy, and aside from that, it's just dry spell after dry spell, and the actual deaths are very light on top-of-the-line names. Pretty telling that, as comatose the DL has been, there's only been a single miss, and it was Doherty, vs. Crosby, Boothroyd, Kaczynski, Berlusconi, Gambon last year. I mean, even 2022 was pretty respectable despite Smith, Piggott, Cribbins, Newton-John, Johnson, Walters, Benedict, etc. dying off the list. And yet nobody wants to rub it in this year. No Yoko Ono death? Liza Minnelli? Douglas Hurd? Hal Linden killed in a BMX stunt gone wrong? Alan Alda succumbs to SuperParkinson's: Extreme Edition? Andy Taylor decides he doesn't like taking medication? Brian Wilson's dementia turns out to be Gena Rowlands-esque? One of the more forgotten picks from the past like Tommy Chong, Tim Johnson, Ronnie Wood, Mike Ditka, Mr. T or whoever else? Ghost town. But not literally. It's funny to me that the year began with Johns, Hayes, Randolph, and Jewison all taken out in the span of a week or two. I figured we'd be in for another year of clearouts, but now apparently all the huge geezers have just decided they don't want to die.

Deathlist Absolute Legend Lard Bazaar welcomed a fabulous granddaughter today

Some more miscellaneous possibilities. Greg Bell (wiki) 93 - US olympic long jump champion, history of heart problems, decrepit and on oxygen. Gustavo Gorriti (wiki) 76 - Major Peruvian journalist who helped put Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos behind bars, agressive lymphatic cancer. Ingvar Carlsson (wiki) 89 - Swedish Prime Minister following the assasination of Olof Palme. Heart problems. Ivan Mišković Brk, 104 - Yugoslavian general and head of Tito's Counterintelligence Service. Multiple strokes, multiple heart attacks, abdominal cancer. George C. Coulam (wiki) 86 - Ren Faire, US founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival, decrepit pervert, claims to have reversed his Alzheimer's disease with traditional medicine. Daniel Bisogno, 51 - Mexican tv presenter and my former DL Cup pick, multiple organ problems and liver transplant. And last, but definitely not least: Carlos Colon (wiki) 76, Puerto Rican wrestler. Advanced Parkinson's. Adding more here: Jamaloddin Khanjani, 91, of the Baháʼí 7. Alleged pancreatic cancer.

Always choose the Japanese one when it comes to age

(crossposting) Whoops. Charlotte Kretschmann dead at 114.

Treatment stopped working: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/linda-nolan-reveals-cancerous-tumours-33547448 She has new growths that are not as big as her initial tumours, but she needs to try something new now. Pretty much a 2025 lock?

Selim Hoss (1929-2024) "No! I can't die before Michel Aoun! Pleaseee" (Hoss tries to make a deal with the Reaper) "Damn! He beat me again!" (Michel Aoun) "He wanted us to attack Israel! That's his last wish! He told me!" (Hassan Nasrallah) Age at death: 94 Known health issues: Skeletal in 2020, rumoured death mutiple times in the last four years. Cause of death: Poisoned by the Mossad. Alignment: PM during a very difficult time for Lebanon, namely a civil war. He fought for years with his archnemesis Michel Aoun, who was the legally nominated head of state. Hoss, a Muslim, asked Syrian troops to intervein against Aoun, a Christian. This ultimately led to Aoun's fall in 1990. Hoss was a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and his relation with Hezbollah remains shady. However, he was also the only Lebanese PM to stop death penalties in the country, and he converted to Shia just for one day in order to leave a better will for his daughter.

I got the team lists posted above. Known hits were highlighted in my personal spreadsheet but did not transfer to this posting. I remember that happening last year too, after the fact of course. I will update posted scores, maybe monthly.

That's a terrific age.