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Terminally ill with cancer. Between 2-4 years left to live.

Well it's true, the press is no longer free for long time now and mostly spits out state sponsored propoganda, the war goals are left obscure and changing constantly, major decisions are taken within a small group of Netanyahu affiliated advisors and without any formal discussion by the war cabinet.

Hospitalised with chest pains - had stent fitted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l40gp6njro

Update on Still Game's James Martin:

Andrew Schally dead at 97. Obit has been up for over a day. Wakey wakey DL community. Not picked on the DDP this year. Whoops.

Today... only -4, @Bibliogryphon?

Snoop Dogg is 53.

Andrew V. Schally is a hit for me: https://medicine.tulane.edu/news/dr-andrew-schally-former-tulane-endocrinologist-and-nobel-laureate-dies-97 Mario Renato Capecchi is my candidate selected to fill the vacancy. Thanks, @WEP.

Paraguay also have players that are not listed as dead but we don't know their status. Agustin Miranda Jorge Romero Eligio Insfran Luis Santos Silva Jorge Romero probably died off radar. I'm waiting for social media to announce Eligio Insfran's death. There's lack of background information for Agustin Miranda and Luis Santos to be identified and their name is very common.

20-Oct 41 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger 35 Aloe Blacc — I Need A Dollar +4 28 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah — Earthquake 28 Calvin Harris ft. Kelis — Bounce 27 Emeli Sande — Heaven 27 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream 26 K’Naan — Wavin’ Flag 25 Take That — The Flood 22 Rihanna — Rude Boy 20 Florence & The Machine & Dizzee Rascal — You Got The Dirtee Love 20 Tinie Tempah ft. Labrinth — Frisky 20 Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow — Shame 20 The Wanted — Heart Vacancy 20 Jessie J — Do It Like A Dude 20 Wretch 32 ft. Example — Unorthodox 20 Calvin Harris — Feel So Close 20 The Wanted — Lightning 20 JLS — Take A Chance On Me 14 Loick Essien ft. Tanya Lacey — How We Roll 12 Glee Cast — Don’t Stop Believin’ 11 Jason Derulo — Ridin’ Solo 10 Eminem ft. Rihanna — Love The Way You Lie -6 08 Chipmunk ft. Chris Brown — Champion 08 Adele — Rolling In The Deep

Apparently his wife Sarra has an aggressive form of MS and they have two young children. Poor kids.

Terminal Prostate at 48. That's shockingly young I'd have thought

BBC4 with Peter Davison and Christopher Timothy remembering All Creatures Great and Small, filmed earlier this year. Davison looks fine for 73, Timothy has been through the war with cancer of late.

Yang You on his 107th birthday. If you are asking yourselves, he is still in perfect health.

Gunborg Hancock, Finnish-born Swedish supercentenarian, oldest in Sweden and the Nordic countries, dead at 112.

Yes, the following week. Gaynor's Wikipedia entry also says the second appearance, 16 February 1964.

From fucking Bobytomi? No way.

We have a winner here… Congrats to @gcreptile who wins this year twisted deathlist with a total of 16 points !! hits being : Roland R. Griffits, Johnny Ruffo, Chris Stone, Shane McGowan, Franz Beckenbauer, Jonnie Irwin, Charlie Bird, Thomas P. Stafford, Josip Manolic, Frank Field, Rob Burrow, Simon Cowell, Jane McAlevey, Ismail Haniyeh, Paul Harrell and David Graham honorable mention to the three who tied for second place : @Book, @Commtech Sio Bibble and @WEP ! A little insight about the current rules : no one fell into the obit watch category this year as the qualifying obits are purposely quite numerous and not English-speaking restricted, hence allowing a great variety of picks. That said, to help me in my task of summing-up the hits, I would recommend to check regularly your front page list, or have your own published in the new thread and provide a proper obit when an obscure pick of yours die, I'd greatly appreciate it ! The next edition of the game will begin in a week, on the 25th of October, to avoid any famous pick (ahem Carter) to be missed between the edition. Entries are now opened by pm. If you wish to use your current list, you can notify it either on this thread or by pm. For any newcomers, rules are on the first page of this thread and will be summed up in the new one, soon to be created. You can obviously change your current list and send a new one, it's up to you. If I made any mistake, forgetting some hit on the front page lists, please notify it to me and I'll add the related points. The next edition will likely end on the 1st of November 2025, thus being a little more than a year, just because I like round numbers. You can make a list of 4 or 5 subs in case any of your main list picks dies before the game starts but only the top 3 subs will be taken into consideration for the next edition lists. Hope everything is clear. Thanks a lot to all of you for participation this year, I hope next year's gonna be as fun

If this is where you will score points this is where you will post especially considering the nature of this game

30/Sep/2024 84 Nat King Cole — Smile 78 Dean Martin — That’s Amore -6 69 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel 66 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog +1 59 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap +3 08 Nat King Cole — Pretend

29/Sep/2024 83 Dean Martin — That’s Amore 74 Nat King Cole — Smile 61 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog 61 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel 54 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap +4 20 Nat King Cole — Pretend 18 Frankie Laine — Where The Winds Blow -3 12 Frankie Vaughan — The Green Door 07 Lou Busch — Zambesi -3

28/Sep/2024 76 Dean Martin — That’s Amore 70 Nat King Cole — Smile 56 Elvis Presley — Hound Dog 55 Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap +4 55 Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel 24 Frankie Vaughan — The Green Door 22 Lou Busch — Zambesi -3 20 Nat King Cole — Pretend 19 Frankie Laine — Where The Winds Blow -3 14 Frank Sinatra — Learnin’ The Blues 08 Frankie Laine — Cool Water 03 Mantovani — Swedish Rhapsody

Dead

I am thinking the point where Tommy Steele enters into contention must be approaching

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)