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John Tinniswood has died. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-man-dies-34187453

Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, was widowed for the second time on 8 October when her second husband (they married in 1965) Kenneth Porter died aged 86.

Maria Limanskaya (Wiki), Soviet military traffic guard, member of Red Army traffic control units, serving for three years during World War II dead at 100

Sophie Kinsella is a best-selling novelist in UK and makes the American book charts as well. Her books were made into a movie. She meets the fame criteria. Even my mom was texting me about her diagnosis.

I wish you luck Joey but fixing your life and deadpooling are not mutually exclusive.You have to do what is good for you.I hope we don`t lose you on here but if we do it has been a pleasure Sir. As I have always said deadpooling as a game of prediction not of wishful thinking if done correctly.We all live and we all die.As a society we are so squirmish about death and I think deadpooling and sites like this help put that into perspective. I have come across many toxic people in my life but none with the exception of trolls on this forum are anything other than good decent and supportive men and women from across the globe .I hope you reconsider Joey but if you don`t then I wish you well

Joel Grey seems very healthy for a 92-year-old, I wouldn't call him frail at all. He still walks without a cane and just wrote a long NYT op-ed a few days ago. I think he'll probably make his mid-90s. (He's still pretty active. Maybe someone could make him a thread?) I agree with everyone's suggestions for Tippi Hedren and Eva Marie Saint, obviously. I'm 50/50 on Valli. He looks horrible onstage, but he seems pretty physically fit otherwise. Given he has tour dates planned well into 2025, I wouldn't be opposed to waiting a year. I see everyone mentioning John Williams. Agreeable enough, but can I suggest Lalo Schifrin, too? He hasn't appeared in public in 5+ years, and he was in a wheelchair then. There are a few film score forum threads out there that suggest he's not in great health. Wild cards: James Baker, maybe? He hasn't been as active since his injury, and he'll be 95. Granted, SoS clearly has life-enhancing powers. Given the committee loves geriatric TV, also worth noting that Max Baer Jr. has returned autographs with an "unable to sign at this stage in his life" message as of 2023. Also, I suggested Louis Gossett Jr., Dabney Coleman, M. Emmet Walsh, and Joe Don Baker for 2024. Thus, they should add Joe Don Baker.

Sold something like 45 million books worldwide. She's massive. It's just a matter of Cmme taste as while she had success in the 90s, she became far better known in the noughties, like a few picks they've avoided.

André Lajoinie dead at 94. +16 for my french list.

Gormley isn`t famous enough for DL.DDP Drop 40 absolutely but the main DL no chance. All others are good calls. However Vanesssa Redgrave surely has to be a drop next year based on those still left?

Forgot about Johnnie Walker. If he makes it he is a must for a (likely early) hit.

Don King could be a good pick as well.

As no-one objected, I will try to run this this year. If I fuck up big time, feel free to execute me or summat. Same rules as always, copypasted from the previous year's thread. Joey's bit copied: Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules:  25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day.  And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN.  2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2024. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and the host who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing.  6a Because he has forced his own entry arghton guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 6b - hot selections? No idea why people are picking Karen Gillan tbh... 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes arghtons decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competitionand in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Arghtons half assed efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of mss and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: 1. YoungWillz - Billy Connolly 2. drol - Jimmy Carter 3. theoldlady - Jean-Marie Le Pen 4. Steve - Chuwit Kamolvisit 5. Captain Hemlock - James Butts 6. Book - Steve McMichael 7. polar duck - Manouchehr Bakhtiari 8. Commtech Sio Bibble - Marilyn Hagerty 9. livingbygrace - Kaiti Grey 10. Ali - Raul Castro 11. CaptainChorizo - James Clayton Flowers 12. Funeralopolis - Barry Urban 13. The Immortal - José Mujica 14. Summer in Transylvania - Donald P. Bellisario 15. Bibliogryphon - Noam Chomsky 16. Lafaucheuse - Álvaro Noboa 17. Death Impends - Cindy Birdsong 18. Toast - Jean Marsh 19. maryportfuncity - Ethel Caterham 20. MariNisia - George Chuvalo 21. gcreptile - Mary Schmucker 22. chilean way - Eva Marie Saint 23. time - Dick Van Dyke 24. Yvonne - Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat 25. arghton - Jayapataka Swami Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 - Death Impends  2017 - Sean 2018 - Banana 2019 - gcreptile 2020 - Spade_Cooley 2021 - Bibliogryphon 2022 - drol 2023 - gcreptile  Good luck everyone. 

26/11/2024 67 George Ezra — Paradise 44 Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus — Nothing Breaks Like A Heart 43 Dua Lipa — Don’t Start Now +4 18 Regard — Ride It -3 16 Marshmello ft. Bastille — Happier -3

2016: Ken Helcher 2017: King Michael of Romania 2018: Chris Bradley 2019: Karl Kiefer 2020: Zafarullah Khan Jamali 2021: Anthony Sher 2022: Nick Bollettieri 2023: Juan Pablo Adame As you can't find that much info on the winners of 2018 and 2019 online and they have no Wikipedia pages: Bradley was an Ohioan (WBNS) Chief Meteorologist with leukemia. Karl Kiefer was a local US football coach who'd been in hospice following a heart attack.

Lord Lyndon Harrison (wiki) dead at 77. Labour MEP (1989–1999) and member of the House of Lords (1999–2022).

For sure : Frankie Valli Joel Grey (looked real frail in last apperances, wouldn’t bet on him making it to 2026) John Williams Lee Grant James Ivory Yayoi Kusama (weelchairbound if I remember correctly but still active..) King Salman Tippi Hedren Isabel Peron (did look frail earlier this year and too many times overlooked, meets the fame criteria) Don King Amartya Sen and for god’s sake : EVA MARIE SAINT Maybe : Sophie Kinsella (does she meet the fame criteria ? Never heard of her before this diagnosis and those young terminally ill people are not my personal cup of tea for the official DL, doesn’t seem like the kind to be picked either) George Soros Berry Gordy/ Clive Davis Gabriel Matzneff (maybe too french-centered ? Paedo and author 89 next year, and I’m sure I saw somewhere that he had terminal cancer, maybe some French alumni can help there ?)

It is amazing that Tammy Slaton has officially lost 500lbs. I have to say I am very proud of her. Just a few years ago I thought for sure she was not going to make it, and now she has a new lease on life and I hope she can have a happy one. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-body/news/1000-lb-sisters-tammy-slaton-is-officially-down-500-pounds/

Right, day 1 done and you’ve killed 3 songs. Go for 4 today! …no, that’s not a request. That’s a warning. The daily kill quota is now 4. If you don’t kill ‘em, the bottom ones will be booted out when the clock strikes 12 (am, GMT) to make 4.

Just my top picks Nigel McCrery - Terminal cancer with months to live Pepe Mujica (Uruguay ex president) Prunella Scales - Dementia plus husband just died Esther Rantzen - Terminal cancer and keeps postponing her one way trip to Switzerland Vanessa Redgrave Yoko Ono Jody Gormley - Terminal cancer

To name a few Mahathir Mohamad - 99 with enormous heart problems Sidney Cooke - Extremely old, hit to celebrate Rupert Murdoch - turning 94, large health history, cunt Ruth Buzzi - Enormous health history, dementia Tom Lehrer - Seems frail, forum favourite Geoffrey Boycott - Cancer, heart problems David Irving - Was dying at some point of this year.

1. Joan Plowright-95 year old A Lister.Has been housebound a while now,should be a bedblocker going forward 2.Isabel Peron-Looks pretty frail based on a photo from earlier in the year 3.Mike Ditka -Now 86,and recently there are rumors he is in hospice care. Survived a stroke and heart attack in recent years. Potential multi decade long boomerang hit 4-Jose Mujica-Hospitalized a few times in 2024 and has Esophagel Cancer. Also on the hefty side and turning 90 ' And someone who would be the most purrfect new edition to the list 5. Lee Meriwether

Well this year has been a disaster huh? You know the drill, nominate your favorite Pokemon from Nebraska that the committee will promptly ignore. I think Rex Williams would be a good boomerang pick, was picked back in 1990, and he’s getting up there in age. Last time we had a big boomerang pick it was successful with George Cole, I’m just saying

She would be a more "interesting" choice to me, as she's young enough still, and had more of a pop culture field. As an American interested in politics, even Alan Greenspan is too dull for me.

I forgot about Johnnie Walker and forgot to keep Roberta Flack on the keep list.

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