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I've been allowed to see the first draft of the 2025 list. Some sensible picks ruined by the wacky choice of Jimmy Carter.

Dan Rather's wife of 67 years, Jean, dead at 89.

Cindy Birdsong may also be worth a shot. Turning 86 next year, suffered multiple debilitating strokes in recent years (which left her unable to communicate and now she must be fed through feeding tubes) and now lives in a nursing facility. Doesn't seem like a someone who will hang on for long.

I am gutted. Very easy on the eyes back in the day and someone who was definitely going to appear in some of my teams next year minus the DDP as I doubt he'd have been a juicy unique pick and I've really got my mind and heart focused on finally getting 60 unique picks this time. Rest in peace to a special part of my eye candy memories .

27/Nov/2024 65 George Ezra — Paradise 55 Dua Lipa — Don’t Start Now +4 48 Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus — Nothing Breaks Like A Heart -2 00 Marshmello ft. Bastille — Happier -4

Quota reached! Well done. @Toast, @Bibliogryphon, @Commtech Sio Bibble and @Drewsky1211, for one day only, as a little Christmas bonus for getting us there, you four have got +6 and -9 to play with. Wed 27 Nov 31 Bob The Builder — Can We Fix It? 30 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 30 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 28 Benny Hill — Ernie 28 Wham! — Last Christmas 27 Rage Against The Machine — Killing In The Name +4 27 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 26 Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground 24 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In The Wall -6 22 The Flying Pickets — Only You 22 Whitney Houston — I Will Always Love You 21 Danny Williams — Moon River 20 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules — Mad World 20 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me 20 Al Martino — Here In My Heart 20 Frankie Laine — Answer Me 20 Winifred Atwell — Let’s Have Another Party 20 Johnnie Ray — Just Walkin’ In The Rain 20 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Emile Ford & The Checkmates — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? 20 Elvis Presley — Return To Sender 20 Dave Edmunds — I Hear You Knocking 20 Shakin’ Stevens — Merry Christmas Everyone 20 Jackie Wilson — Reet Petite 20 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman — Somethin’ Stupid 19 Michael Jackson — Earth Song 17 East 17 — Stay Another Day 12 Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody 11 Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie — Rockabye

I thought the DDP total last year was 312? So if we are at hit 297 surely there are only 16 hits to go.

I read an oral history on girl groups earlier this year, mostly collated from interviews conducted 4-5 years ago. Sarah Dash had mentioned how Birdsong was very poorly even back then yet Dash died a year later while Birdsong hangs on. Practically the girl group Jimmy Carter.

Wed 27 Nov  65 George Ezra — Paradise 51 Dua Lipa — Don’t Start Now +4 50 Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus — Nothing Breaks Like A Heart 04 Marshmello ft. Bastille — Happier -6

21 to go - Earl Holliman QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/earl-holliman-star-rainmaker-forbidden-220812183.html

Variety obit

Helen Gallagher dead at 98. DDP pick.

A face and name that's only vaguely familiar to me, but regardless, lived a life that made for a very interesting Wiki read. Was once so sickly they reckoned he wouldn't survive childhood. Safe to say he defied that prediction! Seems like he was a genuinely nice guy too. Vegetarian, fed the homeless and campaigned for animals.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14124309/I-tried-Donald-Trump-diet-ill-mcdonalds-ultraprocessed-food.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/26/i-followed-donald-trumps-diet-for-a-week/ ‘I ate like Donald Trump for a day... I've been bed-ridden ever since.’

No, but she's old and wrinkly and crinkly and smells.

@Gooseberry Crumble is going to be gutted. Star of the first proper Twilight Zone episode.

American actor Earl Holliman (Wiki) dead at 96 Everywhere FB tributes from his family members, press is coming

Ounces?

Jim Abrahams, co-writer/director of Airplane and Naked Gun, dead at 80.

1. Maria Branyas 2. Fauja Singh 3. June Spencer 4. Joe Caroff 5. Lou Conter 6. Bud Anderson 7. Gerald Holton 8. Yang Chen-Ning 9. Jean Malaurie 10. David H. Murdock 11. Vic Seixas 12. William H. Webster 13. Lee Adams 14. Russell M. Nelson 15. Roy Haynes 16. Jirō Ono 17. Alexander Butterfield 18. Lou Donaldson 19. Arthur Cohn 20. Martial Solal 21. Bill Crow 22. Byron Janis 23. Elias James Corey 24. Ray Marshall 25. Frank Gehry 26. X. J. Kennedy 27. Jerry Hardin 28. Selim Hoss 29. Ion Iliescu 30. Thomas Stafford 31. Johan Galtung 32. Jack McKeon 33. Armin Mueller-Stahl 34. Tu Youyou 35. Dominic Chianese 36. Raúl Castro 37. Malachy McCourt 38. Whitey Herzog 39. Jean-Paul Rappeneau 40. Dudley R. Herschbach 41. Ned Jarrett 42. Jacques Roubard 43. Bob Pettit 44. Jack Hill 45. Dickie Bird 46. Parnelli Jones 47. Michael Frayn 48. Hubie Brown 49. Jane Elliott 50. Allen J. Bard Here is the list you posted before the start of the year. Many of the names you've scored thus far are not on your original list. Cheating in deadpools is really poor.

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

Latest quotes from Samuel West tell of how she's recently been on a cruise and was apparently unsure where she was at times but still enjoyed it.

“Permanently incapacitated“ claims court-appointed guardian.

26/11/2024 30 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In The Wall 28 Whitney Houston — I Will Always Love You 28 Pet Shop Boys — Always On My Mind 28 Bob The Builder — Can We Fix It? 27 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 25 Wham! — Last Christmas 24 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 24 East 17 — Stay Another Day 24 Benny Hill — Ernie 24 Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground 21 The Flying Pickets — Only You 21 Michael Jackson — Earth Song 20 Al Martino — Here In My Heart 20 Frankie Laine — Answer Me 20 Winifred Atwell — Let’s Have Another Party 20 Johnnie Ray — Just Walkin’ In The Rain 20 Conway Twitty — It’s Only Make Believe 20 Emile Ford & The Checkmates — What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? 20 Danny Williams — Moon River 20 Elvis Presley — Return To Sender 20 Dave Edmunds — I Hear You Knocking 20 Shakin’ Stevens — Merry Christmas Everyone 20 Jackie Wilson — Reet Petite 20 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman — Somethin’ Stupid 20 Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie — Rockabye 19 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules — Mad World -4 17 Rage Against The Machine — Killing In The Name 17 The Scaffold — Lily The Pink +1 17 Slade — Merry Xmas Everybody +2 15 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me +1 06 Renée & Renato — Save Your Love -2 Giving Lily the Pink a point for nostalgic reasons as it was the first record I ever possessed (it was bought for me at age 5 as I apparently enjoyed singing along to it).

In the article he specifies the "entire four years". Pretty reasonable to assume a 98 year old may die in 4 years...