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Lou Carnesecca dead at 99.

You read that right. 30 years of the DDP. A mighty milestone few could've envisioned when it was a local 90s affair that had its own trophy. 2024, despite an overall hits tally on track to break the record, felt fairly arid on the headliner and competitive fronts, perhaps portending a mighty 2025 enema. Whatever happens, @time, @Banana and I are once again here to guide you through it... Dear Jimmy - either die in the next week, or go all the way to- wait, I wrote this before... THE RULES are near exactly what they were last time, with the only edits done being updating all instances of 2023/2024 to 2024/2025, and changing The Times' URL from .co.uk to .com. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began in 2021 remains in service. The 2025 spreadsheet, identical to the 2024 one in all but filename, can be found here. It is heavily recommended to use the spreadsheet as means of entry to reduce Banana's workload as much as possible. If you are absolutely unable to work with the Excel spreadsheet, still make sure to recheck GUN's DDP entry guide thread from 2020 to make the formatting of your email as smooth as possible.

Nizoramo Zaripova dead at 101.

Marshall Brickman, the Woodman's Oscar-winning co-writer on Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery, dead at 85.

Victor Brombert (wiki) dead at 101 according to this Facebook post. All 3 names from your list are now dead.

LOLLLL I’m out of Whamageddon already Out for breakfast with OH and the first bloody thing we hear is our current joint-3rd. Ah well, one less thing to think about this month.

For the official list I think he's a necessary drop, for shadow lists it depends how many you need to get rid of, personally I'm keeping him as I have the room but if you need the extra space he's a safer option to drop than most 'terminally ill' people.

Worth the bump.

1/12/2024 44 Adele — Rolling In The Deep 37Rag’n’Bone Man — Human +1 37 Pink ft. Nate Ruess — Just Give Me A Reason +1 36 Emeli Sande — Heaven 29 Bastille — Pompeii 28 Katy Perry — Teenage Dream 26 Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera — Moves Like Jagger +1 25 The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk — Starboy -1 25 George Ezra — Paradise 23 Bruno Mars — Locked Out Of Heaven +1 16 Taylor Swift — I Knew You Were Trouble 14 Adele — Skyfall 13 James Bay — Hold Back The River 09 Justin Timberlake — Can’t Stop The Feeling 00 Years & Years — Shine -5

Ian Redpath, Aussie batsman of the sixties and early seventies, dead at 83: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/former-australia-opener-ian-redpath-dies-aged-83-1460416 Signed up for Packer as I recall, to not much effect as he'd been out of top cricket too long by then.

Former Derbyshire player Brian Jackson. https://cricket.derbyshireccc.com/2024/11/brian-jackson-obituary/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2WHDlxNWmBT5CeGgaFBrL5w81d25BDcTpik-ammtp0fK_0tBEJG78jUUY_aem_UbQExtUL_OF0T1-e-KS4fA

1/12/24 76 Pet Shop Boys — Always On My Mind +6 53 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In The Wall 48 Wham! - Last Christmas 45 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 33 The Flying Pickets — Only You 31 Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground   19 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 18 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules — Mad World 10 Dave Edmunds — I Hear You Knocking 08 Rage Against The Machine— Killing in the Name -9 05 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me

Congrats @ladyfiona 1924 Russell M. Nelson/Eva Marie Saint 1925 Pete Murray/Brigitte Auber 1926  Alan Greenspan/Judith Magre 1927 Sandy Gall/Hazel Chinnery 1928 James Ivory/Jane Gardam 1929 John Woodvine/Thelma Barlow 1930 Roy Clarke/Katherine Jackson  1931 Ken Bates/Eileen Derbyshire 1932 Roy Hattersley/Carmen Munroe 1933 Tinto Brass/Kim Novak

Congrats @ladyfiona 1924 - Walter Bingham / Libia Lobo Sardesai 1925 - Tony Christopher / Phyllis Dalton 1926 - David Frankham / Berta Loran 1927 - Yuri Grigorovich / Rosemary Harris 1928 - James Watson/ Nancy Olson 1929 - Mark Rydell / Patricia Routledge 1930 - Gene Hackman / Lois Smith 1931 - Robert Duvall / Claire Bloom 1932 - John Williams / Petula Clark 1933 - Michael Caine / Sian Phillips

Chemistry: 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus b. 1923 Peace: 2002 James Earl Carter jr. b. 1924 Literature: 1986 Wole Soyinka b. 1934 Medicine/Pysiology: 1981 Torsten Nils Wiesel b. 1924 Physics: 1957 Chen Ning Yang b. 1922 Last living laureate of the decade Economic Sciences: 2002 Vernon Lomax Smith b. 1927

Congratulations, @ladyfiona! 1924 Khamtai Siphandone / Anne Vernon 1925 Marv Levy / Ruth Slenczynska 1926 Philip Springer / Barbara Clegg 1927 Hy Eisman / Estelle Parsons 1928 Bob Cousy / Marion Ross 1929 Len Deighton / Joan Plowright 1930 Clive Revill / Joanne Woodward 1931 Edwin Meese III / Carroll Baker 1932 Frank Layden / Antonia Fraser 1933 John Boorman / Bernadette Chirac

1924-Woody Woodbury/Thelma Thall 1925-Bobby Shantz/Johanna Quaas 1926-Gene Shalit/ Jacqueline Park 1927-H.M Wynant/Jean Lodge 1928-Sidney Kibrick/Betty Linde 1929-Jack Betts/Rebecca Schull 1930-John Cullum/Marilyn Alex 1931-Robert Colbert/Marla Gibbs 1932-Ray Stewart/Bunny Hoest 1933-Robert Fuller/Debra Paget Congrats @ladyfiona

Kaley Cuoco is 39 today. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore per Creative Commons license

Whale might be the first celeb I'm 100% sure is deliberately trolling deadpoolers. That's like four years in a row now he's come out with "yep, looks like the end of the line for this ol' bag of bones" in late November/December, only to show absolutely zero signs of being close to death for the other 10.5 months of the year.

Based on @The Old Crem original game back in 2022. The game is simple. Pick 20 celebrities who will have a child in either 2025 or 2026. Rules: 1. Teams have to be sent in by 31/12/2024. Please send teams to me via PM and do not post it on the thread until after deadline to avoid copycats. 2. You can pick either the mother or father of the child, but the parent has to be a celebrity. 3. You score points once the celebrity, celebrity's partner, surrogate gives birth or the adoption of a baby under 8 weeks old is announced. 4. The qualifying source is either a newspaper report or a post on verified social media account belonging to the Celeb or their partner. 4. Celebrity is defined by the pick having a Wikipedia page that existed before 1st December 2024. 5. You can't pick both likely parents of the same child in the event that both mother and father count as celebrities. 6. If there is any public doubt as to the identity of the father of the child, then the pick will be 'lost'. 7. Picks must be legal (i.e. the parent must be over the age of consent in their home country) 8. No pregnancy that has been officially announced or reported in a Q/O source as a strong rumour is allowed. 9. Any pregnancy that is announced between now and the deadline will not be eligible for points and you can chose to then withdraw that celebrity and replace them (but can also keep them in case their have a second birth in 2025). 10. Each team is allowed one joker who can gain double points. 11. If pregnancy is announced and there is a misscarriage or still birth then player gets half points (10 points turns into 5 etc). 12. Player will get certificate of participation if no points by end of the year. Certificate of frustration if all your picks are football players, meaning it's harder to find updates due to transfer news etc. Age of parent at time of birth: Mother: 17-30: 10 points 31-35: 15 points 36-40: 20 points 41-50: 40 points 51+: 100 points Father: 17-30: 10 points 31-40: 15 points 41-50: 20 points 51-60: 40 points 61-70: 70 points 71+: 100 points Let the predicting commence.

He made 112 and the package BBC News had pre-prepared on him included him being served a decent portion of fish and chips in his care home All the excuse I need to head out to the chippie over the weekend!

Known to have been behind Michael Sundin and Janet Ellis exiting the 'Peter pdq.

Earl Holliman is a nice late hit for me here. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14130413/earl-holliman-dead-96-rainmaker-forbidden-planet-twilight-zone.html

Me and DI had MUAZZEZ İLMIYE ÇIĞ who died last week

Barbara Taylor Bradford is a 'hit' for me in this pool.