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Dead aged 73. Obituaries: The Sun, BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Independent, Daily Mirror, Daily Express

This aged well. Just not in the way we hoped. 2024 The Bee Gees year "staying alive, staying alive ha ha ha ha."

Revised for Olivia Hussey. Death on the Nile is actually scheduled for BBC2 this afternoon, along with Evil Under the Sun.

Charles Shyer, Oscar-nominated writer/director of Irreconcilable Differences, Private Benjamin and the Father of the Bride films, dead at 83.

This game is by no means over but I have created a thread for the 2025 version but remember don't post your teams until 1st Jan as they will not count and your picks may be stolen.

She's written an article in The Mail saying this wonder drug she's on could stave off the inevitable for months or even years. Unfortunately, the piece is pay to read. I only caught enough of it before it went to subscribe mode. So.

Ready to do battle and steal those picks from your fellow players Its fast and fun but you need to be on the ball but if you miss a round or two you can join in at any time  Basically the aim of the game is to pick 20 candidates from the years 1925-1934.You need 2 from each year and you must have one male and one female from each year. Candidates only qualify if they have a national news article about their death in English and or an obituary. The game does not start until 1 January 2025 (UK Time Zone) and no teams can be posted before this time and will continue until the end of the year. As soon as one candidate from anyone`s list dies the pool will be immediately restarted and it is first come first serve. You can even be a bitch and steal someone`s entire list if you wish. Its a competitive game. The overall winner will be the person with most hits in the year. The pool restarts as soon as a link from the the qualifying article is posted verifying age of the deceased (by their own standard). No two players can have duplicate picks and the age given in the article will be accepted as soon as the article is published and pasted to this site. It has to be decisive at the time the news breaks. If the age they give is different to the year of birth you don`t get a hit unless it is amended before another death that meets the criteria of a hit. There have been a number of cases where two or more deaths break at about the same time. If a later breaking death occurs but it actually happened before the start of the new round you will be awarded the point if you had the earlier death in your team at the point that they died. I will do my best to be fair and even handed. There is no limit to the number of players and you can enter the round at any point. You may even miss some rounds if they are quick. You do not need an admin to confirm your pick if you have a QO to post your next round team but you may be challenged if it in any way suspect.

Oh my! - that is quite the faux pas. I am actually embarrassed for you. And then to make matters worse, later in the list you managed to spell "Syd" wrong You are having quite the 'mare, mate. I will be surprised if you are able to show your face around here for some time. But don't worry, people will forget eventually. Sure, you might occasionally hear people stifling laughter and muttering "composer" as you pass by, but pay no heed to them. You are better than all of them put together! Anyhow, all good with the team, and Alan Bergman (Lyricist) takes his place on it.

Damn that very sad, I forgot that Pat Heywood who played her nurse died too this June, both gone in the same year. RIP

Eh. I disagree. Her overall decline has been pretty slow for someone whose DL thread from 2012 starts with "appears weak and frail in wheelchair". She strikes me as a grade-A coffin tease. At the Oscars three years ago, she couldn't even say "ten best nominees" without losing her train of thought. By comparison, she's fairly coherent here and her voice still isn't especially thin. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with her beyond the fact that she's old and beat up her body with alcohol and drugs for decades. Which, yeah, means I don't think she'll live another decade+, but given that she's still lucid and plans to release a book (and read it on tape) over a year from now, I think that probably rules out the idea she's suffering from some major unrelated illness.

Uniques were much easier to find and spot when Yahoo was giving out QOs as easily as they were. If you found a Yahoo link when researching all you had to do was to check if it did the uk trick and there would be like a 50% chance of them getting a QO. However, that doesn't really seem to be a thing anymore and neither of them would most likely QO in 2025. Most of the other uniques I've seen over the years are from very region-based researching that probably wouldn't come up for most, or just obscure shot in the darks.

I think so.Unique picks are really difficult to find given the number of names selected every year.Plus it's risky to aim for a unique as if they aren't unique and with the increase in the quality of players it's a real gamble.Drop 40 picks on the other hand are not too difficult to predict and you can easily get a majority of your picks to appear on the Drop 40 with far less research and media savvy calls such as exposure of picks and how widespread news of their illness is. In short scouting for unique picks for a one point advantage that is risky and could just give you regular points if your unique isn't actually a unique which is a big and potentially costly risk over Drop 40 near slam dunks it seems not worth the risk for the potential benefit.

Now, now. He couldn’t help that his brother is a cunt. I always say families of politicians are off limits and I stand by that.

Richard Wilson is one not to overlook for the DL 2025. Astounding to think filming for "One Foot in the Grave" started in the 1980s, and that he is still alive. He has also suffered a stroke, heart attack, bad fall etc. over the years. Has also been very quiet of late. Edit: Have just swapped Minnelli with Wilson on my 2025 shadowlist.

Shani Wallace (b 1931) - Nancy in Oliver (film 1968) Taina Elg (b 1930) - co-star with Kenneth More (d 1982) in The 39 Steps (film 1959) Gerald Harper (b 1931) - Adam Adamant (TV series in the 1960's)

Can confirm this is me now.

@chilean way is there not going to be a 2025 edition of this great pool?

I just sent in my theme team and I got an email response just fine. For those who are wondering if their email got sent perhaps check to see if the email you sent to is the correct one?

18/12/24 23 Faithless - Insomnia +2 22 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Remix) +2 22 Annie Lennox - Little Bird/Love Song for a Vampire 22 The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 22 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 21 EMF - Unbelievable 20 Enigma - Return to Innocence 20 Erasure - Blue Savannah 20 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 20 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing) 20 No Doubt - Just a Girl 20 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 20 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 20 Shania Twain - That Don’t Impress Me Much 20 Spin Doctors - Two Princes 20 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 20 Suede - Stay Together 20 Suede - Trash 20 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) 20 Youssou N’Dour ft. Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 16 Billy Joel - The River of Dreams 16 The Sisters of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza - Temple of Love (1992) 14 Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman -6 14 Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey- Endless Love

Alastair Salvesen, a British businessman and the founder of Dawnfresh Seafoods Ltd, has died. He was 83. https://x.com/Grouse_Beater/status/1869122403835781191 Legacy obit: https://www.legacy.com/uk/obituaries/scotsman-uk/name/alastair-salvesen-obituary?id=57022318

If he wants to live forever then going to India is probably not the best way of achieving it.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Wish you and your wife well.

4/Oct/2024 45 Nat King Cole — When I Fall In Love +1 44 Johnny Duncan & The Blue Grass Boys — Last Train To San Fernando 43 Dean Martin — Volare 41 Elvis Presley — King Creole +3 38 The Everly Brothers — Wake Up Little Susie 32 Debbie Reynolds — Tammy 29 Marty Wilde — A Teenager In Love 28 The Everly Brothers — Bird Dog 27 Harry Belafonte — Banana Boat Song -6 22 Elvis Presley — Hard Headed Woman 20 Jim Dale — Be My Girl 20 Dean Martin — Return To Me 20 The Everly Brothers — ’Til I Kissed You 18 Four Preps — Big Man 18 Marino Marini & His Quartet — Come Prima 13 Elvis Presley — Don’t 06 Elvis Presley — Party

Facepalming over the stupidity of Clinton.