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I've been hanging around here for 10 years today! Happy anniversary to me, I guess...if you like that sort of thing.

Tommy Brown dead at 97. One of the last surviving Brooklyn Dodgers, and the last player to have played during WW2.

My bad but also a major case of life getting in the way of dead pooling over the last week. Anyway, in traditional style of almost all previous winners Summer in Transyvania has generously suggested a charitable donation as a prize and nominated the William Templeton Foundation for Your People's Mental Health as the recipients. Finally done and dusted, evidence below, link to his chosen charity at the end of this message, and - thankfully - I'm spared anymore totting up of the points (Yarrow, Black Bart and Nolan were all mightily fancied choices hereabouts). That charity: https://www.ypmh.org/about-us/

Ex Hollyoaks actor and Love Island star (old school) Paul Danan has died…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14291547/Paul-Danan-dead-Hollyoaks.html

Congrats, Reptile!

42 players so far. If this stays, the 20 players with the lowest seeding will compete for 10 slots to make a nice 32. Meaning 22 players have a free pass. So if you made the Top 16 last year you have a freebie, also if you did well but still lost. If even more players sign up these freebies will decline in number. But the Top16 of last year should still be safe. Edit: I will determine the seeding order at the weekend, i.e. maybe tomorrow.

Thank you all! It was a very close race in a bit of a difficult year. Hoping to get three in a row! But I'm not sure how many more I've got in me.

Any chance Biden pardons him before his job ends later this month?

Green Party MP, Stephanie Aeffner, dead suddenly aged 48. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/stephanie-aeffner-gruene-trauern-um-bundestagsabgeordnete-fuer-pforzheim-a-56be8106-1d5d-480d-8520-7dc4e831d6eb

American singer-songwriter Melba Montgomery (Wiki) dead at 86 FB tribute

Fucking speechless at these two.

Elgar Howarth QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/01/16/elgar-howarth-trumpet-conductor-zappa-beatles-died-obituary/

David W. Duclon, the creator of the 1980s TV series Punky Brewster, has died. He was 74. Duclon's producer credits include Family Matters, Silver Spoons, the Jeffersons and Laverne & Shirley https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/david-w-duclon-dead-producer-punky-brewster-1236110320/

Kenny Law, who co-starred in the reality TV series Moonshiners, has died. https://whnt.com/news/franklin-county-native-moonshiners-star-kenny-law-has-died/

Could be - I was thinking Princess Margaret / QE2 could be an example but it looks like Maggie was missed.

Rosny Smarth, former Prime Minister of Haiti (1996-1997), dead aged 84.

We are now on pace for 48 hits, which leaves just two people still alive at the end of the year. Obviously, those two will be Noah Chomsky and Nigel Starmer-Smith.

We still have a bit of James Whale attention seeking.

Those, and the death of Jimmy Carter were most certainly the Horcruxes of 2024. Perhaps normal Grim Reaper service shall now proceed?

No more Le Pen death hoaxes, no more Linda Nolan attention seeking in the media. End of yet another era.

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42) 1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37) 1993: George Lineker (1/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson (1/50) 1996: Mr T (1/50) 1997: (0/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50) 2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50) 2004: (0/50) 2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Louis Farrakhan (1/50) 2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50) 2009: (0/50) 2010: (0/50) 2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50) 2012: Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (2/50) 2013: (0/50) 2014: Dick Van Dyke (1/50)  2015: Jake Roberts (1/50) 2016: Prunella Scales, Tommy Chong, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (4/50) 2017: Sandy Gall, Emperor Akihito (2/50) 2018: Linda Nolan, Prunella Scales, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (8/50) 2019: Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales (6/50)  2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Prunella Scales, Willie Nelson, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Attenborough (9/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Ali Khamenei, Prunella Scales, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Raul Castro, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave (14/50) 2022: Dick Van Dyke, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, David Attenborough, Emperor Akihito, Sandy Gall, Desmond Morris, James Whale, Cleo Laine, Denis Law, Prunella Scales, Stanley Baxter, Noam Chomsky, Norman Tebbit, Douglas Hurd, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt (19/50) 2023: Dick Van Dyke, Alan Greenspan, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Dick Cheney, Mel Brooks, Robert Wagner, Norman Tebbit, Sandy Gall, Joanne Woodward, Desmond Morris, Stanley Baxter, Cleo Laine, Alan Alda, Prunella Scales, Yoko Ono, Marianne Faithfull, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Imelda Marcos, Ali Khamenei, Pete Murray, Willie Nelson, Dennis Skinner, Sonny Rollins, Hal Linden, Linda Nolan, Andy Taylor (26/50) 2024: Dick Van Dyke, Pete Murray, Alan Greenspan, Pope Francis, Cleo Laine, Sandy Gall, Noam Chomsky, Robert Wagner, Mel Brooks, Dennis Skinner, Nigel Starmer-Smith, James Whale, Stanley Baxter, Joanne Woodward, Patricia Routledge, Clint Eastwood, Vanessa Redgrave, Desmond Morris, Gene Hackman, Denis Law, Hans Blix, Julie Walters, Tom Brokaw, Linda Nolan, Louis Farrakhan, Norman Tebbit, Willie Nelson, Daniel Barenboim, Esther Rantzen, Roberta Flack, Dick Cheney, Prunella Scales, Robert Duvall, Josef Fritzl, Brigitte Bardot, Raul Castro, Imelda Marcos, Ted Turner, Buzz Aldrin, Sonny Rollins, Sly Stone, Tom Baker, Joe Bugner (42/50) Updated for Linda Nolan.

Maybe not today. I'll get a coffee and update my signature. I for one admire her spirit and spitting in the face of death and deadpoolers for years. RIP.

Dead. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-linda-nolan-dies-famous-34477806

I find it a common misconception about death poolers that we're in a constant state of willing people (especially our picks) to die. I don't wish anyone dead. Sure, there are a few monsters that the world would be a better place without, but I'm here to predict death, not hope for it. If someone on the list survives the year, good for them.