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Ah, heady days, leading a Deadpool! I was (joint) top of the Inverse DP once - didn't last. I shall bathe in the warm sunlight atop the mountain for the short time I'm here.

Judgment day has come for Justice John Paul Stevens. The US Supreme Court has ruled in an unanimous 9-0 decision that it is constitutional to give Clorox Bleachman 25 points for the first death from his substitutes bench.

So an extra week?

As stated in on the previous post Sir Creep ALREADY HAD THE MOST HITS. Throw in a Daily Double cuz he’s so awesome, if he isn’t running away with this DP the scoring system truly sucks balls. (News flash: He’s not even in the top 3) Enjoy your Pyrrhic victory to whoever wins. SC

will update this over the weekend

Just gone online to find: Uncharted territory! I'm top of the DDP! Ok, joint top and losing the "most hits" to DI. But top anyhow!

You've got a fair chance of winning as long as the total deaths add up to 10 or fewer. Any higher, though, and your chances of being in the top spot are basically negligible.

Jonathan Hodge, film and TV music guy probably best known for Henry's Cat and the Shake N Vac jingle has died: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9529352/jonathan-hodge-dead-shake-n-vac-advert/ I for one will thank him for contributing to one of the great years of pop with this 1978 #3 Hit from Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley:

Her body is “winning” against cancer

More statistics: The birthday problem (check Wikipedia). If you decide for an "old people strategy" you should REALLY know how to pick them. I would think that the chance of a daily double is about the same as the "birthday problem", i.e. how many people need to be in a room so that the chance of a matching birthday between two of them starts to exceed 50%? The answer is 23. Replace birthday with date of death and you need 23 hits to have at least 50% chance of getting a daily double. A daily double is worth 10pts. So with a probability of 50% it's a statistical bonus of 5pts. That's nothing in this game. You're far better of getting a few riskier but younger picks.

Just copy-paste Lewd Squirrel's signature, cut off 50% of the names, et voila: You have yourself a massive list!

Prolly cuz he was always going to be compared to the great Craig Brown the rest of his career, and who wants that!?

And on the 6th death, ay sabenya, Johnny is scatterlinged to the wind, as was widely predicted by the punters. YoungWillz takes the lead, msc hits the joker, but Drol sees the highest rise in his score as he gets within 5 of being correct on the total number of deaths and hits the third hit bonus. En Passant remains the player with the most hits, and John Key's time at the top seems to be over and done. Player Score Hits Change in score YoungWillz 0 4 2 drol -2 3 5 John Key -2 1 -2 Grim Up North -4 3 3 The Quim Reaper -4 4 2 gcreptile -5 4 2 Torva Messor -5 4 2 Banana -6 4 2 Phantom of the Midway -6 3 3 alt obits guy -7 3 3 BlackLivio -7 3 3 Book -7 4 2 Master Tech -7 3 3 Sean -7 3 3 En Passant -8 5 2 Joey Russ -8 3 3 Sir Creep -8 3 0 Zefph -8 3 0 Great Uncle Bulgaria -9 4 2 SuperSowder -9 3 3 Bibliogryphon -10 2 0 Dr_T -10 3 3 msc -10 4 4 nantonian2013 -10 3 3 Squonk -10 3 3 ebless -11 4 2 The Cosgroves -12 2 2 The Old Crem -12 4 2 theoldlady -15 0 0 Gooseberry Crumble -18 2 0

John Paul Stevens is a hit for me.

The sixth hit means that the next date of significance is 17th August. If we get a hit before then we will move ahead of 2018 & 2016.

It appears its Rotterdam v Maastricht.

Andrea Camilleri inspected his last novel: http://news.trust.org//item/20190717070329-67auy/ By which I mean he dead.

Short of the Reaper going nuts this week, I'd call him a shoe in for a spot on Last Word.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at age 99. https://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-died/story?id=64379900&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed

Javier Perez de Cuéllar always

Something you know that we don't?

Condolences to the handful of people who had heard of him 7 months ago...

Points for Cleggers who no longer plays pop.

A man and a woman meet in a bar and once they get talking they realise that they are both divorced. "So what made you divorce?" the woman asks the man. "I was a bit too kinky for my wife," he replied. "What about you?" "Same, I was too kinky for my husband." They exchanged a knowing look and she said "I live just around the corner, would you like to come back to mine for a while?" They got back to her place and she says, "Excuse me while I change into something a little less comfortable." She came back a few minutes later in full leathers, mask, with a whip, chains and handcuffs. The whole shebang. Just as she got there he was heading for the door. "Where are you going?" she asked. "Well I've fucked your dog and shat in your handbag so I'm kinda done."