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Why wouldn't we? We're only picking from a limited pool, not going to be any surprises. Better to get it out of the way than wait, forget, and miss the deadline.

No worries, genuinely take care of yourself and get better soon.

I don't know. He still looks ridiculous with his orange skin and hair, if you ask me.

He attended an L.A. Lakers home game last Tuesday, which has become an extremely rare occurrence in recent years. (He very famously used to regularly attend Laker home games for many years.) I came across a photo in an article about this, and while he does look a bit more overweight than some may remember, he doesn't look close to sickly, and I would argue that he looks better than the vast majority of 82-year-olds. I don't think he's close to being Deathlist-y just yet.

@Squonk mate, you're a Cup eponym, you simply must join us again!

I was one of those who lucked into the First Blood bonus. So excited I ate the candy bar I'd been saving since Christmas.

Andretti, John arap Moi, Daniel ..joker Asner, Ed Atkins, Ronald...joker Bacharach, Burt Banali, Frankie Baxter, Stanley Benedict XVI, Pope Cameron, Earl Carter, Jimmy Crosby, David Dole, Bob Doleman, Chris Douglas, Kirk Frankland, William...joker Fujimori, Alberto Gascoine, Jill Gilbert, Greg Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Gray, Henry Greaves, Jimmy Gulpilil, David Jones, Terry DEAD BEFORE START Kerslake, Lee Lewis, John...joker Lloyd, Sam Lynn, Loretta Lynn, Vera Marcos, Imelda Nelson, Willie...joker Newhart, Bob Newton-John, Olivia O'Neill, Margaret Deirdre Pahor, Boris Pérez de Cuéllar, Javiér Philip, Prince Phillips, Leslie Plowright, Joan P-Orridge, Genesis Robinson, Michael Saint, Eva Marie Sang-chul, Yoo Smullen, Pat Stiles, Nobby Tanaka, Kane Tobin, Peter Trintignant, Jean-Louis Trebek, Alex Turnbull, Bill Walker, Murray Watanabe, ChitetsuT Reserves 2 Kissinger, Henry 3 Hume, John 4 Al-Assad, Bashar 5 Johns, Glynis

So he's... Billy Zabka! (How I Met Your Mother reference) Well done Allen.

I like how for years Allen was second banana to Gerard Tierney in Alt Obits, but since joining the DL he's won twice in a row. Sort of has the feel of the plucky karate hero who needed to train at the DeathList Dojo to unleash his full potential Well done, Allen!

Yeah, take care @Pedro67. You are always welcome back to the cup in the future

Alt Obits 2019 is now closed, and Allen Kirshner has officially won again. Congratulations.

Two.

RESULTS As there were no changes aside from the death of unpicked M. C. Beaton, @An Fear Beag is indeed this year's winner! Major props to @The Mad Hatter as well, who tied for points but ultimately lost out when it came to hits. Another tiebreak further down was decided on hits – Chorizo coming in at 6th whilst fellow 100-pointer Unknown Man settles for 7th. 1. An Fear Beag - 115 2. The Mad Hatter - 115 3. theoldlady - 107 4. Book - 106 5. msc - 104 6. CaptainChorizo - 100 7. The Unknown Man - 100 8. Pedro67 - 99 9. FixedBusiness - 98 10. Death Impends - 94 11. Banana - 83 12. The Old Crem - 82 13. Skinny kiltrunner - 80 14. Sir Creep - 79 15. Joey Russ - 77 16. RadGuy - 75 17. YoungWillz - 64 18. Gooseberry Crumble - 60 19. Toast - 54 20. Bibliogryphon - 49 21. Clorox Bleachman - 27 Thank you to all 20 participants for being so patient with this noob host!

Actress Fran Ryan died on this day 20 years ago, aged 83.

Picture from today. A lot of faith is going in that blazer button

Also Most Unique Picks 2020, who only have 15 unique picks (still only one team picking Ram John Holder though. Can we get him a DL call up if he makes it to 90?)

I must give a special shoutout to Dr Shipman’s Waiting Room. Their entire team has a grand total of 0 drop 40 picks and 0 uniques. An amazing feat onto itself.

If he's on life support, he could be another Ariel Sharon.

Today marks 12 years since wayward child star and boat thief Brad Renfro became a permanent sleeper.

Can confirm I made the first cup draw now. This will change if more people sign up (and again, please do), but what I can say for sure is that round 1 and round 2 looks quite interesting.

Clearly DIcky O is still such a sexual dynamo that a few minutes with a young woman still means their husband has to take them half way around the world to avoid his clutches.

So is Jerry Lawler or Prince Andrew a secret DDP Player?

Yes.

I had no idea who she was. I know the voice of Luanne from King of the Hill. All those movies she was in would not be the type of things I would watch. She was on axiety medication, pain pills ect... She also looked real thin. I heard she had type two diabetes.