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Sir Michael Hardie Boys, former Governor-General of New Zealand (not a pornstar) dead at 92. Mentioned here by arghton a few dozen times and picked for a couple of 2024 pools.

Killer Khan dead at 76 and straight to QO.

Look at it as a "Lifetime Achievement Award" or summat. Bassey isn't the first, won't be the last. Olivia de Haviland had been retired for the best part of 30 years when she was "Damed". You should save your outrage for the blatantly political awards (e.g Charlotte Owen, and Liz Truss' list).

Sat 30 Dec 34 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion +4 33 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 26 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me  23 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 20 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance -2 00 The Beatles — Please Please Me -4 Game over! The top five songs go through in this round!

Selfish how? I can't imagine having a vegetable for a husband is in any way rewarding or fulfilling. And how is his condition earning her any money whatsoever? She'd surely have more if he'd had the plug pulled a decade ago. Perhaps you could call it a selfish form of devotion, a forlorn grasp for a miracle, but it surely comes from a place of love. Absolutely tragic situation for the entire family.

His own family have defacto confirmed parts of this, like not talking and minimal levels of awareness...

Sat 30 Dec 33 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 30 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 26 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me +4 23 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 22 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 04 The Beatles — Please Please Me -6

30/Dec/2023 30 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 29 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 22 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance +4 22 The Beatles — Please Please Me -6 21 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 20 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me

I mean, even if he was in a Hawking-style situation of being completely paralysed and reliant on a wheelchair for motion and life support, you would have expected something about his condition to have slipped out over the years (photos from afar, glimpses from members of the public, etc). The complete radio silence suggests he's never even left his bedroom since the day he went home from hospital and only a very small pool of people are ever allowed any access to him. What a horrific existence to inflict on anyone.

I have moved, I’m exhausted and only have phone usage. I’ll be little help until I can computer up. Sometime mid January.

If there was any improvements in him since the accident the family would be shouting it from the rooftops, the harsh reality is there will have been none, he is either in a coma or a vegetable, no quality of life whatsoever, it would have been far better to have pulled the plugs 10 years ago in hospital and let him die with dignity than linger on with no quality Of life, pure selfishness from Corrina imho A majestic athlete, probably physically fittest man on the planet when he was a driver, reduced to a drooling wheelchair bound vegetable because the family won’t accept closure

I am your host, @Evil Grimace. As per protocol, I will not enter a team. I'm looking forward to running the 2024 game and welcome entries of the creator, former game runners, and past champs and players. I am using @paddyfool's rules verbatim as I've used them before, they work well and I know the system. Please submit a list of names from this year's deathlist to predict who on the list is actually going to die this year. Points will be allocated as follows: +1 per death correctly predicted -1 per death incorrectly predicted +4 if the number of deaths you predict matches the actual number of deaths, i.e. the number of names in your list matches the actual number of deaths +2 if you only miss the correct total number of deaths by 1 -2 if you miss the total number of deaths by more than 5 +1 bonus for a "unique" correct prediction (predicted by no other punter here) +1 bonus if you pick the bookie's favourite (single most popular guess in this contest) and they are a hit. -1 penalty if you pick the bookie's favourite and they are a miss. A further +1 bonus for every 3rd correctly predicted death (+1 on 3rd, 6th, 9th etc) You may if you wish select one entry as a joker. We are changing the rules for the Joker this year: you get an additional +2 if correct, and an additional -2 if incorrect; no more multiplication. In the event of a tie on points, the dead-lock (see what I did there) will be broken by the following: 1) Whichever team had the most hits 2) If unbroken by 1, whichever team was closest in their guess of predicted deaths for the year 3) If unbroken by 1 and 2, whichever team was submitted first. Entries in by January 10th on/before 23:59, please, either by pm or by posting here. Any deaths before then will still score for any lists entered at least 24 hours before the death and will still count towards the total deaths for the year. Regarding entries, if you give them to me in the order they are given on the main page, eg 1. Dick van Dyke (Joker), 4. Alan Greenspan, etc. it greatly helps with selection entry. And please mark your joker clearly too! Good luck.

Owen was - allegedly - Bojo's love-child though I think that's been debunked by some reputable sources. I did see a cracking put down on that suggestion pointing out that spending time with and/or helping his kids isn't something Johnson's particularly known for!

12/30/2023 29 Petula Clark — Downtown +1 24 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 22 The Who — My Generation 21 Millie — My Boy Lollipop 21 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 21 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons — Rag Doll +1 21 The Dave Clark Five — Bits And Pieces +1 21 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul +1 20 Gerry & The Pacemakers — I’m The One 20 The Hollies — Just One Look 20 The Bachelors — I Believe 20 Brian Poole & The Tremeloes — Someone Someone 20 Gene Pitney — I’m Gonna Be Strong 20 Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders — Game Of Love 20 Them — Here Comes The Night 20 Peter & Gordon — True Love Ways 20 The Everly Brothers — The Price Of Love 20 The Fortunes — You’ve Got Your Troubles 20 Manfred Mann — If You Gotta Go, Go Now 20 Andy Williams — Almost There 20 Cliff Richard — Wind Me Up (Let Me Go) 08 The Swinging Blue Jeans — Hippy Hippy Shake 02 Cilla Black — You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ -6 Cilla Black's US presence is so nonexistent that the hate for her doesn't resonate with me the way it does for many of the Brit posters... but I get it a whole lot more after seeing her butcher YLTLF like this

My entry has been submitted. Thanks for running.

Reports coming from Twitter saying that electroacoustic and acousmatic composer Francis Dhomont has passed away at age 97.

Survived by his wife, Dame Julia Nancee Drew.

Sat 30 Dec 33 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again 30 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 23 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? +2 22 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me +2 22 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 10 The Beatles — Please Please Me -6

30/12/23 33 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again +4 30 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 22 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 21 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 20 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me 16 The Beatles — Please Please Me -6

1. Linda Nolan 2. Jimmy Carter 3 Barbara knox coronation st 4 June brown eastenders 5. Shaun ryder 6.shannon Doherty 7. Dick van dyke 8. Larry lamb 9 princess Anne 10. Noddy holder 11. Steven Tyler 12. Bob odenkirk better call Saul 13 James dyson 14. Wille Nelson 15 gene symonnds 16 Roger waters 17. Sue Nichols coronation st 18. Immelda Marcus 19. Donatella versace 20. Kelvin klein 21. Dog the bounty hunter 22 Pete Doherty 23 Paul McCartney 24 yoko ono 25. Keele d (arrested for tupac murder) 26 ghisellaine maxwell 27. Suge Knight 28. Ian Watkins lost profits 29. Ian Huntley 30. Marion foale designer 31.coleen Nolan 32. Dali lama 33 John major 34. Vladimir putin 35. Kim jung un 36. Bruce willis 37. Anthony Hopkins 38. Michael Douglas 39 Arnold swartznegger 40. Christian Brukner madeline mccan suspect 41. Sylvester stalone 42. David Jason only fools and horses 43. Johnny rotten 44. John ottway 45. Debbi Harrry 46. Stevie nicks 47. Harvey weinstein 48. Mick jagger 49 slash 50. Freddie dodge gold rush

Truss has been allowed to dole some honours to her cronies. I'd have preferred the lettuce to get an Honours List.

Positive update from Grace Helbig following her cancer diagnosis earlier this year. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1aoQm6vtmK/?igsh=MWY0bHY3c21yOGJiag==

I suppose I am the Nigel Farage of the DeathList forum and Derby Deadpool -very little actual official wins but plenty of colourful influence, scene setting and mood music!!