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As mentioned by Zsa Zsa's Leg, today is the West Virginia Primary. As a Bernie bro, I'm very excited to see how Justice Democrat "coal miner's daughter" Paula Jean Swearengin will do in her primary against sitting Senator Joe Manchin. I don't expect her to win, unfortunately, as Manchin has the big money and establishment on his side. It's sort of understandable when establishment centrist Democrats support people like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, who are still somewhat liberal. But I don't get how ANY Democrat, no matter how centrist, could support Joe Manchin based on principal - he votes with the Trump administration 61% of the time! There are Republicans who are more liberal than him... The Democratic Party's support of Manchin once again shows that they're not actually for the working people or their progressive base.

Edith MacArthur received a Times obit, meaning the DDP 2018 is officially at 100 hits.

Ah, April. As the weather gets warmer, the DDP hits get fewer. But - not to fret - as the Windy City Deadpool is here to save us all from a summer of deadpooling boredom! Basics: Pick a team of 20 people. The higher their rank, the more points they get when they die and obit. Submit it to me via PM or on this thread, by the end of April. Scoring System: 1st pick: 500 points 2nd pick: 450 points 3rd pick: 400 points 4th pick: 350 points 5th pick: 300 points 6th pick: 275 points 7th pick: 250 points 8th pick: 225 points 9th pick: 200 points 10th pick: 180 points 11th pick: 160 points 12th pick: 140 points 13th pick: 120 points 14th pick: 100 points 15th pick: 85 points 16th pick: 70 points 17th pick: 55 points 18th pick: 50 points 19th pick: 45 points 20th pick: 40 points No bonus points! As you can see the margin slowly decreases from 50 to 25 to 20 to 15 to 5. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by whoever has the most unique hits. Acceptable Obits: Anything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool, plus The Independent. Plus the following national American news sources: - ABC News - NBC News - CBS News - Fox News Plus the following local American news sources: - New York Times - LA Times - Chicago Tribune Duration: The competition lasts from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. Get your team in before Big Ben welcomes the month of May.

FINAL SCOREBOARD 21. Gooseberry Crumble 325 20. ImNotHades 650 19. YoungWillz 1235 18. Deathray 1305 17. Bibliogryphon 1410 16. Davy Jones' Locker 1450 15. GraveDanger 2075 14. Shaun of the Dead 2150 13. The Unknown Man 2180 12. gcreptile 2235 11. Jiromeon Kimura 2550 10. Wormfarmer 2565 9. RadGuy/Phantom of the Midway/Me 2755 8. CaptainChorizo 2820 7. Book 2825 6. msc 3000 5. drol 3050 4. The Dead Cow 3110 3. Joey Russ 3240 2. Grim Up North 3330 1. Death Impends 3350 Congrats to DeathImpends on winning yet again! Also, shout-out to 5th place drol, who was tied with DI for hits (15/20). Good luck next year everyone! This is Rad, signing off as your host, and from now on a fellow competitor...

Ha, I thought to myself "Vanessa Goodwin 2019?" when the news was announced. Guess not...

Update #11 Hits: 17 April - Barbara Bush (b. 1925) - YoungWillz, John Key, Grim Up North, Torva Messor, mr.whit 22 April - Jacqui Forster (b. 1962) - Joey Russ Scoreboard: gcreptile 768 Captain Chorizo 584 drol 537 Joey Russ 515 Grim Up North 490 msc 482 Sean 435 DevonDeathTrip 404 DeathImpends 401 Book 395 FixedBusiness 332 Prophet 307 Banana 291 The Unknown Man 291 Toast 195 Torva Messor 184 John Key 178 YoungWillz 164 Wormfarmer 92 Gooseberry Crumble 53 Grigori 48 mr.whit 43 Bibliogryphon 18

His daughter has sent him to a "nursing home". Back on the clock?

Had the day off school today, so I went to finally get my driver's license. Technically, I was able to have it since I turned 16 in July, but I didn't get back from Poland till August, then school got in the way, yada yada... It was a 3 hour wait at the DMV, which surprised me because it was an early afternoon on a Monday. But I guess I should have expected that since Chicagoland is filled with unemployed ratchets, so it makes no difference when you go. I spent the past couple days reading driver exam horror stories online, and I was convinced my examiner would hallucinate imaginary children running across the street and fail me for running them over (yes, that actually happened to someone, apparently). But he was a nice guy. I was pretty nervous since I didn't know the area well (it was half an hour away from my house), but all I had to do is drive around the neighborhood for 5 minutes, 'uphill' (obvs. no hills in Illinois) park - he didn't even make me use the parking brake, and back out of a driveway - which I took nearly a minute on cuz I was tryna be extra cautious. Anyway, I'm ecstatic as fuck now and can't wait to enjoy my newfound freedom!

Not to be a dick, but I've noticed this trend with you @Gooseberry Crumble so might as well let you know. When naming a thread, the name of the person is sufficent, unless they are extremely obscure. 'Rosalynn Carter' would be fine, since almost everybody knows who she is. You could perhaps add 'Former US First Lady' to the thread description. Besides that, good thread. Should be heavily considered for DL 2019.

Usually when I see a non-athlete celebrity trending on Twitter, my first thought is that they're dead (as you can see I'm a very fun person). But that was certainly not the case with Avicii. Saw him trending yesterday afternoon, assumed he was releasing a new album or something, and bam - he's dead. In hindsight, it shouldnt've been very shocking, since he had his fair share of health issues. But still... it doesn't seem real. RIP.

Estelle Parsons reprised her role as Bev in last night's episode. If you ask me, she hasn't changed a bit since the '90s. Wouldn't recommend her for any pools any time soon.

Centenarian athlete, DDP pick, and all-around cool guy Stanisław Kowalski hit two major milestones in recent weeks. On March 19th, he became the Oldest Man in Poland, upon the death of Józef Żurek. On April 14th, he turned 108 years old! Many happy returns!

When I first heard the news of her ill health two days ago, my initial reaction was that it was a "brace yourself" announcement and that she had only a few days left to live. But later on, I figured she could easily make it another couple months. It might take a while before she suffered complications from her illnesses. Turns out I was right the first time around. RIP, I guess. Edit: I really can't imagine George living much longer anymore. Couple months left at best, probably just a couple weeks.

Chicago spring weather is obviously crazy, but this year might be one of the craziest I've seen. End of February a 'heat wave' arrives with temps in the 60s, and everybody's thinking spring's gonna arrive early this year. But in mid-March, we have another snowstorm with a couple inches falling in the span of a couple hours. It's cold for most of the rest of March, with no end in sight. Things warm up again very late in March with a couple nice, sunny days, in the upper 50s. Some flowers actually start to blossom. This time's gotta be spring, right? Nay. Easter is the coldest one in decades, barely above freezing in the daytime. Then, a couple days later, snow fell. And this Monday, we had snow fall again. Then, yesterday and the day before temps reached 70! Practically summertime, right, we skipped thru spring? Nay. Temps near freezing this weekend with snow potential into Monday.

Update #10 Hits: 24 March - Lys Assia (b. 1924) - Grigori 4 April - Amy Mattingly (b. 1985) - gcreptile 5 April - Eric Bristow (b. 1957) - Toast Scoreboard: gcreptile 768 Captain Chorizo 584 drol 537 msc 482 Grim Up North 465 Joey Russ 453 Sean 435 DevonDeathTrip 404 DeathImpends 401 Book 395 FixedBusiness 332 Prophet 307 Banana 291 The Unknown Man 291 Toast 195 Torva Messor 159 John Key 153 YoungWillz 139 Wormfarmer 92 Gooseberry Crumble 53 Grigori 48 Bibliogryphon 18 mr.whit 18

Yeah, you two are right. I fucked up big time jokering him. Seemed like a cert in December - 'too ill' to attend Christmas lighting, and everybody thought it plausible for him to die that month and give DQSP another late win. But even though more tumors are popping up, everything seems under control for now. I guess there's a chance treatment stops working and he dies later this year, but at the moment it seems he's actually one of the worst picks on my team. Not something you'd want to say about your joker. I originally considered him to be a 2017 Errol Christie - unexpectedly survived the previous year, so a decent bet he won't hang on much longer. But now I realize he's more of a 2017 Leah Bracknell - prognosis seems grim on paper, but they're defying the odds and not declining as fast as expected. So, yeah, that means I'm pretty much out of the run for the title this year. But punts like Goodwin and Rios Montt being successful means I still have a decent shot at the top 10. And, who knows, if Vervoort continues to stall the euthanasia...

Her son confirms she's in hospice care. https://twitter.com/PaulyShore/status/982661531862052864

Eric Bristow dead according to several folk on Twitter. https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/981997053470564352 https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/981997053470564352 Could a mod please move this to the darts thread - 99% sure there is one, but can't find it. Edit: Shit, the Andy Fordham one right?

This tweet aged well...

Men: Bishop David Foley John McCain Herman Wouk Women: Cloris Leachman Jacqui Forster Marieke Vervoort

Thanks guys. Definitely not a pick I feel bad about scoring with. Certainly better than last year's unique ALS mum.

Hands off Sister Jean in the pools. It's bad enough she was made into a crying Jordan meme after Loyola's loss yesterday.

Happy Easter everyone. Going to my aunt's house for brunch in a couple hours.

Here's some of my thoughts: Surprised Lê Đức Anh is a unique for Joey, would've made my team as well. It's a tad suspicious he made it this long after the grim reports, but his time is probably up soon. Odelein an interesting punt - seems very grim but we don't really know what's wrong with him. Read some articles in the Japanese press about Obayashi making several public appearances in March, so that's a unique that probs won't pay off for Joey... same can be said for Rae (went to a birthday part last month)... and Abbas is almost definitely a bad pick, since the health report was likely a fraud, though I guess assassination isn't out of the question. I'd've dropped Anzaki if I advanced... we don't really know how he's doing since the goodbye party. And he was just pissing me off for being a wasted pick twice, plus I was counting on him to give me a last-minute hit against Cow . He'll probably piss me off even more by croaking this month. Pretty shocked Jowell's a unique. If she does die this month, it'll probably be in the later weeks, since she attended a wedding. But she looked ghoulish in the photos, and the fact they had to have the ceremony earlier is ominous. Da-Ren's a goner almost fasho, but I didn't think he'd be most popular pick. Thought that'd be Wilkins - there's a *chance* he'll recover from the heart attack, but looks a goner since his condition is still critical after several days. Bishop David Foley would've made my team. Not a bad find for DDT and Sir Creep, he's in a 'care home' with cancer - sounds a bit like hospice. Funny that Cow got a Remigino unique, as I would've had him on my team as well. Great minds think alike . I base this off some tweets I saw in February where he looked quite frail. Didn't think Sergei Skripal would be such a popular pick. If his daughter recovered, I think he might too. I feel like if the attack were fatal, he'd likely be dead by now. But, you never know, folk in that condition have been known to linger and then suddenly croak. Quite tricky to call. Lastly, Stefansson... of course it's easy to think he's a goner soon based off the grim health reports at the end of February, as well as the fact that he deleted his social media. OTOH, he said he has some projects he wanted to finish, so he might have a couple months left in him. Besides, I remembered when Rowena Kincaid deleted her social media in May 2016... she proceeded to make it all the way to September! There's a decent chance Stefan'll die this month, but I wouldn't have included him on my team.