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Not to be a bother, especially with how busy you must be with the 2019 entries, but I noticed a few minor issues. 1. DI's space theme team Decaying Orbit-uaries is at 0 points in the Theme Team League table, but it's actually at 39 points. 2. God bless ya for updating the scoreboard for Bill Slater and Penny Marshall already, but when you click on both their bios, there is no date of death. Dunno if you intentionally left that for later or not. Before you ask, I've fuck all better to do during the holiday season.

29 shortlist names left. As I said last week, I'm pretty confident about my team and how the 'final draft' will look. Just a couple names I'm wrestling with. One off-forum young'un had a social media update recently that I took to make them be a lock, but upon doing research on some medical things, it turned out that update wasn't nearly as serious as I had originally assumed! Also decided against picking an oldie who's very likely to die, mainly because of a few technicalities. And when it comes to "few names I might pussy out of"... yeah I just pussied out of one. But going off precedent, he might die off the radar. Edit: This is probably the last shortlist-meddling I'll be doing for a while, as I have final exams this week, a couple of college application essays to finish, and Christmas celebrations to attend. I'll make my finishing touches to my 2019 team starting Boxing Day.

Thanks. It was all me, fuck the players. On a serious note: so glad this happened. I still can't believe Da Bears are going to the playoffs. Like, I can't wrap my mind around the fact that I will be watching Bears football in January. But it's finally going to happen, for the first time in 8 years. And there wasn't a better team for us to clinch the division win/playoff spot against than the Packers.

Tim Conway is 85 years old today! Suffering from advanced dementia and being a household name in the USA (therefore, assured a Daily Mail obituary), Conway has a good shot at making the Drop 40 for the 2019 DDP imo. Having starred in both McHale's Navy and Spongebob Squarepants with Ernest Borgnine, as well as the Carol Burnett Show, perhaps he might just meet the fame criteria for the Deathlist as well.

Down to 32 names on the shortlist, but tbh I'm already fairly sure of how my team is going to look in the end. I have pretty much decided on 17 spots, but I'm not going to call them ''locks'' yet because there's a couple I might pussy out of. I think I've figured out who will fill the final 3 spots as well, but I still have time to (over)think about it.

Submitted my NFL theme team Traded to the Saints and my Z-team Belmont-Cragin Reaper yesterday afternoon, and already got confirmation this morning. Thanks Spade! Z-Team: a shitty team, way worse than a B-Team, consisting of names I want to protect from the List of the Missed, some of my 2018 theme team survivors, etc. There - I invented a new word for the DDP vocabulary!

DDP To Kill A Gabor Sister - So far I'm in 9th place, improving on last year's =11th, but that could change. Hopefully I remain in the top 10 at least. I was hoping to contend for the crown, but not much to complain about, really. B+ Slavic Folk Theme - 18 survivors, 2 List of the Losters, makes 0 hits. Fucking amazing. Not surprised ancient Bulgarian monk did not obit, but Barys Kit got fuckin robbed, man! F US Politics Theme - 4 hits: Senator Akaka, Johnnie-boy McCain, and both Bushes. Decent showing. A- Other pools started in January Deathrace - Was hoping for a win, but I ended up in joint third, so came close enough. However, I missed a lot of names I knew would die early in the year when creating my team, such as Bobby Zarin. B- Hartlepool - Not sure since Ali's been disappeared. Half my team is dead and mostly names at the top, so should be pretty good. Only problem is Marieke Vervoort was my #1. You cunts said she'd be dead by mid-January! B Hare's - I think I'm near the bottom, might have made it to midtable with some recent hits on Lima and Bush. D+ Pools from later in the year DL Cup - Made it to the March round, and although my team was the second best performing of the month, I still lost! My opponent was the best of the month, Dead Cow. Luck of the draw... *grumble* C Windy City - Retired from hosting so wanted to pull an OoO DDP 2010. My team is doing well so far, but no way I can fucking catch DI! B- Poker Tourney - A'like Winday Citay, doing aight, but can't fucking catch up to that god DI! B- ABC Pool - Midway through it, I'm in the lead. Hopefully this continues. A+

Well, Chris Bradley is dead and I miss out on my first deadpool win by a couple seconds. Congrats to Banana!

Yeah, I'm on my computer now and it works great. I think the design is excellent!

I'm on mobile right now (so it might be different on the comp) but I'd suggest having the menu on the side rather than the bottom of the page. Not a big deal tho. Otherwise looks good to me.

As suggested by some folk on her husband's thread, she needs her own (and naw, last year's Barbara vs. Rosalynn thread doesn't count). The going on 92, frail-looking, many times hospitalized, stressed out by husband's health, soon-to-be-widow former First Lady is a good candidate for next year.

Down to 53 names on the shortlist. At this point, the cuts are becoming quite difficult. Recent cut was a probable Drop 40er who isn't as ill as he's dramatized to be, both in the press and on the forum. Also dropped someone who is almost a dead-cert and will be on several contending teams, but probably won't muster the obit. The main one I'm dabbling with now is a bloke who I think understated his life expectancy. And I was quite surprised to find out that two names of the same nationality, who were practically locks, have a couple more years left in them if statistics are to be believed. However, I expect at least one of them to make my team anyway, because a lot of the current locks won't make the starting line!

Just bringing this up... with both Bushes now dead, I think that definitely ought to open up a spot for Rosalynn Carter on the Deathlist 2019.

I guess this is my last chance to share my favorite Bush family memes.

Update #24 Hits: 26 November - Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1941) - Grigori 26 November - Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington (b. 1922) - YoungWillz, Gooseberry Crumble 26 November - Stephen Hillenburg (b. 1961) - Prophet 30 November - George H. W. Bush (b. 1924) - YoungWillz, The Unknown Man, John Key, drol, Wormfarmer, Grim Up North, Torva Messor, Banana, mr.whit Scoreboard: DeathImpends 1406 gcreptile 1367 msc 1198 Captain Chorizo 1168 drol 1155 Grim Up North 1116 Joey Russ 1051 Book 965 Prophet 911 Sean 860 DevonDeathTrip 841 The Unknown Man 680 Banana 664 FixedBusiness 652 Wormfarmer 551 John Key 519 Torva Messor 488 Toast 471 YoungWillz 386 Gooseberry Crumble 242 Grigori 189 mr.whit 125 Bibliogryphon 113 DeathImpends still leads, but he doesn't necessarily have it in the bag with gcreptile keeping up. On the opposite side of the scoreboard, mr.whit leap-frogs Bibliogryphon, but with excellent picks like Clive James and Fernando Ricksen on Biblio's team, a mid-table December comeback would not surprise me.

Just saw it on Twitter. Seems the news broke less than 10 minutes ago, you fuckers is fast. Surprised he lasted this long after Babs, but he was doing overtime on this planet for a couple years now. RIP to the longest lived US President June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018 Now beat that record, Jimbo Carter...

Chris Bradley (meteorologist for Columbus, Ohio) Edit: WTF beaten by seconds! In that case, Tanya Gendle.

Success - no school today! The snow was very heavy and thus harder to clear roads and driveways. Lots of trees got knocked down. Many lost power for a while. So, y'know, Chi-town in the winter. Here's some pictures I took. Our biggest snowfall since February.

Looks like our first major winter storm of the season is here. The orange pin is my location. Big bastard of a system, eh? Started off raining this morning. About an hour ago, it turned into light snow, and right now it's starting to come down pretty fast and accumulating. The snow is supposed to continue throughout the afternoon and night, not stopping until the morning commute tomorrow. Depending on a lot of factors like temperature and timing, there's a chance we get up to 15 inches! Most likely around 6-10 inches, though. If they can't get the roads cleared in time, I might have my classes cancelled tomorrow. But knowing my school district, they'll make us soldier on. Can't wait to get up early and shovel the driveway.

It's official! @gcreptile is your new host for the 2019 competition. A big round of applause for him please. I'll save my corny retirement speech for the end of the year, haha.

May I suggest a certain FLOTUS? Rosalynn Carter turns 92 next year. She spent some time in the hospital this year and would be a perfect replacement for the Babs Bush spot. The Deathlist has a 4-first lady streak going - Lady Bird, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Babs Bush - it would be a shame to break it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all! May you enjoy the company and the food, and may the Bears win in Motor City with a back-up quarterback.

Update #23 Hits: 6 November - Ted Mack (b. 1933) - Grigori, Grim Up North, Captain Chorizo 12 November - Stan Lee (b. 1922) - John Key, mr.whit 21 November - Devin Lima (b. 1977) - Fixed Business, The Unknown Man, John Key, Sean, drol, Joey Russ, Book, Grim Up North, gcreptile, Captain Chorizo, Banana, Toast, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip, Prophet Scoreboard: DeathImpends 1406 gcreptile 1367 msc 1198 Captain Chorizo 1168 drol 1131 Grim Up North 1092 Joey Russ 1051 Book 965 Sean 860 Prophet 850 DevonDeathTrip 841 The Unknown Man 656 FixedBusiness 652 Banana 640 Wormfarmer 527 John Key 495 Toast 471 Torva Messor 464 YoungWillz 340 Gooseberry Crumble 220 Grigori 148 Bibliogryphon 113 mr.whit 101 I have an announcement to make. After a year of running this pool, taking over from the legendary Shaunie, I have decided to retire. I am going off to university next summer, so I'm not sure if I'll have the time or means to visit this forum as often. Also, I will try and visit less often in general next year - I'm too young to make death such a big part of my internet life, ha! If you'd like to be the next host, post here. I'd like to have a new host established by the end of this weekend. I will continue the updates till the end of the year, of course.

Completed my first major shortlist cuts this afternoon, 124 names long turned into just 88. Mostly people who were too old, had no obits chances, or too tasteless to pick. Just like on my current DDP team, I think I'll manage again without any FFBI picks. Glad to see so many other deadpoolers moving away from them.

Another NFL season is well underway. My beloved Chicago Bears have a 5-3 record and sit at the top of the NFC North. But are we really a playoff contender, or just a pretender? Tomorrow's game against the Detroit Lions will reveal it all! I'll be at Soldier Field with my dad, cheering the Bears on. I expect it to be a close and interesting game.