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  1. Posted

    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!

     

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    Many happy returns! :party:

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  2. Posted

    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.

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  3. Posted

    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.

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  4. Posted

    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

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  5. Posted

    20 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

    Starting to wonder if Gilbert is becoming more of a long term case than a in two years fatality type...

     

    16 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

    Well if he’s starting a cycle of chemo his doctors suspect or at least hope it keeps C from advancing, so there’s all that time plus even if it fails then there may still be alternatives and even if not there is still the time the body succumbs and that’s usually many months (say 4 minimum 12 max).  Two years is quite likely rather than iffy, and chalk up myself and whoever else wants to admit now that Gilbert appears a shoddy pick in 2018.

    SC

     

    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. :unsure:

     

    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...

  11. Posted

    1 minute ago, CaptainChorizo said:

    Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt 

    Hands off Sister Jean in the pools. :bat:

     

    It's bad enough she was made into a crying Jordan meme after Loyola's loss yesterday.

  13. Posted

    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 :P. 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.

  14. Posted

    Good game, @The Dead Cow.

     

    I knew all along I was fucked going up against you, so I'm glad I at least put up a decent fight.

     

    I'll be rooting for you to take it all the way!

     

    Oh, and here's my would-be team if anyone's interested:

     

    Mansoor Ahmed
    Le Duc Anh
    Leah Bracknell
    Fu Da-Ren
    David Foley
    Tessa Jowell
    Azreen Manan
    Lindy Remigino
    Mitzi Shore
    Russell Verhousky
    Ray Wilkins

  16. Posted

    Update #23 for Lewis Gilbert and Vanessa Goodwin.

     

    DeathImpends 3350

    Grim Up North 3330

    Joey Russ 3240

    The Dead Cow 3110

    drol 3050
    msc 3000

    Book 2825

    CaptainChorizo 2820

    RadGuy 2755

    Wormfarmer 2565

    Jiromeon Kimura 2550

    gcreptile 2235

    The Unknown Man 2180

    Shaun of the Dead 2150

    GraveDanger 2075

    Davy Jones' Locker 1450

    Bibliogryphon 1410
    Deathray 1305
    YoungWillz 1235
    ImNotHades 650
    Gooseberry Crumble 325

     

    I was gonna wait for a third hit to make this update but it's been quiet for weeks, so I'm not gonna hold off on awarding Goodwin points any longer. DeathImpends takes the lead with just over a month to go...

     

    To answer the above post - yes, this pool will be running for 2018-19. The new host, Captain Chorizo, should be opening the new thread in a week or two. Y'all make sure to give him a big 'like' when he does.

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  18. Posted

    He's not just an organic farmer, Sir Creep. He's an organic farming activist, who started a local non-profit. Admittedly a very borderline name, but he qualifies.

     

    Anyway, he's dead. Not sure if that there counts, but hopefully it does cause it might be my only chance to take the lead against Cow before the Shaun Bailey obit comes in.

     

    Edit: Be funny if Cow and I tie and it comes down to Bailey vs. Kleese age - they were both 53. It'd be another coin flip for msc..

  19. Posted

    The reason the translation might be off is because Vervoort's a Belgian, and Flemish differs pretty significantly from the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands.

     

    Anyway, from what we can understand, looks like she's putting off the euthanasia again.

     

    Not very surprised. She's been overdramatic about it for months now. Remember the late December articles that pushed almost everybody to joker her in the DDP? Folks thought she'd be gone by the middle of January.

     

    Wish I hadn't chosen her for the Cup. Only had her on the team as a defensive pick. I would've had huge bragging rights if I were the only one of 16 teams to correctly guess she'd survive the month. :P 

     

    Of course, now that I said that, watch her inject the needle tomorrow...

  20. Posted

    Update #9

     

    Hits:

    3 March - Emma Hannigan (b. 1972) - gcreptile

    3 March - Roger Bannister (b. 1929) - The Unknown Man

    11 March - Ken Dodd (b. 1927) - YoungWillz, drol

    14 March - Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) - YoungWillz, John Key, Wormfarmer, Book, Grim Up North, Prophet

     

    Scoreboard:
    gcreptile 683
    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
    Torva Messor 159

    John Key 153

    YoungWillz 139
    Toast 138

    Wormfarmer 92
    Gooseberry Crumble 53
    Grigori 24
    Bibliogryphon 18
    mr.whit 18

     

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  21. Posted

    Participated in my school's walkout today. A couple of short speeches followed by 17 minutes of silence for the victims of the Parkland shooting.

     

    The moment of silence was almost disrupted by a special kid who ate snow and wouldn't stop talking. Also, this crazy conservative activist kid had a plot to blow air horns during it, but the deans caught him before he could.

     

    All in all, it was a very somber moment. Hopefully the thousands of kids who walked out today across the US sent a message to the politicians that they gotta finally do something.

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  22. Posted

    People: Stephen Hawking inspired us to have a rational and scientific approach to life. RIP to a great mind.

     

    Also People: OMG, he died on Pi Day/Einstein's birthday! That must mean something!

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  24. Posted

    Update #8

     

    Hits:
    15 February - Lassie Lou Ahern (b. 1920) - Torva Messor
    19 February - Catherine Nevin (b. 1950) - FixedBusiness, msc, drol, Banana, Prophet
    21 February - Rev. Billy Graham (b. 1918) - Bibliogryphon, YoungWillz, The Unknown Man, Gooseberry Crumble, John Key, Sean, mr.whit
    3 March - Vanessa Goodwin (b. 1969) - FixedBusiness, msc, Sean, Joey Russ, Grim Up North, gcreptile, Captain Chorizo, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip

     

    Scoreboard:
    gcreptile 611
    Captain Chorizo 584
    drol 510
    msc 482
    Joey Russ 453
    Sean 435
    Grim Up North 423
    DevonDeathTrip 404
    DeathImpends 401
    Book 353
    FixedBusiness 332
    Banana 291
    Prophet 265
    The Unknown Man 262
    Torva Messor 159
    Toast 138
    John Key 111
    YoungWillz 70
    Gooseberry Crumble 53
    Wormfarmer 50
    Grigori 24
    Bibliogryphon 18
    mr.whit 18

     

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  25. Posted

    Interesting news to wake up to.

     

    Considered her an obit punt, but she already got the Guardian and the Mail hours ago. Goes to show how random 'obit punts' could be - if she hadn't died on (or near) Tasmanian election day, I reckon there'd be a couple days wait for a Guardian obit at best.

     

    Well, off to update Death by Numbers.

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