Joey Russ

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Irv Williams dead

James “Radio” Kennedy, who was the subject of the 2003 film Radio is dead at 69

Hi Deathers. Decided to go with a public team this time, which mean all of these names are common knowledge names. I’ve also carried over every single one of my survivors from 2019, as I still think all of them has there use here. Terry Jones (joker) Daniel Arap Moi Bob Barker Pope Benedict Jimmy Carter Tommy Devito Kirk Douglas Bob Fass Jill Gascoine Mikhail Gorbachev Alan Greenspan Lee Kerslake Norman Lloyd Vera Lynn Robert McCain Stirling Moss Willie Nelson Genesis P-orridge Little Richard Roger Scruton Nobby Stiles Kane Tanaka Alex Trebek Jean Louis Trintignant Chitetsu Watanabe Subs John Andretti Larry King John Hume Everton Weekes Javier Perez de Cuellar

Is Leon Spinks deathlisty? I mean, if Errol Christie made it on...

Spencer Compton, the Marquess of Northampton has claimed to cure his own cancer. I wonder if he’ll also magically cure the brain tumor of Chris Doleman.

My only other clue is to reread the thing that is quoted, and then look at the crowdsource list top 50 again. That might give you a better idea on who that might be...

After an amazing three years of hosting the annual Crowdsource list, former host msc has decided to step down from hosting duties for this pool. However, with every great pool out there, there must be a host to fulfill those pools, and therefore I decided to take over for the Crowdsource list. With 9 or so weeks till Hogmanay, I decided that now would be a good time to open this thread. A mediocre performance with only 12 hits, with next year be a stronger year? We'll wait and see... THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Joey Russ, during the time period of 23rd November to the 31st December 2018. The list must have a minimum of 20 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Please send them by either PM or the Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2019. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Jacques Chirac and less Sara Chivers, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2018 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier dead line is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrites from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2018 survivors will be used: George Bush Sr, Leah Bracknell, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Prince Philip, Nobby Stiles, Robert Mugabe, Vera Lynn, Leslie Phillips, Clive James, Herman Wouk, Glynis Johns, Olivia de Havilland, Dilip Kumar, Jill Gascoine, Pope Benedict, Jimmy Carter, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Poitier, Greg Gilbert, Mikhail Gorbachev, Fernando Ricksen, John Hume, Linda Nolan, Stan Lee, Joanne Woodward, Jean of Luxembourg, Diana Athill, Jacques Chirac, Alberto Fujimori, Valerie Harper, Bob Dole, Pearl Carr, Beverly Clearly, Monica Vitti, Diana Serra Carry, Yoko Ono, Val Kilmer Some names there I don’t think anyone expected to be in contention for 2019, but there’s still time in 2018 yet. 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2018 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. Anyhow, enjoy. Or not.

ANNIE SELLS THE FARM 16/50 13th December 2019 UK soap actress Sheila Mercier has died to bring the crowdsource list up to a very respectable score. She began her career as a stage actress, working on Donald Wolfit's Shakespeare company till 1951. She then worked with her brother Brian Rix in the Whitehall farces, a series of five plays that ran throughout the 1950s and 1960s. These performances were televised on the BBC, with critics noting that Mercier "was up to the second in tempo sense of fun." It was in 1972, however, where she performed in her biggest role in her career. Mercier was among the original cast of Emmerdale, and in it she played Annie Sugden, the head of the Sugden family. Sheila was among the main cast members of the show, staying on the show for another 22 years (being one of two original cast members still around for the 20th anniversary) before retiring in 1994. She has made occasional appearances since then for the funeral of her sons Joe in 1995 and Jack in 2009. She also made an appearance in a special programme in honor of the 5000th episode of Emmerdale. Given her old age and her impact on Emmerdale, she was a bit of a popular pick for some, as she was making her way to a second appearance on the crowdsource list. However, instead she died at the ripe old age of 100, only sneaking on at the 49th spot on this year's list. It should be noted though that like any dead pool barring the likes of Deathrace and co, it is a marathon rather than a sprint. We went nearly four months without any hits (and it looked like it might've been a dismal year), and look at the list now. It's at its second best performance to date...

Bragging rights starts now...

Gonna have to disagree with that one. She was at 143 points when she died, so certainly would've had a fighting chance to stay on if she lasted to 2020...

I should probably link the rule page, so here it is: http://www.aodeadpool.org/rules.html Also, make sure you alphabetize your list to something like this (although with whatever names you decide to play) 1. Carter, Jimmy - US president 2. Douglas, Kirk - Hollywood actor 3. Lynn, Vera - Wartime singer 4. Philip, Prince - Duke of Edinburgh 5. Trebek, Alex - Jeopardy Host Should be something like that Oh, and don’t be surprised if some of your picks are rejected. This happens to a lot of us, especially if you are the more competitive player.

For those who haven’t played alt obits before, the submission period is now open.

Looks like Labour has overperformed the exit polls numbers, although it's not going to be by much...

Entered all lists that have been sent so far. And yes, the race for the top 50 is quite fascinating. While I won't say too much about it, there is one name who's been on the list for a while that might be at risk of not making the top 50/getting DQ'd. They aren't really that A list either, which may lead to some voters forgetting about them. If they do end up not making the list, they will almost certainly die next year. So, there's that. Also, I know soon people will be putting up their list for the shadowlist, so whoever starts that trend, if you want your shadowlist to count as an entry for the crowdsource entry, please @ me so I know that you want your list to count. This is just to make it easier to tell who wants to enter than not. I'll post this part again whenever the first shadowlist post happens...

Sinn Fein member Fra McCann has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Well, Spotify decide to do a tribute to many of those who passed in the past decade: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWV0OET3IokWn?si=cdOFjoAHQRCeqAMNATcI0g

Apparently both Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, the two founders of the Sesame Workshop (which created Sesame Street) are still alive. Think one or both of them wouldn’t be bad choices...

Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host Joey Russ). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day. And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN. 2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2019. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and Joey Russ, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry Joey Russ guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes Joey Russ's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite Joey Russ's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of Joey Russ and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: Banana - Jean Pagé Sean - Genesis P-orridge Drol - Ajoy Roy Quim Reaper - Henry Gray Oldlady - Larry King Maryportfuncity - Nobby Stiles CaptainChorizo - David Gulpilil Bibliogryphon - Vera Lynn gcreptile - Karl Kiefer Death Impends - Ed Battle msc - DJ Richard Mills Great Uncle Bulgaria - Stirling Moss Toast - Jimmy Greaves Gooseberry Crumble - Leslie Phillips The Old Crem - Prince Philip Chilean way - Javier Pérez de Cuellar Book - Frankie Banali DeathByArsenic - Juliette Greco JiroemonKimura - Ron Boswell markb4 - Ruthie Thompson dean1991 - Peter Higgs Torva Messor - John Franzese Sr Skinny Kiltrunner - Susan Bayh Clorox Bleachman - Everton Weekes Joey Russ - Willie Nelson Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016  Death Impends  2017 Sean 2018 Banana Good luck everyone.

I had no idea if I would’ve picked her had she seen 2020 tbh, she’s such a dull name and there’s a lot more interesting and good names out there than usual.

Well, now that Kate Figes, Pete Frates, Nell Gifford, and Paul Volcker are all dead it makes the shortlist task a little bit easier. Despite so many names though, I can tell something is missing, but I don’t know what it is...

Now to see if Kate Figes will become the first pick in this pool to get a BBC obit...

Oldlady had Frates in 3rd...

Think it’s one of the lurking teams like Buckets of Blood rather than an actual forum member...

Yep, I put Pete Frates way too high. Any minuscule chance of a comeback is finished. Oh well, time to fail the inverse pool again next year...