Joey Russ

Battling cancer apparently.

The star of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way video Rick Genest dead at 32.

Well, both my adds on for the GI Generation and the Baby Boomers has all died and such became hits for me. However, none of my silent generation add ons has died and received a QO, and I though Remigino would've received something by now.

A shit song with a long song title? Here’s another one (I find it quite amusing tbh).

Ah, but I’ve also realized that no one except the randomized team picked her in the inverse pool, and that might’ve been the smart choice actually...

The latest on Marieke Vervoort suggests that she’s planning on getting a brand new passport, which probably means one of two things: a) she’s traveling the world one last time before her euthanasia happens or b) most of us fell for a Ryan Buell/Scott Thorson type pick. I’m leaning towards b...

She got an LA Times obituary too, so there’s no reason that it should be disputed. Although I don’t know why an Australian source would report it before the UK reported it...

Question, shouldn’t Sir Creep and Chorizo get an extra point for Miyako since they got a duo with her?

C is for Carlisle. Also a solo for Torva, the first in the game...

If you’re talking about Art Bell’s drug overdose, pretty sure that counts for unnatural bonus points...

Been kind of slow for top 50 hits, huh?

With 5 months left in the DDP, I think I’m finally am going guess on who I think is going to win the DDP this year, and I believe that it will be Ethnic Cleansing. Let’s have a look at his team. For one thing, he picked Leah Bracknell as his joker, and when she inevitably goes this year (she’s been completely silent since July 1st on all forms of communication), that’ll put them one point above me. While that might not seem much, he also has 3 picks that has potential to push them up much higher: Devin Lima, Simon Ricketts, and Nobby Stiles. Even one of them would push him up at least 11 points ahead of me, but I think I could see 2 or even all three of them going this year. Clegg is a gamble, but I could see him dying this year by canceling his final concert. As for me, I share Leah Bracknell, Greg Gilbert, Clive James, John McCain, and Linda Nolan with him (although I only think Bracknell and McCain will die this year), and as I said before, Bracknell would actually put them one point ahead for me, which leaves only 5 people that could push me ahead of him. I think I massively overestimated the obit chances of John Cocksy Cocks. He only got one Mail article on him after he was diagnosed with cancer, and that was largely focused on the wedding he was going to have. At a minimum, he’s going to live about 17 months after the article, and he’s likely going to live at least a few months more as I think he’s still doing immunotherapy. As for the other differentials on my squad, I’m pretty sure that Stuart Fraser will get the obit, but I have absolutely no idea on what his health is like right now. He could be on his way out or he could turn out to be better like Ian St John. Ricksen and Stefansson feels like 2019 deaths at this point and Vervoort, well, while a natural death is still plausible, I’m not getting my hopes up too much. Buckets of Blood has multiple people that I don’t think will die this year as they picked a fraudster (Ami Brown), gambled on unsuccessful unnatural points (Vervoort), but he also picked some oldies who I think will still hang on for a while like Dilip Kumar and Charlotte Rae and he picked a big drama queen as well (Jose Jose). Then there’s Thomas Jefferson Survives, who’s two nonobits will probably cost him the title, and while he does shares Stiles and Clegg with them, he doesn’t have Simon Ricketts or Devin Lima, and his other differentials don’t really look that strong at this point. So yeah, I think that Ethnic Cleansing will most likely win the DDP this year. The only way I think that they would lose is if Vervoort does goes naturally, but I’m not really holding my breath on that at this point...

Thanks for playing Clorox. Meanwhile, Oliver Dragojevic is my 5th hit on here after Zarin, Hawking, Jowell, and Nurridin...

Here's the update due for the deaths of Lord Peter Carrington and Clive King. Carrington was once again one of those people who only receive one point in total unless they hit one of the spots where an extra point was allowed. Those who did find the extra spot include me and Bibliogryphon, and as such, the changes on his front were minor apart from Death Impends breaking the joint 2nd lock with drol, and he could be on the way to winning his second title in this... On the other hand, Clive King has more impact in this since he starts out with a base point and 3 unique points for being a DDP unique pick. Bibliogryphon gets a joker as well as finding a secret spot bringing him a whopping 10 points, while msc is now joint 2nd= with Death Impends due to his demise, but can one of them outscore Torva Messor in the end? We'll see... Here are the scores! 1st - Torva Messor - 41 points 2nd= - Death Impends - 38 points 2nd= - msc - 38 points 4th= - drol - 37 points 4th= - Toast - 37 points 6th= - CaptainChorizo - 35 points 6th= - The Dead Cow - 35 points 8th= - Bibliogryphon - 32 points 8th= - CastAway - 32 points 10th= - Heef - 30 points 10th= - Pedro67 - 30 points 12th - RadGuy - 29 points 13th - The Unknown Man - 24 points 14th= - Book - 22 points 14th= - FixedBusiness - 22 points 16th - Gooseberry Crumble - 21 points 17th - YoungWilz - 15 points Last place - Joey Russ - 12 points Congrats to Bibliogryphon for jumping all the way from 15th place to 8th=. Definitely one of the highest place jumpers there...

Trump is telling Sessions to stop the Mueller probe right now. Now, why would he say something like that if you really got nothing to hide (you cunt).

Never mind. Replaced him last time...

Nah, biggest death of the month is clearly Laura Barry cause it puts Death Impends among the front runners for the DDP again...

Former Virgin Records American Head and developer for the Spice Girls Ray Cooper is dead at 69.

Let’s try this one: 1. Jarrod Lyle 2. Jean Louis Tritignant 3. Maartin Allcock 4. Stuart Fraser 5. Fernando Ricksen

In palliative care now. Better start looking for a replacement for those of you who had him as a lock for 2019.

Aye, but he’s already 82 years old, which makes him a much better candidate than say Michael J Fox, though I don’t think Alda is going quite yet...

Maybe more of an idea and possibility for 2021, but Alex Trebek may retire in 2020.

^ Should’ve put that in Alex Ferguson’s thread tbh...

Tbh, had he not continued to tour until he died, there was a good chance of me putting Henry Butler on my squad. But he seemed too active for me...

It’s been one year since Jerome Golmard died: And from that point on, Golden Slumbers became the favorite to win the DDP...