Joey Russ

It seems a little early, I know, but a. People aren’t really taking advantage of Next Year’s Creativity Thread, and I’m still seeing lots of clutter in the ideas and possibilities page, and b. I’m feeling very bored right now and have nothing else to do right now So here’s the page to try to get your Ozzy Osbourne’s on the 2018 list, and to try to pray for your King Michael’s or Leah Bracknell’s to make the starting line because you made an idiotic choice of not picking them on your team. Then, of course, this can also serve as a reminder to the committee for certain picks that are actually good or are interesting enough to be a serious cult pick. I’ll start with a cult pick: Sidney Poitier...

44 10CC – I'm not in love +4 42 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 40 Barry White - You`re the first, the last, my everything 40 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 40 ABBA - Waterloo 38 David Bowie – Space Oddity 36 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) 33 Ken Boothe - Everything I own 26 John Denver – Annie´s Song 24 George McCrae – Rock your baby 24 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 24 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 23 The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love 22 Johnny Nash – Tears on my pillow 21 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love 20 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 20 Mud – Oh boy 20 Rod Stewart – Sailing 20 Typically Tropical – Barbados  17 The Tymes – Miss Grace 16 Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun 14 Pilot – January 14 The Stylistics -I can`t give you anything (but my love) 14 David Essex – Gonna make you a star 14 Sweet Sensation – Sad sweet dreamer 12 Art Garfunkel - I only have eyes for you 12 Charles Aznavour - She 10 Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting 0 Alvin Stardust – Jealous mind -6

Pretty sure you dropped that Barry White song way too much.

40 Barry White – You're the first, the last, my everything 38 ABBA - Waterloo 38 10CC – I'm not in love +4 36 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 34 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 34 David Bowie – Space Oddity 32 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) 29 Ken Boothe – Everything I own 26 John Denver – Annie´s Song 24 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 24 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 23 The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love 23 George McCrae – Rock your baby 22 Johnny Nash – Tears on my pillow 22 Typically Tropical – Barbados  21 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 20 Pilot – January 20 Mud – Oh boy 20 The Stylistics – I can't give you anything (but my love) 20 Rod Stewart – Sailing 17 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love 17 The Tymes – Miss Grace 16 Mud - Lonely this Christmas 16 Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun 15 Art Garfunkel - I only have eyes for you 14 David Essex – Gonna make you a star 14 Sweet Sensation – Sad sweet dreamer 14 Alvin Stardust – Jealous mind 14 Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting 12 Charles Aznavour - She 9 David Essex - Hold me close -2 0 The Osmonds – Love me for a reason -4 Get out of here ya lame ass act

Personally I think he should be allowed. Quite a fascinating figure from the few things I read about him

35 Barry White – You're the first, the last, my everything 32 10CC – I'm not in love +4 30 John Denver – Annie´s Song 30 ABBA - Waterloo 28 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 28 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 28 David Bowie – Space Oddity 26 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) 25 Ken Boothe – Everything I own 22 The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love 22 Typically Tropical – Barbados 22 Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 21 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 20 Alvin Stardust – Jealous mind 20 Paper Lace – Billy don't be a hero 20 George McCrae – Rock your baby 20 The Osmonds – Love me for a reason 20 The Tymes – Miss Grace 20 Pilot – January 20 Mud – Oh boy 20 Johnny Nash – Tears on my pillow 20 The Stylistics – I can't give you anything (but my love) 20 Rod Stewart – Sailing 19 Charles Aznavour - She 18 Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting 17 Art Garfunkel - I only have eyes for you 16 Mud - Lonely this Christmas 19 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love 14 David Essex – Gonna make you a star 14 Sweet Sensation – Sad sweet dreamer 13 David Essex - Hold me close 9 Billy Connolly – D.I.V.O.R.C.E 9 Windsor Davies & Don Estelle – Whispering grass 1 Telly Savallas - If -6

34 Barry White – You're the first, the last, my everything 26 John Denver – Annie´s Song 25 10CC – I'm not in love +4 24 Tammy Wynette – Stand by your man 23 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 22 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make me smile (Come up and see me) 22 Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive 22 Charles Aznavour – She 22 ABBA – Waterloo 22 David Bowie – Space Oddity 20 The New Seekers – You won't find another fool like me 20 Alvin Stardust – Jealous mind 20 Paper Lace – Billy don't be a hero 20 Terry Jacks – Seasons in the sun 20 The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love 20 George McCrae – Rock your bab 20 The Three Degrees – When will I see you again 20 The Osmonds – Love me for a reason 20 Sweet Sensation – Sad sweet dreamer 20 Ken Boothe – Everything I own 20 David Essex – Gonna make you a star 20 Mud – Lonely this Christmas 20 The Tymes – Miss Grace 20 Pilot – January 20 Telly Savallas – If 20 Bay City Rollers – Bye bye baby 20 Mud – Oh boy 20 Johnny Nash – Tears on my pillow 20 Bay City Rollers – Give a little love 20 Typically Tropical – Barbados 20 The Stylistics – I can't give you anything (but my love) 20 Rod Stewart – Sailing 20 Art Garfunkel – I only have eyes for you 18 Windsor Davies & Don Estelle – Whispering grass 18 Carl Douglas – Kung Fu fighting 14 Status Quo – Down down 14 David Essex - Hold me close  14 Ray Stevens – The Streak 14 Billy Connolly – D.I.V.O.R.C.E - 0 Mud – Tiger Feet -6 Tiger went off his feet

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Well if Iain says it then it must be true

80 Alice Cooper - School`s Out 78 The Sweet – Blockbuster 57 Nilsson – Without You 52 Suzi Quatro - Can the Can -1 46 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive +4 37 Don McLean - Vincent 26 10CC Rubber Bullets 0 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well -5 Guess he doesn’t wear it well

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 2021. 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: theoldlady - Jerry Lee Lewis Sean - Frank Field Death Impends - Gary Burgess Bibliogryphon - Anthony Sher YoungWilz - Liza Minelli Gcreptile - Kaikala Satyanarayana Captain Chorizo - Susie Steiner The Daredevil - Bob Dole msc - Khaleda Zia Toast - Jean Marsh Book - Vinod Dua Lafauchuse - Nanda Prusty Ulitzer95 - Sidney Cooke John Key - Henry Kissinger Marinisia - Kat Bjelland Rover and Out - Jimmy Carter YorkshireBanker - Phyllis Dalton The Old Crem - George Alagiah Drol - Rowshan Ershad Thatcher - Bernadette Chirac ThereWillBeDeaths7 - Leslie Phillips Grim Up North - Francoise Hardy Chilean Way - Lucia Hiriart arghton - Luis Echeverría Joey Russ - Gavin Robertson Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 - Death Impends 2017 - Sean 2018 - Banana 2019 - gcreptile 2020 - Spade_Cooley  Good luck everyone. 

Really? Never would’ve guessed that

74 The Sweet – Blockbuster +4 72 Alice Cooper - School`s Out 57 Nilsson – Without You 45 10CC Rubber Bullets 44 Suzi Quatro – Can The Can 43 Don McLean - Vincent 38 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive +4 14 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 07 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well -6 06 T. Rex - Metal Guru 

Not going to boogie wonderland then aye? Oh wait, wrong band. Carry on then…

64 The Sweet – Blockbuster  62 Alice Cooper - School`s Out 55 Nilsson – Without you 50 10CC Rubber Bullets 49 Don McLean - Vincent 38. Suzi Quatro – Can the can 38 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive +4 28 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well  28. Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 17 T. Rex - Metal Guru  9 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough -6

60 The Sweet – Blockbuster  60 Alice Cooper - School’s Out 53 Don McLean - Vincent 53 Nilsson – Without you 49 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive +4 46 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 42 10CC - Rubber Bullets 33 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 28 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well  17 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough -6 17 T. Rex - Metal Guru 

I sure love the red wave that everyone is so sure would happen

52 Don McLean - Vincent 52 Nilsson – Without you 50 The Sweet – Blockbuster 48 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 44 Alice Cooper – School's Out 42 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive +4 40 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 36 10CC – Rubber Bullets 32 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 23 T.Rex – Metal Guru  23 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody  21 Chicory Tip - Son of my father -6 6 T.Rex - Telegram Sam

Yep, they are CoffinLodger/Iain.

Gooseberry’s Enema is acting up again

Kinda proves Toast’s point on how he didn’t really deserve his own thread if his death never even got a mention here until now

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (2/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (6/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (6/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (13/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (13/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (19/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, BobNewhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (31/50)   Updated for Leslie Phillips

Dead

49 Don McLean - Vincent 49. Nilsson – Without you 49. The Sweet – Blockbuster 46 Alice Cooper - School's Out 40 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 40. Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 40 Slade - Cum on feel The Noize 38 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive +4 32 10CC – Rubber Bullets 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 29 T.Rex – Metal Guru 23 Chicory Tip – Son of my father  19 Slade – Merry X-mas Everybody 12 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 12 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level  9 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 2 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down -6

47 Don McLean - Vincent 44  Alice Cooper – School's Out 42 Nilsson – Without you 40 The Sweet – Blockbuster 38 Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize 35 Suzi Quatro – Can the can 35 Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough 32 Slade – Merry X-mas everybody 32 Wizzard – See My Baby Jive +4 29 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well 28 T.Rex – Metal Guru 26 10CC – Rubber Bullets 25 Chicory Tip – Son of my father 24 Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level 22 Gilbert O´Sullivan – Get down 21 Wizzard – Angel Fingers 20 T.Rex – Telegram Sam 18 The New Seekers – I'd like to teach the world to sing -2 4 Slade – Skweeze me, pleeze me 0 David Cassidy - Daydreamer/The Puppy Song -4 Seems to me that we aren’t really Partridge Family fans here