Joey Russ

Tsvangirai denies having 3 months to live. Tbh, I’m not 100% sure he’s telling the truth, I think it could be him trying to be private about his condition... EDIT: Now I realize he may be similar to Sydney Pollack in that sense...

That big photo in that article (not the bottom photo Sir Creep posted) I think is probably the photo he meant to post, and on that photo, he absolutely does look fucked. He won't see 2019 imo, even with the pancreatic cancer in remission, cause I think his health has been effected by the cancer battle he originally had...

You have 23 hours or so if anyone else wants to enter...

What about Peace, Drugs, and Death man? Once all those damn hippies are dead...

I’m sure whatever it is, it’ll be as awesome as the alien from Alien. Probably going to keep mine for at least a few years tbh, I really find Malcolm X interesting as a person even if I don’t completely agree with. I was tempted to change it into a pink David Bowie icon, but something in me is resisting it...

Guessing he would’ve been on a few Cup teams in February if he made it...

Honestly he doesn’t look that different tbh, though maybe it’s because he already did damage to himself earlier in his life...

I did mention that I would be practice writing obituaries for next year. Well, I have written my first two now, and they are posted in the Alt Obits thread. Any criticism is accepted so when I write more obits later, they can be more well written...

I wrote obits for Spanky Manikan and Mark E. Smith in case anyone is interested...

Not saying that he has no chance of getting an obit (cause I also believe there’s an outside chance for him to get one even if it’s unlikely at this point), but your comment does give some Ben Suisala deja vu. Of course, these are people in two different categories (though my false confidence was due to the rugby hopeful part), but I feel like since it has been 7 months since his achievement was last done, I think the media has kind of forgotten about him now, especially since they wrote an obit for Ron Villemaire instead...

I think DQSBP didn’t submit a team so in case a unique pick was stolen by someone else he doesn’t get accused of stealing. That, and I think he would like to give an opportunity for people elsewhere to actually win. And it’s not like he can’t be beaten ever anyways (as Golden Slumbers, Still Life, and TJS shown last year)...

I think this year’s competition will definitely be a test on whether drop 40 or gut feeling from research is the best strategy from now on. No denying that drop 40 is important, but it’s a question of whether choosing mainly drop 40 is best or is researching still an important strategy to winning. I know on my hand one of my gut feelings already went through (Mark E Smith), but even with him, if I want to think I have a chance at winning, I would really need the Jacqui Forster unique to go through (obit can go either way imo tbh), but I also need both John Cocks and Vanessa Goodwin to obit, and having both Clive James and Morgan Tsvangirai dying since few of the major contenders chose them. Oh, and I need Devin Lima to survive and I need Nobby Stiles to survive to really improve my chances (the latter won’t happen imo)...

Also, thank you for your vote of confidence for me not winning.

It’s deceased hose. Though tbf, I only put the picks you had in your top 20...

Ah man, I forgot they existed.

Oh. I forgot that was a thing.

Don’t think it’s Lynott, especially since Maryport already posted her on her team. I do think I know who they are though, but I probably won’t be picking them anyways...

Like I said, I think this year’s competition is going to be very tough. The fact that right now none of the big researchers are in the top 3 shows that this year it may have to do with who has the best popular picks. It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves...

Who is that person? EDIT: it’s Dead Ends, isn’t it?

This week on last word: Hugh Masekela, Ursula K Le Guin, Mary Lee Berners-Lee, John Barton, Mark E Smith

The difference is that they actually died by those causes in the same year. Apart from one exception (which was solely due to a mistake by themaninblack), unnatural bonuses only count if they’re done in the same year...

It happens whenever he has the time. Generally, it happens once every two weeks, but it could be quicker if there is more deaths during a certain time period...

Yeah, out of all the young people with cancer, I thought Liam Miller was truly someone that is deathlisty. Obviously the committee didn’t agree...

In my opinion, I don’t think the Cold War ever truly ended. Instead, I think it hit a period where the tension died down. I think it’ll come back now...

Yeah, I forgot about them. They definitely both have decent teams, both could be easily considered a serious contender in the end, though they do have a certain amount of older non drop 40 picks. But those may be good enough for them if some other major gambles fail, but since it’s only January, there’s still a lot of time for picks to go through...