Joey Russ

3 and a half months later...

I note the lack of major news sites releasing an obituary for him (BBC, Guardian, NYT, etc), so like I said, he’s not really a miss at all...

He wasn’t on the list...

Who the fuck is he?

Not sure if he’s a big miss. I mean, so far, he only received a mirror obit from the UK. You would’ve expect him to get more than that by now if he truly was a miss.

This good enough for confirmation? http://www.moshville.co.uk/news/2017/10/rip-daisy-berkowitz-founding-member-of-marilyn-manson-1968-2017/

Drol didn’t have him. Looks like he’ll probably extend his lead even more now...

How would I would personally approach the list next year: 25 people who would return to the list next year from this year's list: The bedblockers (ie people who made 8 or more appearances): 1. Kirk Douglas 2. Vera Lynn 3. Billy Graham 4. Olivia de Haviland 5. Fats Domino People who are too big to be dropped: 6. Prince Phillip 7. Stan Lee 8. Jimmy Carter 9. Robert Mugabe 10. Queen Elizabeth 11. George Bush Sr 12. Pope Benedict XVI People who are old and known to be ill: 13. Denis Norden 14. Herman Wouk 15. Bob Dole 16. Leslie Phillips 17. King Michael of Romania People who aren't necessarily old but are still ill enough: 18. Leah Bracknell 19. Nobby Stiles 20. Jill Gascione 21. Valerie Harper Wild card picks (picks who don't fall into any of the categories above but are the best/most interesting from the remaining 14 imo of course): 22. Lord Peter Carrington 23. Honor Blackman (I see her being Zsa Zsa's replacement) 24. Hosni Mubarak 25. Emperor Akihito Picks who should return to the deathlist after some form of a hiatus (in order of when they made their first appearance): 26. Ozzy Osbourne 26. Henry Kissinger 27. Sean Connery 28. Aretha Franklin 29. Clive James 30. Doris Day 31. Jacques Chirac Picks who are currently ill enough and famous enough 32. John McCain 33. Olivia Newton-John 34. Morgan Tsvangirai 35. Johnny Hallyday Picks who are ill but not necessarily that famous in my eyes at least, but would still be justified to make the list: 36. Stefan Karl Stefansson 37. Tessa Jowell 38. Jose Jose People who are old and ill enough: 39. Charlotte Rae 40. Barbara Bush 41. Franco Zeffereli 42. Sumner Redstone 43. Loretta Lynn Interesting old people: 44. Sidney Poitier 45. Mikhail Gorbachev 46. Mel Brooks 47. Glynis Johns 48. Harry Belafonte 49. Jean Grand Duke of Luxembourg 50. Charles Manson

To be fair to Harrison, he never really had the chance to do anything in office because he didn't wear a rain coat on inauguration day, so there's not really much to judge him on (although with the exception of James K Polk, all the presidents between Van Buren and Buchanan were terrible in their own right, so I'm not sure he would be that highly rated even if he lasted more than a month). Trump, on the other hand, actually had time to show whether he can be a good president or not. Although some presidents are able to make some sort of a comeback after a terrible first year such as Kennedy, Trump really needs to do a lot in order for him to change the his time from a terrible president to a decent president, and with his behavior in office constantly being unpresidential, sadly I don't see him turning the tide for the better...

Sorry to complain, but can a mod please move the information that is regarding the UK Prime Ministers and not Bush Sr elsewhere? I don't want to read through a thread for a person and see that it's completely off topic in every way possible...

I think Mugabe is just going to take the loss of being goodwill ambassador harder than most people...

Sean Hughes, Sir Brian Barder, David Marks, Major Khush Ahmad-ul-Mulk, and Marge Calhoun this week.

I think it’s a combination of health issues plus his wife losing to an idiot who’s one of the worst if not the worst president ever (both of them are still shit though, let’s be honest). I’m thinking the committee might want to take a chance on him next year if he’s breathing on the first...

There’s a couple of locks that are still breathing at this point and time (Elias, Bracknell, Michael). Surely not all three of them will make starting line next year, right?

Donald Trump tomorrow morning: Bush Sr isn’t standing during the national anthem? He’s a huge disgrace to our country. He should be ashamed of himself...

Remember though, Berry looked good when he was turning 90 as well. He died 5 months later...

The John Wetton Of 2018?

Congrats to msc for breaking the hits record. Meanwhile, me, Grim, and Death Impends are currently at 13 out of 25. But Sean is currently in third place, and he only have 11 hits. This is starting to get down to the wire as we get to the last two months...

There's also Mazie Hirono as well. She is currently battling stage four kidney cancer. I don't know if Hirono and Cochran are particularly deathlisty, but they did choose Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms in the past, so...

Just a heads up, I will be making a new thread for this game in about two weeks time or so. Looking at the list above, their appears to be 11 names that can be reused if they all make December 1st, including the king who seems to be hanging around forever and that mysterious MC Ren, who I have no idea on how he survived one whole year. Granted, those two are probably at the top of people's list on who they pick if they make the starting line...

Alright everyone. Because of the success of the MMDP, and a few people liking my idea for a deadpool similar to his around Christmas, I propose the Advent Avalanche Deadpool (Name suggested by Bibliogryphon). The idea is similar to Maryports with a few tweeks: 25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host joeyruss). 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 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 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 2016. 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 joeyruss, who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavour). 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 youre snoozin youre losing. 6a Because he has forced his own entry joeyruss 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 organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations 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 joeyruss'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 honour 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 qualifyiing 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 joeyruss'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 joeyruss 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 spectactors offer well-deserved congratulations to the skilful 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 there choice of candidates: Grim Up North- Peter Skellern Rotten Ali- Zsa Zsa Gabor Shaun of the Dead- Sara Coward YoungWillz- Sir Peter Hall Youwanticewiththat- Chris Rea Msc- Winnie Ewing Time- Yisrael Kristal RadGuy- Queen Sirikit Toast- King Michael of Romania Spade Cooley- MC Ren Gcreptile- Barbara Walters Bibliogryphon- Peter Sallis Rockhopperpenguin- Donald J. Trump JiroemonKimura- Errol Christie Deathray- Emma Morano Book- Claire Hollingworth The Dead Cow- Peter Sarstedt Weebl- John Wetton CaptainChorizo- Piers Sellers Death Impends- Ken Helcher Gooseberry Crumble- Norman Jewison maryportfuncity- Colin Baddiel drol- Glen Campbell Cat O'Falk- Eileen Derbyshire joeyruss- Billy Graham ​Lets look at the winner of this dead pool now 2016 Death Impends

Did another run through of that massive list. Again, comment if I missed someone again (I have at least missed one person every time I ran through the list, so I'm kind of expecting to have missed someone now...)

Their trying to make a public memorial for Gord Downie.

Just wondering, who did that and what year did that happen?