Joey Russ

Bad luck for that team...

The tensity at top at the moment...

Since I don't think a mod is moving this here, I'm quoting it here. And Jacque Fresco didn't obit in 3 months, just a heads up drol and rockhopper penguin (though I don't think he's sadly ever coming back )...

The Queen will not be stepping down for Prince Charles.

This has got to be one of the best predictions of 2017 so far. Four names who are massive in their own right had all died in 3 days: Bruce Forsyth, Colin Meads, Dick Gregory, and Jerry Lewis. Very impressive...

You really are an unredeemable dick on so many levels!

It's a shame that they'll both be overlooked by the plethora of deaths this weekend...

I predict Bush Sr for hit #15 in early December...

He's a troll. Trolls will not leave the forums ever unless a mod decides to ban them permanently from this site. His gag is just getting very repetitive and boring and, honestly, one that goes against the nature of this site.

"We're"

*quietly hopes for another death before the top 5 gains another hit...*

I think Mugabe has misspoken and meant to say that the person with the most hits between you two would have to leave this site permanently. He's currently winning...

At this point, I would be surprised if the record wasn't broken. Lots of good picks remain...

As gcreptile had said, we are getting way too good at dead pooling. 14/50 dead, and it's only August. I think we could reach 26 deaths, where it's literally impossible to not get a score of 0.

Only 5 teams under 40 points at this point. Brutal...

I kind of want to see how far up the leaderboard I jump. Is the Dead Cow still working on it, or did he simply forget to hit send?

Deathlist had their pun. Was it what you were going to use?

Many of us did. It looked like after his recent hospitalization, the end was near. So I thought he was a good bet for the next death. And as they say, no news is bad news.

Jerry Lewis will overshadow Dick Gregory's death in the US. Bruce Forsyth will overshadow both of them in the UK I'm pretty sure. Certainly worth mentioning on here...

Oops. Sometimes it comes out unconsciously. I'll fix it.

Fats Domino

Here's the expected BBC obit. They are now tied with 2015 at this point. The difference between 2015 and 2017 is that there's still lots of low hanging fruit remaining, while 2015 really only had Martin Crowe, who made it to 2016. So I think they will break the record this year.

1987: Osbourne (1/31) 1989: Bruno, Ditka, Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Jenkins (5/32) 1990: Aznavour, Queen Elizabeth II, Alliss, Ditka, Williams, Winfrey, Waite (7/42) 1991: Beenhakker (1/40) 1992: Ryder (1/37) 1993: Bennett, Kissinger, Ray Kennedy, Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (5/56) 1994: White, Holly Johnson, Shilton (3/50) 1995: Holly Johnson, Connery (2/50) 1996: Mr T, Domino (2/50) 1997: Domino, Kirk Douglas (2/50) 1998: (0/50) 1999: Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50) 2000: Farrakhan (1/50) 2001: Tutu, Minelli, Wouk (3/50) 2002: Kirk Douglas (1/50) 2003: (0/50) 2004: Musharraf, Kirk Douglas, Mugabe (3/50) 2005: Karzai, Maradona, LaMotta, de Havilland (4/50) 2006: Kirk Douglas, Lynn, Bouteflika, Graham, LaMotta (5/50) 2007: Graham, Tim Johnson, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, LaMotta, Farrakhan (7/50) 2008: Kirk Douglas, Domino, Lynn, Graham, Watson, LaMotta, Karzai, Charles Taylor (8/50) 2009: Kirk Douglas, Graham, LaMotta, Cardin (4/50) 2010: Kirk Douglas, Wouk, de Havilland, Tork, Edrich, Graham, Bough, LaMotta, Norden, Lansbury, Domino (12/50) 2011: Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Edrich, LaMotta, Khamenei, Aretha Franklin, Dole, Cheney, Ellison, Cardin, Lynn, Michael Douglas, (12/50) 2012: Kirk Douglas, Graham, Wouk, de Havilland, Mubarak, Lawson, LaMotta, Kissinger, Mugabe, Van Dyke, Randi, Domino, Gaddafi, Hawking (14/50) 2013: Clive James, Bush, Prince Philip, Mubarak, Kirk Douglas, de Havilland, Lynn, Dole, Graham, LaMotta, Day, Stan Lee, Kissinger, Parsons, Domino (15/50) 2014: Wilko Johnson, Graham, de Havilland, Harper, Clive James, Prince Philip, Lynn, Kirk Douglas, Carrington, LaMotta, Perez de Cuellar, Hawking, Stan Lee, Norden, Randi, Bush, Aznavour, Van Dyke, Bennett, Domino, Asner (21/50) 2015: Wouk, Graham, de Havilland, Perez de Cuellar, Bush, Prince Philip, Douglas, James, Valerie Harper, Phillips, Kercheval, Dole, Day, Norden, Kissinger, LaMotta, Mubarak, Mugabe, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Lynn, Large, Maynard (22/50) 2016: de Havilland, Graham, Wouk, Perez de Cuellar, Kirk Douglas, Prince Phillip, Randi, Carrington, Clive James, Dole, Scales, Carter, Kissinger, Chong, Ellis, Bush, Phillips, Lynn, Gall, Domino, Tutu, Piggott, Stan Lee, LaMotta, Norden, Walker, Greaves, Banks, Chirac, Hawking, Gascoigne (31/50) Updated for Jerry Lewis.

I was about to check to see how high Jerry Lewis was on my team, but then I remembered that I completely forgot to put on my team.