Joey Russ

Well, he’s both the oldest debutant and is right at the #50 spot. Two things that have been proven to be cursed in recent years, so yeah, not surprising that this will likely kill him.

So I think it was asked earlier if Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik had any chance of a DDP obit. I say yes. Doesn’t look like he was picked though so missed opportunity

Also has lung cancer. Might not be a good combo...

Imagine if this turns out to be a good call by the committee...

Recent tweet from Steve Gleason, and you can make your own conclusion on what it means:

Well, there’s under 72 hours to enter into the cup, and here is all the teams that have entered in so far: Annami vs dvsp84 Baby Blue vs CalebH Djemba Djemba vs JoeMoneyPenny BuffaloPhil vs nantonian2013 The Old Crem vs YorkshireBanker Markb4 vs Charles De Gaulle GreatUncleBulgaria vs Gooseberry Crumble ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs GuyFromFuture Perhaps vs xXConmanXx Yes, there will be at least one match that will happen, and a few others with byes currently if their opponents don’t show. But there’s still time yet if you are one of those last minute submitters...

As I was unaware that Johnny Gilbert wasn’t born in 1924 I will change my vote to Eva Marie Saint. I would not have switched my vote otherwise.

In terms of quantity of hits it actually has been extremely high (already at 30+ hits with still a few days to go in January). It’s just in the big household names there hasn’t been that many so far.

Governors get to make an appointment first for the senate, and the current Vermont governor is a Republican. So that’s why

President pro tempore of the United States Patrick Leahy has been taken to a hospital:

Bloody hell. Not only are we heading to that time of year again, but we are also on our 5th year of doing this list. Time really does fly by fast. Anyways, welcome again to the Crowdsource List, which our goal is to try to outdo our friends on the deathlist committee. A total of 14 hits as of now. Will 2020 do better than 2019? Time will tell. Anyways, let's go onto the rules... THE RULES Rules 1. Please send a list of celebrities you wish to vote for to Joey Russ, during the time period of 22nd November to the 31st December 2019. The list must have a minimum of 20 names on it, and a maximum of 50. Please send them by either PM or the Shadow List thread, not by email, semaphore, Morse code, Deathlist live chat, animated corpses, text messages, or any other means of communication you can think of. And you may only submit via 1 of those two methods above, NOT BOTH METHODS! 2. Your 1st choice will gain 50 points, 2nd 49, etc etc to 50th which will gain 1 point. 3. When the deadline passes, all of the points that an individual celebrity gain will be added together, and the top fifty celebrities with the most points overall will go on the Utterly Unofficial Forum List. 4. Feel free to add substitutes at the bottom of the list, which will only be counted if one of your fifty die before January 1st 2020. If for example your number one pick is such a smart one they die before January 1st, then I will give 50 points to your 2nd pick, and so on until 1 point is given to the first substitute. 5. Do try to make the picks as "Deathlisty" as possible. More Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and less Dewayne "Monsanto Man" Johnson, if you know what I mean. Someone likely to score an obit with one of the major English language news outlets. 6. The deadline for sending in entries is 31st December 2019 at 9 pm GMT. That's 4pm New York Time (31st December) and 8am (1st Jan) Melbourne time to help out non-Brits. This earlier dead line is so there's enough time to complete the list before the new year as well as enjoying some extra time off as well. 7. This is essentially a forum game without a winner. It does however put the long held notion by some that the combined minds of the forum know better than the Committee to the test. 8. Who picked whom will remain anonymous. Unless the person announces it of course. 9. The paranoid probably shouldn't send in their DDP unique hopefuls. Whilst I do not intend to steal them away, it would make no sense: if the person then showed up on the list, their chances of being unique would be very slim indeed! 10. To keep to the Deathlist spirit, only the top 25 ranked celebrites from the current list of Crowdsourced Deathlist 2019 survivors will be used: Kirk Douglas, Jean Louis-Trintignant, Vera Lynn, Nobby Stiles, Clive James, Olivia Newton-John, Olivia de Havilland, Prince Philip, Dilip Kumar, Bob Dole, Pope Benedict, Bob Barker, George Alagiah, Leslie Phillips, Jimmy Carter, Glynis Johns, Stirling Moss, Jill Gascoine, Sidney Poitier, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Mikhail Gorbachev, Violet Chamorro, Bill Turnbull, Terry Jones, Lee Kerslake, Loretta Lynn, John Hume, Roberta McCain, Gina Lollabrigida, Betty White, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Andretti, Rosalynn Carter, Pierre Cardin, Sheila Mercier, Beverly Cleary Some names there I don’t think anyone expected to be in contention for 2020, but there’s still time in 2019 yet. 10a) Our actual collated list will stick to the "25 from the previous year" rule. 10b) As a result, if our top fifty, after all votes have been counted, has more than twenty-five of the 2019 survivors (named for ease in Rule 10), then the lowest ranked excess survivors will be axed from the list in favour of The Fifty-First ranked celebrity and so on... 10c) Since we don't know if that'll be an issue until I actually do the counting, voters don't need to worry about limiting their personal lists to 25 survivors. It'd be nice if they did, but that's life. 11) Please pick living people. Folk do die before 1st January, but there were a few cases of people dead for a number of years chosen last time. Please do not pick animals, or ISIS prisoners, or kids, or any of the usual no go areas. Anyhow, enjoy. Or not.

Yep, Yahoo gives the QO

Oh you don’t have to submit until the 31st, I’m just noting who did send in a team now if that makes sense

A little over five days to go, so here is where the team entries stand at the moment: Annami vs dvsp84 Baby Blue vs CalebH Djemba Djemba vs JoeMoneyPenny BuffaloPhil vs nantonian2013 The Old Crem vs YorkshireBanker Markb4 vs Charles De Gaulle GreatUncleBulgaria vs Gooseberry Crumble ThereWillBeDeaths7 vs GuyFromFuture Perhaps vs xXConmanXx Still not that many entrants, but there’s definitely still time to send in a team...

I am well aware that I need to catch up on the remaining 6 obituaries from last year, but unfortunately my wellbeing still isn't that great. However, I will try to keep up with the current year's list and hopefully not have a backlog like last year.

LARRY KING DEAD, ONLY ON CNN* 1/50 23rd January 2021 Talk host legend Larry King has died at 87 to bring its first score to the crowdsource list. He began his career back in 1957 for a local Miami station, and went through various gigs in that time frame. From conducting an interview with Bobby Darin to being a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins he slowly began to rise in the ranks in local TV, although his career was briefly in jeopardy when he was accused of grand larceny. Eventually, he began his show Larry King Live in 1985. The topics that he covered was really wide topics including UFO conspiracy theorists to interviews with celebrities and politicians. Perhaps his most important interview was when Ross Perot announced his candidacy for President in 1992, which lead to the most successful run of a third party run since John B Anderson, ie absolute garbage. He quit doing Larry King Live in 2010, where he was unfortunately replaced by twat Piers Morgan. Outside of his talk show appearances he was known for his seven wives, which made him a male version of Elizabeth Taylor. He also made an appearance in WWE Raw in 2012, and had the pleasure of taking a four minute phone call during Dave Rubin's live show. In recent years, his health became a major focus on his life. First he faced a cancer bout in 2017, and then went into a coma for a few weeks. However, it was COVID that seemingly ended it for him (although the cause of death is not officially confirmed despite the likeliness of what caused it). Really, how the fuck did the committee not bring him onto their list? This was his second appearance on the crowdsourced list, jumping all the way to 12th on the list. *tribute to a DDP team sadly no longer playing

Pope Francis looks to be reducing his appearances now

Have great respect for Larry King for the moment he killed Rave Dubin:

If you want to know how fucked up the US health care system is, here you go:

Yeah, I meant the DJ when I submitted. Had no idea a dancer version of Bob Fass even existed.

Anyone had former Wyoming state senator Hank Coe as a potential future cup pick? Too bad, he’s dead

Not really a miss, as the committee usually eschews all the US sports folk.

More specifically small cell carcinoma, which makes thing even more dire.

Sakamoto has been diagnosed with cancer a second time