Joey Russ

I’m so afraid:

He’s not a solo for Wormfarmer, ahem

The year of my birth.

Deadline is January 31st at midnight UK time. As it usually is

Jimmie Rodgers is dead

Oh, and the matchup for round 2, here it is: The Old Crem or YorkshireBanker vs Sir Creep Grobler vs msc Djemba Djemba or JoeMoneyPenny vs alt obits guy Theoldlady vs deadsox Perhaps or xXConmanXx vs ThereWillBeDeaths7 or GuyFromFuture Book vs An Fear Beag Markb4 or Charles De Gaulle vs maryportfuncity Quim Reaper vs Wormfarmer HDS vs Clorox Bleachman DeathByArsenic vs Joey Russ DevonDeathTrip vs Annami or dvsp84 Gcreptile vs Baby Blue or CalebH BuffaloPhil or nantonian2013 vs CaptainChorizo Banana vs GreatUncleBulgaria or Gooseberry Crumble Spade_Cooley vs Grim Up North Bibliogryphon vs EtushIsPushingUpTheDaisies

Right, that’s the deadline over. Here is the matchup for round 1 then: 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

There’s about 2 hours to go if anyone else wants to join btw

You likely have a bye for February by the looks of it, so you don't have to worry about a match till March

I guess I’ll go with Ben Ferencz

If you’re personally pro-life, that’s 100% your choice and nobody should force you to think otherwise. What is not okay is pushing your pro-life beliefs onto other people and making it seem like it should be the law of the land. And that’s frankly what a lot of the leaders try to do, push it down our throats.

There’s about 30 hours left in case you forgot about the cup. So here’s a warning for the cup now...

Well, the person who had him was a Machotrouts theme team, and when he noted it on forum it does say actor by his name. So I imagine it’s a possible overlook by the committee...

BBC obit

Not sure if this is happening again, but Phil Spector is the first DDP casualty of 2021 who died of Covid 19...

Looks like he’s the first COVID casualty from the DDP

An Fear Beag really showing that he’s a force to be reckoned with now. Congrats to him.

Willie always was frail, but I’m not necessarily sure the vaccine will kill him. Still think he’s a better pick than other give him credit for mind.

Also a DDP pick. Good luck to whoever picked him though

That actually isn’t the highest points total ever, as both Gerard Tierney in 2016 and Cancerous Hatred in 2017 got even higher scores than the one I ultimately got. Just search for AO Deadpool and your good to go.

Yahoo UK is up first with QO

I wasn't sure how I would feel when the time eventually came where I won a major dead pool, but this really means a lot to me. The fact that my first legitimate dead pool win comes from a pool so high up on the totem pool of great pools makes it feel even more rewarding. So much better than the time I won a pool by a super randomized list which ended very quickly. Winning a major dead pool was definitely something 15 year old me wanted to achieve, but if you told me that I would actually win a pool before I turned 20, I probably wouldn't have believed you. But here we are today, finally having years of work finally pay off into this win. This year was definitely a roller coaster ride in terms of how my Alt Obits team went. I started really strong with 6 hits by the end of January (including a daily double), but then really slowed down in the next few months after that. In fact, I was actually all the way down in 10th in mid May, and I thought that I would be heading for a super poor performance then. It wasn't until Marian Cisovsky that I thought I would get out of an embarrassing performance, and it wasn't until Dale Hawerchuk that I thought I even stood a chance of winning. And even then, a win never felt super secure the following months after. Indeed, had someone younger than Cisovsky ended up dying, I would've lost. No doubt the deaths of Patricio Frez, Tracey Smothers, Tabare Vazquez, and Ged Stokes made me super nervous in those final months. But in the end, I just had enough to win this pool. And I'm pretty satisfied with it. I definitely give my commiserations to drol, who would've ended up winning had someone younger than Cisovsky died. You definitely have a bright future ahead in dead pooling, and I'm sure one day you will win in Alt Obits. As for me, well, I'm just hoping for a solid follow up to this win. It has already been a quick start for me with 3 hits so far, but I feel I may struggle to keep up with some of the more researched teams this time. But hey, if I lose this time, it happens. Anyway, thanks to all of the amazing competitors in this pool, especially those on forum. We really did kick it out of the park this time. I am also grateful for the lives of those picks of mine who ended up dying in 2020. I'm sure most of them were great people. Except for Roger Scruton. He was a cunt. And of course, I am very grateful for Hulka running this pool every year, and him dealing with all of our lists each year. One last thing I'll say. The replacement picks of yours is just as important as your original 40. In 2019, I had a whopping 22 rejected picks, but only three of my replacement picks actually scored. Whereas this time I had 15 rejected picks, but 7/12 replacement names scored for me. Anyway, good luck to everyone in this years pool.

Ah, that’s a shame. Anyways, in other more important news...

Just think of him as a Pokémon and you’ll remember him a lot more...

Sally Heath, mother of well known tea party goon Sarah Palin is dead at 80