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Everything posted by Torva Messor
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December 10
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Nichelle Nichols, one of my picks, reportedly died 30 Jul 2022, Adding 210 points or close to it, to my total.
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Eleanor Collins
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2 August 2022.
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What do YOU do to not die/age as slowly as possible?
Torva Messor replied to InquilineKea's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
I've outlived all members of my family except the alcoholic who smoked for fifty years. My husband and I ate the same foods together for half our lives. He's in an urn, and he didn't have the cancer running amok in his family as I do, but it killed him anyway. I take Vitamin D3 to reduce my risk of getting the cancers that killed my family members. I practise Qigong. The planet's getting hotter and wilder and I have no desire to be an insect-crunching octogenarian swept out to sea or caught in a forest fire. I moved out of the United States as being gunned down in a supermarket or coffee shop, as a friend of mine was, is not, ahem, my cup of tea. I'm about choosing the way I go, not postponing my departure. -
Whatever I win from Tuesday's lotto will go toward a purchase endeavour. I didn't get my T-shirt, but DSCDP did put my husband in the 'In Memoriam', and have always been good, kind, prompt, chipper to me. At least I managed to reach the Top 10 for points in the first half of 2022.
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DSCDP seems to be offline for good, according to this tweet from its admin. The website has been unreachable since 25 June.
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Apparently this month is my catch-up
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Gail Halvorsen gave me candy points on 16 Feb 2022. Wonder if his new pair of wings wiggle.
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For the next update: my entry Carleton Carpenter departed 31 January 2022 Qualifying Obituary from uk.news.yahoo.com
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"99 Luftballons" by Nena?
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Ágnes Keleti Bert I. Gordon Boris Pahor Brenda Milner Deborah Szekely <--- THIS IS MY SUBSTITUTE FOR JOAN COPELAND WHO DID NOT MAKE IT TO 100 Evelyn Dick Hazel McCallion Jacqueline White Janis Paige Lise Nørgaard Marsha Hunt Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Qin Yi Roger Angell Yuri Averbakh
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15 fifteen quinze XV
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I am as well.
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Entry sent via PM Thanks for renewing this for 2022
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I sent my list, with gratitude, via PM.
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List with labelled joker and five substitutes sent by PM.
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Hartlepool Dectet: Miloš Zeman George Pérez Robert Durst Frank Field Henry Kissinger Pelè Bill Hayes (b. 1925, actor, appeared on "Hollywood Squares") Shannen Doherty Janis Paige Peter Marshall Bench Warmers: Joyce Randolph Francisco Morales Bermúdez
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This is my 2022 Centenarians Deadpool Entry list of fifteen. Gracias for reprising this game, chilean way Ágnes Keleti Bert I. Gordon Boris Pahor Brenda Milner Evelyn Dick Hazel McCallion Jacqueline White Janis Paige Joan Copeland Lise Nørgaard Marsha Hunt Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Qin Yi Roger Angell Yuri Averbakh
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Death Anniversary Thread
Torva Messor replied to themaninblack's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
Charles Chaplin, Forty-four years ago, aged 88. -
They're all kicking it
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America land of free thought and opportunity
Torva Messor replied to Charlotte's Controller's topic in DeathList extra-curricular
Sad but true. I lived in the US for many years. Many USans have binary belief systems: their political party can do no wrong, the other party can do no right. Either someone is Christian or someone is going to hell. Either someone is a person of colour or someone is a racist. Either someone watches FOX News or CNN or MSNBC. Nobody could possibly be still reading newspapers and current affairs, either print or online. Nobody could possibly not own a television set. Either someone is a Mac user or a Windows user. Linux users aren't numerous enough to be catered to. Every data collection, every point of surveillance, every humiliation is "for your protection." Either you are on a commoditized, commercialized social media platform where your data is harvested for marketing purposes and your images subjected to shoddy AI algorithms in pass/fail content moderation, or you don't exist. U.S. oncologists and nurses told me in March 2020, when it was revealed my husband had terminal cancer and I suggested to him he be treated in the country that we had moved to six months earlier, that Canada would catch up to the US in Covid-19 cases. Maybe they were right, maybe in August 2021 after 18 months of enduring the pandemic Canada caught up to the US June 2020 percentages of active cases and deaths. It can't be that I would want to avoid border lineups or closures or ill-trained border patrol people putting us through interrogation making us late for chemotherapy, or that I understood I'd be a widow in six months, they had to take the "oh? Our country/treatment isn't good enough for you?" attitude. Try telling a rural American that a white family can live peaceably in a Black-majority city for a lifetime without requiring a gun for protection. Either the income disparity is wonderful, or someone is a Communist. If you don't say anything when someone relates at lunch or breaktime highlights from a Comedy Central evening news commentary show they assume you must be a political opponent, not that a permanent resident might think it's best to not comment as she can't vote. -
My team sent in 21h00 GMT 3 August 2021, fingers and eyes crossed.
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Yes. The Hares Death Pool points were awarded from the notable's expiry date number of days from January 1, so I wrote 98 for scores. I counted 98 days from 1 Jan to 9 April. Maranne's death date is 12 April 2021, 98+3 (101). Thus, 98 and 101 are the correct SCORES in the Hares Death Pool 2021 with which to update my TALLY, unless more of my entries drop before the next update. Did you blip over the word 'scores'? Why else would you remind us Prince Philip was 99?
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Thanks for the intermittent updates, An Fear Beag. Next update, please add my scores for Prince Philip (98), and André Maranne (101) to my tally.