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  4. Posted

    April 16, here are my hits:

     

    D Jacques Delors    27 December 2023 - 2 pts

    E Carl Erskine   16 April 2024 - 3 pts

    G Glynis Johns   4 January 2024 - 1 pt

    H Henry Kissinger   29 November 2023 1 pt

    I   Jonnie Irwin     2 February 2024 3 pts + Whippersnapper

    M   Mangosuthu Buthelezi    9 September 2023 1 + Supervocalic Expialabonus

    N   Giorgio Napolitano    22 September 2023 1

     

  6. Posted

    On 08/01/2024 at 08:18, Lafaucheuse said:

    The Sundowner ! 

     

    Glynis Johns is a hit here

     

    @Torva Messor : Laurent de Brunhoff and Chomsky waiting for his turn


    I looked twice in the below status update and did not see mention of the 22 March death of Laurent de Brunhoff.

     

  8. Posted

    What is "woke" about replacing natural fats with industrially processed, possibly hydrogenated, seed oils?  That seems cheap and duplicitous. Is a natural foods diet antithetical to "Woke" practice? 

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  9. Posted

     

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    And now, I have a feeling that there is surely a hit or two still out there, but I haven't had a look at Wikipedia yet, and need to go out for a bit.

     

    For the next update, Iris Apfel is a very recent hit for me, to add to the score given for Don Murray.

  10. Posted

    Since the February 11 update to my list, the following alterations are requested:

     

    Roger Guillemin died 21 February, therefore Noam Chomsky replaces him on the list

    Ali Hassan Mwinyi died 28 February, therefore I must name two substitutes to join Theo Burrell

    My two substitutes: Steve McMichael, Jamal Yunos

  11. Posted

    My brother died suddenly at age 44 from a pulmonary embolism.  Maybe Thomas Kingston died from a pulmonary embolism or another undisclosed or undiagnosed ailment.

     

    It does seem to me that people nowadays are dying younger: my husband died at age 52 from cancer complications, my mother at age 58 from cancer, I lost two friends within the last two years to kidney failure, both in their fifties, at least one of them died suddenly. I suppose the closer and more numerous the losses are, the stronger the cognitive bias.  Everyone who is active and over the age of 65 seems to me to have intrinsic longevity factors my friends and family did not.

  15. Posted

    après Irwin, le déluge

    mon troisième remplaçant est Ali Hassan Mwinyi

     

    Translation: In the flood of adjustments following the death of Jonnie Irwin, Ali Hassan Mwinyi becomes my third substitute.

  17. Posted

    1. Rupert Murdoch
    2. Billy Connolly
    3. William Shatner
    4. Joe Biden
    5. Buzz Aldrin
    6. Andy Taylor
    7. Robert Wagner
    8. Ozzy Osbourne
    9. Bruce Willis
    10. Phil Collins
    11. Michael J. Fox
    12. Clint Eastwood
    13. Toby Keith
    14. Pope Francis
    15. Prunella Scales
    16. Bob Newhart
    17. Mel Brooks
    18. David Attenborough
    19. Dick Van Dyke
    20. Janey Godley
    21. Tim Bilton
    22. Erik Jensen
    23. Cleo Laine
    24. Yoko Ono
    25. Eva Marie Saint

    substitutes:

    Donald Trump

    Dave Myers

      

     

     

  19. Posted

    Die Todten reiten schnell!

     

    Theo Burrell from "Antiques Roadshow" as my third substitute please

    and my substitute Francoise Hardy immediately replaces Franz Beckenbauer on the Main list

     

    vielen Dank

     

     

     

     

  20. Posted

    I admit my 2024 death pool lists are about volume and not points, as I devised a reward system weighted by the size of my lists (the shorter the list, the bigger the reward).  Even if my entire list died in January I'd have set some points-independent legend and accrued enough personal rewards to not care about the impossibility of topping the ranks with points.

  25. Posted

    1. Alan Greenspan
    2.  :dead: Ali Hassan Mwinyi
    3. Ann Blyth
    4. Brenda Milner
    5. Bruce Willis
    6. :dead:Carl Erskine
    7. Carol Lawrence
    8. Cindy Adams
    9. Cynthia Ozick
    10. Daniel Barenboim
    11. :dead:Derek Draper
    12. Dizzy Reece
    13. :dead:Don Murray
    14. Estelle Parsons
    15. Esther Rantzen
    16. Françoise Hardy
    17. :dead:Frank Field
    18. Gena Rowlands
    19. :dead:Iris Apfel
    20. J. William Middendorf
    21. Jacqueline White
    22. James Whale
    23. Jane Morgan
    24. Jaye P. Morgan
    25. Jimmy Carter
    26. Joel Grey
    27. John Astin
    28. June Spencer
    29. :dead:Laurent de Brunhoff
    30. Marianne Faithfull
    31. Mick Fleetwood
    32. Nigel Starmer-Smith
    33. Noam Chomsky
    34. Paul Ignatius
    35. Peter Lupus
    36. Rachel Robinson
    37. :dead:Ramona Fradon
    38. Rob Burrow
    39. Robert Jay Lifton
    40. Roberta Flack
    41. Simon Cowell (Wildlife SOS)
    42. Sonny Rollins
    43. Ted Turner
    44. Terry Kilburn
    45. :dead:Toby Keith
    46. Tom Brokaw
    47. Valdas Adamkus
    48. Vanessa Redgrave
    49. Vic Seixas
    50. X.J. Kennedy

    My last minute list

    9/50 april 23

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