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So sorry about the forfait, I had 7/11 of my team ready but I couldn't find a moment to complete it in the last two days...apologies to @Annamiwho put some efforts in researches, if you want to measure your choices with my uninspired virtual team: Edgar Morin Saalumarada Thimmakka Roland Dumas Rob Burrow Jimmy Carter(joker) Noam Chomsky Steve McMicheals Joanne Woodward Robert Wagner Emilio Fede Josip Manolic

Congratulations Banana! I am very proud of my achievement in this Deadpool and I want to thank @maryportfuncity for hosting so efficiently!

1 Joe Biden 2 Billy Connolly 3 Donald Trump 4 Michael J. Fox 5 Janey Godley 6 Phil Collins 7 Buzz Aldrin 8 Toby Keith 9 Clint Eastwood 10 Ozzy Osbourne 11Andy Taylor 12 Pope Francis 13 Clint Eastwood 14 William Shatner 15 Rupert Murdoch 16 Dave Myers 17 Bruce Willis 18 Mel Brooks 19 Roberta Flack 20 Cleo Laine 21 David Attenborough 22 Paul Spencer 23 Yoko Ono 24 Esther Rantzen 25 Simon Cowell Sub Eva Marie Saint Shannen Doherty

I'm in

Points for me?

Congrats @Banana! Impressive!

Darn...lost the lead of theme league to GGG in the last week...if nothing changes it's the second year in a row I end up in the second place with two different theme teams

Alejandro Toledo candidates himself for the role of the next Fujimori, he asks to be freed for receiving treatment for the cancer that affects him and pointed out he has been suffering for the last 15 years from a serious but undisclosed disease for which he has been treated in the US. I used this thread since he already succeeded Fujimori in the presidece of Perù and he is the first of the four Peru presidents involved in the Odebrecht scandal (Garcia shot himself in 2019, Ollanta Humala and Kuzcinsly are currently in jail) but feel free to move this in a more appropriate topic.

This should put me back ahead in theme team league

I had him in my DDP team this year. Is it "List of the Lost" material? Messina Denaro was my substitute in that team

At least I have met this one in my studies (Lax-Milgram theorem), he won an Abel prize and he has a prize named after him (2022's recipient is a brilliant italian mathematician). Usually the "great mathematicians" named in this site are completely obscure to me

there's still time for that...

You really love being the acculturated one in the room I was just pointing out that just because you never heard of him it doesn't mean that he is just a niche character for french people. Glad you fancy Kitano movies, we can start a digression about cinema in the proper section but there was no need to rattle off your knowledge, I discovered many interesting personalities thanks to the forum and sometimes thanks to your work, take this opportunity to discover La Haine and appreciate the movies and the man behind them

Things I wouldn't be proud of...

Most influential death of the year so far

OMFG! There were not so many notable figures from my hometown while I was growing up...he was one of the very few I followed since I was a kid. I didn't even know he was sick...

Fun fact: Mario Frick was one of the most famous football players in Lichtenstein history (at least for me), he has two sons who both play in national team as strikers, Yanik Frick and Noah Frick. It has nothing to do with deadpools but it pops up in my head every time one name Yannick Noah and I wanted to share, sorry

Updates on the death of Andrea Purgatori: two members of the Clinique that was treating him are now suspected for manslaughter. According to the family they misdiagnosed the cancer. The doctors, in fact, found the tumor had spread from the lungs to the brain, but in latter analysis no brain metastasis were found, ischemic injuries has been spotted instead. Neglecting the therapy for the lung tumors could have led to a quick demise. In the next few days an autopsy and a CT scan will try to shed some light on the situation.

I think picking Jimmy Carter was a mistake

Massimo Mauro, (61) well known football commentator who also played for Zico's Udinese, Platini's Juventus and Maradona's Napoli, has suffered a heart attack yesterday while playing padel and received an emergency angioplasty. He seems to be out of danger now.

Andrea Purgatori, journalist, writer, TV presenter, dead at 70. I loved his work as a TV comedy writer alongside Corrado Guzzanti but in the 80s he was mainly known as a Corriere della sera journalist who covered Ustica massacre and other Italian black stories like Emanuela Orlandi's and more recently as the presenter of TV show Atlantide. I was talking about him just two weeks ago when he performed at FOROF in Rome and looked in good spirit.

A couple of years ago I watched this documentary about former secretary of Italian commie party Enrico Berlinguer and I was surprised to see so many living nonagenarians among the cast. With the premature death of Arnoldo Forlani and Luigi Bettazzi I want to share the list with you since only a few survived: Enrico Berlinguer (1922 - 1984) PCI Giorgio Napolitano (1925) PCI immortal Bianca Berlinguer (1953) daughter and prominent journalist Luigi Bettazzi (1923 - 2023) Jovanotti (1966) singer Arnaldo Forlani (1926 - 2023) DC Alberto Franceschini (1947) terrorist, founder of Brigate rosse Richard Newton Gardner (1927 - 2019) Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 - 2022) Pietro Ingrao (1915 - 2015) PCI Emanuele Macaluso (1924 - 2021) PCI Eugenio Scalfari (1924 - 2022) journaliat Sergio Segre (1926) PCI and partisan Claudio Signorile (1937) PSI Aldo Tortorella (1926) PCI and partisan Walter Veltroni (1955) director and leftist politician Uncredited Giuliano Ferrara (1952) journalist, obese, had a heart attack in January last year, recently lost his brother

He was reported to me as on his deathbed two years ago by my sources...I changed my sources in the meantime...

Still doing wheelchair races tho