Salmon Mousse

I'd be shocked people knew the name.

Not yet ready to delve too deeply into creating a list but "most shocking" and "saddest" certainly go to comedians (imho, at least). Most shocking (by far): Bob Saget Saddest: Gilbert Gottfried Both deaths came as a shock, honestly... especially considering that Artie Lange has somehow outlived both them and Norm

Was on my theme team last year. Found out about his poor health some time ago but just couldn't get enough info to justify using him anywhere else. Hate when a unique like this wriggles off the hook.

Unconfirmed rumors floating around on twitter that he's had a second heart attack. Appears to be an unfortunate hoax.

Aren't there only 3 cricketing nations?

I've no idea who that is. I guess, to me at least, it doesn't seem like the list knows what it wants to be. Do they want to pick internationally known names to draw attention, do they want to be predominately UK-centric, or do they want to snag cheap hits here and there with obscure names (like most of us do in our pools)?

Can you really put someone at #1 who is a complete unknown on the largest English-speaking continent, though?

Damn, Pat from Moonachie. Was an invaluable regular on the Opie & Anthony show during the XM/Sirius years. The "baby bird" stunt is a thing of legend.

Former chief executive of the PGA, Sandy Jones, has died

Currently tightening up my shortlist and trying to recover from this year's embarrassing performance. As a non-brit, my difficulty is still in figuring out who will and who won't get a QO. DDP, DbN, and alt are my primary focus and I'll probably skip a lot of the other games next year. The death of DSCDP continues to grind on me, though, as I'd still be killing it there.

Still watch the show almost every night on meTV

Went with "That's all" last time in hopes my poor record at prediction in these polls would draw out Pele but, instead, it seems to have taken down two old timers I'd have never heard of had I not started deathpooling. Anyway, going to give it another shot.

Has the UK given up on golf? Still no sign of QOs for either the multiple-time member of team Great Britain or for the former major champion that just passed.

fin

Took a quick look to see if he and the recently deceased Peter Butler ever competed against each other at the Ryder Cup, hoping maybe Butler could piggyback a mention in an obit somewhere, but interestingly while they combine for 8 consecutive appearances in the event none of them overlap. The lack of an obit for a Butler might be the difference on the DDP theme team leaderboard now that Dow is gone.