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The current podium, for those still naive enough to think running a dead pool is a shoo-in to being able to smash dead pools in general by hoovering up the choice picks as you compile the masterlist I'd like to point out that Drol is now one hit away from winning whilst I'm one hit away from scoring any fucking points at all! Drol - 1816 Summer in Transylvania - 1093 gcreptile - 1090

Hell yeah (heh heh - see what I did there!)

Yeah, the relevant rule is below. Fuck knows, I like smashing the Deathrace and it feels right in dead pooling terms to have it - ahem - dead and buried before the DDP site updates to the present year. I'm not disputing for a second that Hays is dead and also thinking there'll be a decent q/o when some obscure academic journal picks him up. You're right, re the "personal" thing. Bit of a nuanced judgement for sure but any communication line where the main point is the promotion of the person behind it (blog, tic-tok etc.) is likely even too dodgy for Deathrace purposes. Hays may well, eventually, make a Guardian obit or Other Lives in there, though they take their time. The good news - I think - is that religious scholars and the like do have many online news outlets that are about news and linked to a creed or a group of some kind, so yer man will likely feature soon. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the Deathrace is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes MPFC's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties.

Aye, but not widely known until this year, and just checking the masterfile of all teams, incl. all subs, she's nowhere. One or two others dead in 2024 made the original masterlist

S'cuse the cross posting but does anyone know a more reputable obit for Hays? Even the painfully permissive Deathrace might struggle to accept a personal post.

FFS, the world's oldest person dies and lowhangersrus (i.e., this pool) doesn't have her on anyone's team. We don't have a list of the lost tally, maybe we should start https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9830vpp2p0o

That bit of personal communication is the only source cited by Wiki, might even tax our absurdly lenient q/o standards, anyone seen owt more substantial yet?

So, asking for a friend, like, anyone else think to pick Urfan Sharif, i.e., the guy that popped out of his prison cell for a slash last night?

At last, good news on the Stuart Hall thread!

In some of the - ahem - more affordable eating establishments when I grew up Spam fritters were a menu option.

That's got more to do with which ones are partial to SPAM, surely

You jest but...this is a, sort of, gift to next year's List of the Lost radio show in which we'll pack in two hours of sounds by the departed of 2025, point being the script now has one song and it's a track from the Crazy Horses album called Life is Hard Enough Without Goodbyes. A very appropriate opener given what'll follow.

Deadpooling dish of the day Zoya Boguslavskaya - centernarian Russian poet, essayist, playwright, novelist and, erm...critic. A useful guess being that she only lasted to 100 where she lives by ensuring the criticism was directed at the work of other writers and not those in power since the second world war. Either way, @MalePoster has heard of her and reckons her worth a wager in his dead pooling team hereabouts. Like me, he's currently a whopping 1454 off the lead, so the sudden demise of today's dead pooling dish would be welcome.

A lacklustre day in a dead pool that was postively bubbling a day ago. I'm seeing nowt on the Wikipedia to suggest I need to tweak the scoreboard. Anyone know different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2025

As discussed in the Deathrace thread just now, GB News practically cumming in their collective trousers as they get up to the minute coverage of Urfan Sharif's condition after he had his neck sliced open with a tuna can. They can stitch the wound, but can they contain the botulism? https://www.gbnews.com/news/sara-sharif-dad-urfan-sharif-sliced-neck-hmp-belmarsh-london DDP pick for a few of us, I'm thinking