Death Impends

He's on the List of the Lost. Only the UK Sun is a QO.

Lou Carnesecca QO - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/college-basketball/article-14144903/Lou-Carnesecca-dead-99-St-Johns-Hall-Fame.html An amusing anachronism that his DDP bio is from 2008 and describes him as unlikely to QO, whereas now the QO-scape gave him one near immediately.

You read that right. 30 years of the DDP. A mighty milestone few could've envisioned when it was a local 90s affair that had its own trophy. 2024, despite an overall hits tally on track to break the record, felt fairly arid on the headliner and competitive fronts, perhaps portending a mighty 2025 enema. Whatever happens, @time, @Banana and I are once again here to guide you through it... Dear Jimmy - either die in the next week, or go all the way to- wait, I wrote this before... THE RULES are near exactly what they were last time, with the only edits done being updating all instances of 2023/2024 to 2024/2025, and changing The Times' URL from .co.uk to .com. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began in 2021 remains in service. The 2025 spreadsheet, identical to the 2024 one in all but filename, can be found here. It is heavily recommended to use the spreadsheet as means of entry to reduce Banana's workload as much as possible. If you are absolutely unable to work with the Excel spreadsheet, still make sure to recheck GUN's DDP entry guide thread from 2020 to make the formatting of your email as smooth as possible.

Cindy Birdsong

Yes. The Yahoo issue seems to have sorted itself out since those local Oklahoma papers and whatnot can't seem to be UK-ified anymore.

So yeah, you're not done with me as DDP co-host yet. No one offered to take up the mantle, but doing slimmer obits has made things considerably easier and pretty much "TMIB redux"-proofed the front page. In fact I don't think there will be any changes for next year, rule or personnel wise, outside of acknowledging that The Times is a .com website now rather than .co.uk. The DDP 2025 thread and launch will be coming over the weekend.

Are you referring to Irving Kahn and his siblings, perchance? He and his sister both lived to 109, and he had two brothers who also made 100.

I read an oral history on girl groups earlier this year, mostly collated from interviews conducted 4-5 years ago. Sarah Dash had mentioned how Birdsong was very poorly even back then yet Dash died a year later while Birdsong hangs on. Practically the girl group Jimmy Carter.

All I really care is that Buzz Aldrin stays and Frankie Valli joins.

It was mentioned here before that he was one of two surviving US Senators who were first elected Senator before Joe Biden. Now Bob Packwood is the very last.

Correct. However I decided not to list names if they most likely would not qualify under current DDP rules.

I'm opting against. Not seeing any real fame outside of being Boris Becker's mum.

I like the name "Jim Justice"; it looks like a store brand GI Joe.

It is a funny old game, if Timothy West died a week ago Prunella Scales would surely be part of the final 25 instead of the 7th out.

11/13/2024 33 Nigel Starmer-Smith 31 Esther Rantzen 31 Linda Nolan 31 Noam Chomsky 31 Joanne Woodward 30 Stanley Baxter 30 Roberta Flack 29 Norman Tebbit 29 Gene Hackman 28 Denis Law  28 Cleo Laine 28 Dick Van Dyke 28 Jimmy Carter +2 27 Sandy Gall 27 Alan Greenspan 27 Pete Murray  26 Ted Turner 26 Patricia Routledge  26 Dennis Skinner  26 Jean-Marie Le Pen 26 Tom Brokaw 25 Sonny Rollins  25 Mel Brooks +2 17 Hans Blix 15 Josef Fritzl 15 Vanessa Redgrave -5 00 Raul Castro -1 Eliminator Score: 19/20