Death Impends

IIRC DDP has accepted QOs where the only indication the person died was "the late suchandsuch" with no mention of when they died. When I open up the HPDP24 thread I can add a wee note that the date of death can be verified with non-QO sources.

Yes, deadpoolers, it’s this time again. 2023 has had departures from as sad as Tina Turner to as welcomed as Henry Kissinger, but there’s still two constants in this world: The Derby Dead Pool, and us laughing at whichever poor souls fall for Superstar Billy Graham again. Erm, okay, one constant. For 2024, @Banana and I are continuing in our previous posts. As for @gcreptile's announced retirement. We all can agree he has done a bang up job for the past four years entering the celeb deaths and sorting out bugs while never losing his trademark zen. As it stands he is still in talks with a potential successor and will remain on the committee for at least another month or so to assure a smooth transition, and we will keep you updated as that progresses. Dear Jimmy - either die in the next week, or go all the way to 2024 - love, Banana THE RULES remain the same as they have for the past few years. Be warned – Ruth Langsford mother falls afoul of our FFBI criteria. IMPORTANT REMINDER: The spreadsheet method of entry that began in 2021 remains in service. The 2024 spreadsheet, identical to the 2023 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.

Hits roll incoming for November within the day... looking like it'll be Johnny Ruffo, Rosalynn Carter, Charles Peters, that fucker Kissinger, Shane MacGowan, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Glenys Kinnock. Also, doing a double check on current LotL-er Miiko Taka, I see that she gets namechecked in a Yahoo UK article from March that lists Hollywood deceaseds.

12/2/2023 28 John & Yoko etc. — Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 28 Andy Williams — It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year 28 Bing Crosby — White Christmas 27 The Wombles — Wombling Merry Christmas 26 Kate Bush — December Will Be Magic Again 26 The Pretenders — 2000 Miles 26 Darlene Love — Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) +3 24 Bing Crosby & David Bowie — Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy 24 Queen — Thank God It’s Christmas 24 Eartha Kitt — Santa Baby 23 Donny Hathaway — This Christmas 23 Jona Lewie — Stop The Cavalry 23 The Waitresses — Christmas Wrapping 22 Wizzard — I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 22 Run-DMC — Christmas In Hollis 22 Wham! — Last Christmas 22 Burl Ives — Holly Jolly Christmas 22 The Ronettes — Sleigh Ride +1 21 Destiny’s Child — 8 Days Of Christmas 21 Perry Como — God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 21 Frank Sinatra — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 21 Nat King Cole — The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) 21 Chuck Berry — Run Rudolph Run 21 José Feliciano — Feliz Navidad 20 The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York 20 Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews — Baby It’s Cold Outside 20 Elvis Presley — Blue Christmas 20 Ray Conniff — Carol Of The Bells 20 Coldplay — Christmas Lights 20 George Michael — December Song 20 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 20 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End 20 Chris Rea — Driving Home For Christmas 20 Kay Starr — (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag 20 Gene Autry — Here Comes Santa Claus 20 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas 20 The Jackson 5 — I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 20 Mike Oldfield — In Dulci Jubilo 20 Perry Como — It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 20 Bobby Helms — Jingle Bell Rock 20 Dean Martin — Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 20 The Beach Boys — Little Saint Nick 20 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 20 Boney M — Mary’s Boy Child (Oh My Lord) 20 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters — Mele Kalikimaka 20 The Carpenters — Merry Christmas Darling 20 Shakin’ Stevens — Merry Christmas Everyone 20 Leona Lewis — One More Sleep 20 The Eagles — Please Come Home For Christmas 20 Ray Conniff — Ring Christmas Bells 20 Brenda Lee — Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree 20 The Crystals — Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 20 Jim Reeves — Silver Bells 20 Gabriella Cilmi — Warm This Winter 20 Johnny Mathis — When A Child Is Born 20 Perry Como — Winter Wonderland 18 Bob Dylan — Must Be Santa 18 The Ronettes — Frosty The Snowman 18 Kelly Clarkson — Underneath The Tree 17 Elton John — Step Into Christmas 16 Stevie Wonder — What Christmas Means To Me 13 Mariah Carey — All I Want For Christmas Is You 10 Slade — Merry Xmas Everybody 00 Ed Sheeran & Elton John — Merry Christmas -6

I change my avatar to one that covers up her beehive and Barry is back the next day. It's a sign.

Get back to me when Meghan attempts a hostile takeover of Jeopardy. Then I will understand the hatred.

Hit me we're into December and this annual tradition still hasn't cropped up. Time to remedy that. So how is it? Are you sitting on Ohio's greatest squash farmer on the inside tip that his local paper has a deal with Yahoo? Are you debating if the Daily Mail will care about the fifth-biggest cast member of a forgotten US sitcom from 1973? Or are you too busy with the Christmas sherry and just going to do quick, inebriated searches for "stage I breast cancer" and "is Ruth Langsford mother still alive" on New Year's Eve? I can confirm that, if he somehow makes it, I will be keeping Jimmy Carter. I now have to hope Johnny Gilbert doesn't announce hospice this month, so I still at least have one casual mascot.

12/1/2023 32 The Wombles — Wombling Merry Christmas 26 The Pretenders — 2000 Miles 24 John & Yoko etc. — Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 24 Andy Williams — It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year 24 Bing Crosby — White Christmas 24 Kate Bush — December Will Be Magic Again 23 Darlene Love — Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) +3 22 The Waitresses — Christmas Wrapping 22 Wham! — Last Christmas 21 Bing Crosby & David Bowie — Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy 21 Jona Lewie — Stop The Cavalry 21 Donny Hathaway — This Christmas 21 Run-DMC — Christmas In Hollis 21 Perry Como — God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 21 José Feliciano — Feliz Navidad 21 Burl Ives — Holly Jolly Christmas 21 Frank Sinatra — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 21 The Ronettes — Sleigh Ride +1 20 Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews — Baby It’s Cold Outside 20 Elvis Presley — Blue Christmas 20 Ray Conniff — Carol Of The Bells 20 Coldplay — Christmas Lights 20 George Michael — December Song 20 Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas? 20 The Darkness — Don’t Let The Bells End 20 Chris Rea — Driving Home For Christmas 20 Kay Starr — (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag 20 Gene Autry — Here Comes Santa Claus 20 Greg Lake — I Believe In Father Christmas 20 The Jackson 5 — I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 20 Wizzard — I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 20 Mike Oldfield — In Dulci Jubilo 20 Perry Como — It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 20 Bobby Helms — Jingle Bell Rock 20 Dean Martin — Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 20 The Beach Boys — Little Saint Nick 20 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 20 Boney M — Mary’s Boy Child (Oh My Lord) 20 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters — Mele Kalikimaka 20 The Carpenters — Merry Christmas Darling 20 Shakin’ Stevens — Merry Christmas Everyone 20 Bob Dylan — Must Be Santa 20 Leona Lewis — One More Sleep 20 The Eagles — Please Come Home For Christmas 20 Ray Conniff — Ring Christmas Bells 20 Brenda Lee — Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree 20 Chuck Berry — Run Rudolph Run 20 Eartha Kitt — Santa Baby 20 The Crystals — Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 20 Jim Reeves — Silver Bells 20 Elton John — Step Into Christmas 20 Queen — Thank God It’s Christmas 20 Nat King Cole — The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) 20 Kelly Clarkson — Underneath The Tree 20 Gabriella Cilmi — Warm This Winter 20 Johnny Mathis — When A Child Is Born 20 Perry Como — Winter Wonderland 20 Destiny’s Child — 8 Days Of Christmas 18 The Ronettes — Frosty The Snowman 18 Stevie Wonder — What Christmas Means To Me 16 Ed Sheeran & Elton John — Merry Christmas 16 Slade — Merry Xmas Everybody 15 Mariah Carey — All IWant For Christmas Is You 15 The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale Of New York 14 Ariana Grande — Santa Tell Me 14 Justin Bieber — Mistletoe -6 12 Michael Buble — Jingle Bells 4 Paul McCartney — Wonderful Christmastime Plot twist: Even though there are three Ronettes tracks on the Phil Spector Christmas album, I think Darlene Love has the best song on it. Still would be OOC for me to not throw at least one upvote to the Ronettes though

Oh right, Christmas avvy season so time for Santa Ronnie. Ring a ling a dong ding dong ding.

There was a wink wink nudge nudge in the opening post

Been watching All in the Family lately. Which is an obvious cue for me to vote for Nor- Jimmy Carter because they've started making references to him in the episodes.

Not picked since 2014. Which given how this winter is shaping up on the obit writing front, phew!

Janis Paige

Carter outlasts another. Well done to the ten Shane pickers. Thread closed.

Yes I'm still running it. Kissinger a popular pick and I'd been very clear he would count for a bonus and it ain't Hollywood Squares Would be happy to give him a "turbo crimes against humanity" bonus when I update... probably this weekend