Death Impends

Thank you for noticing and mea culpa not catching that much earlier. I gave it five minutes of thought and decided, because TUM entered a sub, to remove the second Terry Jones and put Bob Barker in spot 25. This has zero impact on TUM's rock-bottom score as everyone below Terry Jones #2 is still alive.

A bit more than half of our participants thought Denis Norden would be alright for another 365 nights. He instead takes his longest pause yet, moderately shaking up the scoreboard, and while theoldlady stays in first place, she's dropped just enough to have to share the podium with John Key. Also, ten teams now place below the guy who used Random.org to decide his names. My word... =1. John Key 9 =1. theoldlady 9 3. Grim Up North 12 4. machotrouts 17 =5. deadsox 20 =5. Joey Russ 20 7. The Dead Cow 21 =8. CastAway 22 =8. drol 22 =10. Bibliogryphon 23 =10. Death Impends 23 =10. Wormfarmer 23 13. Torva Messor 24 14. gcreptile 25 15. Pedro67 27 =16. CaptainChorizo 30 =16. YoungWillz 30 18. msc 31 19. Mercarte 33 =20. Dr_T 36 =20. Garn2 36 =22. CharonsCrew 37 =22. FixedBusiness 37 =22. Toast 37 =25. paddyfool 45 =25. Sean 45 =27. Book 46 =27. Spade_Cooley 46 29. Bentrovato 50 30. Dead Wait 51 31. Phantom of the Midway 56 =32. Sir Creep 57 =32. time 57 34. Deathray 58 35. GraveDanger 61 36. The Unknown Man 71

Thread closed. Well done to Toast and gcreptile.

There's a public Facebook page for Storch with a lot of updates on him (and seemed to be doing great for his age, but then, that age is 95), so I think if he's dead we'll hear something more pretty soon.

msc's first five Deathraces survivor list, 2050: 2012 - (0/20) 2013 - Ryan sodding Buell (1/20) 2014 - (0/20)  2015 - Shivakumara Swanjii (1/20) 2016 - (0/20) 

You've been behaving well for long enough that I'll be nice and change it.

It's a weird predicament to be in where you have to root for the survival of a complete waste of oxygen because she'll take away your DDP lead if she dies in the next three-and-a-half months.

Five days late on this, but Will Jordan got a NYT obit which means a hit for Torva Messor - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/obituaries/will-jordan-who-mimicked-the-famous-is-dead-at-91.html 1920 - Jim Leavelle, Franca Valeri 1921 - Sidney Rittenberg, Francoise Gilot 1922 - George Blake, Micheline Presle 1923 - Sumner Redstone, Rhonda Fleming 1924 - Gene Deitch, Machiko Kyo 1925 - Mahathir Mohamad, June Lockhart 1926 - Phil Phillips, Ann Turner Cook 1927 - Harry Whittington, Gina Lollobrigida 1928 - Hans Kung, Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 - Gaston Glock, Vera Miles

Telegraph QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/09/11/ronnie-taylor-cinematographer-obituary/

The Cup 2017 count goes down another: Beat Richner loses his heartbeat.

Good catch. That makes a lot more sense than her lingering with advanced Alzheimer's for nearly 20 years!

Also the first member of the Dubya Cabinet to die.

A terrible situation Thoughts with you and your family.

Well, the show the interview is on isn't named Saturday Night

Quite the nice analysis. Definitely glad this pool is free-for-all again after the toned-down previous year, picking 50 names instead of 20 was what made this one fun. I have to admit Woodward got on via some convoluted reasoning: Throw in a few old people I wanted to pick somewhere, but couldn't find any room for elsewhere, as I already had all my other non-DDP deadpool teams locked in. Dave Bartholomew and Denis Norden also got in via this method, but I swapped them out (and into the Poker Pool). Woodward was saved from being transferred out since she's a little younger, has actual severe illness, and there were enough too-healthy cancer picks floating around that could be swapped out instead. Jenny Diski?