Death Impends

From what the previous 70s KoSs tell me, they were somehow even bigger in the UK than in the US. Some Osmond songs we killed in the past I didn't recognize the names at all. If I play a KoS round I'm going to educate myself on the songs I didn't know, but if it's an unfamiliar Osmond song I take that as a sign from God to steer far, far away!

Are ill Pokemon voice actors starting to be an annual occurrence? Rachael Lillis, the OG Misty, Jessie, and Jigglypuff, has breast cancer that spread to her spine.

5/13/2024 24 The Shangri-Las- Leader of the Pack +2 23 Gilbert O’Sullivan- Alone Again (Naturally) 22 America- A Horse With No Name 22 Hawkwind- Silver Machine 22 Mott the Hoople- All The Young Dudes 22 David Bowie- Life on Mars? 22 T. Rex- 20th Century Boy 21 David Bowie- Drive-In Saturday 20 The Chi-Lites- Have You Seen Her 20 The Drifters- At The Club/Saturday Night at The Movies 20 Lindisfarne- Lady Eleanor 20 Faron Young- It’s Four in the Morning 20 Peter Skellern- You’re a Lady 20 Python Lee Jackson- In a Broken Dream 20 David Cassidy- I Am a Clown/Some Kind of a Summer 20 Perry Como- And I Love You So 20 Medicine Head- One and One is One 20 Mungo Jerry- Alright, Alright, Alright 20 Suzi Quatro- 48 Crash 20 Limmie and the Family Cookin’- You Can Do Magic 20 David Bowie- Sorrow 20 Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers- Monster Mash 14 Michael Jackson- Rockin’ Robin 14 David Essex- Rock On 14 The Partridge Family- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 14 Carly Simon- You’re So Vain +2 14 Donny Osmond- Why -6 When Donny takes someone as lifelessly dull as Frankie Avalon and still manages to disgrace him!

And then after the egg is eaten, she'll deny that anyone ate the egg.

5/13/2024 51 Edwin Starr — War 33 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden +2 33 The Four Tops - A Simple Game +2 31 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 4 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -6

5/12/2024 50 Edwin Starr — War 32 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 28 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden +4 24 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay  23 The Four Tops - A Simple Game 19 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 10 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -6

5/11/2024 44 Edwin Starr — War 34 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden 26 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay 25 The Four Tops - A Simple Game +4 23 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 21 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -6 17 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 16 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 06 Neil Diamond - Cracklin’ Rosie

I think War is the best song here, though Rose Garden carries nostalgia points for me as my grandparents loved to play older country music and it's one of the few songs I can explicitly remember being played. I didn't have much interest in "real people things" as a child so the songs I do remember are bound to have some sentimental value. Oh Pretty Woman was another song I have explicit memories of my grandparents playing, but then, Roy's on his own level entirely.

5/10/2024 34 Edwin Starr — War 33 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden +4 29 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay 27 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 27 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 26 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 23 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -6 21 The Four Tops - A Simple Game 16 Neil Diamond - Cracklin’ Rosie 12 The Supremes - Stoned Love 08 Don Fardon - Indian Reservation

5/9/2024 32 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 31 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay 30 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden +2 30 Edwin Starr — War +2 27 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 26 Neil Diamond - Cracklin’ Rosie 26 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 24 Don Fardon - Indian Reservation -2 22 The Supremes - Stoned Love  22 The Four Tops - A Simple Game 22 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -4

The latter. She's still alive, occasionally making the news with a hospitalization. I remember there was a dead pool here that was "pick ten 1910s births, first to have them all die wins", I picked her in light of a recent hospitalization and thought that it would make her a clever pick. Only for her to not be a 1910s baby after all and outlive almost every other pick!

5/8/2024 36 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend 32 Edwin Starr - War 31 Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden +4 29 Don Fardon - Indian Reservation 28 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke - Resurrection Shuffle 26 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 26 Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay  26 The Supremes - Stoned Love 25 Neil Diamond - Cracklin’ Rosie 22 Andy Williams — Can’t Help Falling In Love -6 18 The Four Tops - A Simple Game  12 Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell - All I Have To Do Is Dream  09 The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You 08 Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time

That is correct.

5/7/2024 37 Creedence Clearwater Revival- Up Around The Bend 35 Edwin Starr — War 33 Three Dog Night- Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 28 Lynn Anderson- Rose Garden +2 27 Neil Diamond — Cracklin’ Rosie +2 25 Bobby Bloom- Montego Bay 25 Don Fardon- Indian Reservation 23 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke- Resurrection Shuffle 23 Andy Williams- Can’t Help Falling In Love 21 Chairmen of the Board- Give Me Just A Little More Time 20 The Supremes- Stoned Love 18 Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell- All I Have To Do Is Dream 14 The Four Tops- A Simple Game 14 The Elgins- Heaven Must Have Sent You 13 Marmalade- Reflections Of My Life 05 Marmalade- Rainbow 03 Blue Mink- Melting Pot 00 Blue Mink- The Banned Man -6

Drew members of the Guinea Pig Club and outlived every single member. Probably for the better she was not a DDP pick, to spare the front page from my inevitable godawful "I was a member of the Guinea Pig Club too! Oh wait, that's a different guinea pig entirely" lines.

5/6/2024 27 Edwin Starr- War +3 21 Lynn Anderson- Rose Garden +1 20 Blue Mink- Melting Pot 20 Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell- All I Have To Do Is Dream 20 Marmalade- Reflections Of My Life 20 Andy Williams- Can’t Help Falling In Love 20 Creedence Clearwater Revival- Up Around The Bend 20 Marmalade- Rainbow 20 Three Dog Night- Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 20 Chairmen of the Board- Give Me Just A Little More Time 20 Bobby Bloom- Montego Bay 20 Don Fardon- Indian Reservation 20 Neil Diamond- Cracklin’ Rosie 20 The Supremes- Stoned Love 20 Ashton, Gardner and Dyke- Resurrection Shuffle 20 The Elgins- Heaven Must Have Sent You 20 Blue Mink- The Banner Man 20 The Four Tops- A Simple Game 20 Cilla Black- Something Tells Me (Something’s Gonna Happen Tonight) 14 The Piglets- Johnny Reggae 14 Tony Orlando & Dawn- What Are You Doing Sunday? -6

There's the stat for most picked celebs overall. Keef and Holly Johnson's total means that they're picked on every DDP where records are known (ie every game from 2000 onward + 1998). Holly Johnson, Keith Richards 26 Hulk Hogan, Liza Minnelli 25 John Astin, Michael Barrymore, Jimmy Carter, Queen Elizabeth II (d. 2022), Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 2022), Imelda Marcos, Rupert Murdoch, Mike Tyson 24 Woody Allen, Michael J. Fox, Angela Lansbury (d. 2022), Desmond Tutu (d. 2021) 23 Emperor Akihito of Japan, George W. Bush, Kirk Douglas (d. 2020), Henry Kissinger (d. 2023), Ozzy Osbourne, Prince Philip (d. 2021) 22

Cheers. Previous post modified to include her.

You know, it's late, but only four names, I'll do it now. Three of the four were not DDP hits. Two were just not picked, the other currently lacks a DDP-friendly obit. First up is Jaime de Armiñán, a Spanish director Oscar-nommed for Mi querida señorita (My Dear Senorita) and El nido (The Nest). He also wrote Nuestro fantasma (Our Ghost), y ahora es el fantasma del HPDP. WEP chalks ups 28 points (20 base + 8 bonus). Well before Susan Collins perfected the usage of "concerned" to seem far more moderate than you actually are, Beverly LaHaye founded the evangelist anti-feminist group Concerned Women for America. She learned how to be a homemaker because she felt it would teach her to be more submissive, and Reagan said she changed the face of America, so yeah. As far as the HPDP is concerned, she's a unique pick for arghton worth 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). Josip Manolic served only a year as Prime Minister of Croatia, but he did manage to be in the post when the country declared independence from a quickly-dissolving Yugoslavia. Seen as a conciliatory figure in his later years, he also saw scrutiny for oppression under his watch during the Tito years. Croatian social media accorded him a Zsa Zsa stature he worked hard to earn: His first wife died in a house fire, his second was 35 years his junior but still predeceased him, he survived COVID aged 101, and he received last rites at the end of 2023 yet was able to muster up another season's worth of breathing. He could only run on low fuel for so long, so was a natural cult pick here: wannamaker gains 40 points, Book and chilean way 35, and John Key 15. Political heavyweight Frank Field needs little introduction hereabouts, with his surprise endurance in the face of terminal cancer frustrating deadpoolers like his political quirks frustrated Labour mainstreamers. He made a very strong debut in 2022 at 26 pickers before collapsing to 9 in 2023. He enjoyed a decent rebound to 16 teams this time: drol fields 45 points. chilean way, Hell, John Key, and Pedro67 35. maryportfuncity and The Unknown Man 30. Captain Hemlock, Thatcher, and The Old Crem 25. ladyfiona 15. diego and Torva Messor punch in their second sub hit for 50 points. and An Fear Beag, BuffaloPhil and Charles de Gaulle their first for 25 points. New scoreboard ahead. The heavyweight Field hit means a new leader, as Torva Messor climbs to first on the back of clearing her subs bench: 1. Torva Messor 200.19 2. Perhaps 190.19 3. Banana 173 4. Thatcher 155.19 5. MariNisia 151 =6. Book 135.19 =6. drol 135.19 8. diego 124 9. YorkshireBanker 120.19 10. chilean way 119 11. BuffaloPhil 107 12. wannamaker 105 13. maryportfuncity 100 14. arghton 98 15. CaptainChorizo 91.84 =16. John Key 90.19 =16. Pedro67 90.19 =16. theoldlady 90.19 19. msc 89 20. RadGuy 86 21. DevonDeathTrip 83 22. Imelda 82.19 23. markb4 81 24. ladyfiona 75.19 25. Etushispushingupdaisies 75 26. justonecornetto 72 =27. Sean 70.19 =27. The Unknown Man 70.19 29. Grimgrass 67 30. Charles De Gaulle 65 31. CalebH 63 32. Funeralopolis 60.19 33. gcreptile 55.47 34. Captain Hemlock 55.19 =35. An Fear Beag 55 =35. Toast 55 =37. BabyBlue 50.19 =37. Prophet 50.19 39. Hell 45.19 40. GuyFromFuture 45 =41. Famous6Eva 42 =41. livingbygrace 42 43. The Old Crem 40 44. DeathBecomesThem 35 45. WEP 28 =46. MalePoster 25 =46. ThereWillBeDeaths7 25 48. DeathByArsenic 10.98 49. JoeMoneypenny 5 =50. Bibliogryphon 0 =50. Death Impends 0 =50. Gooseberry Crumble 0 =50. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 =50. Joey Russ 0 =50. LizLemon 0 =50. TheKillingTime 0 =50. time 0 =50. WillyWonka422 0 =50. YoungWillz 0

Should update tomorrow. Seems Jaime de Arminan, Josip Manolic (who got a WaPo shout to skate by here in face of his dearth of UK press), and Frank Field were the only hits since last time?

Did some searching and found it interesting that she directly succeeded fellow centenarian Janis Paige as the title character in Broadway's Mame. Angela Lansbury originated the role and Celeste Holm also portrayed her, so although Ann Miller "only" reached 80 taking the character on Broadway seems a good omen for lasting a long time!

Folk shitting on vulnerable minorities gets characterized by the powers that be in society as "forthright telling it like it is". Whereas if the vulnerable speak up, or folk speak up in defense of the vulnerable, it gets characterized as whiny. Equal parts saddening and disgusting.

I had pared through those charts in 2020/21 and during that time I found a music website ran by Gail Menefee's nephew that has an article on the Loreleis. The site is still being updated, so I'm inclined to assume Menefee still alive until he mentions otherwise. IDK if the same would apply to Reinagle.

I should've spent more than a split second thinking there.