Death Impends

If you want perspective for how great a WTF still alive Duane Eddy was, the 60s radio host I listen to each morning likes to recount birthdays of living and dead. On Eddy's birthday a few days ago, he started saying "sadly this person is no longer with us", went into a talk about Duane Eddy's birthday, and didn't mention anyone who was actually dead at the time. An omen it turns out. RIP.

Assuming that's the latest ever swap of leads in a Cup round? I remember taking a late late lead with a US college football coach but even then that was with two days to go instead of a few hours.

I had a three day weekend which helped knock them out. My work from home job can mean projects anywhere, so I'm currently working for a Mississippi project. And yesterday was Confederate Memorial Day which is a day off there. Which is revolting that that's a holiday. But I am very much "enjoy the fact I had a day off first, ask questions later".

2022 was the longest lasting >1 hit/day before this year, slipping behind in mid April. But the latter months lagged enough that while it still set a new hits record, it only did so by the skin of its teeth. Whereas 2023 fell behind >1 hit/day much earlier but the year as a whole was far more consistent. Given we've kept up this rate despite the DL being so slow, I'd guess this year will glide past 300 fairly easily.

Yeah I tend to like the "the sane one corrals a zoo of nutters" structure. See my Muppets love

Tubi (a free-with-ads movies/TV app I've used a shitton ever since I moved out) has a British TV section so I've watched the odd Britcom in recent months. Dad's Army hasn't cropped up on it yet, though I'd definitely check it should the opportunity arrive. I quite liked The Vicar of Dibley and Trevor Peacock's nonononononono.

If she dies while I'm still hosting the DDP, I'm so using this scene from her Columbo ep as the image headliner: I'd be a bit surprised if I write her obit though, despite her grand age.

I removed the ban on the IP that I think was the root of your issue. It was one where an asterisk was used after the first five digits so that would've banned a wide range of IPs. Try again.

There was no ban on you. Possible that your IP overlapped with one that we banned in the past?

I'll just discretely sneak him into the 2023 LotM since it's more or less historical record. Whereas if he were picked this year he'd go on the 2024 LotL.

In most cases I'd like for Tories to STFU ASAP. But every time Truss is in the news is so hilarious I don't think I could get tired of it if I tried.

Small world. I've seen her name at the bargain book kiosk at my local grocery store, and thought "wasn't she one of those past DDP cancer writers"! Probably me thinking of Sophie Sabbage or Sonia Kinsella (though the latter wasn't an author).

I remember at one of those free book dumps in middle school George Burns's autobiography was there and I took it and read it because I was just getting really into centenarians. Definitely one of my Sulu-iest sentences ever. Weird you'd find George Burns's autobiography there in hindsight!

Now that the weather's finally ticking up I'm feeling less lazy again

Picked in the DDP for the first and only time in 2021.

Finally corralled up the update, just making sure no recent LotL/LotM names slipped through the cracks?

I think it helps a lot that the double sides are so long ago, that it kind of sorts itself out. Can’t Help Falling In Love justly endures and Rock-A-Hula Baby is justly forgotten, so we all just agreed to vote based off the former. If Rock-A-Hula Baby was equally culturally enduring while not being very good then it might've been more of a dilemma.

I've been playing it for years

George Schappell was trans, Lori wasn't, and Spade ran a trans theme team that year.

2022 looked like it was set to be 2011 bad when we were sitting on four hits for almost all summer. Then there were ten hits condensed into a little over four months. Plenty can happen with much of the year to go.

One of my deadpooling mascots in recent years. 50s New Orleans R&B was a treasure trove for WTF they didn't die in 1995 picks not too long ago, like Lloyd Price and Huey Piano Smith. But now they're all dead.

Kurt Hamrin, Swedish football great and last survivor of the 1958 World Cup final, died way back in early February but his HPDP status escaped me. Famous6Eva is duly off the mark with 42 points (30 base + 12 bonus). Now into March. Canadian jazz pioneer Eleanor Collins swan songs a classy duet. The two who head north on the scoreboard are GuyFromFuture by 45 points and Torva Messor by 35 points. Despite his popularity in the DDP, RTE journalist Charlie Bird was surprisingly a unique hereabouts. A Bird in the hand is worth 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus) for msc. Charlie's son Philippe de Gaulle was another unique, this time for Imelda with 21 points (15 base + 6 bonus). Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford was in declining health in recent months and so was always likely to rocket onto a HPDP team or two. MariNisia gets 49 points closer to the stars (35 base + 14 bonus), while Perhaps launches his first sub with 25 points. Roger Ebert once stated "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Does that rule also apply to deadpool teams? Thatcher says yes, consigning Walsh to a supporting role on the subs bench which the craggy thesp did with typical aplomb, delivering 50 points and marking the first team where both subs have died. The world's oldest man, that eternal deadpooling staple food, delivers once again. Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez was a unique for BuffaloPhil worth 42 points (30 base + 12 bonus). Have to admit, when I saw the news Lynne Reid Banks died, I thought for a minute "wasn't she the one who died two years ago?". My mind had fused her and Margaret Stuart Barry into one, children's authors of similar ages who were frequently picked by YorkshireBanker. While Barry died off radar, there no such worries for Banks, and Banker can take his banking on Banks to the bank with a haul of 70 points (50 base + 20 bonus). The March scoreboard sees a swap in leads, with Thomas Stafford allowing Perhaps to surpass Banana. 1. Perhaps 190.19 2. Banana 173 3. MariNisia 151 4. Torva Messor 150.19 5. Thatcher 130.19 6. YorkshireBanker 120.19 7. Book 100.19 8. CaptainChorizo 91.84 =9. drol 90.19 =9. theoldlady 90.19 11. msc 89 12. RadGuy 86 13. DevonDeathTrip 83 14. Imelda 82.19 15. BuffaloPhil 82 16. markb4 81 17. Etushispushingupdaisies 75 18. diego 74 19. justonecornetto 72 20. Sean 70.19 21. maryportfuncity 70 22. Grimgrass 67 23. wannamaker 65 24. CalebH 63 =25. Funeralopolis 60.19 =25. ladyfiona 60.19 27. gcreptile 55.47 28. Pedro67 55.19 29. Toast 55 =30. BabyBlue 50.19 =30. Prophet 50.19 =32. arghton 49 =32. chilean way 49 34. GuyFromFuture 45 =35. Famous6Eva 42 =35. livingbygrace 42 =37. John Key 40.19 =37. The Unknown Man 40.19 39. Charles De Gaulle 40 40. DeathBecomesThem 35 41. Captain Hemlock 30.19 42. An Fear Beag 30 =43. MalePoster 25 =43. ThereWillBeDeaths7 25 45. The Old Crem 15 46. DeathByArsenic 10.98 47. Hell 10.19 48. JoeMoneypenny 5 =49. Bibliogryphon 0 =49. Death Impends 0 =49. Gooseberry Crumble 0 =49. Great Uncle Bulgaria 0 =49. Joey Russ 0 =49. LizLemon 0 =49. TheKillingTime 0 =49. time 0 =49. WEP 0 =49. WillyWonka422 0 =49. YoungWillz 0

March/early April update probably tomorrow. Think this is it for who died post Apfel? Eleanor Collins Charlie Bird Philippe de Gaulle Thomas P. Stafford Juan Vicente Perez Lynne Reid Banks

I felt it in NJ. Second earthquake I felt in my life, first was 2011. Earthquakes are so extremely rare in NJ that both times were just a minute of mild shaking yet I felt like the world was going to end. Today it took me about an hour for my nerves to fully settle.

Done