Death Impends

There already is a theme team league in regards to a separate tourney

My list has been submitted. Only two people older than 80. Decided not to go with Anne Williams in the end on the merit that there's enough ill people I'm more comfortable with picking. Also dropped Bernie Nolan at the last moment, instead putting her as my first alternate.

Cady bought the farm back in June...

I too feel she'll get through this. Won't doubt that this will provoke some more conspiracy lunacy though but I guess that's inevitable with the Internet.

I'm alright with two more teams.

Fingers crossed...

Submitted my theme. My main roster'll be coming in tomorrow. (well, from where I am... guess the accurate perspective from the UK would be later today)

Boris Yeltsin ? All that vodka must have made a zombie out of him...

I'll be sending mine within the hour. Actually make that now.

Dead per Cassidy's official site, though no mainstream obits yet.

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I was another who didn't have him on my team. He was on my long list and I checked for updates on occasion but he didn't seem bad enough for me to give him a spot on my DDP 20.

I too have my eyes on the page like a hawk. Also regarding the article, I love what the #1 is for Japan... stereotypes always have some truth to them, don't they?

Yeah if I were the quiz maker I would've had McGovern or Inouye instead of duPont. Would've made sense to have another political name since Stevens was the only one there.

Another year, another Sporcle notable deaths quiz. That and another reminder of how much of an obit hawk I am, I only missed two. (tennis chick and the last guy in row 4... should have gotten him )

Jean Harris, lover and murderer of Herman "Scarsdale Diet" Tarnower, is now part of the worms' diet.

Had seen that bit of news meself, I usually don't go with National Enquirer-type picks but since the subject himself is talking rather than "a close anonymous source" (plus it's verified that he has cancer) this'll be an exception...

I'd wager "complications of hearing Petraeus's antics" are his cause of death

I still feel Mubarak will be around for a while yet, knowing dictators. Wouldn't mind if he proved me wrong, granted.

It's now being suggested that the cause of his death was anger over a construction project going awry...

I think having the care a POTUS receives will be enough to make him see January 1st

Mikhail Kalashnikov is in the hospital, reportedly intensive care though his son denies it. Would be good to give him a DL spot I reckon.

In goes my fifteen... Team Name: Thomas Jefferson Survives Van Cliburn *JOKER* Hugo Chavez Henry Cecil Clive James Jiroemon Kimura Nelson Mandela Sid Caesar John Nkomo Damon Harris Jalal Talabani Bob Dole Gough Whitlam Vo Nguyen Giap Superstar Billy Graham Rochus Misch

Hope that everyone's had themselves a good Christmas.

He was gonna be in a few of my dead pool entries (not so much DDP as much as the likes of Deathrace) mostly since he's lived much longer than people of his weight are usually expected to. Regardless it's a damn shame to see him go.