Death Impends

It's baffling too because all of these exclusion issues could easily be resolved by allocating an extra few minutes for the In Memoriam segment. But apparently the celeb tomfoolery during the rest of the show is too important to cut into.

He is a scoring hit and has been updated appropriately by Reptile.

Kennedy Center Award recipients

Prompt QO for his one DDP picker: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-11848415/Bud-Grant-Legendary-Minnesota-Vikings-head-coach-dies-95.html

Think I have everything up to date for the Obit Watch/LotL/LotM. Everyone mentioned in this thread, plus Bert I. Gordon and Mystic Meg also misses. Napoleon XIV and Tongo also awaiting obits. That everyone?

The "it's actually a dog" punchline might be the greatest ever joke in a novelty song. Or for that matter, one of the few to even be funny.

The fact that the news sources with an aura of "esteem" are peddling this cultist bullshit is far more infuriating than the tabloid rags doing the same. US has this shit too with NYT et al giving credence to dangerous propaganda, rather than it just being restrained to the Fox aegis. Not to say both aren't extremely harmful, just that the ones with a veneer of "prestige" doing this are especially so.

A TJS unique this year.

Shall hope to get the LotM up to date this weekend. Busy past few days IRL.

DaDeathGuy is now on a week's vacation and subsequent mod preview once he's back. Potentially more if he doesn't change his tune.

Buckley is the first US senator to become a centenarian in over 20 years. Until now Strom Thurmond was the most recent centennial.

Your contributions to the site have been well valued, especially the research on old musicians and actors. Be well!

For me, the most shocking "never picked before" of the 2023 DDP.

Superstar throws kidney failure in the mix: https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2023/03/wwe-hall-of-famer-now-battling-acute-renal-failure-lung-issue-in-hospital.html

Gooseberry sure to get the tissues out for that one.

February a go. Up first is French racecar driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille, a unique for DeathByArsenic that brings them 28 points (20 base + 8 bonus). And then former Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf. His leadership style all depended on his mood - at times oppressive despot, at times patriotic freedom fighter. Dialing towards the former for HPDP scoring purposes there. The winning trio are CaptainChorizo with 72 points (45 base + 27 bonus), DeathBecomesThem with 64 (40 base + 24 bonus), and drol with 24 (15 base + 9 bonus). The best that Burt Bachrach could do was one team. Lord, we don't need another mountain, but Murdoc gets a mountain's worth of 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). Up next is a triple header in one day. Colin Dobson, a footballer with Sheffield Wednesday, was a trademark Gooseberry Crumble unique worth 21 points (15 base + 6 unique). Pole vaulter Tim Lobinger was an obit gamble around DDP parts, but with German QOs under the HPDP fold the only question for his pickers was when he would die. He died earlier than anticipate for both Reptile (30 points) and Banana (25 points), and additionally was the first sub hit for RadGuy (25 points). Unlike Lobinger, schlager singer Tony Marshall had no luck gaining any native press outside his native Germany, but that was enough for HPDP purposes. Reptile swiftly follows up with another "too early" hit to the tune of 35 points (25 base + 10 bonus), plus an extra 5 points for hitting a Daily Double. time was one of three wooden spoons last year, and as such resubmitted his 2022 team for this year without any modifications. He'll have to go back to the drawing board for at least one name next time, with badger-coiffured World of Sport host Dickie Davies ending the long dry spell. He brings a haul of 56 points (40 base + 16 bonus). Just one more name in this update. None other than Just Fontaine, the goalscoring juggernaut of 1958 World Cup yore. Fittingly, his picker's username also begins with just, and justonecornetto scores 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). Latest scoreboard is below. CaptainChorizo leaps to third on the back of Musharraf, while the top two remain unchanged but with a much closer .05-point margin thanks to justonecornetto gaining more mileage out of Fontaine than Banana did out of Lobinger. 1. Banana 140 2. justonecornetto 139.95 3. CaptainChorizo 122 4. gcreptile 120.95 5. DeathBecomesThem 110.77 6. drol 105.77 7. RadGuy 92.7 8. msc 86.77 9. BuffaloPhil 84.95 10. diego 75.82 11. wannamaker 65.95 12. BabyBlue 60.95 =13. John "요한" Sulu 56 =13. time 56 15. Murdoc 54.82 16. LizLemon 52.7 17. nantonian2013 51.27 =18. An Fear Beag 50.95 =18. Perhaps 50.95 =18. TheDumbReaper 50.95 =21. chilean way 50.82 =21. Sean 50.82 =21. ThereWillBeDeaths7 50.82 =24. Book 50 =24. Famous6Eva 50 =24. JoeMoneypenny 50 =24. MariNisia 50 =24. maryportfuncity 50 =24. Thatcher 50 30. WEP 49 31. Funeralopolis 45.95 32. The Unknown Man 45.82 33. Hell 45 34. Toast 40.95 35. Clarence 36.77 =36. Pedro67 35 =36. theoldlady 35 38. The Old Crem 30.95 =39. DeathByArsenic 28 =39. Torva Messor 28 41. Charles De Gaulle 26.77 42. Etushispushingupdaisies 26.4 43. Gooseberry Crumble 21 44. Young One 10 =45. Great Uncle Bulgaria 1.77 =45. YorkshireBanker 1.77 =47. John Key 0.95 =47. markb4 0.95 =49. CalebH 0.82 =49. GuyFromFuture 0.82 =49. Joey Russ 0.82 =52. arghton 0 =52. Death Impends 0 =52. DevonDeathTrip 0 =52. Lord Fellatio Nelson 0 =52. TheKillingTime 0 =52. YoungWillz 0

Update should be this weekend. Hits since the last update I can see are Burt Bacharach, Colin Dobson, Dickie Davies, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Just Fontaine, Pervez Musharraf, Tim Lobinger, and Tony Marshall, any others?

The most combined hospitalizations in one picture?

I once knew someone in another community from about a decade ago who had a weird fixation on Do the Bartman. Like bringing up how successful-turned-forgotten it was every other day. I was never able to tell if it was ironic or not.

Does look like it, he was on 26 teams in March 2022. Honorable mentions - Frank Field was on 24 teams in February 2022 (lol) and 23 in March 2022 (lol). Peter Lorimer was on 23 teams in March 2021. CBA to look before 2020 given the first few Cups were smaller.

In the end, Bowie finished in second and Blondie finished in fourth two games in a row

40 Nena – 99 Red Balloons +4 5 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes -6

Off memory, the hit-a-day rate ending by mid-March is par the course? Last year held on to late April but that was an outlier.

36 Nena – 99 Red Balloons 25 Blondie – Atomic +4 19 Soft Cell – Tainted Love 08 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes 06 Kraftwerk – The Model/Computer Love -6 01 George Michael – Careless Whisper

I picked him in 2022 after reports of declining health, then dropped him as I figured if he was on 4 teams, at least 1 ought to keep him. Will make a fascinating writeup when the QO comes!