Death Impends

Bill Treacher

Jonathan Tjarks dead. Found this out entirely as The Ringer is host to an intermittent Jeopardy column.

DDP QO - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11204329/Photographer-William-Klein-dies-aged-96.html

This one looks to have slipped by when you updated for Betty White

Peter Falk?

Mostly surprised that Gorbachev didn't breach a million.

I've duly conducted the DL coronation

Desmond Morris

It's the Cicely Tyson rule, the obvious candidate for last survivor in these polls almost certainly won't be.

Indeed, well done for guessing Her Maj before it was obvious. Thread closed.

Write a horror story in 6 words. Poor man's Margaret Thatcher elected PM.

Can you provide photos for further explanation?

Pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg, he of the giant ordinary objects, died back in July, but I had only belatedly realized he was a HPDP selection a day ago. Doulton alone sinks her claws in Claes, and being jotted up with a towering pencil is the points total of 42 (30 base + 12 bonus). Destiny has arrived for pop darling Olivia Newton-John, who brings the dreams of HPDP points alive for three participants. Some names you struggle to come up with one gag for, others can generate dozens. The trio greasing up their totals are as follows: 25 points for Pedro67, 10 for The Unknown Man, and 25 sub points for YoungWillz. A quartet of teams get into the swing of things with Tom Weiskopf, with Valhalla One hitting the highest with 45 points. The other three were all outside the green and consigned Weiskopf to their subs bench - Funeralopolis, msc, and theoldlady all hit their first sub for 25 points. Two teams tear down Soviet statesman Mikhail Gorbachev. Only Thatcher had him on his main team for 21 points (15 base + 6 bonus). After all your efforts together to thaw the Cold War, that's how you repay him, Thatch? CalebH meanwhile had him as a sub hit for 25 points. Lastly, BBC Breakfast's Bill Turnbull caps off August. He gives 25 points to John Key, 20 to MariNisia, and 5 to The Old Crem. The August scoreboard is below, with slight rises for msc and Pedro up the top 10. 1. Book 360 2. Banana 300.81 3. gcreptile 293.81 4. msc 250 5. drol 249 6. Perhaps 223 7. CaptainChorizo 222 8. Salmon Mousse 211 9. maryportfuncity 195 10. Pedro67 187 11. markb4 164.99 12. theoldlady 163.82 13. Funeralopolis 161 14. DevonDeathTrip 158 15. Kenny 155 16. Annami 154 17. Torva Messor 129 =18. CalebH 123 =18. MariNisia 123 20. John Key 112.99 =21. Thatcher 106 =21. Toast 106 23. YoungWillz 102 24. six feet blunder 95 25. Doulton 92 =26. Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 =26. Valhalla One 73 28. An Fear Beag 70.81 29. YorkshireBanker 56 30. The Unknown Man 52 31. JoeMoneypenny 39 32. BabyBlue 35 33. Exu 32 34. Famous6Eva 28 =35. chilean way 25 =35. Gooseberry Crumble 25 =35. GuyFromFuture 25 38. Joey Russ 22 39. DeathByArsenic 15 40. The Old Crem 5.99 41. Hell 0.99 =42. Bibliogryphon 0 =42. Death Impends 0 =42. Dying Probably 0 =42. TheSpinosaurus 0 =42. time 0

I'll update soon. Looks like Claes Oldenburg (July hit that slipped past me), Olivia Newton-John, Tom Weiskopf, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Bill Turnbull for the August hits.

More likely the committee had just discovered genarians.com the year before.

Grayco got a Yahoo UK. Nothing yet for Kornman (not a DDP pick but could be on some forum pools) as far as I know.

No one voted Turnbull when it counted Thread closed.

Gall

This, word for word.

Faithfull

Doesn't pass current fame criteria, mind, and so won't be added to the LotM page.

We would go with his claimed age. Shivakumara Swami definitely wasn't as old as claimed either, but he was still treated as 111 by the DDP system as there was no hard evidence to the contrary.

He was mentioned at the time. Admittedly it's a tricky name for the search engine to pick up.

Helen Grayco is a unique for me

Picked on the DDP by the Vietnam theme team. Guardian obit