Death Impends

The grocery store I shop at has a small bargain books stand and I've seen Susie Steiner books there. Which threw a monkey wrench into my assumption she was a UK-only entity!

You can talk about avatars here: This thread isn't a general hub for chitchat, it's specifically for conversation pertaining to this year's Derby Dead Pool competition.

Yes, but his mother (Kirk's first wife) was already dead by then. Also realized at this point Carter has lived longer than not just every US President, but also every First Lady. His lifespan surpassed Bess Truman's about a month ago.

Why does that sound so familiar?

Two heavyweights and three uniques this past month. Norn Iron manager Billy Bingham worked miracles for his team and now he applies a last touch of magic to Pedro67's team for 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). Jean-Louis Trintignant's declining deadpool popularity experienced a rebound this year, going from a unique pick last HPDP up to 7 teams this year. Said beneficiaries are Doulton with 50 points and her first points of the year. MariNisia 25. DeathByArsenic and John Key 15. Annami 10. And 25 sub points for Banana and maryportfuncity. Old age has taken a toll on Paula Stafford, the fashion designer who brought the bikini Down Under. CalebH attains his first hit of the year for 42 (30 base + 12 bonus). Cancer activist Deborah James was unique here for Kenny. I'm on record in her DDP obit as describing her as "FFBI-transcending" so I won't impose a penalty here. So the end total for Kenny is 56 points (40 base + 16 bonus). Lastly comes the update's most popular pick, crime novelist Susie Steiner. The glio-addled wordsmith was selected by 11 teams: Book scores 45 points. CaptainChorizo and drol 35. Banana, maryportfuncity, and Perhaps 30. Annami and theoldlady 25. msc and Toast 15. and 25 sub points for gcreptile. The latest scoreboard sees Book remain in control at the halfway point, even extending his lead slightly thanks to benefiting the most from Steiner. Banana sneaks past Reptile into 2nd, and still has potential to overcome Book if his own remaining differentials (Reichert and Phelan) die while none of Book's do so. However another Book differential hit probably shuts out Banana. Reptile however has multiple differentials on hand, including a unique serial killer, and much more upward potential. 1. Book 360 2. Banana 300.81 3. gcreptile 293.81 4. msc 225 5. Perhaps 223 6. CaptainChorizo 222 7. Salmon Mousse 211 8. drol 200 9. maryportfuncity 195 10. Pedro67 162 11. DevonDeathTrip 158 12. Kenny 155 13. Annami 154 14. theoldlady 138.82 15. markb4 108.99 16. Toast 106 17. Torva Messor 104 18. MariNisia 103 19. six feet blunder 95 20. John Key 87.99 21. Thatcher 85 22. Funeralopolis 80 23. Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 24. An Fear Beag 70.81 25. YorkshireBanker 56 26. Doulton 50 =27. CalebH 42 =27. The Unknown Man 42 29. JoeMoneypenny 39 30. BabyBlue 35 31. Exu 32 32. Famous6Eva 28 =33. chilean way 25 =33. Gooseberry Crumble 25 =33. GuyFromFuture 25 36. DeathByArsenic 15 37. Valhalla One 10 38. Hell 0.99 38. The Old Crem 0.99 =40. Bibliogryphon 0 =40. Death Impends 0 =40. Dying Probably 0 =40. Joey Russ 0 =40. TheSpinosaurus 0 =40. time 0 =40. YoungWillz 0

I'll update once Susie Steiner gets something. Looks to be her, Trintignant and Bingham as mentioned above, and Deborah James.

Maybe Reptile was on to something when he picked Pete Sampras years ago...

Above all else I'm confused how 2 mentions of "cineast" constitutes as "everywhere"

There was a Gers theme team in 2013. So actually a List of the Missed.

Had to do a double take upon seeing Sri Sri Sri described as before arghton's time. You feel more veteran than that now!

OUT Shannen Doherty Superstar Billy Graham Jake "The Snake" Roberts Frankie Valli Doddie Weir IN Andy Goram Vicky Phelan Don West Steve "Mongo" McMichael Mike Davis (scholar) SUB: Pervez Musharraf The Davis news found its way to my regular Twitter feed despite my retirement from deadpool research!

I'd need Carter, Gilbert, the Frogman, and the Tyler grandson to form a Christmas suicide pact for me to stand a chance. By design, admittedly.

I ctrl+A'd and copied it the second the page loaded for me and pasted it into Word. Enjoy.

Reptile's rules have a clause against that:

I was in Catholic school for a couple of years in middle school (not out of religious reasons - basically it was the only option besides public school which was putting me through some rough shite). They legit had "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I beg you to spare the life of the unborn baby, who is spiritually adopted, and is in danger of abortion, amen" in the morning prayers. Fucking mental. One kid in particular was very vocal about his politics. Said without a hint of self awareness the likes of "I think George Bush is cool!" and openly said he was prejudiced against gay people (but denied he was a homophobe, because his father spoonfed him a fake meaning of "homophobe"). At the time he really got on my nerves but now it just makes me sad, given he was one of those kids who obviously wasn't seen by his parents as anything but a blank slate for them to spoonfeed all of their worldviews into. And that kind of brainwashing (plus the FOX and far-right social media rabbit holes) is exactly how the GOP consolidates power - the crazier they make their base, the more free reign they have to be mask off.

The expected Yahoo UK nod - https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/49-ers-legend-hugh-mc-elhenny-one-of-the-nf-ls-early-stars-dies-at-age-93-192330005.html

I'm Miss Impends now , but yes, Bingham/Trintignant and any subsequent hits will be posted in the early July update.

DDP unique for Pity da Foolz. QO here - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10933615/amp/SeaChange-Blankety-Blanks-star-Carol-Raye-dies-age-99.html

TBH if I knew who died this year but didn't know who was on the DL I might have assumed Poitier and Brown were the only hits! Given how most of us thought Durst was faking, and Harris was just a random old person. Pretty much every other DL-level celeb death was either sudden or kept their health issues quiet.

Everett Peck, the creator of Duckman, has died aged 71. One of the shows my parents watched in the day.

Unlucky break for two DDP teams!

Yes, he's the one I picked.

Billy Kametz dead - https://obits.pennlive.com/us/obituaries/pennlive/name/billy-kametz-obituary?id=35161536

His name now appears on the LotL page fully fada-ed, I hope that can be of slight consolation.

Bit eerie, I watched Blue Velvet the first time a few days ago.