Death Impends

Correct. At least one team tried sneaking her in this year to no avail. Poor lady, RIP.

Well done, drol!

Reminds me of when I stumbled upon the Procol Harum website while writing Gary Brooker's obit. There must be a whole batch of web 1.0 fossil websites for old bands out there.

Jim Seals dead - https://www.noise11.com/news/jim-seals-of-seals-crofts-dies-aged-80-20220607 Until a couple years ago I thought he was already dead, my mind was mixing him up with his brother.

The slow hit rate of May was compensated for by losing one of the year's most popular picks. Superhero inksmith George Perez was tied with Gary Burgess and Jimmy Carter as the third most popular HPDP pick, with 16 selections. The hits are as follows: Funeralopolis, gcreptile, Thatcher, and Torva Messor draw up 40 points. BabyBlue, CaptainChorizo, drol, and Salmon Mousse 35. Banana and Perhaps 30. JoeMoneypenny and msc 25. MariNisia 20. Valhalla One 10. and Book and chilean way 25 sub points. Also dead this past month was Holocaust survivor and Slovene-language author Boris Pahor. Only six feet blunder placed him on the main team, and consequentially gains 70 points (50 base + 20 bonus). Annami lands her first sub for 25 points, while Perhaps lands his second for 50. The popular Perez hit means a lot of gains on the latest scoreboard, if not much change to the actual dynamic. Perhaps emerges the biggest winner thanks to also having Pahor. 1. Book 315 2. gcreptile 268.81 3. Banana 245.81 4. Salmon Mousse 211 5. msc 210 6. Perhaps 193 7. CaptainChorizo 187 8. drol 165 9. DevonDeathTrip 158 10. maryportfuncity 140 11. Annami 119 12. theoldlady 113.82 13. Pedro67 113 14. markb4 108.99 15. Torva Messor 104 16. Kenny 99 17. six feet blunder 95 18. Toast 91 19. Thatcher 85 20. Funeralopolis 80 21. MariNisia 78 22. Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 23. John Key 72.99 24. An Fear Beag 70.81 25. YorkshireBanker 56 26. The Unknown Man 42 27. JoeMoneypenny 39 28. BabyBlue 35 29. Exu 32 30. Famous6Eva 28 =31. chilean way 25 =31. Gooseberry Crumble 25 =31. GuyFromFuture 25 34. Valhalla One 10 =35. Hell 0.99 =35. The Old Crem 0.99 =37. Bibliogryphon 0 =37. CalebH 0 =37. Death Impends 0 =37. DeathByArsenic 0 =37. Doulton 0 =37. Dying Probably 0 =37. Joey Russ 0 =37. TheSpinosaurus 0 =37. time 0 =37. YoungWillz 0

Will update in a bit. Seems that George Perez and Boris Pahor were the only May hits? Along with yet another nil-points revelation for my Nixon team with Alfred Baldwin dying in 2020.

After Ronnie Hawkins's death a few days back, I went down a brief Wiki rabbit hole of related artists and songs. It was hard not to smile upon learning "Susie Q" was covered by Suzi Quatro.

I had heard mention of his death this morning on 60s radio yet oddly couldn't find any related Twitter chatter. Though unfortunately they played Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini immediately after in tribute!

Lloyd Geering

Yeah, between the number of music theme teams or even time's Ron team he's the type of name I'd have thought would be picked somewhere. Proclaiming himself cured of pancreatic cancer in the early aughts via alternative healing, only to actually live for nearly 20 years more, is one of those all time great deadpooling WTFs at any rate.

QO for DDP purposes never in doubt, but now it's official - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cardinal-angelo-sodano-vatican-power-110741003.html The most love someone will get on the front page since James Anderton.

Angelo Sodano dead. (link in Italian)

He's had enough of a media presence off being Meghan's dad that I'd be fine with him as a pick anyway, but yeah Emmy winner is a legit pick by default. As evidenced by him already being a DDP pick this year!

Heard during an early 60s countdown that Gerry Granahan died a few months ago. Later a producer in the 60s for groups such as Jay & The Americans. Figured I'd update the original post, a quick search of the names uncovered a few other deaths that haven't been otherwise mentioned on the forum: Otis Williams of doo-wop group The Charms was already dead at the time of the previous post. Ignore, this was another member of the band Charles Patrick of doo-wop group The Monotones died on his 82nd birthday in September 2020. Bobby Hendricks, member of The Drifters who sang lead on several of their songs such as "Drip Drop" died two months ago.

Glad you stepped in to clarify as there was no real way for me myself to say "alright msc's error now fixed" without it looking like I was throwing you under the bus

Now fixed.

An old cat of mine, in her final few years she liked to spend time in a specific chair in my room. She used it so much that there was quite a bit of fur left there and after she died none of us really had the heart to remove it! Probably most if not all of the fur there is gone now given she died over 12 years ago.

The Stats and Facts page is finally fully updated for 2021. A few very simple stats (like who dies on their birthday) will be updated throughout the year if the need arises but the totals-related stats will remain untouched until next year needless to say! Thanks to msc for providing his past stats notes!

Had a similar gut feeling but it doesn't look like it.

Does amuse me that Gooseberry has changed his avatar more often this year than his entire time here previously iirc. Always unmistakably him though.

Picked by Reptile's C Team in the DDP. If he QOs, probably means any youngish death of a World Series winner is QO gold?

Shouldn't that go in the Dying Bigots thread?

As promised, have gotten and completed Ronnie Spector's memoirs. Obviously, lots of difficult bits that made a few tough nights, despite knowing and bracing for it. It was really a bloody miracle she survived both Phil Spector and the addictions she developed during those years - she nearly "did a Jack Cassidy" once, for instance, on top of two other near-death incidents. But the end story of a loving, healed wife and mother was of course fulfilling, and it was very powerful that she didn't think much either way when Phil Spector died and cared far more that it was her 38th wedding anniversary that day! But yes, well worth the read, and lots of good funny bits. One of my favorites? Reporting on what her 60s contemporaries were like backstage, she related that when Dusty Springfield got frustrated, Dusty threw so many plates at her (Dusty's, not Ronnie's) door that she even had to ask her valet for more! Can confirm that we get this from her POV in her book. She also shagged Bowie in the 70s!

If IMDB counted the DDP would be won the Alt Obits way, finding a lot of terminally ill actors whose illnesses are only reported in foreign articles. In other words no.

Tainted lungs?