Death Impends

Never knew there was a contestant there that "won" more than Charles Van Doren. Only learned not too long ago that the basic premise of Jeopardy was a satire of the 50s US quiz show scandals, where now the host is giving you all the answers out in the open, but with the catch you now have to come up with the questions!

If he died one day later he would've died on the 10th anniversary of Captain America co-creator Joe Simon's death.

Not sure if putting Instagram posts about Vera Miles and Connie Francis into spoiler tags through my phone was how I wanted to start my morning, but the deed is done now.

Suddenly with so few names left the title competition hinges on Johnny Gilbert. I have an opening

Also awaiting QO as far as I can tell. Poor sod, all he had to do was like nose candy and it'd have been QOs up the wazoo already

I might have to resort to going on a trip to the UK and driving around Frank Field and Gary Burgess's homes while blaring "Let's Hang On" by the Four Seasons from my car radio.

Also I made this post before fully checking the forum, ergo before seeing Joey's post that she just died. Is this a weird new anti-superpower or just a strange coincidence. Hmm let's just make sure... Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger

I mean one can still have never heard of a name before discovering their existence (and still-alive-ness) and still be surprised that they're alive based on some element in their life. Even relative of X types. Like I don't think I ever actively thought about who the mother of the Everly Brothers was, but discovering she was still alive was so WTF it had to be shared (all the moreso now that she's outlived them both!).

Frenetic times at the HPDP with Bob Dole dead too. Would have been much more popular next year but he still benefits a lucky seven teams. sheldondinkleberg attains 40 points. chilean way and Dying Probably 35. Lynchian 30. LizLemon and The Daredevil 25. and Eesti gets 50 points for his second sub dying. It is this second sub hit for Eesti that puts him in a podium place on the latest scoreboard. All of the top four have a one-or-less-hit route to victory. Funeralopolis can win with nothing else happening. Perhaps can win with any of his four remaining picks on the table. Eesti can win with Bob Newhart - unique pick who was on Hollywood Squares. CaptainChorizo can win with Luis Echeverria - unique pick who qualifies for crimes against humanity bonus. 1. Funeralopolis 319 2. Perhaps 289 3. Eesti 260 4. CaptainChorizo 255.32 5. Annami 254 6. maryportfuncity 237 7. markb4 231 8. msc 230.32 9. Dying Probably 218.19 10. Book 215 11. Pedro67 210.19 12. Sean 208 13. drol 202 14. chilean way 193 15. gcreptile 191.32 16. An Fear Beag 185 17. GuyFromFuture 182 18. DeathByArsenic 177 19. En Passant 175 20. LizLemon 165 21. Death Impends 161 22. Lynchian 155 23. the_engineer 153 24. Charles De Gaulle 152 =25. Exu 150 =25. Torva Messor 150 27. The Quim Reaper 145 28. Great Uncle Bulgaria 135.19 29. theoldlady 135 30. The Daredevil 129 =31. JoeMoneypenny 105 =31. The Old Crem 105 33. YoungWillz 101.19 34. CalebH 80 35. YorkshireBanker 70 36. The Unknown Man 65 37. sheldondinkleberg 55 38. Joey Russ 45 38. time 45 40. DevonDeathTrip 35 41. Toast 25 42. BabyBlue 10 43. Bibliogryphon 3.9

1921 - Al Jaffee, Francoise Gilot 1922 - Ray Anthony, Jacqueline White 1923 - David Oreck, Judith Hemmendinger 1924 - Wally Fawkes, Joyce Randolph 1925 - Bill Hayes, Adele Springsteen 1926 - Robert Clary, Marilyn Hagerty 1927 - Harry Whittington, Gina Lollobrigida 1928 - CW McCall, Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 - Gaston Glock, Vera Miles 1930 - Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold

Bob D- fuck, I have to think about who to pick again. Delors

Bob Dole looked so bad for years that only maryportfuncity and Sideik picked him, before we even knew he had lung cancer. Fittingly he dies in a year where a member with his own illeist tendencies continues to hold the lead! 1. Sir Creep 8 2. Pedro67 9 3. The Quim Reaper 15 =4. BabyBlue 18 =4. machotrouts 18 =6. BuffaloPhil 20 =6. drol 20 8. The Old Crem 21 9. Great Uncle Bulgaria 22 =10. Annami 24 =10. Bibliogryphon 24 =10. Charles De Gaulle 24 =10. deadsox 24 =10. Perhaps 24 15. Spade_Cooley 25 =16. Grim Up North 28 =16. Sideik 28 =16. Toast 28 19. YorkshireBanker 30 20. Newjack 31 21. Book 33 22. An Fear Beag 34 =23. theoldlady 35 =23. ThereWillBeDeaths7 35 25. Funeralopolis 36 =26. gcreptile 37 =26. JoeMoneypenny 37 28. CaptainChorizo 38 29. Banana 41 30. Death Impends 44 31. En Passant 46 32. maryportfuncity 47 33. Joey Russ 48 34. msc 49 35. YoungWillz 51 36. Salmon Mousse 59 37. machotrouts' mum 72 38. chilean way 73 39. LizLemon 74 40. The Unknown Man 78 41. GuyFromFuture 83

Surely Leslie Phillips dethrones him now?

38 got Dole right. Thread closed.

Had to have been one of the most "the name gives away their musical genre" names for a singer ever. Not a stage name at that.

Another way time flies... we're only a week or so away from learning Reptile has XXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX as a sub in here again

At this moment, Eileen Ash means everything to maryportfuncity. Though he probably doesn't want to think of her in a red dress. At any rate the supercentenarian cricketer's death sees mpfc run up the scoreboard with 40 base points plus 16 extra for uniqueness, for a 56-point total.

To me Burgess very much has that Simon Ricketts "won't stop tweeting until he's days away from dying" energy; the latter was as active on Twitter in early December 2018 as Burgess is now which meant sod all in terms of him actually making the next year.

Heh it's not meant in a bad way! But yeah, the players who focus more on interesting old folk over the obscurer terminal cases, and without the casual players deadpooling would be a poorer field. Plus it always makes a nice underdog story when one notches a win!

Beauty of pools like this is in how even the most casual players have their chance to shine. Congrats Biblio!

Also remember that when it was revealed Pola Illery died in the 90s years after getting a sucker Telegraph obit and DDP points in 2012? Which I must've mentioned half a dozen times but I love that story. Hah. Anyways TMIB let the points stay rather than reopen the 2012 files several years later which should tell you how not worth it it is to creak open the old databases!

The Wiki page for Fujimori used to have his name as "Alberto Fujimori Fujimori". It doesn't any more so he probably doesn't actually have a reduplicated name, but it was a clear good faith inclusion and not something daft like putting Tom Parker on a centenarian theme team or something.

Knock on wood - I think I did it Opening the Excel file works smoothly for me now - can someone else (preferably anyone who had prior trouble downloading it) try themselves to double check?

Now that I'm home and settled I also have trouble actually downloading it. Looking into it, the issue likely looks to be nothing to do with what I did with the file, but that the DDP website currently is not currently "https" IE the url begins with "www." rather than "https://www.". If I assume correctly, if this can be altered, the file should be smoothly downloadable after that.