Death Impends

The link is directly to the Excel file. I'll be home in about 9 hours. What I did with the file was save your old file, open it up in Excel, and save it with a 2022 filename. Not sure if there was some extra precaution to take to allow it to bypass the antivirus filters, maybe I should've changed the filename without actually opening it...

Gary Burgess

Now that David Gulpilil is didgeridoomed, 7 teams toss a shrimp on the barbie as they kangaroo leap up the scoreboard. CaptainChorizo and msc gain 40 points. Lynchian 35. The Unknown Man and the_engineer 30. drol 25. and An Fear Beag 25 sub points.

Who put the bomp in the bomp buh bomp buh bomp?

It always felt like one name or another would delay us to infinite rounds. Well done, indeed!

The death of famed Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil was much anticipated by our collective, with only chilean way and LizLemon thinking he would walk about for another year. Now that he's made his last wave, they get thrown even further out back. Though their teams were already well down under as it stands... 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. Sideik 23 =11. Annami 24 =11. Bibliogryphon 24 =11. Charles De Gaulle 24 =11. deadsox 24 =11. Perhaps 24 16. Spade_Cooley 25 =17. Grim Up North 28 =17. Toast 28 19. YorkshireBanker 30 20. Newjack 31 21. Book 33 =22. An Fear Beag 34 =22. maryportfuncity 34 =24. theoldlady 35 =24. ThereWillBeDeaths7 35 26. Funeralopolis 36 =27. gcreptile 37 =27. JoeMoneypenny 37 29. CaptainChorizo 38 30. Banana 41 31. Death Impends 44 32. En Passant 46 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

The death of Frank Williams revs up the competition, with several teams hoping they've had part of a winning Formula. Charles De Gaulle gets 40 points. En Passant 35. The Quim Reaper, Toast, and YorkshireBanker 25. And Perhaps hits his second sub for 50 points. And with that is a new scoreboard as we head into the final lap of this year's HPDP, with Funeralopolis staying ahead but Perhaps making it closer than before... Additionally, with Toast's first hit, every team is now on the board! 1. Funeralopolis 319 2. Perhaps 289 3. Annami 254 4. markb4 231 5. CaptainChorizo 215.32 6. Book 215 7. Pedro67 210.19 8. Eesti 210 9. Sean 208 10. gcreptile 191.32 11. msc 190.32 12. Dying Probably 183.19 13. GuyFromFuture 182 14. maryportfuncity 181 =15. DeathByArsenic 177 =15. drol 177 17. En Passant 175 18. Death Impends 161 19. An Fear Beag 160 20. chilean way 158 21. Charles De Gaulle 152 =22. Exu 150 =22. Torva Messor 150 24. The Quim Reaper 145 25. LizLemon 140 26. Great Uncle Bulgaria 135.19 27. theoldlady 135 28. the_engineer 123 =29. JoeMoneypenny 105 =29. The Old Crem 105 31. The Daredevil 104 32. YoungWillz 101.19 33. Lynchian 90 34. CalebH 80 35. YorkshireBanker 70 =36. Joey Russ 45 =36. time 45 38. DevonDeathTrip 35 38. The Unknown Man 35 40. Toast 25 41. sheldondinkleberg 15 42. BabyBlue 10 43. Bibliogryphon 3.9

Dead Wait, wildstorm, and Bibliogryphon correctly guessed Frank Williams. Thread closed.

He's learning to become a mime but isn't quite ready for fully invisible boxes yet

I could see him being a rare "#1 clean sweep" if he makes 2022, topping the DL, the Drop 40, and the Crowdsourced DL. Like Prince Philip this year.

The yang to Floyd Little's "make Jan 1 at all costs" yin.

Really old DDP stats and facts pages had a "Candidates chosen every year on the DDP (where records are known)" section, possibly done when the hosts still had access to data on that 1999-2002 interregnum? Just Holly Johnson, Libby, Keef, and Tutu still living out of the above, so they can be presumed as the best DDP attendance records of all.

If her struggle to obit continues I might have to see if I can convince some slapdash Mail journo that she led the Go Gos. Slim chances of this working I concede...

Francoise Gilot, painter and Picasso muse-turned-Mrs. Jonas Salk, turns 100 today.

If the DL was US run, Lear probably would've been on it 5-6 years by now since he is A list here but from what I understand his sitcoms were largely Americanizations of UK ones and thus never really had any reason to make a splash overseas. He'd still BBC obit easily imo on account of his place in US culture but a DL spot would surprise me

OK cheers, let's make it Hearts then

I will convert my Red Joker into a 5 Clubs

Wasn't George HW Bush a joker hit a few years back?

Subway co-founder Peter Buck follows suit aged 90 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-co-founder-peter-buck-dead-at-90/

Justly so as I have fond memories beating it up in Super Smash Bros

Jazz songwriter Dave Frishberg dead at 88. Wrote "I'm Just a Bill" for Schoolhouse Rock! and "Van Lingle Mungo", with lyrics consisting entirely of the names of 1940s baseball players (one of the namechecked, Eddie Basinski, outlives Frishberg).

Clarissa Eden has dropped her guard(en) and the end result is points for DeathByArsenic, who gathers 25 points for his first substitute hit. Speaking of subs, I didn't twig till now that Pat Martino was picked here by drol, who likewise attains 25 points.

Weirdly enough just yesterday I watched a Looney Tunes short he worked on. I think this is the third Looney Tunes personnel to die less than 3 months before turning 100, following June Foray and Bob Givens. AFAIK only Hal Geer was able to make the third digit.

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

FWIW she is fine with me as a DDP pick as she is an interesting historical link that has been in the public eye for decades as a guard of Buddy Holly's legacy, has been portrayed in Buddy Holly-focused films/plays, etc. Bit different from the sister of XYZ type picks who are unknown to the public until their terminal illness.