Death Impends

Interestingly, one of the Scissor Sisters was close to none other than Catherine Nevin - https://www.thesun.ie/news/2153450/scissor-sisters-mother-reveals-how-killer-daughter-linda-turned-on-her-after-black-widow-catherine-nevin-took-her-under-her-wing-behind-bars/

I picked her every round last year, so I wondered if Nevin marked any clean sweeps for my Cup squads from last year. Only the blitzkrieg that was April. The rest still have one or two straddlers (my final roster had one of those failed coma boxer gambles, so it won't be a clean sweep for some time!). ETA I guess if we're being more comprehensive re survivors... March: Nehemiah Persoff (just a random old person pick) April: May: Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (now on my DDP B-Team, has some sort of cancer) June: Ashraf Rahi, David Whittom (both out of danger)

The sod's law with jailbirds - namely, they die after all, but only after the top poolers lose the faith - strikes again. The Black Widow bites hard, perhaps fatally, for 10 teams, who are all feeling penniless from Nevin. =1. Bibliogryphon 0 =1. CastAway 0 =1. CharonsCrew 0 =1. deadsox 0 =1. Dr_T 0 =1. drol 0 =1. FixedBusiness 0 =1. Garn2 0 =1. gcreptile 0 =1. Grim Up North 0 =1. John Key 0 =1. machotrouts 0 =1. Mercarte 0 =1. msc 0 =1. Pedro67 0 =1. Spade_Cooley 0 =1. The Unknown Man 0 =1. theoldlady 0 =1. time 0 =1. Torva Messor 0 =1. Wormfarmer 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 23. paddyfool 1 24. Toast 2 25. CaptainChorizo 4 26. Death Impends 10 27. Deathray 11 28. Bentrovato 12 29. Sean 13 30. GraveDanger 14 31. Book 15 32. Joey Russ 18 33. The Dead Cow 19 34. Phantom of the Midway 20 35. Dead Wait 22 36. Sir Creep 29

I feel that, my team next month might look uncharacteristically conventional, the way things are right now!

Adieu gone gone gone, adieu gone gone...

Welcoming Fay to the 100 Club today. Now the wait is on to see if she can live to see the centennial of her film debut.

There were articles from 2017 mentioning she already turned 18. TBH I think the big reason none of the more shameless DDP teams risked her was because she was Canadian rather than British/American/Australian.

It crashed due to unrelated reasons. The earthquake already finished at the time of the crash; the helicopter was there to assess the damages.

She's been on chemo once it was determined the targeted therapies weren't working. Pretty sure she'd be dead by now otherwise.

The latest from David Shutts, DDP unique for me hereabouts, is that his stage 4 kidney cancer has advanced further into his lungs and bones. A new treatment has caused some response, so not on the clock just yet, but probably going down this year.

So will he be reincarnated as an Egyptian politician, or is that an ability exclusive to Mugabe?

Sean is shaping up to be this year's most improved Cup player.

Reuters Africa tweeting it as well

Yeah, I best steer clear of people who revel in having poor manners.

I'll def be entering as well, still gotta do a bit more research.

Well... it's been more than two weeks since the entry period closed and we've already had a hit. So the team you already entered will stay as it is. Sorry. Harsh but fair.

There's me putting the "DI" in Rushdie!

Think enough time has passed that I can say I actually had that name on my longlist before they died, due to unrelated public Twitter chatter. I'd have felt rude if I mentioned it when the death just happened.

Dead Cow did bring up Crider's hospice entry in this very thread.

His team is a reference to a meme going on about, yes, eating Tide Pods. Wish I was joking, but I'm not.

1920 - Jerry Maren, Nanette Fabray 1921 - Sidney Rittenberg, Francoise Gilot 1922 - George Blake, Micheline Presle 1923 - Sumner Redstone, Rhonda Fleming 1924 - Atai Bihari Vajpayee, Machiko Kyo 1925 - Mahathir Mohamad, June Lockhart 1926 - Phil Phillips, Gillian Lynne 1927 - Harry Whittington, Gina Lollobrigida 1928 - Hans Kung, Queen Ratna of Nepal 1929 - Gaston Glock, Vera Miles

It is interesting the effects of Willow/Dudley. msc's main team got a net gain of 10 points since it only had Willow (his B-team saw a net loss of 3, but then, you don't want the B-team to do better!). If Sumner Redstone dies this year, gcreptile sees no net change, as two dead nonagenarians are equal in value to a fortysomething hit and a non-QO.

Yeah, Aussie business guy Ron Walker.

I lurk the 110 Club every now and then and no one on there really expected her to last this long as she's looked this way for several years now.

Interesting... I forgot entirely that the Metro was a QO! I personally felt that MacGregor joining the band post-Slow Ride made an obit unlikely.