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The reaper was up all night to get Luckey?

Leading op artist Getulio Alviani dead at 78 .

Never would have thought John Bluthal and Trevor Peacock could outlive her.

Good idea for a DDP theme team, that joke.

This week: Billy Graham (duh) Laura Lee (advocate for sex workers' rights, very woke, very now) John Morris (composer for numerous Mel Brookes films, wrote the score for The Producers) John Pitman (the Sheena Easton guy) and John Bosco McAtasney (the last living weaver of damask linen in Ireland, obviously). Bad luck anyone who was hoping for Claribel Alegria or Ann Gillis to get the call-up.

Quite Ill

There's a pub in Brighton (The Lion and Lobster I think?) that is well known locally for its celebrity death prediction contest: put a pound in the pot and if you predict the next death you win the entire kitty. I have never entered it because I just know I'd end up in an argument over what counts as a "celebrity" with the barman, and possibly glassed.

A 20-year-old farmer is on hunger strike, campaigning for better Welsh representation in the media. They've got Fireman Sam, the fuck else do they want?

Also, John Major is listed as "John Majors", and I never know if this was a typo or a reference to a 20-year-old Lee and Herring joke.

I had noticed this. Was going to change it to "Reality TV star best known for his appearance in the second Home Alone movie".

He also thinks season three of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was good, rather than a confused fucking mess that completely throws away what was a great series for one-and-a-bit seasons before Greg was written out of it, so he's clearly a nutjob.

Apparently dovemeat was pricey and it was (still is, although I believe Trump is attempting to roll back the legislation) illegal to hunt mourning birds in the US without a permit. You learn stuff on the DL every day.

Maybe more like Buster Merryfield if Buster Merryfield was a woman?

Chicago Mafia boss Joseph "Joey Doves" Aiuppa died today in 1997. He got his nickname after feds arrested him and found 563 frozen mourning doves in the back of his car.

Nord.

I wonder... is Billy Graham the most-selected person ever in DDP history? The extra two years surely pushed him over Zsa Zsa?

Journeyman Bulgarian defender Georgi Markov dead at 46, via a heart attack not umbrella poisoning. He scored Bulgaria's goal in the 1-1 draw with England in a 1999 European Championship qualifier.

What makes it weirder is The Guardian have been reduced to running "classic" obits to fill space on their homepage (Buster Keaton and John Lewis in recent weeks), so it's not like they've been too busy to write them up. We still have 12 unobitted names from January, ridiculous.

My second round team from last year, which was crushingly defeated by Pedro, only has one remainder, minor league hockey team owner Jason Di Matteo.: (Downie, Spada J, Christie, Nevin, Kentner B, Van der Laan, DiMatteo J, Purchase M, Emeteole, Levy M, Vorderman E)

Me having a quiet word with Rover:

Maybe it's not having as big an impact as it looks? Hmm, back to the drawing board...

If anyone would care to be a darling and run some projections (past-jections?) of how previous years' DDPs would have looked with a 1/3, 2/3 and 2/4 allocation of Drop 40 to Unique Pick bonuses....

Three points as a drop 40 bonus is too much, huh?

"Pop" specifically refers to non-brand soft drinks where I grew up: think Panda Pops, shit like that.