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Singaporean rockstar with racist name, dead at 73.

Bryan Whyte, a darts player so irrelevant that the DartsDatabase website spells his name "Brian Whyte", has died in a car accident aged 34. Was ranked 164th in the world by the WDF, which translates to "fucking shit" in the total world rankings.

Kevon Carter, Trinidad and Tobago international who played in last year's CONCACAF Gold Cup, dead at 30 from a heart attack in training. The Manic Street Preachers will release a tribute single in his honour.

Well, who on earth would have thought an insurgent currency put together by a bunch of libertarian neckbeards would be unstable? Bitcoin's MtGox collapses, losing investors $0.5 billion.

Yeah, MacGyver was a great show.

Health update. DDT gets the champagne on ice.

CR Simha, Indian theatre and screen actor best known for either a) his Shakespeare adaptations or your recent google searches for "terminal cancer", dies aged 72.

Skipping chemo to swim with dolphins.

And for the one-pick club: Unique picks Andrew Florent Anna Bligh Bill Del Monte Brian Hart Caril Ann Fugate Carolyn McCarthy Chandra Bahadur Dangi Chen Ziming Clark Datchler Clark Terry George Fernandes Gerard Mortier Graeme Pollock John McCabe John Richard Reid Kai-Fu Lee Kate Gross Lamenda Kingdon Mario Oriani-Ambrosini Mark Evans Marlise Munoz Meic Stevens Mel Stottlemyre, Sr. Nicodemo Scarfo, Sr. Wang Dongxing Yosra El-Essawy Non-unique picks (singer) Carman Abe Vigoda Akkineni Nageswara Rao Amiri Baraka Amy Robach Ariel Sharon Barry Hines Barry Kilby Bobby Eaton Buddy Ryan Christy Dignam Clare Hollingworth Clarissa Eden Claudio Abbado David Rockefeller Doku Umarov Doreen Keogh Elie Wiesel Fidel Castro Francis George Fred Deluca Fred Ho George H. W. Bush, Sr. Gough Whitlam Guy Innes-Ker Harper Lee Henry McCullough Ian Brady Jamie Daniel Jen Arnold Jeremy Thorpe Joan Kirner João Havelange Joe Lala John Prine Kim Kyong-hui King Bhumibol Adulyadej Kristin Hallenga Lindsay Lohan Marina Filipovna Khodorkovskaya Maulana Fazlullah Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople Michael York Miguel Obando y Bravo Mike Burney Nancy Reagan Nicholas Winton Paul Madeley Penny Marshall Pete Way Peter Robbins Rev Ian Paisley Robin Roberts Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Sharon Jones Stephen Hawking Steve Gleason Stuart Scott Suchitra Sen Terry Biddlecombe Tom Billington Tom O'Connor Tony Benn Verne Gagne Wilfred Benitez Yahya Jammeh

Got bored, decided to look at the 2014 picks of the top 20 teams in 2013 to see who the power players are gonna be this year. Enjoy. 20 Picks Wilko Johnson (two jokers) 19 Picks Sam Simon (eight jokers) Valerie Harper 16 Picks Katherine Crowe (three jokers) 15 Picks Reverend Billy Graham 14 Picks Clive James Daisy Berkowitz 13 Picks Joost van der Westhuizen (1 joker) Sally Farmiloe 11 Picks General Wojciech Jaruzelski 9 Picks Casey Kasem Kate Granger (2 picks) 8 Picks Helen Fawkes Mike Porcaro Pat Rice 7 Picks Lynne Stewart 6 Picks Michael Schumacher 5 Picks Albert Reynolds Chris Woodhead Liz Dawn Ritchii Kara (1 joker) Sandy Jardine 4 Picks Andrew Madoff Jack Ramsay Robert H. Schuller Ryan Buell 3 Picks Colin Bloomfield (1 joker) Darren Daulton David Norris Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen Felix Glenny (1 joker) John McVie Kim Fowley Muhammad Ali Tito Vilanova Vojislav Seselj Wubbo Ockels 2 Picks Freddie Starr Gordon Goody Jim Bamber Joe McGinniss Kristina Fetters Lynda Bellingham Marcia Strassman Paul Revere Stephen Lewis Steve Evans (1 joker) Superstar Billy Graham Zsa Zsa Gabor

Could have been one of the highest joker-to-pick ratios in DDP history if that campaign had've gone live a month earlier.

These aren't very good threads.

TMIB has, at this point, written more wrestler biographies than Dave Meltzer.

I think we should all resolve, as a thank you to T-Mib, to enter a wrestling theme team in 2015. Wrestling theme team mini league?

, Gough Whitlam, (these guys are household names over here) If you live in a branch of "Walkabout", yeah.

'Groundhog Day' director and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis dead at 69.

Can't believe he wasn't nominated for Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man or Another 9 1/2 Weeks.

"The Only Living Boy In New Cross" >>>>> "Swallowed". Fuck grunge.

Predicting which wrestlers are going to die is such a crapshoot, as the many theme teams with 20 men still left standing each DDP show. Even guys you'd think were bankers (Heenan, Graham, Gagne) show a strong resolve, then you have the additional problem of weird obit choices in The Sun (obituaries for Andre Williams and Oliver Humperdinck, no obit for Chief Jay Strongbow). Still think Kamala (legs amputated due to diabetes) has to be gone within 18 months, and Lord Littlebrook (care home confined, may even get Guardian/Times obits due to being British and wrestling back in the 60s over here) is another one to keep an eye out for. Then there's always some mid-card bums who decide life is too much for them and put a bullet through their skull the first chance they get... how's Pierre Carl Oulette doing? Savio Vega? Mark Jindrak?

Remember him this way

American essayist and baseball writer, Roger Angell, writes about what it's like to be in your nineties.

Classic guestpost! He was also Julia Sawahahahala's dad in Absolutely Fabulous.

If you watch the early 90s "Celebrity Squares" repeats on Challenge, a fun game is to see if you can get three-in-a-row of now dead contestants. Yesterday gave you Wendy Richard, Willie Rushton and Dame Hilda Bracket as a diagonal, with John Inman, Joan Sims and Tony Gerrard as additional stiffs.

It would appear that Barry died as a result of a fall at a Banbury Shopping Centre. I really don't think we need all the gory details of his death .Let's just remember him for what he acheived when he was alive Yeah, he was good in Red Dwarf and the Tomb Raider films. RIP.

James R Young, a popular pick among DDPers this year who do no fucking research of their own and just pick the still-surviving players from the top sides of the previous year, has died aged 61. No obit as of yet, so lol @ Diana Rots, Gary Glitter Baby Sitter and Coffin Dodger 69.