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Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide at 26. Le derping on le noose like a bau5, le true story.

Two Reverend Grahams carking it in the same year? tbh as a strict Ximenean myself Araucaria/Cinephile does my fucking nut in.

Fucking hell, Mikhael Kalashnkov, Maggie Gyllenhall and Bonnie Tyler on the same day? RIP, prayers go to their families.

Mariangela Melato, who patricians like me will know was the female lead in the original 1974 Swept Away and plebs like you will remember as "Kala in Flash Gordon", has died at 71.

Yeah, I think I vastly overrated how famous computer programmers are. No wonder they all their bags thrown on the roof at school.

Klaus Kinski: sex offender. Not exactly a shock.

How do you mean "forced" ? Quite simple. If you wish to compete, you are forced to choose very ill people who aren't really that famous. I haven't a clue who John Derbyshire is, but I gather he isn't very well - so he's on my DDP. If Anne Williams didn't have cancer, she would be of no note to any of us - but again she is on my DDP. It's shit, but we have to pick folk like that because there are so many other young, ill nobodies who will be chosen, and will score points for other teams. If we don't sink to the levels of some teams, there would be no point in entering. John Derbyshire's the third most famous alumnus from my high school, behind Matt Smith and Alan Moore.

I like to "keep the wolf from the door" by calculating how many points Van Cliburn dying on the 13th of October would net me.

I think another thing to remember is: everyone we (or at least everyone a top-line player will) pick is someone whose ill-health has been put out there into the public domain: we're not hacking doctors' registries to find the names of terminal cancer patients. The majority of picks are people who have themselves gone to newspapers and said "I have a brain tumour. I have pancreatic cancer. I have x months to live". I think this especially matters for your Katherine Crowe/Dr Kate Grainger/Lisa Lynch picks: we wouldn't know who these people are if it wasn't for the fact they'd spoken up and said "I'm dying of cancer". All we're doing on the DDP is agreeing with them: yes, you are.

Man, I'd have picked that Amanat Indian rape victim broad as my 2013 team captain if she hadn't had the poor grace to die before 2013 started. Deadpooling is a sport where we embrace moral relativism and then 12 months later The Living End wins again.

Daily Mail is doing online obits for the wives of ex-NFL players. Pardee will stream into a Daily Mail obit and will probably bag a Guardian one as well.

Dr Feelgood, the guys who sang "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman". That was Dr. Hook No, Dr. Hook did "The Next Episode" and "California Love".

Dr Feelgood, the guys who sang "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman".

Was Wilko Johnson discussed here before? For some reason his Wikipedia page has been viewed by me in the past month and I have no idea why. If it's pancreatic cancer, he'd be doing very well to make the starting line for 2014. Better make the most of this farewell tour.

Indeed he has: the news site of Dutch broadcaster NOS has the story, in Dutch. Interestingly, some anonymous editor already mentioned his death last Monday just after midnight, in a list of centenarians in the Dutch Wikipedia. I reverted his edit, [snip] regards, Hein Does anyone still bother with Wikipedia after this? No, it fell from being the fourth most-used website in the world to having no users within a week.

He died on December 28th though, surely that can't count Read the rules.

I think this counts as the first points on the board, mfc.

So I thought I was onto something with my pick of computer programmer Mark Crispin, inventor of IMAP protocol (as in the thing that makes email work), for my DDP team. And I was. Except he died on December 28th and his family only just announced the death. This really, really isn't my deadpooling year.

Anyone know who takes Reg Dean's crown as Britain's oldest man? Internets says that there are no male supercentenerians on these hallowed isles now.

David R Ellis has had it with this motherfucking pulse in his motherfucking heart.

And you didn't use a "come out and play" pun. See this is why guests are fucking shit on this site.

Our cousins over at The 110 Club are reporting the death of Reg Dean. Reverend runs out.

Neither Lisa Lynch nor her husband have tweeted since Christmas Eve, so I get the feeling DDT might be enjoying a points rush very very soon.

YouTuber and Tyga-affiliated rapper Freddy E commits suicide after being dumped. This comes just a year after he put out a YouTube video advising people that His last few tweets are a treat: