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So did the HuffPo get accepted in the end or not? Also, the BBC music webpage has an automatically updated catalogue of musicians which notes when they're dead, such as here. Does that count for obituaries or not?

The DerbyDeadPool 2013 Kickstarter starts here then. Donate £10 and get a DDP keychain Donate £25 and your DDP teamname is displayed in flashing text. Donate £1,000 and TMIB will actually kill your joker for you.

Can you tell what it is yet?

The DerbyDeadPool rules are if a person's death is mentioned in a national newspaper, then they count as a celebrity.

"Sylvia!" "Yes, Mickey." "How do you call your loverboy?" "Come here, loverboy!" "And if he doesn't answer?" "Well that'll be because Micky Baker, one half of Mickey and Sylvia who had a post-chart career as the writer of a series of books on how to play jazz guitar, has died aged 87".

I can't update shit and apologise for it.

Wait, I've not had my morning coffee, that's a deliberate innuendo right?

Where the fuck is the Torygraph getting all these names from? Do their obit writers hang outside veterans clubs and slip a tenner into the pocket of the barmen when they leave in order to get some tips?

Nope.

Could probably do with a specific forum for Peter Falk, so we can be updated on his battle with Alzheimer's.

Well, anyone who contributed that much to hip-hop history will live on forever.

Flying Lotus associate Austin Peralta is dead aged 22. Being as literally nobody this side of the Atlantic (other than Giles Peterson) could possibly care about that, it's worth noting that he was also Stacy Peralta's son. No, we don't need a thread for professional skateboarders.

Curses I think any of us who thought that was going to be a unique pick in the 2013 DDP were being a little optimistic.

the business world is in morning after ceo of hearst corp phoebe hearst cooke dies of pneumonia

This thread is an abortion at the best of times, tbh, but especially when our beloved guests/sub-100-post contributors decide to turn it into "C+P a Wikipedia notification monthly". My favourite is when they do that but try and make out like they have an idea of who the person they're talking about is, so they say shit like "the business world is in morning after ceo of illinois tool works david speer dies of cancer" Maybe just limit posts in this thread to people who've been with the site long enough?

I think Bill Maynard was on the first ever dead pool team I put together, back in 1999. Anyway, he's not getting any healthier, and if that doesn't convince you, here he is singing a song to promote stock car racing:

Confirmed as liver cancer. Here's hoping there's no surrender until January 1st at the earliest.

Andrea Camilleri, the author of the Inspector Montalbano mysteries, turns 87 next year and is a heavy smoker. That's it, that's my contribution to this thread.

Perhaps he could replace Niemeyer as the DL token centanarian. Well, super centanarian come February Fucking hell, he's still capable of googling his own name. Incoming...

Well I tell you what, if Alexander Imich shows up at the MTV VMAs this year or gets himself a GQ cover, I owe you a tenner.

No. No there aren't.

tbh, Family Fortunes-style, after Wren, Mackintosh and Le Corbusier I'd have to pause and think to "name a famous architect". Would probably go with those guys who did "check the body groove, check-check the body groove".

I'll set the iPlayer notification. Hopefully they tell the Les-Kellett-bitten-by-a pig-story.

Even John Peel? Paedo, thought Iron Butterfly would live longer in the public consciousness than Motown.