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Samuel T. Durrance was an astronomer who became the 243rd person into space, and one of the first non-career astronauts to enter orbit after the Challenger disaster unsurprisingly put the kibbosh on that for a few years. He'd suffered from dementia and Parkinson's in recent years, and a fall at a care home at the end of last month put him on the radars of two Cup teams. Banana and gcreptile both get a captain hit, and as a result we have no more scoreless ties. alt obits guy 4 vs Grim Up North 0 DevonDeathTrip 8 vs An Fear Baeg 0 gcreptile 6 vs deadsox 0 Banana 6 vs wannamaker 0

Damn, who'll produce hit singles for Janet Jackson now?

They've gone a step better in Southampton - Conservative candidate Graham Galton dies after voting starts, ballot halted.

Up until a few days ago, the extent of most people's knowledge about Bobby Davro's sex life was that he banged his best friend's wife while said best friend was bed-ridden from MS upstairs. However, deadpoolers learned last week that he was married to someone called Vicky Wright, that Vicky Wright was the daughter of Billy Wright, that she had toured with a stage show sharing anecdotes about her father's life so she had some independent claim to fame, and that she had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. DevonDeathTrip was the only one to take a punt on her this month though, rolling the dice with a captain pick as well, leaving An Fear Baeg feeling like someone has put them in a pair of stocks with their trousers around their ankles. Oh Bobby.... alt obits guy 4 vs Grim Up North 0 DevonDeathTrip 8 vs An Fear Baeg 0 gcreptile 0 vs deadsox 0 Banana 0 vs wannamaker 0

Saves having to argue she was famous enough in her own right for next year's DDP tbh.

Going to mention it here as I'll probably forget when it becomes pertinent: Rollins is one of only two people (out of 57) captured in the famous photograph A Great Day In Harlem still alive. The other is Benny Golson, also a DDP pick this year.

Mark Stokes' memorial service is next Saturday (13th), which I feel means those of us who gambled on the DDP have until the 12th for an "Other Lives" write-up or else we can safely write him off as a points-scorer.

Would be nice for Blackburn to hold out until January, feels very DL-y as a name.

Yahoo loophole obit for Sainty: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-saints-academy-director-scouted-124919903.html

Anyone reading anything into him retiring as a pundit with only six games of the season left? Seems odd to step down now rather than just hold on for a month...

To use a footballing metaphor, hunger strikers for deadpoolers are like Eredivisie top scorers to Premier League teams - they always promise so much but usually deliver fuck-all squared. However, in Khader Adnan alt obits guy found more of a Luis Suarez than a Vincent Janssen. Adnan was a spokesman for Palestinian Islamic Jihad who had spent most of the past 12 years in and out of administrative detention in Israel, and was on his third major hunger strike when his tummy finally gave up this time out. aog goes four up over GUN. alt obits guy 4 vs Grim Up North 0 DevonDeathTrip 0 vs An Fear Baeg 0 gcreptile 0 vs deadsox 0 Banana 0 vs wannamaker 0

Yep, can't find any earlier references, will alter the line-ups accordingly.

Shane Smith may well be one of the most incompetent human beings ever in charge of a major company. Vice was given a fucking 90-metre head start in the online space ahead of its rivals, and still managed to piss it all away. Fun fact: Vice's "consultancy" work, which unsurprisingly they were never that keen to talk about publicly, was pretty much all based around how to make Saudi Arabia and tobacco attractive to the 18-30 demographic.

And the draw for the semi-finals of the DL Cup, As Sponsored by First Republic Bank: WINNER alt obits guy/Grim Up North vs WINNER DevonDeathTrip/An Fear Baeg WINNER gcreptile/deadsox vs WINNER Banana/wannamaker

The 44 names that matter this month are as follows: "Superstar" Billy Graham WAN, AFB, AOG Basil van Rooyen SOX, AFB Bernadette Chirac DDT Beverly Shade WAN*, GCR, AFB* Bill Douglass BAN Bob Stane AFB Bobby Knight SOX Brian Barczyk DDT Brian O'Donovan DDT Cale Yarborough AOG, GCR, BAN, SOX, GUN Carmen Brown-Bender GCR Cheri Pies WAN Christy Dignam WAN, AOG, BAN, SOX, DDT, GUN, AFB Dakota Fred Hurt SOX Daniel Ellsberg AOG, DDT, GUN, AFB Daniel N. Paul AOG Denny Crum GUN Eric F. James BAN Ethel Caterham SOX Farouk Kaddoumi SOX George Caley BAN, GCR Gloria Molina GCR, DDT, GUN Graham Caveney GUN, AFB, BAN James Whale GUN Jimmy Carter WAN, AOG, GCR, BAN, SOX*, DDT, GUN*, AFB Jody Satriani BAN Jonnie Irwin WAN, AOG, DDT Juan Vicente Perez Mora SOX Khader Adnan AOG Marty Ruley GCR Mikheil Saakashvili AOG Moon Fun Chin WAN Rolf Harris WAN, DDT Rónán Mac Aodha Bhuí AFB Samuel Durrance GCR*, BAN* Sarath Babu WAN, AOG*, GCR, BAN, SOX, GUN, AFB Simon Cowell (not that one) WAN, GUN Steve "Mongo" McMichael AFB Teresa Taylor WAN, SOX, GUN, GCR Thomas Broome BAN Thomas F. Maniscalco AOG Tim Keller DDT Vicky Wright DDT* Walid Daqqa GCR

Oh fuck, it's the last day of the month. Teams into me when you can lads.

A lot of the internet (including the Nirvana Wiki) seems to conflate janitor Tony De La Rosa with the tejano musician of the same name, making it hard to research. There's a comment on Weird Al's blog from De La Rosa's son in 2013. So we have a location of Westbrook, Maine to look at, but not much else.

More retirements and returns than Terry Funk, that lad.

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I believe that makes Springer the ninth person from the much-loved "guest host" era of Monday Night Raw to have died, after Betty White, Larry King, Florence Henderson, Roddy Piper, Verne Troyer, Dusty Rhodes, Dusty Hill and Grumpy Cat

Well, I wasn't going to brag/complain...

Yep, it's an independent media source, it counts. Casey Quinlan (not to be confused Casey Quinlan the journalist and one-time Atlantic writer) spent most of the 1980s behind-the-scenes at news shows like Dateline and Today before turning those experiences into a stand-up comedy career in the 1990s. I'd tell you more about her history but her official website has gone down-presumably because she spent the last two months in hospice and had other things on her mind rather than renewing hosting. Her passing finally breaks up an 18-day cold spell for the DL Cup, and makes absolutely zero fucking difference to the scores as the only two who had her are in the same match gcreptile 20 vs SpadeCooley 12 deadsox 3 vs MariNisia 0 Hell 9 vs alt obits guy 9 Grim Up North 9 vs CaptainChorizo 0 Banana 9 vs Sir Ristretto 0 msc 3 vs wannamaker 9 Annami 0 vs DevonDeathTrip 6 An Fear Baeg 3 vs Captain Hemlock 0

Trump-Biden-Biden or Trump-Biden-Trump both have heavy, heavy vibes of a collapsing Eastern European nation in the in 1980s.