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They did skip Mary but I'm in favour of DL2025 picking as many ill celebs as possible.

In 2013 noted "psychic" Sylvia Browne announced that the spirits had told her she would live into her nineties, the latest in several predictions about her extreme longevity. A few months later she died from a heart attack aged 77.

I've postponed my intended DDP retirement as the people I mooted it to said it saddened them which boosted my fragile ego. Well, now you mention it, sort of, yes. Absolutely mostly this.

Comparing her social media now to a decade ago it's clearly not the same person. Sean Lennon is nuts but any public comments about his mum have to be read through the prism of the family guarding her privacy fiercely. In private as above and elsewhere it's acknowledged Yoko is very poorly and tbh a few folk closer to them are surprised she's hung on as long as she has.

And I get concerned about my weight, that guy is about 300-400 pounds heavier!

The longer the drought the more severe the storm. That tree of low hanging fruit is going to topple over in it, though not this year.

Given the mutual jokes for years before hand about replacing TMIB and Spade I feel like we sort of worked ourselves into a shoot like Jim Cornette and the gimmick battle royal (Spade should get that reference at least). However with your impending forum retirement I'd like to remind you of one of the greatest bits of advice you gave your co-host... "msc, it's new years day, stop replying to (repeat emails of grumpy regular) and go and have some whisky!" Couldn't argue with top advice like that!

I'd say 88. Bush Sr won 426-111, had a seven million vote popular lead and won forty of the fifty states. Landslide for me. Anyhow Trump might not have won a landslide but he did win absolute - electoral college, popular vote, Senate and House, all his.

Take care, Grim, best wishes to your better half and thanks for all the help.

^ The timing, @Death Impends, the timing!

A sure fire pick for the Deathlist now has to be Ian Smith AKA Harold bloody Bishop. Terminal lung cancer, and its one of the rarest and worst prognosis lung cancers too. A gimme for the DL and Drop 40 imo. Sad though as I really liked Harold as a kid. Actor Ian Smith, best known as Neighbours’ Harold Bishop, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis | Neighbours | The Guardian

Sheila Hancock has done an hour long interview with Anita Rani about Christmas. She seems a bit .. her age at the start but warms into the interview and can obviously still talk for an hour and is still working. Says her family keep saying this might be their last Christmas together at her age which "makes her determined to see another one to show them!"

Not saying that's a humiliation, but the Thurso keepers been signed up to Witness Relocation...

The euthanasia second reading passed with a majority of 55 despite projections from the forum Nostradamus.

@Gooseberry Crumble is going to be gutted. Star of the first proper Twilight Zone episode.

I've been allowed to see the first draft of the 2025 list. Some sensible picks ruined by the wacky choice of Jimmy Carter.

Surely you can't be serious.

I did yesterday ^ Especially Charizard.

Signs you have spent too many years on DL. Thinking "David H Murdoch isn't really DLy" for a good ten seconds before twigging there was a rather more famous Murdoch.

Sold something like 45 million books worldwide. She's massive. It's just a matter of Cmme taste as while she had success in the 90s, she became far better known in the noughties, like a few picks they've avoided.

Oh a sub, sorry - Noam Chomsky, thanks.

Charizard. Wait, no, wrong thread. They need to bring back Davey Attenborough. Sophie Kinsella, David Irving, Adrian Sutton and David Lynch would make good debuts. Seconding the Valli call.

Hello Joey asked me to open this up so doing it before I forget. Same rules as always. The host only needs to do three things and this is one of them so fingers crossed I don't screw up hah. Joey's bit copied: Wait a second, it's that time of year already? Man, time does fly by fast. So here we are, another year of the annual Advent Avalanche, with the following objective and rules:  25 entrants (24 quickest off the mark plus your host). Competition opens on 1 December with the aim of getting a winner by Christmas Day.  And those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the AVALDP is to WIN.  2 - To enter the AVALDP a contestant must have: A candidate not selected by another other entrant. A candidate in this context means a living person aged 18 or over not being executed within that month who remains alive at midnight on November 30th and is considered likely to cease living soon after and also be capable of gaining a qualifying obit see rule 9 below upon death. 3 - Entries open at 7:00am EST (that's 12:00 PM GMT for the brits) on 30th November and close at midnight (GMT) on 30 November. Entry can only be made by posting the name of a candidate on the AVALDP thread on the Deathlist. 4 The competition is deemed to be open at 00-01 GMT hrs on 1 December 2023. 5 Competition ceases on the death of the first nominated pick on the list of candidates and the winner is the dead pooler who has selected said candidate. 6 Entry is limited to 25 players (24 who are obliged to post entries on the AvalancheDP thread and the host who reserves a right of entry as the master of ceremonies for this endeavor). Presumably the artistic intent is obvious but in case you missed it the idea is to get 25 players to compete for a death within 25 days thereby giving us a victory by Christmas Day at the latest. If you're snoozin you're losing.  6a Because he has forced his own entry msc guarantees to respect the first 24 qualifying picks and only enter a candidate unselected by the others. Thereby ensuring the really hot selections go to others. 6b - hot selections? No idea why people are picking Karen Gillan tbh... 7 - In the event that two players select the same candidate the allocation of the pick will go to the player who first posted an entry for that candidate even if the entry times are within the same minute. 8 In the event that two players tie for victory on the basis of picks expiring on the same day all efforts will be made to ascertain a winner on the basis of the actual time of death. For these purposes local time of death will be translated to GMT if required. 9 - An "obit" in the context of the AVALDP is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organizations, foreign press and broadcast organizations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organizations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes mscs decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 The Raymond Hewlett Memorial Award applies to the AVALDP. In honor of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive when the winner is declared and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded victory in the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a AVALDP qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the AVALDP all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competitionand in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifying RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME victory and this victory once declared is proven to be spurious by late discovery of a qualifying obit; the lucky winner will be allowed to keep his/her lucky win. 10a To ensure smooth operation of rule 10 the period for discovery of result altering obits is deemed to be 48 hours plus the remainder of the calendar day in which victory is first claimed. In other words two days and a part of another day. 11 - If an obited death occurs during play of the AVALDP and is missed despite MSc half assed efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of AVALDP participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11 will be resolved by the astute judgement of mss and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opinion are warmly invited to liven up the AVALDP thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of entries, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the AVALDP and banned for life from subsequent entry into AVALDPs. 13 In the unlikely event that a pick selected on 30 November fails to mark the start line the entrant selecting said pick will still be deemed to have entered the competition and will have until midnight 1 December to select a new pick (unselected by other entrants). Should the entrant fail to do so no other entrant will be allowed in as a replacement. AND FINALLY... On completion of AVALDP activities the thread will get lively for a short while as losing contestants and spectators offer well-deserved congratulations to the skillful and highly talented new champion, after which time it is expected that the cooling corpse of the thread will be allowed to gently sink into oblivion. Now you know the rules, here is the list of competitors and their choice of candidates: Let's look at the past and current winners of this dead pool now 2016 - Death Impends  2017 - Sean 2018 - Banana 2019 - gcreptile 2020 - Spade_Cooley 2021 - Bibliogryphon 2022 - drol  Good luck everyone. 

Best wishes and my deepest sympathy, Drol.

The opposite of Canadian Paul's list back in the day: not that interesting (sorry Reptile) and not sick enough!