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Makes it easier to work out the August player of the month! Anything below 32 points is gone.

I assumed - could be wrong - its not given in nearly enough of a fatal dose, given their love for theatrics and the people they really want out of the way tend to just get shot or mysteriously fall out of windows.

Listening to a podcast and Robin Mayhew says Tony Finch of The Presidents (60s British band) has very bad Parkinsons and can't speak anymore.

Huh, Novichok "creator" Vil Mirzayanov is still alive. I assumed he was long dead as he's had Stage IV cancer for three years and no one picked him on the DDP.

Poisoned by Novichok, apparently. Can't think how that happened.

I know who he is. He's the new presenter on Blue Peter! *bows* He was the kid on a CBBC show called The Dog Ate My Homework, which I think was a comedy quiz thing for kids but I've never seen it.

It was released - first time around - during a relative down period for Elton. He had retired from live performing, his substance abuse was at its worst, his delve into disco had been absolutely panned by the critics. He made a grand comeback in the mid 80s with I'm Still Standing and I Guess That's Why They Call It Blues, but Are You Ready... was sort of forgotten in pop culture until it was part of an ad campaign in 2002-3-ish time.

He announced it hours after the Scavenger deadline? That's the biggest trolling act on this forum since notaguest...

True, though in Ayr there's also the party pressure thing of "he can keep the seat for us" with local Tories. He managed to hold the seat in 2011 and 2016 against SNP local surge due to being quite popular. We've seen in recent years how the parties can convince folk to run when they shouldn't in case they can keep a seat, see Dennis Skinner in Bolsover last year.

Stage IV. He's had the full whipple surgery. There had been health rumblings but the Tories kept the full thing quiet till he was "on the mend".

You know when you've been Tango'd Iain'd!

Future DDP team: "ABBA are potentially dying in the wrong order"?

About 10 DDP players sigh and each remove him from their "sneaky unique pick" spot on the shortlist...

So people who got QOs since 19th August (bar Banali of course) Hans-Jochen Vogel Richard Guy - see above Christopher Guy Harrison Gerald Carr - no obit yet? Liz Clarke-Saul - no obit yet Bullet Bob Armstrong (post to be updated as needed)

I feel like this would all be filed less under "disasters" and more under "fucking awesome", tbh.

Runaway winner...

The closest I can recall is Spade's 2016 DDP team which got 18/20. If anyone can ever achieve the full house it'll be impressive to say the least.

Totally blaming you when we get BB King, Johnny Cash and Pete Seeger on a theme team at Christmas.

Bill Goldberg, 90s big name wrestler. Well, August will be the first month of 2020 not to have a DL hit now, but these things are cyclical.

Well, just for context I don't think the two men I mentioned were "legends" either. Although as James Deans potential was likely mythical he's a good candidate. Ahem. Although you've now seen me down the rabbit hole of discovering America has a library of living legends, many of whom are actually dead now. Which made me laugh. "The Living Legend, dead for the past 20 years..."

Speaking as aforementioned "not fan of these types of films", he was the star of a film which just made 1.4 billion dollars at the box office, and a part of a franchise that made nearly 10 billion (!) in the last 3 years. James Dean and John Belushi are legends on less bar time. Just because folk are old they dont have to act old.

Gooseberry Reaper sitting in the corner after bumping off a Marvel star like:

Yeah, I hadn't seen any of his films either, but I do know several wise folk on film matters who had mentioned him as someone to look out for, so he presumably was a star in the making. And while I'm not really a fan of the Marvel films I know kids bloody love them.

If I had a bet on any celeb turning out to be a Deathlist or DDP regular, The Sinnerman would be high on that list.

Unanimous verdict says "why not, it's better than the Andrew Millwall QO from precedent and is a death mention in a qualifying obit"...