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I...know that, but your post made it sound like 2 Drop 40ers had died, so, given I was out of the house most of the afternoon, I was confused and thinking "What the hell did I miss?"

Ah, I see. I think. Monson and Elias? I doubt either will be troubling this game though, dead or alive.

Have we? Who?

Hah it has a lot of 10 pointers which could build up, but they ARE on the B-side for a reason - many of them obit issues.

Yeah I had her at 4th, because I thought Rae and Brackers would go sooner, and I thought Blanco was nearer the end with her illness (she's nearer the start so a summer demise).

To fulfill the YoungWillz request (I can't do this for everyone, obviously): Harry Landers role in Rear Window is small but vital. He's the date Miss Lonely Hearts brings back to her apartment, only to toss out of the flat when he gets a bit hands on. She then seems to threaten suicide, which is one of the turning points in Jimmy Stewart's character from only thinking about himself into thinking about Grace Kelly and his neighbours. Pivotal.

^ Didn't fully spoil yer fun, then!

Thought you were going to say you were a beneficiary!

I think last year I had more ineligible picks die in January after you asked me to send in a team, than I did the whole rest of the year!

Yer in Year 5 now AND got brought back from a ban the last time, I think that ship has passed by now?

Yer a funny guy, charon! Actually I was going to point out the flaw, but I wont in case someone somewhere saw your post and started panicking.

Pete Maravich's famous quote being "I don't want to play 10 years and then die when I'm 40."

Possibly unless I've missed another death elsewhere! Very closely run contest though, I couldn't call it at this point.

Don't laugh, my joker didn't die last year - so this is 8 points (?) more than then! My stats analysis had her expected expiry date* as March 2018, so I should have seen this coming, but I was having a crisis of research confidence when I sent my Hare's team in. *Not as ghoulish as it sounds, merely the upper limit of life expectancy for her illness, after which time she'd become an outlier.** ** Ok, maybe as ghoulish as it sounds.

The sad demise of Rayya Elias brings points for: rad jireomon joey msc chorizo drol grim None for the Cow so I think there's a new leader, and of course, more points for Drol, who still seems very dangerous in this pool.

Thanks!

Another Deadpool win for DI! Well done. Wracking them up now! I really ought to update the HOF.

Hello, @maryportfuncity, you've actually got me on the scoreboard twice, I should have 727 points instead of 2 360 pointers... Hey, it'd be only my second lead in 8 years of the competition, the other being the very day I won it, so can't blame a guy for basking in the Indian summer!

And all of them hit the fame criteria, because they were known by folk pre-illness. Even if you were, for example, a really obscure Trinidadian historian, you were still known by others within that field or discipline pre illness.

She was known for the writing before the cancer or the Elizabeth Gilbert bit though. To the point I'd heard of her, but not her apparently famous writer wife!

RIP. She did remarkably well to make it this far with 2 vicious strands of cancer imo.

One of my favourite obits was for Robert de la Rouchefoucauld, full of escaping executions, blowing up Nazi ammo dumps and send sarcy messages to the Brits by morse code. Alas, I found out years later the entire thing was nearly 100% made up, but hell, if in doubt, print the myth! Nah, this forum has brought me to new TV, new authors, new music I wouldn't have stumbled across otherwise.

It would depend on the individual, really.

Ignoring those who have left the forum - Rocky, Switch, Chopped Liver and the Kid. There's 3 competitors from 2017 left to confirm or deny a spot in this years version: Jireomon, Garn and Charon! And newcomers welcome! We already have 2!

DR has considerably jumped the gun, don't worry. First round is drawn on the 20th January and teams come in from then till end of the month. There was 2 coin tosses last year, but in general, matches wound up decided by scorelines. When there was a score draw, average age came into consideration (so lowest average age won) - iirc, someone lost out because one of their scores came from Emma Morano, the super-centenarian! The 4 and 3 scoring system *should* make the coin toss less likely too. Famous last words.