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One of those Whatever Happened to....he was everywhere at one point. RIP. He taught at Essex University where I study until last year I think.He taught a lot of my friends in their first year.No one had heard he was ill just on study leave which can be ominous.Apparently he also had an affair with Shirley Williams. Not really an affair, though the press reported it as so: he was a widower, her husband ran off with another woman. They both then met other folk and remarried.

"Just told your friend over there, that Grim Reaper of yours has got me the last rites, thank you ever so much."

Thank you for taking the time, msc. Much obliged. No worries, we were all there at one point. Welll, bar Big Iain the DDP founder of course...

Well, you know...I'm reasonably confident this game wont stretch on till August...

Here you go.

So you'd have eaten up a spot on DDP for four years gaining nothing, and worse, tipped off someone who may have put her on their team this year. Sounds a blessing. Accept your zero with a bit o pride but no regrets. SC She died in 2013, so wouldn't have been a waste at all! But would have been highly atypical to my overall 2013 performance... I'm fairly cool these days - folk die when not on lists all the time, either we didn't know they were ill, or discounted them and got proven wrong. Either way, not worth tearing your hair out about!

You first mentioned Wetton's cancer was metastatic shortly after Squire died, no, Weebl? So, glass half full prognosis might suggest that, even though terminal, him having such an optimist oulook might have given him a few extra months to get married, etc, in.

1. Unique across the entire cup - ie no other player had them - but only for that round. It resets after each round of the cup. So if, say, you have Jimmy Carter as a unique in Round 1, it's 3 points if he dies. If he doesn't die, and one single person has him in Round 2, it counts as a Round 2 unique. And so on... 2. The draw for the next round will take place on the 20th of the month. As the previous round ties wont be over yet it will use the good old fashioned UEFA route ie Round 2: Spade Cooley or msc vs Maryportfuncity or YoungWillz, for example.

There's 22. It was the Kid who said 23, not me.

Ah, Mindy McCready. I was so annoyed when she died. Mostly because when I saw something about her in 2012 I thought to myself "She's a timebomb, better put her on my DDP team" and promptly forgot all about her till I saw her obit on the BBC. Worse, suicide and no one else had her on the DDP, so 16 points down the drain!

That's 10% of my DDP team being helped Feck! Or aided, if Celeb Rehab was anything to go by. How many folk on that show are dead now?

Ah that's quite a good film, saw it on Talking Pictures last year. The killer is Nigel Green of Zulu/Ipcress File fame.

Francois Van der Elst, 62, after a heart attack (obit in French). Part of the Cup Winners Cup Anderlecht side of the 70s, and helped take Belgium to the Euro 1980 final. Also played for West Ham, whom he scored against in the first Cup Winners Cup win.

He's a fairly big name up here. I think he retired before I even went to school and I'd heard of him through general pop culture.

Oh ye of little faith - I was clearly in shock that my copy of Frontline has gone up in value in 24 hours by a few hundred, according to Amazon. Hah.

HOLLINGWORTH MEETS HER DEADLINE 1/50 10th January 2017 Legendary British journalist Clare Hollingworth has died aged 105 to give The Crowdsourced Deathlist its first success of 2017. Hollingworth was only twenty-seven and working as a journalist in Poland when she got the scoop of the century: the start of World War Two. Such a scoop, that the first paper refused to believe it. Hollingworth survived the war despite a predilection for being right in the thick of the bombing and became a notable foreign correspondent on multiple continents, reporting first hand from China, Algeria and many other places. She helped expose Kim Philby as a Soviet Spy, and the horrors of the French Army in Algeria. Hollingworth retired to Hong Kong in 1981, and lived to a merry old age: a fact perhaps more surprising when you consider she once threatened to hit a soldier threatening to shoot her with her shoe! She was also the first (and last) person ever to interview the Shah of Iran, a lover of wine and champagne, and a trailblazing female writer who refused to think of herself as a feminist. One of her few regrets in later life, allegedly, was that her failing eyesight meant Twitter had arrived too late for her! Clare Hollingworth was selected in 35th place on the list. PS - She also saved about 3, 000 refugees from the Nazis, but wouldn't like us to go on about it.

Timothy Well actually had died then, it was a misreport by WWC. He is dead now though. He had two or three false death reports, which went way beyond his actual talent or fame in wrestling circles. Billy Jack Haynes outlives another one.

I was lost as soon as maths came into it.

I doubt it's likely to climb much higher than 25-30, that seems to be the par for entries to competitions on here. That said Deathrace got 34 this year! Hence the use of the word "if".

As there's unlikely to be 64 people, I was strongly thinking of capping it at 32. If we get a 33rd person interested, I shall stand aside and focus on the Ref side.

Michael McIntyre. I'm just hopefully pre-empting a few years down the line.

Of course he was, you twat. He died, didn't he? Should've clarified publicly known. There's a reason why not a lot of top dead poolers selected him. Well, in this case, it's because he didn't make it off the final 30 or so on the shortlist.

I'll update later tonight. A "Clare Hollingworth dies - more to follow" post sounded a wee bit pretentious on a forum for my liking!

Also, the Hare's Pool sounds better.

You could say the same - more so, arguably - of Chapman Pincher, but it's not a point of contention.