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Reach Out is a top contender, for me.

Not been a great week or so for big music names, really.

8 days later is a bit late to sub someone, imo, and Nichelle Nichols death ruined the whole system structure anyhow, so just keep N blank then.

I stand by what I said on the DDP front page some time ago. Crumble may not challenge for the title in many games, but his ability to sniff out off the radar notables, read between the lines on their health, and nab out of the blue unique hits is absolutely second to none on the forum. Take that Police Academy actress as an example.

I believe thats Toast's point! All I'll say, because frankly grief makes people act in all kinds of ways, is that if my kid was lying in a gravely ill condition in hospital, ain't no one would be allowed near them with a camera.

Sad news, aye. Though... This is a rarity of a prediction which got an EXTRA YEAR added to it (thanks to covid delays) and was still wrong...

Ah Gooseberry, mate, I suppose if you have a Recently Shagged thread, you need to counter it with a Nae Recent Shagging Here thread to balance things.

To be fair, the Americans tracked down Osama and his cronies to the exact cave system, but when the request to go in for the kill came, there was a sudden caution/delay from the top brass that gave Bin Laden the precious time to escape. That's when the troops were there. It is however fair to point out Schroens job was to find Bin Laden in the late 90s and take him out before the September 11 attacks and he utterly failed that one.

Didn't have Anne Heche down as a possible. Gravely ill after car crash. Sounds like we'll know the prognosis on this one by time everyone wakes up.

Ivan Putski is 81 now. That's beyond ancient for an old wrestler. Probably gone in next 2-3 years, but then how is Abby still going FFS? Has Greg Valentine aged at all in 40 years? Doubting it. Jimmy Hart is 80 next January. There's a man whose looked after his health. Also, see Luke but no Butch, whose health has been poor in recent years.

Future DDP team - The Young Ones Are Dying in the Wrong Order. True whoever goes from now on imo.

UHURA IN THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY 12/50 31st July 2022 Nichelle Nichols, who had a solid claim to being one of the most important actors on American TV, has died on the verge of 90, after a long period of ill health. Nichols had been a stage actress before her breakthrough, cast on Star Trek as Lt Uhura, a female bridge officer and one of the main characters. Given that the first pilot go at Star Trek failed because test audiences hated a white woman having a leading role in it, Nichols casting was a major breakthrough at the time in US TV. A fan of musical theatre, Nichols took the role for one year, only to be convinced to stay on by Martin Luther King! That one year became a devoted fan following of over 50 years, across theatre, film and convention circuit. In the role, Nichelle Nichols also had the first interracial kiss on US TV, when she and William Shatner's Captain Kirk kissed. To get this by the censors, both characters, already shown to care deeply about each other, obviously had to be possessed by aliens, because that's the only way such a thing would be acceptable in 60s America. Her work on Trek led to her role with NASA, promoting space exploration and finding astronauts of the future. This was her debut on the list.

LOVE(LOCK)'S LABOUR LOST 11/50 26th July 2022 Picture this, back in the 1990s, when they taught us about the O-zone layer and global warming, my primary teacher brought up James Lovelock's name as that of an old scientist who worked in the field. Picture this, as a teenager with a newly bought DVD player, I decide to stay up late at night and watch Edge of Darkness, instead of study for my Highers. Gripped by Bob Peck's performance as a grief stricken cop investigating the murder of his daughter, I was surprised by the timing - BBC had a documentary about that very series on shortly afterwards. Which focused on the series approach to Gaia theory, and interviewed...James Lovelock. Picture this, a university student in one of the biggest university libraries in the world, and of all the books which can be read on loan, what appears out of the blue but The Quest for Gaia? That Lovelock fella was following me! Picture this, my telephone number. No, wait, sorry, that's Debbie Harry. A mercurial genius in his field I've been a fan of since I was a wean, James Lovelock departed Gaia on his 103rd birthday. Somehow he lived long enough to see his own theories proven correct, despite subjecting himself to radiation for scientific experiment in the 1940s. (It was more humane than testing it on rabbits, he said.) In the 1940s, working with early cryogenic theories, in which he was able to bring frozen hamsters back to life, he accidentally invented the microwave oven, when he was hungry and used the equipment to speed up his baked potato dinner. He'd hoped the un-freezing could save human lives, but physics got in the way of re-animating anything larger than a pet rodent! His ability to think outside of the box won him acclaim in the field and he was snapped up by NASA, where he invented sensors and equipment which helped spaceships and space probes collect information in the deepest realms of space. He was the most interested man in the concept of life on Mars since David Bowie. It was also while at NASA that he came up with the idea which made him famous (by scientist standards). The gist of Gaia Theory is that the planet Earth is a self-regulating biosystem, and that everything within contributes to the whole. He theorised that the planet would heat up or cool down depending on the situation, and suggested the world was on the verge of intense climate change. At the time, it was the more eccentric wing of TV science who followed his views, such as Kit "inventor of the Cybermen" Pedler and Patrick "Sky at Night" Moore (and the latter thought Gaia meant humans couldn't change the climate!). However, if you live to be 103 years old, then the world changes around you, and Lovelock's eccentric theories of the 1960s are now the main talking point of the 2020s. James Lovelock was prone to underselling his achievements, and spent most of his later life claiming we were all doomed. However he was not content to remain a Cassandra on the side-lines. While at NASA, he invented the electron capture device, the invention which proved there was a gaping hole in the O-zone layer. This evidence led world leaders (heavily pushed by Margaret Thatcher, who was an advocate of Lovelock's climate science) into signing the Montreal Protocol, banning O-zone harmful chemicals. As a direct result of Lovelock's words and inventions, the O-zone layer is now on schedule to be fully repaired by 2050, in one of the most successful pieces of climate legislation ever signed. And that, if anything, sums up the importance of James Lovelock, a man who theorised the future, tried to prove it, and then sought to fix it. Here is James Lovelock talking to Tom Scott last year, in an interview which went viral on social media. He remained active until a fall a few months ago, and as a result of his incredible health well into life, was only making his Crowsourced debut.

Well done Reptile.

Ah, Tenebrae! He gets a headache in that...

Hacksaw Jim Duggan is in remission for the third time. Turns out the tough guy he was on about all those years was himself. WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Duggan Completes Cancer Treatment (wrestlingheadlines.com) (There's a video link. He's lost a fair bit of weight.)

There's a post somewhere by Sean from years ago, can't mind where after so long. Anyhow, it was one of his usual lists of people posts (we all love) and he mentioned about 6 aging but not that old, and iirc seemingly healthy celebs. They were all dead within about a year/18 months tops.

Thought there was new info given the thread. Paul must be getting a head start on the front page threads for 2023.

Our current run has overtaken the Secombe/Longford gatekeeping drought of 2001. Still a whole month before it rivals last years summer drought though.

Somehow I hadn't twigged we were on the Third version of the game, despite playing in each version. You've been added.

Number of Combined Deadpool Wins 17 - Death Impends 10 - Reptile 8 – DDT, Spade Cooley, Captain Chorizo 5 – Football Fan, Book, drol, Joey Russ, Banana 4 - Maryport, An Fear Beag, msc 3 –, Rad, Toast, Jiroemon Kimura 2- Bert, Rotten Ali, Esturian Float, rockhopperpenguin, John Key, The Dead Cow, The Old Lady, Clorox, Vaagheid, Perhaps, Bibliogryphon 1 – Why Not?, The Unknown Man, Deathlist Cmme, OoO, Raskolnikov, Sir Creep, The Engineer, Voice of Young Maryport, Time, Sean, Garn, Pedro67, ImnotHades, Windsor, Dr Zorders, Paul Bearer, deadsox, Grim Up North, Dr T, machotrouts, Torva Messor, AO Guy,TomTomTelekom, Roverandout, TQR, Etushi, Willz, Funeralopolis, Salmon Mousse, Baby Blue, WEP, Annami So @gcreptile has moved into double figures. The good @CaptainChorizo jumps level with DDT and Spade and has a strangle hold on the spot of Most Successful Deathlister Never to Win the DDP! Big jumps in turn for @Book, @drol, @Joey Russ and @Banana as they each move to 5 wins a piece. Drol's recent success have come with centenarians. Teams to watch for future DDP success. @An Fear Beag also leaps up to four, as does some chap called msc. Never heard of him. @Funeralopolis, @Salmon Mousse, @BabyBlue, @WEP and @Annami all join the HOF. Congrates. That's as many new pools I could find winners announced for since the last update that kept.

Oddly it was updated in January but now...isn't.

Please don't tell me I'm the only person who read that and thought it sounded like your standard fry up?

I looked up my two Pulitzer names outstanding. Both appear to be alive and well.

Congratulations Joey.