gcreptile

You're right. Hm, I thought I mentioned I had added him before, apparently not. Scoreboard is updated.

Let's have a quick update, shall we? After all, we just got 4 quick hits in succession. There is Jose Eduardo dos Santos as another replacement hit, three people score. There's also Larry Storch, a hit for four people. Only CalebH and GuyFromFuture picked Caaaaaaan, And then there is sports commentator John Gwynne, also picked only twice. Banana extends his lead with the safe and sound Dos Santos replacement. Enough for him, his contenders went for the younger, riskier picks. Let's see if it works in the long run. Edit: Frank Williams added. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 1117 2 msc 997 3 Salmon Mousse 993 4 An Fear Beag 971 5 gcreptile 948 6 Joey Russ 889 7 Book 871 8 Predictor 799 9 Cpt. Chorizo 798 10 Death Impends 764 11 drol 724 12 MariNisia 637 13 DevonDeathTrip 616 14 Guy From Future 612 15 Great Uncle Bulgaria 510 16 Kenny 495 17 Sean 467 18 Theoldlady 457 19 Toast 447 20 JoeMoneypenny 412 21 YorkshireBanker 395 22 JohnKey 381 23 Torva Messor 353 24 Annami 327 25 Baby Blue 325 26 CalebH 318 27 Buffalo Phil 313 28 The Daredevil 309 29 The Unknown Man 297 30 The old crem 274 31 Wormfarmer 266 32 Bibliogryphon 206 33 Liz Lemon 199 34 Famous6Eva 181 35 Doulton 149 36 Pedro67 146 37 YoungWillz 130 38 markb4 107 39 keltos31 88 40 Hell 80 41 The Spinosaurus 64 41 Captain Hemlock 64 43 Gooseberry Crumble 61 44 chilean way 49

DDP pick FOR gcreptile even.

Her father Vernon has died according to this link behind a EU paywall: https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/oprah-winfreys-father-vernon-dead-councilmember-says/ 2 days ago, Daily Mail had the news that he was battling cancer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10989327/Oprah-Winfrey-throws-father-Vernon-surprise-celebration-life-party-suffers-cancer.html

Australien rules footballer Paul Dear has died at 55: https://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl-2022-paul-dear-death-tributes-hawthorn-great-dies-aged-55-041750245.html Edit: Hm, I thought Yahoo will do had picked him for the DDP... ah well.

Paul Dear is a hit for me: https://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl-2022-paul-dear-death-tributes-hawthorn-great-dies-aged-55-041750245.html?

Michael Heseltine

That's the problem when you try to court fanatics - you can never be fanatic enough.

The dry heat will do wonders for his lungs.

Also notable in the economic world for trying to create some inflation in Japan after decades of stagnation. His "Abenomics" had an effect for 2-3 years before things went back to zero. Even now, Japan's inflation is fairly neglectable in comparison with outher countries. I wonder though what the motivation was to kill him.

Interesting, why is legendary Berlin bouncer (and shanty singer) Rummelsnuff in the thumbnail above? He let me in a couple of times and I was told that he remembered my face.

He's not gone yet, he will need to be escorted out. And the locks need to be changed

Joe Exotic, according to himself, is pissing blood and vomiting everything up: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/joe-exotic-vomiting-everything-up-7300011

I wonder who's going to be her last prime minister.

Oh, and they were on one of his posthumous albums. Can you sue if you bought them assuming it was a "Michael Jackson" product?

Lord Howell on Sky News. Very lucid but hunched. Still some mileage left. Edit:Hehe

Yury Voronov, russian businessman and head of the Gazprom-linked Astra Shipping, shot dead in the head in a St. Petersburg suburb: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/06/fourth-gazprom-linked-executive-reported-dead-in-russia-a78214

Oh my God, she looks like a living corpse... Mona Hammond not looking well either.

Chemistry Nobel Prize winner in 1996, Robert Curl, has died at 88: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemistry-nobel-laureate-robert-curl-dies-at-88/4015908.article He got it for the discovery of fullerenes (?).

Dos Santos' daughter who had previously denied his critical condition now wants an attempted murder investigation. https://www.dw.com/pt-002/josé-eduardo-dos-santos-destratamento-resulta-das-políticas-do-ex-presidente/a-62358509 After that cardiac arrest, he's still in a coma and they are monitoring the neurological complications of that arrest, probably thinking about whether it's worth it to ever awaken him.

Alright here's the test to see if everyone who replaced someone on their team with Andy Goram got their points. I didn't expect him to give out points that fast, but he did.... Deborah James, aka Bowelbabe, died just a few days too soon to be a replacement for those who missed her at the beginning of the year. A tricky name for people on the American continent maybe, as her growing "fame" might have been less visible from a distance. Susie Steiner was another popular pick, in spite of her not having a Wikipedia page and her cancer only being mentioned by one QO source, but I see now that the BBC also gave her an obit. And finally, theatre master Peter Brook was a miss in the DDP but a unique hit for Torva Messor here, congratulations! On the scoreboard, Banana's advantage of Salmon Mousse is still the same, but Banana's distance shrunk a little because msc is now a new second place. An Fear Beag is silently creeping up the board and now in 4th. Book moves up to a strong 7th. And finally (!), Captain Hemlock receives his first points. So all players are now in the game. Rank Team Score 1 Banana 1075 2 msc 997 3 Salmon Mousse 993 4 An Fear Beag 929 5 gcreptile 903 6 Joey Russ 889 7 Book 871 8 Predictor 799 9 Cpt. Chorizo 798 10 Death Impends 764 11 drol 648 12 MariNisia 637 13 DevonDeathTrip 616 14 Guy From Future 530 15 Kenny 495 16 Great Uncle Bulgaria 479 17 Sean 467 18 Theoldlady 457 19 Toast 447 20 JoeMoneypenny 412 21 JohnKey 381 22 YorkshireBanker 364 23 Torva Messor 330 24 Annami 327 25 Baby Blue 325 26 Buffalo Phil 313 27 The Daredevil 309 28 CalebH 278 29 The Unknown Man 274 29 The old crem 274 31 Wormfarmer 266 32 Bibliogryphon 206 33 Liz Lemon 199 34 Famous6Eva 181 35 Doulton 149 36 Pedro67 146 37 YoungWillz 130 38 keltos31 88 39 markb4 84 40 The Spinosaurus 64 40 Captain Hemlock 64 42 Gooseberry Crumble 61 43 Hell 57 44 chilean way 49

He denies the retirement plans: https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-pope-francis-denies-he-is-planning-resign-soon-2022-07-04/

Ah well, the picture is a few weeks old. Pancreatic cancer can move fast. But we never knew how advanced her cancer was/is, at least I don't know.

Live fast, die young.

Meh. I fell for the dead cat bounce.