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Milan Kundera occupies the same place in my mind as Robert Pirsig does. Robert Pirsig was also a DeathList entry and wrote "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". For some reason, I have always assumed Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to be another Hippie / Beat generation classic, but now that I think about it, it isn't really the case? Anyway, I guess someone on the committee is big on literature and tries to push those "literary one-hit wonders" with their one "Must read" book. I've read neither though. Makes me wonder, who else might make the list eventually. Margaret Atwood? Alice Walker? Probably, eventually, Salman Rushdie.

I've finally, accidentally found the "local celebrities" thread, that I have only heard about a couple of years ago. And now I know, why it was hidden so deeply, it's closed. Why was it closed? Too ill-defined?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/beloved-golf-channel-personality-tim-190438877.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAQRLpJH3kuvRtjW-qSa7zYG19QrMoORbdXrdvzZGLhIbZhYU9bq04d67gwy2JAxKuHsrCNsaUg3kY6vnnZTxWZWVTQSNv5zuryz7S-OqaPiGiTIgALft-u0J9vbOvZ_2XJmIoFsp5ti0XSc9ZTFaJFrIKrAreeA5UX8TqYOB7BC

At least he has already outlived South Park's Kenny:

Conservative activist Kelly Canon (Qanon?) dies of COVID after attending an anti-vax "symposium": https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/11/activist-dies-of-covid-after-attending-anti-vax-conference/ "She lost her battle with pneumonia today". Notice how they like to describe each COVID death as "pneumonia". And to quote her: “No jabby-jabby for me! Praise GOD!” Edit: Had to change the link.

Hah, you were faster. I find this whole story somehow wrong.

True about the vaccinations, maybe most of them were recently recovered instead, but wrong about the second part. It's indeed that guy saying they died "with COVID not because of it". That's important because he's misrepresenting what the CDC director said, on purpose, so that it fits his agenda. The CDC guy basically said, "many COVID deaths suffered from diabetes", and Eli David then basically says "they died of diabetes, not COVID".

Remember, Johnson had just recovered from COVID, i.e. was immune at that garden party. The rest of the people there were either recovered, vaccinated, young, or just lickspittles who didn't want to miss out. That doctor (not a doctor in medicine - though he seems to want to convey that impression) is being silly. The 75% did not die "with COVID", they died "with co-morbidities". It's the other way round.

He was unvaccinated because he was too afraid of needles: https://www.thesun.ie/health/8185702/computer-games-boss-dies-covid-scared-needles-jab/

In a total emergency case, I could get your team in the first round, unless we land at exactly 64 teams.

I think the game will be up next weekend. While we might possibly be finished with assembling the new celebrity info before that, I need a day off work to get it done (excel / access stuff).

That's a very sneaky way to avoid prison.

Ah well, that's an awfully flimsy QO for an awfully flimsy case. I guess we will discuss it in the committee, but if A, then B, so it might just have to count.

With all the hospice cases, err... out of the way... and the most critical COVID cases either dead or recovering, I thought maybe it's now possible to sneak to a win, with names like Vicky Phelan or Catherine Wybourne, but I notice An Fear Beag has Vicky Phelan, too. I think she has maybe 2-3 weeks left: https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/vicky-phelan-says-its-been-25894949

True, but we do allow for, let's say, socially signifcant cases. Right now, we have Vicky Phelan, the public face of a cancer scandal in Ireland. Last year, we allowed Noel Conway, a euthanasia "lobbyist". We mostly wanted to block the sob stories in the tabloids, "mum has her last christmas", "random person XYZ in a coma at New Year's Eve", and "reality TV star's dying step dad who isn't famous at all and would never get a single obit if it wasn't for that family member". Martha Sepulveda got a BBC (latin) obit as well, so I'd dare to call it a "good call" in terms of relevance. But I could very well imagine that she doesn't even get a qualifying english-language obit.

Ah, I see, she's dead. Yes, just yesterday the question came up and we did allow her because the debate she caused was just so big. I don't know yet how many picked her, if you picked her, too, then that's at least two teams.

Alright, here's something that will hopefully be solved more swiftly: This song was released as a single twice, the chart-wise far more successful version is the more recent one, and almost twice as long as the original release, kind of a small movie, really.

Okay, my first instinct was that the 1979 movie is The Warriors. "In the city" was both a Joe Walsh song and an Eagles song. But I can't find another song of the same name, but I've got nothing better.

Well done, congratulations!

Hello Everyone, as the 2020 season is coming to a close and we are all terribly excited to see who is going to win that close race at the top of the 2020 competition, here is the thread for the next round of this all-encompassing, difficult to manage deadpool. The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from now on until Dec 31st 2020, 23:59 GMT. You can choose one joker with double points - and you can also submit up to five substitutes in case one of your 50 dies before the end of the submission window. You may also choose new subs before the game starts if they die. Submission form: Just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format You don't need to number them before! No need to give birthdays! And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Kamala Harris (wrestler) - Update 2020: Well, this one is dead. Kamala Harris (US senator) - Update 2020: Well, this one is soon president. The scoring is [year of birth] - 1900 = score. So someone born in 2001 will get 101 points in case of death You may submit the following people: living, not having set a precise date of death (by execution, dignitas, or whatever), at least 18 years old on the beginning of January 1st, 2021, and being somewhat notable. "Somewhat notable" means: they should at least be notable for something else aside from being terminally ill. "Something else" being something that has an effect on society. Terminally ill activists are okay if they've done at least something generally beneficial, a campaign, a book, or a winning court case. If they're only in the news because of their tragedy or because they need our sympathy I will not accept them. So no "cancer mums with cancer kids", no "terminally ill fans", no "ordinary person in a coma because of a car crash". This also counts for brothers/sisters/children of notable people - unless they are so notable that every relative is also notable by default, like the House of Windsor, or maybe the Bush family. Unfortunately, it is me who will decide if the person is famous enough. Previous BBC coverage will usually convince me. More details: Notability is getting ever more diffuse nowadays, it is a difficult thing to judge. Some more guidelines: Media personalities and such will be accepted in any case if they have a social media account with more than 100.000 followers. So, as a contrast to last year, Criscilla Anderson is now a valid pick! A person that gets rejected in the DDP will also be rejected here - no exceptions. Family/friends of people, i.e. reality TV appendages like Litsa Menounos: Yes, they will be allowed if they actually play a meaningful part in these shows, as Litsa Menounos did. No, they will not be allowed if they only accidentally get an imdb entry because of an accidental appearance, or because they say a few sentences in a documentary. Also: "Oldest Person of XYZ" will always be allowed - even a completely irrelevant person (in the grand scheme of things) will be accepted if they are the oldest person of their country, or last survivor of World War II, Korean War, etc... Usually those people do not give many points, but maybe 5 pts is better than zero? And they are of a certain "historic relevance", you know President Tyler's grandson, and such. Anyway, I will allow them. Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2021 GMT you may switch 5 old people still alive for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2021 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2021 or the first seven days of 2022. The QO rules are: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2021 plus The New York Times. Your host: I will also submit a team and will do so two posts below by December 15th at latest and hide the names with "XXXXX XXXXX" and reveal them on January 1st. Main reason for not already submitting right now is that I want to avoid the situation of 2019, when I ran out of subs and then filled the gaps with "new" names, especially Edmund Capon, who revealed his illness mid-December. So I hope I will not run out of subs if I submit a little later. As in last year, I will also make use of the substitution window, but only use 2 names. After all, there's always a pretty broad consensus of a couple of names (example 2019: Ivan Milat, Michael Sleggs, Tom Long), so I wouldn't steal anyone's names by picking those who are universally known anyway. Also, I will substitute on the 30th of June, so you can see my two names. I will not read your submission emails until January 1st (I think you can check that) to prevent the impression that I might take a name from your posts for other deadpools. This also means that I might discuss borderline acceptable picks with you on January 1st or 2nd. We will have to talk then. If you're unavailable, I will replace a disqualified name with one of your substitutions. Remember, the disqualification in some cases might come only after the DDP committee has decided, so maybe not before the 2nd week of January. If you post your team right in this thread, you save me some work but also give away names. If you pm me, please make sure that I know what the mail is about in the header "Death By Numbers", "Team submission" or something like that. If you have other questions, you can also ask in this thread!

And that's that. Mary Fairhurst and Betty White were our last hits. And there was also the very late QO for LG Petrov in the Metro's year-end obituary list, leading to this final score: Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 1539 2 JoeyRuss 1449 3 Salmon Mousse 1439 4 Death Impends 1327 5 Banana 1189 6 Book 1132 7 gcreptile 1080 8 An Fear Beag 1006 9 drol 949 10 DevonDeathTrip 944 11 theoldlady 940 12 msc 929 13 Wormfarmer 846 14 Lynchian 819 15 Etushipushingupdaisies 712 16 The Unknown Man 679 17 The Quim Reaper 632 18 Kenny 615 19 Annami 610 20 Toast 591 21 Joe Moneypenny 576 22 The Daredevil 525 22 Sean 525 24 The Old Crem 464 25 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 454 26 Yorkshire Banker 427 27 Bibliogryphon 425 28 chilean way 409 29 Baby Blue 401 30 Charles De Gaulle 375 31 etib80 341 32 markb4 335 33 Guyfromfuture 331 34 Gooseberry Crumble 274 35 mr.whit 156 Cpt. Chorizo has won a fairly clear and never really threatened start-to-finish victory, congratulations! I kind of called it from the start for his very solid, somewhat defensive team, that hit most of the right notes and showed no clear weakness. The late obits closed the gap somewhat, and Joey got back the second place from Salmon Mousse because LG Petrov was just a little younger than Mary Fairhurst. We've had 8 players with more than 1000 points, also a nice benchmark. We've had lots of unique hits, many from Gooseberry Crumble, but I'd also like to give a shout-out to @GuyFromFuture and his unique hit with Norm MacDonald. We had surprisingly few joker scorers, thanks to two Toms, a Tim (Bilton) and Ady Barkan surviving. Rush Limbaugh scored, Jake The Snake Roberts didn't. Nobody jokered David Gulpilil, who in the DDP was the most valuable canon joker (with Greg Gilbert being sort of semi-canon). Now, that's already been different in the new year where Gary Burgess has scored for more than half the players... Let's see how that goes, thanks for playing in 2021!

Coincidental find while adding new names to the DDP masterlist (Vince Hill). Now, the new name is Paul Coia, but was he born 1955 or 1960? I'll go with 1955.

Cirsten Weldon, QAnon lady who said that "only idiots get vaxxed" has died of COVID: https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/07/qanon-star-who-said-only-idiots-get-vax-is-dead/ To quote her some more: “The vaccines kill, don’t get it! This is how gullible these idiots are. They’re all getting vaccine!”

I've always liked this idea:

Italian shooting champion Cristian Ghilli, only 19 years old, shoots himself: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shooting-champion-19-dies-after-25886253