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Uhh... Jean-Luc Godard.

Oh, I've had him in pretty much everything. DDP teams submitted on the 29th. Death By Numbers team finalised on Dec 15th, Deathrace joker submitted on the 30th. etc...

Very nice to hear. I think that work will be done roughly around Jan 20th - Feb 10th or something like that. It will roughly be half as much work as last time, as we had to do 2 years last time.

I get that six months, six hits pool score. Lots of us kept trying for that. And I won in a squeaker just before Bob Dole followed David Gulpilil.

Upcoming rapper Lil' Devin shot dead at a NYE party by masked men at 24: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1543642/lil-devin-dead-american-rapper-killed-masked-men-new-year-eve-party-ont

Thank you for your service! Seemed like a great person.

Jazz "legend" Nick Colionne died this morning, a few weeks before he was to go on a "jazz cruise": https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/17198127/nick-colionne-dead-jazz-new-years-day/

Interesting, seems Hulka emphasizes social media fame surprisingly much.

^^ lol, wow, you got Spiriman through? I guess Hulka just gave up at some point ;).

Heh, sorry, but I'm sure he'll be picked here and there. He's too much like a new Lars Hogh not to be. There's also the Scandinavian theme team.

Yeah, his appearance at Bob Dole's funeral made me lose a lot of interest in him.

@Gooseberry Crumble I do see some familiar names. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, made me smile. Either I or Spade picked him in the Scavenger Hunt pool (there are two Bonnicis!). He seemed a plausible pick to me. I see a Home and Away actress. Well, it's the curse isn't it? Luke Halpin, Ron Ely, Pope Benedict, Duchess of Kent, solid picks, I'd say. Fred Talbot! Been on my longlist for ages. Phil Creswick, too. But I forgot about him. I think you picked some ripe berries, so to say. Divine Brown - ha! I'd be sad to see Liza go, but it's getting time. So yeah, I know more of your time than I did in previous years, without googling too much. Still many new and interesting names. And I think there'll be quite a few unique hits coming your way. On average maybe one more per team than last year?

Hm, well the french COVID Bogdanoff. We only know between the lines that he possibly has COVID. But how ill is he exactly? Is he on a ventilator or not? And COVID treatment is making progress, the probability of this death is lower than maybe some other cancer cases. Don West has brain lymphoma, not glioblastoma, but a different kind of brain cancer. Maybe it's just some spots that have returned, nothing serious? But now, I do think that the cancer must be surprisingly aggressive. Robert Durst is just very ill in the mind. I could believe he got COVID on purpose just to get out of jail. He's a twisted person. Edit: Oh sorry, my opinions on your team!!! takes a bit. Next post.

Hah, we do have some people there expecting her to just barely make her birthday. Those were good calls.

Posting my team for googling purposes: Hare's Deadpool 1 Fred Claire 2 Jerry Grey (wrestler) 3 Pastelle LaBlanc 4 Sonia Hoey 5 "SiMan Baby" Silas Alexander 6 Steve Ludzik 7 Brian Morris 8 Adam Lewis (Fenix) 9 Steve Carlson 10 Stephen Lewis 11 Mark Paarman (surfer) 12 David West 13 Julia Reichert 14 Alexis Buchman 15 Tim Keller 16 Dwight Watson 17 Gerald Pizzuto Jr. 18 Jonathan Atherton 19 Greg Scarpa Jr. 20 Paul Dear 21 Kane Tanaka 22 Pau Riba 23 Rob Bolland 24 Tom Weiskopf 25 Jason Di Tullio Subs: Jerry Lee Lewis Kyle Boone Hamilton Smith, Dennis Skinner Gordon McQueen

My team for my own googling purposes: Deathrace 1 Tracy Kashi 2 Gary Burgess - joker 3 Frank Field 4 Jerry Grey 5 Susie Steiner 6 Jesse Trevino 7 Anthony Wameli 8 Ted Kaczynski 9 Gerald Pizzuto Jr. 10 Roider Cabrera 11 Vicky Phelan 12 Israel Dresner 13 Luciano Voidhanger Gaglio 14 Dan Lacey 15 Catherine Wybourne 16 Doug Kuzma 17 Kane Tanaka 18 Greg Mears 19 Russell Bishop 20 Sohel Rana Subs: Amir Siraji Igor Bogdanoff Carol Brickell Fadeyi Oloro

Depends on if Billy Turner falls under that "widely believed to be alive" rule.

Billy Turner was my no. 1 pick, very sad. But if my replacements get accepted the team is this: Hartlepool Deadlypool 1 Gary Burgess 2 Israel Dresner 3 Vicky Phelan 4 Russell Bishop 5 Julia Reichert 6 Pau Riba 7 George Perez 8 Luis Garavito 9 Gianluca Vialli 10 Phil Read Subs: Nigel Starmer-Smith, Susie Steiner

Alright, where to start: Jake The Snake - couldn't get myself to pick him again. Seems somewhat on the upswing? That is, until the COVID news came. Steve Gleason / Rob Burrow / Ady Barkan: Seemed too slow for me. I got tired of picking Barkan. James Whale: Well, he's no Rush Limbaugh. Hard too see any decline at all. The cancer must not be too aggressive - kidney cancer that has spread? But probably undiscovered for long, so the growth not that big. Tom Parker / Tom Smith: I want a piece of more recent bad news before picking them again. I didn't want to pick defensively. Antonio Inoki: Dropped from B-team. Could still be dead tomorrow, or in 5 years? Tim Wilson (professor / politician / Circle guy): Was on my list for a while. But his Instagram seems positive. He looks better than those previous hospital pics. Cornelius Price: last piece of news was that he could be in a coma for years. So the "gravely ill" description is a bit misleading, potentially. Milos Zeman / Khaleda Zia: No, not going with them, no matter how many times they're hospitalised. Robert Durst: Too evil to be trusted. Mustafa Kayirici: Well, he's been doing the "I'm soon dead" thing for two years. Might be true eventually, but all in all, I didn't feel comfortable with the pick and the person. And the kind of marginal notability I mostly want to avoid.

Heh, nice one. He used to be Germany's Simon Cowell for 20 years, then got fired, probably for age reasons, last year. His most prominent health issue though, is his penis fracture that happened about 20 years ago. That said, he has bonafide star credentials and Modern Talking is HUGE in Eastern Europe.

Thank you for stepping up again.

Solid. Many picks with a ...uuhh.. healthy chance of dying. Some are gambles though, Bogdanoff, Durst, also Don West. ALS types take their time, but could also die tomorrow. Some of these things need to go your way. We will see if they do.

Monumental work, msc. And I think we can be quite proud of the result. Glad you didn't run away screaming after yesterday's whiteout.

Alright, so this competition forces my shadow list to be a little more competitive, but I still find space for the Jimmy Carters of the world: Shadow List 1 Pelé 26 Bob Barker 2 Jerry Lee Lewis 27 Vanessa Redgrave 3 Frank Field 28 Jimmy Carter 4 Bill Turnbull 29 Olivia Newton-John 5 George Perez 30 Gary Burgess 6 Tony Bennett 31 Raul Castro 7 Sacheen Littlefeather 32 Shane MacGowan 8 Gianluca Vialli 33 George Alagiah 9 Jean-Louis Trintignant 34 Susie Steiner 10 Nigel Lawson 35 Barbara Walters 11 Nigel Starmer-Smith 36 Mohamed Al Fayed 12 Bobby Charlton 37 Phyllida Law 13 Gordon McQueen 38 Linda Nolan 14 Joe Kinnear 39 Henry Kissinger 15 Phil Read 40 Bobby Caldwell 16 Gail Halvorsen 41 Catherine Wybourne 17 Russell Bishop 42 John Gwynne 18 Jimmy Calderwood 43 Bernadette Mayer 19 Ghislaine Maxwell 44 Clare Marx 20 Rosalynn Carter 45 Mike Yarwood 21 Dennis Skinner 46 Don West 22 Liz Sheridan 47 Francoise Hardy 23 Sandra Day O'Connor 48 Julia Reichert 24 Leslie Phillips 49 Fred Claire 25 Benedikt XVI 50 Israel Dresner Subs: Sidney Poitier, The Duke of Kent

Rejected names: Jason Di Tullio Jane Marczewski Miguel Van Damme Paul Dear Adam Lewis (Fenix TX) Natty Wailer David West Allan Peiper Gary Burgess The team: 1 Arno 26 Frank Field 2 Nigel Starmer-Smith 27 Steve "Mongo" McMichael 3 Don West 28 Israel Dresner 4 Stephen Lewis 29 John Gwynne 5 Sacheen Littlefeather 30 Pau Riba 6 Julia Reichert 31 Ronnie Hellström 7 Rob Bolland 32 Roberto Maroni 8 Yukihiro Takahashi 33 Roman Kostrzewski 9 Steve Ludzik 34 Phil Read 10 Nurul Qomar 35 Ronnie Atkins 11 Steve Carlson 36 George Alagiah 12 Jerry Lee Lewis 37 Mosharraf Hossain Rubel 13 Sven Melander 38 Bill Turnbull 14 Luis Garavito 39 Jean Pierre Pernaut 15 Olivia Newton-John 40 Bernadette Mayer 16 Gianluca Vialli 17 Russell Bishop 18 Salah Aougrout 19 George Perez 20 Olu Jacobs 21 Mohamed Al Fayed 22 Jan Rot 23 Eric Lamaze 24 Maria Von Welser 25 Isabel Torres