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Erminia Motika, mother of celebrity / TV cook Lidia Bastianich, has died about two weeks ago at 100: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/chef-lidia-bastianichs-beloved-mother-grandma-died.html/ Most marginal person I ever allowed in the Death By Numbers. Picked last year.

Albert Raboteau Peter Lorimer Kat Bjelland Luis Palau Jim Crockett Jr. Yu Mo-Lin

Andy Hoffman, cancer dad to cancer child, dead at 42: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30987054/andy-hoffman-father-nebraska-football-fan-jack-hoffman-dies-brain-cancer-42?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true Would have been, quite possibly, THE ffbi pick this year.

27th hit in February...do we have one more?

Okay, so he was unwell and went into hospital. And they checked him thoroughly, and I guess they found a thousand little health issues, not enough to kill him yet, but worrying. My guess is a bit of prostate cancer, maybe even some very early signs of bladder cancer returning, but also heart issues, and what not. After all, he is 99 years old. They'll be trying to fix him as good as they can, but then, people die. He might still Dilip Kumar/Sumner Redstone (I'm trying to turn them into verbs) for quite some time. But I think he'll never walk unaided again, might never appear on photos again. He's old and will not recover.

Yes, I've always (ALWAYS!!) wondered about this. I mean, the House terminology was always very precise, i.e. House of York / Lancaster even though they were both basically House of Plantagenet. Or more similarly, House Windsor (or Saxo-Coburg-Gotha) was House Hanover, until the death of Queen Victoria. So yes, with Charles House Mountbatten would begin. Yet, I think they are not going to change it. The male line is a bit anachronistic today.

I think it's kind of necessary to have up to 15 names lined up for this. And the obscurer you get, the more likely is a late death announcement. So you don't know they're dead for a few days.

Manchester DJ Pete Zorba has died after a long fight against brain cancer: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/an-absolute-gentleman-hero-manchester-19930889

Heh, I guess those who picked Peter Lorimer need a replacement, cause their games hadnt even started yet? That said, there probably isn't a better time to start the six months than in the next two, three days. All the Cup people, DDP locks, and remaining Deathrace survivors. I think we'll see the full 6/6 until the summer.

^^ Hehe, and yes, I posted it before, somewhere.... can't remember.

There's a new song out by my favourite PC/Japanese pop inspired band Kero Kero Bonito, as a prelude to their next EP Civilization II. According to the press release their inspirations for this one are, for example, Kate Bush (!), Björk (!!), and Jon Hassell (!!!!!!!!). And you have seen me posting videos of both Kero Kero Bonito and Jon Hassell here. If they had also included David Bowie, they basically would have given me my personal all-time top five list. Especially the mention of Jon Hassell (sadly picked in deadpools this year by me) is such a weird, weird connection between different worlds that also just happens to my favourite music. You know, like maybe, if you were a huge fan of Christopher Nolan movies and of Bill Murray, and they'd make something together... That said, the new song, is just okay, ha! I don't hear these influences yet.

I think we're keeping up with our tradition: No deadpool with a fixed time limit (as opposed to: goes on until the last one dies) has ever been completed with a 100% success rate. That said, 5/6 (83,3%) is pretty good. Better than the one or two 4/5 in the now dead 5-4-3-2-1 pool, but very slightly worse than Spade's 17/20 (85%) in the 2016 DDP, and, still the record to beat, the few 9/10 in the Rotten Dead Pool.

Hospitalised again....for unknown reasons: https://sambadenglish.com/amitabh-bachchan-hospitalised-undergoes-surgery-again/

Time for a deadpool for deadpools?

Man killed by his own cock - during a cockfight: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56224144 The rooster had a knife tied up to it that actually stabbed the owner.

I am very much trying to uuhh.. look out for that one... on the internet.

Johnny De Fazio dead at 80: https://lastwordonsports.com/prowrestling/2021/02/26/jumping-johnny-defazio-passes-away-80/amp/

Maybe the family saw the rumours and then thought "Hey, it's not a bad idea.."

Let me see... who do we have... ah yes, Rush Limbaugh indeed picked by almost everyone. Dai Davies and Carlos Menem not far behind. S. Clay Wilson was a skilled pick by Salmon Mousse, with the New York Times obit. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is another hit. I think that's it? We had a slight slowdown, but then the speed until then was dizzying. The scoreboard remains relatively unchanged as the really big and young uniques have been missing. Cpt. Chorizo manages to extend his lead because Rush Limbaugh was his joker, same choice as the oldlady. Too safe, too sound? We will see... Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 647 2 JoeyRuss 549 3 Salmon Mousse 518 4 Banana 462 5 An Fear Beag 456 6 Death Impends 403 7 gcreptile 383 8 Book 372 9 drol 365 10 msc 364 11 theoldlady 340 12 Wormfarmer 307 13 Lynchian 285 14 The Unknown Man 265 15 Annami 257 16 DevonDeathTrip 255 17 Joe Moneypenny 222 18 The Quim Reaper 215 19 Kenny 202 20 The Old Crem 187 21 chilean way 167 21 The Daredevil 167 23 Yorkshire Banker 160 24 Etushipushingupdaisies 152 25 markb4 135 25 mr.whit 135 27 Sean 134 28 Baby Blue 112 29 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 104 30 Charles De Gaulle 98 31 Bibliogryphon 93 32 Gooseberry Crumble 75 33 Toast 53 34 etib80 33 34 Guyfromfuture 33

I guess every weekend edition of a newspaper is a possibility. An intriguing race against time.

Oh yeah, we track them Simon Wiesenthal-style.

We have a full name: Irmgard Furchner. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/kz-stutthof-ehemalige-schreibkraft-soll-vor-gericht-gestellt-werden-a-abcdbdc2-7e0a-4719-b9db-be5be77a872f

Aruká, last male member of the Brazilian Juma tribe, dies of Covid at age 86-90: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56161446 Another success for Bolsonaro's genocide-by-pandemic.

Well, I do think that he is a "spent" person, there's no substance left for him to get it together. And a further decline of his life after his professional career is inevitable, like Boris Becker here in Germany, or Björn Borg, or Matti Nykänen. The open question to me is whether he is going to appear on Reality TV within the next 10 years.

Edit: Ah fuck, already picked... Err... Bob Newhart