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Terry Lubbock has terminal prostate cancer: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-man-found-dead-michael-23471959?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I just read that the production of Bitcoins demands as much electricity as Norway. Something is seriously wrong with us as a species. Such an economic waste, the sole purpose is to get money out of nothing. And so indicative of every economic bubble, i.e. pricing goods according to speculation but without an economic need. Regular currencies are backed by the economic power of their countries, but Bitcoin? Probably powered by its purchasing power, too, which is not countries, but in the end, illegal businesses.

Well, well, well, the hits keep on coming faster than I can update. First, msc gets a belated unique hit with Dovid Soloveitchik, forgot about that, sorry! And then, who else, Susan Bayh, Leon Spinks, Karen Lewis - oh and then, Jean-Claude Carriere, a unique hit for Yorkshire Banker (here and in the DDP, well done). And Ron Wright. Ironically, Diana Ross has been picked, but not Mary Wilson. Neither was George Shultz picked. So I guess, it could have been even more. The scoreboard impresses with me with the lockstep advances of the top. Places 1-4 unchanged: Edit: Oh yeah, and everyone is now in the race. Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 467 2 JoeyRuss 450 3 An Fear Beag 357 4 Salmon Mousse 348 5 Banana 333 6 Death Impends 274 7 Book 273 8 drol 266 9 Wormfarmer 256 10 gcreptile 254 11 msc 235 12 theoldlady 219 13 Lynchian 204 14 The Unknown Man 195 15 Annami 176 16 Joe Moneypenny 171 17 DevonDeathTrip 126 18 The Old Crem 106 19 Kenny 103 20 chilean way 86 20 The Daredevil 86 20 The Quim Reaper 86 23 markb4 84 23 mr.whit 84 25 Baby Blue 82 26 Gooseberry Crumble 75 27 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 53 27 Etushipushingupdaisies 53 27 Toast 53 27 Sean 53 31 Charles De Gaulle 47 32 Bibliogryphon 42 33 etib80 33 33 Guyfromfuture 33 35 Yorkshire Banker 31

Ahem, maybe Ezra Nawi is a candidate.... Senator David Norris?

It's the Guardian "Other Lives" section. Which is where you can submit your own obituaries (as in you are the author, not the dead person). The Guardian publishes it if the person is interesting enough.

Okay, I had to check because of Jean-Claude Carriere, but you have a point. The rules only say that the news section of Yahoo counts, not the Eurosport and finance sites. Irrelevant for Josh Evans, as mentioned. ... and now... okay, I thought Carriere only had a yahoo finance mention, but no, he already has this: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jean-claude-carriere-oscar-winning-234131804.html And honestly, I think yahoo works in the way that once you see it on one of their sections, you see it on all of them. I mean, why should Carriere get a Sports or finance obit? And while I only saw the international link of that obit in Google news, I was able to just add the "uk." bit to the URL and voilà... So practically, once it's anywhere on Yahoo, it's everywhere. Edit: Yeah, works just as well for Josh Evans: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/josh-evans-titans-tackle-2000-213627734.html

Helma Kisser, is actually Helma Kissner, or Helma Maaß. She lived in a retirement home in Neumünster at least until 2017. Was "acutely ill" at one point and so, unfit for trial. But recovered after that.

Helmut Oberlander in the news today, deportation trial in Canada delayed: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/helmut-oberlander-ex-nazi-interpreter-deportation-hearing-1.5905284

German Wikipedia has Hans Sommer dying in Brescia, Italy, in 1987. The move to Brescia is confirmed in this book: https://books.google.de/books?id=oyDSxlfCq4EC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=hans+sommer+brescia&source=bl&ots=IVVJkK_v8N&sig=ACfU3U19B4qe0qjjjJuBkTpV30LG7Vgm9A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOrsXundvuAhWR8uAKHWnMC3MQ6AEwEHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=hans sommer brescia&f=false

Also being charged right now, a 100-year old former guard at Sachsenhausen, yet unnamed as far as I can tell: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-nazis/german-prosecutors-charge-100-year-old-former-concentration-camp-guard-idUSKBN2A823W

"Funny" how those eternal glioblastoma sufferers Bayh and Lewis died within a week of each other. While Bayh became a more and more popular hit, Karen Lewis got forgotten, at least in the DDP.

Yeah, didn't get around to post this in the last week. She lives in a retirement home now. I really don't know how to feel about this.

I guess there is something real about getting a fecal transplant of Tom Brady.

"Unexpected"? That depends on what you expected, I'd say. Still unnatural, though.

Jacques Delors, pretty soon.

I bought Disco Elysium a couple of weeks ago at a GOG sale, and finished it today. RPG / Adventure game right up my alley. Lots of political-philosophic talk, neat skill system, weird sense of humour. Doesn't overstay its welcome. I also started the Outer Worlds a couple of months ago, but with these bigger open world games (even though it's not THAT open) , you know how it is, things always come up, and you end up taking breaks. It's slightly underwhelming in that I usually expect the absolute best of that company(Obsidian). And the game is "only" good. A notable drop in quality if you compare it to Fallout 4, which I've been playing here and there in the past half year.

It wasn't a joke. Good call by the committee.

I simply forgot about carrying over Spinks. My first real miss, I'd say. I keep the lead but Banana comes close again.

Major upheaval of the scoreboard. All the balls are shuffled in the box, or something.... Jackie Treehorn comes out on top. Depending on what time exactly the QO articles appeared, GUN's K2 theme team might have virtually lead for a few hours between the QO of Skatov and the QO of Susan Bayh.

I had no idea, this was such an epic undertaking. Anyway, there's potential for more: https://explorersweb.com/2021/02/05/k2-many-sst-climbers-not-yet-in-base-camp/ Antonis Sykaris, for example, "exhausted and frostbitten" with 3rd degree burns.

You guys and girls managed to pick them well. We've got it all covered. Christopher Plummer is a unique hit for Baby Blue. Josh Evans is a unique hit for Joey Russ. Mike Henry is a unique hit for Gooseberry Crumble. Hal Holbrook as written above was picked twice, and the Captain Tom Moore was picked quite a lot. That's five hits in a week! The new scoreboard shows Joey making the biggest jump, but it's not quite enough to surpass Cpt. Chorizo. Josh Evans is also an example of someone I picked for the DDP but not in here, so you know, at some point in late December, I decided to say "Fuck it, let's pick him". But I hadn't arrived at that point for this competition. Rank Team Score 1 Cpt. Chorizo 302 2 JoeyRuss 285 3 An Fear Beag 245 4 Salmon Mousse 236 5 Wormfarmer 203 6 gcreptile 201 7 Banana 168 8 Death Impends 162 9 Book 161 9 msc 161 11 drol 154 12 DevonDeathTrip 126 13 Annami 123 14 theoldlady 107 15 Lynchian 92 16 markb4 84 16 mr.whit 84 18 The Unknown Man 83 19 Gooseberry Crumble 75 20 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 53 20 The Old Crem 53 22 Kenny 50 23 Charles De Gaulle 47 24 Bibliogryphon 42 25 chilean way 33 25 etib80 33 25 Guyfromfuture 33 25 The Daredevil 33 25 The Quim Reaper 33 30 Baby Blue 29 31 Yorkshire Banker 0 31 Joe Moneypenny 0 31 Etushipushingupdaisies 0 31 Toast 0 31 Sean 0

A bit silly of me not to put Evans in the main team. With hindsight, but also from the outset, picking him was less risky and more rewarding than Ezra Nawi (who would now need the Pete Felton-like indirect fluke obit).

If you believe, Captain Tom showed us that healthcare doesn't need to be paid with taxes, but can instead rely on private benefactors. All capitalists agree. By the way, how is my dear "I want to work with terminal cancer" MBE Jacci Woodcock doing? (Probably about to die because I dropped her from all my teams)

We need to clone him, we need to put his corpse into Gunther Von Hagen's exhibition.

To reiterate a theory of mine, perhaps Betty made it onto the list because the committee always makes sure there is the obligatory homo on there. After all, somebody had to replace Pierre Cardin.