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Probably yes. In that category "biggest lifespan of either spouse". 1843-2020 Anna Nicole Smith also had this huge age difference, but of course, she died very early herself.

One of the big decisions for the new teams was on picking Irish campaigner Vicky Phelan or not. She's now going to spend the next 6 months in the USA, on "alternative treatment", the alternative would be palliative care: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/vicky-phelan-going-to-us-for-months-of-experimental-cancer-treatment-1.4454345 She says she has about 10 tumours in her body. Her immunotherapy worked pretty well for 3 years, but not perfectly, so some tumours shrunk some didn't. She's hoping for an additional 2-3 good years. And in about 2 months she will see the first effects, or not.

Maybe he had some blockage.

Hardcore leftist activist in Israel. Also the partner of some Irish politician. A slight obit risk. But yes, picked by a few people here and there.

That is the difference between an immortal wannabe like Tommy Lasorda, and a real one.

Kveta Eretova, a Czech female chess championship winner has died at 94: https://www.chess.cz/zemrela-kveta-eretova/ Czech mate! (Yes, that joke is also in her DDP biography, because she has been picked this year, IIRC.)

This year however, I think he's a very good pick. Main team worthy even.

Quoting this, because it's also self-serving.

Hello Everyone, as the 2019 season is coming to a close and two contestants are trying to have that lucky shot at the end of the current competition, let us take a look forward and announce the 2020 version of the Death By Numbers deadpool. Initially designed by Shaun of the Dead / Sean, then hosted by RadGuy / Phantom of the Midway, then taken over by me, this is where you can all the names you didn't quite have the space for in your other teams - because this is where you have to enter 50 names for a complete team. The general rules: Send me 50 main team names by pm or just post them in this thread, if you want, from Dec 1st until Dec 31st 2019, 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: A little change from last year - just give them in the normal "First name", "Last name" format You don't need to number them before! No birthdays anymore! And only note their claim to fame if there might be confusion, for example: Kamala Harris (wrestler) Kamala Harris (US senator) My intent is to be able to just enter the submission into excel and connect them with my database. The rest should follow. 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, 2020, 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, a court case, or fundraising that might affect other people. 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 in whatever form will convince me. Just as an example: Criscilla Anderson - no! Jose Santa Cruz - no! Litsa Menounos - no! Roberta McCain - okay - she has a WIkipedia page, too. Small addition: "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? Anyway, I will allow them. Substitution phase: On the 1st of July 2020 GMT you may switch 5 old people for 5 new ones for whom all the above rules also apply. When is a hit a hit: If the person permanently dies in 2020 (GMT!) and their death gets noticed in written form by qualifying media outlets within 2020 or the first seven days of 2021. The qualifying media outlets, i.e. QO rules are as such: Everything accepted by the Derby Dead Pool 2020 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. I will submit a bit later than last year, but then I want to avoid last year's situation, where 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 a change over 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 (this year: 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 an unqualifying name with one of your substitutions. 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!

Congratulations to Perhaps! And Sean! A hit ahead of the rest.

Alright, get ready for a first scoreboard... Now, all the names are not yet in my long-term memory, so I hope not to miss anyone. But it seems to me that so far, we've had "The DDP triple", i.e. Floyd Little, Michael McKevitt, Paul Westphal. Plus, we've had two unique hits: that cleric picked by DDT, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, plus Gerry Marsden, a unique hit for Bibliogryphon. However, only one person scores joker points, and that is An Fear Beag for Floyd Little, so he's the first leader of the scoreboard: Rank Team Score 1 An Fear Beag 183 2 gcreptile 141 2 Salmon Mousse 141 2 msc 141 2 Banana 141 6 DevonDeathTrip 126 7 Book 92 7 drol 92 7 Wormfarmer 92 7 JoeyRuss 92 7 Cpt. Chorizo 92 7 Death Impends 92 7 Lynchian 92 14 The Unknown Man 50 14 Kenny 50 16 theoldlady 49 17 Bibliogryphon 42 18 markb4 0 18 chilean way 0 18 Charles De Gaulle 0 18 Yorkshire Banker 0 18 Joe Moneypenny 0 18 etib80 0 18 Grand Uncle Bulgaria 0 18 Gooseberry Crumble 0 18 Etushipushingupdaisies 0 18 Toast 0 18 mr.whit 0 18 The Old Crem 0 18 Guyfromfuture 0 18 The Daredevil 0 18 Annami 0 18 Baby Blue 0 18 Sean 0 18 The Quim Reaper 0 If I forgot anything, tell me. The committee is busy with setting up the DDP, but I can always add scores here.

Congratulations Maryport! I'm impressed by your continuous winning of this pool.

Alright everyone, time for the final update of the competition. New hits: Pierre Cardin, and Ronnie Atkins MP. Also, I think when Pedro picked "Sen. Mike Andrew" he was actually meaning "Sen. Mark Andrews", the US senator who got a NYT obit but not a QO for the DDP. So it's another hit for him. Plus, Tom Belso received the very late year-end obit, and it's pretty significant in that Banana snatches a place on the podium away from me at the last second by a single point! Still, in the end, the top remains unchanged and Death Impends wins the competition by a hair's breadth. Congratulations Death Impends! Thanks everyone for playing! Rank Team Score 1 Death Impends 1246 2 Joey Russ 1244 3 Banana 1166 4 gcreptile 1165 5 msc 1151 6 Cpt. Chorizo 1122 7 Clorox Bleachman 1036 8 JiroemonKimura 1015 9 drol 996 10 Deadsox 992 11 Book 989 12 John Key 929 13 DevonDeathTrip 919 14 RadGuy 912 15 The Unknown Man 903 16 The Quim Reaper 894 17 Sean 870 17 Torva Messor 870 19 Skinny Kiltrunner 840 20 Etushispushingupdaisies 744 21 theoldlady 726 22 Toast 709 23 The Mad Hatter 687 24 The Old Crem 628 25 Sir Creep 594 26 Kenny 563 27 Grave Danger 550 28 Great Uncle Bulgaria 461 29 YoungWillz 448 30 Chilean Way 446 31 markb4 425 32 Gooseberry Crumble 354 33 Pedro67 317 34 ThePrematureBurial 313 35 Bibliogryphon 232 Edit: Okay, the obligatory "how was the competition...." Well, the beginning, as is usual, was a free for all, with several different people in the lead. Yet, Death Impends was already prominent from mid-February on. My luck of obits with Martino Sclavi and Rory Gilsenan soon ran out, and with the non-obit of Ed Genson I lost contact to the top while Death Impends kept scoring steadily - not always the super young people, but dead is dead. Though the one pick that stands apart is Ronald Shurer, a name I know she is particularly proud of picking, and who actually managed to open up the lead that lasted until the end of the year. But while the distance kept growing until mid-year, it then reversed back because of a couple of clever picks by Joey Russ who slowly crept up the scoreboard. It was his joker pick of Pat Smullen who turned it into a race - and those joker points had almost been crucial. Yoo Sang-Chul, Lee Noble and Tom Smith didn't score, Pat Smullen did. Still, Death Impends ends the year with the most hits, and without the joker hit. So she rightly recaptured the trophy after having lead for about 8 months this year. Below the very top we also see the strong podium finish by Banana, who fought RadGuy, Joey, msc and then finally me for that spot. I am expecting him to soon reach that point where the "research vault" is big enough to regularly win several deadpools a year. Winning the big pools, i.e. 20 picks or more, and especially Alt Obits and Death By Numbers, requires a lot of research, you need the 2-3 hits you carry over from people picked in the past. Banana might now be at the point where a win here and there is a good possibility. The nerve and talent is obviously there. Joey might have just arrived at that point last year, winning Alt Obits and missing out here by measly two points. So congratulations on that progress! I expect more from now on ;).

Gooseberry Crumble obviously has a connection to the powers behind the veil. He can communicate with the powers beyond our understanding.

We should have enough bad experiences with those jokered "first year cancers" now, especially since Leah Bracknell, also see: Chris Doleman. Life expectancy with glioblastoma in a young man might exceed those roughly "year and a half". Now, the difference here is that it's inoperable, which usually shortens life span by a lot. But I can say that for me, at least, jokering him was too risky. Tessa Jowell, like Paul Westphal was 70 years old. Matt Cappotelli, IIRC, had a previous brain cancer fight. I'm not saying it won't kill him, but it might take quite some time until it does. Certainly not in the next few months. We should check back in June or so.

This kind of argument always seems bad to me. If you don't want to look bad - then just don't do it?

Not a name I suggested but it seems that a certain illness has put an end to her acting career: https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article230484722/Filmfest-Hamburg-Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder-Kino-Film-Margit-Carstensen.html

Ahem.... so this thread needs 2 more pages to catch up with Prince Philip, and then 2 more to catch up with Queen Elizabeth's and Richard O'Sullivan's thread. Then it's the biggest one person thread on the forum.

A woman now in critical condition after shots are fired, or so CNN says.

Too soon to say that.

Mitch McConnell has been picked for the first time this year. He might be target no. 1 or 2.

These things come down to one moment: At some point, there will be a door with armed guards in front. The rioters will not be allowed to enter. Are the guards going to shoot? Are the rioters going to risk it? Has the critical mass been reached? If so, there will be deaths.

Tommy Lasorda now finally out of hospital: https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/05/los-angeles-dodgers-tommy-lasorda-returns-home-hospitalized-heart-issues/

GWB, I assume you are a Grandma With Benefits?

How was her garden?