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Time for the follow-up: "Brexxx-tension to the maxxx"

Perfect candidate for msc's non-obit theme team, Toby Dawson, former football player at Ely City, has inoperable stage iv stomach cancer and a wish to meet Paul Pogba: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/paul-pogba-toby-dawson-cancer-17151457

Hm, the lungs are slowly failing...in the end, people have to die of something. Still, Joao Havelange lasted more than a year with those repeated lung issues. But the commitee might consider Arap Moi, if he makes it.

Kaoru Yachigusa has died: https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2019102800926/japanese-actress-kaoru-yachigusa-dies-at-88.html And with that, probably, my idea of a pancreatic cancer theme team, as I am now below 20 again.

To close that embarassing chapter, David Granger is in remission: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/article/20191025/ARTICLE/191029826

Some news on Hawaiian princess Abigail Kawananakoa: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7615653/Native-Hawaiian-heiress-faces-court-test-control-millions.html I consider making her my new deadpooling mascot.

They now say that Nawaz Sharif had a minor heart attack: https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-ex-pm-sharif-suffers-minor-heart-attack-145927159.html

The man himself tweets that it's him who is "extremely unwell": https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/music/extremely-unwell-elton-john-postpones-dates-for-farewell-tour/wcm/585320f7-014f-42c5-961b-37a8d79bf23f

So they carried him back from hospital to let him die in the cell? I guess, it was not undeserved.

I forgot to post it, but his mother-in-law died last week. Toast might have a good hunch and maybe it's related to David Furnish. Edit: Ah, the article mentioned that death.

I though he had his own thread. ...could it be true this time? Killed by the US while they're leaving the country? Maybe it happened some months ago? Wait and see...

Ah.. completely forgot about the name. I remember we were unsure about the QO.

Update time - only three hits, but Leah Bracknell and Marieke Vervoort are massive ones. Third hit was Scotty Bowers. Julie Gibson, sadly, does not seem to have received a QO for this pool. Plus, I forgot to give Grim Up North joker points for Fernando Ricksen - so he gets a big push here, that should have happened the last time: Rank Team name Points 1 Death Impends 1439 2 Clorox Bleachman 1425 3 Joey Russ 1277 4 Banana 1233 5 GCReptile 1229 6 Phantom of the Midway 1205 7 Cpt Chorizo 1152 8 Grim Up North 1147 9 Skinny Kiltrunner 1044 10 Devon Death Trip 990 11 drol 975 12 msc 925 13 Sir Creep 867 14 Book 771 15 John Key 665 16 The Unknown Man 640 17 The Quim Reaper 567 18 Prophet 566 19 YoungWillz 542 20 Grave Danger 532 21 Yorkshire Banker 450 22 The mad hatter 405 23 Fixed Business 401 24 theoldlady 386 25 The old crem 334 26 Deathray 314 27 Pedro 67 295 28 markb4 280 29 Gooseberry Crumble 279 30 Bibliogryphon 260 Some had both Leah and Marieke, some had only one, some had none. DI only had one, Clorox had both, and so the race is suddenly VERY close now. I was thinking about waiting some for John Andretti's expected demise, but both DI and Clorox have him. It does look like the race is now definitely down to those two.

Inspirational Indian yoga teacher for generations, V Nanammal, dead at 99: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50194850 Edit: She was known as "Yoga Grandma".

October 24th, was a remarkably dull day. 2 of 4 names are rednames.

Bruno Pollutri hangs himself after getting to ill to work in his restaurant: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7612899/Restaurant-boss-55-hanged-ill-health-forced-business.html His restaurant was the best rated in Manchester, right next to Etihad Stadium and "beloved" by the fans.

LA Times interview with Genesis P-Orridge: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-10-23/genesis-p-orridge-pandrogeny-transgender-throbbing-gristle

So I was wondering... we apparently haven't had a hit in this pool so far, but has there been any eligible person yet? And I think Elijah Cummings is the only one. Or anyone else, apart from random car crash victim in the right age bracket?

Beauty blogger Jayda McCann dead from rare cancer at 24: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50182045

More Home and Away terminal illnesses: Joel McIlroy is charged with assault but he says it's because of his Huntington's disease: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7604863/Ex-Home-Away-star-46-revealed-DYING-charged-bashing-cop.html

First I thought I had drawn a crappy deck, with no Aces, for example. But actually, because my deck is very clumped in a few types, this bonus accumulation will increase in intensity. For example, if I get a hit with Chris Doleman now, who is a 9, I get another pair of nines, and all the bonuses I already got through the 7s and Js through Marieke, plus another pair of nines, and a triple 9 - but yes, also a full house of 9s and Js, and actually TWO full houses with the 9s and 7s, one is two 7s and 3 9s, and one is three 7s and 2 9s. I will then have three 7s and three 9s...which means, actually.... it would be two DIFFERENT full houses of three 7s and two 9s (because with three 9s there are two possibilities of two 9s), and then two DIFFERENT full houses of two 7s and three 9s. So yeah, Chris Doleman results in.... five (?) full houses. Well... total mayhem would come if I had a chance to get 4 of a kind, but the Randy Romero non-obit killed that.

One of my highest-rated candidates on my longlist (until a couple of days ago) was Peter Tobin, supposedly terminally ill, and very frail. Well, he's still alive half a year after those articles and even got a transgender significant other since then, if the press it to be believed. Anyway...convicts...you just can't trust them. They DO die, see Catherine Nevin and Angus Sinclair, but it takes them much longer than they or the press would have you believe.

Next weekend, I think.

I picked Vervoort here and still climbed 7 places.

Now that Marieke is dead, we could close the thread.