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Eamon Friel, BBC radio show presenter with deep musical knowledge and also a singer/songwriter in his own right, dead at 70: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-48720819

Personal best - though I have to say, when I picked him, I thought I would get second!

Her mother Jean Vanderpump also dead now: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/lisa-vanderpumps-mother-jean-died-age-84-63843761

Thanks, I thought it might be something like that, but it was too hot to check.

Obama's Kenyan grandmother Sarah hospitalized after falling ill: https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/40848-obamas-grandma-hospitalized

As a sign of how little some Americans know or care about football and/or Europe, People Magazine calls Fernando Ricksen a "danish soccer player": https://people.com/sports/fernando-ricksen-throws-party-for-daughter-from-hospice/ Edit: Too harsh? Ah well, I'm grumpy, and would exclude those who dare posting on a European forum.

Yes, well done. I think it puts you one more differential or semi-differential (Clive James) away from victory. I knew of her, but she only made it into my Top 50, not into the Top 20.

Alabama man accused of feeding his pet "attack squirrel" with meth "to keep it aggressive": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/18/alabama-man-accused-of-feeding-caged-attack-squirrel-meth

The Silver Fox of CNN

Good thread, there should be no shortage of applicable puns.

He's had a surprisingly long life considering his chain-smoking. I never put money on this conclusion though.

Ruth Morrissey, the "poor man's Vicky Phelan", first sued the government as part of the Irish cancer scandal, then she won 2,1 Million pounds. Now the government appeals the verdict even though she suffered a "serious health setback" lately: https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/ruth-morrissey-feels-powerless-as-2-1m-cancer-award-appealed-38224604.html

Hospitalized for "migraines": https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2019/06/15/Alain-Delon/2128650 He's supposedly not in danger, but the article insinuates that it could stem from heart problems.

Philomena Lynott's Times obit has probably given the game to RadGuy.

Do you watch Pokemon porn or do you fuck them in the ass yourself?

Chilean news presenter and last year's Hare's Deadpool pick for me, Javiera Suarez has died aged 36: https://www.canal9.cl/programas/noticias/2019/06/12/a-los-36-anos-fallece-javiera-suarez-tras-dura-batalla-contra-el-cancer.shtml

Next dead gay porn star: Jay Dymel, real name Julian Pereza. Dead at 27 three days after posting pictures from LA pride. http://www.towleroad.com/2019/06/jay-dymel/

Thank you, I can do it, too, though. I would use my longlist as the masterlist, and use the cell [year of birth] - 1900 as the score. Only problem is, that my longlist itself hasn't been quite up to date. Doing some work on it today.

Deneuve / Manilow

Sleezy D, Chicago Acid House pioneer, has died of liver failure at ... I don't know: https://mixmag.net/read/sleezy-d-has-died-news

Rita Moreno / Ian Holm

Small Update: New hits: Gabriele Grunewald (massive points for Cpt Chorizo and GuN!), Pat Bowlen and Franco Zeffirelli. Plus, a belated obit for Norman Dewis for Pedro. Also, I forgot to give points to Book and Clorox for Niki Lauda, AND points to Deathray for Herman Wouk - which is corrected now. Sorry, sometimes it's just too much for me to handle manually. I think I can improve the Excel table there, to make the hits count automatically, maybe next year (ahem....) ... but for now, I still find these mistakes myself, eventually. Rank Team name Points 1 Death Impends 769 2 Cpt Chorizo 764 3 Devon Death Trip 739 4 Phantom of the Midway 738 5 GCReptile 725 6 Clorox Bleachman 700 7 msc 623 8 Banana 621 9 Joey Russ 620 10 drol 571 11 Grim Up North 520 12 Skinny Kiltrunner 511 12 Sir Creep 511 14 YoungWillz 297 15 Yorkshire Banker 230 16 Prophet 209 17 Book 178 18 The mad hatter 177 19 markb4 172 20 Gooseberry Crumble 157 21 Fixed Business 151 22 Grave Danger 145 23 Pedro 67 137 24 theoldlady 134 25 Deathray 110 26 John Key 108 27 The old crem 93 28 The Unknown Man 48 29 Bibliogryphon 41 30 The Quim Reaper 33 As you can see, it's getting crowded up there. Chorizo just 5 pts behind DI, Phantom of the Midway (formerly known as RadGuy) just one point behind DDT. The real reason for the update - here are the rules for the substitution period - copy/pasted from last year. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On the day of June 30th, from 00:00GMT to 23:59GMT, you can exchange up to 5 names from your team for different names. You don't have to do 5, you can do 4, 3, 2, 1, or even make no changes at all. It is up to you. But 5 is the maximum. Your changes must be posted in this thread - not thru PM - in the 24 hour period stated above. Your changes will "go live" at 00:00 GMT July 1st. Now, for the specifics. You can not transfer out a name that died (why would you want to anyway?). You can not transfer out a name that didn't get an obit. They're stuck on your team forever. *evil laugh* You also can not change your joker for a different joker. Whoever you picked at the beginning of the year will be your joker for the next 6 months as well. So, to answer GUN's question - I've decided you can't "lose" your joker either, as in transfer them out and continue in the game without a joker. Basically, no joker changes at all. If you transfered somebody out, and it is later announced that they died in June or earlier, you don't get points even if they were technically still on your team at the time of their death. What matters is that they weren't on your team anymore at the time of their death announcement. I want all of you to provide 1 substitute when you make your post with the transfers, because if you transfer somebody in, and they are announced within 48 hours of your transfers being posted (so sometime on July 2nd GMT) to have died in June or earlier, they will be replaced on your team with your substitute. However, if it takes more than 48 hours after the posting of your transfers for their death to be announced, they will stay on your team and no substitutions will be made. You'll just not get any points. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So, post here on June 30th. I am not sure if there will be another update before that.

Thanks! Ahem, can you pleeeeaaasse add Tim Conway for me? Also, I am not sure who "Judith Carr" is. I guess it could be either Pearl Carr or Judith Kerr. I like to remember it's the latter. Edit: I also just realised I forgot to give you points for Niki Lauda in the Death By Numbers....

Wow, Book, you actually keep track of the deaths? Thanks!

Franco Zeffirelli has died at 95: https://www.iltempo.it/news-adn-kronos/2019/06/15/news/e-morto-franco-zeffirelli-1173883/