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Duterte has "perpetual pain but is not seriously ill": https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/08/23/1845113/duterte-im-perpetual-pain-not-seriously-ill He had a motorcycle accident years ago and his doctor told him "to get used to his body" so that he doesn't get addicted to painkillers. He also has migraines every day because of Buerger's disease.

Great find! But shame for the non-obit. Someone of us might write to the BBC and this time, it might actually succeed.

Daily Mail obit for Jones: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6085223/New-Zealand-born-guitarist-songwriter-Spencer-P-Jones-dies-liver-cancer.html

This is all still so very diffuse... I mean, last year King Michael died in December - so it's far, far too early to say how it's going to end. The joker dud and the non obits really work against DI, but... maybe Marieke changes her mind... or Johnny Clegg goes down fast (the farewell tour has ended, I saw no update?). I would somewhat agree with DI that the lead isn't going to last long - because some things should still happen as the year goes on - but before the flop, a pair of two's is as good as a king and an ace.

Today pretty much convinced me not to continue this for next year. I mean, I will keep the numbers for myself, after all, my longlist works that way. But intuition and experience needs to work together with statistics. You can't rely on one of them alone. Apart from this year's dependence on Marieke Vervoort's mood, I especially cannot justify not having had Pity Da Foolz in the Top 20 recently. Of course, someone else may open another "meta"-DDP-thread.

Ah, but Pity Da Foolz with the joker of Stefan Karl.... The lead is just a nonagenarian in a care home away... Exciting for a neutral

I really wonder why I picked Stefan Karl at #2 here, but not in the Poker game at all...

That was a bit sudden. I had been shown a quite recent and not too bad looking picture. But yeah, at the outset of the year, I knew one out of Stefan Karl and Greg Gilbert would die. It was obvious pretty soon who's it going to be.

Ah, 3rd hit for my Generation Game team this month - if a QO comes up. But between early 2016 and mid-2018 there was no news on him. At least I couldn't find them.

Read the news about Asia Argento and had to think of this:

Out and about: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1005442/Prince-Philip-health-latest-queen-balmoral-scotland-pictures An insider says he's "fit as a fiddle".

Australian transgender performer Carlotta has bladder cancer, but it was diagnosed early, yet I have a feeling... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6079095/It-terrified-tripe-Trangender-showgirl-Carlotta-74-overcomes-cancer.html

Oh no...they she should check out that house...

The health of president of Lebanon, Michel Aoun, is declining. https://gulfnews.com/news/mena/lebanon/aoun-s-deteriorating-health-sparks-succession-rumours-in-lebanon-1.2265356 He suffered a stroke in 2013, tripped in 2017, recently confused some words, "only works around two hours a day", and "has suffered from various illnesses since his youth days".

Kenny Rogers "quietly" sold his Atlanta mansion earlier this year: https://www.wideopencountry.com/kenny-rogers-house-atlanta-mansion/

Aren't we all a little deathist?

First "Mr. Germany", Steffen Hombaum, dead of cancer at 48: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/steffen-hombaum-erster-mister-germany-stirbt-mit-48-56736140.bild.html

So a ball kicked the ball..

An update: Laura Barry who is a huge hit for DI, Charlotte Rae, Aretha Franklin, Vajpayee for some teams places 20-30 I have in my list, Jarrod Lyle - wow, picked by "People I think might die in 2018 united", Mary Carlisle, Oliver Dragojevic (B-Teams), Lietzke, Paul Madeley... Wow, actually quite a few hits... I also reduced the obitability of Shalom Ouanounou and Lindy Remigino to 25% (from 50% and 60%). The Taquisha McKitty case is still going on, but it was a bit disappointing that the well-timed death of Jahi McMath didn't result in some encompassing "How do we define death" - article. Lindy Remigino has no ongoing story, but I just can't quite accept that the fastest man of the world, at one point, doesn'T yet get an obit, maybe even at the end of the year. 1. Bucket of Blood 166,66 +1 2. Day in the Death 166,14 -1 3. Thomas Jefferson Survives 163,55 +6 4. Deceased Hose 158,94 --- 5. Dead Ends 156,93 --- 6. The Love Boat 155,86 -3 7. Drollercoaster 154,7 -1 8. Still Life 152,83 -1 9. Dead Wait 152,64 +2 10. Ethnic Cleansing 151,73 -2 11. To Kill a Gabor Sister 151,38 -1 12. Wormer, he's a dead man! etc... 147,94 --- 13. Poochie Died on the Way back to his Home Planet 147,5 --- 14. Pan Breed 147,3 +1 15. Heading Nowhere 147,09 +1 16. The Living End 145,33 -2 17. GUN I 145,19 --- 18. GUN II 145,1 --- 19. The Blight House 144,74 --- 20. Shaun of the Dead 69 141,8 --- (....) 20 Hits no Problem 118,38 New record position for DI whose bad luck at the beginning of the year has been compensated with several positive developments. Bucket of Blood is now the new leader because of Charlotte Rae. I have seen people declaring Ethin Cleansing a favourite, but as the year is soon 2/3rds over and Leah Bracknell is still alive, it's not happening here.

So he has survived two of his successors now...

It does sound a little like the 5th stage of grief.

New world tour: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/singer-petula-clark-go-new-13097847

Australian bodybuilder Calum von Moger has been hospitalised with "a stomach bug": https://generationiron.com/calum-von-moger-has-been-hospitalized-once-again/ It follows a string of health problems in 2017 and 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_Von_Moger Rich Piana's death anniversary is on August 25th by the way... see higher in this thread.

Former Iowa Representative Leonard Boswell will be dead in 5,..4,...3,... https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/17/leonard-boswell-iowa-democrat-congress-hospitalized-and-gravely-ill/1022959002/

I would guess she never was a drug user. She was always very calculating.