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A bit sad for the Babs and Paul team, but it seems that Paul Vachon doesn't score. 1st sub goes in.

If you must, https://uk.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/paul-butcher-vachon-passes-away-020008623.html But I guess Mirror or Sun will follow up.

I think he's worse than it seemed at first: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/king-harald-v-hospital-evacuation-32247306

Okay, you have a point. It happened two years ago. And highest loser Bibliogryphon submitted a team, losers no. 2 and 3, Yorkshire Banker and LizLemon didn't. Alright @Bibliogryphon, you're back in the game. But against whom? Annami is heads, Cpt. Hemlock is tails: It's tails..... Annami still gets a bye. Cpt. Hemlock is against Biblio.

Wasn't there a month last year when diego was the only to not pick Jimmy Carter - and he was right? I think I'm worried about him.... Carter, not diego.

State college assistant coach, but also highly decorated player Taken from google ("Sean Wallace NFL") Wallace was highly decorated as a player, earning two-time All SWAC, SWAC Defensive Player of the Year, Bayou Classic MVP, two-time Sheridan Black College All American, Walter Camp All American, and Kodak All American. In 2011, he was elected to the Southern University Football Hall of Fame. He also was in the NFL, though only for one, presumably not very outstanding year.

An MBE even, missed opportunity on here, it seems.

Round 2: AltObitsGuy vs theoldlady 1 Frank Caprio 1 Jimmy Carter — Joker 2 Sven-Goran Eriksson 2 David Irving 3 Joe Flaherty 3 Craig Maxwell 4 Jimmy Carter 4 Sven-Olav Sållstrom 5 Sudarshan Maharaj 5 Frank Caprio 6 Kristoffer Olsson 6 Noam Chomsky 7 Esther Rantzen 7 Cesar Luis Menotti 8 David H. Rosen 8 Esther Rantzen 9 Sean Wallace - joker 9 Steve “Mongo” McMichael 10 Dylan Willows 10 Michael Tilson Thomas 11 Jamal Yunos 11 Denis Law Sub: Sub: 1 1 Sonny Rollins 2 Steve McMichael 2 Nigel Starmer-Smith 3 3 Sly Stone Perhaps vs The Killing Time 1 Steve McMichael 1 Alexander Mitta 2 Kaiti Grey (joker) 2 Black Bart Harris 3 Susana Baca 3 Ethel Caterham 4 Mahathir Mohamad 4 Ivan Krasko 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 Isabella Dryden 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Jamal Yunos 7 Joe Flaherty 7 Jean Marie Le Pen 8 Nigel Starmer-Smith 8 Jimmy Carter (joker) 9 Dylan Willows (Aus radio host) 9 Jiřina Bohdalová 10 Kristoffer Olsson 10 Marianne Bernadotte 11 J. R. P. Suriyapperuma 11 Nigel Starmer Smith Sub: Sub: 1 Thomas P. Stafford 1 Lloyd Geering 2 Charlie Bird 2 Queen Ratna 3 Harald V 3 Willie Mays Spade_Cooley vs GuyFromFuture 1 Joe Flaherty (captain) 1 Alice Munro 2 Eric Dornfield 2 Brenda Milner 3 Robert Mailman 3 Vidya Stokes 4 Dylan Willows 4 Eleanor Collins 5 5 Frank Caprio 6 Kristoffer Olsson 6 Jamal Yunos 7 Susana Baca 7 Jimmy Carter 8 Sujata Azim 8 Richard Rohmer---joker 9 David Irving 9 Selim Hoss 10 Steve McMichael 10 Sonja de Lennart 11 Johnny Hardwick 11 Wayne Eddy Sub: Sub: 1 Chuwit Kamolvisit 1 2 Jimmy Carter 2 Silvia Pinal 3 3 Terry Jon Martin Hell vs Famous6eva 1 Sven-Göran Eriksson 1 Du Daozheng 2 Steve McCoy - joker 2 Eleonora Giorgi 3 Wayne Eddy 3 Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin 4 Jamal Yunos 4 Jamal Yunos 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 Jimmy Carter 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Graham Caveney 7 Yaakov Moshe Hillel 7 Maria Branyas Morero 8 Susana Baca 8 Raphaël Géminiani 9 Steve McMichael 9 Selma van de Perre 10 Vittorio Cecchi Gori 10 Stenio Garcia 11 Sujata 11 Steve McCoy (joker) Sub: Sub: 1 Sven-Göran Eriksson 1 Graham Caveney 2 James Whale 2 Erik Jensen 3 Charlie Bird 3 Noam Chomsky Grim Up North vs Death By Arsenic 1 Michelle Harrison (Joker) 1 Wayne Eddy (joker) 2 Kristoffer Olsson 2 Antero Laukkanen 3 Jimmy Carter 3 Gaositwe Chiepe 4 David Elmore Smith 4 Geneviève Callerot 5 Steve Mongo McMichael 5 Jamal Yunos 6 Sean Wallace 6 Jimmy Carter 7 Jamal Yunos 7 Juhani Palmu 8 Wayne Eddy 8 Madeleine Riffaud 9 Juhani Palmu 9 Philippe de Gaulle 10 Frank Caprio 10 Rachid Mekhloufi 11 Mike Sertich 11 Zoya Boguslavskaya Sub: Sub: 1 Frank Field 1 Brenda Milner 2 Michael Tilson Thomas 2 James D. Watson 3 Linda Nolan 3 Chuck Grassley Cpt. Chorizo vs arghton 1 Frank Field 1 Manolis Mavrommatis (Joker) 2 Fred Lorenzen 2 Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah 3 Jamal Yunos 3 Jimmy Carter 4 Jimmy Carter (joker) 4 Yaakov Moshe Hillel 5 Juhani Palmu 5 Tin Oo 6 Lucia Alves 6 Frank Field 7 Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 7 Daniel Bisogno 8 Shigeo Nagashima 8 Len Garry 9 Steve McCoy 9 Susana Baca 10 Terry Jon Martin 10 Kristoffer Olsson 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Guy Warren Sub: Sub: 1 Zhang Lixiong 1 2 Zbigniew Ziobro 2 Steve McMichael 3 Tinto Brass 3 Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz wannamaker vs Wormfarmer 1 Yaw Sarpong - joker 1 juan vicente perez mora 2 David Irving 2 john cruickshank 3 Jimmy Carter 3 marita camacho quiros 4 Joe Flaherty 4 james c. flowers (Tuskegee) 5 Len Garry 5 kathy brown (singer) 6 Terry Jon Martin 6 wayne eddy 7 Kristoffer Olsson 7 jimmy carter (joker) 8 Wayne Eddy (KYMN) 8 sven-goran eriksson 9 Asaram Bapu 9 frank caprio 10 I-Ho Pomeroy 10 shannen doherty 11 KK Kabobo 11 esther rantzen Sub: Sub: 1 Chuwit Kamolvisit 1 2 Asad Ali Toor 2 noam chomsky 3 3 ethel caterham MariNisia vs JoeMoneypenny 1 Noam Chomsky 1 Agnes Keleti 2 Jamal Yunos 2 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 3 Jimmy Carter 3 Lois Smith 4 Joanne Woodward 4 Estelito Mendoza 5 Richard "Black Bart" Harris 5 Jamal Yunos - joker 6 Kristoffer Olsson 6 Jimmy Carter 7 Manuel Ruiz de Lopera (joker) 7 Maria da Conceição Tavares 8 Steve "Mongo" McMichael 8 Robert Kuok 9 Susana Baca 9 Rebecca Pan 10 Tom Stafford 10 Princess Mikasa 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Zhang Lixiong Sub: Sub: 1 1 Frank Field 2 Alexander Mitta 2 Stenio Garcia 3 3 Banana vs Mortal Caso 1 Andrea Marshall 1 Jimmy Carter 2 DJ Isaac Cool (joker) 2 Terry Jon Martin 3 I-Ho Pomeroy 3 Juhani Palmu *Joker* 4 Eric Dornfeld 4 Kristoffer Olsson 5 Kristoffer Olsson 5 Steve McMichael 6 Johnny Hardwick 6 Frank Caprio 7 Joe Flaherty 7 Antero Laukkanen 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Judy Loe 9 Javier Batiz 9 Joseph Fritzl 10 Sven-Goran Eriksson 10 Richard Scolyer 11 Mike Gunther 11 Maria Branyas Morero Sub: Sub: 1 Steve McMichael 1 2 Sean Wallace 2 Jamal Yunos 3 3 Annami vs sideik 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 2 Steve ”Mongo” McMichael 2 3 Frank Caprio 3 4 James Whale 4 5 Rob Burrow 5 6 Noam Chomsky 6 7 Frank Field 7 8 Shannen Doherty 8 9 Josip Manolic 9 10 Esther Rantzen 10 11 Joanne Woodward 11 Sub: Sub: 1 Maria Branyas 1 2 Linda Nolan 2 3 June Spencer 3 deadsox vs CalebH 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 1 Antonia Fraser 2 Dikembe Mutombo 2 Biljana Plavšić 3 Wayne Eddy 3 György Kurtág 4 Maria Branyas 4 Ion Iliescu 5 Steve McCoy 5 Jimmy Carter (joker) 6 Terry John Martin 6 Joaquin Orellana 7 Sean Wallace 7 Marthe Cohn 8 Juan Vicente Perez Mora 8 Noam Chomsky 9 Ethel Caterham 9 Rob Burrow 10 Steve McMichael 10 Sven-Olof Sallstrom 11 Tomiko Itooka 11 Wayne Eddy Sub: Sub: 1 1 Craig Maxwell 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Ethel Catheram 3 Frank Caprio 3 Muazzez İlmiye Çığ msc vs Therewillbedeaths7 1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 1 Sven-Goran Eriksson (Joker) 2 Simon Cowell SOS 2 Jimmy Carter 3 Michael Tilson Thomas 3 Noam Chomsky 4 Frank Caprio 4 Juhani Palmu 5 Sean Wallace 5 Mahathir Mohamad 6 Nigel Starmer Smith 6 Stênio Garcia 7 Juhani Palmu 7 Estanislao Esteban Karlic 8 JRP Suriyapperuma 8 Harald V of Norway 9 Nancy Valverde 9 Kristoffer Olsson (football) 10 Josip Manolic 10 Jim Lovell 11 Thomas Stafford 11 Charlie Bird Sub: Sub: 1 Craig Maxwell 1 Daniel J. Evans 2 Charlie Bird 2 Rob Burrow 3 Roberta Flack 3 Pope Francis DevonDeathTrip vs justonecornetto 1 Paul Harrell (joker) 1 Barbara Barrie (Joker) 2 Frank Caprio 2 Barbara Leigh-Hunt 3 Krisstoffer Olson 3 Barbara Rush 4 Jimmy Carter 4 Barbara Babcock 5 I Ho Pomeroy 5 Barbara Bain 6 Wayne Eddy 6 Barbara Clegg 7 K K Kabobo 7 Paul Auster 8 Josip Manolic 8 Paul Dooley 9 Joe Flaherty 9 Paul Willson 10 Yahya Sinwar 10 Paul Vachon Sub: Paul Spencer 11 David Irving 11 Paul Di'Anno Sub: Sub: 1 1 2 2 3 3 Sir Creep vs diego 1 Wayne Eddy 1 Rob Burrow 2 Alberth Elis 2 Ethel Kennedy 3 Noddy Holder 3 Sandy Gall 4 Josep Manolić 4 Joanne Woodward 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 Steve Mcmichael (Joker) 6 Steve McMichael (Joker) 6 Kristoffer Olsson 7 Mahathir Mohamed 7 Jimmy Carter 8 Kristoffer Olsson 8 Shannen Doherty 9 Frank Caprio 9 Erik Jensen 10 Sven-Olof Sallstrom 10 Dario G 11 Jamal Yunos 11 Sven Goran Eriksson Sub: Sub: 1 1 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat 2 2 Alexandre do Nascimento 3 3 Esther Rantzen An Fear Beag vs max bossetti 1 Wayne Eddy (Joker) 1 Paul Harrell (joker) 2 Fred Manrique (Baseball) 2 Sean Wallace 3 Juhani Palmu 3 Jamal Yunos 4 Carlos Cruz 4 Jimmy Carter 5 Jimmy Carter 5 Terry Jon Martin 6 Steve McMichael 6 Craig Cobane 7 Andrea Marshall 7 Wayne Eddie 8 Kristoffer Olsson 8 Kristoffer Olsson 9 Johnny Hardwick 9 Steve McCoy 10 Kaiti Grey 10 Tom Stafford 11 Dylan Willows 11 Sven-Olof Sällström Sub: Sub: 1 Johnny Hardwicke (Judge) 1 Noah Chomsky 2 Fausto Silva (Faustao) 2 Rob Burrow 3 Sue Chew 3 Cpt. Hemlock vs Bibliogryphon 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 1 Agnes Keleti 2 Alberth Elis 2 Nigel Starmer- Smith 3 Daniel Barenboim 3 Linda Nolan 4 Frank Field 4 William Russell 5 Joanne Woodward 5 June Spencer 6 John Okafor (Mr Ibu) 6 Jimmy Carter* 7 Noam Chomsky 7 Rob Burrow 8 Shannen Doherty 8 Ion Illiescu 9 Steve McMichael 9 Katherine, Duchess of Kent 10 Violeta Chamorro 10 Tom Brokaw 11 Vito Perillo 11 Steve McMichael Sub: Sub: 1 James Whale 1 Noam Chomsky 2 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski 2 Craig Maxwell 3 Sammy basso 3 Frank Field (Labour MP)

Aaaand...looks like John Adams didn't even matter!

Looks like we've got two no-shows, sadly. So, Cpt, Hemlock and Annami, you're already through. Before I post the match-ups, a few notes on disqualifications and allowed names, just so you know where I'm at. Disqualified: - John Adams (MND), "Awareness raisers" need a national profile according to the rules, the BBC local pages didn't cut it for me. - the mother of the Israeli hostage, well, obviously - Chelsey Reynolds: "Award winning apprentice jockey", I thought "apprentice" is more important than "award-winning", so she's not notable ..yet, so to say. Allowed: I-Ho Pomeroy: "Elected politicians at every level" are allowed as per the rules. I posted a reminder of that rule on the forum when UK councillor Jason Smith died, so I call it the "Jason Smith" rule. Craig Cobane: Probably the name I invested the most time in, and thought about the longest. It did seem to me that the position of the college and the scientific level of Mr. Cobane combined were enough, though just barely. I pretty much automatically allowed everybody with a Wikipedia page. The super-duper old are also in. Basically those who would obit, i.e. not 6th oldest North Dakotan or something.

Well, last hour running, @Sideik @The Old Crem the clock is ticking.

Tuesday 27th. So still not the 29th...

Yes - and then, he wasn't Drop 40, which would have been a real regret for not putting him into the main team.

Ah, well, I think I sniffed it out there that things weren't going well, but didn't trust myself enough.

Strongmen like strongmen, Trump really likes Putin, he loves Kim Yong-Un, he likes Jair Bolsonaro, Victor Orban and whoever else is out there. Maybe there is a differentiation to be made in that there are populist strongmen, i.e. people who act like it and don't really mean it. They love to have other populists to play against, like George Bush Jr. really liked to have a similarly aggressive foil in Mahmood Ahmadineschad of Iran. Now, some strongmen are really above playing to the audience. Putin is one, I think, but Trump isn't.

Oh dear, popular pick for March, the musician Cat Janice has died. She was an American musician who wasn't exactly a household name - until her advanced cancer diagnosis created a storm. At the time of her death she had 1,9 Million TikTok followers and her final song "Dance outta my head" actually entered the charts. Sad story all around - except for the two players who picked her here - max bossetti ominously scores joker points and Wormfarmer punches his ticket for the next round. livingbygrace 0-9 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-10 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 7-6 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-16 max bossetti Wormfarmer 6-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-9 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-6 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue A bit more than a day remains to enter your team for next month.

Obsessive Carter Disorder?

German pole vaulter Fabian Schulze has died at 39: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/deutscher-stabhochspringer-fabian-schulze-mit-39-jahren-gestorben-a-2bc62b0d-53e8-441f-a487-7bdc92a2ec45 Dead of a "nasty disease" - unsepcified. The second big tragedy in german pole vaulting in the past months, after Tim Lobinger.

Thread for your grandmother's favourite crooner, Engelbert Humperdinck. Now 85 years old. His wife passed away not too recently, and while he generally seemed to be in good health, gave interviews and such, he has now fallen seriously ill and had to cancel all of his tour: https://www.the-sun.com/uncategorized/4038747/engelbert-humperdinck-cancels-uk-tour/ Possible DeathList candidate?

End of the month - yeah, I guess that's 24 hours more.

Update for Tep Vong. He was the chief buddhist of Cambodia in the past decades, survived Pol Pot and restored the Buddhist community after the fall of the regime. He's a prime example of being the obligatory drol/arghton pick of the month - there's always one of them who scores. It doesn't change the game a lot though, as previous leaders max bossetti and Death By Arsenic now lead by a little more. livingbygrace 0-9 Therewillbedeaths7 Gooseberry Crumble 0-10 Famous6eva GuyFromFuture 6-3 Liz Lemon Caleb H 7-6 Bibliogryphon Dying Probably 0-10 max bossetti Wormfarmer 3-0 Thatcher Yorkshire Banker 3-9 DeathByArsenic The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto GreatUncleBulgaria 0-6 Mortal Caso theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue The clock is ticking, you have a little more than 50 hours to submit your teams for march.

"Cult" singer-songwriter Bill Fay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fay https://www.theguardian.com/m/2024/feb/22/cult-singer-songwriter-bill-fay-i-didnt-leave-the-music-business-the-music-business-left-me He gives his last interview as the Parkinson's disease "has really kicked in".

German satire magazine Titanic does a bit of deadpooling: https://www.titanic-magazin.de/briefe/2024/maerz/ ("Dir, Tod,") In 2010, after Bärbel Bohley and Claude Chabrol died one day after another, they speculated which alliterative name is going to die next, so they thought about Dieter Dehm, Erhard Eppler, and Frank Farian. Two of those three are dead now, so they think that A lives, B+C dies, D lives, E+F dies, etc.... So their next names on the list are Gundula Gause, Hansi Hinterseer and Ida Immendorff. Presumably, German evening news frontwoman Gundula Gause will then survive even though she fainted on camera not too long ago. Bavarian Schlager-Star Hansi Hinterseer would then die soon, and "model" / socialite Ida Immendorff would die, too. At 22 years of age, that would be pretty spectacular.

Alright, coin flip simulator: https://flipsimu.com/ The Immortal 0-0 justonecornetto theoldlady 0-0 Baby Blue The Immortal and theoldlady are heads, justonecornetto and Baby Blue are tails. Best of 5 mode. The Immortal vs. justonecornetto: 2-3 theoldlady vs. Baby Blue: 3-2 So, if the scores remain 0-0, @justonecornetto and @theoldlady will advance.

Borussia Mönchengladbach loses two Club legends, Danish champion Ulrik Le Fevre and German midfielder Friedhelm Frontzeck. Le Fevre contributed to two national championships during the club's 70s imperial phase. The first of quite a few danish imports. Frontzeck won the national Cup with them in 1960 and is the father of player/coach Michael Frontzeck: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/fussball-bundesliga-moenchengladbach-trauert-um-ulrik-le-fevre-und-friedhelm-frontzeck-a-97441865-f8f9-4085-836a-973d159157be