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Hell, cluelessness has never stopped the rest of us entering dead pools, indeed the random dart in the paper method has - according to some winners - been their chosen means of compiling a list of choices from a list of candidates. Heh, considering the randomness of the currently leading theme teams, you're probably right. Though simply choosing random names of a list and then winning would be like winning the lottery, while I'd want to win with something approaching skill. I briefly (for 15 minutes) thought about enetering a team on the last day, but then realised that googling all the MPs for info would take several hours at least.

Another oldest german is dead, Margarethe Dannheimer at 111: http://www.br.de/nachrichten/mittelfranken/inhalt/dannheimer-neuendettelsau-gestorben-100.html(link in german)

Paul McCartney is angry at John Lennon for getting shot, because it made him more famous than the rest: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sir-paul-mccartney-speaks-frustration-6006910

I didn't submit a team because I'm utterly clueless about these people, but I guess Zac Goldsmith is a prime candidate: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/05/zac-goldsmith-views-heathrow-europe-problem-david-cameron

Appears in public to an extent not seen in years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150225/Fidel-Castro-88-talks-quality-Cuban-cheese-rare-public-appearance-following-deal-restore-relations-US.html

Daily Mail update: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3150215/Kim-Richards-leans-frail-ex-Monty-Brinson-support-Fourth-July-sister-Kyle-lives-luxury-European-cruise-husband-kids.html He looks thin. On the other hand, I don't know who these people are...

For Sir Creep, Bunny Matthews, creator of Vic 'n Nat'ly, has brain cancer: http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2015/06/new_orleans_cartoon_arts_enter.html

Nick Robinson has successful surgery, will start chemotherapy now: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/30/bbc-nick-robinson-successful-op-lung-tumour Nick Robinson's cancer is "worse than feared", though the prognosis is still "good": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113745/BBC-star-Nick-Robinson-tells-courageous-efforts-return-work-election-admits-battle-not-over.html Nick Robinson is likely to step down: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11719338/BBC-lining-up-female-political-editor-to-replace-Nick-Robinson.html

Chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia, also a philantropist and health care advocate Alastair Lucas is dead at 63: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/alastair-lucas-of-goldman-sachs-australia-has-died-2015-7 He was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour late last year.

Man lights fireworks mortar from the top of his head, and dies: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-dies-after-shooting-firework-from-top-of-his-head-10367677.html

Hmm, something something Ronald Reagan/Alzheimer's/memory returns/gets same present each year.

Well, I have Tsipras in my team as a possible unique hit, for exactly that reason. Either someone from the outside might do "an Allende" or maybe an angry Greek does it. I successfully guessed that Syriza would win the elections so the first step has already been made. But I'm a little annoyed that Varoufakis has drawn a lot of the attention away from Tsipras onto himself. Now that Syriza is more than a one-man show, you cannot collapse the movement by simply killing one of them. Edit: I should add that I wouldn't pick him again. When I picked him, I was a victim of the "plausability fallacy", i.e. I thought it was more likely to happen than it actually is, simply because I could make up a fitting story. (I have this theory from Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow".) But actually, political assassinations are very, very unlikely. Edit: Looks like step two is happening right now, the Grexit. Varoufakis is going to resign and since the new finance minister is very likely going to be less flamboyant than him, the attention will now focus on Tsipras again. The whole Syriza project is now back on his lone shoulders. Just thinking.... if... someone wanted to end this whole unruly behaviour of the greek people, now would be a good time to strike....

The first half of the year (or actually the first four months only) had a terrific pace in DDP terms. But it seems that almost all candidates of the top teams still alive are unlikely to die. It looks like this group's chance of getting 100 points heavily depends on the health of Martin Crowe. If the current top teams have exhausted their potential after half the year already, maybe the winner will come out of left field.

Also, some weekend deaths get reported a little later. I noticed it's a little quieter on Saturdays and Sundays.

It's still too hot for me to post anything substantial, but today I was forced to watch Uri Geller on the TV. I wished there was something that would make him a good candidate for a deadpool team.

Hot... The last time it was this hot was years ago... Tomorrow it's going to be hotter, and very humid before the thunderstorm.

He also liked to drive his care barefoot: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2718722/Portrait-of-a-driver-Brian-Sewell.html That article from 2002 mentions his heart attack in 1994 and how Sewell thought his heart would "explode" before his car. It obviously hasn't happened yet. I get the impression that he loves to complain about himself. I have him marked as dead before 2017 with 50% likelihood, and my reasons for that are his cancer and his self-loathing. I picture him on his deathbed muttering his final words: "I was... too.....gay...." His end may come quickly if he starts to feel too much pain.

Her -alleged- drug dealer Stephen Stepho has been found dead, overdose: http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/07/02/bobbi-kristina-brown-drug-dealer-dead-steven-stepho-dies/

Israel's first ambassador to Iran (before the Islamic Revolution), Dr. Meir Ezri, is dead at 92: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197603#.VZUXzPntlBc

Theodore Weesner, whose most popular book was "The Car Thief" is dead at 79 after congestive heart failure: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/07/flint_native_acclaimed_novelis.html

Antarctic explorer (how many explorers are left in this world?) Malcolm Laird dead at 80: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/69860602/antarctic-explorer-malcolm-laird-dies-at-machu-picchu-in-peru He suffered a heart attack at his wedding anniversary holidays. It was probably the ascension to the ruins of Macchu Picchu that were too much for him.

Actually, my 87 year old neighbour (a woman) might be the oldest person I know well. In fact, I think I've never known any nonagenerian well. There was the former owner of the house we now live in, who died at 90 and our neighbour upstairs who is 93, but never leaves the flat. In fact, I've never seen her in the 4 years I live in this area, and only received some demented phone calls of her (no joke). I've never consciously seen a centenarian.

Turkish author Osman Necmi Gürmen dead at 88: http://www.todayszaman.com/arts-culture_renowned-turkish-author-osman-necmi-gurmen-passes-away-at-88_392505.html

Popular instagram blogger Jarrett Scott Page dies of unspecified health complications (HIV?) at 25/26: http://madamenoire.com/543877/jarrett-scott-page-passes-away/

I wonder if he's a prominent first victim of the heat wave... I wondered whether that might cause a couple of low hanging fruits to drop, so to say...