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Thanks Toast, I like it.

Things seem to have calmed down a lot. As a reminder: These will be the potential matchup's in the next round: Perhaps or theoldlady vs. GuyFromFuture or Hell DeathByArsenic or arghton vs. wannamaker or MariNisia Banana or Annami vs. CalebH or msc DevonDeathTrip or SirCreep vs. max_bossetti or Cpt. Hemlock This weekend I will delete the old private messages to prepare for the next round. Please submit your teams from Sunday on. PLEASE RESPOND IN A NEW MESSAGE. Also, I will be in Italy from the 26th to 1st of May. So I'll have to resort to writing down the names manually, or I will save the email notifications that I get with a new private message. Probably the latter. I'll try to, but I might not be readily available in these final days of April. So try to send me a team with all eventualities, for example, a 2nd joker choice in case the first one dies too soon, etc....

It is time, don't you think? However, I think this will be one of two updates, as it's getting late, but I should get something done. Let us begin with.... ah yes, Iris Apfel. The fashion designer proved, much like Baddie Winkle, that if you're old, colourful clothing makes you famous. It is something I aspire to follow. The colours shall not match and the eyes shall hurt. She was a hit for two people, including Torva Messor who also scored with Don Murray, the Oscar-nominated Hollywood actor with an extremely long career. Next one is Cpt. Hemlock's unique hit of Bill Jorgensen. Who was that.... a longtime local New York anchorman. He got a New York Times obit which might soon, i.e. next year, be the only local obit source left standing. But you know, there's an exploit for any rule. And I love New York.... Next one is astronaut Tom Stafford - popular pick because of his hospitalization in late 2023. I've written a few words on him in the Cup thread. Next up is Louis Gossett Jr., a hit for three teams. He'd been suffering from prostate cancer for a while. That, and his death, didn't keep him from appearing in four yet-to-be-released projects. He was a prolific actor, up until and seemingly even after his death. Now we get to Torva Messor's third hit in this update, postmodernist novelist John Barth. I have never read him, and he seems to write books that can be appreciated but not really liked - because they're more an experience than a story. Oh, and why not go ahead with Torva's hit number four as written above, Robert MacNeil. He was an esteemed Canadian journalist whose career really began with a bang when he accompanied John F. Kennedy during the ill-fated motorcade ride. He also worked for the BBC later on. Now, the fifth name Torva mentioned, Josip Manolic, does not seem to have received an obit yet. He got the Washington Post yesterday, but not yet the New York Times. Okay, and now that we've gone through Torva's unique hits, lets go back to Cpt. Hemlock's unique hits, specifically baseball coach and player Whitey Herzog. He was a World series champion as coach, not as player, seems to have done better there. Akebono Taro is a unique hit for ThereWillBeDeaths7. The star sumo wrestler had been suffering from ill health for many years, and it was simply a question of time when his early death would arrive. Now, in spite of their immense body weight sumo ringers don't seem to be THAT susceptible to ill health. He was quite exceptional though in his stature and his health problems. Banana scores a unique hit with college baseball trainer Pete Wilk. He had been suffering from glioblastoma and got a yahoo obit. Next we come to Joe Kinnear, hit for two teams. I read that he was an Irishman who cursed a lot - a bit redundant. The defender spent most of his career at Tottenham where he won a couple of European trophies. A managerial career followed. Then we get to Clarence "Frogman" Henry, a unique hit for Death Impends. One of those black musical pioneers you think they died in the 70s or something. Not many people are still alive who had hits in the 1950s.... Yorkshire Banker scores with Lynne Reid Banks. The childrens' and young adult author had two massive hits with "The Indian in the Cupboard" and "The L-shaped Room". Two teams score with Philippe De Gaulle, Diego and The Daredevil. The french admiral was the son of Charles De Gaulle and "keeper of the flame", because he looked so much like his father, that people thought he had to be kind of the same person - or something like that. Okay, let us remain at that. These are the publicly posted hits, and the DDP hits from now on back to 1st of April - which means, yes, the whole of March is still in need of updating. The 2nd half of this update will come later! Some patience please, it'll happen soon. Rank Team Score 1 Perhaps 611 2 Banana 594 3 Cpt. Chorizo 564 4 RadGuy 497 5 Funeralopolis 493 6 Book 483 7 wannamaker 473 8 gcreptile 466 9 Toast 449 10 msc 422 11 tracy 390 12 The Immortal 386 13 Summer in Transilvania 380 14 Pedro67 376 15 Baby Blue 375 16 Mr. Wonderful 372 17 Etushipushingupdaisies 356 18 DeathBecomesThem 345 19 Caleb H 338 20 Death Impends 335 21 MariNisia 331 22 ThereWillBeDeaths7 316 23 Salmon Mousse 309 24 The Unknown Man 293 25 Buffalo Phil 277 26 Cpt. Hemlock 276 27 The old lady 268 28 Liz Lemon 230 29 Lady Fiona 224 30 Yorkshire Banker 217 31 Charles De Gaulle 215 32 Thatcher 213 33 Bibliogryphon 203 33 An Fear Beag 203 35 The Old Crem 202 36 John Key 201 37 The Daredevil 198 38 Imelda 185 39 Diego 161 40 TQR 153 41 Wormfarmer 140 42 Predictor 134 43 Sean 128 44 Annami 120 45 Torva Messor 111 46 Sod's Law 76 47 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 47 Young Willz 73 49 arghton 67 50 Gooseberry Crumble 31 51 Hell 23 51 chileanway 23

US state Rep Donald Payne still unconscious 10 days after a heart attack: https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/17/democratic-lawmaker-is-still-unconscious/

RIP Dick...

Reddit thread with photo, him going to the gym: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/ddZxYcHrFL Building and maintaining muscle is very important at high age. I'll attempt the same.

Kate Beckinsale leaves hospital after several weeks (I must have posted it somewhere, but where???): https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/17/kate-beckinsale-finally-leaves-hospital-hints-health-issues-20663914/ "Tummy issues" but supposedly not endometriosis or a ruptured ovarian cyst that she had previously been suffering from in 2019.

Jenna Jameson divorced for a 3rd time after a relapse of alcoholism: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/stars-und-leute/porno-ikone-jenna-jameson-scheidung-nach-alkohol-rueckfall-661f6825373a356eb220e238 https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/16/jenna-jameson-wife-jessi-lawless-files-divorce-year-marriage/

Conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi shows up in good health at a concert: https://slippedisc.com/2024/04/a-rare-concert-sighting-of-christoph-von-dohnanyi/ He's 94 years old now and must have recovered well from that health crisis a couple of years ago - also mentioned in the article.

Chris de Burgh "is happy if he gets to live another day" according to Germany's BILD: https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/chris-de-burgh-bin-schon-froh-wenn-ich-morgen-noch-am-leben-bin-87858114.bildMobile.html But actually, he seems to be doing quite well at now 75.

Dozing off at court: https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/15/what-trump-is-doing-in-the-courtroom/ There might be a non-zero chance that this trial, which, in the grand scheme of things, is the least of all the possible crimes that he might face trial for, is the one that brings him down. Would be fitting though - the hush money to a pornstar story... This is a simple narrative, easy to understand, that he couldn't delay - because it's too small a case. He'll be a convicted felon. But even more, he might be forced to be on public display for hours. He might not be able to distract the audience with speeches or insults.

Alan Alda, the Oscar-nominated actor and star of M*A*S*H has Parkinson's at 82, and was diagnosed 3 years ago: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mash-star-alan-alda-reveals-13009189 Likely future deathlist entry, but he says it's not affecting his life yet.

That viral marketing for the new Fallout series on Amazon Prime is a bit much for me.

Every day, I check Wikipedia's list of daily deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2015 I used to think that there is never any day with less than 7 deaths per day*. But that belief was refuted when the 6th of November only had 6 deaths (there's almost no chance left another death appears). Sometimes it takes a while for a death to be known and to be noted, but so far, the 20th of December only had one death. Could this be the least deadly day ever? *=That rule is not true for years prior to 2010, because Wikipedia wasn't yet as careful and thorough with their death notifications.

Ah well, it's a game of probability. You just have to pick likely candidates and hope that 2-3 of them actually die. But yeah, last month showed that there's no 100% pick.

Banana's captain of last month, DJ Isaac Cool has died: https://www.myjoyonline.com/starr-fms-dj-isaac-cool-passes-on/ He'd lasted so long with his terrible injuries, you'd have thought he would be in recovery.

I doubt it's even possible if the nerve system is connected. It must be an existence we cant really imagine.

The Schappell twins, world's oldest conjoined twins, are dead at 62: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/4/worlds-oldest-conjoined-twins-lori-and-george-die-aged-62-768511

I know, it's controversial and it will always be. And he was not squeaky-clean. I do wonder why "If I Did it" exists, the deflection theory makes sense to me.

Ahem... I also kind of think he didn't do it, but he nevertheless wanted to have the attention on him, as a sort of cover-up. I've heard the theory that he might have protected on of his elder children from the first marriage. A cover-up for a different crime might also be plausible. I don't know, in my mind, he doesn't look like a murderer. I can totally believe that Bill Cosby did it, the crimes were hiding in plain sight. I never got that vibe from Simpson. His former Twitter page made me think that he was more of a "player", a more suitable character for a small-time (or medium-time) criminal. You'd have to be a really big sociopath to have such a light-hearted persona in spite of having committed a murder.

German A-list actor Til Schweiger (International audiences may have seen him in Inglorious Basterds) suffers from sepsis and is hospitalised: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/til-schweiger-leidet-offenbar-an-sepsis-a-392f145a-bc47-48de-990e-a03da4a45b95 He has an open leg wound since last August.

Dead Toleman! Founder of the Toleman F1 racing team Ted Toleman has died yesterday after some health problems noted by (of course!) Octopus of Odstock. In fact, most players of the game ignored OoO's post, which is a shame, because they are among the most knowledgeable on this site. The Toleman team wasn't really successful in their four years, but they gave Ayrton Senna his first chance in the Formula One, and were later purchased by Benetton, now the Alpine F1 Team. wannamaker makes up some ground (so half of my prediction in the previous post came true), and msc puts the last scoreless match-up on the board. Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton wannamaker 3-7 MariNisia Banana 0-3 Annami CalebH 0-3 msc DevonDeathTrip 7-0 SirCreep max_bossetti 11-3 Cpt. Hemlock

I choose Esther Rantzen and Kris Hallenga.

Hard to tell with the dementia footballers. Two years ago, I filled up empty slots with the dementia folks, but Jimmy Calderwood is still alive. Gordon McQueen died last year. Tony Claypole already died in 2022, but didn't obit... These are tough calls...

Well, that gave me the idea to walk around the world, only, somebody already did that (as much as possible), Briton Rosie Swale-Pope, now 77 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Swale-Pope