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Oh great, my best-performing deadpool team in the past month is my two-year old Generation Game team.

Well, then...

I was bored enough to check out how my Midsummer Madness pick Bertie McMinn was doing, and what's exactly wrong with him. He has a tumour on his spine and spent early July in hospice for rehabilitation: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/lodge-reroutes-parade-past-home-of-ill-member-who-missed-first-twelfth-in-decades-37121482.html

They are planning a tribute concert for her: https://www.nme.com/news/music/an-aretha-franklin-concert-is-being-planned-for-later-this-year-2366894 It would be funny if she attended it... even funnier if the organizer, producer Clive Davis, dies before her.

August 25th 2018

Is wrestling having a particularly bad year? Also, looks like I have to follow Jerry Lawler's twitter account.

Paralympian Equestrian Nicole Cullen dead at 38 from meningitis: https://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/5581469/paralympian-nicole-kullen-dies-aged-38-after-years-of-poor-health/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Kullen

Former The Apprentice winner and then White House sidepiece Omarosa Manigault says that Trump "is clearly obese" and his addictions to Big Macs, fried chicken and daily sun-tanning have caught up with him: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/13/omarosa-claims-trump-is-physically-ill-just-this-side-functionally-illiterate-in-new-book.html

British surname historian Dr. George Redmonds dead at 82: https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/expert-british-surnames-dr-george-15028599 Yeah, wrong thread, but he's an expert on monikers, so I thought it fitting.

Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits: Ian Holm (1931) Sean Connery (1930) Katherine Helmond (1929)

Well, as I am going to sleep now, and Aretha hasn't yet begun hers....thanks for all the Soul...

Bringing back this thread - also an idea for Bibliogryphon's film pool...

American supercentennarian Lilian Cox dead at 111, mentioned here and there I think: https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/13/indomitable-lillian-cox-dies-111/976481002/

Fabrice Miguet, dead after horror crash at the Ulster Grand Prix: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/723059/fabrice-miguet-dead-update-latest-ulster-grand-prix-isle-of-man-tt

Hmm... for some reason I once thought that Gilberto Gil would be a good pick. But now that you mention Joao, I think I confused the two of them.

Sounds like a return of pancreatic cancer? (Confirming that she actually had it, if true)

The family is asking for prayers - well then, I say a little prayer... Easy to say in hindsight, but this was in the making. I had her in my draft for next year for a while, currently 2nd sub. Now a must-have but it's not going to happen.

Queen Sirikit's birthday today:

No Naipaul on my shadow list (page 7)...disappointing.... 10/50 now. I guess as underwhelming as the committee must feel.

Terminally ill man wants to climb Mount Everest, any takers? https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/peter-andre-everest-climb-jones-1827538 However, it's not stage four cancer, but stage four heart failure - as a compensation, Peter Andre is coming with him.

Interesting, not for me, maybe a location issue... Still, I should point out that I was already expecting every usual suspect on this forum to pick her. I'm just curious how much of the teams of those that don't post here, are own research, and how much comes from the forum.

Obviously a must-have (probably THE must-have) for any contending team (and any team that doesn't care for higher fame standards), yet I hoped that the recent developments would stay somewhat under the radar so that some of those who lurk on the forum, but don't post here, wouldn't have it as easy as this year.

Gorbachev and Nelson are must-haves for the List next year. The Dalai Lama could become one, let's see...

Probs for not misspelling "possibilities".

Irresponsible speculating: Pneunomia is a side-effect of HIV.