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The thread for the jewish-American comedian, producer and actor Mel Brooks. He turns 90 in June. He won pretty much everything there is to win in show business. There are no bad news about his health, but he must surely be a future candidate for the Death List. His wife Anne Bancroft died 10 years ago, and here he is in a 2015 Independent article looking really old: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/mel-brooks-the-comic-genius-and-risk-taking-director-on-how-retirement-is-not-an-option-and-faking-a6759956.html He most recently recorded a political robocall for his great nephew running for office in New York state: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mel-brooks-robocall-great-nephew-state-senate-race-article-1.2597166

They say they are receiving the news with "heavy hearts". Heart attack chain reaction?

Jim Beard, current Steely Dan keyboardist, dead at 63: https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/jim-beard-dead-steely-dan-keyboardist-dies-1235624679/amp/

Pigcasso, the painting pig, dies in South Africa at the age of 8: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13163221/Farewell-Pigcasso-artist-really-brought-home-bacon-Extraordinary-piggy-lifetime-paintings-fetched-million-dollars-saved-slaughterhouse-dies-South-Africa.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigcasso

Well, the rail strike here in Germany disrupts my plans. My "extended weekend getaway" begins a day earlier, i.e. in an hour. Though it does not look like hurry is in this round's plans anyway.

Larry Mullen was not performing with the band in Las Vegas because of Neck surgery. Bono makes it sound as if he was almost on his deathbed, but that could just be Bono: https://ew.com/u2-drummer-larry-mullen-jr-attends-sphere-penultimate-vegas-concert-8603588

Yeah, that guy.... Roaches like him don't die. He was digitally murdered by HBomberguy though.

Sued in France for defamation: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/05/roman-polanski-tried-in-france-for-defamation-of-british-actor-charlotte-lewis 90 years old now, he will not appear in court. France was his refuge, it will be quite a conundrum if he were to be faced with the law there.

Oh, wow, he has a thread.... Anyway, I watched Dune II with him in it. He looked very aged, but some of that might be on purpose. I think he's eminently deathlist-y, Oscar winner, meme-y person, on Robert Wagner's boat, SNL's "More Cowbell", Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice". Maybe to be considered AFTER Robert Wagner's death.

Dune II - it's solid. I actually like the somewhat added cynical side which was a good play by the film creators considering that the novel (and Lynch movie, and TV miniseries) are so well-known, meaning, simply portraying the plot without any subtext wasn't enough. The scenery and music is impressive, as expected. Also, Christopher Walken is pretty deathlisty, isn't he? Think he should be on the list after Robert Wagner's death. He looks very aged in the movie, maybe somewhat on purpose. I thought he was a bit of a weak spot.

Scottish comedienne who seems fairly prominent in certain circles. She had ovarian cancer, beat it, but then it came back. It's stage 3 and she says that it can be treated but not cured. So it's now being called "terminal". Like Jonnie Irwin, she seems fairly open about it all. Today's update is, "she wants to go out with a bang": https://nz.news.yahoo.com/janey-godley-terminal-125229998.html

Looks like Eleanor Collins died on the 3rd. The "first lady of Canadian jazz" - not just first in stature, but also quite literally the first one to do so it seems. Her career began in the 40s and peaked with TV shows in the 60s. GuyFromFuture wins a prize in the centenarians lottery and leads Spade_Cooley who only has one unique pick to counter. AltObitsGuy 0-0 theoldlady Perhaps 0-0 TheKillingTime Spade_Cooley 0-4 GuyFromFuture Hell 0-0 Famous6eva Grim Up North 0-0 Death By Arsenic Cpt. Chorizo 0-0 arghton wannamaker 0-0 Wormfarmer MariNisia 0-0 JoeMoneypenny Banana 0-0 MortalCaso Annami* deadsox 0-0 CalebH msc 0-0 therewillbedeaths7 DevonDeathTrip 0-0 justonecornetto Sir Creep 0-0 diego An Fear Beag 0-0 max_bossetti Cpt. Hemlock 4-0 Bibliogryphon Also, alright, I'll switch the masterlist format. Might not get around to do it until wednesday or so though.

He retired last year. I had a hunch it was health-related, which is why he's in my shadow list - but unfortunately nowhere else.

Two notes: - I'll delete the PMs of the submitted teams in the coming days to make room for more. So any comments about the masterlist need to happen soon. - Anyone else having problems with the formatting? If it's a systematic problem, I'll change it. If it's a singular issue, I won't.

I've always liked this 2nd round of the Cup (and the 3rd one) because you have so many teams and so many creative names people have found - I do respect the things some players come up with very much. And I like how people find them.. But it seems the only super-quick hit this round is not some super-secret cult name but "legendary" Nigerian comedian John Okafor, aka Mr. Ibu. His wikipedia page describes him as "Nigeria's Borat", so, interpret it the way you want. He was ill for quite some time, and late last year, sepsis was added to the list of afflictions. He had to have his leg amputated, and then the same leg some more. And then his children set up a fake gofundme campaign. Usually, the air of fraud deters players from picking such people - but Cpt. Hemlock saw the truth of it all and goes ahead: AltObitsGuy 0-0 theoldlady Perhaps 0-0 TheKillingTime Spade_Cooley 0-0 GuyFromFuture Hell 0-0 Famous6eva Grim Up North 0-0 Death By Arsenic Cpt. Chorizo 0-0 arghton wannamaker 0-0 Wormfarmer MariNisia 0-0 JoeMoneypenny Banana 0-0 MortalCaso Annami* deadsox 0-0 CalebH msc 0-0 therewillbedeaths7 DevonDeathTrip 0-0 justonecornetto Sir Creep 0-0 diego An Fear Beag 0-0 max_bossetti Cpt. Hemlock 4-0 Bibliogryphon

Boo-ya: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68461805

If true, then it's another proof that the sepsis/amputation cycle always ends badly, and quickly.

It's a problem with Buchman's birthyear which my Excel file has as 1988 for some reason. It will be fixed.

Not every team was alphabetical though. I have the game in excel and use the search function to look for a name. Excel allows you to go through all the hits for the word you search for, on the same sheet, from the top to the bottom. I just saw that Toby Keith was usually one of the final names on these teams. Personally, I often fill out the teams in order of certainty - though premature deaths or news can disrupt the order.

Time for an update, I hope to have them more than once a month, but life interferes.... I think that things change a little...after March. Anyway, let's start with the names mentioned above. Toby Keith, 90s mainstream country mega star, picked here by 15 teams. I kind of confused myself there, thinking it was early stage cancer, but now I see that my notes actually say that it was stage III, so it was a 50:50 chance, roughly. I see that he was picked mostly at slots 41-50 for many teams, so you players were right, he should at least have been picked as a defensive pick. Dave Myers was picked by 14 teams, many of the teams actually went for the Keith/Myers double. The warning signs here came pretty late in 2023 because the chemo cycles just kept going up in numbers. Myers marks another entry in the long list of cooks with terminal cancer. Dries van Agt dies in the act .... of suicide. I did occasionally think about adding DDP-like bonusses here, but then, the pool is already quite the monster to handle. Two teams score, Gooseberry Crumble and CalebH. Now Alexej Nawalny, a death as sad as it was inevitable, possibly unnatural, but we will probably never know. Three people score - it just seemed to be in the air. By the way, Alexej Nawalny was the earliest living entry in my personal excel longlist, at no. 7, the "honor" now moves to Charlie Sheen at no. 8. Now Charlies Dierkop, a unique hit for The Daredevil. I don't really know much about him, he seems to have been booked and blessed, but never was a real star. Now, let's go back through the DDP list: Iris Apfel is the freshest hit (she wasn't exactly fresh anymore herself)... I kind of confuse her with Baddie Winkle. But Apfel was the one who didn't just wear the stylish clothes she also made them. Two teams score. Paul Vachon, the canadian wrestler from the Vachon wrestling family was a hit for three teams. His age is quite remarkable for a wrestler, and the diseases just kept piling up. It was time. Next hit, next wrestler, Virgil, actually a unique hit for BabyBlue, well done! He seemed to have the more illustrious career when compared to Vachon, which explains his "Legend" status in the obits. Well, I wouldn't know unfortunately. Also dead, the longtime deadpooling staple Stan Bowles. I thought he looked like shit ages ago, but he managed to defy my and our expectations again and again. Three teams didn't lose faith. Now Ian McMillan, a star of Scottish football in the 60s. A hit for three teams. It gives me the opportunity to correct his entry in my longlist, I guess you all didn't pick the poet... Alexis Buchman. If the DDP doesn't go ahead, I will. The Yahoo QO rule will be altered in the next year. I am not yet exactly sure how, but the super-local specific Yahoo obits will go away. And finally, Seiji Ozawa. The japanese conductor had been suffering from Alzheimer's for a while and I personally regret not picking him, but many of you did! He wonder if Ozawa's hair was just his marketing, because you've got to stand out when you do such a perfomative job, and well, this way he did give off an eccentric air that made him very prominent. And now, I have a feeling that there is surely a hit or two still out there, but I haven't had a look at Wikipedia yet, and need to go out for a bit. Lady Fiona, your dead name has been subbed with Dick Van Dyke. The scoreboard shows a lot of upheaval, Funeralopolis moving up similarly to last year, Toast getting a huge boost from the Keith/Myers combo, much like Book one place below her. All teams have now scored, which is always nice to see. But at the top, Perhaps defends his position. I have dropped 7 places and am the big loser of this update... Cpt. Chorizo is on the attack and has almost caught Perhaps Rank Team Score 1 Perhaps 581 2 Cpt. Chorizo 564 3 Banana 516 4 RadGuy 497 5 Funeralopolis 493 6 wannamaker 473 7 Toast 449 8 Book 437 9 gcreptile 436 10 msc 392 11 Pedro67 376 12 Baby Blue 375 13 Mr. Wonderful 372 14 The Immortal 356 15 tracy 354 16 Summer in Transilvania 350 17 Caleb H 338 18 Etushipushingupdaisies 325 19 DeathBecomesThem 315 20 MariNisia 295 21 The Unknown Man 293 22 Salmon Mousse 278 23 Buffalo Phil 277 24 The old lady 268 24 Death Impends 268 26 Liz Lemon 230 27 Lady Fiona 224 28 Thatcher 213 29 Bibliogryphon 203 29 An Fear Beag 203 31 The Old Crem 202 32 ThereWillBeDeaths7 201 32 John Key 201 34 Yorkshire Banker 188 35 Cpt. Hemlock 187 36 Imelda 185 37 Charles De Gaulle 179 38 The Daredevil 177 39 TQR 153 40 Diego 140 40 Wormfarmer 140 42 Predictor 134 43 Sean 128 44 Annami 99 45 Sod's Law 76 46 Great Uncle Bulgaria 73 46 Young Willz 73 48 arghton 67 49 Gooseberry Crumble 31 50 Torva Messor 29 51 Hell 23 51 chileanway 23

Confirmed and corrected. I also had to sub another name on a team because the name wasn't really identifiable. See if you can spot it.... That's the price of getting the masterlist up ASAP.

Well, Coleen Nolan coughed and thought she was going to die, so she quits smoking: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/coleen-nolan-reveals-terrifying-health-32253243

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