gcreptile
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Dr. Pranabjyoti Deka is indeed dead. He was an academic, a literary scientist, who also wrote short stories and books himself and received quite a few awards for it. It wasn't yet enough for a wikipedia page, which is usually my go-to check for fame, but Deka won, for example, the Sahitya Academy Award, a national prize for the promotion of the original Indian languages. Deka was still active and receiving awards as of a couple of months ago, but max_bossetti noted the hospitalisation late last month, and in comparison to a lot of other Indian names, he died quickly. It's probably no consolation for Cpt. Hemlock that Abdul Nazer Masdani has left the hospital, as max_bossetti is pulling away a bit.
Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady
GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell
DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton
wannamaker 0-7 MariNisia
Banana 0-3 Annami
CalebH 0-0 msc
DevonDeathTrip 3-0 SirCreep
max_bossetti 11-3 Cpt. Hemlock
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Today I looked at the calendar and realized that we are one day closer to Jimmy Carter's death than yesterday.
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Canadian drummer Rocket Norton has died at 73 after fighting cancer for two years:
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Germany's 2nd best known judge on TV, Alexander Hold, has prostate cancer (carcinoma) that has already spread a little.
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Leftist journalist Victoria Brownworth is going through some health crisis:
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12 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:Such a relatively obscure guy going about his business, I didn't even bother to check whether he was DDP-ed.
We've a Nobel Prize winner without an obit, yet Wilk strolls one.
True - I am convinced now that the solution has to be that those Yahoo local obits shouldn't count next year. So when Yahoo copy/pastes a Hollywood Reporter or Variety obit, they're okay. But when it's, say local station WXCS 5, or any newspaper with a local reference in the title (which would include the LA Times and Chicago newspapers though), it shouldn't count. That's what I will be doing in the Death By Numbers next year.
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Pete Wilk, baseball trainer has died, DDP pick for Banana and scoring with what might/should be the death knell of Yahoo obits:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/vermont-lake-monsters-manager-pete-201406903.html
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Well, in Round One max_bossetti scored the most points and in Round Two MariNisia scored the most points. Now they both score with an individual unique hit - a sign of things to come?
Vitus Hounder was a Swiss bishop on the conservative side, even relative to the conservative Church. He was a particularly strong opponent of homosexuality, but, as the Swiss news agency points out:
"It is unclear why Huonder withdrew to the Sancta Maria Institute in Wangs, a boys' boarding school run by the traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, after his retirement in April 2019."
https://theswisstimes.ch/rssfeed/the-former-bishop-of-chur-vitus-huonder-is-dead/. I guess he wanted to see Wangs.
MariNisia gobbles up all the points of the romance languages with Italian jockey Stefano Cherchi, who was an up-and-coming star of the scene having already won dozens of wins in his short career. He even got almost every possible DDP QO, showing what a big star he might have become. He had suffered a heavy fall last month and didn't recover.
I do believe though, that in both of these matches, more is to come from each player (meaning also from wannamaker and Cpt. Hemlock)
Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady
GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell
DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton
wannamaker 0-7 MariNisia
Banana 0-3 Annami
CalebH 0-0 msc
DevonDeathTrip 3-0 SirCreep
max_bossetti 7-3 Cpt. Hemlock
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Wiki says Tomiichi Murayama was a representative.
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Woke is the new gay.
You know, protecting the environment used to be gay. Now it's woke.
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Oh, the names that you folks unearthed last month are bound to appear and score in all the following rounds.
First example of this is Joe Flaherty. The American comedian was a member of the Second City sketch comedy troupe that has given us legends like John Candy and Rick Moranis. Flaherty however didn't quite become the leading man, nor an important supporting actor, instead he seemed to specialize in small cameos and bizarre one-scene roles. I didn't count but he might be the 2nd most popular name in this round. He was known to be in failing health in February, but had a Floyd Little-like stamina to just barely survive the month of March just to spoil the game a few players. But in this round, only one match remains score-less.
Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady
GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell
DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton
wannamaker 0-3 MariNisia
Banana 0-3 Annami
CalebH 0-0 msc
DevonDeathTrip 3-0 SirCreep
max_bossetti 3-3 Cpt. Hemlock
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Zhang Lixiong first fatality, negative scores?
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Ma Shitu AND Zhang Lixiong?
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Ken Hose, "legendary" Australian AFL and weather presenter dead at 85:
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I wonder if she gets a posthumous Nobel Prize actually. Is that even a thing?
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Masterlist - Round 3:
Perhaps vs theoldlady 1 Steve McMichael 1 Cesar Luis Menotti 2 Esther Rantzen 2 Craig Maxwell 3 Susana Baca 3 Esther Rantzen 4 Frank Caprio (joker) 4 Frank Caprio 5 Terry Jon Martin 5 Jamal Yunos 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Jimmy Carter (JOKER) 7 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 7 Michael Tilson Thomas 8 Joe Flaherty8 Nigel Starmer Smith 9 Princess Mikasa 9 Paul Spencer (aka Dario G) 10 Braulio Musso 10 Steve (Mongo) McMichael 11 David Irving 11 Sven Goran Eriksson Sub: Sub: 1 Emily Willis 1 Noam Chomsky 2 Kaiti Grey 2 Sonny Rollins 3 Chuvit Kamolvisit 3 James Whale GuyFromFuture vs Hell 1 Brenda Milner 1 Paul Harrell (Joker) 2 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee 2 Sean Wallace 3 Du Daozheng 3 Steve McCoy 4 Dylan Willows 4 Jamal Yunos 5 Emily Willis 5 Wayne Eddy 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Terry Jon Martin 7 Joe Flaherty7 Dylan Willows 8 Michelle Harrison 8 Joe Flaherty9 Kaiti Grey (greek singer) 9 Jimmy Carter 10 Richard Rohmer 10 Susana Baca 11 Wayne Eddy (joker) 11 Sujata Azim Sub: Sub: 1 Sujata Azim 1 David Irving 2 Steve McMichael 2 Sven-Göran Eriksson 3 Silvia Pinal 3 David Elmore Smith DeathByArsenic vs arghton 1 Wayne Eddy (joker) 1 Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah (JOKER) 2 Alain Delon 2 Manolis Mavrommatis 3 Antero Laukkanen 3 Jimmy Carter 4 Brenda Milner 4 Yaakov Moshe Hillel 5 Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin 5 Chalong Pakdeevijit 6 Jimmy Carter 6 Rena Venieri 7 Joe Flaherty7 Pravrajika Anandaprana 8 Juhani Palmu 8 Julián Muñoz 9 Madeleine Riffaud 9 Jayapataka Swami 10 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa 10 Esther Rantzen 11 Zoya Boguslavskaya 11 Nelson Acosta Sub: Sub: 1 Andrea Marshall 1 Frank Field 2 Rick Black Bart Harris 2 Yuriko, Princess Mikasa 3 Simon Cowell (SOS) 3 Guy Warren wannamaker vs MariNisia 1 Jeannie Oakes (Joker) 1 Frank Caprio 2 Julián Muñoz 2 Jan A. P. Kaczmarek 3 Jimmy Carter 3 Jimmy Carter (joker) 4 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 4 Joanne Woodward 5 Jamal Yunos 5 Joe Flaherty6 Craig Cobane 6 Richard "Black Bart" Harris 7 Ted Toleman7 Sean Wallace 8 Tony Ogola (Football Coach) 8 Stefano Cherchi9 Chuwit Kamolvisit 9 Steve "Mongo" McMichael 10 Wayne Eddy (KYMN) 10 Terry Jon Martin 11 Terry Jon Martin 11 Wayne Eddy Sub: Sub: 1 Esther Rantzen 1 Dylan Willows 2 Arundhati Nair 2 Jamal Yunos 3 3 Noam Chomsky Banana vs Annami 1 Eddie Sutton (JOKER)1 Jimmy Carter (joker) 2 Willie Sublett 2 Steve ”Mongo” McMichael 3 Tony Ogola 3 Frank Caprio 4 Arundhati Nair 4 Antero Laukkanen 5 Nawab Malik 5 Esther Rantzen 6 Abdul Nasser Mahdani 6 Joe Flaherty7 Kevin Farkas, football player & coach 7 Sven-Göran Eriksson 8 Jimmy Carter 8 Steve McCoy 9 Corey Williams 9 Wayne Eddy 10 Esther Rantzen 10 Noam Chomsky 11 Sven-Goran Eriksson 11 Shannen Doherty Sub: Sub: 1 Vitus Huonder1 Kaiti Grey 2 Dylan Willows 2 Joanne Woodward 3 3 Rob Burrow CalebH vs msc 1 Ayla Halit Kazım 1 Frank Caprio (joker) 2 Casey Luna (Us Politician) 2 Braulio Musso 3 Gaetano Starrabba 3 Arnold Yarrow 4 Ioana Bulca 4 Ted Toleman5 Jimmy Carter --joker 5 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 6 Juhani Palmu 6 Jimmy Carter 7 Marthe Cohn 7 Nelson Acosta 8 Mirtha Legrand 8 David Irving 9 Paul Harrell 9 Michael Tilson Thomas 10 Susana Baca 10 Esther Rantzen 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Sean Wallace Sub: Sub: 1 Ion Iliescu 1 Dimitris Kokotas 2 Kaiti Grey 2 Simon Cowell SOS 3 Agnes Keleti 3 Pete Murray DevonDeathTrip vs SirCreep 1 Martin Jones (Rugby)1 Frank Caprio 2 Paul Harrell (joker) 2 Jimmy Carter 3 Frank Caprio 3 Gordon ‘Sid’ Cowans 4 Jimmy Carter 4 Wayne Eddy 5 Katherine Jackson 5 Paul Harrell (**JOKER**) 6 Wayne Eddy 6 David Irving 7 Jerry O’Donnell (PA announcer) 7 Robert Mailman 8 Romeo Santos 8 Terry Jon Martin 9 Joe Flaherty9 Steve McCoy 10 Yahya Sinwar 10 Steve McMichael 11 David Irving 11 Rena Venieri Sub: Sub: 1 1 2 2 3 3 max_bossetti vs Cpt. Hemlock 1 Julián Muñoz (pol) (joker) 1 Jimmy Carter (Joker) 2 Abdul Nazer Mahdani 2 Bruce Thompson 3 Dimitris Kokotas 3 Daniel Barenboim 4 Dr Pranabjyoti Deka4 Frank Field 5 Joe Flaherty5 Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier 6 Frank Caprio 6 Joanne Woodward 7 Jamal Yunos 7 Joe Flaherty8 Jimmy Carter 8 Noam Chomsky 9 Vitus Huonder9 Steve McMichael 10 Paul Harrell 10 Violeta Chamorro 11 Wayne Eddy 11 Vito Perillo Sub: Sub: 1 Steve McCoy 1 James Whale 2 Steve McMichael 2 Shannen Doherty 3 Craig Cobane 3 Pedro Pablo Kuczinski -
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It looks to me like Barbara Rush's QO came about an hour too late.
Strangely, justonecornetto suffered from the month of march arriving a few hours late (Paul Vachon's leap year death) and ending an hour too soon. So it actually was an extremely close match-up.
Another curiosity of the round: Perhaps scored 0 points but his subs 1 and 2 died. He was saved by the luck of the coins.
Spade_Cooley lost to the kind of random old people hit he had previously warned of, of them being more dangerous than the teams with the typical assortment of hospice people that are often shared among players anyway.
All remaining players have submitted a team, by the way. Masterlist will be up in a few hours.
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Netanyahu and Erdogan were two very difficult partners for the West. Both just cant let go, but their time is almost simultaneously coming to an end.
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So, if she stays there until tomorrow, first points of the hospitalisation pool?
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Last day of the month.
Of the currently advancing players, I haven't yet received teams by
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Going through the songs....
.... I dont see any absolute failures, but quite a lot of generic stuff. The inspirations/rip-offs are better done than usual.
After listening to roughly half of it, I like Armenia, Croatia, Estonia, Ireland (!), also . Greece is an obvious but well-done Rosalia rip-off. Czechia is Olivia Rodrigo-inspired. Austria is a bit VERY 1992 Europop.
I find our own song generically boring as usual. Might add some opinions here later on.
Cyprus - they always try but never match "Fuego".
Finland is different, but for once, I don't like that kind of "different".
Netherlands- wow, they did it, they actually submitted a trash techno song that they do so "well", but made it whimsical.
Moldova - interesting in a good way.
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The QO ratio for the "Alternative Nobel Prize" winners is not that bad, though.
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Nancy Valverde continues last year's tradition of notable lesbians becoming DeathList Cup hits. She most notably wore men's clothing in a time when that was regarded as socially impossible. She became a mainstay in the Los Angeles queer community and received some late recognition in recent years. msc manages to turn around his fortunes in the game against therewillbedeaths7 and hands over the "best loser" distinction to his opponent.
AltObitsGuy 0-3 theoldlady
Perhaps 0-0 TheKillingTime
Spade_Cooley 0-4 GuyFromFuture
Hell 0-0 Famous6eva
Grim Up North 0-4 Death By Arsenic
Cpt. Chorizo 0-0 arghton
wannamaker 6-0 Wormfarmer
MariNisia 11-0 JoeMoneypenny
Banana 3-0 MortalCaso
Annami*
deadsox 0-3 CalebH
msc 7-4 therewillbedeaths7
DevonDeathTrip 6-0 justonecornetto
Sir Creep 3-0 diego
An Fear Beag 0-6 max_bossetti
Cpt. Hemlock 4-0 Bibliogryphon
The next month is approaching, so prepare your teams.
It's been a tough month, lots of unlikely recoveries, a non-obit, some names just hang on forever. So some people might want to prepare a team just in case they manage to get that decisive last minute hit.
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1 hour ago, Gisooo said:Israeli-American author Daniel Kahneman (Wiki) dead at 90
He was awarded with the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Thinking, Fast and Slow is his magnum opus. You find it in every bookstore.
Deathlist Cup 2024
in Dead Pools
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I have a feeling I should rather update the Death By Numbers again, but what can I do? It's two Cup updates in one day!
DevonDeathTrip scores with Welsh rugby player Martin Jones. It seems like I missed that hit since the articles came out on April 2nd already, but then, I can't do the googling of the roughly 20 obscure names in this round each day.... I do want to check at least every couple of days though.
Well, Martin Jones seems to have died 72 hours after that fundraiser for him, which happened on March 29th. This puts the date of death on the 1st of April.
Martin Jones was a prop for two of Wales' biggest clubs - and while he didn't have a Wikipedia page in any language (as far as I can tell, there isn't one in Cymru...) rugby is one of these British pastimes that makes even the players in the background receive attention. Neath RFC and the Cardiff Blues were both championship winning clubs, which is where I would draw the line. Players in amateur clubs would not be accepted, but Jones was, and DDT gets some distance over SirCreep.
Perhaps 3-0 theoldlady
GuyFromFuture 3-3 Hell
DeathByArsenic 3-0 arghton
wannamaker 0-7 MariNisia
Banana 0-3 Annami
CalebH 0-0 msc
DevonDeathTrip 7-0 SirCreep
max_bossetti 11-3 Cpt. Hemlock