Canadian Paul

Funnyman Soupy Sales, a unique pick on the DDP, isn't laughing anymore. Had him on a previous DP and was considering him for next year's DDP... despite this not being the best deadpooling year for me, he is only the first person this year to die who was on a previous list of mine, but not a current one.

Site updated to reflect the death of Margaret Fitzgerald. Props to MPC.

Canada's oldest person still living in the country, Margaret Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 113.

I am suprised Dead to the World didn't pick him for his theme team. The reason way I am responding is because Sylvie van der Vaart is mentioned in the Hall of Candidates as S. Van de Vart (and the link isn't working). Can this be fixed? Should be fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANDREJKA!!!

Site updated to reflect the death of Joseph Wiseman. Well done to 2 Farts and a Splash and To Die For!

Time for some random HDP success... Ariel Sharon!

They're all just old people that could die in 2010, but there's nothing in particular to suggest that they will, so it's really just a roll of the die. I suspect of the five, at least one will die sometime next year, and it wouldn't surprise me if all of them were alive on January 1, 2011 or if all of them were dead, except maybe Christopher Lee. In any case, the point of this is that there's nothing in particular to suggest that any will die, and it shouldn't take much effort to think of 50 people more likely to die than they, so I see no reason to keep them on, even if one or two will probably not see 2011. If the DL is going to take a chance, it should take a chance on people who have something other than age going for them as a reason to have them on the DL.

van Hasselt died on the 17th, just four days after Jansen-Anker. Can't provide a link that you can see though, sorry.

Yay! The CPDP is finally and completely up at what may possibly be the earliest that every single competitor has been up online and running! ... Well that's my excitement for the day.

Yup, there's a couple like that on the CPDP, you get the combined total of points, so that would actually be worth three bonus points. I think June Foray is one too. Anyways, ALL the candidates are now up, despite a power outage that almost messed up my schedule. Anyhow, tomorrow I will finish the Hall of Candidates (the big list of current picks is already done, thanks to a long airplane trip, I just need to do the Deathline) and everything will be up much earlier than December or January or whenever the hell I finished last season.

RIP Mario.

Only seven months off, not bad. Any how, I didn't come here to bump an old thread for that, but because I was browsing this thread to pick up all my old notes because I dream that I had last night inspired me to keep better records, and now I have the free time to collect them all in one place. I also found my old MPFC dream and am currently looking for the Gerald Ford one (EDIT: Found it!) and the German one that Banshee's mentions earlier in the thread (if I even wrote it down on the site, who knows?). Anyways, here's the dream that inspired it all: So the first point to note is that I was in a video game and I knew that I was in a video game, so I knew that if I "died" I could load my state again from where I left off. It was a pretty terrifying dream. I was among a whole group of people on a set of bleachers next to a thick forest and the sun was setting. It was some sort of "adventure camp" where we would spend a week in the woods just surviving. The camp instructor was explaining to us what was going to happen - he spoke and I could hear him, but there were also dialog boxes that appeared over his head so I could read it as well, since this was a video game. Anyhow, it got dark and everyone went to bed - a lot of people were sleeping on the bleachers and there were wild black and white dog-wolves at the bottom of the bleachers guarding the entrance to the forest. I tried to get past them, but I got attacked and there was nothing that the instructors could do to save me, so I had to restart the game. This time, I eschewed the wolves and walked to my right, which just happened to be a long hall with many rooms. It was light again and we were being introduced to the two camp leaders, who were both dinosaurs and stood outside the windows of the room. The first was a pinkish-purpleish-puceish sauropod of some sort named Benson who was quite frightening and everyone was in awe of him. In the next room was a giant orange and yellow T-rex named Carter who people were also in awe of and I suddenly realized that I had heard of this story before and that the dinosaurs were going to go crazy eventually while we were all in the camp. It got dark and I had a hard time going to sleep, because I thought that I was going to get attacked and killed by Carter before I could react. Finally, however, I fell asleep at about 2:00 or 2:30. I woke up at about 5:30 and it was still dark and there was a noise in the hallway outside my room. I walked out and it was some Brad Pitt look-a-like who was drunk and he mumbled some stuff and walked off. I walked past him to the second-to-last room, where Benson was sleeping - he obviously couldn't fit in the whole room, but his giant head was there, sleeping on a big pillow. I thought briefly about killing him before he could cause any trouble, because his big earhole was wide open, but decided against it. The room at the end of the hall, Carter's, was locked, but there were weird sounds coming from it. Across the dark, narrow hall was a dark green bathroom that I recognized from somewhere else as being the same bathroom from a couple of demonic bathrooms. True enough, the room started bleeding. I ran back to my own room as day was breaking, but bumped into the drunk guy who yelled at me and ran off into my room. I tried to stop him, but he had thrown up all over my bed and thought it was hilarious. I started beating the sh*t out of him, turning him all bloody. I decided that I was going to feed this jackass to Carter while he was getting a 30-ton truck full of meat fed to him ("Hey Carter, I've got some lunch for you"). I mean, it was basically a gigantic truck filled with meat that was being fed to this T-rex and everyone was watching. Anyhow, the drunk guy escaped because I was frightened of the cranes because they looked like black and white idol dinosaurs, and then the jackass tried to stab a black Egyptian cat to feed to Carter, so I forced myself to wake up (but I was actually still in the dream) and, at 2:30 AM, when it was light out, I started writing down what happened in the dream on my laptop in an email to my girlfriend. Then a shadow began forming above me and I realized that I was still dreaming, at which point I woke up for real.

Awesome story, but is it as awesome as the time it happened to you outside of the UK?

Scottish singer Ian Wallace has died at the age of 90. Picked on the DDP by three people, including once as a joker, but I won't mention the names of teams to spare myself another disapproving grimace from Yvonne.

In that vein are Paul Gerhard Vogel and Karl Lange, both of whom appear to be living. Added. Thanks! I'm not taking sides in this debate but, since we're on this vein, another Nazi victim Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim lived until at least 89, possibly 97 and could even still be living.

Or perhaps 2010's Joanne Evans.

I was at the supermarket where they were selling toy cars (it seems to be an obsession in North Dakota) and one of them was labeled "Ambulanz", and apparentely that's the German word for it. Maybe the guy who designed the beans was German.

I figure that'll be the case. A-Q now up. Can you keep us (or atleast me) informed on this thread, every time when you finished a couple of names. By the way, I liked the photos you used for my theme team. And I really thought Corneille would get a Belgian Bonus (when he dies) because he was born in Luik (Liege). 1. I do let everyone know when I've added names, but unless someone else has posted since the last time I posted, I just edit my last message so as not to clutter up my own thread. For anyone who's really curious, I've got 6 Rs tomorrow, 8 Ss the next day, 4 Ts and 1 V the day after that, then finally 7 Ws, meaning that I finish the Hall of Candidates itself on October 15. Assuming no one dies of course, in which case I update the site instead of adding more candidates. Which reminds me, the site has been updated for the death of Gunther Rall. Well done to 2 Farts and a Splash who, as usual, manages to cash in on a unique (and interesting) pick. 2. Thanks, although several were ones that I decided I preferred yours more than my original selection. 3. He does, I just missed that, should be fixed now. I tend to miss the lesser-used bonuses, which is most of them. EDIT:It's the day after that, and R through V are up.

Obituary from the Liverpool Daily Post. Can't say I've ever heard of them before, but looks good enough for Theme Team points, which means I'll update the CPDP later today.

Uh... or died in 1996. Oops.

I figure that'll be the case. A-Q now up.

It's the Hall of Candidates, but I've taken it down for now, until I've uploaded all of the candidates. Speaking of that, A-M should be up by now. If Rall doesn't get a proper obit in the next day, I'll update the site the day after. At this pace, I anticipate that everything will be done October 15, assuming no one else dies.

German World War II ace Gunther Rall has died of a heart attack at the age of 91. Some decent points on the CPDP if he manages to get any English-language obituary from a proper news source.

That site has a little retrospective slide show of her next to the article. I mean, it's fair to think that a 77 year-old might not survive a heart operation, but at least prepare your obituary in private.