Canadian Paul

Dead Now just to garner that assured UK obit, unlike most of the Aussies last year...

The world's oldest living person is Edna Parker. The world's oldest person is Jeanne Calment, if that clears up the nomenclature. I suppose that was an opening to be witty, but it's too early here. Once we pass noon, it'll be too late.

Thanks, I'll need it. The extra work is my own fault, thanks to me continually not taking scsi's simplifying suggestions up. If I don't become a casualty of the 2007-2008 CPDP myself, it'll be back next year for sure. Meanwhile, all the teams are up and linked, so if you've forgotten who you've picked, you can review it now. The direct links to the candidates don't work yet though.

Well, the CPDP is back on its feet... sort of. The site can be found at www.canadianpaul.com/main.html. Omitting the main.html will take you to a version without the left frame, which I need to fix, but that's certainly not the biggest of my problems right now. Here's the situation as it stands: Everything is uploaded to the site, but not necessarily linked. So if you're really wanting to see something but can't get there, it's probably because the link leads to the landpirates version. Anything that you want to see can be found at www.canadianpaul.com/url.html. So it's all there, if not directly linked to. Fixing all of the links will be my first priority, starting with the team pages. For now, however, all the main links from the side frame are up, so you can see scores (the most important part) for sure. For some reason, I've had trouble with loading pages. Clicking refresh a couple of times does the trick. If an error message occurs, it's a bad link. If a blank page occurs, it just needs a refresh. To get the site up and running, I used GoDaddy's free hosting, which puts that annoying banner at the top of all the pages. I'll try and work to get rid of that. I haven't sent out emails yet, but I will do so once more of the site itself is working.

For some reason I remember that, in 2006, there was a space to include a description or a link to the person. Has that been done away with or am I just making it up?

Still being in a time zone where it's LFN's birthday, let me say... HAPPY BIRTHDAY LFN Don't take it personally, but I think I'll pass on searching for fellatio +sexy on Google. Have a good one anyhow!

Wow. Out of all the major players in World War I (Italy, France, US, UK/Australia/Canada, Ottoman Empire), who would have thought that Germany would be the first to lose all of its World War I veterans? Well... depends on whether you count Russia as a major player or not I suppose, which you probably should... but still. Are we sure about this? I know Wikipedia is not always reliable but it has the last surviving German as a Franz Kunstler. He lives in Germany, but he served in the Austo-Hungarian army. Not quite sure how I managed to miss that as a major WWI player, seeing as how they started the whole bloody thing (ish).

One can only hope that, like Papon, Valenti and Pinochet, that it's only temporary, but Suharto does seem to have a way of recovering from these things. Wouldn't mind an early, guilt-free DL and, personally, HDP hit though.

Wow, I can't believe you got that all up and running so quickly! You have my reverence and appreciation. That won't of course, stop my from pointing out little mistakes like Manoel de Oliveira having been born on December 11, 1908, the fact that Milvena Dean is the last remaining Titanic survivor or any other little things that only I would notice and certainly only a pretentious, pompous, sod-W**ker-git such as myself would care about. To make it up to you, let me know if you need help with photos. As a member of Robert Young's Yahoo Group, I can at least be useful in getting you pictures of the old such and suchs picked by All Nails in the Coffin. Again, let me end by saying how utterly amazed and in awe I am at your work. Next time we're at the pub, I owe you a beer.

I couldn't find a full date of birth for the DDP entry - only that he was born in or around 1973. Cricket umpire Nigel Plews is the only other one I don't have a photo for. Can anyone help? Or can anyone tell me which of these he is? I just assumed he was the one in the middle, but maybe I'm wrong. The picture wasn't very contextualized. While I'm here, I believe John Archibald Wheeler was a unique pick of mine, but it's not listed on my team. Otherwise, I want to make it known that I appreciate your hard work (and that of anyone who helped you) in getting the site up and running so quickly and that I think it looks absolutely amazing.

Wow. Out of all the major players in World War I (Italy, France, US, UK/Australia/Canada, Ottoman Empire), who would have thought that Germany would be the first to lose all of its World War I veterans? Well... depends on whether you count Russia as a major player or not I suppose, which you probably should... but still.

Already posted in the CPDP thread, but Milt Dunnell has died at the age of 102. Doubt he was picked for the DDP and doubt even more that he'd have gotten a proper obit anyhow.

Toronto sportswriter Milt Dunnell has died and easily met the ordinary team obituary requirements. I can't say when the site itself will be back up, but I'll try to update the scoreboard for Arfons and Dunnell tomorrow.

Glad to hear that the FBI has solved all its more pressing problems and has finally gotten to "proving that this dead guy, as opposed to some other dead guy, was D.B. Cooper"

Betty Ford, just to be different.

If by "in-depth research", you mean "reading the I&P thread (listed once) and the I&P Names thread (listed half a dozen times")."

Seeing as how OoO has nothing to do, the Princes of Thailand, Gaylani Vadhana has gone and died.

Well that will be your first hit then, if indeed she gets a UK obit.

Does this include some ringers from the Maryport Parish Council? I'm glad MPFC posted his "guide to MPFC's nobodies" thread in the main Deathlist forum. The only news result I could find for Dawn Hughes was about 3-year-old girl with leukemia and it worried me greatly for a moment... While we're at it, congrats again to Football Fan (if he did, indeed, win again)!

There was discussion about it on Wikipedia, and I think it was agreed that it's a local news source, and trusty enough to at least confirm his death. Definitely dead, leaving us with 19 veterans and a handful of "era-ers."

Also, he was wheeled out on stage a year or two ago for a PBS documentary and looked terrible. Haven't heard much about him since. I suspect that more people will have picked him for 08 than they did in 07.

Mine, as with last year, was limited to people I had seen die in dreams. Not likely to make the big win, or even do as well as last year, but here's the lineup anyhow: Ariel Sharon Suharto Ron Santo Stewart Udall Tony Martin Betty Ford Saad al-Sabah John Archibald Wheeler Flory Van Donck Muhammad Ali

Obviously not a DL candidate, but I thought I'd help break in this thread by announcing the first Wikipedia-worthy centenarian of 2008: Portuguese musician Bill Tapia. Not bad for a man who's been performing since he was 10.

Assuming that we know about every veteran that has died in 2007 (still a big assumption, but not so much as at the end of last year, since many of the "under the radar" veterans died and most of the remaining ones are relatively high profile), then the final tally was 34 actual veterans and 5 "era" veterans. So overall, the math provided a pretty fair guess. Weasel: The law written not only when passage was by ship, but when, if you were being sent there by ship as a criminal, you probably had to work on it on the ride over.

Is it that time of year already? Randy Pausch (Joker; his plight has been discussed in the Telegraph, so I think he'll get an obit) Sydney Pollack Nigel Plews George T.D. Moore Archbishop Christodoulos Eunice Kennedy Patriarch Pavle Baba Amte Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym Sam Manekshaw Milivoj Ašner (Got coverage in the Guardian when alive, hopefully will get some when dead) Joe Weider Philip Jones Griffiths Billy Graham Levi Stubbs Charlton Heston Estelle Getty Ronnie Biggs Willis Lamb Steven Hill