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  1. 53 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

    When drawing up this year's team, I did toy with going with a theme team very like yours, including some of the same picks, but was thinking of padding it with people whose names matched dead famous people (Anne Hathaway, Steve McQueen, Jane Seymour, etc). Yours is more consistent, though.

    Would probably be a shitload of work but would there be mileage in a themed (second) deadpool. I had half a notion to put in a WW2 list.

  2. 11 hours ago, tamthebam said:

    I was reading a story yesterday about a Russian who'd gone out a window in India. Earlier this year he'd tweeted his opposition to the war in Ukraine before quickly withdrawing the tweet 

    An Indian police spokesman said "he'd been depressed" and pointed to the empty bottle of vodka in his room 

    Now call me Columbo but I have my suspicions...

    "Just one more thing, Inspector Patel, what is that wad of roubles sticking out of your pocket .."

    Is this the story ??? Nothing suspicious here, no sirree.

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/russian-lawmaker-pavel-antov-found-dead-in-a-hotel-in-odisha/article66309669.ece

    To be fair to the Russians, they've been getting away with this stuff for years and The West has largely turned a blind eye. A sanction here, a stern word there.... The West finally growing a spine must have come as a bit of a shock to them.

  3. 1 minute ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

    I picked Kanye West as my unnatural causes wildcard for 2023

    If you can pick the right Russians then you'll be sorted. They're dropping like flies but its whether they'll get a qualifying obit. My missus worked with this lad.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9074747/Russian-scientist-falls-death-window-stabbed-latest-mysterious-death.html

    In Embra not Vladivostok unfortunately. 😒 I swerved them as I couldn't decide but if I'd had the stones I'd have gone for Tinkov. 

  4. 5 minutes ago, Aim Here said:

    Doesn't seem extraordinary. There was only one unnatural cause in 2019, one in 2020, one in 2021 and now none in 2022.

    (Marieve Vervoort, Caroline Flack, Akubaka Shekau if you must know).

    I did pick a stick-on unnatural cause + solo shot hit for either 2020 or 2021 - euthanasia campaigner Michael Irwin, who actually went to the newspapers a couple of years back promising that he'd wash down his 90th birthday cake with a glass of Chateau Dignitas, but here he is at the age of 91 going on 92, still living life to the max, signing petitions about assisted suicide and writing letters to the Daily Telegraph. Git.

    Just goes to show, you can never believe what you read in the press.

     

    I went with Henry Marsh last year for similar reasons, he's another  euthanasia campaigner and had the cancer. Seems backing up his 'dignity in death' chat was just that. To top it all, he seems to have made a full recovery. Bloody tease.

  5. 5 minutes ago, Duszek said:

    Was furious with myself for forgetting to include Pope Benedict in my 2023 squad, but just see he’s died.

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    RIP, etc.

    I'm still swithering over my squad, got a couple of young pretenders who will be worth more points but do I drop some of the low hanging fruit.... 🤔

    It was all done and dusted until Pele and The artist formerly known as the pope threw a curve ball into the mix. Goddammit !

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