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Oh yes yes

Edit: Should have been Oh Hell Yes... I feel ashamed...

Ralphie May. 45.

Canadian musical superstar Gord Downie died at the age of 53.

57 points to me.

I would have to lose Bashar al-Assad plus Stephen Hawking plus one more to be able to take the lead.

Without Assad, I'd need Hawking or Aretha Franklin plus any three others.

I think I'm out.

Hey, I'm not throwing in the towel. All it would take for me is Brittany Daniel and Charlie Sheen. So I'm just a tragic cancer relapse and a serious bender gone wrong away from the lead!

Robert Guillaume.

Fats Domino, dead at 89. 16 points (I think) to Mike.

Now I just need al-Assad plus anyone else on my list.

Holy cow!

With all the deaths this year, I got to thinking that this has to be our highest point total ever... or at least the highest point total per player. Turns out, it is second place on both counts.

Right now, we have 279 total points with 8 players. About 35 points per player. The record year was 2011, with 504 total points spread among 13 players for an average of almost 39 points per player. And even more amazing, 2011 was the year before we started handing out bonus points for multiple deaths. How crazy is that?

Here's our hit list from 2011:
Amy Winehouse -- DEAD at 27 
Andy Rooney -- DEAD at 92 
Betty Ford -- DEAD at 93
Bil Keane -- DEAD at 89 
Christopher Hitchens -- DEAD at 62 
Eleanor Mondale -- DEAD at 51 
Elizabeth Taylor -- DEAD at 79 
Harry Morgan DEAD at 96 
Jack LaLanne -- DEAD at 96 
Jeff Conaway -- DEAD at 60 
Jose Alencar -- DEAD at 79 
Kim Jong-Il -- DEAD at 69 
Milton Babbitt -- DEAD at 94 
Muammar al-Gaddafi -- DEAD at 69 
Osama bin Laden -- DEAD at 54 
Peter Falk -- DEAD at 83 
Sargent Shriver -- DEAD at 95 
Seve Ballesteros -- DEAD at 54 
Steve Jobs -- DEAD at 56 

Awww. I forgot Jeff Conaway was dead. Now I'm sad again.

2011... It was a very good year... Or is that a bad year...

Who cares, I WON!

Malcolm Young. 64.

Nadia now has 75 points and second place.

Mel Tillis. 85. Nadia's closing in on the lead!

Charles Manson died yesterday. 27 points for Yancey.

Wow.

Wow, I have mostly octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even one centenarian, and I still can't score a point!