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She's immobile and under a blanket, she might say she feels like a 70 year old but I'm not seeing her waddling down the Post Office to grab her place in the pension queue. She's one of ours however much she protests. So am I most of the time, and you don't see people picking me as their bloody joker, do you?

Tony Verna, the guy credited with inventing the instant replay has died aged 81.

Is there a difference? regards, Hein Not all village idiots are rappers...

Got an obit too... As did Masloff! It's primarily my responsibility to find the obits and most do get conjured up, but this was in August forchrissakes! EDIT - seems that the teams that picked them last year and didn't let me know that they had died (and had obits so they would have won points) sent them in again for this year, when a cursory bit of research would have given them the news of their demise. So Sod 'em, no points. they were there for the taking...

Yeah, I feel even with only six years in the DDP, I could pass any exam on oncology that the British Medical Board could set me.

She's immobile and under a blanket, she might say she feels like a 70 year old but I'm not seeing her waddling down the Post Office to grab her place in the pension queue. She's one of ours however much she protests. She's a bit of a cougar then. Wouldn't that finish her off? We'd only know if someone gave it a go CoF, send her love letter and keep us informed of the results! Therein lays the problem! Okay, so we're looking for volunteers...

You're a dead pooler, it's an ally. I'm seeing our relationship with cancer as one of those political arrangements where you keep your enemies closer than your friends.

Many Condolences to you and yours and thanks for your kind thoughts on my loss too Sir C.

Lead poisoning, I presume. No I'm gonna guess it was lard-poisoning actually given how much of a fatty he looks. A healthier diet would have helped. Maybe he should have said "yams ASAP", when the waiters used to ask him for his order

Cheers, how long have we got (to post the team, I mean). I'll give you a week.

Britney Spears' former Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and boyfriend circa 2007, John Sundahl, dead after having his helicopter shot down by the Taliban.

Nothing in this game for a pair.

Who?

He was right on track. regards, Hein

So.. I was deprived of a unique on Jean Nidetch by some goofball named Fireball. And Paul Volcker isn't unique cos some exciting chappy decided to enter an economists theme team............... happy days Funny team names noticed so far: The Good the Bad and Cliff Richard Puke on My Grave The Policies of Benjamin Netanyahu (WTFF?) Further observations: Michael Shitparker's off the Drop 40 Ian Watkins is too No-one picked Olly Croft (British darts guy who was one of my uniques last year).... Great to see Rob Ford finally getting the trainwreckognition he deserves

No. Water man, water. Big gasp of fresh air too. Oh, um... by the way..... the guy who entered as "I'm 85 In March and I'm Still a Sicko!" last year isn't in this year..... Are we to er...presume?

Time for some fag packet aspergers, here's people who were picked on this year's DDP by more than one of last year's top 11 teams (due to OoO's retirement): Nine Picks Sam Simon Eight Picks Kate Granger Six Picks Daisy Berkowitz Helen Fawkes Five Picks Colin Bloomfield Lauren Hill Martin Crowe Four Picks Caroline Aherne Dave Benton George H. W. Bush, Sr. Gino Odjick Little Jimmy Dickens Three Picks Ahmad "Real" Givens Clive Derby-Lewis Clive James G. Monty Brinson Joost van der Westhuizen Leonard Nimoy Lynne Stewart Muhammad Ali René Angélil Rev Billy Graham Vojislav Seselj Zsa Zsa Gabor Two Picks Aimee Willett Bob Benmosche Christy Dignam Fernando Ricksen Jock Scott Jorge Zorreguieta Mary Tyler Moore Mike Porcaro Paul Gascoigne Percy Sledge Ritchii Kara Stuart Scott Tony Booth Valerie Harper Yoshiro Nakamatsu

And finally... We are in business!

Can I get an anthrax ripple during the interval?

Very sporting of Michael Buerk to mark the 30th anniversary of his seminal news report from Ethiopia by attempting to starve himself to death in Australia...