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Thanks all. I owe it to my ability to put forward really old people. And thanks to MPFC, for running this fine game, and for allowing me to put the annual winnings towards Chest Stroke and Heart Scotland. Same time in December then!

One thing is for sure, Joan Armatrading's stream of royalty cheques might dry up for a bit...

Andreas Lubitz = BANZAI Strudel

The surgery is going to take place around May 7th: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/03/25/rob-ford-set-to-have-cancer-surgery-may-7.html A good day for removing unpleasent tumours

WINNER!! That final podium in full: Scoreboard: MSC - 2192 Death Impends - 1735 Devon Death Trip - 1331

I'm pleased Jeremy Clarkson has been sacked and that a spurious petition hasn't saved him. He punched a fellow employee in the face - that should cost anyone their job, however much money they rake in for their bosses. I suppose he's free to seek gainful employment as a UKIP candidate now. Tomorrow - overcast with 73% chance of light rain.

You could have put it towards the Fort William Football Club. They might have been able to buy a striker ;-)

I have a shock announcement. He was a member of this forum Nice speculation, but unless it was a lurker, I can rule that out by a process of elimination. The age isn't right. What, you're seriously suggesting he might have been a former member of a classic punk band!? Awesome

Title suggestion for Clarkson's Russian show: Top Bear.

Nah, it's just a Malikious rumour.

The only member of the Russian Duma to vote against the Russian annexion of the Crimea, Ilya Ponomaryov, is currently being stuck in the USA and being refused return into Russia because "they don't want to risk creating any more martyres." http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kremlin-critic-ponomaryov-stuck-in-us-while-being-kept-away-from-russia/518060.html Ponomaryov wants to return though, his children are still in Russia.

I'll add James Burke and Sister Wendy Beckett.

Hmmm I'm seeing your 2016 line up sitting on a PM hereabouts and seriously doubting the ability of some of those picks to make the start line. Up to now we haven't had a rule about early entries and I did accept someone in August last year but my suspicion about accepting a team too early is that it's simply asking to create work as they start shedding talent ahead of the start. So, the present plan (i.e. I dreamt it up in the last 60 seconds) is that there WILL be a 2016 Deathrace, I'll start loading the requisite posts into a new thread in the first week of December (assuming the Deathlist and I make the start line for that) and anyone sending a team to me via PM from 1 September 2015 will be treated seriously. To be fair to our only entrant so far - Deathray - I'll leave his team on my PMs when I go there after this post and delete all the messages containing 2015 teams. So, by default, if Deathray doesn't reconsider, and in the unlikely event that the current King of Thailand and 19 other vulnerably functioning individuals are still with us at that point, his line up will be first into the new masterlist. And finally If anyone has a strong opinion about rule changes etc. that should be implemented to improve customer enjoyment of the fastest dead pool hereabouts, post them on this thread before it falls into oblivion and the committee will take them on board, or summat.

Congrats msc. Time to sharpen up the 2016 team and get that fired off to mpfc asap, unless he is going to take this opportunity to forbid that practice..

That's failure in the raw.

They already have someone to take the place of Zayn Malik at least for the rest of the tour. I'm sure they'll audition someone to come into the band full time for however long their popularity lasts. Can't they just buy a new one in the shop?

Indeed, election in three days: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/03/nigeria-decides-150325142912949.html Also, this reminds of a computer game called "President Forever" where you are a candidate for the office of US president and direct your campaign. One variable you always have to pay attention to is your fatigue level. If it gets too high you collapse during a campaign event which results in negative press...I guess this might have happened there, too much stress during the campaign.

Seriously? How old are you? Where do you want me to start? Charles and Camilla is a real love story with happy end! Also, Charles is an old hippy and probably votes green. Yes that old familiar love story where out of a misplaced sense of honour a guy allows the woman he (supposedly) loves to marry his pal shack up with a brood mare 15 years his junior and subjects her a miserable marriage whilst cuckolding his pal until he finally drives away his wife and then she conveniently dies/is killed (delete as appropriate if you are Muhammed Al Fayad) and then they finally marry so she can care for him as he descends into an eccentric pensionerhood still waiting to fulfill his destiny. Why Disney haven't done that one I can only guess.

Hell yeah, apart from owt else there's a small fortune in product placement, kit them out in Nike one week and D & G the next, it ain't like they're gonna object, is it?