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Brilliant work! Thank you. Would it be an idea to round up all these posts about the forum changes and move them to the Forum Upgrade thread? It's a more logical place to look if we want to check anything.

According to National Enquirer she has officially entered her Sad Last Days.

To which I say: did you see what breaking with tradition and adding in Sir Creep's 2016 team as "one of the contenders" last year did to his team? His Hits dried up practically overnight. Hmm, potential Pan Breed opposition, you say...

You can hover your cursor over the date and it'll display the exact time of the comment within a few seconds. Also - turns out removing likes from Activity Feed was rather easy. Did so just now.

I was kind of hoping someone else would do the traditional "fag packet aspergers" thing and do the 1am look at the folk picked by last years top ten. But here we are, nearly March, and nary a pip. So here's my half-assed shot at it last year for comparison. And here's my equally half-assed shot at it this year. TEN TEAMS Leah Bracknell Errol Christie Gord Downie NINE TEAMS Sara Coward EIGHT TEAMS Peter Skellern SEVEN TEAMS Steve Hewlett Colin Meads Stefan Karl John Wetton SIX TEAMS Rayya Elias Greg Gilbert Tracy McGiffin Simon Ricketts FIVE TEAMS Catherine Nevin Mark Sims Steve Sumner Joost van der Westhuizen FOUR TEAMS King Michael of Romania THREE TEAMS Paul Briggs Mario Soares Paul Van Zandvliet Charles Bradley Glen Campbell Ian St John TWO TEAMS Jay Clark Al-Baghdadi Tony Booth Lisa Magill Quincy Jones - alleged comedian John Bain Georgina Beyer Sasha Lakovic Jimmy Snuka Valery Spiridinov ONE TEAM, UNIQUE Susanne Cameron-Blackie Les Mutrie Steve Pollard Wayne Barrett ONE TEAM, NON-UNIQIUE Laurie Brokenshire Michael Perham Jagraj Singh Pete Frates Smith Hart Emma Houlston Craig MacGregor Clive James Vincent Lambert Eddie Long Julia Perez Alan Aspin Colin Butts Anna Holmlund Ben Suisala Jill Gascoine Rev Billy Graham John Stossel Patrick Cryne Bruce Forsyth Jerome Golmard Daisy Berkowitz DJ Casper Dmitri Hvorostovsky Connie Johnson Mao Kobayashi Sharon Laws Bruce Langhorne Salvatore Dimasi Sharon Rockefeller Randy Romero Bart Starr Nobby Stiles Marieke Vervoort

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Confessedly can't take all the credit, Grim Reaper figured quite a few things out as well like how to return the "Who's Online" widgets. But still... it is a nice day in the Netherlands, just ignore that location in my sidebar...

Various reports online that Raymond Smullyan has died aged 97. So far all I can see is Twitter/Facebook posts from academics, no obituary yet but it appears he passed away yesterday. Edit: Here is an obituary.

A Colme-Over?

Hewlett got a whole Media show special yesterday. It was very good but that might mean they leave him out. Probably won't get to listen as picking my daughter up late.

Aye, it's there now

Excellent, thanks. I may still get this out from time to time though And hooray that we can post images from our own computers again!

@Toast So a tantrum smiley? Ask and you shall receive. And one more new smiley: Not going to go overboard with new smileys though, so that's likely it.

Newman dies the same day the Met gets a woman chief. And she's a Dick. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39055696

We're getting hit by storm Doris tomorrow. Thursday will be Doris day

Sir Kenneth Newman, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1982-1987), has died aged 90. Sir Nicholas Wall QC, former President of the Family Division of the High Court (2010-2012), has died aged 71. Edit: Rather tragically, it's been announced Sir Nicholas Wall committed suicide after being diagnosed with dementia.

I cant just get my head around the fact that they left three children, all under the age of 5 alone in a hotel room in a foreign country.

Thanks DeathImpends. You deserve permanent admin status!

Fats Domino

Betty White. She is an animal advocate, LGBT rights supporter and a longtime vegetarian. Seems like we have a lot in common...

Peter Gabriel is on the record saying he always used to try to lip read the fans in the front row to remember the words. That was in his twenties.

Rarely heard of him, but this comes up on Wikiquote: That, I like.

He's definitely a big name. He has not been picked for the DDP but I'd be shocked if he does not obit.

#9: Norwegian zoologists have found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwestern Norway coast. The visibly sick, 2-ton goose-beaked whale was euthanized, Terje Lislevand of Bergen University said Friday. "The (whale's) stomach was full of plastic," Lislevand said, adding that its intestine "had no food, only some remnants of a squid's head in addition to a thin fat layer." Well done, humans! ​SC

Well, going by that photo, she's clearly not permanently consigned to a wheelchair. That's just one of those functional wheelchairs for the temporarily incapacitated, or other one-off use. I'm hoping she was just taking the weight off her feet because being Japanese, she's scheduled to appear on my DDP list somewhere circa 2036.