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Let's end all of this "picture of the day" nonsense with a smorgasboard to finish. Here, try topping these:

March variant then. On this day (using only the final contenders per year...) 2016 Death Impends 80 Heading Nowhere 77 DDT 72 Pan Breed 72 Spade Cooley 71 Sir Creep 71 Bert 62 Gcreptile 61 Crossing the Styx 45 A shake up in that quiet year, as Death Impends and a host of others cashed in big joker points on Ms Feek, including yours truly who was “proper gobsmacked” at such a lofty position in the table. Phil Gartside’s death was a very rare case of all the chasers bar Spade guessing the outcome of a private battle correctly. Louise Plowright, only picked by DDT and Bert of the main contenders, was another What If. 2015 Death Impends 34 Spade Cooley 32 DDT 19 The game was chugging away, with all 3 picking Bob Benmosche. Spade made up a fair bit of the gap with Ahmad “Real” Givens, who just seems like a quintessential Spade Cooley pick, really! 2014 Spade Cooley 35 DDT 22 Drunkasaskunk 19 DDT didn’t have a great 2014 but he still pulled a unique hit on a Belgian opera director to remain in contention early. Also in the unique game was Drunkasaskunk with a really old Scottish painter. 2013 OoO 69 DDT 55 Death Impends 55 Crossing the Styx 51 This Mortail Coil 39 Spade Cooley 22 I’ll be honest, I stopped paying attention to the DDP this year as I was doing fucking shite, and took Odstock’s victory as fait accompli, so when people started congratulating Spade I was highly confused. The above helps show why... Death Impends got his first unique (Tony Sheridan). 2012 ‘arry-Kiri 35 Spade Cooley 33 DDT 24 Norfolk and Good 13 ‘appy ‘arry’s lot took the lead, and scored on Frank Carson, a Deathlist 2012 tip by yours truly. They ignored him and my other one, Sid Waddell, who I’m sure paid their faith back handsomely... 2011 DDT 38 DDT had a quiet month. I think a challenger came with 20 points of him at one point... 2010 If I’m Spared Myself of Course 31 Canadian Paul 23 Tonight Matthew 22 ‘arry-Kiri 17 DDT 16 Rot in Hell John 15 Impaled on the Antlers 15 Banshees 14 OoO 14 It’s a lead among the contenders for Toast! She had a unique dying restaurant owner in her team. 2009 Heaven Knows They’re Miserable Now – 61 DDT – 55 Banshees 29 No Noose is Good Noose – 21 Tonight Matthew 19 Impaled on the Antlers – 19 HKTMN racks up another hit with Wendy Richard. Procession... Or it would be if DDT hadn’t picked up a 26 point joker! 2008 Godot’s Waiting List 58 The Man in Black 57 DDT 52 Banshees 27 Canadian Paul 24 Wormer 20 TMIB nabbed 9 hits by this point, and yet it was the Jeff Healey pick that brought DDT and Godot back into the frame.

Well, I raised my kids - the oldest is almost 30 now - and I thought my days of 4am were gone. Then my cocker spaniel decided to get old and senile.

So, you've got a floor of around 170 points? Ricketts was always going to be a 2017/2018er, but I ignored all the pancreatic cancer victims last year like a big idiot. Wont be the only person to have noticed him missing from a certain team, mind you. Golmard might be a title winning risk he was far too early for me - ony 3 years since diagnosis. Anyhow, the turning point this year will be the Al-Baghdadi/Holmlund double header one sleepy day in July...

And a warm welcome back to you MK. I find sound anger management is a bonus in maintaining a long and healthy hold on life. Love and peace, Man

I want you to know that I love you enough to inform you that if you said that in Texas you would get shot. What do they call it in Texas then? A manual soil-moving implement?

"African American" - a euphemism increasingly applied to people who are neither African nor American. If you mean black people, say so.

100 years since Ferdinand Von Zeppelin ran out of air, aged 78.

Former Vice Presidet of Taiwan/Republic of China Li Yuan-Tsu has died aged 94. I'm using the spelling of his name on Wikipedia, not the one in the death notice.

It's one thing to run a family owned business that isn't traded publicly and has no shareholders or board of directors to answer to as opposed to being President and having 435 congressional representatives, 100 senators, the supreme court and 350 million Americans to answer to. He's accustomed to waving his hand and getting his way. He is also accustomed to having the media report mostly favorably about his buildings and his philanthropy and his wives. Must suck when all of a sudden you are the butt of every late night comedian and half the country hates your guts and many members of your own adopted party are out for your blood. He's discovered being President is a stressful, no win situation that requires tact and diplomacy to succeed at - two qualities he has never cultivated nor needed.

This level of general fuckwittery is not sustainable. Another 4 years of this and another two thirds of America will be on Prozac. (The remaining 3rd is already on them.) I think what's most likely to happen is either Trump will be around for 8 years or he'll be gone inside a year. I think the signs are stronger for the later at the moment but even 24 hours is proving to be a long time in Trumpworld. A lot depends on exactly how much the spooks are prepared to leak about him without risking an actual conviction. There's an awful lot of smoke related to Russians but someone needs to be bold and start the actual fire that finishes him. On a topical point, though, a pundit I follow noted The Donald looked quite below par getting off Marine One on Monday and they felt it was a sign the job was starting to effect his health. The walls are certainly closing in.

I think the Jay Clark obituary is going to prove to be this season's turning point. Without it I was beginning to see a realistic path to victory, but with it I'm going to be relying on a huge amount of luck to finish ahead of DQSP. Every year I take at least one needless punt based on a gut feeling and this year it's Golmard. This one was also motivated by wanting to crowbar a unique pick in but I didn't even manage that. If he goes I think he'll obit but I also think I've used up my ALS luck on Joost. Has anyone ever won before with two ALS picks? I think I'm going to need Golmard and a huge slice of luck to been with a realistic shot. Forsyth was another gut pick when the more coldly logical 9 pointer would have been Meads. It's quite an amateurish pick but one I couldn't resist. Having said that things don't look great for him. Another important differential I'd put at an optimistic 50/50. PC is actually one I may have had a little extra info on, but still by no means a gimme. Simon Ricketts is another one I'll probably need but he's responding well to treatment and I think he'll see 2018 with relative ease. Again if I'd been more coldly logical in picking my team, I shouldn't have ignored his 1-2 years to live assessment from November. I think this one will prove costly to me and TJS. King Michael and PvZ are not nailed on either but I think they'll probably go before the year's end. Bracknell and Downie are irrelevant as all the contenders have them. Christie would actually hurt my chances as he's TJS joker. Nevin and Magill sure goners. On top of all this I've got a sizeably lower ceiling of points so I'm going to need at least one more death than DQSP and TJS which is hard to envisage. This is really just a long winded way of saying I need a lot of luck. I need Karl and Bradley to stay well. I could do with at least one of Gilbert, Elias and Meads defying the odds. And I could probably do with Bagrag Singh failing to get an obituary but I think that's very unlikely. Still it's great to be in the mix, and we all like an underdog story don't we....

He's dead but not had a mention on Last Word yet which surprises me. It was in response to Hoppy's comment about the archives rather than who might die. Sorry

I always get him mixed up with the bloke on the Toulouse-Lautrec posters.

You'd think some cunt from Cork would know when to bottle it.....

Looks like we already have a contender for worst thread of the year.

Take a couple of weeks off to think about what you've written to MSC, and also what you pm'd to me.

Fucking hell, lad, you really an irredeemable shithead.

Personally I think the use of the expression "butt hurt" is grounds for a lengthy ban by itself.

I want you to know that I love you enough to inform you that if you said that in Texas you would get shot.

Tut tut, Toastie!!! Thats a bad wrapped in genius.

Nothing quite like saying it like it is! Absolutely. Let's call a spade a spade.

Nothing to do with death (well, except preventing it) but here is today's example of feminism gone mad from the news. "Melbourne's first female traffic lights". You couldn't make this shit up: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560

addind to this he was a huge favorite for the final win and may finish into total oblivion + be forever banned by his politic family for his blinded insistence and the irrevocable damage he may have done to the french politic balance days after days on each TV appearance he looks more & more tired / frail relationship with his family (wife & childs) might also have worsened a lot... that's my french view about this...

I think Francois Fillon (France's presidential candidate under pressure to resign over fraud allegations) would have been a good bet for a suicide in 2017 Unfortunately, 2018 might be too late for him...