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She’s that bad even Saint Ed Sheeran ran in the total opposite a couple of years ago. Theres another one. Ed Sheeran. So fucking desperate for the UK Christmas number one he released the same song 3 different ways last month. Prick.

And of course, one of my favourite covers from back in the day.... Sister Sledge Lol.

The 17 most likely to die and break the record: 1)Leah Bracknell:16 months into a stage 4 lung diagnosis and reliant on shamanism.Enough said. 2)Tessa Jowell:Glioblastoma diagnosed 8 months ago.No conventional treatment options left.Can no longer speak fluently clearly thinner and frailer also. 3)John McCain:Glioblastoma 6 onths in.Not been seen in congress for awhile.Reports of second tumor. 4)Billy Graham:Parkinsons persistent infections on Oxygen since 2011 and bedridden.Eyesight and hearing also failing. 5)Herman Wouk:Nearly 103 and wheelchair and oxygen cylinder bound.Sold his house. 6)Clive James:Has had emphysema leaukemia and kidney failure since January 2010.Has been in and out of hospital has brought a wheelchair and has near enough stopped working. 7)Jill Gascoine:Has been in a nursing home for several years in the late stages of dementia.By all accounts is not aware of anything.Also had kidney cancer in 1997. 8)George H.w Bush:Parkinsonism and persistent respiratory infections. 9)Barbara Bush:Several previous infections and reliant on a nasal canula. 10)Leslie Philips:Had a stroke several years ago as well as a non malignant growth on his nose.Had a seizure and suffered a cardiac arrest in 2015.Pictured in a wheelchair looking extremely frail in 2016. 11)Kirk Douglas:Had major stroke in 1996 affecting speech.Was ina wheelchair at recentgolden globes ceremony.Also incrediblly ancient. 12)Bob Dole:Recent hospitalisation and looks very gaunt and frail.Has problems with eyes and arthritis. 13)Javier Perez de Cuellar:98 wheelchair bound and reportedly has memory problems. 14)Neil Simon:Reportedly mute from dementia as of August 2017.Had a kidney transplant in 2004. 15)Stirling Moss:Spent 134 days in Hospital last year.Retired from public life after a lack of recovery.Seems similar to Bruce Forsyth. 16)Prunella Scales:Has had dementia for nearly two decades.Hints of deterioration at the last series of Great Canal Journey`s. 17)Valerie Harper:Metastatic lung cancer now in the meninges.Hints last year that treatment was no longer working or at least losing effectiveness.

And Gazza turns up at the end with a chicken a fishing rod and some tinnies.

Call me Jummie Burns

We have to wait 500 years for that one.

No. Zager and Evans wasn't it?

Ah, so that's what Stevie Wonder was talking about.

The anonymous carbon rod who starred on The Simpsons

Chariot died on Sunday so been off all week trying to get a new one. Was due to go to scrappy on Monday, but the mouse that has lived in it the past few months finally chewed enough wires to kill it, 36 hours afore the wee cunt would've been crushed. Anyhoo, picked up a new one today from a bloke on Gumtree. Asked for the address and it was Invercharron. Fate , had to buy it.

Lol wasn't a bad guess then

Can’t fucking ABIDE Goulding, she looks like a cross between Shergar and Shaggy off Scooby Doo, distinctively average voice. Only famous because she’s on/off poking someone out of McFly.

I have been watching a lot of anime recently so that would quite appeal to me. I did watch that with no sound though. It is a big shame about Valerian though because a good non Marvel Disney franchise would be quite welcome.

I went with whoever the fuck Tessa Jowell is to go along with whoever the fuck Mark E. Smith is.

Nope- but I have it on very good authority that the other one was living in East Devon at one point about 5 years ago.

I’ll admit that when a deathbed person gets an obit over someone who made an actual bonafide achievement, it is disappointing...

Now THATS a wig!

Scores on page 2 have again been updated for Patrick Cryne and Mark E. Smith. I have to say - - you guys are good!!

I would agree that there aren't as many very strong picks as last year (last year there was Joost, Noakes, Christie, Campbell, Forsyth, Booth, Downie, and Michael). A lot of the hits had to come in the form of a bit of a punt pick, ie, not as strong as a pick. But there were enough of them to help them break the record last year. Here, there aren't as many potential 50/50 picks or strong picks as last year that would look like it would turn into a successful year. But if all the cards fall correctly, it might (just might) break the record. But there's always a few decent picks that survive into the next year, so that's very unlikely imo...

Famous author and scientist Desmond Morris is 90 today.

I think MPFC has crossed wires? Deadline for submitting teams is end of the month! However, he's got lucky here, as Charon has his faithful XI in too, so his opponent wont get an unfair advantage.

A sketchy list of elderly Opera stars: Inge Borkh 1921 Lucine Amara 1925 Christa Ludwig 1928 Rosalind Elias 1929 Antonietta Stella 1929 Gabriella Tucci 1929 Renate Holm 1931 Mady Mesple 1931 Janet Baker 1933 Montserrat Caballe 1933 (wheelchair-bound, on my 2018 shadow list) Marilyn Horne 1934 Raina Kabaivanska 1934 Renata Scotto 1934 Teresa Berganza 1935 Fiorenza Cossotto 1935 Mirella Freni 1935 Martina Arroyo 1936 Gwyneth Jones 1936 Ingeborg Hallstein 1936 Grace Bumbry 1937 Gundula Janowitz 1937 Yvonne Minton 1938 Huguette Tourangeot 1938 Teresa Stratas 1938 Edda Moser 1938 Rachel Yakar 1938 Maria Chiara 1939 Ileana Cotrubas 1939 Helga Dernesch 1939 Brigitte Fassbaender 1939 Mirjana Irosch 1939 Helen Donath 1940 Anja Silja 1940 Julia Varady 1941 Anna Tomowa-Sintow 1941 Judith Blegen 1943 Eva Marton 1943 (Overweight) Kiri Te Kanawa 1944 Agnes Baltsa 1944 Frederica von Stade 1945 Jessye Norman 1945 Edita Gruberova 1946 Katia Ricciarelli 1946 Barbara Hendricks 1948 Catherine Malfitano 1948 Kathleen Battle 1948 Julia Migenes 1949 Mara Zampieri 1951 Cheryl Studer 1955 (Overweight) Rolando Panerai 1924 Luigi Alva 1927 Vasile Moldoveanu 1935 Sherrill Milnes 1935 Peter Schreier 1935 Ugo Benelli 1935 Renato Bruson 1936 Rene Kollo 1937 Kenneth Riegel 1938 Simon Estes 1938 Samuel Ramey 1940 Jose Van Dam 1940 Placido Domingo 1941 Ruggero Raimondi 1941 Leo Nucci 1942 Salvatore Fisichella 1943 Jose Carreras 1946 (On my 2018 shadowlist) James Morris 1947 Neil Shicoff 1949 Ferruccio Furlanetto 1949

Just a sketchy list to help me keep track of famous actresses: Olivia de Havilland 1916 Marge Champion 1919 Nanette Fabray (1920 - 2018) Carol Channing 1921 Betty White 1922 Doris Day 1922 Micheline Presle 1922 Janis Paige 1922 Valentina Cortese 1923 Glynis Johns 1923 Rhonda Fleming 1923 (The best-looking ninety-years old I have ever seen) Eva Marie Saint 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire 1924 Lee Grant 1925? Katherine McGregor 1925 (Little house on the Prairie) Angela Lansbury 1925 Arlene Dahl 1925 Irene Papas 1926 Gina Lollobrigida 1927 Barbara Rush 1927 Genevieve Page 1927 Jane Powell 1929 Vera Miles 1929 Joanne Woodward 1930 (Alzheimer's) Tippi Hedren 1930 (Survived Hitchcock & 110+ lions, but looks frail now) Carmen Sevilla 1930 (Alzheimer's) Leslie Caron 1931 Monica Vitti 1931 (Alzheimer) Petula Clark 1932 Elaine May 1932 Felicia Farr 1932 Stephane Audran 1932 Phyllida Law 1932 Ellen Burstyn 1932 Kim Novak 1933 (Breast Cancer) May Britt 1933 Carol Burnett 1933 Sian Phillips 1933 Barbara Feldon 1933 (Get Smart) Joan Collins 1933 Judy Dench 1934 Louise Fletcher 1934 Maggie Smith 1934 Shirley MacLaine 1934 Eileen Atkins 1934 Florence Henderson 1934 Shirley Jones 1934 Brigitte Bardot 1934 Sophia Loren 1934 May Britt 1934 Julie Andrews 1935 Samantha Eggar 1935 Barbara Harris 1935 Diahann Carroll 1935 Diane Ladd 1935 Bibi Andersson 1935 Mylene Demongeot 1935 Glenda Jackson 1936 Shirley Knight 1936 Ursula Andress 1936 Shirley Eaton 1937 (Goldfinger) Sally Kellerman 1937 Vanessa Redgrave 1937 Susan Hampshire 1937 Dyan Cannon 1937 Jane Fonda 1937 Margaret O'Brien 1937 (Famous child star) Diana Rigg 1938 Claudia Cardinale 1938 Diana Muldaur 1938 Paula Prentiss 1938 Anne Stallybrass 1938 (Onedin Line) Stella Stevens 1938 Connie Stevens 1938 (Stroke in 2016) Lily Tomlin 1939 Ali McGraw 1939 Jane Alexander 1939 Michael Learned 1939 (The Waltons) Jill St. John 1940 Raquel Welch 1940 Julie Christie 1940 Jacqueline Sassard 1940 Katharine Ross 1940 Anna Karina 1940 Juliet Mills 1941 Ann-Margret 1941 Sarah Miles 1941 Rita Tushingham 1942 Britt Ekland 1942 Barbra Streisand 1942 Genevieve Bujold 1942 Linda Evans 1942 (She looks horrible lately) Gayle Hunnicut 1943 Cheryl Miller 1943 (Daktari) Susan Clark 1943 Tuesday Weld 1943 Catherine Deneuve 1943 Jacqueline Bisset 1944 Teri Garr 1944 Priscilla Presley 1945 Helen Mirren 1945 Mia Farrow 1945 Goldie Hawn 1945 Bette Midler 1945 Sue Lyon 1946 (Lolita, now unrecognizable) Jane Birkin 1946 (Autoimmune illness, overweight) Stefania Sandrelli 1946 Candice Bergen 1946 (Unrecognizable) Liza Minnelli 1946 Charlotte Rampling 1946 Sally Field 1946 Geraldine Chaplin 1946 Diane Keaton 1946 Glenn Close 1947 Kathy Bates 1948 Meryl Streep 1949 Sigourney Weaver 1949 Shelley Duvall 1949 (Star of Altman & Kubrik films. Seriously ill) Kathleen Turner 1954 (Rheumatoid arthritis, alcohol problems) Rosie O'Donnell 1962 (Heart attack, volatile temper)