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Moved from the Rayya Elias thread in case someone thinks she's risen from the dead: One of the Pointless answers this week was Gina fucking Lollobrigida, perennial "Crowdsourced list pick I had to google who is on 5-10 teams". Ok, which one of you is setting the quiz questions on the BBC, and can you sort out a proper Ian Toothill DDP obit? Ta.

Six men but no Chesters (to my knowledge) were United in the belief Liam Miller's youth and fitness were enough to defy the grim statistics of pancreatic cancer and scrape by into next year. They'll now be Celtic-ed off as Miller's Hibern(at)ian plunges them into a dire land. As the vast majority of teams steered clear, we're still nowhere near a clear Leed-er. =1. Bentrovato 0 =1. Bibliogryphon 0 =1. CaptainChorizo 0 =1. CastAway 0 =1. CharonsCrew 0 =1. deadsox 0 =1. Death Impends 0 =1. Dr_T 0 =1. drol 0 =1. FixedBusiness 0 =1. Garn2 0 =1. gcreptile 0 =1. Grim Up North 0 =1. Joey Russ 0 =1. John Key 0 =1. machotrouts 0 =1. Mercarte 0 =1. msc 0 =1. Pedro67 0 =1. Phantom of the Midway 0 =1. Sean 0 =1. Spade_Cooley 0 =1. The Dead Cow 0 =1. The Unknown Man 0 =1. theoldlady 0 =1. time 0 =1. Toast 0 =1. Torva Messor 0 =1. Wormfarmer 0 =1. YoungWillz 0 31. paddyfool 1 32. Book 5 =33. Deathray 11 =33. Sir Creep 11 35. GraveDanger 14 36. Dead Wait 22

Was screaming cuz (I thought) SC was posting news that had already been known for a day. And hey, I'm not counting you out. Most of your team are uniques, I'm not safe at all. Jose seems to be recovering again, according to his family, so he could last till March.

Belatedly just noticed this. I played against this chap many times when he was in his 50s and he was a really nice bloke who retained a great passion for cricket even though his body was a bit knackered by this time. He achieved many fine feats during his earlier years ( I was there watching when he dismissed Boycott) , but still retained a sense of great modesty.

Steve Bruce on compassionate leave after his father died. Note the second line...

Donald Trump is the best. Make American Great Again, it’s true. Trump really does work for United States.

Sale of Goods Act threats are well, pish. They have the right to inspect the goods, and I bet there might be 'liquid ingress' involved, the old saviour of retail companies, then YOU have to pay for and prove it wasn't you that caused the TV to malfunction. I loved working in retail at times.....15 years and I think we folded once over the Sale of Goods Act. Them losing the goods is a far better hope.......

Good to see you went with pizza rather than a curry.... Now, you see, it's not fit for purpose, I'd have insisted on a replacement, if unsuccessful otherwise rejected the goods and asked for a full refund to be credited to my account by Monday, as is my right under the Sale of Goods Act, regardless of any fucking useless policy they got you to sign up to. That policy cannot exclude your statutory rights. Also add in charges for phone calls, distress, etc etc.

I feel your pain. I feel Tracy's pain. She'd love to help you, she can't. The cunts that could help you are currently trying to pretend they didn't attend a dinner in a certain London Hotel and that even if they did, it certainly wasn't them with their hand up a waitress' skirt. Makes me puke.

Still in hospital, 4 weeks on. Pic spoiler tagged for Toast's benefit.

Wesla Whitfield, one of the Great American Songbook singers, has died aged 70 after a battle with cancer. She is a unique hit for The Dead Cow. Poor Pedro must be feeling a bit like the Italians in the final of Euro 2000 all of a sudden. 1. Charon (Unrepentant) vs Maryportfuncity (Inter Youngboys FC) 3-0 2. Pedro (Trottingbum Hotsores) vs The Dead Cow 3-7 3. Young Willz (Glasgow Ron Weasley Ed Sheeran Slash Fanfiction Thistle Wanderers United) vs The Engineer 0-0 4. Grim Up North (Going Going GUN) vs Yorkshire Banker 3-3 5. Msc vs Wormfarmer 0-0 6. Spade Cooley (Great Railway Journeys with Hughie Gallacher and Robert Enke) vs Roverandout 0-0 7. Joey Russ vs Garn (Video Assistant Reaper) 4-0 8. Bibliogryphon (Bye Bye Biblio) vs Phantom of the Midway (AKA Rad Guy) 0-3 9. Sean (Shaun of the Dead’s Magical Funeral Parlour) vs Fixed Business (Business Fixed) 3-0 10. Gcreptile (The eaten tide pods) vs John Key 4-3 11. Deathray (First In, First Out and Never Invited to an Orgy Again) vs Sir Creep (The Month-to-Month Tenants) 0-0 12. Captain Chorizo vs Book (Never Heard of Soccer) 0-0

Both teams on the attack as well, with the current Jose v Tsvangirai battle in play in this tie.

Let's hope he doesn't go overboard with celebrations.

Scenes when Jean of Luxembourg dies tomorrow then!

Third Leaderboard 2018: (*=Joker) 1st: msc - 128 Points [5/25] (*Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Stokes; Miller) 2nd: drol - 102 Points [5/25] (Elias; Zarin; Cryne; Alcock; Miller) 3rd: Grim Up North - 90 Points [4/25] (Elias; Cryne; Alcock; Miller) 4th: NiceGuyEddie - 87 Points [3/25] (Cryne; Olivera; Miller) 5th: the_engineer - 76 Points [3/25] (Falkholt; Sawyer; Miller) 6th: Captain Chorizo - 63 Points [4/25] (Monson; Elias; Alcock; Kit) 7th: The Unknown Man - 62 Points [3/25] (Elias; Cryne; Miller) 8th: FujimoriNoMorey - 59 Points [2/25] (Cryne; Miller) =9th: Bibliogryphon - 58 Points [1/25] (*Hauxwell) =9th: Sir Creep - 58 Points [3/25] (Elias; Falkholt; Miller) 11th: Joey Russ - 51 Points [2/25] (Smith; Olivera) 12th: Toast - 42 Points [2/25] (Elias; Miller) =13th: Death Impends - 41 Points [2/25] (Killen; Kit) =13th: gcreptile: 41 Points [2/25] (Manikan; Olivera) 15th: Grigori: 31 Points [1/25] (Kit) 16th: Phantom of the Midway - 23 Points [1/25] (Smith) =17th: Book - 21 Points [1/25] (Le Guin) =17th: The Dead Cow - 21 Points [1/25] (Sawyer) =17th: Wormfarmer - 21 Points [1/25] (Sawyer) 20th: Whoaml - 18 Points [1/25] (Malone) 21st: Torva Messor - 3 Points [1/25] (Elias) 22nd: Fixed Business - 1 Point [1/25] (Monson) =23rd: Everybody Else (8 Teams) - 0 Points [0/25]

Sometimes Cup players get to revel in the demise of someone who wont be missed, your Ian Bradys per se, and other times, a 36 year old athlete dies from the dreaded pancreatic cancer. Such is the latter case with Liam Miller, formerly of Celtic, Manchester United and Sunderland. If you get a chance, find the Celtic goal against Lyon online. It's on YouTube, but the fuckers have cut the 20 passes leading up to it, something entirely out of the Argentina/Serbia playbook, and a whole 2 and a half years earlier too. Anyhow, this marks 3 years in a row a young sports man has produced a points bonanza in deadpooling, after Mark Farren and Joost van der Westhuizen. So what games does this change? Well, Sean goes 3-0 up on newcomers Fixed Business. Rad also takes the lead against Bibliogryphon, with a better goal than the Magill penalty from last year. John Key pulls back against Gcreptile to make that 4-3. Celtic fan charon scores with a Celt to take the lead against MPFC. Grim equalises against the Banker from Huddersfield (picked at random), and currently leads on age difference. And another age difference lead comes for The Dead Cow, who equalises his hotly contested tie with Pedro. This leaves 5 of the 12 games goalless, including yours truly. Notably Rover is still holding Spade Cooley after 9 days of competition. 1. Charon (Unrepentant) vs Maryportfuncity (Inter Youngboys FC) 3-0 2. Pedro (Trottingbum Hotsores) vs The Dead Cow 3-3 3. Young Willz (Glasgow Ron Weasley Ed Sheeran Slash Fanfiction Thistle Wanderers United) vs The Engineer 0-0 4. Grim Up North (Going Going GUN) vs Yorkshire Banker 3-3 5. Msc vs Wormfarmer 0-0 6. Spade Cooley (Great Railway Journeys with Hughie Gallacher and Robert Enke) vs Roverandout 0-0 7. Joey Russ vs Garn (Video Assistant Reaper) 4-0 8. Bibliogryphon (Bye Bye Biblio) vs Phantom of the Midway (AKA Rad Guy) 0-3 9. Sean (Shaun of the Dead’s Magical Funeral Parlour) vs Fixed Business (Business Fixed) 3-0 10. Gcreptile (The eaten tide pods) vs John Key 4-3 11. Deathray (First In, First Out and Never Invited to an Orgy Again) vs Sir Creep (The Month-to-Month Tenants) 0-0 12. Captain Chorizo vs Book (Never Heard of Soccer) 0-0

...well, for this dead pool.....clearly I included him on the DDP

No worries, when you vote to secede from the United Kingdom errr, I mean are a history nerd, it tends to do well to know the in and outs.

Actually, it's not. You mean the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - N Ireland added on because not in Great Britain, you see). Great Britain is the island on which the mighty Scots, the English and some Welsh types live. N Ireland's part of Ireland, another of the islands in the archipelago (The British Isles) but call them Irish or Brits and you'll piss off someone.

This week (copy and paste from the BBC): The actor John Mahoney who played Marty Crane in one of America's best-loved sitcoms, Frasier. Hannah Hauxwell, whose solitary life as a farmer in the Yorkshire Dales, made her a favourite on the Deathlist.net forums. Scientist Ken Seddon, a global leader in his field of inorganic chemistry and pioneer of so-called 'super solvents'. Landowner Sir John Cotterell, who helped raise funds to save the Mappa Mundi from being sold by Hereford Cathedral. And feminist icon, Naomi Parker Fraley, the inspiration for "Rosie the riveter", the factory worker who featured in a US wartime poster.

That's old news. Been happening since around 2015.

Double topped himself?

Aye, cis she can't wave her hands around...

On hunger strike?!