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Following on from gc's post above, I thought I'd have a look and see how we're doing overall on Scavenger Hunt 1.0. Since Rotten Ali won with Keith Barron, there have been a healthy 10 further hits. They are as follows: Switch 0/1/1/1/2 - John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders YoungWillz 0/1/0/1/1 - Ken Dodd in #1 Hits RadGuy 0/0/0/1/1 - no new hits TIme 0/0/0/1/0 - no new hits ImNotHades 1/2/0/1/1 - no new hits msc 1/3/0/2/3 - Baroness Wendy Nicol in House of Lords, Vic Damone in #1 hits Deathray 0/1/0/2/1 - no new hits Handrejka 2/1/0/0/0 - Bella Emberg and Ken Dodd in Dr Who, Randolph Quirk in House of Lords RockhopperPenguin 1/1/1/2/0 - Peter Wyngarde in Dr Who, John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders DeathImpends 1/3/1/2/3 - Baroness Wendy Nicol in House of Lords, John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders CaptainChorizo 1/1/0/0/2 - Baron Barber of Tewkesbury in House of Lords, Ken Dodd in #1 hits gcreptile 1/1/1/1/3 - John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders, Hubert Doggart in Test cricketers, Ken Dodd in #1 hits RottenAli 2/3/0/2/1 - Ken Dodd in #1 hits Rover&Out 2/3/1/4/2 - Ken Dodd in Dr Who, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury in House of Lords, John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders, Vic Damone in #1 hits Toast 2/2/1/1/4 - Baron Barber of Tewkesbury in House of Lords, John B. Anderson in US Presidential contenders, David Cassidy in #1 hits I surprised myself to discover I've had more hits since we finished than anyone else, with 4 in 4 different categories! Toast and gc have both had 3 hits, as has most notably Handrejka who failed to score a single hit during actual gameplay (showing how quickly things can change!) Nobody has yet completed the all 5 in a category way of winning: I would still need Everton Weekes in Test cricketers and Toast would now need Vera Lynn in #1 hits. Nobody has yet matched Ali's 3 uniques to win: Rockhopper scored a second unique with Peter Wyngarde and ImNotHades already had 2 and hasn't yet scored since, while Handrejka comes from nowhere to score 2 uniques with Bella Emberg and Randolph Quirk to put her one score away from finishing, proving it really does only take a few scores to potentially win this thing. The death of John B. Anderson put myself, Toast and Death Impends over the top with a hit in all 5 categories, while Hubert Doggart's death (combined with Anderson's) meant gc has done likewise. So, this means in the 4 months since the game officially ended (bearing in mind it ran for nearly 18 months), we now have 5 of the 15 players who could have won if the deaths had been in a slightly different order, with someone who didn't score a hit during actual gameplay now one away from joining us. This game is great, I wonder who'll get lucky this time around (or when we'll even get the first hit!)

Guardian Obit for Carmel McSharry.

This isn't a real person and is just a Charlie Higson character from The Fast Show.

Anagram trivia: Sonia Ghandi = Shag on India

I have read through this thread and decided that I have no freaking concept. Except that I concur with the divorce recommendation. As anyone who knows me can swear and testify, shopping is one of my more enviable talents.

Its 31 years since TV's first Robin Hood (BBC 1953), Patrick Troughton, was too late for the doctor.

We're losing them all; poetess, sculptress etc. How long before we hear award for an actor in a female role?

Actor when referring to a female. I really can't see the sense in this usage. The other day I was musing over who might play a certain (male) role in an upcoming series, and I looked for a "list of Scottish actors". What came up was an unsorted list of actors AND actresses which was a PITA. Now I'm all for equality and all that, but really this is one area where it's usually horses for courses, innit?

Bill Lucas Daily Mail Obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5551715/Britains-oldest-Olympian-RAF-legend-dies-101-without-honour.html

you are right about coke but all ketchup tastes more or less the same

"You know Ted, I love to be around hard men." "I wouldn't know about that Sir."

Well I guess he’ll have been pretty thoroughly “wormed” by now

Delores Taylor, whose empathy for Native Americans informed the 1971 surprise action-film hit “Billy Jack,” which she wrote and starred in with her husband, Tom Laughlin, died on Friday in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 85 and had dementia. SC

How old are you and are you a man or lady?

Now you might as well be talking in Russian as I wouldn’t hVe the first clue how to do that

K

You can’t delete your own posts due to the potential of people abusing it for a negative reaction. If you want something deleted, you have to ask a mod to do that.

We all love Lardy. Well, anyone who doesn't can fuck right off.

Hmm, my Scavenger Team 1.0 had two hits since this one started: Ken Dodd, and Hubert Doggard who was a unique.

Netanyahu rushed to hospital, was suffering from a fever and coughing uncontrollably. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu/israeli-pm-netanyahu-rushed-to-hospital-israeli-media-idUSKBN1H32TE

During the first edition of this game, we had to wait less than a fortnight for our first hit (Cricketer Donald Carr), but then didn't get another hit until September, 3 months later (Cricketer Len Maddocks). Also worth noting the only person who'd picked Donald Carr was Rotten Ali, who won the eventual game so first hit could be vital (or, you know, not). Anyway, we're approaching a month in and no sign of any movement. Conclusions to be drawn from this: there are more, older Test Cricketers than old boxers. And we could be here for a while.

K

Correction. Some of these people lose 6+ DPs a year. Hi!

Yes you did. Yes - happy 119th birthday for yesterday JiroemonKimura!