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Although the deadpooling fuels my competitive nature (and it's a lot easier to win at than fantasy football), I'm really here for the dead celebs. The kind of excellent cadavers (good name for a DDP team?) I like are the character actors, the forgotten wrestlers, the people who had their moment of fame 40 years ago. I've said it before: you cannot be good at this game if you just view picks as numbers, you have to be invested in them as entities.

As @Joey Russ mentioned in the pop thread, these two giants of the music scene probably deserve a thread of their own. Simon is about to stop touring and Garfunkel is a genuine eccentric, always coming up with stuff to keep us amused. I wouldn't like to guess which one will go first, but feel it is right that we have a thread in place as they progress into their autumn years.

Hopefully he will be sitting by her mum.

Hey, what other forums can you have informative posts like this: next to (possibly bad taste) gags like this: Next to genuine appreciation from usually at least one regular on most of the folk who pass - more so than the press usually Next to the group support stuff (which sort of sprung up), the in-jokes, the ability to pun on any persons career, and of course, the recommendations: But really, if all else fails, there's the insanity: Anyhow, now I've forgotten my point - I just wanted an excuse to link to the Hofman post again tbh.

Whoever was a Camm whore, points! https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/view,britains-oldest-person-bessie-dies-age-113-in-moorgate-care-home_27119.htm

"Knock knock" "Who's there?" "Yanny" "Laurel who?"

He's going to Harry's wedding tomorrow I hear. Just as long as nobody asks whether anyone knows of any good cause or reason why they may not be wed, we should be fine....

I presume that this is not an updated photo.

Unfortunately my mind is now so full and so old that it can only recall what it wants to and not what I want it to. There was a question on Uni Chall last year and I knew the answer was number 20 on the Death List but I could not bring his name to mind before one of students did. In our house they only count if you get them before each other and before the students. (Jake LaMotta by the way - Mrs GUN did not give me the point).

Think he got a Guardian Obit. Yep. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/17/trevor-preston-obituary

Joey normally when I see you have posted in a thread I do expect there to be real information. Occasionally you do correct other people but that is an understandable urge. I came here for information. I was running a works Deathlist game this site gives me information hot of the press. I do like lists and all the games. Joker's Deadpool is one of my favourites along with 20/20. I will probably never win apart from my Inverse Deadpool triumph but it is a lot of fun here. My interest here is really linked back to my childhood. My mother died at the age of 47 when I was 9 and so I am morbidly fascinated by longevity and memory. A lot of people discussed on here are no longer in the public eye but we are not just focussed on their health but their contributions.

Looking too much isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I also wondered about Harry’s parentage until it was evidenced that she didn’t even meet that ginger spiv until after Harry was born. But to be honest and with the utmost respect, the bit about William and Harry not getting on is absolute bunkum, if you’ll pardon my French!

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Meghan Deported - Wedding Off!! Link to some amusing clickbait: http://southendnewsnetwork.net/news/royal-wedding-cancelled-after-meghan-markle-deported-by-accident/

*sigh* Only so much I can take. "Conservative Councils cost you less than Labour" - Theresa May, 2018 pre-Council elections. Grenfell disaster caused by penny pinching Conservative Council. Not only that, but now every taxpayer in the country is paying for it through re-cladding tower blocks across the country. Jeremy Hunt apologises for breast cancer screening debacle. He will have to apologise again as it's just been discovered the same thing happened with cervical cancer screening. All on top of Windrush. And they have no idea what they're doing on Brexit.

She's on Question Time right now, looking like she escaped from an episode of Blake's 7.

Not traveling from Cape Town to Jacksonville, Florida to donate some manuscripts: http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180502/nobel-laureate-archbishop-desmond-tutu-donates-manuscripts-documents-to-unf

One of my son's he told last week. "Knock knock" "Who's there" "Boo" "Boo who?" "Boobies!!!!"

Hmmm - this'll be interesting. I note the "try" in that post. So this is the first of the 12 steps, then. Apparently it helps if you believe in a higher power; I'm sending assistance

I wondered why that name seemed familiar. Hits for @msc, @Sir Creep, @Death Impends, @Spade_Cooley & @RoverAndOut. This is the second hit for di and spade so they now need a hit in EU leaders, boxers and kevin bacon. However that will be the same as three uniques. Congrats to the five of you and particularly to death impends for drawing my attention to it.

Fair dos, I cannot catch them all. A salutary reminder to players that those outlying picks might need to be brought to my attention. Going to be some shuffling about on the next leaderboard, coming soon....

Gonnae take it to the Probabilistic Thread, just gonnae....

J

Let me just translate this... I'm so glad that PS decided to share these words of wisdom with us. I feel almost enlightened by them. It's as though the doors of my perception have been cleansed. I can see things as they truly are; drug-addled crap talk.