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Sorry but appear to be out of the loop, Any chance you could give me a scoop, As to how the fucking hell, A man so chill and swell, Gets kicked out of an entire nation? Did you burn down a police station? Perhaps you broke into a museum? Or stole bodies from the mausoleum? I mean it's Canada for crying out loud! They don't care, anythings allowed!

Because a) Olivia Newton-John is actually on the list and b) Grease 2 was a much worse sequel to the original one...

Informative (come for the LSD, find out a reference to limited-slip differential instead), drug creation chat, nutter guests (one in particular can spell lysergic acid diethylamide but not the word "know"), a cat called Trevor, random Russian, advice on the price to sell a signed copy of Hofmanns autobiography ($2000 was the going rate in 2005, apparently), Banshees on his hero, Maryport on the cynical neglect of Cumbria by government, fake death reports, Rolling Stones, moans about the morderators, history of LSD stuff, Beatles references, the Hodge Conjecture, forum lurker having a phone conversation with Hofmann, moans about Deathlist eligibility, and then he dies. And of course, this:

Just because they do not have a thread does not mean they cannot be discussed.

Let it go

Didn't want my election coverage posts to clog up the political rants thread, so I think an election coverage thread is necessary since we're in a midterm election year and Presidential candidates will begin announcing later this year and early next year. Admins feel free to merge this back to the rants thread if they feel this isn't adequate. Anyways, tonight's primary elections brought some of the usual and expected results, but in some cases, key races were completely different than what I and most political analysts expected. Ultimately, a theme I saw tonight was a rebellion on both sides against the current national and state administrations where the primaries were held, especially in states like Oklahoma and New York where the current Governors are uniquely unpopular. Let's start. South Carolina (runoff) Not many races tonight, and only one of them, the gubernatorial race, was high profile. This is because South Carolina, like multiple southern states and South Dakota, have a system where if a candidate doesn't receive over 50% of the vote, a separate election is held on a later date. The only race worth discussing is the race for Governor, where Trump-endorsed Governor Henry McMaster failed to clear 50% on June 12th, and went into a runoff with fellow Republican John Warren. This outcome was expected, but the margins were closer than expected. I assume the close result is due to McMaster not actually being elected Governor before. Despite being an incumbent, he only assumed office when Governor Nikki Haley resigned to become the U.S. Ambassador to The U.N.. McMaster, the Lieutenant Governor at the time of Haley's resignation assumed the office due to the line of succession. South Carolina Governor: GOP Primary RO 98% of precincts reporting. Henry McMaster* - 53.3% (Winner) John Warren - 46.7% Mississippi (runoff) Nothing really to see here other than the Republican runoff in the 3rd Congressional District to replace outgoing incumbent Gregg Harper, who is retiring. Because of MS-03's partisan lean, whoever won the GOP primary was almost certain to succeed Harper. Having passed through Mississippi on the drive to the beach, I can testify that Michael Guest signs were on every corner and in every small to medium sized town in MS-03. Surprised he didn't clear 50% initially. The other high profile race in MS was the Democratic runoff for the normally scheduled Senate election, between David Baria and Howard Sherman. IMO, Roger Wicker, the incumbent Republican Senator is much more safe than Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed by Governor Phil Bryant to replace Thad Cochran, who resigned from ill health. Mississippi Senator: DEM Primary RO 99% of precincts reporting. David Baria - 58.5% (Winner) Howard Sherman - 41.5% MS-03: GOP Primary RO Michael Guest - 65.1% (Winner) Whit Hughes - 34.9% Maryland No big federal primaries here. Chelsea Manning flopped miserably against Ben Cardin in the Democratic Senate Primary, she only got around 6% of the vote (lol). Only other important race was in the 6th District vacated by Rep. John Delaney, who retired to run for President in 2020. His likely replacement is Democrat David Trone, who won the Democratic Primary with 40% of the vote. Although, Democratic Former NAACP Chairman Ben Jealous took the Democratic nod for Governor against popular-moderate-blue-state-governor-number-35, Larry Hogan, who may be familiar to this forum for battling cancer some years ago. Maryland Governor: DEM Primary Ben Jealous - 39.8% (Winner) Rushern Baker - 29.3% Jim Shea - 8.3% Others - 22.5% Oklahoma Unlikely a Democrat will win statewide in Oklahoma, especially since the more electable Republican, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, took the lead in the GOP Primary for Governor, and I personally think he's the favorite to take the nomination now. Despite this, Oklahoma, like South Carolina and Mississippi, requires runoff elections for races where a candidate can't reach 50%. This is definitely a blow to Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb, who won't qualify for the runoff as he only made it to 3rd place. Lamb is the Lieutenant Governor under horribly unpopular Governor Mary Fallin. Oklahoma Governor: GOP Primary Mick Cornett - 29.3% (Runoff) Kevin Stitt - 24.4% (Runoff) Todd Lamb - 23.9% Others - 22.4% New York New York was a big state tonight, 3 incumbent Democrats, yes THREE were at risk of losing their House primaries, with one actually losing, one narrowly surviving, and the other winning by a small, but comfortable margin. On the Republican side, a Roy Moore magnitude disaster was avoided in the 11th District with Representative Dan Donovan defeating his predecessor and convicted felon Michael Grimm by around a 65-35 margin. The only incumbent defeated tonight, and the first Democrat of the cycle to lose renomination, was Congressman Joe Crowley, a prominent Democratic Congressman once speculated as a possible replacement for Nancy Pelosi as the House Democratic Leader. This is giving me flashbacks to tea party Republican Dave Brat's upset against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor back in 2014. Crowley's opponent who defeated him is Justice Democrat and 28-year-old first time campaigner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I'm excited to see Ocasio-Cortez enter Congress, being so far the only Justice Democrat to defeat an incumbent Congressman. NY-09: Democratic Primary Yvette Clarke* - 51.9% (Winner) Adem Bunkeddeko - 48.1% NY-12: Democratic Primary Carolyn Maloney* - 58.8% (Winner) Suraj Patel - 41.2% NY-14: Democratic Primary Joe Crowley* - 42.5% Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - 57.5% (Winner) Utah Nothing to see here in this solidly Republican and mormon state. Mitt Romney defeated a conservative challenger in his Senate race. Colorado Walker Stapleton and Jared Polis, the two favorites from the Democratic and Republican parties respectively, both won their primaries. Likely to win in November, Jared Polis will be Colorado's first gay Governor and will be one of the nation's richest Governors. In CO-06, DCCC favorite Jason Crow easily dispatched Justice Democrat Levi Tillemann despite Tillemann using the DCCC telling him to drop out so Crow could win to his advantage.

Thanks! Done.

I hear he's just been hospitalised after being seriously attacked by a barn owl. Apparently. Let's all wish him well and hope he gets the help he needs before it's all too late... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/iain-lee-owl-attack_uk_5b333f12e4b0cb56051d4fda

Yesterday I was looking at the cast for the film Not Now Comrade ( a 1976 Ray Cooney farce) which is more alive than dead Roy Kinnear, Don Estelle, Lewis Fiander, Richard Marner and Michael Sharvell- Martin are the dead but Leslie Philipps is the star.

If that Vervoort update means anything it probably means the race has shifted largely into the hands of those who didn't pick her (Pan Breed, Pity Da Foolz, etc) and those who didn't joker her (Droller Coaster, To Kill A Gabor Sister, etc). So that probably mean I'm out of the running along with many others who looked like contenders in the beginning, but a top ten spot is still very plausible (and it's only my second year in this anyways, so I still have a lot time to improve my craft)...

I keep forgetting Roger Whittaker is still alive (82 last March) - Just saw someone discussing it on Facebook

Fuck off the pair of you. Especially you Lfneminem.

Decided to do an update rather than properly deal with those issues.

This is 100% pure unadulturated Chirac material for sure.

Was told on the scene I would have to write my Consulate or summat in 5 years to ask permission to return. I probably waited 3+ before I dared to go international again!

No rush Toastie, no rush....

Yeah, and I'm also more and more convinced that the majority of picks for Joe Jackson (ugly new wave pianist) were actually for Joe Jackson (handy-with-a-belt father of a paedo).

Just to let you know when I stopped reading.

That's something that could arguably be quantified in a rough and ready sort of way. Points allocated to each individual as to their 'fame quotient'. One could then ascribe bonuses for more famous in the UK (it's a uk based site) or for more famous with teens, or more famous with older than teens...or any other criteria everyone agreed on. I have a few seconds before the next football game where my predict-a-score in another thread is plunging to new depths so lets see where that might take us: Points I'd ascribe on a personal basis 1 to 10 for your list. (just mine, others can argue that's too biased, and it is. but we could as a site argue the merits on any individual and then come up with a consensus 'fame' score. Linda Nolan - 4 Leah Bracknell - 2 Peter Carrington - 2 JPDC - 0 Stirling Moss - 5 Tessa Jowell - 4 Prunella Scales - 5 Leslie Phillips - 4 Jill Gascoigne - 2 Vera Lynn - 5 Charles Aznavour - 6 Honor Blackman - 7 Stanley Baxter - 5 Valery Giscard Destaing (sp) - 7 Mel Brooks - 8 Neil Simon - 8 June Brown - 3 Dennis Norden - 4 Ian St John - 3 Jimmy Greaves - 4 Clive James - 6 Joni Mitchell - 7 Gazza - 5 Mark Smith - 4. I've not allocated more than 5 to folks that are possibly unknown outside the uk, or more than 4 if they are only known for say a soap or as a politician, since they might be very famous in their own country but unheard of elsewhere. Thus to get over 5 the subject would have to be internationally known. Incidentally, Abby Lee Miller would have to have a personal fame score of 2,200 for your assertion that she is 20 times more famous than the entirety in combination of others on the list .

To be fair, I've never had a warning point or been banned. Love you too...

The flipside to your point 1 - If they definitely are going to drop dead any moment now, is it really worth starting a thread about them?

I'm so angry I can't remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500 in Roman numerals. . . . . . I M LIVID.

I wouldn't have quoted that tweet if I thought there was any doubt she had died. Isn't a granddaughter's report official enough for you, if not for pools?

Slobberdown Mycockyabitch

I listen to Radio 2s Steve Wright 'in the afternoon' show which is, basically, talk radio as the cunt talks over every fucking record intro he plays.