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Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was giving another former Gov Kathleen Blanco some award a few days ago. In doing so, Edwards relayed a story of a poor woman who everyday walked out on the porch of her shotgun house and thanked God for the day. Next door lived an atheist who chided her for thinking God had anything to do with the sun, the rain, etc. One day she prayed for God to please send her food as she had none and was starving. The next morning she walked out and found a bag of groceries on her porch. She immediately started thanking God when the atheist neighbor interrupted her. “You old fool, God didn’t get you those groceries, I did!” She fell on her knees, thanked God for the groceries and, “even better, for getting the devil to pay for them.”

I just wanted to applaud charon for making a post without the word cunto appearing. Excellent progress, although ‘count’ is an anagram and quite likely subliminal.

Candy says he’s pretty good at it.

Tactful bastard aintcha? A sort of Scottish counterbalance to Charon. . NB. love to read both though, makes me smile. (ok that's enough of that, I think I just felt a bit of sick come up).

Theme team possibility - The Dykes of Death

Still feel like there’s a lot of potential despite low hit numbers so far as a lot of the list seem to be ill even with a lot poorer picks. Don’t the second half of the year usually have more hits anyways? EDIT: Might give a more in depth analysis later today...

Surprised to see her scatter the ashes in the ocean, I thought she'd leave them rolling on the river.

12/50 by 1st January, by hook or crook. Double figures anyhow, via at least 4 of this lot. 1. Brackers 2. Wouk 3. Kirk 4. McCain 5. Moss 6. Stan Lee 7. Bush Sr 8. 1 of the old regulars (Norden/Philips) on stats alone

Bracknell McCain One more; maybe James, GHW, Wouk or JP de C. This'll be a single figure year, I reckon.

Only select dead pools obviously but... Sombra the dog - q/o a shoo-in Link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/26/police-give-sniffer-dog-extra-protection-gangs-put-50k-price/

yr sassy bishop from the Harry/Meghan marriage has prostate cancer.

I'm not sure you get the point of this thread tbh. I understand (but don't particularly care) that cycling isn't a sport that meets with your approval. So if you can name a jockey who has battled through adversity, go ahead and name him or her and I'll do my best not to denigrate and belittle whatever you come up with.

10/10 for treating customers like they should be. https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/mcdonalds-worker-beats-up-milkshake-throwing-customer/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

In other news, Fernando Ricksen is 42 today.

That's fine. Go your own way. As I said, I'm not bothered. It's nice to know your motivation. I for one would be more than happy, as you are Canadian, to get the inside draw on Canadians who I feel are under represented and have been for a long time here. We can't rely on Shatner forever you know...

You know, you are getting a lot of non-responses to your posts. Just a friendly word of advice. I was you once. I felt the Listers had to know of most deaths. Then I realised...mostly they didn't. This is a mainly UK based website, so almost anybody from the UK of note is...well...interesting. Outside of the UK, they have to be really really interesting. Like a pick for a pool. Like an entertainment star...yes, even a C-lister. Like someone previously mentioned on the site. Somebody who has done...something, anything that might garner a response. Plucking folk from the US who have essentially done their job isn't. Really. Local football coaches? Local Nigerian bishops? Telephone company executives? What's the hook that Listers may love? Others have been pointed in the past to setting up their own site for that sort of thing. You might catch the interest of a reader with something. Indeed, you could spark the interest of Listers by making a list of possibles from something. All I know is that when I took a breath, I saved my fingers and time. I don't even post in the specialist threads now unless I have a vague notion of who the person was. I'm not whining or moaning. I could care less what you post. Each to their own and all that. Maybe try and understand your readership.

Those six remaining executions has taken place now.

@theoldlady is on fire this month! 4 points for Chiyo too; 3 to gc and 2 to Chorizo (who has overtaken me, the fucker)

Dead so Far: Giuseppina Projetto - 6 July - No Obit. Alan Gilzean - 8 July - Obit. Lord Peter Carrington - 9 July - Obit. Clive King - 10 July - Obit. Lindy Remigino - 11 July - No Obit. Chiyo Miyako - 22 July - Obit. Bernard Hepton - 27 July - Obit. Bruce Lietzke - 28 July - Obit. Charlotte Rae - 5 August - Obit. Aretha Franklin - 16 August - Obit. Spencer P Jones - 21 August - No Obit. msc: 305 Points (Carrington; Lietzke; Rae) (Sub: Gilzean [5 Hearts]) Cards Played: Death Impends: 210 Points (Miyako; Rae) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 200 Points (C. King, Hepton) Cards Played: Captain Chorizo: 200 Points (Miyako; Rae) Cards Played: FujimoriNoMorey: 200 Points (Miyako; Rae) Cards Played: Sir Creep: 113 Points (Miyako) (Sub: Carrington: [K Hearts]) Cards Played: Clorox Bleachman: 100 Points (Rae) Cards Played: gcreptile: 100 Points (Miyako) Cards Played: Toast: 100 Points (Carrington) Cards Played: Torva Messor: 100 Points (Rae) Cards Played: YoungWillz: 100 Points (Rae) Cards Played: WoukThisWay: 22 Points (Sub: Miyako [J Hearts]; Rae [J Clubs]) Joey Russ: 14 Points (Sub: Rae [A Diamonds]) The Old Lady: 5 Points (Sub: Rae [5 Diamonds]) Phantom Of The Midway: 3 Points (Sub: Franklin [3 Hearts]) Everbody Else: Zero

Condolences to 123jeff.

The curtain closed for D. W. Griffith on this day 70 years ago, aged 73.