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5th UPDATE May hits John Bain Bessie Camm Ted Dabney Cornelia Frances Dean Francis Delphine Gibson David Goodall Tessa Jowell Jerry Maren David Shutts June Hits Lady Mary Wilson Matt Cappotelli Joe Jackson July Lindo Remingo Chiyo Miyako Bruce Lietzke August Charlotte Rae Karunanidhi Mary Carlisle John McCain Stefan Karl Stefansson Neil Simon Aretha Franklin Azreen Manan* Dead but no qualifying orbits as of now In this update John McCain-Book,Bou1,Capt Chorizo,Clorox Bleachman,Dead Cow,Death Impends,drol,Fixed Business ,Fujimori,gcreptile,Gun Bust 21,JoeyRuss,markb4,PanBreed,Phantom,Prophet,Quim,theoldlady,The Unknown Man,Wormfarmer,Yorkshire Banker,YoungWilz Stefan Karl Steffanson-Book,Capt Chorizo,Clorox Bleachman,coffee_ and_ candles,Dead Cow,Death Impends,drol,Fixed Business Fujimori,gcreptile,Gun Bust 21,Joey Russ,PanBreed,Phantom,Prophet,Quim,theoldlady,The Unknown Man,Wormfarmer,Yorkshire Banker,YoungWilz Neil Simon-The UnknownMan Aretha Franklin-The UnknownMan,the old lady,Quim,coffee_ and_ candles Current Standings 1st place -Death Impends -2581 2nd-JoeyRuss-2325 3rd-Phantom- 2165 4th- DeadCow- 2151 5th-captain chorizo-2090 6th-drol-2065 7th- PanBreed- 2000 8th-gcreptile -1930 9th-Prophet-1825 10th-Clorox Bleachman-1690 11th-Book-1680 12th-Gun Bust-1676 13th -Fujimorey No Morey-1490 14th -The Unknown Man-1465 15th-Fixed Business-1195 16h -Quim's Windy Witherers-1150 17th-Wormfarmer-1140 18th-YorkshireBanker-1075 19th-theoldlady-1060 20th-coffee_ and_ candles-950 21st -Bou1-585 22nd markb4-450 23rd -QTips-200 24th- Youngwilz-146 25th-Bibliogryphon-55 26th Gooseberry Crumble-21 27th- rest -dead last -Nil-Nil etc.  If I miscalculated or missed any names let me know. And if any qualifying obits come in for Azreen Manan,Book will get points for Manan in a future update.

Days? 120 of them would be useful...

Is there a more ominous forum update than The Engineer has quoted you in Conspiracy Theories? Liverpool tend to be very good at just demolishing stuff anyway.

So who are the surviving Tuskegee airmen? Here's a quick list: *Gene Derricotte (1926) *Alexander Jefferson (1921) *Charles McGee (1919) Not so many!

We should note here - Basil himself isn't doing too well in terms of high profile appearances on his own terms. It's more cameos or using him as light relief so far as I can see from the Wiki page. If the best they can do is use him to boost the presentation team from the flagging Generation Game he might be reduced to scavenging road kill and morsels from dustbins with the rest of his kind.

Sad to hear Paul but at least she went extremely quick rather than lingering for months like alot of cases. I doubt she was in much pain.

Carlos Estevez, 53 today!!

An Archbishop who was pals with JPII and Benny (and shut down prior abuse investigations under his command) doesn't like the current Pope? Stop the presses, DJL! Also, the Jesuits have their own protection service (iirc priests highly trained in martial arts) who look after folk, they were looking after the witness to the 1989 El Salvador massacre for years. Also, there was a time when the Pope - I forget which one, 1600s - tried to outlaw the Jesuits and publicly asked who God sided with, him or the Jesuits. He died 3 days later*. So you can see why he might be scared, both religiously and in the real world. *This of course leads to the famous Catholic joke, which I'll paraphrase badly. All the various sects and orders of Catholicism are all arguing about who Jesus loves best, and finally they came to the decision to do as in Fr Ted, leave out a pen and paper for the Lord and go to bed. Lo and behold, in the morning, they found a reply! "Haven't you realised by now I love you all equally? Yours, Jesus Christ SJ". My grandfather thought that one hilarious, but then he was obsessed with Jesuits and the works of de Chardin. Anyhow, this atheist digresses...

Indeed - he's on most of the stuff that really matters in the Bad Seeds' history.

And now gone. R.I.P Betty.

Dead

Died in a nightclub brawl? You mean there was too much fighting on the dancefloor?

Michael Moore says Donald Trump will be 'last president' https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/michael-moore-fahrenheit-11-9-911-trump-trailer-new-documentary-movie-netflix-a8485406.html A centuries old prophecy says Pope Francis will be 'last pope' in history https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2017/08/05/the-last-pope-revisiting-the-prophecy-of-st-malachy/ In 1973, an MIT computer predicted the end of civilization. So far, it's on target. It predicted that by 2040 our civilization would end. https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/in-1973-an-mit-computer-predicted-the-end-of-civilization-so-far-its-on-target Society will collapse by 2040 due to catastrophic food shortages, says university study https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/society-will-collapse-by-2040-due-to-catastrophic-food-shortages-says-study-10336406.html

Please check your list for accuracy. Rd 1 ends Sep 30, Rd 2 begins Oct 1. Round 1 - Sept 2018 theoldlady wormfarmer madhatter (1) unknown man skinny kiltrunner clorox bleachman QE2 de Havilland flair gilbert frates bracknell de Havilland QE2 QE2 nolan pei douglas kissinger lynn gilbert vervoort gilbert lima barker redstone ricketts reiner ricksen gilbert channing day kissinger barker jaffee reiner downs channing reiner p-orridge rogers anh cardin nakasone scales carter jose jose kissinger shultz pei barker ferlinghetti philip jose jose carter vervoort stevens rogers stiles overton philip p-orridge norden lima mercier bush quim reaper bibliogryphon msc grim up north sir creep en passant rogers flair QE2 QE2 stevens QE2 escheverria rogers mugabe jose jose gilbert rogers cruickshank kissinger philip gilbert nolan mugabe de cuellar carter douglas nolan gascoine frates pei QE2 james scales QE2 kumar lear vervoort lynn frates frates reiner reiner nolan lima stiles de cuellar philip vervoort reiner kissinger carter cardin day bush lynn barker anh rogers jaffee bracknell day de cuellar philip lima james captain chorizo john key (4) joey russ qtips paddyfool QE2 QE2 nolan QE2 QE2 carter carter flair carter mugabe nolan flair vervoort dole carter flair stevens QE2 lynn dole cardin redstone scales rogers bush rogers k johnson de Havilland nolan de cuellar gilbert norden jose jose philip kissinger kissinger day reiner greaves philip vervoort philip rogers channing anh frates gascoine frates day nakasone

The honours system is archaic wank and should be abolished. As for celebs and the rich being advised of loopholes to save themselves paying high rates of tax, so what? Everybody in a job would pay less tax if it were possible. Nowt like bitter and resentful working class folk.

You exhaled didn't you? Don't fucking dare shame me for breathing when you breathe as well.

Imagine that conversation now. "Hi Aretha, sorry to hear you have end stage cancer, I know how you are feeling, having briefly had an easily treatable different cancer years ago. Oh, that's not making you feel better, is it?" "Hi, sorry to hear you are about to be executed, but I feel your pain, I once lost a pet gerbil as a kid. We share a similar pain..."

This week: Lindsay Kemp; John Calder; Hilary Lister; John Calcutt; Neil Simon.

When you're the driver of a train

Belfast's historic 200 year old five story building that Primark were the current residents has gone up like a cheap shell suit. Loss adjusters estimate £178 of stock has been lost.

Yes there was a discussion about it. A small one on this thread and a lengthier discussion with lots of posters involved including Spade on pages 9 and 10 of the Rolling Probabilistic thread in extra curricular. I offered to pull one of the teams and then some people said I shouldn't as there were lots of things you could argue weren't within spirit of competition (like FFBI) but it is within the rules. What actually happened was I entered my team on 30th (ish) without Ami Brown and then regretted it the next day and realised although I couldn't change my team rules allowed me to submit another, so I did. It wasn't a planned strategy to take advantage of a rules loophole. As it happens neither of them are going to die (unless they get involved in car crash or similar) so it's irrelevant and I won't do it again. From the earlier discussion there was another entrant with two teams previously in 2017, Cancerous Hatred 1 and 2, with 15 common names. But they finished 57th and 75th so perhaps you weren't bothered about them? There is also another competitor with 19 names the same in two teams this year but they aren't doing that well so perhaps you haven't noticed them? Don't worry anyhow as you have me covered.

Or even Parkindads?

Maybe I should have added /s

Well ... I think many of us would feel happier if Hein had announced he was sodding off. Rather than not knowing what the hell has happened to him. So I think it is considerate to mention that one is taking a break, yes.

And so my friend succumbed to his bad ticker in the early hours today, 8-18-2018, age 53.