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A bit more than half of our participants thought Denis Norden would be alright for another 365 nights. He instead takes his longest pause yet, moderately shaking up the scoreboard, and while theoldlady stays in first place, she's dropped just enough to have to share the podium with John Key. Also, ten teams now place below the guy who used Random.org to decide his names. My word... =1. John Key 9 =1. theoldlady 9 3. Grim Up North 12 4. machotrouts 17 =5. deadsox 20 =5. Joey Russ 20 7. The Dead Cow 21 =8. CastAway 22 =8. drol 22 =10. Bibliogryphon 23 =10. Death Impends 23 =10. Wormfarmer 23 13. Torva Messor 24 14. gcreptile 25 15. Pedro67 27 =16. CaptainChorizo 30 =16. YoungWillz 30 18. msc 31 19. Mercarte 33 =20. Dr_T 36 =20. Garn2 36 =22. CharonsCrew 37 =22. FixedBusiness 37 =22. Toast 37 =25. paddyfool 45 =25. Sean 45 =27. Book 46 =27. Spade_Cooley 46 29. Bentrovato 50 30. Dead Wait 51 31. Phantom of the Midway 56 =32. Sir Creep 57 =32. time 57 34. Deathray 58 35. GraveDanger 61 36. The Unknown Man 71

I mean how many people liberate Belsen, write the most famous line in British movie history and also helped keep numerous Soho sex shops in business throughout the 70s and 80s? Respect.

Who the fuck else?

His early comedy writing with Frank Muir was a joy to hear. Very little touches that standard today. Very little. A long time coming, but very sad when it happens. RIP.

I read this immediately after seeing there had been a 9th hit and before I saw it was Denis Norden . You had me fooled for a second !

Thread closed. Well done to Toast and gcreptile.

Look someone has turned their 2019 Research notes into a fundraising event

Thread for the South African rogue developer/investor/eccentric billionaire Elon Musk. Let me see, why was he in the news lately: - calls the Thai cave engineer a pedo and gets sued for it - wonders about taking his company off the stock exchange publicly, crashing its value - now under investigation by the US justice department - smoking a joint on a recorded radio show - says he works 120 hours a week Did you know there is a video of him with a flamethrower? I think he was always a bit on the cooky side, although he really had great success with his first enterprises, including Paypal. But he might be heading for some kind of total meltdown.

RIP, I loved him in that thing he did with that other British guy on that British network.

That's a shame, I always liked his little meandering comedic tales on My Word (basically, mishear a common phrase and explain it...), and the TV goofs stuff was frequently on. Good age though.

Re McLaren's marketing "genius." He said so, the band - notably Lydon - begged to differ and the photo above pretty much explains it. McLaren's view of punk often involved reviving some elements of the teddy boy rock 'n' roll fashion he loved and claiming in retrospect that disasters - like shambolic gigs, Bill Grundy interview etc. - were moments of anarchy he had masterminded. Either way, they fell apart after one blistering album and made the most money they'd ever seen with revival gigs 20 years after the first wave - for which McLaren was nowhere in sight. Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming is worth a read btw

very carefully marketed by Malcolm McLaren of course.They were the 1970s version of Little Mix !

1 Alive and out there 2 No. She is more intelligent.

Just in case anyone had any doubts about Rupert, his role in bringing down the Australian prime minister a few weeks ago has been exposed: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/liberal-leadership-spill-rupert-murdoch-kerry-stokes-influence/10262552

I mean at this point is there some way to auto-vote for Wouk everytime a new poll goes up, until such time I'm actually right? It's been nearly 2 years...

If that’s true I bet he had Ustinovs hands.

Wouk here.

The album Sid Sings says otherwise.

Here's the video.

That's no way to die.

Did somebody mention warchests?

Telegraph QO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/09/11/ronnie-taylor-cinematographer-obituary/

It means I can get by on a technicality when I'm accused of being Scouse, but Lancashire has its own problems and St Helens is particularly grim. All the rumours you hear about Norfolk are actually true of St Helens. It's well known locally for being the incest capital of the north and they're all really fat as well. Just take a look at Marie Rimmer to witness what the average St Helens local looks like. So yeah, to the rest of the world Lancashire sounds better but Lancashire is a big county. I have a Manx passport now anyway as lets face it the UK in general is a bit shit.