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Francis looks like he's gonna attack Benedict with the tickle monster

Happy 100th Birthday to Actress "Baby Peggy" Diana Serra Cary. Welcome to the 100-Club: https://www.facebook.com/events/1969737036415757/

Boston Red Sox World Series champs!!!!! Between that and my first moose, October was pretty good in New England!

One of the other deaths is a guy with the name 'kaveporn'. I think i know now what i'll be naming my son.

Bit hard to see him, my eyes are drawn to who is behind him. That jacket has made my fucking eyes bleed.

Brand spanking new. She flexed her wings for the first time on 30th July this year and was delivered to the airline just two weeks later. Not the safest of airlines though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_accidents

? Stop whining and turn off notifications for being quoted.

Whoever the deceased may be, it's up to the family to decide whether to install a headstone. For all outsiders know, the deceased may not have wanted one. You have to get permission from the diocese in the case of churchyard burials, and in my diocese (Oxford) they wouldn't grant it to anyone without the agreement of the family. I know this from a little spat I had with an interfering busybody about my mother's grave. There were reasons why I delayed getting a headstone, but said person declared they would put one up because I hadn't. They got nowhere with that, and rightly so.

Well, that's a load off my mind

is that your way of saying he is Thor the god of thunder

Hey my new friend.... it is important that we post the name of the person (Richard Gill) so that we can search said name at a later time. Just an FYI.

Given Francis' understanding look, it ain't the first time.

Just to show we're not all Dr Who obsessives, Irish actor Rio Fanning's death at 87 has been announced by Toby Hadoke. Father Frost, you'll know his face.

Pope visited Pope: https://www.vaticannews.va/de/papst/news/2018-10/papst-franziskus-benedikt-emeritiert-besuch-heiligsprechungen.html Benedict wasn't able to attend the beatification (?) of Pope Paul VI.

Deathrace 2019 - Those Rules in Full: 1 - The object of the Deathrace is to be the first contestant to reach 2019 points. 2 - To enter the Deathrace a contestant must have: i: a team of twenty topplers ("topplers" must be at least 18 years old on 1 Jan 2019; but are otherwise unrestricted). ii: Deathlist membership (i.e. be at least a pointless ranter and at most a dedicated Cumbrian corpse hound, or summat) 2a: A player may enter as many team members facing state execution as s/he wants but said picks will only count for deathrace points if they die by means other than state execution - murder, suicide, ill health etc. 3 - Entries close promptly at midnight on 30 December and entry can be made either by sending a team of twenty to MPFC via PM hereabouts and/or by posting a team of twenty on the Deathrace 2019 thread. 4 - Players score points every time a team member dies and accrues an obit (see point 9 below) and the score for each death is calculated as one point for each complete calendar day remaining in 2019 after the death of the team member; so a death on 1 January earns 364 pts, a death on 2 January earns 363 pts etc. 5 - Each team must nominate one member as a joker and the joker scores double points on death. 6 - The winner is the first player to reach or exceed 2019 pts. 7 - In the event that a death or deaths on a specific day push more than one player beyond a winning score the player with the highest overall score will be deemed to be the winner. 8 - In the event that two or more players tie for victory a Deathrace play off will ensue with all potential winners continuing to compete until such time as one potential winner scores more points than any other potential winner (such points continuing to be accrued as per the scoring system described in point 4 above). 9 - An "obit" in the context of the Deathrace is any news report in English from a reliable source. Such sources include - but are not limited to - UK national press, UK national broadcast organisations, foreign press and broadcast organisations with an English language thread to their communication, trade press in English, local news organisations reporting in English and coverage in specialist online sites, such as those monitoring the well-being of super-centenarians. Where dispute arises over the qualifying nature of a news source for obit purposes MPFC's decision is final. But he wants fast and furious competition and is generally very amenable to low hanging dead pool fruit of all varieties. 10 - To qualify for entry purposes team members must be alive at 00-01 hrs on 1 January 2019 or qualify for the Raymond Hewlitt Memorial Exemption (RHME) (see point 11). 11 - In honour of everybody's favourite Maddie-implicated paedo scum a candidate widely believed to be alive on 1 January and subsequently proven to have died previously will be awarded 366 points in the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit subsequently appears for said candidate. In the event that a Deathrace qualifying obit for the candidate is subsequently proven to have existed prior to commencement of the Deathrace all points will be voided. RHME points are only available during competition and in the event that a winner has been declared before discovery of a qualifyiing RHME candidate no revision of the final result will occur. Similarly, if some lucky candidate is awarded RHME points and these points are still in play at the time a winner is declared the points will not subsequently be voided and may - therefore - count towards a championship. All disputes relating to RHME will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace thread by venting their fury). 11a - Similarly to pt 11 above, if an obited death occurs during play of the Deathrace and is missed despite MPFC's best efforts to stay in touch and/or the spirited efforts of Deathrace participants and said death is missed in totting up points, after which a winner is declared, then this death will not count for competition purposes. The same is true in the case of a known death gathering a late obit and therefore allowing some other competitor to be declared a winner. All disputes relating to rule 11a will be resolved by the astute judgement of MPFC and there is no appeals procedure (though all sides of opionion are warmly invited to liven up the Deathrace thread by venting their fury). 12 - In the event that Deathlist editing options or other online trickery is discovered to have been employed in the editing of teams, those duly fingered for such cheating will be removed from the Deathrace and banned for life from subsequent entry into Deathraces. 13 - The prize will be awarded as follows: i: Should the winner agree to attend a DLCon with MPFC a double measure of alcholic drinks (pints, wine or spirits) will be supplied by MPFC along with much hearty congratulations and back-slapping. ii: A carefully chosen and appropriate prize will be posted to the winner (such as the DVD copy of the original Deathrace movie supplied to the 2009 champion). iii: MPFC will make a charitable donation to a cause of the winner's choice (as has been the case with four of the five existing winnings of the Deathrace). This course of action is highly encouraged and is known to show dead poolers as something other than the sicko scum many ranters believe us to be. AND FINALLY... A masterlist of entries will be posted after the closing date. MPFC will undertake to update the scoreboard at least once every seven days.

If he survives the year, he should be at Number 42 on the main list next year. (Has this joke been made before? Will he make it?)

Its Sunday Drol. His church will announce it later, and be picked up by the media after that. Have some fucking respect.

I (vaguely) knew one of them as a kid! Used to live round corner from my school, we'd see him out and about, very shy and quiet. Taggart, of course.

I hate when I sign on and there are numerous notifications 'someone commented on your post', all in the same thread First thing I start thinking is 'oh ffs what did I say this time?'

Darkness fell on Vincent Price on this day 25 years ago, aged 82.

She is 103 years old and incredibly famous.Charles Aznavour was on TV looking great 3 days before he died and Pete Seeger was chopping wood ten days before he died.Over 90s can take a quick turn for the worse.At 102 an infection fall stroke can finish you off swiftly.

Didn't ring true to me, far too much effort put in not to be a wind up. On the subject of mothers, my old girl was convinced that putting money in the bank would disqualify her from benefits. An un intended consequence was a great piece of entertainment when she twigged. I was getting texts from my brother along the lines of "three hundred quid in a bundle behind the gas fire". "Two hundred under the chocolate digestives in the biscuit tin" for days, made a very enjoyable and lucrative game of hide and seek.

There is hope for you yet. Now get an 'appropriate' avatar, call Charon a Rangers fan* and it may just all work. *take the abuse you will get like a man

Confirmed by NPR. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/661414691/sonny-fortune-stalwart-saxophonist-of-new-york-dies-at-79