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A little dream came true: I saw Kylie Minogue live yesterday! As a fan since 1988, that was absolutely necessary and I have not regretted it: Kylie is cute and friendly, communicates with the audience and the show was also really good. In love with you for 30 years, dear Kylie!

Christopher Tolkein is 94 today. Gotta be on the clock....perhaps. He did quit as a director last year....

Update on the above: Harry Leslie Smith appears to have had a fall and has pneumonia for the 2nd time this year. Well enough for a cup of tea, but still in the emergency ward, on Nil by mouth, and has refused intubation. imo this is likely to be (or near enough) Harry's Last Stand...

What I meant was a pop star in the UK. Like A-ha, Abba, Vanessa Paradis. As you can see from my post, I actually researched the fucker! Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Yeah somewhat controversially two team with 19 common names - fucking chancer!

I have just done some research on winners of the Wimbledon singles titles and the results are the opposite to those that I observed in the actors category. Here are the ten longest surviving since their first win players Men 1948 Bob Falkenburg (b.1926) 1950 Budge Patty (b.1924) 1951 Dick Savitt ( b.1927) 1952 Frank Sedgman (b.1927) 1953 Vic Seixas (b.1923) 1955 Tony Trabert (b.1930) 1958 Ashley Cooper (b.1936) 1959 Alex Olmedo (b.1936) 1960 Neale Fraser (b.1933) 1961 Rod Laver (b.1938) Ladies 1956 Shirley Fry (b.1927) 1961 Angela Mortimer (b.1932) 1962 Karen Susman (b.1942) 1963 Margaret Court (b.1942) 1966 Billie Jean King (b.1943) 1969 Ann Jones (b.1938) 1971 Evonne Cawley (b.1951) 1974 Chris Evert (b.1954) 1977 Virginia Wade (b.1945) 1978 Martina Navratilova (b.1956)

Here's my post from Monday in the Dead on Wiki thread: Here's the faint praise from alt obits guy from Tuesday referencing only writing Brandy/Mandy: So maybe if he'd cross-quoted my post, I wouldn't have had to point out that alt obits guy had damned him with faint praise, @maryportfuncity, and you wouldn't have misunderstood my post and repeated what I'd already posted. He was a UK pop star and all.

A truly damning indictment of the Irish education system encapsulated in twenty words. I hardly ever swear on these forums, Mad Hatter, but I'm finding it exceptionally difficult to stop myself from calling you a sad, racist twat. In any case, you're on mod preview again until somebody else takes pity on you.

As you have now become a fully fledged adult, or so you say, would it not be a good idea to stop posting the kind of bollocks that you hope will get you a temporary ban? Grow the fuck up.

Do you have a link for the people who will be #360 to #380?

Happy 67th birthday to Rodger Bumpass! Yes, you heard me right. Rodger Bumpass.

Felt like tallying some rookie rankings (by first time DDP teams) GUN Away - 111 GUN Fishing - 111 The Blight House - 101 Plan B From Outer Space - 98 Zsa Zsa's Funeral Invitations - 94 20 Hits No Problem - 85 You Dirty Rotten Swine, You Deaded Them! - 84 Alternatively In The News - 76 Banana's Peel Slippers - 75 Prophet's Prophecy - 75 Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed - 69 Bennington & Speight's Aerial Silk Workshop - 68 Jackie Treehorn - 68 Still More Life - 66 Dumb Some Bitch - 63 Spirited Away - 50

You guys are nowhere even close. Cain was killed at the age of 730, at the hands of his great,great grandson Lamech. Unfortunately, no QO, because Genesis doesn't qualify I don't think.

I just realized that the opening of the submission period is much closer than I realized. Which means I probably need to make my list around Wednesday or Thursday for my submission to the list before it opens...

In use since the 1920s according to the Oxford English Dictionary. gig, n. Pronunciation: Brit. /ɡɪɡ/ U.S. /ɡɪɡ/ Frequency (in current use): Etymology: Origin unknown. colloq. An engagement for a musician or musicians playing jazz, dance music, etc.; spec. a ‘one-night stand’; also, the place of such a performance. Also transf. and attributive. 1926 Melody Maker Sept. 7 One popular ‘gig’ band makes use of a nicely printed booklet. 1927 Melody Maker May 457/3 This seven-piece combination does many ‘gigs’ in S.E. London, but is hoping to secure a resident engagement at Leamington in the near future. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vi. 113 Jack runs numerous bands which play ‘gig’ work—i.e. private engagements or public work. In his office, he has a file in which some hundreds of ‘gig’ musicians are listed. 1964 L. Hairston in J. H. Clarke Harlem 287 Pa—knockin' hisself out on a mail-handler gig at the Post Office where the pay is so lousy he's gotta work a part-time gig. 1965 G. Melly Owning-up vii. 80 Another Proustian gig was the Civic Hall, Nantwich. We played there fairly regularly right through the 'fifties. 1969 Observer 12 Jan. 31/5 Leading groups will be given two hours in which to play what they want, without the limitations imposed by commercial gigs.

Excelsior! Numerous teams's Spidey-senses were not tingling for Stan Lee, meaning this result is not fantastic for them. Indeed, the scoreboard has been HULK SMASHED! machotrouts now Marvels at taking the podium. 1. machotrouts 17 2. Joey Russ 20 3. The Dead Cow 21 =4. Death Impends 23 =4. John Key 23 6. theoldlady 25 7. CastAway 30 =8. drol 31 =8. msc 31 10. Grim Up North 32 =11. deadsox 33 =11. gcreptile 33 =13. Toast 37 =13. Wormfarmer 37 15. Pedro67 38 16. Bibliogryphon 39 17. Torva Messor 40 18. YoungWillz 42 19. CaptainChorizo 44 =20. FixedBusiness 45 =20. paddyfool 45 22. Dr_T 48 =23. Garn2 49 =23. Sean 49 =25. Bentrovato 50 =25. CharonsCrew 50 27. Mercarte 51 28. Book 54 =29. Dead Wait 57 =29. Sir Creep 57 31. Spade_Cooley 62 32. time 68 33. Phantom of the Midway 69 34. GraveDanger 70 35. Deathray 76 36. The Unknown Man 84

Absolutely. Please send me the official DL 2019 your personal prediction via PM as everybody

I’ll be sure to send the exact same list that I used for my shadow list and the Crowdsource list near the end of the year as usual...

Here's a little lesson in deadpooling Six of you will go down in the scoring If you want to be the Inverse number one You shouldn't have picked Stefan Karl Stefansson! We are number one! We are number one! 1. theoldlady 4 2. machotrouts 6 3. John Key 9 4. Torva Messor 10 5. Grim Up North 12 6. deadsox 16 7. Wormfarmer 19 =8. CaptainChorizo 20 =8. Joey Russ 20 =8. YoungWillz 20 =11. msc 21 =11. The Dead Cow 21 =13. CastAway 22 =13. drol 22 =15. Bibliogryphon 23 =15. Death Impends 23 =15. Mercarte 23 18. Pedro67 24 19. gcreptile 25 20. CharonsCrew 29 21. Garn2 32 22. Dr_T 33 =23. Deathray 34 =23. Spade_Cooley 34 =25. Bentrovato 37 =25. FixedBusiness 37 =25. Toast 37 28. Sean 40 29. paddyfool 45 30. Book 46 31. Phantom of the Midway 50 =32. Dead Wait 51 =32. The Unknown Man 51 34. time 53 35. GraveDanger 55 36. Sir Creep 57

Aretha Franklin's demise rearranges the scoreboard, with the majority of teams (including the last couple of straddling clean sheets) feeling like a Chain of Fools for picking her. R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the eight teams who opted otherwise - particularly theoldlady, who takes the lead and must Feel Like a Natural Woman at playing this game. 1. theoldlady 4 2. machotrouts 6 3. Torva Messor 8 4. John Key 9 5. Grim Up North 12 6. deadsox 16 7. Wormfarmer 19 =8. YoungWillz 20 =8. CaptainChorizo 20 =8. Joey Russ 20 =11. Bibliogryphon 21 =11. msc 21 =11. The Dead Cow 21 =14. CastAway 22 =14. drol 22 =16. Mercarte 23 =16. Death Impends 23 =18. gcreptile 24 =18. Pedro67 24 20. Dr_T 27 21. CharonsCrew 29 22. Garn2 32 =23. Deathray 34 =23. Spade_Cooley 34 =25. FixedBusiness 37 =25. Toast 37 =25. Bentrovato 37 28. Sean 40 29. Dead Wait 42 30. paddyfool 45 31. Book 46 32. Phantom of the Midway 50 33. The Unknown Man 51 34. time 53 35. Sir Creep 54 36. GraveDanger 55

Welsh actor Robert Blythe dead, counted The Bill amongst his long line of credits. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/high-hopes-star-robert-blythe-15443962

Dan Maloney, who played over 700 NHL games with Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit & Toronto and who later became a head coach in Toronto and Winnipeg, has died. He was 68. https://torontosun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/toronto-maple-leafs/dan-maloney-former-maple-leafs-player-and-coach-passes-away

Man, he never got so much coverage in the last years of his life Wasn't a UK pop star - from Brooklyn despite the surname.

Harry Leslie Smith, a bit of a twitter celeb who I follow, seems to be in his final hours at 95. He was tweeting until 10 hours ago when he said he had to go to hospital,now his son has taken over his account and says he is in serious condition, not looking good. . Very sad if he does go. He is proof positive that wisdom comes from age ! https://twitter.com/Harryslaststand