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Have you considered that after 70 years of having to go to Church on Christmas Day maybe he just couldn’t be arsed?

It's great seeing the bios getting added. Wow! Some awesome picks by everyone. I noticed that two teams seem to be theme teams but are not designated as such: The Fat Lady's Singing appears to be all opera singers and The South Shall Rise Again appears to be people from the Southern Hemisphere.

Seems that if we continue the trend of my bottom picks dying first, then Jean-Louis Tritignant and Andrew Fairlie are on borrowed time.

To be fair he should consider giving up driving as it’s the second car crash he’s been involved in...the previous one being in 1997...

This is my worst nightmare

It's just getting better and better here in WA:

It was his wife's..................... The Queen's Highway!

Time To Take Out The Trash looks to maybe be an undesignated theme team as well. Delightful group of people on it. Yeah, some interesting new picks this year. This game is very educational.

Toby announces that Del Henney, Irish actor probably best known as Charlie Venner in Straw Dogs, has died: https://twitter.com/TobyHadoke/status/1086028826398912513 Popped him here for his role as Colonel Archer in Resurrection Of The Daleks. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377328/

Preparing to possibly unleash military scum: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46910535

Team entered with Lynn at #25 and Lansbury as sub (Lansbury can currently only be a sub).

Former Environment Minister of France says that we have to stop making cars in order to manufacture horse-drawn yokes. That's because the world collapses certainly by 2030. https://www.institutmomentum.org/the-next-thirty-three-years-on-earth/

James Earl Jones sounds like he might but then David Prowse looks like he might.....

Ah, his obit will be simply read.....

Now now Sir Creep, one beesting and he’d ‘Bee’ a goner Buzz buzz bitches With love, BBB

Why did you not bring this up three years ago when you were, seemingly happily, posting in this thread?

Who said we were all sickos? P-o-t-M has claimed the prize and requested a donation to a highly deserving charitable cause - Unicef appeal for the children of the Yemen. £12-00 added to this fund: https://www.unicef.org.uk/

TBH, forever would be too short. Do we need someone to pick up the slack on this DP -- I think I'm the only regular what doesn't run one.... maybe it's time (and this is one of my favourite DPs tbh). Granted the 'master list' one would work with is going to be the post on p.1. And I'd be totally unfamiliar with a number of names on those teams, so the onus would be on each player to inform that a death has occurred (at least for the first month, then maybe I could get my feet planted). And I can attempt to keep the formatting the same as DRay but I ain't making a million promises. So -- if there are no objections.....

Today's lot: Nancy Roman Born 16 May 1925; died 25 December 2018, aged 93. Last Word spoke to Kimberly Kowal Arcand, the Visualization Lead for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and astronomy journalist Dr Stuart Clark. Ralph Koltai CBE Born 31 July 1924; died 15 December 2018, aged 94. Last Word spoke to The Stage critic Michael Quinn and director Professor Pamela Howard OBE. Julia Grant Born 21 September 1954; died 2 January 2019, aged 64. Last Word spoke to her brother Gary Roberts, and former BBC television executive and commissioner David Pearson. Jin Yong Born 1924; died 30 October 2018, aged 94. Last Word spoke to translator Anna Holmwood. Norman Gimbel

Bit behind on this thread 14th December 2018 Peter Boizot Judith Kazantzis Sir Sze-Yuen Cung Sr. Cecylia Roszak Scott English 21st December 2018 Sir David Weatherall Penny Marshall Evelyn Berezin Zhores Medvedev Nancy Wilson 28th December 2018 Sister Wendy Beckett Inge Borkh Nicolas Roeg Sir Aaron Klug Geoff Emerick 4th January 2019 Dame June Whitfield Jack Zunz - designer of the Sydney Opera House Thomas Baptiste David Austin - rosarian Karre Mastanamma - YouTube chef, allegedly 106.

Alongside radio programmer Monica Sims, Pete Shelley (quick turnaround on that one), colon cancer expert Dr Wendy Atkin (who died of leukaemia) and classical music critic Ivan March.

Get us out of the Matrix! https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computer-simulation-world-matrix-scientists-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-a7347526.html