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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:

With the help of some other contributors (but sadly, not many), I've assembled this list of 50 Australian and New Zealander celebrities for 2019. 1. Jeanne Little (b. 11 May 1938, Sydney) Australian 2. Clive James (b. 7 Oct 1939, Sydney) Australian 3. Olivia Newton-John (b. 26 Sep 1948, Cambridge UK) Australian 4. Ken Rosewall (b. 2 Nov 1934, Sydney) Australian 5. John Cocks (b. 23rd Aug 1966) New Zealander - LINK 6. Rod Laver (b. 9 Aug 1938, Rockhampton) Australian 7. Anne Hamilton Byrne (b. 1921) Australian - LINK 8. Bob Hawke (b. 9 Dec 1929, Bordertown) Australian - LINK 9. Andrew McGahan (b. 1966, Dalby) Australian - LINK 10. Barry du Bois (b. 4 Aug 1960, Sydney) Australian 11. Butch Miller (b. 21 Oct 1944, Auckland) New Zealander 12. Prince Leonard Of Hutt River (b. 1926) Australian - LINK 13. Graham Richardson (b. 27 Sep 1949, Sydney) Australian 14. Pauline Parker (b. 26 May 1938, Christchurch) New Zealander 15. Brian Lochore (b. 3 Sep 1940, Masterton) New Zealander - LINK 16. Fred Schepisi (b. 26 Dec 1939, Melbourne) Australian 17. Roy Emerson (b. 3 Nov 1936, Blackbutt) Australian 18. Neale Daniher (b. 15 Feb 1961, West Wyalong) Australian 19. Paul Hogan (b. 8 Oct 1939, Lightning Ridge) Australian 20. Rolf Harris (b. 30 Mar 1930, Bassendean) Australian 21. Frank Sedgman (b. 29 Oct 1927, Mont Albert) Australian 22. Neil Harvey (b. 8 Oct 1928, Fitzroy) Australian 23. Margaret Court (b. 16 Jul 1942, Albury) Australian 24. Ken Shadie (b. 8 Dec 1935, Bondi) Australian 25. John R Reid (b. 3 Jun 1928, Auckland) New Zealander 26. Marlene Mathews (b. 14 Jul 1934, Sydney) Australian 27. Tony Garea (b. 20 Sep 1946, Auckland) New Zealander 28. Dawn Fraser (b. 4 Sep 1937, Balmain) Australian 29. Rupert Murdoch (b. 11 Mar 1931, Melbourne) Australian 30. Neale Fraser (b. 3 Oct 1933, Melbourne) Australian 31. Max Merritt (b. 30 April 1941, Christchurch) New Zealander 32. Margaret Guilfoyle (b. 15 May 1926, Belfast UK) Australian 33. Clive Revill (b. 18 April 1930, Wellington) New Zealander 34. Mary Ward (b. 6 Mar 1915, Fremantle) Australian 35. Mike Willesee (b. 29 Jun 1942, Perth) Australian - LINK 36. Everlyn Sampi (b. 6 Oct 1933, Derby) Australian 37. Sir Richard Hadlee (b. 3 Jul 1951, Christchurch) New Zealander 38. Jim Bolger (b. 31 May 1935, Opunake) New Zealander 39. Fred Stolle (b. 8 Oct 1938, Hornsby) Australian 40. Stuart Fraser (Noiseworks) (b. ~1960?, Sydney) Australian - LINK 41. Patsy King (b. 1929) Australian 42. Ashley Cooper (b. 15 Sep 1936, Melbourne) Australian 43. Mike Moore (b. 28 Jan 1949, Whakatane) New Zealander 44. Barry Humphries (b. 17 Feb 1934, Melbourne) Australian 45. Reg Watson (b. 1926, Brisbane) Australian - LINK 46. Ron Elvidge (b. 2 Mar 1923, Timaru) New Zealander - LINK 47. Alan Davidson (b. 14 Jun 1929, Lisarow) Australian 48. Dick Tayler (b. 12 Aug 1948, Timaru) New Zealander 49. Loongkoonan (b. 1910, Kimberley) Australian 50. 'Superstar' Mick Dundee (b. 24 October 1943, Scotland) Australian

Update article in French on Véronique Sanson Apparently has beaten her cancer, although still weak for the meantime. Will be going back on tour in spring.

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.

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/

Is there any report of the other drivers ethnicity ? Maybe that is a clue to how the crash happened

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

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

Man develops a subcutaneous abscess after intravenously injecting his own semen in an attempt to treat longstanding back pain http://imj.ie/semenly-harmless-back-pain-an-unusual-presentation-of-a-subcutaneous-abscess/

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/

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.

I have just discovered that the anagram of Cardiff City manager Neil Warnocks name is.... Colin Wanker.

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

The real black darth vadar is getting old, I know racist people like Joey Russ will always insists David Prowse was Darth Vadar, but he is wrong.