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I remember his dad Einstein from the 80s:

94 today!

80 today valerie

Welcome to Texas all you students.

His sisters were cool too.

I trust that dope testing has been carried out.

In light of the large number of fixtures in the League Cup next week, posting template early (ignore (but don't delete) the numbers before matches, they're for my benefit): Week 2 - Prediction Template - Tuesday 27 August 2019 to Monday 2nd September 2019 (48 games - Max Points: 144 points) Tuesday 27th August 2019 (18 Games - Maximum Points: 54 points) 0/1/3 - Burton Albion v Morecambe (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Crewe Alexandria v Aston Villa (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Grimsby Town v Macclesfield Town (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Leeds United v Stoke City (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Nottingham Forest v Derby County (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Preston North End v Hull City (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Rochdale v Carlisle United (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Sheffield Utd v Blackburn Rovers (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Bristol Rovers v Brighton (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Cardiff City v Luton Town (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Crawley Town v Norwich City (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Crystal Palace v Colchester Utd (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Fulham v Southampton (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Newport County v West Ham Utd (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Oxford Utd v Millwall (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Plymouth Argyle v Reading (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Southend Utd v Milton Keynes Dons (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Watford v Coventry City (19:45) [LC] Wednesday 28th August 2019 (7 Games - Maximum Points: 21) 0/1/3 - Burnley v Sunderland (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Lincoln City v Everton (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Newcastle Utd v Leicester City (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Rotherham Utd v Sheffield Wednesday (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - AFC Bournemouth v Forest Green Rovers (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Queens Park Rangers v Portsmouth (19:45) [LC] 0/1/3 - Swansea City v Cambridge Utd (19:45) [LC] Friday 30th August 2019 (1 Game - Maximum Points: 3) 0/1/3 - Cardiff City v Fulham (19:45) [CH] Saturday 31st August 2019 (20 games - Maximum Points: 60) 0/1/3 - Southampton v Manchester Utd (12:30) [PL] 0/1/3 - Bristol City v Middlesbrough (12:30) [CH] 0/1/3 - Crystal Palace v Aston Villa (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Chelsea v Sheffield Utd (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Newcastle v Watford (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Man City v Brighton (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - West Ham v Norwich City (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Leicester City v Bournemouth (15:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Birmingham City v Stoke City (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Brentford v Derby County (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Leeds United v Swansea City (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Luton Town v Huddersfield Town (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Milllwall v Hull City (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Nottingham Forest v Preston North End (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Reading v Charlton Athletic (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Sheffield Wednesday v Queens Park Rangers (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - West Bromwhich Albion v Blackburn Rovers (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Wigan Athletic v Barnsley (15:00) [CH] 0/1/3 - Burnley FC v Liverpool (17:30) [PL] 0/1/3 - Fort William FC v Wick Academy (15:00) [HL] Sunday 1st September 2019 (2 games - Max Points: 6) 0/1/3 - Everton v Wolves (14:00) [PL] 0/1/3 - Arsenal v Tottenham (16:30) [PL] After that the international break will lighten the fixture load considerably.

Surely that is the wrong approach. Shouldn't you be holding the parcel when the music stops.

Robert Rankin not doing too well as he stated on Facebook a short while ago

We'll say the same thing if he turns out to be the last Creamer standing (though actually he and Clapton both struggle to stand these days)

A bit of irony from the animal kingdom.

Oops a Daisy forget a match in the mass of 3pm Saturday KO's for this Saturday (Week 1). Extra 3 points available bringing the weekly maximum to 102 points (34 games). Saturday 24th August (3 points) Charlton Athletic v Brentford (15:00) [CH]

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/roger-scruton-has-cancer/. Scruton has been diagnosed with cancer. Another potential DDP pick.

Jay Inslee suspends his campaign. A little surprising since he recently crossed the donor threshold, but never really gained traction in the polls.

Did you miss the bits where we said we knew some of the other names only because they had been mentioned here? And no, I don't want to spend my time researching obscure people that nobody down the pub has heard of. I only pick people who are genuinely notable or interesting by my own standards. That's what dead pools used to be about.

Fernando Ricksen - Footballer Suzanne Whang - US TV comic/actress Chris Doleman - Hall of Famer in American football. (NFL, that is, not "soccer") Susan Bayh - Wife of former US Presidential hopeful Evan Bayh and admittedly fringey. Rachel Zoll - Journalist Clive James - We all know who he is. Ronald J Shurer - Medal of Honour holder. John Andretti - racing car driver - No, but I know there's a Mario Andretti Noel Conway - the British right to die guy. Denis Goldberg - anti-apartheid activist and colleague of Nelsons "Monsanto Man" AKA Dewayne Johnson - the dude who sued Monsanto for his cancer. Not famous at all, despite The Guardian writing a million articles on him. Barry Du Bois - Ozzie TV host. Dr Bruce Reid - Chief medical officer at one of the biggest sports clubs in Australia, who was the centre of a massive doping scandal few years ago. Genesis P-orridge - Punk musician. Leanne Barrett - famous for being ill. Steve Gleason - well regarded NFLer . Julian Fiano - UK reality TV star. Amy Price - Jordan's mum. Nobby Stiles - World Cup winner Marieke Vervoort - Paralympian Bill Freehan - Big name in US sports. Richard Hadlee - " one of the greatest fast bowlers and all-rounders in cricketing history". Harry Reid - Big name US Senator Greg Gilbert - Delays singer Pat Smullen - jockey Pete Frates - the guy behind the Ice Bucket challenge Ernie Moss - English footballer Sacheen Littlefeather - activist, her who accepted Brando's Godfather Oscar. Michael Robinson - Liverpool midfielder of the 1980s Kate Figes - author Amer Deghayes - Iran political prisoner Ruth Bader GInsburg - Supreme Court Judge Doug Hoyle - Owner of Huddersfield Town FC Paul Volcker - leading US economist Jacci Woodcock - Cancer fundraiser who is now an OBE and pal of the Queen, apparently... Rodion GA - Singer far bigger in Germany (where Reptile is from) than here. Lloyd Klein - mediocre fashion designer Lars Hogh - Danish footballer from the 90s David Smith - Paralympian. Solidarity with Toasty here. In fact I leave you trailing in the dust with my lack of knowledge... . I probably know about twice as many as those highlighted now, but only from frequenting this place. This is also why I make no attempt at these 'research needed' pools and tend to stick to those that are 'pick from a list'. I'd be an atrocious waste of the scorers time in these. Joey, I only know what the office of the senate majority leader even is from watching The West Wing about 20 times. I certainly don't know any real life incumbent.

90s stuff is pleasing my earholes this afternoon.

They are harvesting barley in the fields down past my house. Ahhhhh, I could happily watch farm machinery for hours.

Go out and smash it. Like OH MY GOD.

Joey's subtle brag other day in the DDP got me thinking of how long folk have spent (cumulatively) in days at top of the DDP. Best, I can tell, it's something like this: 1. DDT -1204 days 2. Drunkasaskunk –844 3. TJS 660 3. Nick J - 579 (circa - 1996 records lost) 5. Otis – 544 6. Spade -504 7. OoO – 357 8. Golden Slumbers - 328 9. Go Fish - 277 10. Joe Ram - 255 11. Whittakers Choice – 237 12. Fallen Sparrow – 230 13. Heaven Knows They’re Miserable Now - 226 14. Meet your maker – 207 15. MT Graves -206 16. JoeyRuss 157 17. Groblers - 151 18. Ed K – 143 19. Rad Guy 139 20. Love Boat 136 21. Tonight Matthew - 135 22. One Foot in the Grave - 127 23. Tim R – 120 24. I Smell Dead People – 118 25. Drol – 108 26. Chorizo 106 27. Deathlist.net 92 28. Going Underground - 78 29. No Noose is Good Noose - 74 30. Hoppo – 68 31. Godot – 67 32 Pan Breed - 64 33. GUN Away - 59 34. Crazycarl -58 35. Dead Men Walking, Eejit – 57 36. Finnbarr - 55 37. Rude Kid, – 48 38. TMIB -47 39. Stab in the Dark 45 40. Pity Da Foolz - 40 41. Steve L – 39 42. Ghoulish Guesses – 36 43. Toast – 35 44. Rot in Hell John - 34 45. Mortal Wombat, Only Fools and Corpses, Caulkhead - 28 46. Death from Above, Taking the Michael, Ethnic Cleansing - 27 47. Dave J, Big Iain 26 48. ‘arry-kiri, Gawn – 23 49. Shameless - 21 50. Faster Pussycat – 20 51. Final Showdown – 19 52. This Mortal Coil - 15 53. Better you than me, The don, George lass, Girlfriend in a coma, Romancing the headstone, Umish, Unspiritualist, You Could be a Little Street Sweeper – 14 54. Doffin Codgers, Romancing the Headstone – 12 55. Puzlman’s, Noz4news, Already Dead, Shake Rattle Roll Over – 8 56. Canadian Paul, Destination Eschaton, Maryport - 7 57. Misers, Daniel Faradays Notebook – 6 58. Miss Chief, Juicy Janny, Inigo, Stardust, Stardust, Chemo Sabee, Loving Angels Instead – 5 59. Captain Hemlock, Dead last, Eternity Tours, Francis of Arse-Easy, Grim McGraw, Last of the Summer Winos - 4 60. Sumo, Jesus Jones, Robbinsdale High School Memorial, YOUREOUT, House of Soon to be with the Lord, Roasting Bodies in Redcar- 2 61. They Died.., Good Bad and Cliff Richard, Researched to Death, I’m a Celeb, Toast of the Turf, Paint the Town Dead, Tentoesup– 1 Last updated - 27th November 2020

You know..... Larry may not be a bad pick, he's terribly death listy. Not sure it's his year, but when has that stopped the DL from inclusion? SC

Juan Carlos, 81, has now a heart disease and will be operated on this saturday. In spanish: https://elpais.com/politica/2019/08/22/actualidad/1566470655_380997.html

Jack Perkins, a former NBC reporter and the host of A&E's Biography series, has died. He was 85. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/458082-former-nbc-news-reporter-ae-host-jack-perkins-dies-at-85

FULL TIME: Rothes 1-5 Fort William.