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England by 24. Pedro 245 En Passant 175 Redrumours 149 Biblioggtyphon 132 Quim Reaper 104 Paul Bearer 103 MSC 80 Charlottes Controler 62 The Engineer 61  Sir Creep 4 New Zealand by 32 Pedro 246 En Passant 208 Redrumours 182 Biblioggtyphon 133 MSC 113 Quim Reaper 105 Paul Bearer 104 Charlottes Controler 95 The Engineer 62  Sir Creep 5 Four of you picking up 33 points. Well done.

Updating some of the out of date DL stats... Number of hits by month 1. March 39 2. June 30 3. July and September and December 27 4. August 26 5. May 25 6. January 23 7. October 22 8. February 21 9. April 20 10. November 16 (to Brackers) List of Hits (to date) Hits Per Month in Names/Years 1. January – Salvador Dali (1989), Terry Thomas (1990), Rudolph Nureyev (1993), Audrey Hepburn (1993), Brian Johnston (1994), Telly Savalas (1994), Rose Kennedy (1995), Francois Mitterand (1996), Helen Mills Moody (1998), EW Swanton (2000), Donald Budge (2000), Lou Rawls (2006), Edmund Hillary (2008), Suharto (2008), Dai Llewellyn (2009), JD Salinger (2010), Gerry Rafferty (2011), Etta James (2012), Michael Winner (2013), Patty Andrews (2013), Abe Vigoda (2016), Mary Tyler Moore (2017), Mark E Smith (2018) 2. February – Arthur Ashe (1993), Derek Jarman (1994), Deng Xiao Ping (1997), King Hussein (1999), Charlie Schulz (2000), Stanley Matthews (2000), Stanley Kramer (2001), Don Bradman (2001), Chuck Jones (2002), Spike Milligan (2002), Max Schmeling (2005), Sister Lucia (2005), Al Lewis (2006), Wendy Richard (2009), Reg Presley (2013), Sid Caesar (2014), Leonard Nimoy (2015), Boutros Boutros Ghali (2016), Joost van der Westhuizen (2017), Rev Billy Graham (2018), Gordon Banks (2019) 3. March – Jim Joel (1992), Simon Cadell (1996), George Burns (1996), Lord Denning (1999), Joe DiMaggio (1999), Ernie Wise (1999), Ian Dury (2000), John Diamond (2001), Ninette de Valois (2001), William Hanna (2001), Milton Berle (2002), Dudley Moore (2002), Billy Wilder (2002), Queen Mother (2002), Hardy Amies (2003), Barry Sheene (2003), Thora Hird (2003), Queen Juliana (2004), Peter Ustinov (2004), Alistair Cooke (2004), Jim Callaghan (2005), John Profumo (2006), Caspar Weinberger (2006), Ernest Gallo (2007), Francis Pym (2008), Arthur C Clarke (2008), Richard Widmark (2008), Michael Foot (2010), Michael Gough (2011) Elizabeth Taylor (2011), Diana Wynne Jones (2011), John Demjanjuk (2012), Hugo Chavez (2013), Sam Simon (2015), Martin Crowe (2016), Nancy Reagan (2016), Cliff Michelmore (2016), David Rockefeller (2017), Stephen Hawking (2018) 4. April – Sugar Ray Robinson (1989), Greta Garbo (1990), Sir Michael Havers (1992), John Curry (1994), Richard Nixon (1994), Kenny Everett (1995), Ginger Rogers (1995), Pol Pot (1998), James Earl Ray (1998), Alf Ramsey (1999), Brother Theodore Gottlieb (2001), Harry Secombe (2001), Estee Lauder (2004), Pope John Paul II (2005), John Mills (2005), Charlton Heston (2008), Albert Hoffman (2008), Margaret Thatcher (2013), Mickey Rooney (2014), Barbara Bush (2018) 5. May – Jill Ireland (1990), Marlene Deitrich (1992), Erich Honecker (1994), Tim Gullikson (1996), Timothy Leary (1996), Frank Sinatra (1998), Gene Sarazen (1999), Douglas Fairbanks Jr (2000), John Geilgud (2000), Barbara Cartland (2000), Joe Bonanno (2002), Sam Snead (2002), Stanley Kunitz (2006), Sydney Pollack (2008), Dennis Hopper (2010), Al Megrahi (2012), Robin Gibb (2012), BB King (2015), John Forbes Nash (2015), Ian Brady (2017), John Noakes (2017), Tessa Jowell (2018), Doris Day (2019), Bob Hawke (2019), Herman Wouk (2019) 6. June – Andres Segovia (1987), Kitty Godfree (1992), Les Dawson (1993), Dilys Powell (1995), Glynn Worsnip (1996), Andreas Papandreou (1996), Jacques Costeau (1997), Catherine Cookson (1998), Gregory Peck (2003), Denis Thatcher (2003), Strom Thurmond (2003), Katharine Hepburn (2003), Ronald Reagan (2004), Charles Haughey (2006), Aaron Spelling (2006), Kurt Waldheim (2007), Bo Diddley (2008), Vincent O’Brien (2009), Ray Bradbury (2012), Yitzhak Shamir (2012), Henry Cecil (2013), Casey Kasem (2014), Eli Wallach (2014), Sir Christopher Lee (2015), Kirk Kerkorian (2015), Chris Woodhead (2015), Patrick Macnee (2015), Muhammad Ali (2016), Peter Sallis (2017), Errol Christie (2017) 7. July – Jim Il Sung (1994), Harold Larwood (1995), Jimmy Stewart (1997), Roy Rogers (1998), Walter Matthau (2000), Bob Hope (2003), Gretchen Franklin (2005), Ted Heath (2005), James Doohan (2005), George Melly (2007), Charles Lane (2007), Lady Bird Johnson (2007), Tammy Faye Messner (2007), Ingmar Bergman (2007), Jesse Helms (2008), Karl Malden (2009), Walter Cronkite (2009), Bobby Robson (2009), Betty Ford (2011), Eric Sykes (2012), Tony Martin (2012), Bernie Nolan (2013), Anna Wing (2013), Peter O’Sullevan (2015), Lord Carrington (2018), John McCririck (2019), Johnny Clegg (2019) 8. August – William Burroughs (1997), Victor Mature (1999), Helen Rollason (1999), Bunny Austin (2000), Lord Longford (2001), Lionel Hampton (2002), Idi Amin (2003), Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004), Red Adair (2004), Fay Wray (2004), Brooke Astor (2007), Bill Deedes (2007), Alexander Solzhenitsyn (2008), Robert Novak (2009), Ted Kennedy (2009), Laurent Fignon (2010), Chapman Pincher (2014), Lauren Bacall (2014), George Cole (2015), Joao Havelange (2016), Glen Campbell (2017), Bruce Forsyth (2017), Jerry Lewis (2017), John McCain (2018), Neil Simon (2018), Valerie Harper (2019) 9. September – Roy Castle (1994), Mother Theresa (1997), Mobutu (1997), Jeffrey Bernard (1997), Burgess Meredith (1997), Clement Stone (2002), Warren Zevon (2003), Leni Riefenstahl (2003), Edward Teller (2003), Johnny Cash (2003), Elia Kazan (2003), William Rehnquist (2005), Simon Wisenthal (2005), Byron Nelson (2006), Patrick Swayze (2009), Susan Atkins (2009), Cyril Smith (2010), Herbert Lom (2012), Ian Paisley (2014), Jake LaMotta (2017), Liz Dawn (2017), Tony Booth (2017), Hugh Hefner (2017), Denis Norden (2018), Robert Mugabe (2019), Jacques Chirac (2019), Leah Bracknell (?2019) 10. October – Burt Lancaster (1994), Alec Douglas-Home (1995), Joan Hickson (1998), Deryck Guyler (1999), Lord Hailsham (2001), Rodney Dangerfield (2004), Pricness Alice (2004), Rosa Parks (2005), PW Botha (2006), Levi Stubbs (2008), Ludovic Kennedy (2009), Norman Wisdom (2010), Simon MacCorkindale (2010), Erich Priebke (2013), Gough Whitlam (2014), Denis Healey, Maureen O’Hara, Al Molinaro (2015), Bhumibol Adulyadej (2016), Gord Downie (2017), Fats Domino (2017), Charles Aznavour (2018), Ginger Baker (2019) 11. November – Bill Bixby (1993), Paul Eddington (1995), Jackie Mann (1995), Hastings Banda (1997), Quentin Crisp (1999), Mary Whitehouse (2001), Milton Freidman (2006), Ian Smith (2007), Dino De Laurentiis (2010), Clive Dunn (2012), Bill Tarmey (2012), PD James (2014), Helmut Schmidt (2015), Fidel Castro (2016), Stan Lee (2018), George Bush Sr (2018) 12. December – Ray Moore (1989), Dan Maskell (1992), Dean Martin (1995), Lew Grade (1998), Lord Scarman (2004), Artie Shaw (2004), Richard Pryor (2005), Pinochet (2006), Joseph Barbara (2006), Gerald Ford (2006), MarkFelt (2008), Harold Pinter (2008), Claude Levi-Strauss (2009), Blake Edwards (2010), Harry Morgan (2011), Kim Jong Il (2011), Oscar Niemeyer (2012), Nelson Mandela (2013), Peter O’Toole (2013), Ronnie Bigg (2013), Mikhail Kalashnikov (2013), Luise Rainer (2014), Zsa Zsa Gabor (2016), Liz Smith (2016), Richard Adams (2016), King Michael (2017) DL Years Ranked by Hits 1. 2017 (17/50) 2. 2015 (14/50), 2008 (14/50), 2003 (14/50) 3. 2013 (13/50), 2006 (13/50) 4. 2018 (12/50) 2016 (12/50), 2012 (12/50), 2009 (12/50), 2005 (12/50), 2004 (12/50) 5. 2019 (11/50) 6. 2014 (10/50), 2007 (10/50), 2002 (10/50), 2001 (10/50), 2000 (10/50), 1999 (10/50) 7. 2010 (9/50), 1997 (9/50), 1995 (9/50), 1994 (9/50) 8. 1998 (8/50), 9. 2011 (7/50), 1996 (7/50) 10. 1993 (5/56), 1992 (5/37) 11. 1990 (3/42), 1989 (3/32) 12. 1987 (1/31) 13. 1991 (0/40) Digging out the slots, numbers stats to update them too.

Canadian country music 'legend' Dallas Harms............ Ah, fuck it. I started this topic and even I can't be arsed to cross post to it. I realize the error of my ways and realize there are far too many options available to keep them all relevant. Dallas Harms could also go in Shove Off, Eh?, Songwriters, Dead of 2019, and (C)Rappers. Whatevs.

Erhard Eppler dead, I've always wanted ot give him some more attention on here: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/erhard-eppler-spd-vordenker-ist-im-alter-von-92-jahren-gestorben-a-1292353.html

George Alagiah as seen reading the news the other day. Bill Turnbull was recently photographed by Mark Johnson for the front cover of this week's Radio Times.

Kirk Douglas. Although we're getting close to "no more for the year" being the sensible choice imho.

Americans have the winningest version of English. Even my keyboard is looking at me quizzically now....

Prom instead of school disco. Vacation instead of holiday.

Ignoring the utter bollocks in the post above. Today could become a parliamentary shitshow.... Government threatening to withdraw the vote if the Letwin Amendment passes (which is designed to prevent no deal by default) on the 31st October, The only reason to withdraw it is if today was designed to complete circumvent the Benn Act.

10,5 years after still alive

David Weisman, an Oscar-nominated producer for Kiss of the Spider Woman, has died. He was 77. Weisman died October 9th, his death was reported October 18th. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/KISS-OF-THE-SPIDERWOMAN-Producer-David-Weisman-Has-Died-20191018

Yep it was Frankie Laine, who was promptly replaced with Norman Wisdom. And Laine was in the top 20 at that, meaning the DL's DDP team that year only had 19 picks.

I don't need any advice from you but if I did it would be about shit stirring and lying.

14th place with 16 hits, followed by 2nd place with 13! 1. #1 Papandreou (96) Deng Xiaoping (97) Zevon (03) JP2 (05), Rawls (06), Heston (08), James (12), Biggs (13), Crowe (16) 2. #2 Moore (89), Jarman (94) Leary (96) M Theresa (97), Queen Mum (02) Hope (03) Wray (04), Pollack (08), Gibb (12), Chavez (13), Simon (15), Gabor (16) Wouk (19) 3. #3 Curry (94), Bradman (01), Schmeling (05) Hofmann (08) Megrahi (12), Kalashnikov (13), Wallach (14) Havelange (16) 4. #4 Dietrich (92), Honecker (94), Mitterand (96), Sinatra (98), Peck (03), Wiesenthal (05) Lane (07) 5. #5 Hepburn (93), Gielgud (00), Theodore (01), Wilder (02) Reagan (04) Levi-Strauss (09), Rafferty (11) Priebke (13) Bhumibol (15) Sallis (17), Bracknell (19), 6. #6 Everett (95), Cartland (00), Reifenstahl (03), Kunitz (06) Robson (09) , Foot (10), Niemeyer (12) Whitlam (14), Graham (18) 7. #7 Terry Thomas (90), Rehnquist (05), jong-il (11) Martin (12) Wing (13), Pincher (14) Mugabe (19) 8. #8 Godfree (92), Denning (99) Thurmond (03), Rainer (14), Healey (15) McCain (18) 9. #9 Joel (92), Sung (94), Kennedy (95) Burns (96) Shaw (04) Malden (09) , Wisdom (10), Ford (11) Adams (16), Day (19) 10. #10 Costeau (97), Valois (01) Dangerfield (04) Lucia (05), Carrington (18), 11. #11 Nureyev (93) Mobutu (97), Moody (98) Berle (02) Alice (04), Heath (05) Astor (07), Woodhead (15) Vigoda (16) 12. #12 Larwood (95) Stewart (97), Cookson (98) Hepburn (03) Swayze (09) Mandela (13), Schmidt (15) Smith (16) Booth (17) 13. #13 Hanna (01), Lewis (06), Lee (18) 14. #14 Bixby (93), Martin (95) Guliksson (96), Banda (97), Hickson (98) Crisp (99), Dury (00) Longford (01) Miligan (02),Teller (03), Cartier-Bresson (04), Mills (05), Solzhenitsyn (08), Macnee (15), Reagan (16) 15. #15 Cadell (96),Grade (98) Lauder (04), Barbera (06) Gallo (07), Felt (08) Bradbury (12), Jowell (18) 16. #16 Jones (02), Johnson (07) Downie (17) 17. #17 Ustinov (04), Freidman (06), Deedes (07) Clarke (08) Atkins (09) Molinaro (15), 18. #18 Mann (95), Austin (00) Kazan (03) Cooke (04), Franklin (05) Nelson (06) Shamir (12), Paisley (14) 19. #19 Ireland (90), Moore (02) Amies (03), Ford (06), Messner (07) Richard (09) O’Hara (15), Banks (19) 20. #20 Sarazan (99), Swanton (00), Snead (02), Juliana (04), Nolan (13) Lamotta (17) 21. #21 Maskell (92), Cronkite (09), MacCorkindale (10) Lom (12) Michael (17) 22. #22 Segovia (87), Dali (89), Havers (92) Worsnip (96), Fairbanks (00), Scarman (04) Cecil (13) BB King (15) 23. #23 Ashe (93) Hird (03), Profumo (06) O’Brien (09) Presley (13), Hawke (19) 24. #24 Rogers (98), Fignon (10), Wynne Jones (11) 25. #25 Mature (99) , Hailsham (01), Sheene (03), Callaghan (05), Taylor (11) Bush Sr (18), Chirac (19) 26. #26 Hussain (99) Pryor (05), Botha (06) de Laurentiis (10) PD James (14) Aznavour (18) 27. #27 Ray (98) Hilary (08), Kennedy (09) Andrews (13), Rooney (14) 28. #28 Meredith (97), Stone (02), Parks (05), Weinberger (06) Widmark (08) Tarmey (12) Winner (13) 29. #29 Bonano (02), Morgan (11), Thatcher (13) B Bush (18) 30. #30 Secombe (01), Kennedy (09) O’Sullevan (15) Castro (16) 31. #31 Ginger Rogers (95), Thatcher D (03) Cole (15) Hefner (17) 32. #32 Sugar Ray (89), Johnston (94), Guyler (99), Hampton (02) 33. #33 Bernard (97), Schulz (00), Diamond (01) Smith (07) Salinger (10) Lewis (17) 34. #34 Ramsey (99) Bergman (07) Helms (08) Demjanjuk (12) Rockefeller (17) 35. #35 Suharto (08) Simon (18) 36. #36 Lancaster (94), Whitehouse (01), Adair (04) Waldheim (07), Hopper (10) 37. #37 Pym (08) Caesar (14) Nimoy (15) Forsyth (17), Harper (19) 38. #38 Doohan (05) Edwards (10) Ghali (16) Domino (17) 39. #39 Dawson (93), Eddington (95) Sykes (12) 40. #40 Castle (94) Bacall (14) Michelmore (16) Norden (18) 41. #41 Garbo (90) Diddley (08) Kasem (14) 42. #42 Mathau (00), Kramer (01), McCririck (19), 43. #43 Matthews (00) Pinochet (06) Pinter (08) Nash (15) Campbell (17) 44. #44 Novak (09) Dawn (17) 45. #45 Nixon (94) Melly (07) Ali (16) Noakes (17) Hawking (18) 46. #46 ADH (95), Rollason (99) Haughey (06) Smith (10) Kerkorian (15) 47. #47 Powell (95), Pol Pot (98) Budge (00), Amin (03) Stubbs (08) Gough (11) Joost (17) 48. #48 di Maggio (99), Spelling (06), Lee (15) Moore (17) 49. #49 Savalas (94), Burroughs (97), Cash (03) Llewellyn (09) O’Toole (13) Christie (17) Baker (19) 50. #50 Wise (99), Dunn (12) Brady (17) Smith (18) Clegg (19)

Haha - and to think I’d actually started going through the process to answer Wee Jum.

Did we note that Robert Mugabe was the 300th DL hit since the start? Worth a mention anyhow.

As she had already been dead for at least a week surely this has to have a claim for the worst DL prediction of all time?

No of course it is totally genuine. He was competing with Kirk Douglas and Vera Lynn on yesterday's episode but he was the only one to manage to actually kick the bucket. The other two had a few swings at it but couldn't get the leverage from their wheelchairs to get a good contact. They also showed a special repeat show from September 17th where Leah Bracknell surprised everybody by beating Jacques Chirac and Ginger Baker after a slow motion action replay because in real time it looked like both Chirac and Baker had kicked the bucket before her.

My thinking was that it's better to add points than to take them away when the date emerges, which it probably will.

Over, is it fuck! I would keep your celebratory drinks firmly in your fridge locked away, we've been here before remember. The stance on a Brexit extension from the EU has long been that it would only be granted for an election or another purpose (referendum), and Juncker hasn't explicitly ruled it out just said he couldn't see it. However some good news for your Brexit sycophantics, Labour MPs in leave constituency have nothing to fear in voting for this joke of a deal then.... Could still see an extension and an election. But with Boris campaigning on 'my deal' or 'no deal', to be honest it's better for labour just to vote for Boris's deal and fight the election other issues.

The increasing use of nursery language, even by such institutions as the BBC and the NHS. In particular - "poo", used both as a noun and a verb. How much lower can standards fall? I blame Mumsnet.

Boudicca & SirC floating around between islands...

The ever encroaching yankification of English . My daughter has recess now instead of break/breaktime. Genuinely surprised by this one . I've noticed candy being used more on sweets aswell.Especially now around Halloween.I'm an offender too I now use the word trash for rubbish most of the time.

Not any more. William Milliken dead at 97.