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Happy 92nd Birthday, Dame Cleo Laine! I couldn't find any specific news about her...

The backlash against Coronation Street's male rape storyline has led ITV bosses to consider whether it ought to drop the soap.

On the subject of changing the points per reward (Drop 40, uniques, adding duos, 5000 bonus points if you are Glaswegian, ahem) I know one of the Cmme is very into some of these ideas and as they are on the Data entry part of the Cmme, I shall await their verdict on how easy (or impossible) such tweaks are before having an open floor on that. We are not removing the Mail. I think most of us can agree they are a bunch of cunts, but they provide a DDP service in going after notable but slightly forgotten folk. The worst offenders for FFBI click bait appear to be The Mirror, but I'm not keen on axing one of the UK's main papers just because their standards have slipped. Standards can rise (allegedly!) too. On the old QOs so far we have: Cmme - Bring back 1 or 2. DDT - Bring back everything Joey - Bring back the Independent Toast - Bring back everything Willz. 1 - Bring back nothing Willz. 2 - Agree with Toast Also, @YoungWillz, you know my disdain for the ultra FFBI picks. I do think that the Drop 40 bonus has led to far less of those being used. IF we increase the Qualifying Obits for the DDP, then the Cmme will be keeping a close eye on the numbers of FFBI who show up next year, and if it rises, then actions may be taken. I believe there is precedent in warding off unfair picks in the past. This is my way of saying with opportunity comes responsibility to any DDP regular! And besides, have you see how many celebs notify everyone they are about to shuffle? Just counting this year's DDP, I can count FIFTY-THREE hits that are based on known people (authors, statesmen, TV folk, societal faces, etc etc) who were known to be on the way out in 2018 (or very seriously ill at the least). And that's not counting Stevie Chalmers who we all missed. And that doesn't count folk like Chris Duncan (HOFer we all missed), Chris Doleman (American star still living), or your Alex Trebeks or Genesis P-orridge stars who will be on every DDP 2020 team or what not. And it doesn't count those aged frail stars you can make a reasonable guess are on the way out (Ian Holm as an example), etc etc etc. So even if you were of the type to need to pick 20 folk most likely to die, you are spoiled for choice. There's so many notables you don't *need* non-notables. But again, we shall see how that sorts itself out in 2020...

Not officially but locally I have heard that it was. Man stuck up chimney in October - Christmas gets earlier every year!

And Cass had run a charity for 12 years and got an MBE from the palace for it, so I can see why the teams that picked him might think he had more fame. Really if folk are nice and don't pick Nally/Easton "non-celebs on deathbed" types, there's no need to worry... Ahem. Nugroho (famous in his own country pre-illness) and Clayton (young but making waves for non-cancer related issue) are more obscure rather than FFBI. But you can all see what Spade means about that can of worms!

So, a Marmite government goes into an election against an opposition led by a controversial 70 year old leader who has rumours of ill health, and lots of people vote more for the party's ideas than the actual leader because there was a big split in the official opposition over internal selections and tariff, to the point many Tory MPs couldn't image him ever becoming Prime Minister. He is also seen as being unable to stop one of the great prejudices of his day because he can't control his own party on the subject... But enough of Henry Campbell-Bannerman...

It's quite clearly not a wheel chair. It's a Kane chair. I'll get my coat....

My view is to reinstate all of them, although I accept I may be in a minority on that one. The barring of these sources was done with the best of intentions, but I do think it has resulted in the odd quirky, stylish or interesting person missing out on points. Variety is the spice of life (and death?) and while we can eternally debate the notion of 'celebrity', I can't say I'm a huge fan of the drift towards the Drop 40 mentality of deciding to pick someone because you think everyone else will as well. IMO this significantly impacts on the chances of those who don't want to follow the herd and that seems wrong to me. I would add that none of the above should be seen as a criticism of @themaninblack, who had the impossible task of trying to please everybody and didn't always get the appreciation he deserved. In fact I would go as far to say that, at times, he got a rough deal on here both as a poster and as a deadpool organiser. As a mod, there were a couple of occasions where I now regret not intervening to support him and his continued absence from these forums bothers me. TMIB was one of us, going right back to the early days, ultimately sacrificing huge amounts of his time to keep the rest of us entertained. I miss him and I want him to come back. Hopefully he will reappear some day.

Daniel arap Moi hospitalized. Yaaawnn. https://www.the-star.co.ke/amp/news/2019-10-28-former-president-moi-admitted-at-nairobi-hospital/

Chim-Chimney, Chim-Chimney Chim Chim Cheerio.

While we're here, an illustration of the use of a pointless phrase. Twice. Lee Salmon, from Great North Air Ambulance, said: "There are case studies which suggest that at this moment in time the gentleman could still be alive. So at this moment in time it's still a rescue." Hmm, let's try this. Lee Salmon, from Great North Air Ambulance, said: "There are case studies which suggest that the gentleman could still be alive. So it's still a rescue."

Film producer Robert Evans dead at 89 years: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robert-evans-dead-dies-chinatown-producer-1203385589/ he produced hits as The Godfather in 1972, Love Story, Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby in 1968.

A couple of years after she appeared on deadpool radars, Kay Hagan is dead at 66.

Don't worry he's not dead! His new series I watched it last night - good facts, fantastic scenery, incredible cinematography, sex, death, birth, love rivalry, duels, survival against the odds and David Attenborough narrating it all. Just the perfect way to spend an hour on a Sunday evening.

Bumping this. It seems that he won't be presenting the upcoming election. https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-01-23/david-dimbleby-wont-host-bbcs-general-election-night/ Shame. Guessing it will be handed to Huw Edwards then? Has there ever been a more ill-suited person to present this programme? Need David back.

Well there's Dana Scatton a bit lower down. Billy Clayton wouldn't have got into the Poker Tourney as a pick in a million years. The Indonesian disaster guy just about did on the back of his social media celebrity. It is better now, ridiculousness in the past. I'm guilty as charged, I have a pick I wouldn't otherwise have picked this year because (1) I was trying to improve on last year's score and (2) the obits opened up a bit this year. Because I picked her (not dead), I had a choice on my twentieth pick, so I chose to go for a dodgy unique rather than the more obvious potentially Drop 40 Ricksen to compensate for my overwhelming sense of guilt at picking the FFBI.

I have your team recorded as follows in my database. Give me a minute to check your posts in thread and see if there are any differences. ETA I do not see anything done erroneously at a glance. It seems you had the scores of each name off by a point, plus missed McCririck.

Yup, had to look that one up. Tough to be a gamer with hemiplegia, I would think, but the chair would certainly be a step up.

If you dropped Daily Mail most likely the only people who would lose obits are 80+ yo Us sports and sitcom star's who's obits are copied and pasted off Associated Press. The FFBI types still get some combo of Sun,Mirror and Express,and matter of factly DM just straight up copies and paste their ffbi obit's from them.

I think we should have them all back, but drop the Daily Mail.

Apparently a recent pic

Trump's statement would be hilarious if it wasn't so obviously full of bullshit. So this frail, injured IS leader "ran" "carrying" 3 of his children with him, into a tunnel. Detonated a suicide vest which no soldier was close enough to be injured by, despite the tunnel "caving in", and Trump clearly watched him die, "whimpering and screaming"? Secures the oil "to protect it" from IS, even though IS has been "totally defeated", wants to take the oil even though Trump declared a few weeks ago that USA was totally self sufficient in oil and gas, happy to take intel from the Kurds while sending them to potential ethnic cleansing/genocide, content for Russia to take over total operations in the area. Healthy skepticism here due to fucking obvious lies and embellishments.

I was there! ... not.

Kaoru Yachigusa has died: https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2019102800926/japanese-actress-kaoru-yachigusa-dies-at-88.html And with that, probably, my idea of a pancreatic cancer theme team, as I am now below 20 again.