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I found it rather amusing in that article that the DJ who refused to play Fairytale of NY because of the word 'faggot' in the lyrics was called Alex Dyke.

Maybe already posted but anyone missing a sporting QO should be having a gander down this SPOTY list - pretty comprehensive. SPOTY List of Sporting Deaths in 2019 Cheers GUN

Report of the death of David Lambie, former MP for Central Ayrshire and then Cunninghame South. He'd be 94 if correct: This report somehow mentions Cunninghame North, which makes it a bit suss.

Our boy 6ix9ine is being released from jail within the next 72 hours according to reports. I'm sure he'll have a nice warm reception from the streets.

Can remove Nicky Henson from the list

Actor Nicky Henson has lost his near 2 decade battle with cancer, aged 74. Mirror obit

I concur with Philip. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/shane-macgowan-defends-controversial-lyric-21105227.amp

There's a fairly clear pattern in the post war era for both parties hitting a low point of under 210 seats. It took Labour 4 elections go from oblivion to a landslide. It took the Tories 7 elections from 1997 and 4 from 1945. Get it right and Labour could be back within a decade. Part of the reason for recent political problems has been the Tories complete failure to rebuild by 2010. Conservatives 1945 - 197 1950 - 298 1951 - 321 (of 630) 1955 - 345 (of 630) Labour 1983 - 209 seats 1987 - 229 seats 1992 - 271 seats 1997 - 418 seats Conservatives 1997 - 165 2001 - 166 2005 - 198 2010 - 306 2015 - 330 2017 - 317 2019 - 365

So there will be a winner by the end of Dec - right on schedule! 2 hits already, and even though theoldlady has included both of them, she is the shrewdest ranker so far and still has the lowest point total. So with 2 weeks to go, she has the inside track to the championship. A few stats about the final lists: 36 of the 57 names possible were chosen. 12 names were taken by all 3 players. 9 of the names are solos. Enjoy!

Give me a minute to sort this out. My intention was for your final ranking to = your points earned with a hit at that spot. Since the oldlady submitted first and got it right (confirming she meant QE2 was worth 25 pts), I assumed the other players interpreted it similarly. If in good faith your lists are intended in reverse order, I will resort them. No worries.

Good stuff, DI, though I'm convinced the Americans made up some of these names to take the piss out of the Brits. "Uh yeah, sure, Yale Lary was a legend here, give him an obit..." "Did they fall for it?"

Today she becomes the first ever cast member of a best picture winning film to live to see its 80th anniversary. Thrilling tidbit for you.

I've never heard of her. Regardless. There are thousands of people who are famous enough by whatever measure you use to go on the list. The committee can pick 50. This leaves thousands -50 that aren't on the list. One of these thousands -50 dies and it's a 'big miss'? Bollocks. It's simple arithmetic.

She's not half famous or half noteworthy by any stretch.

Christ on a bike, no personal offence meant, but every time, every single time, somebody half noteworthy (and any soap star is at best only half noteworthy) carks it somebody calls it a 'miss by the committee'. There are thousands, literally (the real meaning, not the snowflake version) thousands of famous people who 'could' be on the list. from which they pick 50, leaving thousands -50 that weren't picked. Picking some half famous bod that 'did' die and calling it a 'miss' is really getting on my tits. *genuinely gooseberry, this isn't a dig at you, more that it happens a lot and this was just the latest.

I understand. Added him as the 6th sub.

Also everybody who voted for the Labour Party, voted for an antisemitic supporter of terrorist organizations like the Hamas or the Hizbollah. And of course a vote for the Labour Party is also an for the EU Dictatorship.

He was quite popular, but it's an overstatement to compare him to any of those 4. If Drake or Post Malone were to die then maybe they would have that impact.

Berkley Bedell, former US Congressman from Iowa, dead at 98 according to Twitter.

Here's a Telegraph obit, predictably behind a paywall ..https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/11/21/lord-feldman-plastics-tycoon-became-leading-figure-conservative/.

‘My mother has told the company “absolutely not” because she doesn’t drink gin and certainly would not put her name to anything alcoholic,’ says Dame Vera’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones.

Allo Allo's Monsoir Lenlerc (the old fella in bed) turns 90 today, Robin Parkinson. Excuse the lack of link but I can't on this device.

Maria Charles, lead actress of 'Never the Twain' and 'Agony' is 90 today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Charles

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-nicky-henson-dead-fawlty-21105997 Nicky Henson dead at 74.

Dec teams theoldlady 7 cap'n chorizo 9 bibliogryphon 17 pts eden escheverria ferlinghetti 1 cardin cardin shultz 2 frates ferlinghetti k johnson 3 mercier ono gascoine 4 trintignant alagiah phillips 5 barker de Havilland de Havilland 6 gilbert littlefeather kissinger 7 alagiah scales lear 8 scales frates pope ben 9 phillips gilbert norman lloyd 10 k johnson pope ben p philip 11 ferlinghetti last p-orridge 12 newton-john trintignant cardin 13 trebek reiner kerslake 14 ono trebek white 15 pope ben white eden 16 lear gascoine mercier 17 rogers kerslake rogers 18 de Cuellar nolan scales 19 shultz lear flair 20 reiner QE2 gilbert 21 de Havilland newton-john reiner 22 white rogers ono 23 kissinger flair QE2 24 QE 2 sam lloyd nolan 25