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In three weeks time you will need to change the title to The grand old Duke of a lorry park

I guess this is a good spot to mention that video again: I gave him about 2-3 years in the "Royal Family" thread. Might have to reduce that to 1-2 years.

They've both split

If I'd meant the Golden Boot, I'd have said the Golden Boot.

Not in the slightest, beats being bored rigid by Iain or The Old Crem. or sometimes yw Go well spazoid

Man, I never even knew we like HAD a duke, I ain’t never seen him in Canterbury or Ashford or nothing. I thought we was an autonomous collective to be honest. And so I heard he even lives in London, right, but he’s our boss? That is some shit, the lazy old fucker.

You dirty tart.

With today marking the 60th anniversary of Corrie it's worth noting the age some of the cast will be for the 70th in 2030. William Roache will be 98 Barbara Knox will be 97 Malcolm Hebden will be 90 Sue Nichols will be 87 Maureen Lipman will be 84 David Neilson will be 81 Take your bets as to whether they'll make it. A good handful will be in their late 70s. Also of interest will be if any of the ever diminishing original cast are around (Alan Rothwell, Anne Cunningham, Patricia Shakesby and Bill Roache survive off top of my head).

Depends if Gooseberry's planning any more big predictions for 2021...

The ones that complete the hurdles and steeplechase by headbutting the barriers out of the way, who else?

In the fifteen years I've been here, I've started only eight topics about individuals. All eight - Ian Smith, Ray Bradbury, Bulent Ecevit, Patrick Allen, Phil Hill, Floyd Patterson, Alfredo Stroessner and Juan Antonio Samaranch are dead. Yay me! So, it's high time for number nine. The Duke of Kent. He looks like shite. Evidence provided. Link from Daily Express (sorry) shows how gaunt he is. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1359308/Duke-of-Kent-title-prince-edward-son-George-Windsor-line-of-succession-EVG/amp I am sure this thread will reverberate with all your Duke of Kent stories and anecdotes! I think he should be picked for DL 2021. That is all.

Hi everyone The DDP 2021 has launched and having been through the entry process last time I know the things that take me time where you lot can help. If you can all spend a little time following these instructions on your own entries (maximum 3 to deal with) then you can all save me time on the 4 to 500 entries I will have to input. Many of you provide a lot of helpful well intentioned detail in your entries with the plan that it makes my life easier but the reality is that because you have no insight to the process in actual fact it adds tasks that are unnecessary if you could present in a different way. Format Popular Misspells Additional Information and best way to Provide Ultimately (and I'm not after sympathy here) it took between 70 and 80 hours to input all the entries last year and if the DDP is to continue to find volunteers to do these tasks this process needs to become less time consuming - it may be that in the future we can find system process changes that will reduce the time required but they need to be free and right now we aren't there. So please have a read of the posts below and try and follow the advice. In each post I'll try and explain how the process works on my side so you understand why I am asking you to present your entry/check your spellings. Cheers, GUN PS For now I'm just going to post 3 more posts after this one to save the spaces for the explanations.

1. Duterte 2. Lukashenko 3. Modi

Reminiscent of Henry Cecil in his final days....

1. Duterte 2. Bolsonaro 3. Trump

Only sometimes? You have balls of steel my good man!

Sean Malone, bassist of progressive metal / jazz fusion hybrid band Cynic has passed away, almost a year after his former bandmate, drummer Sean Reinert. https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/cynic-bassist-sean-malone-dead-at-50/

You guys are fucking idiots

1. Duterte 2. Trump 3. Putin

1. Putin 2. Trump 3. Modi A wishful thinking entry for a wishful thinking deadpool!

Vivian Blaine wasn't a doll anymore after this day 25 years ago, aged 74.

Stop giving away the fact that GGACP is the best podcast for deadpool form-spotting....

Format of Entry EDIT: An email has been sent out to all the email addresses on the DDP Database with an Excel sheet attached which is the preferred method of entry - all information required for entry of a team can be submitted on that form. For anyone reading this who wants to enter this year and is happy to do so by excel but has not received the email with the excel form attached if you PM me with your email address I will send you the form. FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD PREFER NOT TO USE THE EXCEL FORM THEN IF THE ADVICE BELOW COULD BE FOLLOWED THAT WOYLD BE APPRECIATED. I need to turn all your entries into this format (names used for example purposes) Previous Team Name (if name has changed) If Theme Team What is Theme? Team Name: XYZ are going to Die in Next 12 Months Prince Philip John Smith Trevor Jones Ian Roberts Andrew Brown Colin Black Tony Collins Shirley Gray Anne Thrush Deborah Peters Sean Meakin David Higginson Lisa Purves Barbara Hall Simone Yates Frank Baker Barry Crowther Boris Decker Gary Hills Bethany Richardson Steven Morrison Leroy Hanover Ranjit Singh Points to Note No numbers - every single number I have to delete. No email links - every single link added beside a name I need to delete (see next post though). No extra information about who the picks are - every single additional piece of information added I need to delete.(see next post though). Don't put a heading in for Reserves - just leave a one line gap - again I just need to delete this. No Joker in brackets - the joker is the pick at the top of your list - why - because if you write joker I have to delete. Only then do I have the names in the format when the database will recognise them. If everyone submitted like that I reckon I would save about 4 hours (30 seconds an entry) and maybe double that. A small difference for each of you making a huge difference to me.

You're about 3 months behind me Toasty