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Colour me surprised. I had him down as too youthful to be a Tory.

tbh I don't know whats funnier, Prestwick having an international airport, or them chucking Glasgow on the name because no one had heard of Prestwick in America.

BBC Sports personality of the year is utter shite. It is something that would have been ok in the 50s but, decades later, it is fucking embarrassing to watch a cringe fest. It needs to be shot, burnt and then buried somewhere. Just sayin, like.

No sign on BBC website yet but Fanny Waterman was mentioned in the 8 o' clock news summary this morning Which is when I took her off first place on my provisional squads for the Deathrace and HPDP

English Singer and Musician Chad Stuart from "Chad & Jeremy" died at 79 years: http://www.chadandjeremy.net/index.html

Roxette Drummer Pelle Allsing dead at 60 years one year after Marie Fredriksson: https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/roxette-drummer-gestorben-pelle-allsing-verliert-kampf-gegen-krebs-74559588.bild.html

Congrats Biblio!!! 1920: Neal Edward Smith/Paula Stafford 1921: Francisco Morales Bermúdez/Hazel McCallion 1922: Chen-Ning Yang/Rachel Robinson 1923: Albert Vanhoye/Roser Bru 1924: Antony Hewish/Gerda Weissmann Klein 1925: Giorgio Napolitano/Inez van Dullemen 1926: Jorge Medina/Marilyn Erskine 1927: Eduardo Martínez Somalo/Joan Jara 1928: Humberto Maturana/Delfina Guzmán 1929: Édouard Balladur/Violeta Chamorro

Doctor Who Advent Calendar. December 21 opened.

It ain't over til it's over, @Bibliogryphon Congratulations! 1920: George P. Shultz + Eileen Bennett 1921: Prince Philip + Ágnes Keleti 1922: Pierre Cardin + Janis Paige 1923: Larry Storch + Baroness Pamela Sharples 1924: Budge Patty + Eva Marie Saint 1925: Robert Fyfe + Arlene Dahl 1926: Mel Brooks + Rowena Jackson 1927: Peter Mark Richman + Cleo Laine 1928: Bernard Cribbins + Ethel Kennedy 1929: Ed Asner + Imelda Marcos

Dame Fanny Waterman gets her BBC Obit. New Round

I'll have you know with my face mask and rain coat I'm just missing a scythe off looking like a low budget horror villain... Bar the obvious ones I haven't seen anyone since July and most folk since March. Including folk I actually like.(Yes, those do exist. Honest. )

@Lard Bazaar, I think essential travel includes going home rather than just going out on holiday otherwise Sir Creep is in the U.K forever and nobody wants that Stornoway is lovely though. I'd be deploying the "in the midst of a global pandemic?!" excuse to stay, personally, which I have been using to avoid seeing other cuntos all year, but I assume she needs to get home and I hope she does. Should be fine, pal. Inverness airport all but closed until recently, mind, but there are B.A flights and some from easyJet and it's getting better. She might have to fly to Aberdeen INTERNATIONAL airport which really should get over itself. It's Aberdeen so not that special. Fingers crossed for her.

Scoreboard (I hope not the last): @CaptainChorizo still winning this game Bibliogryphon: 4 hits Earl Cameron, Vera Lynn, Olivia de Havilland, Fanny Waterman SusanStoHelit: 5 hits Vera Lynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arnold Spielberg, Hal Singer, Hyun Soong-jong JoeyRuss: 5 hits Hutton Gibson, Roberta McCain, Vera Lynn, Earl Cameron, Olivia de Havilland deadsox: 4 hits Olivia de Havilland, Vera Lynn, Roberta McCain, Hutton Gibson drol: 6 hits Roberta McCain, Bernardino Piñera, Vera Lynn, Hutton Gibson, Aldo Mongiano, Annie Glenn Perhaps: 5 hits Earl Cameron, Vera Lynn, Roberta McCain, Hyun Soong-jong, Fanny Waterman msc: 3 hits Roberta McCain, Jack Reynolds, Earl Cameron Great Uncle Bulgaria: 6 hits Olivia de Havilland, Vera Lynn, Bob Weighton, Pappukutty Bhagavathar, Lotte Strauss, Eleanor Sokoloff Death Impends: 3 hits Arnold Spielberg, Vera Lynn, Hal "Cornbread" Singer chilean way: 4 hits Donald Pellmann, Marvin Creamer, John Henderson, Damián Iguacén Borau Annami: 5 hits Vera Lynn, Roberta McCain, Robert Weighton, Earl Cameron, Hutton Gibson Sean: 6 hits Irving Kanarek, Arnold Spielberg, Earl Cameron, Vera Lynn, Hutton Gibson, Roberta McCain Lafaucheuse: 4 hits Roberta McCain, Jean Erdman, Eric Bentley, Frank Popper The Old Crem: 5 hits Vera Lynn, Olivia de Havilland, Roberta McCain, Bob Weighton, Marge Champion gcreptile: 3 hits Pappukutty Bhagavathar, Arthur L. Thurlow, Wilfried de Beauclair CaptainChorizo: 7 hits Vera Lynn, Roberta McCain, Bob Weighton, Hutton Gibson, Eric Bentley, Henrietta Boggs, Bernardino Piñera Wormfarmer: 2 hits Viola Smith, Roberta McCain Predictor: 5 hits Gösta Vestlund, Kerstin Bränngård, Siri Stening, Gertrud Zetterholm, Linnea Hörlén Miracle Aligner: 4 hits Roberta McCain, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Finkelstein, Arnold Spielberg WEP: 0 hits GuyFromFuture: 2 hits Arnold Spielberg, Vera Lynn

Okay update time. OoO flagged hereabouts late last year that Tom Belso, the first Dane to race in Formula One, was not long for this world with the caveat of dodgy obitability. Fortune favoring the brave, maryportfuncity selected him for the Hartlepool. Belso made a speedy exit as promised, but his demise failed to reverberate beyond racing specialist media. Though throughout the year maryport's team managed to occasionally take the lead despite the handicap, as of yesterday he had been in fourth place - cruelly behind by just enough that if nothing else happened, Belso's failure to obit would cost him a win. Tom Belso seemed destined to go down in history as the Carrie Hamilton of the Hartlepool Deadlypool. maryport did cling onto hope with the BBC's annual "which sportsfolk did we lose this year?" roundup. As the fates would have it, that roundup has arrived, and the article's collators have deemed Tom Belso as worthy of mention. With that QO, Belso now delivers 40 base points and 16 uniqueness bonus points to maryport, a total of 56. Additionally, because Belso did not QO for a long time, he had no impact on subsequent point values of maryport's other hits. This means all of maryport's hits (except Qaboos, who died before Belso, and Terry Jones, who was a sub) are impacted by this new development. Paul Farnes GAINS 5 base points - new total now 28 Daniel arap Moi LOSES 5 base points - new total now 64 Genesis P-Orridge GAINS 5 base points - new total now 56 Judy Dyble GAINS 5 base points - new total now 56 Lee Kerslake GAINS 5 base points - new total now 49 And thus we have a new scoreboard. This second major December surprise sees maryport takes the lead with 11 days to go. Will it hold? No matter what happens in the waning days, it's certain this will go down as a classic season of the Hartlepool Deadlypool. 1. maryportfuncity 384 2. Toast 354 3. YorkshireBanker 330 4. Book 314 5. Clorox Bleachman 271 6. msc 268 7. RadGuy 262 8. Sir Creep 255 9. gcreptile 250 10. drol 248 11. DeathByArsenic 242.19 12. The Unknown Man 212 13. Banana 210 14. CaptainChorizo 208 15. Prophet 201 16. the_engineer 192 17. theoldlady 185 18. The Old Crem 180 19. Skinny kiltrunner 178 20. markb4 164 =21. Etushispushingupdaisies 156 =21. John Key 156 23. time 155 24. Pedro67 140.19 25. Sean 139 26. Great Uncle Bulgaria 135 =27. Exu 110 =27. Joey Russ 110 29. The Quim Reaper 89 30. The Mad Hatter 86 31. Torva Messor 75 32. YoungWillz 73 33. Death Impends 70 =34. Bibliogryphon 63 =34. JoeMoneypenny 63 36. Kinnock 21 37. DevonDeathTrip 0

Let me think, what would a well intentioned and accurate but somewhat curmudgeonly master of brevity say here. The sort that inhabits say, Norfolk... Ah yes. Then don't watch it. I didn't ;), the idea that some already richer than some third world country individual needs another award for doing not very much more than they already do is indeed cringeworthy. Didn't Nigel Mansell win it once? If he can win a personality award....

Crossposting. Dame Fanny Waterman (wiki), British classical pianist and educator, dead at 100.

Thanks, updated. Got to be honest, when I compiled this I had never heard of them! Their Wiki page suggests they were pretty big in the States, but they never amounted to much in the UK strangely. A quite glimpse at the their Facebook page suggests he was admitted to hospital recently after suffering a fall. Whilst there he developed pneumonia (non-COVID related) and this is what he succumbed to.

There is a great conjunction on the 21st December when Jupiter and Saturn appear at their closest since the year 1623. The blue circle in the picture below represents the diameter of a full moon. https://www.space.com/great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-2020-fun-facts https://www.space.com/jupiter-saturn-great-conjunction-2020 https://stellarium-web.org/

Well, finally someone at the top. Things were becoming stale.

I was going to say that'll be in my head all weekend now, but *Googling* Menem Muppets immediately brings up as the first result... Well, that's my 2021 DDP obit should he make it sorted now...

Fucking courts. I've just been called up for jury duty.

Yes, I have it. Yeah, there are the odd one or two here who I couldn't give two fucks about but I like Cat, he is a good un. I don't wish ill on people I like.

My guess is 1920 ladies will be the category that loses all the reasonably Beeb-y names first. (this probably instead means Clarissa Eden will live to 105)

I think that was a few years back.....the year Freddie Mercury won!